Wade Keller
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1,255 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 20 Dec
Wade Keller’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And they were talking about, you know, his world title run and all that.
And I just thought it was kind of interesting how he kind of so treated wrestling and talked about it.
I mean, it was early 2000 that he did an interview, but he treated it like it was a sport.
He talked about how he lost to, I think it was Dory Funk Jr., I believe.
He said that Dory Funk got him in the famous spinning kill hold or whatever.
Like, I thought it was kind of interesting.
My question is, where did the change come from where you have, you know, the older guys, like, like the Dean Kaminsky's and Lou Cez's and all that, which, you know, wrestling was still, you know, obviously was still, uh, true decade is now where the finishes were going to be predetermined and all that, but they still treated it like a sport.
where nowadays, you know, wrestlers now in WWE and even in PNA just say the word wrestling is like a cuss word.
Yeah, and that's just been took, man, and I don't even think the wrestlers agree with it.
They just have to toe the company line.
And the idea of getting away from the wrestling term is purely a business strategy because the category of pro wrestling had a stigma, and it still does to an extent, which is it's not a sophisticated, high-income group of people to target for television.
And because of that, it's hard to get advertisers to connect their brand with WWE programming.
And Vince McMahon, very strategically, I think at times foolishly and absurdly, as opposed to redefining what pro wrestling is, which he has the power to do, has tried to redefine, reclassify what he does as sports entertainment.
And I think it's distracting and a lot more trouble than it's worth and isn't going to work.
No one says, hey, did you see sports entertainment last night?
Everyone's going to say, hey, did you watch pro wrestling last night, or did you watch Raw?
Nobody uses the term sports entertainment except in a derisive tone.
It's a business strategy.
I wish they'd just say, we are pro wrestling, we're proud of it, and here is what it is in this era, and redefine it.
I think they would have been more successful redefining pro wrestling than trying to reclassify themselves as something that nobody takes seriously.
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