5 YRS AGO FLAGSHIP: Keller & Martin talk Sheamus-Hardy urine angle, Orton punting Christian, New Japan's hiatus return, Cody-Arn, more

Wade Keller Pro Wrestling Podcast

Wade Keller

Leisure, Sports, Tv & Film

3.8 • 903 Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2025

⏱️ 139 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s Flagship Flashback episode of the Wade Keller Pro Wrestling Podcast from five years ago (6-19-2020), PWTorch editor Wade Keller was joined by PWTorch VIP analyst Todd Martin. Todd and Wade begin with Todd's analysis of the first few New Japan shows since returning from pandemic hiatus, then a review of Smackdown including the urination dousing with Sheamus and Jeff Hardy, a review of Raw with the Drew McIntyre-R-Truth angle and the Christian-Randy Orton tease, a review of AEW Dynamite including a theory on where Cody and Arn Anderson pairing was going, and a review NXT on USA including a move toward more zany comedy, followed by some NXT-AEW ratings talk, and finally some UFC talk to round out the current events section.

Then the show concludes with a sample of this week's Mailbag edition of the VIP podcast "The Fix" with Todd and Wade discussing a reported proposed trade between the WWF and WCW in 1992 involving four very big names and then a discussion of wrestlers in movies, and a bonus topic of favorite Simpson's episodes, new observations rewatching "Game of Thrones," and what's next on Todd's binge-watch list.

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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.
0:07.8	A mini-digger! No wonder she was so smug at Zumba! Right, I want a sunken seating area. She won't have that.
0:14.2	For materials, too high, timber and paving. Don't waste time. Deuson'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.
1:36.6	We have most of our back issues available as soon as you sign up with new back issues
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