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Pro Wrestling Torch was founded by current PWTorch editor Wade Keller as a print newsletter in 1987. It is still published weekly today, read by thousands of subscribers worldwide with millions of copies sold to date. A paper copy is sent to some subscribers, a digital copy is available to online VIP subscribers. Over 1,200 weekly issues have been published.
PWTorch offered daily news & commentary updates by Wade Keller via 900 line throughout the 1990s. It was the only true daily way to get instant reliable insider news on pro wrestling during those years before the proliferation of the Internet.
PWTorch.com was launched in 1999 as a free website, distributing the Torch brand of wrestling journalism and commentary to a wider audience than ever. A VIP section of the site opened a few years later offering archives, news audio shows, a message board, and more content exclusively for subscribers, all ad-free.
PWTorch launched MMATorch.com in 2006, splitting it's dual coverage of pro wrestling and mixed martial arts into two distinct sites. PWTorch Newsletter covered UFC1 and other MMA events before and after UFC1 in the early 1990s.
PWTorch launched a mobile app for iPhone in 2008, for Android in 2009, and Amazon's App Store in 2010.
The daily PWTorch Livecast started broadcastiing on BlogTalkRadio in 2009. It has aired live every single weekday, without an exception for even holidays, since the first show in 2009. It has become the most widely listened to audio show covering pro wrestling in the world.
The Torch is read by tens of millions of fans each year, with over 250 million annual clicks and listens.
WADE KELLER - EDITOR
PWTorch editor Wade Keller has covered pro wrestling full time since 1987 starting with the Pro Wrestling Torch print newsletter. PWTorch.com launched in 1999 and the PWTorch Apps launched in 2008.
He has conducted "Torch Talk" insider interviews with Hulk Hogan, The Rock, Steve Austin, Kevin Nash, Scott Hall, Eric Bischoff, Jesse Ventura, Lou Thesz, Jerry Lawler, Mick Foley, Jim Ross, Paul Heyman, Bruno Sammartino, Goldberg, more.
He has interviewed big-name players in person including Vince McMahon (at WWE Headquarters), Dana White (in Las Vegas), Eric Bischoff (at the first Nitro at Mall of America), Brock Lesnar (after his first UFC win).
He hosted the weekly Pro Wrestling Focus radio show on KFAN in the early 1990s and hosted the Ultimate Insiders DVD series distributed in retail stories internationally in the mid-2000s including interviews filmed in Los Angeles with Vince Russo & Ed Ferrara and Matt & Jeff Hardy. He currently hosts the most listened to pro wrestling audio show in the world, (the PWTorch Livecast, top ranked in iTunes).
He has been interviewed by major newspapers, TV stations, and radio stations internationally over the last 25 years as a wrestling expert.
JAMES CALDWELL - ASSISTANT EDITOR
James Caldwell joined PWTorch full-time as assistant editor in October 2008. Caldwell's previous PWTorch work included recapping "WCW Live" in the 1990s before joining PWTorch as a contributor in 2004 and being hired as a columnist in July 2005.
Caldwell has interviewed numerous stars in the pro wrestling industry including Bruno Sammartino, Bill Goldberg, Dory Funk, Jr., TNA president Dixie Carter, Austin Aries, Robert Roode, Chris Harris, Chris Hero, Chris Cruise, NWA president Bob Trobich, Dave Marquez, Joey Ryan, So Cal Val, and Jeff Katz.
Caldwell has been interviewed by national and local publications, contributed to the Arizona Republic's coverage of WrestleMania 26 in 2010, and appeared on NPR Radio. Caldwell is assistant editor out of Houston, Texas, where he covers the pro wrestling scene locally and covered WrestleMania 25 in 2009.
Caldwell began covering wrestling part-time for PWTorch in Southern California, where he regularly covered PWG and NWA shows and attended WrestleMania 21 Weekend events in 2005.
BRUCE MITCHELL - SENIOR COLUMNIST
Bruce Mitchell has been a PWTorch columnist since 1990. His feature-length columns over the last 20+ years have covered the industry's biggest stories with his hard-hitting edge and eye on historical context.
He has been a guest on dozens of radio shows and podcasts including NPR, Wrestling Observer Live, Pro Wrestling Focus, and many others. He has been quoted as an expert on pro wrestling in national and regional newspapers over the years. He currently hosts Monday's PWTorch Livecast with Travis Bryant of the PWTorch East Coast Audio Show. With host Wade Keller, he records the Bruce Mitchell Audio Show for two hours every week for members of the PWTorch VIP website.
Some of his work is available on the free PWTorch.com website, but his weekly columns usually appeare exclusively in the PWTorch Newsletter and PWTorch VIP website.
GREG PARKS - COLUMNIST
Greg Parks has been a PWTorch columnist since 2009. He first wrote for PWTorch.com in December 1999 covering WCW Saturday Night until it became a recap show in April of 2000. In January 2007, he returned to PWTorch to cover WWE Smackdown each Friday night. Not long after that, he made his first audio contribution to PWTorch, as he joined James Caldwell every other Monday night to recap WWE Raw.
In addition to the above duties, he also contributed text roundtables for television and pay per-views. From April 2008-August 2010, he was in charge of coordinating roundtables, which included reaching out to Torch contributors and columnists, collecting, and editing and posting roundtables for each television show on pwtorch.com. In August of 2008, his columns began appearing in the Torch newsletter each week as an online exclusive. They continue to run each week in the newsletter. Parks maintains a blog in the PWTorch.com VIP forum, updated at least once a week, since March 2009. He and James Caldwell have contributed a text chat each week to pwtorch.com since September 2009. Since March 2011, he has hosted his own audio show on pwtorch.com, "Gonzo & The Greg," posted each weekend.
Parks can also be heard each Thursday on the Pro Wrestling Torch Livecast at BlogTalkRadio.com, and has appeared on the show each week since January 2010. He and James Caldwell occasionally conduct post-PPV Livecasts for major PPV shows. Parks has also filled in covering TNA Impact, WWE Raw, TNA and WWE PPVs, and has subbed in post-PPV audio recaps. Over the past several years, he has attended major TV and PPV shows in the Buffalo and Rochester New York areas. Parks currently resides in Lima, New York. He can be reached via email at g_man9784@yahoo.com; on Twitter @gregmparks; and on the "Gonzo & The Greg" Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Gonzo-and-The-Greg/208408212512668
SEAN RADICAN - COLUMNIST
Sean Radican has been writing for Pro Wrestling Torch since 2003 when he began recapping Smackdown every week. In 2004, he switched to covering Ring of Honor. As the company grew, he wrote the ROH news each and every week in the Pro Wrestling Torch newsletter. Radican became a columnist for Pro Wrestling Torch in 2005 and since that time he has written many independent wrestling DVD reviews and columns in the Pro Wrestling Newsletter and on PWTorch.com. Along with a team of Torch specialists, Radican has recapped every iPPV from ROH and DGUSA since the launch of iPPV in 2009, along with an audio review of most shows for PWTorch VIP members. Also, Radican has written frequent “Radican’s Take” columns on WWE, ROH, DGUSA, and TNA on PWTorch.com. Currently, Radican writes the weekly “Etc. News” for the Pro Wrestling Torch newsletter covering the top independent wrestling stories of the week. He also hosts the weekly Radican’s Wrestling Community Audio for Pro Wrestling Torch VIP members with a rotation of co-hosts including Torch specialists Mike Roe, Jimmy Eaton, and Brian Leahy.
Radican has covered several major independent wrestling events live including ROH’s War of the Wire, Manhattan Mayhem, Fate of an Angel, Driven 2008, and the inaugural ROH WrestleMania weekend event At Our Best. Radican has also attended many major WWE PPVs in Boston including Survivor Series, Royal Rumble, and SummerSlam. Radican also attended WrestleMania 20. For TNA, Radican attended Lockdown 2008 where TNA set a live attendance and PPV record headlined by Samoa Joe vs. Kurt Angle in a Steel Cage.
Radican has conducted several interviews since 2004 including interviews with Austin Aries, Samoa Joe, Alex Shelley, Colt Cabana, Nigel McGuinness, Gabe Sapolsky, Road Dogg Jesse James, Rikishi, Rhino, Zach Gowen, Violent J, Kevin Gill, Mike Quackenbush, Sara Del Rey, Steve Karel, Johnny Gargano, Homicide, Jeez, Julius Smokes, Ricky Reyes, Corp. Robinson, Zach Gowen, Rob Feinstein, Seth Rollins (Tyler Black), Antonio Cesaro (Claudio Castagnoli), and Jimmy Jacobs.
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He hosted the weekly Pro Wrestling Focus radio show on KFAN in the early 1990s and hosted the Ultimate Insiders DVD series distributed in retail stories internationally in the mid-2000s including interviews filmed in Los Angeles with Vince Russo & Ed Ferrara and Matt & Jeff Hardy. He currently hosts the most listened to pro wrestling audio show in the world, (the PWTorch Livecast, top ranked in iTunes)
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