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Wade Keller Pro Wrestling Podcast

INTERVIEW CLASSIC (10 YRS AGO): Ex-WWE Creative Team member Matt McCarthy with analysis of march to WM - Bryan’s fall, Reigns’s rise, more

Wade Keller Pro Wrestling Podcast

Wade Keller

Leisure, Sports, Tv & Film

3.8903 Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2025

⏱️ 125 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s Interview Classic episode from ten years ago (3-13-2015), PWTorch editor Wade Keller interviewed ex-WWE Creative Team member Matt McCarthy with an analysis of the march to WrestleMania - Daniel Bryan’s fall, Roman Reigns’s rise, Undertaker-Bray Wyatt, Sting-Triple H, U.S. and IC titles, and more including live callers and email topics.

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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

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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.

1:52.1

Now, P.W. Torch and Spreaker bring you the Wade Keller Pro Wrestling podcast.

1:58.0

It's time for this week's interview classic, where Wade Keller interviews one of Pro Wrestling's Newsmakers.

2:06.8

Ten years ago this week, I interviewed ex-WWE creative team member Matt McCarthy, and we analyzed the March to WrestleMania, including Daniel Bryan's Fall, Roman Raines'

2:11.6

Rise, The Undertaker Bray Wyatt feud, Sting Against Triple H, the status of the U.S. title and I see title,

2:18.1

and more with live callers and email topics sprinkled in over the course of this two-hour show,

2:23.6

which originally live streamed on March 13th, 2015, and it is today's Wade Keller,

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