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Pro Wrestling Torch, a weekly 12-16 page print newsletter delivered via traditional postal mail, has been published since 1987.

This week's 32 page PWTorch 2007 Yearbook (double-issue #1006/1007) has just been posted online for VIP members and was mailed to print-edition subscribers Friday.

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The Pro Wrestling Torch Yearbook 2007 includes our long-running traditional year-end features such as the PWTorch Awards in 14 categories with reader poll results and staff picks and comments on each category... Pat McNeill's annual timeline marching through the year day by day, month by month looking at the crazy, ironic, corrupt, contradictory year... Bruce Mitchell's 17th Annual Quiz diverts course and focuses exclusively on the Chris Benoit story and the resulting fallout from that tragic weekend... The annual "Wrestling's Most Influential List" with the 15 most influential people in the industry, with background on each and a justification for their placement based on 2007 events... James Caldwell's feature column reflects on what should be learned and what has been learned from the year 2007... Plus an introduction by Wade Keller, Keller's "End Notes" random thoughts on the year, and more...

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