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WKPWP Interview Classic (5 Yrs Ago): Keller interviews former WWE Creative Team member Kevin Eck about relationship between Vince & Creative

Wade Keller Pro Wrestling Podcast

Wade Keller

Tv & Film, Sports, Leisure

3.9903 Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2022

⏱️ 115 minutes

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Summary

In this week's Interview Classic episode, we jump back five years to PWTorch editor Wade Keller's interview from Jan. 12, 2016 with former WWE Creative Team member and current wrestling columnist Kevin Eck. Kevin talked about a range of current events including WrestleMania potential line-ups, Roman Reigns’s potential heel turn, the relationship between Vince McMahon and Creative Team and how they communicate, the history of WM planning and how far in advance PPV line-ups are penciled in, what match will headline WM this year, bullying in WWE between JBL-types and newer wrestlers or creative team members, JBL’s berating of the woman wrestler on Raw this week and Rich Swann making fun of Neville’s ears on 205 Live this week could Miz win the Rumble this year, Hall of Fame formatting, the relationship between Creative Team members and wrestlers out of the workplace, and MCW-Hardys-Eck news.

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Oh, he's cute. Mr. I can never sleep when I'm traveling. He's hugging his pillow like a sloth on a branch.

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He couldn't sleep before. Now listen to him. Sounds like an elephant with a chest infection.

0:15.0

Well, they call him a dreamer. And now they're right.

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All aboard, Mr. I can never sleep when I'm travelling find all the comfort you need in the quiet

0:25.5

lounge Pianto ferries that is another way one benefit of the VIP membership

0:31.9

is access to our back issue library contemporaneous

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in depth inside a reporting on pro wrestling in real time over the past 30 plus years.

0:42.2

And throughout the year 2022,

0:43.0

we're going to begin our March through the year 2002

0:46.0

with back issues posted each week in PDF and all text formats.

0:51.0

You can read it in a PDF format

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with our original magazine

0:53.7

slash newsletter style layout on your screen and flip through the pages or you can

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read a straightforward all text format on your phone or tablet or laptop. The back issues early in 2002 covered the

1:04.4

arrival of Scott Hall, Kevin Nash, and Hulk Hogan to W. W. W. E. and all the controversy

1:08.9

that came with them. Plus my cover story that broke the news on the planned launch by Jerry and Jeff Jarrett of a promotion called TNA.

1:18.0

Also the early 2002 features are 2001 year and review features including ranking pro wrestling's most influential

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power brokers and our torch urine awards the year in quotes and the top 50 stories

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ranked in order from the year 2001. So go VIP and dive into our back issues.

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