10 YRS AGO FLAGSHIP: Keller remembers Roddy Piper with Jim Valley and Jonny Fairplay, his former personal assistant, plus other topics

Wade Keller Pro Wrestling Podcast

Wade Keller

Leisure, Sports, Tv & Film

3.8 • 903 Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2025

⏱️ 178 minutes

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In this week's Flagship Flashback episode of the Wade Keller Pro Wrestling Podcast from ten years ago (8-4-2015), PWTorch editor Wade Keller andJ PWTorch's Jim Valley discuss “Rowdy” Roddy Piper and Raw. Valley talks about his lengthy 2001 radio interviews with Piper and Ric Flair and then callers talk of experiences with Piper away from ring, plus caller topics on Divas Revolution and more.

Then in the next segment, Wade (8-7-2015) talks live with Jonny Fairplay about Roddy Piper with unique insight on Piper's life and career from working closely with him. Plus, more interesting discussion with live calls and emails.

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0:00.0	One benefit of VIP membership is access to our back issue library, contemporaneous, in-depth, insider reporting on pro wrestling in real time over the past 30-plus years.
0:11.7	And throughout the year 2022, we're going to begin our March through the year 2002 with back issues posted each week in PDF and all text formats.
0:20.8	You can read it in a PDF format with our original
0:22.7	magazine slash newsletter style layout on your screen and flip through the pages, or you can read
0:28.0	a straightforward all text format on your phone or tablet or laptop. The back issues early in 2002
0:33.5	covered the arrival of Scott Hall, Kevin Nash, and Hulk Hogan to WWE, and all the controversy
0:38.4	that came with them. Plus my cover story that broke the news on the planned launch by Jerry
0:44.3	and Jeff Jarrett of a promotion called TNA. Also, the early 2002 features are 2001
0:50.4	year-in review features, including ranking Pro Wrestling's most influential power brokers and our
0:55.9	torch year-end awards, the year in quotes, and the top 50 stories ranked in order from the year
1:02.5	2001. So go VIP and dive into our back issues. We have most of our back issues available
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1:53.6	Now. Now, P.W. Torch and Spreaker bring you the Wade Keller Pro Wrestling podcast.
2:02.0	Ten years ago this week on the flagship, I was joined by guest co-host Jim Valley from P.W. Torch. We talked about Roddy Piper, and we also talked about Raw from the night before.
2:07.2	Jim talked about his lengthy 2001 radio interviews with Piper and Rick Flair, and then
2:11.9	callers talked about their experiences with Piper away from the ring. We also talked about other
2:16.0	topics from Raw, as I noted, and also the Divas Revolution and more. So let's get to it. This originally live streamed on
2:23.1	August 4th, 2015. And then from there, we continue a special coverage of Roddy Piper with my
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