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Wade Keller Pro Wrestling Podcast
Wade Keller
3.9 • 903 Ratings
🗓️ 1 November 2025
⏱️ 182 minutes
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Summary
On the Oct. 27, 2010 episode, PWTorch editor Wade Keller and Pat McNeill continue the discussion this week on the biggest stories including more on the Brock Lesnar-Undertaker angle at the UFC PPV on Saturday, looking ahead to the Royal Rumble and WrestleMania, Undertaker's WrestleMania options, the disrespect shown to women on WWE and TNA television, Daniel Bryan's push in WWE, Undertaker out of character, TNA and WWE PPV buys, and more.
On the Oct. 28, 2010 episode, PWTorch assistant editor James Caldwell and PWTorch Nostalgia columnist Brian Hoops includes discussion with live callers on tonight's TNA Impact, the change of direction for TNA's top storyline and positives and negatives that could come from it, Hulk Hogan's same ol' video message on "shooting" and "getting real," Dragon Gate USA's live Internet PPV on Friday, a look-ahead to how WWE could book the Royal Rumble, historical perspective on Japanese wrestlers who got over in the U.S. and African-American top stars, health concerns over blood in WWE and concussions in pro wrestling, and much more.
Then, in the previously VIP-exclusive Aftershow, they discussed the lack of money-making pro wrestling angles in WWE & TNA right now, how the four-year look at Raw & Impact ratings points to that, Smackdown's ratings, plus a 20 years ago flashback review of the Nov. 1, 1990 Torch Newsletter with WCW Halloween Havoc broken down in detail.
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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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| 1:53.5 | Let me. Now, P.W. Torch and Spreaker bring you the Wade Keller Pro Wrestling Podcast. |
| 2:21.4 | On today's Wade Keller Pro Wrestling podcast, we jump back 15 years to a doubleheader of two shows from October 27th and 28th, 2010. First up, I hosted with Pat McNeil to talk about the biggest stories of the week, including more on the Brock Lesnar, Undertaker Engel or whatever that was at the U.S.C. Paperview that previous Saturday. We looked ahead to the Royal Rumble in WrestleMania. Undertakers, WrestleMania options, the disrespect shown to women on WWB and TNA television, Daniel Brian's pushing WWE, Undertaker out of character, some notes on buy rates for TNA and |
| 2:26.6 | WB pay-per-views, and more. And then the following show from the next day featured James |
| 2:31.3 | Caldwell and nostalgia specialist Brian Hoops. They talked with live callers about impact, the change in direction of top storylines there. |
| 2:38.2 | Hokogen's same old video message on shooting and getting real. |
| 2:41.5 | Dragan Gates USA live internet pay-per-view on Friday. |
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