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VIP Exclusive Features VIP - PWTorch Newsletter Digital Back Issue #690 (5 Yrs. Ago): Torch Awards for 2001 for MVP, Best Wrestler, Best Heel, Best Babyface, Best TV Show, Torch Talk with trainer Les Thatcher, Hogan and NWO news (2-2-2002)
Jan 27, 2012 - 3:08:41 PM
We are now posting PWTorch Digital Newsletters for the year 2001 for the first time ever. These issues in 2001 were previously available online in text-article format or paper copy editions sent to subscribers originally the week they were published.
We plan to publish all of 2001's PWTorch Newsletters in digital format throughout 2011 at the rate of about one per week.
This issue includes the first five 2002 Torch Awards - MVP, Best Wrestler, Best Heel, Babyface, TV Show... Also, WWF Newswire with news on Hulk Hogan's latest deal and an update on the new NWO... Reports on Raw and Smackdown... 1992 Backtrack... Part five of the Torch Talk with Les Thatcher... Wade Keller's End Notes praises Raw... And more...
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PWTorch editor Wade Keller has covered pro wrestling full time since 1987 starting with the Pro Wrestling Torch print newsletter. PWTorch.com launched in 1999 and the PWTorch Apps launched in 2008.
He has conducted "Torch Talk" insider interviews with Hulk Hogan, The Rock, Steve Austin, Kevin Nash, Scott Hall, Eric Bischoff, Jesse Ventura, Lou Thesz, Jerry Lawler, Mick Foley, Jim Ross, Paul Heyman, Bruno Sammartino, Goldberg, more.
He has interviewed big-name players in person incluiding Vince McMahon (at WWE Headquarters), Dana White (in Las Vegas), Eric Bischoff (at the first Nitro at Mall of America), Brock Lesnar (after his first UFC win).
He hosted the weekly Pro Wrestling Focus radio show on KFAN in the early 1990s and hosted the Ultimate Insiders DVD series distributed in retail stories internationally in the mid-2000s including interviews filmed in Los Angeles with Vince Russo & Ed Ferrara and Matt & Jeff Hardy. He currently hosts the most listened to pro wrestling audio show in the world, (the PWTorch Livecast, top ranked in iTunes)
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