{"id":20902,"date":"2016-05-27T09:18:29","date_gmt":"2016-05-27T14:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=20902"},"modified":"2016-05-27T09:20:27","modified_gmt":"2016-05-27T14:20:27","slug":"vip-1996-back-issue-pro-wrestling-torch-385-apr-27-ufc-fighting-existence-pillman-injured-car-wreck-hogans-wcw-status-bischoff-responds-torch-talk-ecws-lesbian-kiss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2016\/05\/27\/vip-1996-back-issue-pro-wrestling-torch-385-apr-27-ufc-fighting-existence-pillman-injured-car-wreck-hogans-wcw-status-bischoff-responds-torch-talk-ecws-lesbian-kiss\/","title":{"rendered":"VIP 1996 BACK ISSUE \u2013 Pro Wrestling Torch #385 (Apr. 27): UFC fighting for very existence, Pillman injured in car wreck, Hogan&#8217;s WCW status, Bischoff responds to Torch Talk, ECW&#8217;s lesbian kiss, All Japan Carnival"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-3591785894\" 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 #385 cover-dated Apr. 27, 1996:\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>This issue includes a cover story on UFC officials fighting for their very existence against politicians and critics in Michigan&#8230; ECW Arena report in detail including a lesbain kiss&#8230; John Williams previews the All Japan Carnival Tournament with a rundown of the status of all participants&#8230; Plus Wade Keller&#8217;s End Notes, WWF Newswire, WCW Newswire on Hulk Hogan&#8217;s status and Eric Bischoff responding to a Torch Talk, ETC. Newswire, reports on Raw, Nitro, ECW TV, USWA, and Japan TV shows, and more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">\u2013<\/span><a style=\"line-height: 1.5;\" href=\"http:\/\/vip.pwtorch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/385TorchNewsletterPDF.pdf\" rel=\"\">DIRECT LINK: PWTorchNewsletter #385 PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u2013<a href=\"http:\/\/vip.pwtorch.com\/category\/vipexclusives\/1996backissues\/\">LIST OF LATEST 1996 BACK ISSUE PDF POSTS<\/a> (new in 2016)<\/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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These issues from 1996 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\/2016\/05\/27\/vip-1996-back-issue-pro-wrestling-torch-385-apr-27-ufc-fighting-existence-pillman-injured-car-wreck-hogans-wcw-status-bischoff-responds-torch-talk-ecws-lesbian-kiss\/\" title=\"VIP 1996 BACK ISSUE \u2013 Pro Wrestling Torch #385 (Apr. 27): UFC fighting for very existence, Pillman injured in car wreck, Hogan&#8217;s WCW status, Bischoff responds to Torch Talk, ECW&#8217;s lesbian kiss, All Japan Carnival\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20903,"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":[2126,2897,439,957,150,362,188],"class_list":["post-20902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vipexclusivealerts","category-vip_newsletters","tag-1996-back-issue","tag-all-japan-carnival","tag-brian-pillman","tag-ecw-arena","tag-eric-bischoff","tag-hulk-hogan","tag-ufc"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2016\/05\/TorchCover385_3x2_600.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20902","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=20902"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20906,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20902\/revisions\/20906"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}