5 YRS AGO FLAGSHIP: Keller & Martin review a stellar Dynamite, Raw’s redundancy of match-ups, Impact & Slammiversary + Mailbag

Wade Keller Pro Wrestling Podcast

Wade Keller

Leisure, Sports, Tv & Film

3.8 • 903 Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2025

⏱️ 165 minutes

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Summary

This is a two-part flashback beginning with a Wade Keller Podcast Mailbag special segment from five years ago (7-21-2000) including these topics: Ideas for Shayna Baszler and Aleister Black from two listeners, whether women’s wrestling is driving away viewers, was the Horror Show Swamp Match obviously lower budget than prior cinematic matches, and more.

Then the Flagship Flashback episode of the Wade Keller Pro Wrestling Podcast from five years ago (7-23-2020), PWTorch editor Wade Keller was joined by PWTorch VIP analyst Todd Martin. Todd and Wade begin with a look at Impact Wrestling's Slammiversary PPV and the follow-up episode on Tuesday night. They also get mid-show access to Impact's viewership on Tuesday and put it in perspective with other viewership numbers this year and how it compares to NXT and AEW. Todd previews New Japan's weekend show. Then they walk through key happenings on Smackdown (including the Braun Strowman promo), Raw (including discussing why Randy Orton vs. Big Show did so poorly in the ratings with a debate on value of mid-show promos to build TV main events), AEW (one of Todd's favorite episodes of Dynamite yet), and NXT (including Bronson Reed's win, and a sidebar on Adam Cole's outburst at Pat McAfee). Then they wrap up with some UFC and Bellator talk including last weekend's results and what's up next.

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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.
1:53.7	Now. Now, P.W. Torch and Spreaker bring you the Wade Keller Pro Wrestling podcast.
2:00.4	Five years ago on the flagship, P.W. Torch, the app the analyst.
2:01.3	Todd Mark, joined me. And we talked about the news of the week, TW Torch v. The appianalyst, Todd Mark, join me.
2:05.3	And we talked about the news of the week, including the Impact Wrestling,
2:08.8	Slimeversory pay-per-view in the follow-up episode on Tuesday night.
2:13.2	So good chance to look at where TNA was five years ago compared to their newsmaking pay-per-view this past Sunday.
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