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Wade Keller Pro Wrestling Podcast

15 YRS AGO LIVECASTS: Analysis of first Monday Battle in new Raw vs. Impact battle including quarter hour rating comparisons, more

Wade Keller Pro Wrestling Podcast

Wade Keller

Leisure, Sports, Tv & Film

3.8903 Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2025

⏱️ 184 minutes

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Summary

Today we jump back 15 years to two back-to-back episodes of the PWTorch Livecast from Mar. 9 and 10, 2010.

On the Mar. 9, 2010 episode, PWTorch editor Wade Keller and co-host PWTorch columnist Bruce Mitchell take phone calls and email questions throughout the live 60 minutes focused mainly on last night's Raw vs. Impact battle. Also, in the 19 minute previously VIP-exclusive Aftershow, Keller and Mitchell discuss the just-in quarter hour ratings trends throughout the two programs.

Then on the Mar. 10, 2010 episode, PWTorch assistant editor James Caldwell and co-host PWTorch columnist Pat McNeill took phone calls, emails, and chat room questions on topics in the news including TNA's booking analyzed in-depth, RVD's TNA debut, why it worked and didn't work, Sting's heel turn and whether there's life in a heel Sting, Jeff Hardy's future, Money in the Bank potential winners, Shelton Benjamin called the Worst Pro Wrestler in WWE by Cody Rhodes (about 30 minutes into the episode), NXT ratings, analysis of the NXT ratings drop, and more. In the previously VIP-exclusive Aftershow, Caldwell & McNeill answer listener questions on TNA perhaps changing timeslots to 8-10 p.m., Best Wrestler in WWE and TNA, the Knockouts division losing talent, what to do with the TNA Global Title, historically great babyface and heel turns, and potential big face & heel turns in the future.

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in-depth, insider reporting on pro wrestling in real time over the past 30 plus years.

1:07.7

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. You can read it in a

1:17.4

PDF format with our original magazine slash newsletter style layout on your screen and flip through

1:22.4

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laptop.

1:28.1

The back issues early in 2002 covered the arrival of Scott Hall, Kevin Nash, and Hulk Hogan

1:32.0

to WWE and all the controversy that came with them.

1:35.9

Plus my cover story that broke the news on the planned launch by Jerry and Jeff Jarrett of

1:41.2

a promotion called TNA.

1:43.7

Also, the early 2002 features our 2001

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year-in review features, including ranking pro wrestling's most influential power brokers,

1:51.5

and our torch urine awards, the year in quotes, and the top 50 stories ranked in order

1:57.5

from the year 2001. So go VIP and dive into our back issues. We have most of

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