{"id":25019,"date":"2016-07-08T12:40:51","date_gmt":"2016-07-08T17:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=25019"},"modified":"2016-07-08T12:41:48","modified_gmt":"2016-07-08T17:41:48","slug":"vip-1996-back-issue-pro-wrestling-torch-389-may-25-infamous-clique-curtain-call-msg-wcw-slamboree-ppv-shamrock-vs-severn-ufc-9-ppv-coverage-torch-talk-konnan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2016\/07\/08\/vip-1996-back-issue-pro-wrestling-torch-389-may-25-infamous-clique-curtain-call-msg-wcw-slamboree-ppv-shamrock-vs-severn-ufc-9-ppv-coverage-torch-talk-konnan\/","title":{"rendered":"VIP 1996 BACK ISSUE \u2013 Pro Wrestling Torch #389 (June 1): The infamous Clique Curtain Call at MSG, WCW Slamboree PPV, Shamrock vs. Severn UFC 9 PPV coverage, Torch Talk with Konnan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-531336316\" 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 #389 cover-dated May 25, 1996:<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0 This issue includes a cover story on WCW Nitro expanding to two hours, one of the most significant developments of the Monday Night War&#8230; Wade Keller reports from Chicago on TripleMania, and Chris Zavisa reviews the event, too&#8230; Keller&#8217;s BBL feature editorial is titled &#8220;AAA squanders U.S. market again&#8221;&#8230; Torch Talk with Konnan, pt. 7 on going Extreme&#8230; A detailed ECW Arena report&#8230; Plus Wade Keller&#8217;s End Notes, WWF Newswire, WCW Newswire, ETC. 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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\/07\/08\/vip-1996-back-issue-pro-wrestling-torch-389-may-25-infamous-clique-curtain-call-msg-wcw-slamboree-ppv-shamrock-vs-severn-ufc-9-ppv-coverage-torch-talk-konnan\/\" title=\"VIP 1996 BACK ISSUE \u2013 Pro Wrestling Torch #389 (June 1): The infamous Clique Curtain Call at MSG, WCW Slamboree PPV, Shamrock vs. Severn UFC 9 PPV coverage, Torch Talk with Konnan\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25020,"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":[2123,3349,3350,1721,1377,679,537,1804,1522,3351],"class_list":["post-25019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vipexclusivealerts","category-vip_newsletters","tag-2123","tag-clique","tag-curtain-call","tag-dan-severn","tag-diesel","tag-ken-shamrock","tag-msg","tag-razor-ramon","tag-vip-newsletter","tag-wcw-slamboree"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2016\/07\/TorchCover389_3x2_600.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25019","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=25019"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25023,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25019\/revisions\/25023"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}