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Wade Keller Pro Wrestling Podcast

15 YRS AGO LIVECASTS: Could Cena be mystery G.M.? Might SD go live? Why didn't TNA just have RVD lose the title in the ring? Miz or Del Rio?

Wade Keller Pro Wrestling Podcast

Wade Keller

Tv & Film, Sports, Leisure

3.9903 Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2025

⏱️ 176 minutes

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Summary

Today we jump back 15 years to two back-to-back episodes of the PWTorch Livecast from Sept. 29 and 30, 2010.

On the Sept. 29, 2010 episode, PWTorch assistant editor James Caldwell and PWTorch Nostalgia columnist Brian Hoops includes discussion with live callers on Tuesday night's NXT, NXT viewership hitting a series low on the way out, what's wrong with WWE's Raw product, including a number of solutions from callers on how to fix it, whether the Raw GM reveal or John Cena heel turn could help business, over-saturation in the market, 2010 Draft Picks, TNA's "they" being a typical 1990s storyline twist that doesn't work in 2010, and more. Plus, McNeill's Live Events center at the 45:00 mark.

On the Sept. 30, 2010 episode, PWTorch editor Wade Keller takes calls for the full hour on a wide range of topics including WWE's women;s division, a revisiting of the Bret Hart-Vince McMahon relationship, whether John Cena might be the Raw G.M., could Smackdown go live, what's wrong with WWE's product lately, why TNA didn't just have RVD lose the title rather than run the angle where he was stripped of it, how to make PPVs special again, and more.

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The weather. Tomorrow, expect a... Biting cold front. Mmm, how naughty. I wonder what I'll be wearing or taking off. The night will be wild and untamed. Expect heavy, lashing rain that'll soak you to the skin. By Monday, temperatures will rise, slowly but surely, reaching their peak in the afternoon.

0:23.0

Not in the mood for miserable weather.

0:25.5

Fly cheaply to Turkey with Sun Express.

0:28.6

Sun Express, nonstop sunshine.

0:41.0

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.

0:45.0

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.

0:50.6

You can read it in a PDF format with our original magazine slash newsletter style

0:54.2

layout on your screen and flip through the pages, or you can read a straightforward all-text

0:59.7

format on your phone or tablet or laptop. The back issues early in 2002 covered the arrival

1:04.2

of Scott Hall, Kevin Nash, and Hulk Hogan to WWE and all the controversy that came with

1:09.1

them. Plus my cover story that broke the news on the planned launch by Jerry and Jeff Jarrett of a promotion called TNA.

1:17.5

Also, the early 2002 features our 2001 year-in review features, including ranking pro wrestling's most influential power brokers.

1:25.5

And our torch year-end awards, the year in quotes, and the top 50

1:29.9

stories ranked in order from the year 2001. So go VIP and dive into our back issues. We have

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most of our back issues available as soon as you sign up with new back issues week by week from

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the year 2002, one at a time throughout the year 2022.

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Pwtorch.com slash go VIP.

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That's pwtorch.com slash go VIP for full information and our sign up form.

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It's more than podcasts.

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It's an unmatched library of wrestling history spending more than three decades as soon as you sign up with more issues added throughout the year.

2:07.3

The weather.

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