{"id":26040,"date":"2016-07-18T12:04:30","date_gmt":"2016-07-18T17:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=26040"},"modified":"2016-07-18T12:04:30","modified_gmt":"2016-07-18T17:04:30","slug":"vip-1996-back-issue-pro-wrestling-torch-393-june-22-wcw-great-american-bash-ppv-keller-match-report-roundtable-reviews-murdoch-dies-ultimate-warrior-vs-vader-semi-shoot-pillman-pre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2016\/07\/18\/vip-1996-back-issue-pro-wrestling-torch-393-june-22-wcw-great-american-bash-ppv-keller-match-report-roundtable-reviews-murdoch-dies-ultimate-warrior-vs-vader-semi-shoot-pillman-pre\/","title":{"rendered":"VIP 1996 BACK ISSUE \u2013 Pro Wrestling Torch #393 (June 22): WCW Great American Bash PPV Keller Match Report &#038; Roundtable Reviews, Murdoch dies, Ultimate Warrior vs. Vader semi-shoot, Pillman press conference, Konnan-Tijuana"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-4102631609\" 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><strong><span class=\"s1\">SUMMARY of #393 cover-dated June 22, 1996:<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0 This issue includes a cover story on the WCW Great American Bash PPV&#8230; A story on the death of Dick Murdoch at age 49&#8230; Details on a match between Ultimate Warrior and Vader with shoot elements to it&#8230; The Brian Pillman press conference on Raw&#8230; Detailed Pancrase MMA PPV Report&#8230; In-depth coverage of the Bash PPV with Keller&#8217;s report and star ratings, Roundtable Reviews, Reader Reax, and Poll Results&#8230; John Williams&#8217;s column on Konnan&#8217;s return to Tijuana&#8230; Plus reports on Raw, Nitro, ECW TV, and other regional TV shows, ETC. Newswire&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">\u2013<\/span><a style=\"line-height: 1.5;\" href=\"http:\/\/vip.pwtorch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/393TorchNewsletterPDF.pdf\" rel=\"\">DIRECT LINK: PWTorchNewsletter #393 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\/07\/18\/vip-1996-back-issue-pro-wrestling-torch-393-june-22-wcw-great-american-bash-ppv-keller-match-report-roundtable-reviews-murdoch-dies-ultimate-warrior-vs-vader-semi-shoot-pillman-pre\/\" title=\"VIP 1996 BACK ISSUE \u2013 Pro Wrestling Torch #393 (June 22): WCW Great American Bash PPV Keller Match Report &#038; Roundtable Reviews, Murdoch dies, Ultimate Warrior vs. Vader semi-shoot, Pillman press conference, Konnan-Tijuana\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26042,"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":[2126,3452,439,3455,3454,1277,194,2672,346,1844,1522,3453],"class_list":["post-26040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vipexclusivealerts","category-vip_newsletters","tag-1996-back-issue","tag-back-issues","tag-brian-pillman","tag-dick-murdoch","tag-great-american-bash","tag-konnan","tag-nitro","tag-pancrase","tag-ultimate-warrior","tag-vader","tag-vip-newsletter","tag-wcw-ppv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2016\/07\/393TorchCover_3x2_600.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26040","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=26040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26044,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26040\/revisions\/26044"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}