{"podcast":{"title":"POST Wrestling","slug":"post-wrestling-61625","podcast_index_feed_id":61625,"rss_url":"https://rss.art19.com/post-wrestling","website_url":"http://postwrestling.com","image_url":"https://content.production.cdn.art19.com/images/bb/d1/8a/28/bbd18a28-992c-42b8-b22e-62b865d33eab/4909d915f02f40666d704fac0da8329b5db5d7b3c259b45a03ea61fc15bbe9b730c73b434bc5cce0f6c3d4218138a31e06e996aa68a46f0be77ed43e5d713c2d.jpeg","author":"POST Wrestling","episode_count":2498,"summary":"POST Wrestling's John Pollock & Wai Ting review WWE Raw, AEW Dynamite, WWE SmackDown and discuss the latest in pro wrestling news with their network of contributors. http://www.postwrestling.com","last_synced_at":"2026-07-26T08:19:08.405707+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/post-wrestling-61625"},"episode":{"title":"The Business of WrestleMania 42 | Pollock & Thurston","slug":"the-business-of-wrestlemania-42-pollock-thurston","published_at":"2026-04-24T10:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/post-wrestling-61625/the-business-of-wrestlemania-42-pollock-thurston","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/post-wrestling-61625","url":"https://rss.art19.com/episodes/a6322aa4-bab6-43e6-8e7c-cc6ba728f355.mp3?rss_browser=BAhJIg90cmFuc2NyaWJyBjoGRVQ%3D--952c5701c84ad333c69d5faa668f8177091704f0","audio_url":"https://rss.art19.com/episodes/a6322aa4-bab6-43e6-8e7c-cc6ba728f355.mp3?rss_browser=BAhJIg90cmFuc2NyaWJyBjoGRVQ%3D--952c5701c84ad333c69d5faa668f8177091704f0","summary":"John Pollock and Brandon Thurston cover TKO’s takeover of Las Vegas for WrestleMania, and all the business notes stemming from the event. Plus: An ESPN reporter is denied WrestleMania credentials, Mark Shapiro’s testimony regarding Vince McMahon’s role in TKO, WWE moving forward with June show in Saudi Arabia, and understanding the percentage of revenues paid to WWE talent. 00:00:00 Start 00:04:38 WrestleMania 42 business figures, site fee, attendance, and ESPN audience  00:21:19 ESPN reporter denied credentials  00:39:44 TKO releases its proxy statement 00:46:07 Mark Shapiro’s testimony regarding Vince McMahon in TKO 00:54:17 WWE talent paid about 15% of revenue in 2022 00:56:17 Hearing held on the Muhammad Ali American Boxing Revival Act 01:05:04 Saudi Arabia's PIF divesting from LIV Golf  01:06:39 Night of Champions is going to Saudi Arabia  01:09:34 Mark Shapiro speaks at the University of Alabama 01:18:17 Triller shuts down AEW Plus 01:19:40 Super Chat - AEW running a big weekend in 2027 Music courtesy: “Panic Beat” by Ben Tramer POST Wrestling Subscribe: https://postwrestling.com/subscribe Patreon: http://postwrestlingcafe.com Forum: https://forum.postwrestling.com Discord: https://discord.com/invite/Q795HhR Twitter / Facebook / Instagram / YouTube : @POSTwrestling Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/postwrestling.com Wrestlenomics Subscribe: https://wrestlenomics.com/podcast/ Patreon: https://patreon.com/wrestlenomics Substack: https://wrestlenomics.substack.com/ Twitter / Facebook / Instagram / YouTube : @Wrestlenomics Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/wrestlenomics.com See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .","meta_description":"John Pollock and Brandon Thurston cover TKO’s takeover of Las Vegas for WrestleMania, and all the business notes stemming from the event. Plus: An ESPN re…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":5041,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/post-wrestling-61625/episodes/the-business-of-wrestlemania-42-pollock-thurston/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/post-wrestling-61625/the-business-of-wrestlemania-42-pollock-thurston.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}