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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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