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For the ardent pro wrestling fan looking for a trusted, independent source of in-depth, daily news and analysis.

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VIP-EXCLUSIVE
PODCASTS EVERY DAY
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WEEKLY PWTORCH
NEWSLETTER
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AD-FREE VERSION
OF PWTORCH WEBSITE
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35+ YEARS OF
ARCHIVES & COLLECTIONS
(Podcasts & Articles)
VIP EXCLUSIVE PODCASTS

PAYMENT
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NOTE: Full VIP archives and ad-free website access available via credit card and Pay Pal options with monthly rates beginning at $12.99 for monthly sub (or $9.99 per month average with annual option). If you're not interested in ad-free VIP website access, PWTorch Newsletter and back issue access, or 20 years of Podcast Archives and hundreds of retro radio shows from the '90s, you can still get the full VIP podcast offerings each day for just $9.99 per month through the Patreon or Apple Podcast options. Patreon includes Spotify and Apple native podcast compatibility. Other payment options include Apple's native podcast compatibility along with most other podcast apps.

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Yes, as of 2022, you can now subscribe on your iPhone directly using your Apple Account that you use to pay for apps. Just CLICK HERE or search "pwtorch vip" and subscribe to our channel. You can even try us free for three days. It's the most convenient way for iPhone users to access all new VIP podcasts and VIP-exclusive version of the WKPWPs and Dailycasts stripped of in-house plugs and sponsorship messages.

If you are part of the Patreon ecosystem, you can access our VIP podcasts conveniently through Patreon now! (New in 2020) via three tier options: www.patreon.com/pwtorchvip

Most of our members sign up directly on our in-house sign-up page using Pay Pal or their credit card or debit card (new in August 2020) as the payment method. This method also includes access on Apple Podcasts with a single-click on your confirmation email. No special settings or passwords to enter. (Email is required for this sign-up method. You may receive breaking news updates, relevant updates regarding membership content, and promotional emails during and after your subscription is current, with an option to opt out anytime.)

You'll never refresh our feed without something new featuring familiar and trusted hosts and cohosts covering a topic you love with that just right mix of enthusiasm, knowledge, and a dose of irreverence and humor too!

 

Whether you're primarily a follower of WWE or prefer AEW and New Japan or a mix of older wrestling and the indy scene, we have an array of podcasts to give you immersive coverage and diverse perspectives of every slice of the wrestling world. We have shows focused on just WWE, just AEW, just ROH, just Impact Wrestling, just Japan, and just NXT, plus shows that cover a mix of all of the above and more along with nostalgia and documentary reviews. You can mix and match which shows you listen to based on your interests at any given time and explore our backlog of nearly 20 years of podcasts to dive into specific topics, themes, and eras.

 

Even if you're not watching a lot of wrestling these days, but feel invested in keeping up on the industry through our analysis and entertaining banter with a mix of personalities and perspectives, you'll find VIP membership valuable. While we're hardly only about podcasts - with three decades of newsletters and over 20 years of backlogged web content - we'll tell you about our VIP Podcast benefits first.

VIP membership includes dozens of new podcasts every week that are only available to VIP members, either streaming on our VIP-exclusive ad-free, mobile-friendly website or via our RSS feed which is compatible with more apps than ever in 2022, including now Apple's native podcast app with a single click (and no need to enter username & password to activate). Details follow:

OUR 2024 VIP PODCAST LINE-UP

Access all our podcasts on popular podcast apps on your phone including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podasts, Beyond Pod, Dogg Catcher, Downcast, Patreon, and more. You can also stream our VIP podcasts right from our VIP website (desktop and mobile friendly) when you choose the regular VIP membership option using credit card, debit card, or Pay Pal.

 

WADE KELLER HOSTS THESE VIP-EXCLUSIVE SERIES
  • Post-PPV Roundtables hosted by Wade Keller: Beginning in 2003, Wade has hosted with two other PWTorch contributors/columnists post-PPV podcasts with a roundtable format. They run usually an hour or so, and become available within 90 minutes after the PPV ends, featuring three perspectives on the entire event. Typically, Todd Martin and Rich Fann are part of the Roundtables.

  • The Fix with Todd Martin & Wade Keller: Todd brings passion, intellect, curiosity, and strong points of view to every week's episode with a walk through the top happenings in WWE, AEW, NXT, New Japan, and more along with a weekly MMA segment. You need to listen to truly fully understand why this quickly becomes a podcast our VIP members say they schedule their podcast listening lives around. Oh, and VIP members say the humorous banter between Todd and Wade is a weekly VIP hightlight.

  • The Fix Mailbag with Todd & Wade: Each week VIP members send Todd & Wade questions on a wide range of topics from the WWF Attitude Era to MMA to current events in pro wrestling to his extensive knowledge of wrestling books and much more. It's a weekly graduate-level course on pro wrestling with Todd's strong knowledge mixed with unapologetic, well-backed points of view.

  • Everthing with Rich Fann & Wade Keller: Every week (Tuesday nights, typically), Wade and Pro Wrestling Torch Newsletter columnist Rich Fann  discuss pro wrestling's top stories, controversies, matches, and angles. Rich also closely follows pro wrestling's social media and brings his perspective to real life hot-button social issues in pro wrestling including race and gender. The show is called Everything because of Rich's vast and eclectic range of interests and deep knowledge on those interests. His areas of expertise range from New Japan and All Japan to WWE/AEW/NXT to MLW/NWA/ROH and the indy scene. They also have a recurring "Off the Beaten Path" segment exploring a clip related to pro wrestling in some way (current or way in the past) that's quirky or notable that one or both have never seen before.

  • The Wade Keller Hotline: Throughout the week, Wade posts updates in a variety of formats including his start-to-finish 25-45 minute rundowns of Raw, Smackdown, and Dynamite with his analysis added. Also, his Flashback Saturday Night edition with a week's worth of fascinating insider news updates and TV reviews from that week 15 years ago.

  • Wade's "Focus on..." series: A sub-category of the Wade Keller Hotline podcast feed is the new "Focus On..." series. In this era, some VIP members are much more interested in AEW or WWE news, but don't want a podcast update mixing the two. So this new format gives VIP members a mega-dose a concentrated news on a specific company when warranted

  • Keller Conversations: When Wade wants to podcast with someone in the wrestling industry or who has a particular niche specialty, they record a "Keller Conversation" podcast. This is a more unbuttoned, casual format than a Torch Talk or traditional podcast Q&A format.

  • VIP Podcast Vault: Wade Keller selects key shows several times a week from the VIP vault when PWTorch first began recording podasts for subscribers before "podcast" was even a word dating back to 2003. In late 2021 and early 2022, we posted over 100 podcasts from the first year of PWTorch podcasts back in 2003-2004! In 2023, we've been publishing on roughly their 18th anniversary the 2005 series of Wade Keller Hotlines (with tons of insider news from that time), the early Bruce MItchell Audio Shows (with timeless in-depth conversations and insights on pro wrestling biggest names and stories), Real Deal with Pat McNeill podcasts with the news of the week including fascinating indy show line-ups with stars of the future, and Post-PPV Roundtable with Wade, Bruce, and Pat.

OTHER VIP-EXCLUSIVE PODCASTS
  • Alan Counihan's weekly "Pro Wres Paradise" which cover the Japan, Europe, and Indy scenes - either the news of the week or major events or historical themes such as the Greatest Wrestler debate or wrestler-focused shows on pro wrestling's top legends. Alan is a legend in the online message board community and a legendary nice guy with a contagiously optimistic outlook.

  • Everything Mailbag (new in 2021): Rich Fann is joined by Josh Mustachio every other weekend to answer listener questions on, well, anything and everything. Their friendly banter and endless curiosity to explore pro wrestling's most fascinating topics and discuss multiple sides of controversies in a fair-minded way comes through in every episode.

  • PW Impact Pod (new in 2022): Darrin Lilly and John Laslo analyze the week in Impact Wrestling including a through review of their weekly TV show, the latest news, and PPVs and live specials.

  • "NXT 8 Years Back" hosted by Kelly Wells & Tom Stoup (new in 2020): Reviewing NXT from the beginning of its current format starting with the June 2012 episodes, with a new episode on the annivesary date every weekend.

  • Greg Parks Outloud! (new in 2023): Longtime Pro Wrestling Torch Newsletter columnist Greg Parks presents his weekly in-depth examination of a single key topic. This is a reading of his newsletter column (thus the "Outloud!" name) along with an introduction and occasional asides to add extra analysis and perspective.

  • Sean Radican "Worldwide" covering the latest news from around the globe with an array of cohosts with various specialties including Rich Fann, Brian Leahy, Dan Kuester, and others.

  • Pro Wrestling Then & Now (new in 2020): Frank Peteani and a mix of guest cohosts from the PWTorch contributor team review a WWE PPV from years ago through the lens of what we know now.

  • Retro Radio Shows: A new Wade Keller-hosted "Pro Wrestling Focus" Retro Radio Show or John Arezzi-hosted Pro Wrestling Spotlight radio show every Thursday from the 1990s. Hundreds available on-demand in our archives, a new episode posted on the VIP podcast feed every Thursday.

  • Special Torch Talk podcasts such as the comprehensive and newsbreaking Tony Khan and Jon Moxley interviews in 2019.

  • There are also VIP Aftershows following some Wade Keller Podcasts and PWTorch Livecasts.

Our VIP podcasts are compatible with popular podcast apps on iPhone and Android, and we have a step-by-step guide to get you authenticated with our VIP RSS feed. We offer custom feeds for each podcast, collections of podcasts, and by theme (such as current events and nostalgia). You can preview the main VIP RSS feed (https://www.pwtorch.com/site/feed/podcast/), but you won't be able to download or stream the podcasts without an activated VIP password. As a member, you can also stream our VIP podcasts right from our ad-free VIP website (mobile & desktop).

 

AD-FREE WKPWP & LIVECASTS

AD-FREE VERSIONS OF
WADE KELLER PODCASTS and
PWTORCH DAILYCASTS

The daily Wade Keller Pro Wrestling Podcasts & Post-Shows and seven weekly PWTorch Livecasts are offered without ads & plugs exclusively for VIP members on our VIP podcast feed and VIP website. On our VIP website and VIP podcast feeds, you can download VIP-exclusive versions of the Wade Keller Podcasts and Livecasts with ads & plugs edited off for a streamlined listening experience. 

PWTORCH NEWSLETTER

PWTORCH NEWSLETTER COLLECTION

Every week a new edition of the Pro Wrestling Torch Weekly Newsletter is published which chronicles pro wrestling's top stories, major TV shows, and PPV events. The newsletter includes Wade Keller's newsletter-exclusive cover stories on the biggest story of the week, plus feature-length columns by Greg Parks, Alan Counihan, Sean Radican, and Rich Fann. Also, staff PPV Roundtable reviews and scores, the Torch Newswire, our 20 Years Ago snippets, and more.

Not only do VIP 
members have access to PDF and All-Text versions of each week's new newsletter, but they have access to over 1,600 back issues dating back to the late 1980s in our massive VIP Archives. Get lost in our archives reading about your favorite wrestling events, backstage news, long-form interviews, PPV reports with Wade's star ratings, PPV Roundtable Reviews from the staff, and editorials and cover stories on pro wrestling's biggest stories for over three decades.


Interested in home delivery of the paper copy? We offer that too. Check out details & pricing HERE.

PWTORCH 

FACTS

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WADE KELLER HAS REPORTED ON PRO WRESTLING FOR OVER 35 YEARS

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25 YEARS OF PRODUCING PODCASTS PLUS HOSTING RADIO DATING BACK TO 1990S

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OVER 1,800 WEEKLY PRO WRESTLING TORCH NEWSLETTERS IN OUR VIP ARCHIVES...AND COUNTING

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OVER 100 PODCASTS EVERY MONTH ARE ADDED ON THE VIP PODCAST FEED
FACTS

ABOUT US

PWTorch editor Wade Keller began PWTorch as a weekly paper copy newsletter in 1987 when he was a junior in high school. He has brought together some of pro wrestling's most talented writers and podcast analysts over the last 30+ years.

In 2015, Wade was honored to be inducted into the George Tragos/Lou Thesz Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame with the Jim Melby Award for Excellence in Writing on Professional Wrestling. He hosted the Pro Wrestling Focus radio show in the early 1990s on KFAN. He hosted the "Ultimate Insiders" DVD series including on-camera interviews with Vince Russo & Ed Ferrera (in their first interview together since their time writing Raw during the boom period and WCW Nitro afterward) and Matt & Jeff Hardy (including Matt talking in-depth about the Edge-Lita-Matt triangle). He became a featured podcast host on the exclusive Podcast One network in 2017 while also appearing regularly as a guest analyst on the Steve Austin Show, The Jim Ross Report, The Sam Roberts Wrestling Podcast, Raven's podcast, Ring Rust Radio, and many others.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Todd Martin joined PWTorch in 2015 after many years with the Wrestling Observer and writing about MMA for the L.A. Times and Sherdog website. His weekly VIP-exclusive podcast, "The Fix," hosted by Wade Keller, quickly became a favorite of VIP members. Each week, Todd and Wade discuss the latest events in WWE, New Japan, ROH, UFC, and anything else in the world of pro wrestling and MMA that makes news. Todd provides in-depth reviews of new book releases. (Check out for free the big list of books he's reviewed and "tiers" they are ranked in HERE.). Another popular segment is the weekly Mailbag where Todd answers VIP member questions.

Greg Parks and Sean Radican are two of the longest-tenured staff members in PWTorch history. Greg hosts "Wrestling Night in America" on Sunday nights in the PWTorch Livecast line-up and his weekly full-page columns are an anchor of page 10 of the weekly Pro Wrestling Torch Newsletter. Sean brings his knowledge of Japan, ROH, and the Indy scene to his special columns in the newsletter and his many podcasts throughout the month.

 

Alan Counihan joined the team early in 2018 with his Euro-perspective and expertise on the entire Japan scene.

Rich Fann, after over fives years of podcasting for PWTorch, was promoted to a Pro Wrestling Torch columnist and VIP podcast host at the start of 2021.

We are also very proud of the PWTorch Livecast team, many of whom often appear in special VIP Roundtables and in the rotations of guest cohosts on the Wade Keller Podcasts, including PWTorch Dailycast hosts and PWTorch.com contributors.

The Pro Wrestling Torch Newsletter is widely cited as one of the premier sources of documenting wrestling history (including countless references in Wikipedia), plus Wade's "Torch Talk" series pioneered long-form insider Q&A style interviews with pro wrestling's top wrestlers and promoters who opened up about the inner-workings and controversies in the industry for the first time ever. Wade has interviewed some of pro wrestling's biggest historical figures in their longest insider interviews including Steve Austin, The Rock, Vince McMahon, Eric Bischoff. Paul Heyman, Mick Foley, Goldberg, Kevin Nash, Scott Hall, Sean "X-Pac" Waltman, Jesse Ventura, Lou Thesz, Jerry Lawler, Vince Russo, Jim Cornette, Bill Watts, Jim Crockett Jr., Verne Gagne, Samoa Joe, A.J. Styles, Jon Moxley, Tony Khan, and hundreds of others.

Pro Wrestling Torch's "brand" is recognized for its independence, not relying on or seeking out acceptance of the powerbrokers of the industry that they cover. Their coverage is unapologetically hard-hitting, but fair. The team never loses sight of their love for pro wrestling and what made them fans in the first place, but they never act as apologists who accept a lackluster product, compromised practices, or hypocrisy. Our members feel part of a special niche group of pro wrestling fans who have outgrown the "fanboy" or "corporate" coverage found elsewhere.

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VIP MEMBER TESTIMONIALS

ARIA, BUFFALO, N.Y.

“You guys are awesome at what you do, so informed on the product, and the Torch is amazing. I can’t say it enough. Honestly.”

COLLIN B., ATLANTA, GA.

"I’ve been a VIP member for a few years now and the content is fantastic. I listen to Torch content on the train to work. PWTorch is the reason I follow wrestling these days. I’m a Torch fan, then a wrestling fan. Thank you to you and everyone on the site.”

ROB MCNICHOL

"It is so great to hear an intelligent dialogue on wrestling that does not cater to ‘fanboys,’ nor snarkily rip into wrestling for cheap laughs. It treats the topic – and the listener – with respect. Moreover, I am consistently impressed with the neutrality shown."

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