15 YRS AGO LIVECASTS: Flair-Lethal, Bagwell, Paul Heyman's future, Nexus-Cena, TNA Impact, Mstery Raw GM, TNA booking

Wade Keller Pro Wrestling Podcast

Wade Keller

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3.8 • 903 Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2025

⏱️ 162 minutes

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Summary

Today we jump back 15 years to two back-to-back episodes of the PWTorch Livecast from July 9 and 12, 2010.

On the July 9, 2010 episode, PWTorch assistant editor James Caldwell and co-host PWTorch Nostalgia columnist Brian Hoops includes discussion with live callers on on the previous night's TNA Impact, the TNA Victory Road PPV, what pro wrestling can draw from the success of MMA, TNA's strengths and weaknesses as a product right now, WWE's mystery GM, and more.

In the previously VIP-exclusive Aftershow, they ran through the complete Victory Road PPV line-up, Buff Bagwell's retirement plans, nostalgia news including Hoops's Hall of Fame Roundtable with a strong panel of guests on Saturday, and more.

Then on the July 12, 2010 episode, PWTorch editor Wade Keller and PWTorch columnist Greg Parks discuss last night's TNA Victory Road PPV, including dissecting the booking. They took live calls throughout the show including questions on Paul Heyman and whether TNA should give him a trial run as booker, the style of interviews in WWE and TNA today, ideas on the Raw G.M. and Nexus leader, Triple H, Dixie Carter's comments, and more.

In the previously VIP-exclusive Aftershow, they reviewed TNA Victory Road.

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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.
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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
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1:53.3	Now. Now, P.W. Torch and Spreaker bring you the Wade Keller Pro Wrestling podcast.
2:17.6	Today on the Wade Keller Pro Wrestling podcast for Saturday, July 19th, 2025, we jump back to a double header of PWTorch livecasts from 15 years ago, beginning with James Caldwell and PWTorch Nostalgia Specialist Brian Hoops, discussing with live callers of previous night's TNA impact, the Victory Road Paperview, what- Wrestling can draw from the success of MMA,
2:21.9	T&A's strengths and weaknesses as a product, WV's Mystery GM, and more.
2:26.5	In the previously VIP exclusive after show, they ran through the entire Victory Road lineup,
2:31.0	plus Buff Bagwell's retirement plans discussed, some nostalgia news from Brian,
2:35.2	the Hoops Hall of Fame Roundtable, a strong penalty guest on Saturday,
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