Wrestlenomics Radio

AEW and WWE are likely nearing negotiation time for their current U.S. live rights agreements. Brandon gives a detailed breakdown of how those rights might be valued. 

Brandon Thurston and Chris Gullo  talk about the week’s wrestling business news, including a look at various consumer-driven metrics for AEW and WWE over time.

Brandon Thurston and Chris Gullo talk about the week’s wrestling business news, including how the merger of WarnerMedia and Discovery could affect AEW, and why this probably isn’t AOL-TimeWarner/WCW in 2001 all over again.

More business news coming out of Wrestlemania as Brandon Thurston is joined by Chris Gullo who returns from his week in Dallas.

More than 65,000 fans were in attendance for Night 1 of WrestleMania. WWE, as always, announced a bigger number. Brandon Thurston is joined by Jesse Collings to discuss.

“Triple H” Paul Levesque announced his retirement as a wrestler this week and discussed his future as a WWE executive. We look at WrestleMania attendance as the two-day event is a week away. Plus, Brandon Thurston and Chris Gullo go over ticket sales for other live events for WrestleMania week.

WWE responds to MLW’s antitrust lawsuit. We have an updated breakdown of viewership demographics by race. Plus, Brandon Thurston and Chris Gullo talk about WWE introducing a new class of Performance Center recruits.

Brandon Thurston and Chris Gullo talk AEW Revolution pay-per-view business. WWE 2K22 is a pivotal release for the partnership with Take-Two. Plus, Tony Khan says he will book Ring of Honor. And we look at what Apple TV+’s new deal with MLB tells us about the outlook of media rights fees for wrestling.

Tony Khan bought Ring of Honor. Vince McMahon had his first live interview since 2014. Brandon Thurston and Chris Gullo look at AEW’s pay-per-view and streaming potential ahead of the Revolution event tonight.

“Mookie” Chris Harrington, AEW Senior Vice President of Business Strategy (and Wrestlenomics creator), talks with Brandon Thurston ahead of AEW Revolution.

Brandon Thurston and Chris Gullo discuss ticket sales for WrestleMania 38 and a report about AEW Revolution’s lucrative secondary market.

Brandon Thurston and Chris Gullo discuss what might have led to Cody Rhodes’ AEW exit and what his future, likely with WWE, may be like.

We estimate All Elite Wrestling made about $84 million in revenue in 2021. Brandon Thurston breaks down AEW’s revenue sources and how much he believes the company made in 2021 and 2020.

WWE reported its Q4 and full year 2021 earnings on Thursday. Brandon Thurston and Chris Gullo go into depth about all we learned about WWE’s business and its outlook going forward.

As terms for Hulu’s next-day rights to Raw and Smackdown near expiration, Brandon Thurston and Chris Gullo discuss the possible suitors for that content.

New Japan returned to AXS TV this week and we have the exclusive ratings breakdown for the program as well as the final airings for New Japan in 2019. We’ll look at how the New Japan TV audience might differ from Impact and others in wrestling.

MLW filed an antitrust lawsuit against WWE on Tuesday for allegedly interfering with MLW’s deal with Fox-owned streaming service Tubi. Brandon Thurston and Chris Gullo spend the entire episode breaking down the legal complaint and the outlook of the case.

Brandon Thurston and Chris Gullo discuss the dismantling of Triple H’s NXT, quarter-hour breakdowns of AEW Dynamite’s TBS debut, and New Japan’s return to AXS TV.

Former AEW wrestler Big Swole criticized AEW’s diversity on Friday, leading Tony Khan to defend the company on Twitter. We look at the data on how often wrestlers of color, including Black wrestlers, appear in main events on AEW’s weekly TV programs compared to WWE.

Brandon Thurston and Chris Gullo look back on the biggest stories in the wrestling business of the year.