5 YRS AGO MAILBAG: Keller & Mitchell talk newly crowned champs Drew and Moxley trying to get over in empty arenas, is Braun viable champion

Wade Keller Pro Wrestling Podcast

Wade Keller

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3.8 • 903 Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2025

⏱️ 122 minutes

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In a special Mailbag episode of the Wade Keller Pro Wrestling Podcast from five years ago (4-21-2020) PWTorch editor Wade Keller was joined by PWTorch senior columnist Bruce Mitchell. They answer mailbag questions about a wide array of topics along with analysis of key current events including the dropping ratings, how are Drew McIntyre and Jon Moxley performing as new centerpiece champions during a difficult time, ideas for a new presentation of Raw and Smackdown, can the MITB “Climbing the Corporate Ladder” concept work or is it going to be be a disaster, what didn’t work about Jon Moxley vs. Jake Hager, which wrestlers are rising to the occasion in this empty-arena era, are The Revival damaged beyond repair, why isn’t WWE mentioning COVID-19 on camera, what is Roman Reigns’s future, is Braun Strowman a variable long-term Universal Champion, and more including a tribute to the late Scott Bowden, a pro wrestling referee and manager, who died this week.

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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
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1:53.3	Now. Now, P.W. Torch and Spreaker bring you the Wade Keller Pro Wrestling podcast.
2:00.6	Five years ago this week on a Tuesday mailbag episode of the Wade Keller Pro Wrestling podcast,
2:01.5	I was joined by P.W. Torches, Bruce Mitchell.
2:04.9	And we talked about a wide array of topics from that mailbag, including analysis of
2:08.3	key current events, such as a drop in ratings in the COVID era.
2:12.6	However, Drew McIntyre and John Moxley performing as a new centerpiece champions during a difficult time.
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