WKPWP - Tuesday Flagship - Keller & Heydorn discuss Sami Zayn and Solo Sikoa, Smackdown rating surge, AEW Rampage 2-hour special, more
Wade Keller Pro Wrestling Podcast
Wade Keller
3.9 • 903 Ratings
🗓️ 27 September 2022
⏱️ 123 minutes
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Summary
- Is Sami Zayn becoming a ratings draw? Did he help pop Smackdown's big viewership last Friday?
- How Solo Sikoa is already shining and adding another dimension to the superb Bloodline faction storylines.
- Review of two-hour AEW Rampage special including thoughts on AEW not doing enough to make Sting matches feel special, are too many dangerous bumps taking place in AEW, what's up with the Ricky Starks-Will Hobbs feud, and Hangman Page earning an AEW Title match in the battle royal.
- Thoughts on Tony Khan promising video packages for some of his newer wrestlers in big matches on Dynamite this week.
- The Extreme Rules line-up so far.
- Liv Morgan's job performance in the role she's been given lately.
- Ric Flair saying he isn't retired.
- Is Kevin Owens a possible perennial main eventer again and is he off to a good start under Paul Levesque's booking?
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| 0:53.8 | podcast. It's time for the weekly flagship talking current events in |
| 0:58.6 | pro wrestling. Two months ago, Zach, I don't think I would have started a flagship by talking about the |
| 1:11.6 | ratings drawing power of Sammy Zane. |
| 1:15.8 | But what do you make of, |
| 1:17.6 | I think it's a top story over this last week, |
| 1:20.5 | the Smackdown popping a big viewership number topping 2.5 million viewers last Friday. |
| 1:28.8 | I believe that is the first time they've done top 2.5 million since February 28th. |
| 1:36.2 | They only did it three other times this year. |
| 1:40.7 | And it just jumped off the screen for me when I saw it. |
| 1:45.0 | And you know, I think it's like, oh, there's, |
| 1:48.0 | and we'll talk about this, the sort of viral Easter egg thing with the bunny in the maybe potential and buzz that |
| 1:56.0 | that Bray Wyatt shows up if so brilliant strategy from Paul LeBec to get |
| 1:59.4 | viewership up for something he was going to kick the ball on. It could just be Roman or Ain't |
| 2:03.3 | has turned into a draw. Todd Martin talked about, hey, keep the title on, keep up strong. |
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