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John Pollock and Brandon Thurston discuss TKO's second-quarter earnings and various WWE-related topics.

John Pollock and Brandon Thurston cover TKO’s second-quarter earnings report, Mark Shapiro’s comments about SummerSlam, WWE’s portion of the merger settlement, and more. VIDEO VERSION: https://youtube.com/live/9-mWpJSieR8 Topics this week include: Minor update in WWE merger settlement TKO’s second-quarter earnings report WWE’s portion of merger lawsuit settlement WWE Royal Rumble in Arizona as part of multi-event deal David Ellison defends Paramount-WBD merger , trial date set Programming Insider no longer receiving data WWE SVP Patrick Dooley leaves company WWE market-to-market comparison from July AEW market-to-market comparisons from July TNA announces partnership with DUDE Wipes 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 /…

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Hosts: John Pollock, Brandon Thurston

Topics covered

• TKO earnings report
• WWE merger settlement
• SummerSlam
• market comparisons
• WWE Royal Rumble
• TNA partnership

Keywords

• TKO
• WWE
• SummerSlam
• merger settlement
• earnings report
• market comparison
• TNA
• DUDE Wipes

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Organizations: TKO, WWE, Paramount, WBD, TNA

Products: DUDE Wipes

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