NEW FLAGSHIP: Will WrestleMania 42 be a bust? Keller & Powell assess WM ticket sales and potential line-up, AEW Grand Slam, anti-ICE chants
Wade Keller Pro Wrestling Podcast
Wade Keller
3.9 • 903 Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 2026
⏱️ 140 minutes
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Summary
- A look at WrestleMania 42 ticket sales struggles, resale prices dipping below face value, ticket prices this year compared to last year, TKO arrogance or aggressiveness backfiring
- WrestleMania 42 line-up, from the strong C.M. Punk-Roman Reigns start to a potential drop-off afterward to load up night 1 and the rest of night 2 with WM-worthy match-ups
- Speculation on where the mystery attack in all black attacking The Vision is going
- AEW Dynamite and AEW Grand Slam preview
- Anti-ICE chants at Dynamite and where it could go from here, and should billionaires be excused from taking a strong public stand because they have "so much to lose"?
- TNA Impact after a month on AMC
- And more including some Super Bowl talk
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| 1:21.4 | Jason, we have Roman Reins challenging CM Punk in what WWE is marketing as perhaps the biggest main event in WrestleMania history. |
| 1:32.6 | And first of all, it's their job within reason, not to be absurd and lose all credibility, to hype what they think is a good main event for current fans who, you know, give them a story to believe it. |
| 1:44.7 | There was Hogan Andre. There was Sina Rock. There was, you know, give them a story to believe it. There was Hogan Andre. There was, seen a rock. You know, whatever, list to your favorite big matches over the, |
| 1:49.4 | over the WrestleMania years. Undertaker Lesnar, you want people who are fans today to believe they're |
| 1:55.3 | seeing something that would be talked about, 5, 10, 15, 20 years from now, especially if they want |
| 2:00.0 | people to buy tickets and be in the |
| 2:01.2 | building for it, to be eyewitness in person to history. |
| 2:04.2 | So I don't blame them for doing it, and I don't think it's way out of line to frame it that |
| 2:09.0 | way, Reins is a transformational star during a boom period revenue-wise and, you know, very, very much an era-defining star, not to the level of Austin and Hogan, |
| 2:22.0 | but still, you know, real successful. |
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