15 YRS AGO LIVECASTS: TNA Destination X PPV reaction, Samoa Joe return ideas, future WWE champs, WrestleMania, Punk-Rey, more

Wade Keller Pro Wrestling Podcast

Wade Keller

Leisure, Sports, Tv & Film

3.8 • 903 Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2025

⏱️ 175 minutes

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Summary

Today we jump back 15 years to two back-to-back episodes of the PWTorch Livecast from Mar. 19 and 22, 2010.

On the Mar. 19, 2010 episode, PWTorch Livecast with host James Caldwell and co-host Torch columnist Greg Parks took phone calls, emails, and chat room questions on topics in the news including discussion of the TNA Destination X PPV, the lack of great potential wrestling matches on the PPV, TNA changing the mix of wrestling content on TV and PPV, the status of the X Division, why it's not a marketable brand anymore, ideas for how to reintroduce Samoa Joe, future WWE champions, the overall picture of the Smackdown brand, Rey Mysterio and C.M. Punk's program on Smackdown, and much more. In the previously VIP-exclusive Aftershow, James and Greg take listener questions on TNA's booking in the early days compared to today, why Shawn Michaels is a babyface despite acting like a heel, and more.

Then on the Mar. 22, 2010 episode, PWTorch editor Wade Keller and guest co-host Jason Powell of ProWrestling.net take a lot of phone calls for 60 minutes focused primarily on TNA Destination X. They dissect what didn't work on last night's show, with specific breakdowns of why it was an awful, albeit not boring, TNA product. They field a lot of phone calls from angry TNA fans and also talk about WWE and WrestleMania. They also cover topics in the previously VIP-exclusive Aftershow.

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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
1:08.2	as soon as you sign up with new back issues week by week from the year 2002 one at a time throughout the year 2022 pwtorch.com
1:16.5	slash go VIP pwtorch.com slash go VIP that's pwtorch.com slash go VIP for full information
1:24.8	and our sign up form. It's more than podcasts.
1:28.3	It's an unmatched library of wrestling history spending more than three decades as soon as
1:33.5	you sign up with more issues added throughout the year.
1:53.3	Now. Now, P.W. Torch and Spreaker bring you the Wade Keller Pro Wrestling podcast.
2:01.3	We're back with another 15 years ago, doubleer flashback of the PW Torch livecast.
2:06.1	First up is the March 19th, 2010 episode with James Caldwell and Greg Parks,
2:09.8	taking phone calls, emails, and chat room questions on topics in the news,
2:14.6	including the TNA Destination X pay-per-view, the lack of great potential wrestling matches on the pay-per-view,
2:17.9	TNA changing the mix of wrestling content on TV and pay-per-view,
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