NEW FLAGSHIP: Keller & Fann on Levesque booking troubles, Cody-Cena, Women's Wrestling in WWE, AEW, TNA, NXT, new Luna Vachon documentary

Wade Keller Pro Wrestling Podcast

Wade Keller

Leisure, Sports, Tv & Film

3.8 • 903 Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2025

⏱️ 128 minutes

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Summary

PWTorch editor Wade Keller presents the Tuesday Flagship edition of the Wade Keller Pro Wrestling Podcast with guest co-host Rich Fann, a PWTorch columnist and podcaster. They cover these topics:

The John Cena-Cody Rhodes second exchange with Cena as a heel
The lineage of the title Cena is threatening to retire if he wins, and does he mean he'll retire right after winning it or defend it until he retires?
The Gunther-Jey Uso storyline including the new twist with Jey slipping in the ring
The Rhea Ripley-Iyo Sky-Bianca Belair developments, and is the Adam Pearce decision to make Belair special referee a betrayal of the constitution that has otherwise driven Pearce's character
Is Paul Levesque's booking taking a turn for the worse that should be a reason for concern
More on women's wrestling scene with AEW, TNA, and NXT including news on Mariah May, Gail Kim, Mina Shirakawa, Athena, and others
A review of the new Luna Vachon documentary

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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
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1:28.3	It's an unmatched library of wrestling history spending more than three decades as soon as you sign up with more issues added throughout the year. Now, P.W. Torch and Spreaker bring you the Wade Keller Pro Wrestling podcast.
1:54.8	It's time for the weekly flagship, talking current events in pro wrestling.
2:04.0	Over its last week when John Cena cut his first field promo, I thought it was working.
2:08.3	Crowd was against him.
2:09.6	They weren't, you know, there's some concern.
2:10.8	Maybe they'd cheer at the heel John Cena.
2:12.7	He comes out, still wearing the jorts and the T-shirts,
2:15.7	ostensibly saying it's despite the fans,
	...

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