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PWTorch Newsletter #1022: State of WWE Address: Hot Europe Tour, Ratings Down, Roster Evaluation Apr 27, 2008 - 7:36:15 PM
Pro Wrestling Torch, a weekly 12-16 page print newsletter delivered via traditional postal mail, has been published since 1987.
The table of contents for this week's 16-page Torch Newsletter (#1022) has just been posted online for VIP members. The articles were posted on the VIP Main Listing earlier this week and the paper copy was mailed to print-edition subscribers on Thursday afternoon, April 24.
This issue includes a cover story on WWE's successful Europe tour coinciding with an 11 year low ratings stretch for Raw, plus Wade Keller's BBL featuring the annual Raw Roster Evaluation with each wrestler categorized and ranked with perspective on their movement from past years... Pat McNeill's feature column looks at WWE's limitations in presenting new acts to fans... Jason Powell's "Page 2 Buzz" features insider news with commentary on Undertaker, the Dixie Carter and Jeff Jarrett relationship, and more... The second installement of the two-part "Torch Talk" with Ole Anderson as conducted by Pat McNeill, one that has to be read to be believed as Ole is at his Grumpy Old Man best... Plus The Raw Page, The Smackdown & ECW Page, and The TNA Impact Page featuring Keller's big picture newspaper-style analysis of the programs, in-depth WWE Newswire, ROH Newswire, TNA Newswire, ETC. Newswire, Torch Triple Play, and more...
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AND NEW FOR 2009! Monthly "Vintage Audio Torch Talks." We are releasing for the first time ever audio versions of our text Torch Talk updates, the historical first series of insider interviews ever. Wade Keller's newsmaking in-depth interviews with wrestling's biggest names are now being made available exclusively to VIP members. But you must be a member each month, as these are not archived, so they are replaced with a new one each month! This debuted in January 2009 with a 68 minute interview with the late "British Bulldog" Davey Boy Smith. Who's next? Hulk Hogan? Eric Bischoff? The Rock? Goldberg? Jeff Hardy?