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PWTorch and Wade Keller present a weekly VIP-level podcast for free from our VIP team led by editor and founder Wade Keller covering the latest happenings in pro wrestling. In...
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PWTorch and Wade Keller present a weekly VIP-level podcast for free from our VIP team led by editor and founder Wade Keller covering the latest happenings in pro wrestling. In Apple Podcasts, subscribe to additional VIP shows - at least one per day - using your Apple account for $9.99 a month.
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2 APR 2025 · SHOW SUMMARY: In this episode of “Everything with Rich Fann hosted by Wade Keller,” Wade and Rich discuss these topics:
- Jimmy Uso bloodbath angle with Gunther
- AEW Collision’s possible move to Thursdays
- Parsing Cody Rhodes and John Cena exchanges from Raw
- AEW Dynasty preview
- Athena arriving in AEW, but on Collision instead of Dynamite
- Saraya’s interview in The Guardian
- Furor of Mickie James’s comments about women’s attire on LFG
- Tetsuya Naito’s New Japan status and future
- Rey Fenix’s imminent arrival and how WWE should feature him
- The “That’s not the favor?” moment with C.M. Punk and is this WM main event really what Punk and his fans dreamed of
- Rich reflecting on his interview with Kate Kroll, the director of the Luna Vachon documentary, “Lunatic: The Luna Vachon Story.”
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26 MAR 2025 · SHOW SUMMARY: This installment of the PWTorch VIP Vault jumps back 18 years to the daily Wade Keller Hotlines for the Feb. 1-7, 2007 period, all combined into one file lasting nearly two-and-a-half hours. The following are the updates and the theme of each:
WEDNESDAY – FEBRUARY 7 (News Items on Hogan, WM, Ratings, TNA)
TUESDAY – FEBRUARY 6 (Insider news on WM & Raw, Raw analysis)
MONDAY – FEBRUARY 5 (WSX episode 2, WSX/TNA/SD ratings, more)
SUNDAY – FEBRUARY 4 (Jericho interview analysis, Smackdown thoughts)
SATURDAY – FEBRUARY 3 (Impact Analysis and Ratings)
FRIDAY – FEBRUARY 2 (Guest: Sean Radican on Joe leaving ROH)
THURSDAY – FEBRUARY 1 (Audio Ask the Torch)
This is another episode in our VIP Podcast Vault series going back to our earliest podcasts. We will continue to present VIP Podcasts from 18 years ago exclusively for PWTorch VIP members on our VIP Podcast Feed.
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13 DEC 2024 · SHOW SUMMARY: In this episode of “Everything with Rich Fann hosted by Wade Keller,” Wade talks with Rich about these topics:
- The follow-up to the heel turn of New Day
- Paul Heyman on how to deal with the plethora of titles
- AEW Continental Classic overview and ideas for how to improve it
- The Rey Fenix saga and related issues
- Athena being hidden in ROH
- The WWE “transfer window” concept
- Thoughts on NXT Deadline
- The Wyatt Sicks and whether they’ve been creative abandoned and how to get them back on track
- Reaction to AEW Dynamite ratings
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11 SEP 2024 · SHOW SUMMARY: In this episode of “Everything with Rich Fann hosted by Wade Keller,” Wade talks with Rich about his thoughts on the AEW All Out PPV, the discussions the last few days about the level of violence, the strengths of the show, PWTorch poll results including what the Best Match winner might indicate, whether Tony Khan is super-serving too small of an audience when violence goes that far, and much more.
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28 AUG 2024 · SHOW SUMMARY: In the latest Flashback episode of The Fix with Todd Martin & Wade Keller, we jump back seven years to part two of the August 16, 2017 episode of The Fix. CURRENT EVENTS
- G1 Finals and more stories from his trip including whether these are the best wrestling shows he’s ever seen and how crowds are different than WWE and UFC big event crowds
- Analysis of big segments on Raw and Smackdown including the Baron Corbin MITB cash-in
- Fatal Four-way hype
- Seth Rollins and Dean Ambrose
- Shane McMahon
- And more
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- Bill Watts’s potential had he been given more time to run WCW
- Eric Bischoff’s chances at success with the WCW buyout with Fusient Media
- Paul Heyman’s chances of succeeding if Dixie Carter hired him to run TNA
- Whether Brock Lesnar vs. Randy Orton last year had unplanned aspects
- Baron Corbin’s MITB cash-in
- A potential WWE point system tournament like G1
- Stereotypes in wrestling and the responsibly of fans and reporters to speak out
- And more
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7 AUG 2024 · SHOW SUMMARY: This installment of the PWTorch VIP Vault jumps back 18 years to the August 3 and August 4, 2006 Wade Keller Hotline podcast where PWTorch editor Wade Keller covers these topics:
- Vince McMahon’s surprising favorite match on ECW
- C.M. Punk’s backstage demeanor
- Why Cole was more into his job
- Steve Austin-Hulk Hogan talk
- Jeff Hardy’s return to WWE
- And more!
This is another episode in our VIP Podcast Vault series going back to our earliest podcasts. We will continue to present VIP Podcasts from 18 years ago exclusively for PWTorch VIP members on our VIP Podcast Feed.
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22 JUL 2024 · SHOW SUMMARY: This installment of the PWTorch VIP Vault jumps back to the July 21, 2006 episode of the Bruce Mitchell Audio Show. They covered these topics:
- ECW’s late-night rating
- Undertaker headlining an ECW show
- TNA ratings compared to ECW
- The content of Saturday Night’s Main Event and it ratings
- A look back at what made SNMEs in the 1980s rating successes whereas today they’re not
- Whether it’s wise to feature top stars on TV so often and, if it’s not done, what an alternative is, how UFC fits into all of this, and more.
- The injury to Mark Henry
- A preview of Sunday’s Bash PPV, and a couple other current events
- Then they dedicate the majority of the update to looking at the headlines of the recent two pairs of “5 Years Ago” and “10 Years Ago” Torch Newsletter back issues focused on Hulk Hogan’s heel turn in July 1996 and the original WCW/ECW Invasion angle from July 2001.
This is another episode in our VIP Podcast Vault series going back to our earliest podcasts. We will continue to present VIP Podcasts from 18 years ago exclusively for PWTorch VIP members on our VIP Podcast Feed.
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12 JUL 2024 · SHOW SUMMARY: This installment of the PWTorch VIP Vault jumps back to the July 9, 2006 episode of the Bruce Mitchell Audio Show. They covered these topics:
- The Sabu and RVD situation
- Happenings on TV throughout the week on the four major first-run national programs.
- Analysis of the new WWE Magazine format
- What question would Bruce ask Vince McMahon if McMahon had to give an honest answer?
This is another episode in our VIP Podcast Vault series going back to our earliest podcasts. We will continue to present VIP Podcasts from 18 years ago exclusively for PWTorch VIP members on our VIP Podcast Feed.
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26 JUN 2024 · SHOW SUMMARY: This installment of the PWTorch VIP Vault jumps back to the Real Deal with Pat McNeill from June 22, 2006 including:
- Pat gives his thoughts on a loaded episode of WWE Raw, and gets you ready for Sunday’s big Vengeance show.
- Plus all the wrestling news that’s unfit for print, including the scoop on the next ECW-related book, what surprise could be waiting for fans at Saturday’s ECW house show in Philadelphia, where and when a former ECW champion is locking up with Ring of Honor Bryan Danielson, and which former TNA gladiator would really like to sell you a T-shirt.
- The Hot Five Stories of the week include the end of the Christian era in TNA, Dave Batista back on the road for Smackdown, and confusing moments from Raw.
- The Indy Show lineup of the Week features former ECW Tag Team Champions in the same building for one night only at the New Alhambra,
- Listener Mail on The Warlord, Jeff Jarrett and The Yeti
- Pat’s dramatic audio reinterpretation of the opening segment from Raw.
This is another episode in our VIP Podcast Vault series going back to our earliest podcasts. We will continue to present VIP Podcasts from 18 years ago exclusively for PWTorch VIP members on our VIP Podcast Feed.
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19 JUN 2024 · SHOW SUMMARY: This installment of the PWTorch VIP Vault jumps back 18 years to the June 8, 2006 Wade Keller Hotline podcast where PWTorch editor Wade Keller covers these topics:
- Backstage notes on the ECW TV special including Vince McMahon’s demeanor
- Why they had both Taz and Jerry Lawler on commentary
- What familiar name booked the ECW battle royal
- Which top execs were and were not at the ECW PPV
- Randy Orton’s mood backstage
- Big Show’s relationship with Paul Heyman
- How ECW wrestlers got along with WWE wrestlers backstage
- Raw quarter hour ratings
- TNA’s big Steiner vs. Sting TV match
- More
This is another episode in our VIP Podcast Vault series going back to our earliest podcasts. We will continue to present VIP Podcasts from 18 years ago exclusively for PWTorch VIP members on our VIP Podcast Feed.
PWTorch and Wade Keller present a weekly VIP-level podcast for free from our VIP team led by editor and founder Wade Keller covering the latest happenings in pro wrestling. In...
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PWTorch and Wade Keller present a weekly VIP-level podcast for free from our VIP team led by editor and founder Wade Keller covering the latest happenings in pro wrestling. In Apple Podcasts, subscribe to additional VIP shows - at least one per day - using your Apple account for $9.99 a month.
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| Author | Pro Wrestling Torch |
| Organization | Pro Wrestling Torch |
| Categories | Wrestling |
| Website | www.pwtorch.com |
| kellerwade@gmail.com |
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