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Wade Keller Pro Wrestling Podcast

5 YRS AGO FLAGSHIP: Keller & Heydorn talk early Reigns-Heyman dynamic, Retribution nonsense, New Japan G1, ROH Pure Tourney, more

Wade Keller Pro Wrestling Podcast

Wade Keller

Tv & Film, Sports, Leisure

3.9903 Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2025

⏱️ 146 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s Flagship Flashback episode of the Wade Keller Pro Wrestling Podcast from five years ago (9-22-2020), PWTorch editor Wade Keller was joined Zack Heydorn, PWTorch columnist and PWTorch VIP podcast host. They talk Raw’s Retribution nonsense, New Japan G1’s first two shows, ROH Pure Tourney and what it does well that others could learn from, the early performances of the Roman Reigns/Paul Heyman combo, Otis and the stats of the Money in the Bank briefcase, AEW Dynamite’s strong show last week, NXT’s big Wednesday night determining challengers for men’s and women’s title at the next Takeover, and more.

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0:00.0

Wake up! The Jones is a redo in their garden! Love that porcelain paven and all that fencing.

0:05.3

I knew it. They'd been with their landscaper to Jusen. A mini-digger! No wonder she was so smug at Zumba! Right, I want a sunken seating area. She won't have that. For materials, too high, timber and paving. Don't waste time. Deucon's got the lot. Like Terales, porcelain,

0:20.4

from only £22 per square metre.

0:22.3

Love it!

0:23.1

All trade prices exclude VAT Don't waste time. Juson's got the lot. Like Terales, porcelain, paving from only 22 pounds per square meter.

0:22.3

Love it.

0:23.1

All trade prices exclude VAT at 20%.

0:25.9

So now you can keep up with the Joneses.

0:28.0

And the Evanses.

0:29.2

And the Bertels.

0:30.1

One benefit of VIP membership is access to our back issue library,

0:33.8

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

0:41.3

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.

0:50.3

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

0:54.4

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

1:00.0

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

1:04.4

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

1:09.4

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

1:17.7

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

1:25.4

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

1:31.6

from the year 2001.

1:33.9

So go VIP and dive into our back issues.

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