{"id":105759,"date":"2020-10-04T16:16:50","date_gmt":"2020-10-04T21:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=105759"},"modified":"2020-10-04T16:16:50","modified_gmt":"2020-10-04T21:16:50","slug":"vip-2000-back-issue-pro-wrestling-torch-623-october-7-2000-cover-story-on-potential-sale-of-wcw-being-talk-of-industry-coverage-of-ecw-anarchy-rulz-part-one-of-torch-talk-with-new-ecw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2020\/10\/04\/vip-2000-back-issue-pro-wrestling-torch-623-october-7-2000-cover-story-on-potential-sale-of-wcw-being-talk-of-industry-coverage-of-ecw-anarchy-rulz-part-one-of-torch-talk-with-new-ecw\/","title":{"rendered":"VIP 2000 BACK ISSUE \u2013 Pro Wrestling Torch #623 (October 7, 2000): Cover Story on potential sale of WCW being talk of industry, Coverage of ECW Anarchy Rulz, Part one of Torch Talk with new ECW World Champion Jerry Lynn, more"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-1471961884\" class=\"pwtor-before-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><hr \/><b>SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)... <\/b>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?show_id=3076978&theme=light&playlist=false&playlist-continuous=false&autoplay=false&live-autoplay=false&chapters-image=true&episode_image_position=right&hide-logo=false&hide-likes=false&hide-comments=false&hide-sharing=false&hide-download=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"140px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\r\n<hr \/><\/div><p><em>We are now posting PWTorch Digital Newsletter PDFs for the year 1997 for the first time ever. These issues from 1997 have never been made available in their original format since their original printing press run 20 years ago.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"s1\">SUMMARY of #623 cover-dated October 7, 2000:<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"s1\"> This issue includes a cover story on the potential sale of WCW being the talk of the industry &#8211; the beginning of the Torch&#8217;s industry-leading coverage of the biggest story perhaps in the history of pro wrestling&#8230; WWF Newswire with details on another Olympic wrestler being courted among many behind the scenes items not reported anywhere else&#8230; WCW Newswire with details on Dallas Page discussing a return to WCW, Goldberg on Daily Show, and Vince Russo&#8217;s job in jeopardy, plus other backstage news&#8230; ECW Newswire with notes on Paul Heyman being upset with claims that he told wrestlers a deal with USA Network was done&#8230; Detailed coverage of ECW Anarchy Rulz with Jerry Lynn defeating Justin Credible to capture the ECW World Title&#8230; Part one of a &#8220;Torch Talk&#8221; with new ECW World Champion Jerry Lynn&#8230; Wade Keller&#8217;s End Notes looks at intriguing Presidential Debates with wrestling personalities instead of politicians&#8230; Plus reports on Raw, Nitro, ECW on TNN, Smackdown, Thunder, and other TV shows&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u2013<a href=\"http:\/\/vip.pwtorch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/PWTorchNewsletter623PDF.pdf\">DIRECT LINK: PWTorchNewsletter #623<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2013<a href=\"https:\/\/vip.pwtorch.com\/category\/vipexclusives\/1998-back-issues\/\">LIST OF LATEST 1998 BACK ISSUE PDF POSTS<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s1\"><span class=\"s2\">\u2013<a href=\"https:\/\/members.pwtorch.com\/torchbackissues98\/backissues98.shtml\">LIST OF ALL\u00a01998 BACK ISSUES<\/a>\u00a0(old text article format)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u2013<a href=\"http:\/\/vip.pwtorch.com\/category\/vipexclusives\/1997backissues\/\">LIST OF LATEST 1997 BACK ISSUE PDF POSTS<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><span class=\"s2\">\u2013<a href=\"http:\/\/members.pwtorch.com\/torchbackissues97\/backissues97.shtml\">LIST OF ALL\u00a01997 BACK ISSUES<\/a>\u00a0(old text article format)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\"><span class=\"s4\">\u2013<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/members\/artman\/publish\/vipcatchall\/article_76799.shtml\">TUTORIAL ON DISPLAYING NEWSLETTER PDFS ON IPAD OR ANDROID TABLET<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p><div id=\"pwtor-465556943\" class=\"pwtor-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280 __336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><em><strong>FULL NEWSLETTER TEXT AND PDF VERSIONS AVAILABLE EXCLUSIVELY TO VIP MEMBERS\u2026<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>NOT VIP? 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These issues from 1997 have never been made available in their original format since their original printing press <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2020\/10\/04\/vip-2000-back-issue-pro-wrestling-torch-623-october-7-2000-cover-story-on-potential-sale-of-wcw-being-talk-of-industry-coverage-of-ecw-anarchy-rulz-part-one-of-torch-talk-with-new-ecw\/\" title=\"VIP 2000 BACK ISSUE \u2013 Pro Wrestling Torch #623 (October 7, 2000): Cover Story on potential sale of WCW being talk of industry, Coverage of ECW Anarchy Rulz, Part one of Torch Talk with new ECW World Champion Jerry Lynn, more\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":105761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1361],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vipexclusivealerts","category-vip_newsletters"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2020\/10\/TorchCover623_3x2_600.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105765,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105759\/revisions\/105765"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}