VIP Exclusive Features PWTorch Newsletter #1075: Death of Test, TNA Destination X Coverage, Keller on PPV Prices, Powell's Insider News, Mitchell on Why TNA Bothers with PPVs, Hoops on the Insider Story on WrestleMania 1 finishes, Parks examines WWE's Hall of Fame controversy (18 pages)
Mar 17, 2009 - 11:39:26 AM
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Pro Wrestling Torch, a weekly 12-16 page print newsletter delivered via traditional postal mail, has been published since 1987 with several PDF-version bonus pages most weeks.
The new PWTorch Newsletter (#1075) has just been posted online for PWTorch VIP members, cover-dated March 21. It's 18 pages packed with news, TV reviews, interview highlights, newsletter exclusive editorials, newsletter exclusive analysis, and more - plus PDF-exclusive bonus pages. Here are the details...
This issue opens with Wade Keller's cover story on the death of Andrew "Test" Martin... Keller's "Ask the Editor" feature addresses whether WWE should reduce PPV prices... Bruce Mitchell's Memo asks "Why does TNA even bother with PPVs"?... Jason Powell's "Page 2 Buzz" is packed with insider news on the decision to release Boogeyman, the leaked Raw script, backgrounds on ODB's date, Booker T on Test, Koko B. Ware in the Hall of Fame, and more... The WWE Newswire and TNA Newswire with newsletter-exclusive Keller Analysis of the news... Keller's reports on Raw, Smackdown, ECW, and Impact... Keller's TNA Destination X PPV report with the VIP Roundtable Reviews... Greg Parks' PDF-exclusive column looks at the controversy of how WWE handles it's Hall of Fame inductions... Brian Hoops's PPV-exclusive column looks at the politics behind the finishes of WrestleMania 1's entire line-up...
NOTE: To read the bonus columns by Parks and Hoops, you must access the PDF version of the newsletter. They are not included in the paper copy mailed to subscribers today, which ends at page 16.
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