WWE Royal Rumble | Ashley Massaro | Zuffa Boxing Contracts | Pollock & Thurston
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4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2026
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
John Pollock and Brandon Thurston cover the Royal Rumble, Ashley Massaro mentioned in the Epstein files, and a breakdown of Zuffa Boxing’s contracts.
Topics this week include:
- Royal Rumble in Riyadh
- Event still not available for YouTube TV or Comcast Xfinity subscribers
- Backlash announced for Tampa in May
- Ashley Massaro mentioned in Jeffrey Epstein files
- Variety covers update by Nielsen before the Super Bowl
- Legal updates across multiple cases
- Zuffa Boxing’s restrictive contracts
- Dana White to testify in Johnson v. Zuffa this week
Additional reading:
- Nielsen’s New Ratings Data Could Give Cable a Short-Term Boost (Variety)
- Nielsen’s Super Bowl measurement (Variety)
- Zuffa Boxing’s contracts (The Guardian)
Music courtesy: “Panic Beat” by Ben Tramer
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| 0:00.0 | Brandon Thurston from |
| 0:01.8 | Ressalonomics is up next |
| 0:03.5 | and we're going to follow Brandon |
| 0:04.7 | with John Pollack from post-restre. |
| 0:07.0 | Delivering on the returns, |
| 0:08.6 | increasing our margins. |
| 0:11.1 | Radies go down the toilet if I'm not here. |
| 0:14.0 | All I do is simply put the math in my favor. |
| 0:18.0 | We agree that Brandon and John do good work. |
| 0:21.2 | The reason is simple wrestling economics. |
| 0:25.2 | I've been told the Netflix numbers. |
| 0:28.0 | I've been told the metrics a little bit, probably five different times. |
| 0:30.9 | I still don't get it. |
| 0:32.2 | There were respectable wrestling journalists who needed answers. |
| 0:36.6 | Thank you very much members of the media. |
| 0:38.5 | I hope you all go to hell. |
| 0:40.5 | How about we pop a number right here, right now? |
| 0:49.0 | A whole part of the show, ma'am. |
| 0:51.2 | Here we are, everyone. |
| 0:52.2 | It is time for another edition of Pollock and Thurston. Welcome |
| 0:55.7 | everybody to the show. We have lots to discuss on today's show, which Brandon, we've had. |
| 1:03.0 | This is about three years that we have been doing this show. We have had, we have had a great run |
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