NEW FLAGSHIP: Keller & Fann on whether WWE has an Oba problem, should Darby-Brody have a twist, Roman-Fatu off course, Ospreay-Mox, Knight
Wade Keller Pro Wrestling Podcast
Wade Keller
3.9 • 903 Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2026
⏱️ 117 minutes
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Summary
- AEW's involvement with the NFL Draft and are there more mainstream opportunities for AEW out there
- Linda McMahon and Shane McMahon at the White House Correspondents Dinner, plus TKO exec Dana White's actions after incident
- WWE releases analyzed including what goes into the decisions, and speculating on where some of the cut wrestlers may end up and be best utilized
- Darby Allen and Ethan Page having big months together
- A preview of Dynamite's top matches of Darby vs Brody King and MJF vs. Kevin Knight
- Should Tony Khan throw a twist into the Darby-Brody match
- What is most marketable about Kevin Knight
- Does WWE have an Oba Femi problem developing?
- Analysis of the key development with Jon Moxley and Will Ospreay on Collision last week
- The move of NXT PLEs from Peacock and YouTube now to The CW
- Seth Rollins, a babyface who isn't witty or well liked, and is that fixable?
- Diving into the Roman Reigns-Jacob Fatu situation, how the Usos fit in, and whether this feels like AI-driven booking nonsense since it doesn't seem to incorporate some key non-negotiable for a top level wrestling feud
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| 2:02.0 | All right, Rich. Let's start with not on the A topic, but a topic I haven't talked about yet, which is AW's involvement with the NFL draft. And we've seen a little bit more of maybe Tony Khan taking advantage |
| 2:08.6 | of his NFL tie-ins with a little merchandising. Just share what happened and fill people |
| 2:14.2 | in and then also talk a little bit about how you, where you think this can go, given that obviously is the you know more dominant brand and has has worked with the NFL um or I obviously has a lot of NFL players in the front row and they have their their replica belts for Super Bowl winners and that kind of thing yeah sure so one of the things I thought that stood out really well and just for those you you unaware, the NFL draft this year was held in Pittsburgh. So I, as a person that did not want to be around a mass of humanity avoided the first two nights. And I went instead during the Saturday day because my wife and son wanted to see some of the activities. And my wife is big on FOMO. So she did not want to miss the one time the draft is in Pittsburgh and so as luck would have it given this is my fun job I do here at the |
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