WWE’s Growing Dominance: Aggressive Tactics Against AEW | Pollock & Thurston
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4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 20 August 2025
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
John Pollock and Brandon Thurston discuss WWE’s increasingly aggressive strategies to compete with AEW, and whether these practices raise antitrust concerns. They break down what this means for AEW’s future and how the company can realistically respond.
Also on the show:
- WWE’s September PLE is possibly airing on ESPN
- TNA is open to a move to directly oppose AEW
- Triplemanía XXXIII from Mexico City
- WrestleMania 41 attendance notes from the Las Vegas Stadium Authority
- G1 Climax attendance figures across nineteen shows
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| 0:00.0 | This month at post wrestling cafe.com, go Excel, and you get live editions of Rewind a raw, |
| 0:06.3 | rewind a dynamite, and rewind a Smackdown, featuring all the news of the day, your questions |
| 0:11.1 | and answers, as well as feedback. Post Wrestlingcafe.com. $6 gets you in the door. |
| 0:17.6 | Brandon Thurston from Ressleomics is up next, and we're going to follow Brandon with John Pollack from post-rest. |
| 0:24.3 | Delivering on the returns, increasing our margins. |
| 0:28.4 | Radies go down the toilet if I'm not here. |
| 0:31.3 | All I do is simply put the math in my favor. |
| 0:35.3 | We agree that Brandon and John do good work. |
| 0:38.5 | The reason is simple wrestling economics. |
| 0:42.5 | I've been told the Netflix numbers. |
| 0:45.3 | I've been told the metrics a little bit. |
| 0:47.3 | Probably five different times. |
| 0:48.2 | I still don't get it. |
| 0:49.5 | There were respectable wrestling journalists who needed answers. |
| 0:53.9 | Thank you very much members of the media. |
| 0:55.8 | I hope you all go to hell. |
| 0:57.8 | How about we pop a number right here, right now? |
| 1:06.3 | A whole part of the show, ma'am. |
| 1:08.7 | It's John Pollock and Brandon Thurston. |
| 1:10.4 | Welcome to the August 20th edition of Pollock and Thurston. |
| 1:15.5 | And Brandon, as you do a quick memory game, do you recall what was so significant four years ago on this date? |
| 1:24.5 | August 20th, 2021 is this when Siam Punk returned to professional wrestling. |
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