Amid reports some WWE talent were asked to take pay cuts by as much as 50%, how are some top TKO & WWE executives compensated YOY (determined by TKO Board comp committee)? 2024➡️2025: Ari Emanuel: +272%, $18M➡️$67M Mark Shapiro: +33%, $32M➡️$43M Nick Khan: +304%, $6M➡️$24M

Nashville Convention & Visitors Corp. confirmed to POST Wrestling that the organization is making an effort to get WrestleMania. When we asked about a possible WM in Nashville in 2028, the agency wrote back: “We are working on a future date with them.” www.postwrestling.com/2026/04/30/r...

From our report yesterday: Nick Khan hyped the location for the 2028 WrestleMania which seemed to suggest a location is decided. Khan said to staff: “Wait until you hear the announcement on where we’re going to be for WrestleMania in 2028." www.postwrestling.com/2026/04/28/t...

More details from TKO's meeting for staff w/ @jasonoun.bsky.social: www.postwrestling.com/2026/04/28/t...

Data here from WWE's own disclosures, charts mine. Vince McMahon also downplayed "the vocal minority" in 2015. Fan-driven business was okay, then declined from 2017 to 2019. But overall finances were great thanks to overwhelmingly offsetting guaranteed TV rights fees.

Article has been updated as we've obtained audio of the call. Khan indicated Levesque has been re-signed "in a multiyear deal." Khan going through and discounting a series of past online criticisms are also now quoted in the article. www.postwrestling.com/2026/04/27/n...

NEW: Nick Khan endorsed Paul Levesque's work as WWE head of creative in a town hall for TKO staff on Monday. Khan also read multiple 2015 online criticisms to support his framing of a "vocal minority" of fan sentiment that's historically unreliable. www.postwrestling.com/2026/04/27/n...

Berwyn Eagles Club did not lose its entertainment license, per police department www.postwrestling.com/2026/04/24/b...

Happy TKO proxy statement day. TKO CEO Ari Emanuel was paid $67.4 million in 2025. TKO President & COO Mark Shapiro, $42.6 million. www.sec.gov/Archives/edg...

NEW: Mark Shapiro’s testimony contradicts WWE’s SEC account on how Vince McMahon got lifetime role in TKO. “Especially with the baggage,” keeping McMahon “wasn’t a goal of ours,” the TKO President said under oath in a deposition last December. www.postwrestling.com/2026/04/23/m...

WrestleMania 42 ESPN & ESPN2 traditional TV ratings: 1,616,000 viewers Night 1 (ESPN2); 1,822,000 Night 2 (ESPN)

NEW: WWE got a $6M site fee for WrestleMania from Las Vegas's government agency that promotes tourism. $1M more than last year's $5M site fee. That's in addition to the $4.3M in tax credits WWE qualified for related to WM events. w/ @jasonoun.bsky.social www.postwrestling.com/2026/04/22/w...

This Senate hearing has started. Nick Khan is scheduled to testify about the revisions to the Ali Act that the House has already passed. www.commerce.senate.gov/meetings/ret...

Review of #WrestleMania coming up: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBPg...

Nick Khan and Oscar De La Hoya will be among those testifying before the Senate subcommittee chaired by Ted Cruz on Wednesday about Ali Act reforms that have already passed in the House. www.commerce.senate.gov/press/rep/re...

I spoke with NBC affiliate News 3 in Las Vegas for their story about WrestleMania ticket sales. Video of the segment that aired on television here: news3lv.com/news/local/w...

WWE talent were paid about 15% of company revenue in 2022, new court filings reveal. That rate of 15% of revenue was projected into 2028. Pay for main roster talent nearly doubled, from about $890k in 2020 to about $1.5M in 2022. w/ @jasonoun.bsky.social www.postwrestling.com/2026/04/16/w...

John & Wai continue #WrestleMania Week coverage with #WrestleCon's Michael Bochicchio talking details behind Ricochet vs. Leon Slater’s cancellation. Plus: WrestleMania's biggest omissions, The Collective, and a Hogan-Andre WM3 Watch Along. Café: www.patreon.com/posts/155610...

Berwyn Police Department closes case involving Ruthless Pro Wrestling, confirms no stabbing occurred www.postwrestling.com/2026/04/13/b...

Good work by @nealflanagan.bsky.social with details here

WWE has received approval for as much as $4.3 million in tax credits for WrestleMania 42 and related events around Las Vegas. The credit is based on WWE expecting to spend more than $35 million to produce the events. w/ @jasonoun.bsky.social: www.postwrestling.com/2026/04/09/w...

NEW: Friction between Paul Levesque & Vince McMahon over WWE creative in 2023 evident in newly disclosed texts between Levesque & Nick Khan. Khan deleted many messages, which plaintiffs in shareholder lawsuit say is destruction of evidence. 2500+ words: www.postwrestling.com/2026/04/07/p...

Janel Grant's first-person affidavit adds new details to her sex trafficking allegations against Vince McMahon and John Laurinaitis, communications with Brock Lesnar. w/ @jackwannan.bsky.social www.postwrestling.com/2026/04/02/j...

ESPN has moved to intervene in the class action lawsuit against WWE over access to PLEs. ESPN wants to compel arbitration. Plaintiffs did not name ESPN as a defendant, apparently to get around the arbitration clause in the subscriber agreement. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

NEW: Tony Khan bid on WWE in 2023. There were 4 bidders: winner Endeavor, plus KKR and Liberty Media... Those were apparent for some time. Newly unredacted court records show the 4th was AEW owner Tony Khan's lesser-known entity, Base 10. 1400+ words: www.postwrestling.com/2026/03/19/t...

NEW: Night of Champions has been slated internally at WWE for late June in Riyadh. The war involving Iran throughout the Middle East has included strikes in Riyadh, raising questions about if the event will happen as scheduled. WWE & GEA did not comment. www.postwrestling.com/2026/03/17/n...

WWE press release announces new partnership with sports business news media outlet Front Office Sports to "collaborate on the creative development and execution of storytelling projects surrounding marquee Premium Live Events".

“Biannual earnings call” just doesn’t have the same ring to it. WSJ: SEC Prepares Proposal to Eliminate Quarterly Reporting Requirement www.wsj.com/finance/regu...

Happy 3/16: Freedom of Information Day Pro wrestling isn't an obvious place to find consequential government business, but that is increasingly the case.

Judge Sarah F. Russell finds Dr. Carlon Colker is not a public figure. His defamation case against Janel Grant's attorney Ann Callis will continue. Contentions that he is a public figure underpinned much of Callis's motion to dismiss which Russell denied. www.postwrestling.com/2026/03/13/d...

"Letter grades rating a pro wrestling show may seem inconsequential. Whether a content provider, though, like WWE, can influence the editorial practices of a major broadcast partner, like ESPN, is a more significant issue." Story by Pollock & Thurston: www.postwrestling.com/2026/03/10/e...

ESPN made the decision to drop letter grades from WWE reviews after WWE expressed discomfort, multiple sources told POST Wrestling. With @iamjohnpollock.bsky.social: www.postwrestling.com/2026/03/10/e...

Traveled around the world this afternoon and verified the different availability and price points for MyAEW. AEWPlus on TrillerTV appears to still be available though MyAEW is offering much of the same content. postwrestling.com/2026/03/09/a...

Judge orders parties in WWE shareholder lawsuit to remove redactions after challenged by reporter www.postwrestling.com/2026/03/05/j...

Dr. Carlon Colker loses appeal of order to produce documents showing Vince McMahon paid Janel Grant’s medical bills

Update on WWE merger shareholder lawsuit: Plaintiffs ask court for adverse inferences over unrecoverable evidence. They say, despite legal hold notices from WWE's legal team, Nick Khan "spearheaded" Signal use and Vince McMahon destroyed handwritten notes. www.postwrestling.com/2026/03/04/w...

Angle-heavy show to set up a bunch of directions for WrestleMania Should have a better indication of the WWE title match after Friday CM Punk stated it was the "second highest arena gate in company history", putting this show between $4.9 and $6.6 million

WWE and AEW viewership made a comeback after Nielsen reportedly adjusted its Big Data + Panel methodology for cable programs. Wrestling ratings previously saw sharp declines under the new system. An in-depth look at how the change has affected viewership: wrestlenomics.com/articles/202...

The loan from Endeavor's 2016 UFC purchase grew again in 2025, from $2.75B to $3.72B. The loan was refinanced for a 6th time in September. TKO is carrying more of this debt while planning over $1B in stock buybacks and paying $75M quarterly in dividends.

WWE in 2025 drove more than twice as much revenue as the inflation-adjusted best year Attitude Era (FY2001). More than 4x the inflation-adjusted best year of Hogan era, 1990. wrestlenomics.com/wwe-annual-r...

I joined David Otunga recently to discuss various aspects of AEW, including its ownership, the Khan family's business background, AEW's current media deal with WBD, and the potential WBD M&A. Something of a crash course in what's publicly known about AEW business: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUqB...

Janel Grant speaks publicly for the first time, “By a series of miracles that I can’t account for, I’m alive today www.postwrestling.com/2026/02/20/j...

NEW: John Cena’s retirement show drew the biggest live gate for an arena event in WWE history, and probably all of pro wrestling history, even when taking inflation into account. That and more on live event business of his retirement tour. 1500+ words: www.postwrestling.com/2026/02/19/j...

NEW: Last year’s WrestleMania shattered all records for ticket sales revenue in pro wrestling history. The two events combined for $66M in ticket sales, according to Pollstar data not previously reported in media. Read 800+ words: www.postwrestling.com/2026/02/16/w...

CNN confirms in a passing disclosure that WBD owns a minority stake in AEW, in this article on politics in AEW and WWE. www.cnn.com/2026/02/14/b...

Pollock & Thurston: Live at 8:30 pm ET tonight youtube.com/live/zEFurEB...

An AEW official with direct knowledge of the subject affirmed WBD’s denial and indicated Meltzer's report is incorrect and that WBD’s statement is true. Read: postwrestling.com/2026/02/12/w...

WBD statement to POST: “Warner Bros. Discovery did not have any involvement in Brody King’s upcoming AEW schedule. Any speculation to the contrary is categorically false. Brody is scheduled to appear during the next AEW event, which will air this Saturday on TNT and HBO Max.”

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Plaintiffs in the ring boy lawsuit filed their reply to the earlier filings from Vince McMahon and U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon, which argued the court shouldn't allow the plaintiffs to continue to use pseudonyms.