{"id":17748,"date":"2016-04-28T09:36:03","date_gmt":"2016-04-28T14:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=17748"},"modified":"2016-04-28T09:36:03","modified_gmt":"2016-04-28T14:36:03","slug":"17748","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2016\/04\/28\/17748\/","title":{"rendered":"VIP 1996 BACK ISSUE \u2013 Pro Wrestling Torch #380 (Mar. 23): Diesel turns heel in front of WWF&#8217;s biggest MSG crowd in years, Torch Talk with Marc Mero on jump to the WWF, Zavisa predicts great things for Michaels, Eddie, Benoit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-2300231482\" 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 1996 for the first time ever. These issues from 1996 have never been made available in their original format since their original printing press run 20 years ago.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">SUMMARY of #380 cover-dated Mar. 16, 1996:<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"s1\"> This issue includes a cover story detailing WWF&#8217;s biggest MSG crowd in years with enthusiastic response to Diesel&#8217;s turn, emerging Savio Vega&#8230; Chris Zavisa forecasts the future well with analysis of Shawn Michaels, Chris Benoit, and Eddie Guerrero leading the next generation of smaller, better workers into main events&#8230; Wade Keller&#8217;s End Notes reacts to the MSG crowd and previews WCW&#8217;s Uncensored&#8230; Torch Talk with Marc Mero, pt. 2&#8230; John Williams&#8217;s detailed report on Konnan&#8217;s latest booking effort for AAA in Tijuana&#8230; Plus reports on Raw, Nitro, ECW, USWA, and Japan TV shows, WWF Newswire, WCW Newswire, ETC. Newswire, Letters to the Editor, and more&#8230;<\/span><strong><span class=\"s1\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">&#8211;<\/span><a style=\"line-height: 1.5;\" href=\"http:\/\/vip.pwtorch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/380TorchNewsletterPDF.pdf\">DIRECT LINK: PWTorchNewsletter #380 PDF<\/a><\/p>\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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