Give yourself a reason to look forward to going to the mailbox each week with a PWTorch newsletter paper copy subscription.

Details at pwtorch.com slash paper copy.

It's 12 pages every week packed with my TV reports along with exclusive features such as my cover story on the top story of the week.

Our pay-per-view roundtable reviews from the Torch staff.

Exclusive feature-length columns from Greg Parks, Rich Fan, Sean Radican, Alan Coonahan, and Zach Haydorne, Torch Talk transcripts, the latest news, and more.

PwTorch.com slash paper copy.

Take a break from screen time and settle in every week with a meagos of wrestling news and analysis

with a pro wrestling torch newsletter paper copy edition in the year 2022. You can get a full

year of home delivery for just $99. Or try us for an eight-week trial subscription.

Pwtorch.com slash paper copy.

Five years ago this week on the flagship, PWTorch is Todd Martin joined me, and we talked about

several wrestlers announcing they tested positive for COVID, including Drew McIntyre and

WWE.

Also, Shinska Nakamura in Smackdown's Gauntlet, a review of raw, NXT, Smackdown, and Dynamite from that week, the latest from New Japan, and then a fascinating in-depth review of a new book on the Olympic Auditorium in Los Angeles.

Legends and icons, a history of Olympic Auditorium in Southern California Professional Wrestling.

This originally dropped on January 14th, 2021, and it is today's Wade Keller Pro Wrestling

podcast, five years ago, flashback for Wednesday, January 14th, 2026.

Let's begin by talking about Monday's episode of Raw and the Drew McIntyre news.

Drew McIntyre, W.BIntyre that would be releasing that he,

information that he had tested positive for COVID.

That would change the main event on Monday from Randy Orton against Drew to Randy Orton in a street fight against Triple H.

And Drew McIntyre addressing COVID on air also, and then later on

...