NEW FLAGSHIP: Keller & Parks talk Summerslam line-up taking shape, Goldberg gripes, NXT-TNA dynamic, AEW top babyface, Evolution, WWE Unreal
Wade Keller Pro Wrestling Podcast
Wade Keller
3.8 • 903 Ratings
🗓️ 23 July 2025
⏱️ 112 minutes
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Summary
- A lengthy look at the Summerslam line-up taking shape, is it deep enough and special enough to justify two nights, and is there is enough time to properly build key matches?
- Is C.M. Punk showing character malaise after a rough summer so far?
- Is Goldberg's post-retirement griping a revealing validation of WWE not really rolling out the red carper for his retirement?
- Is TNA benefiting from in NXT/WWE crossover in both short-run and long-run?
- Should AEW focus on "Hangman" Page and Toni Storm as clear top stars, or stick with the ensemble formula to make room for Mercedes Mone, Will Ospreay, Swerve Strickland, and others?
- Did WWE Evolution succeed enough in key ways to justify making it an annual event, and does it deserve its own weekend?
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| 1:17.1 | Now, PWTorch and Spreaker bring you the Wade Keller Pro Wrestling podcast. It's time for the weekly flagship talking current events in pro wrestling. |
| 1:29.7 | Greg, we are less than two. It feels weird saying this and what still feels like mid-July to me, although it's probably late July now, barely. |
| 1:34.8 | We're just less than two weeks away from SummerSlam, major event for WM. They are pushing hard during their TV shows, ticket sales at MetLife Stadium. |
| 1:40.4 | And the card is filling up pretty well right now in terms of what we should expect. |
| 1:47.0 | Broadly speaking, Greg, and then we'll get into some of the particulars, is this looking like a strong enough lineup of matches where it frankly wouldn't have worked to do it on one night. |
| 1:58.0 | And it has enough depth to fill two nights, especially for people |
| 2:02.1 | who are only going to watch one or the other, or even more importantly, people who paid money |
| 2:06.0 | to go to one night, but not the other. It is hard to imagine that one of WWE's biggest shows of |
| 2:12.8 | the year is coming up in like a week and a half because they were building towards Saturday |
| 2:17.1 | night's made event and they were building toward evolution and they were building. |
| 2:20.0 | I mean, it just feels like, |
| 2:21.8 | X specials and yeah, and |
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