NEW FLAGSHIP: Keller & Powell talk R-Truth outrage, four-hour AEW Wednesday, Money in the Bank preview, Gabe Kidd, new WWE women, Ricochet

Wade Keller Pro Wrestling Podcast

Wade Keller

Leisure, Sports, Tv & Film

3.8 • 903 Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2025

⏱️ 133 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:

Is AEW's Fyter Fest line-up strong enough for a four hour block tomorrow night?
Full WWE Money in the Bank preview and some thoughts on Worlds Collide
Who will be a bigger star in two years among Stephanie Vaquer, Giulia, Roxanne Perez, and Lyra Valkyria? And why? Is there more to be done to build on Vaquer's early popularity with fans to move her to the next level?
R-Truth and how bungled his WWE status change was by everyone from WWE to Truth to the fans and fellow wrestlers
Is WWE flirting with losing a lot of the goodwill they've built up?
Gabe Kidd's AEW introduction
Other topics from the Mailbag on WWE and AEW including Ricochet, Adam Cole, WWE's live experience for the prices they're charging, more

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1:11.8	Now PWTorch and Spreaker bring you the Wade Keller Pro Wrestling podcast.
1:17.1	It's time for the weekly flagship, talking current events in pro wrestling.
1:30.7	Jason, I need to put a poll up on pwtorch.com asking help you feel about the mega four hour blocks the next two Wednesdays of AW dynamite and collision.
1:37.3	We were talking off, Aaron. I'm like, let's save our vitro for after we hit record.
1:41.9	I mean, people don't want to stay up late waiting for a main event that they care about.
1:45.5	People don't want to stay up late waiting for a match where you know who the winner's going to be.
1:48.2	And there'll be some good wrestling, but you don't care about it.
1:53.9	I mean, I'm not saying it's like the tipping point in the end of AEW.
1:56.0	It's not like that big a video because people would just tune out.
1:58.3	Like they skipped collision and skipped Rampage for a long time.
2:00.9	But it is annoying and it feels a little tone deaf.
2:03.7	And like you were saying off air, why?
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