NEW FLAGSHIP: Keller & Heydorn talk Ripley's disappointing defense of storyline with Belair and Sky, Cody-Cena, Gunther-Jey, Seth-Roman-Punk
Wade Keller Pro Wrestling Podcast
Wade Keller
3.8 • 903 Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2025
⏱️ 142 minutes
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Summary
- Rhea Ripley's disappointing defense of storyline with Bianca Belair and Iyo Sky
- Evaluating the overall build for Cody Rhodes vs. John Cena, a case for how the face-face match-up could have worked well, and the missing elements from Cena's perspective including absence of the Rock
- The latest Gunther-Jey Uso build
- Dissecting the latest with Seth Rollins-Roman Reigns-C.M. Punk
- Has Drew McIntyre vs. Damien Priest been the biggest pleasant surprise on the WM line-up in terms of framing and build?
- A preview of Dynamite: Is Athena vs. Mercedes Mone happening too soon? Is it obvious Will Ospreay will beat Takeshita? Plus Moxley, Hurt Business, more
- Is it time to look at Kenny Omega as something other than a potential centerpiece main event star in AEW?
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| 1:12.5 | It's time for the weekly flagship talking current events in pro wrestling. |
| 1:21.2 | Zach, one of the themes of this year's WrestleMania is title matches with more than two people in it. |
| 1:30.7 | And I think a productive, non-contentious, but philosophical debate over the value in the heel versus face dynamic, a culmination of a feud and giving fans somebody |
| 1:47.0 | definitive reasons to root for and definitive reasons to root against versus another camp that |
| 1:52.7 | uses the quote, shades of gray argument, which is sort of a catch-all and I think it's misused |
| 1:57.8 | in terms of what that actually meant and what it stands for. |
| 2:02.7 | But the argument that, you know what, we're trying to be a little more sophisticated now. |
| 2:06.5 | And I'm, I don't know if Paula Beck has spoken about his booking philosophy in that regard. |
| 2:11.0 | And it's not like he's the only one who's ever done it. |
| 2:13.5 | You know, Paul Heyman and ECW, you know, had the, the, you know, the triple threat match and introduced that. |
| 2:21.3 | And there was a really good storyline reason behind it and it kind of introduced that, that format of adding a third person. |
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