INTERVIEW CLASSIC (10 YRS AGO): Evolution of wrestling media with Keller and John Arezzi, former ‘80s/‘90s New York pro wrestling radio host
Wade Keller Pro Wrestling Podcast
Wade Keller
3.9 • 903 Ratings
🗓️ 28 September 2025
⏱️ 171 minutes
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Then, in the second segment from the same week (9-23-2015), PWTorch columnist Pat McNeill talked live with PWG co-founder & comic book artist Scott Lost and recurring favorite Jonny Fairplay with live phone calls and emails. Plus, the previously VIP-exclusive Aftershow with McNeill and PWTorch assistant editor James Caldwell discussing the latest news, events, and more.
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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. |
| 1:51.9 | Now. Now, P.W. Torch and Spreaker bring you the Wade Keller Pro Wrestling podcast. It's time for this week's interview classic, where Wade Keller interviews |
| 1:56.5 | one of Pro Wrestling's newsmakers. |
| 2:07.1 | On today's Wade Keller, pro wrestling podcast, we jump back 10 years to a double header of interviews. |
| 2:08.3 | First up, my conversation with John Arese, a former New York pro wrestling radio show |
| 2:14.3 | host from the 90s who talked with me about the evolution of pro wrestling |
| 2:18.6 | media coverage. If you don't know about the history of wrestling media coverage, I think you |
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