NEW FLAGSHIP: Keller & Wells talk Royal Rumble structurally, historically, and currently including predictions, plus Swerve-Andrade, more
Wade Keller Pro Wrestling Podcast
Wade Keller
3.9 • 903 Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2026
⏱️ 132 minutes
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Summary
- The Royal Rumble's format and structural changes over the decades regarding the build, the format, and the execution
- Evaluating possible outcomes this year for the men's and women's Rumble, plus dark horses, mid-match ideas, and more
- Evolve
- The journeys of Swerve Strickland and Andrade since NXT on the eve of their match on Dynamite
- New Japan's 2026 and the Evil-WWE news
- The state of NXT in 2026 and suggested changes
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| 1:33.4 | Kelly, one thing I want to talk to you about as one of the biggest followers, fanatics of the Royal Rumble annual WWWF match is a big picture before we get into specifics. What do you think about the differences year to year in how |
| 1:38.8 | WWE builds the Royal Rumble? How is it changed for the better or for the worse? Are there things |
| 1:43.1 | in the past they did that you're glad they don't do and things you wish they would bring back, including, you know, |
| 1:49.7 | sound bites with wrestlers talking about wanting to be in it? Where are we as far as that goes on the |
| 1:54.4 | scale of a lot or not much? The revealing of who's going to go in what order, that kind of thing. |
| 2:02.6 | Talk to me about the differences over the eras in in the build to it there are some things they've only done once that I really |
| 2:08.4 | liked one year and I think it was 95 um they had two guys picked blank pieces of paper, and then they had a singles match, |
| 2:21.3 | and the winner was number 30, and the loser was number one. |
| 2:25.2 | And it was Hunter Hearst-Helmsley and Henry Godwin. |
| 2:30.2 | No, Duke the dumpster Drosie. |
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