WWE Ticket Prices Double | No-Compete Clauses | Pollock & Thurston

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🗓️ 22 October 2025

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

John Pollock and Brandon Thurston discuss WWE’s enforcement of no-compete clauses involving Andrade and Samantha Irvin, and whether these clauses could withstand legal scrutiny.

Combat sports regulatory lawyer Erik Magraken joins them to break down the legality of these contracts and the push by TKO to pass the Muhammad Ali American Boxing Revival Act.

Topics this week include:

WWE enforces a no-compete clause for Andrade
Samantha Irvin reveals a two-year non-compete
WWE ticket prices have doubled since the TKO merger
Money in the Bank date change
Missouri Commission’s ruleset for pro wrestling
HBO Max announces a price increase
Warner Bros. Discovery is reportedly for sale
Early metrics for ESPN’s upcoming streaming service

Music courtesy: “Panic Beat” by Ben Tramer

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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 Ressalonomics is up next, and we're going to follow Brandon with John Pollack from post-rest.
0:24.2	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.
0:42.4	I've been told the Netflix numbers.
0:45.3	I've been told the metrics a little bit,
0:47.2	probably five different times.
0:48.2	I still don't get it.
0:49.4	There were respectable wrestling journalists who needed answers.
0:53.7	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.
1:09.9	Welcome to an earlier edition of Pollock and Thurston coming at you on Wednesday afternoon.
1:16.7	And I'm here with Brandon Thurston.
1:18.8	As always, Brandon, how are you?
1:22.5	I'm fine. How are you?
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