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SUMMARY: The issue opens with Wade Keller's cover story looking at the big developments in the Triple H vs. Undertaker match at WrestleMania, and what John Cena and Rock did to set up next week's big verbal showdown... Pg. 2 features "Pg. 2 Radar with Wade Keller" with insiders news on Vince Russo's departure from TNA and how the power structure shakes out, plus a look ahead to WrestleMania 29 potential main events, and more insider info and tidbits... Pg. 3 features Bruce Mitchell's column on the Rock-Cena dynamic... Pg. 4 features Greg Parks's column reviewing the early Ring Ka King shows, the TNA India spinoff with tons of familiar names and bookers... Pgs. 5-7 features the WWE Elimination Chamber coverage including the newsletter-exclusive Roundtable Reviews by the Torch staff... Plus reports on Raw and Smackdown with Keller's Analysis, Radican's analysis of the top indy stories of the week, WWE Newswire, TNA Newswire, and Keller's "End Notes" looking all the way past WrestleMania to a possible WWE draft reshuffling...

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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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