INTERVIEW CLASSIC - Sean Waltman (10 YRS AGO): Roman's star potential, wrestlers on social media, Making a Murderer, Presidential election

Wade Keller Pro Wrestling Podcast

Wade Keller

Tv & Film, Sports, Leisure

3.9 • 903 Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2026

⏱️ 163 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s Interview Classic podcast, we jump back to ten years ago this week (1-21-2016) when PWTorch editor Wade Keller interviewed Sean “X-Pac” Waltman for over 2.5 hours. They covered what Waltman is up to these days, whether he will wrestle for WWE again, and his long term goals. Then they discussed Roman Reigns, the potential WrestleMania 32 line-ups, wrestlers use of social media and whether saying “kayfabe is dead” makes any sense, and much more. They took phone calls throughout the show on a wide range of topics. The last 45 minutes or so included Sean’s views on the current U.S. Presidential election and his reaction to the “Making a Murderer” documentary and the fallout from it.

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1:09.7	Now, PWTorch and Spreaker bring you the Wade Keller Pro Wrestling Podcast.
1:10.7	It's time for this week's interview classic, where Wade Keller interviews one of pro wrestling's newsmakers.
1:21.5	Ten years ago this week, I interviewed Sean Walman for over two and a half hours. And we talked about current events in wrestling,
1:27.7	including the Rocky Start to Roman Reins' big babyface push, the potential
1:32.2	WrestleMania 32 lineups. Wrestlers' use of social media and whether saying
1:36.5	KFabe is dead even makes any sense and much more. We took phone calls throughout the show
1:41.3	on a wide range of topics. And then in the last 45 minutes or so, we strayed from pro wrestling and talked about the U.S. presidential election that year.
1:48.8	And reaction to making a murderer, the documentary and the fallout from it.
1:53.9	This originally live streamed on January 21st, 2016, and it is today's Wade Keller, Pro Wrestling podcast, Interview Classic, a 10 years
2:02.2	ago flashback for Saturday, January 17th, 2026.
2:05.8	Talk Radio.
2:16.9	Welcome to the P.W. Torch livecast, I am Wade Keller, editor and publisher of the Pro Wrestling Torch Weekly Newsletter since 1987, and also PWTorch.com and MMATorch.com covering the world of pro wrestling and mixed martial arts. It is Thursday, January 21st, 2016, and it is interview Thursday.
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