{"id":28595,"date":"2016-08-12T07:00:31","date_gmt":"2016-08-12T12:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=28595"},"modified":"2016-08-08T17:19:18","modified_gmt":"2016-08-08T22:19:18","slug":"vip-1996-back-issue-pro-wrestling-torch-399-august-6-1996-bizarre-death-outlandish-promoter-herb-abrams-mitchell-ecws-extreme-problem-zavisas-review-babas-need-t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2016\/08\/12\/vip-1996-back-issue-pro-wrestling-torch-399-august-6-1996-bizarre-death-outlandish-promoter-herb-abrams-mitchell-ecws-extreme-problem-zavisas-review-babas-need-t\/","title":{"rendered":"VIP 1996 BACK ISSUE \u2013 Pro Wrestling Torch #399 (August 6, 1996): The bizarre death of the outlandish promoter Herb Abrams, Mitchell on ECW&#8217;s &#8220;Extreme Problem,&#8221; Zavisa&#8217;s review of Baba&#8217;s need to change booking, Spicolli Torch Talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-1348222821\" 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 #399 cover-dated August 6, 1996:<\/span><\/strong> This issue includes a cover story on the bizarre death of UWF promoter Herb Abrams and another cover story on heat between Jim Cornette and Shawn Michaels headed into working together on a PPV headlining&#8230; Bruce Mitchell&#8217;s feature column on ECW titled &#8220;The Extreme Problem&#8221;&#8230; Chris Zavisa&#8217;s article on long-overdue changes by Giant Baba on All Japan booking&#8230; Torch Talk with Louie Spicolli, pt. 4, with details of the making of a WWF gimmick&#8230; Plus live event reports on WCW and the WWF, reports on Raw, Nitro, and other regional TV shows, WWF Newswire, WCW Newswire, and 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\/08\/399TorchNewsletterPDF.pdf\" rel=\"\">DIRECT LINK: PWTorchNewsletter #399 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\/08\/12\/vip-1996-back-issue-pro-wrestling-torch-399-august-6-1996-bizarre-death-outlandish-promoter-herb-abrams-mitchell-ecws-extreme-problem-zavisas-review-babas-need-t\/\" title=\"VIP 1996 BACK ISSUE \u2013 Pro Wrestling Torch #399 (August 6, 1996): The bizarre death of the outlandish promoter Herb Abrams, Mitchell on ECW&#8217;s &#8220;Extreme Problem,&#8221; Zavisa&#8217;s review of Baba&#8217;s need to change booking, Spicolli Torch Talk\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28590,"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":[2123,430,3420,79,3625,152,3626,1680,3425,194,248,1522],"class_list":["post-28595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vipexclusivealerts","category-vip_newsletters","tag-2123","tag-20-years-ago","tag-back-issue","tag-bruce-mitchell","tag-chris-zavisa","tag-ecw","tag-giant-baba","tag-jim-cornette","tag-louie-spicolli","tag-nitro","tag-shawn-michaels","tag-vip-newsletter"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2016\/08\/TorchCover398_3x2_600.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28595","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=28595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28596,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28595\/revisions\/28596"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}