Wade Keller
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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 it really was the big moment in time that is referred to as kind of the turning point
But I would say that was just one of many, many gradual steps that had been going on for decades, really, as it went from more legit sports-like to more show-busy.
You can't even intelligently watch and not kind of see through it once you get to age 14, 15, 16.
And I think the funniest part is that even though WWF kind of spearheaded that movement, they also had the most famous case of a wrestler denial with David Schultz slapping John Stossel during that 2020 piece.
Yep.
Well, you know, they wanted it both ways.
I mean, there was still a point, and we're not really there now.
And now they don't care if you know that the outcomes are predetermined.
And, by the way, every match Gene Kaneski worked, the outcome was predetermined.
I mean, so it's great to tell those stories and weave history and play that narrative, but wrestling was its work then as it is now.
But don't tell Arn Anderson that.
Oh, God.
So they still, you know, today they want it both ways.
They want you to know it's not real.
for strategic reasons, but they don't want you to know how.
And that was actually Triple H's problem with Tough Enough, is he felt that that show gave away too much.
It's one thing for a magician.
A magician opens a show and says, what you're about to see is 90 minutes of illusions.
We want you to get wrapped up in the mystery of how it happens and suspend your disbelief and all that.
And I found out the show.
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