{"id":195681,"date":"2025-04-05T21:00:53","date_gmt":"2025-04-06T02:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?post_type=podcast&#038;p=195681"},"modified":"2025-04-05T19:07:51","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T00:07:51","slug":"vip-podcast-4-5-pwtorch-dailycast-best-of-pwtorch-livecast-ad-free-keller-powells-wrestlemania-26-analysis-shawn-michaels-retirement-speech-tna-181-min","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/podcast\/vip-podcast-4-5-pwtorch-dailycast-best-of-pwtorch-livecast-ad-free-keller-powells-wrestlemania-26-analysis-shawn-michaels-retirement-speech-tna-181-min\/","title":{"rendered":"VIP PODCAST 4\/5 \u2013 PWTorch Dailycast \u2013 Best of PWTorch Livecast (AD-FREE): Keller &#038; Powell&#8217;s WrestleMania 26 analysis + Shawn Michael&#8217;s retirement speech, TNA (181 min.)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-1523927709\" class=\"pwtor-before-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><hr \/><b>SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)... <\/b>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?show_id=3076978&theme=light&playlist=false&playlist-continuous=false&autoplay=false&live-autoplay=false&chapters-image=true&episode_image_position=right&hide-logo=false&hide-likes=false&hide-comments=false&hide-sharing=false&hide-download=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"140px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\r\n<hr \/><\/div><p><strong>SHOW SUMMARY:\u00a0<\/strong>Today we jump back 15 years to two back-to-back episodes of the PWTorch Livecast from Mar. 29 and 30, 2010.<\/p>\n<p>On the Mar. 29, 2010 episode, PWTorch editor Wade Keller and guest co-host Jason Powell of ProWrestling.net, they take a lot of calls almost exclusively about WrestleMania 26 including talk about match order, the quality of Michaels-Taker II versus Michaels-Taker I, Randy Orton&#8217;s future as a babyface, the Bret-Vince match, and more.<\/p>\n<p>Then on the Mar. 30, 2010 episode, host James Caldwell and co-host PWTorch columnist Bruce Mitchell has phone calls, emails, and chat room questions on Shawn Michaels, his career, his retirement speech on Raw, the comparisons between HBK and Bret Hart&#8217;s final speeches, the sense of closure for Michaels with Bret returning, Jack Swagger winning MITB and his push on Raw, plus TNA subjects including Samoa Joe, A.J. 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