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EDITOR'S NOTES: WrestleMania 25 coverage all night including reports, perspective, analysis, audio, more

Apr 5, 2009 - 12:34:58 PM
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By Wade Keller, PWTorch editor

Hello everybody, and thanks for visiting PWTorch.com on this big wrestling weekend!

PWTORCH WRESTLEMANIA COVERAGE: Our WrestleMania 25 coverage will include live ongoing frequently updated coverage throughout the night including multiple reports on the PPV, including MMATorch.com editor and PWTorch.com contributor Jamie Penick providing his detailed live report.

PWTorch assistant editor James Caldwell has been in Houston all weekend with eyewitness coverage of last night's Hall of Fame ceremony, the Booker T Fanfest, and both ROH events. He will also be in Houston tonight and providing coverage from inside the arena including what the live crowd sees that the PPV viewers don't.

After the show, PWTorch VIP member will receive an email report on the show, plus the post-PPV Roundtable Reviews. We will also be recording our post-PPV Audio Roundtable discussion with analysis from columnists Bruce Mitchell and Pat McNeill. The East Coast Audio duo of Travis Bryant and Bardre Purnell will also be recording a post-WrestleMania audio for VIP members tonight, providing another perspective from PWTorch voices.

PWTorch Specialist Shawn Valentino (author of the weekly "Magic, Memories, and Mania" column) is on-site in Houston, Tex. also. He provided the site with fascinating insight into WWE wrestlers interacting with fans at the hotel in Houston. His latest column posted yesterday looks at the build-up to WrestleMania 25 (check the Specialist section).

We also have PWTorch Specialist Marc Warzecha checking in with a satirical guide to WrestleMania 25 for people who haven't been watching WWE TV lately. Check that out on the Main Listing or the Specialist section.

My reports on the Hall of Fame webcast and USA Network special were posted last night. My Smackdown report covering the final WWE pitch for WrestleMania is also on the site.

We also posted our PWTorch Newsletter coverage of Steve Austin walking out on WWE in 2002, something he mentioned in his Hall of Fame speech last night.

And be sure to check out in the Interviews section our new and exclusive transcript of my conversation with former WWE scriptwriter Ed Ferrara, the co-scriptwriter/booker with Vince Russo (led, of course, by Vince McMahon) ten years ago headed into WrestleMania 15. He has been watching WWE again over the past year and provides his expert, unique perspective on the build-up this year compared to ten years ago. PWTorch VIP members are listening to the entire 75 minute interview right now in audio format including Ferrara's VIP-exclusive insight into what it was like to work with Edge, Big Show, Undertaker, Triple H, Steve Austin, The Rock, D-Lo Brown, JBL, Hardcore Holly, Billy Gunn, Sable, and others ten years ago, and whether he's surprised by the paths of the wrestlers he worked with ten years ago.

YOUR OPINION WANTED!: After WrestleMania, we want to hear what you thought of the event. Please vote in our polls, but also send us a paragraph of thoughts on WrestleMania with your name, hometown, 0-10 score, picks for best and worst matches, and a paragraph of thoughts on the show. Your comments will be published in batches in the "Torch Feedback" section, and I feel confident saying that it's the best way to have your voice heard by wrestlers and promoters, as the "Torch Feedback" section is widely read within the industry as a source of fan opinion on shows. Send your PPV Reax to pwtorch@gmail.com after the show.

MORE UPDATES THAN EVER: If you haven't been visiting PWTorch.com lately, I hope you'll make us a daily stop! With James Caldwell on board full time as assistant editor the last six months, our quantity of news updates on a daily basis has shot up to the top in the industry on the web. We bring more experience, more diverse perspectives (including newsletter columnists Bruce Mitchell, Pat McNeilll, and Sean Radican), and our hard-hitting signature Torch approach to reporting that you won't find anywhere else. We also provide analysis at the end of most news stories and our signature "FYI" background tidbits and "Related Story" links.

Check us out every Monday night with dual coverage of Raw with live coverage, as James Caldwell and I both provide ongoing updates throughout the show every Monday night. And Thursday nights Daniel Wilkenfeld joins me with dual reports live during Impact.

MOBILE TORCH: Also, be sure to check out the mobile version of PWTorch, launched late last year. Just enter "PWTorch.com" in your smart phone browser and get pro wrestling updates anytime you have 3G network and wireless web access. We also have a FREE Apple App in the iTunes App store. Check us out by searching "pro wrestling" or "WWE" or find us under the "sports apps- free" category. If you're an MMA/UFC fan, be sure to also check out MMATorch.com's mobile-custom site and the MMATorch App in the iTunes store (just search "MMA" or "UFC" or find us under the "sports apps - free" category).

FINAL WORD: Be sure to also check out WrestleMania coverage at our affiliate site, Jason Powell's ProWrestling.net. Powell, a former PWTorch Newsletter assistant editor is now the owner of his own website, one of the top news sources on the web after just over one year in business. There is also a ProWrestling.net App, so if you're reading us on our iPhone App and you don't also have the ProWrestling.net App, be sure to download that. It's also free and provides even more news reports and exclusive editorial columns.

If you're interested in becoming a PWTorch VIP member, we are accepting new members today in time for WrestleMania. You can have full ad-free access to PWTorch.com's main listing, plus all of the new and archived audio updates and interviews, exclusive features, the deepest archives on pro wrestling anywhere on the Internet, and of course the weekly main event - the new PWTorch Newsletter in both online text and PDF formats. Of course, VIP member will have access to tonight's post-WrestleMania VIP Audio shows. VIP SIGN-UP PAGE

Thanks to everybody for joining us for coverage! And we look forward to being your daily source of wrestling news and opinion going forward (on the web AND customized for your smart phone) including tomorrow night's big Raw and the WWE Draft a week later.


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