NEW FLAGSHIP: Keller & Powell discuss Seth's "injury," Evolution shining, All In's length, Hangman, TNA's aspirations, more

Wade Keller Pro Wrestling Podcast

Wade Keller

Leisure, Sports, Tv & Film

3.8 • 903 Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2025

⏱️ 148 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 Jason Powell from ProWrestling.net and the Pro Wrestling Boom podcast. They discuss these topics:

A lengthy discussion on the (likely?) worked nature of Seth Rollins's knee injury, various ways it could potentially ultimately make sense in a storyline, but is it ultimately going to be worth it?
WWE counter-scheduling AEW again next month with NXT Heat Wave and whether it's fair game competition or predatory or just a bad look that could cost them more than it gains
The length All In coming in 90 minutes longer than prior long shows and whether it was worth it and what the motivation might've been
All In's attendance, main event thoughts and whether the violence is a net positive, plus Kenny Omega vs. Kazuchika Okada, Toni Storm vs. Mercedes Moné, and more
Evolution including Iyo Sky vs. Rhea Ripley, Naomi's resurgence, and the Charlotte-Alexa Bliss storyline
Gunther vs. Goldberg
Jelly Roll's involvement in WWE and early praise
Should Paul Levesque be pulling curtain back in post-show media Q&As, and the history of finding that balance with how much to share and on what timeframe
TNA's ambitions to get a real revenue stream on cable TV and the politics of how that could affect WWE's perspective on them
Levesque's propensity to book faces bickering and heels crossing paths, including in Triple Threat matches
Did Roman Reigns's return overshadow C.M. Punk's big moment on Raw?

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1:29.9	Jason, I think we could do five flagship this week with everything that happened in the last, you know, five days, but really the last three weeks since we last talk to.
1:38.3	There's so many places we could go. That evolution show was this like at the end of a super busy weekend.
1:42.2	And it was a long show too. Like I was saying, oh, this would be one of those two hour things or two or twenty. And it was a long show. Hot crowd, successful main event, star power depth, a validating crowd response. I kind of want to lead with that. So I sort of have, but I'm also going to table it. Because what I want to get into, we talked about this briefly off air is, I mean, obviously AW, with their huge show biggest the year of stadium show all that
2:01.8	but i want to ask about this set ralins mystery this this weird thing that's going on where
2:07.0	on saturday night he does a springboard off the middle rope lands nothing obviously went wrong
2:13.6	which in retrospect feeds this you know one aspect of aspect of the story, one take on it.
2:18.4	But he immediately went down like something popped.
2:21.0	Maybe the Patelotendant is kind of the area where he kind of seemed to favor.
2:24.2	And that seemed consistent with a possible injury.
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