{"id":34645,"date":"2016-11-26T08:00:31","date_gmt":"2016-11-26T14:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=34645"},"modified":"2016-11-07T20:02:24","modified_gmt":"2016-11-08T02:02:24","slug":"vip-1996-back-issue-pro-wrestling-torch-418-dec-7-1996-ecw-controversial-debut-ppv-bret-harts-disappointing-return-raw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2016\/11\/26\/vip-1996-back-issue-pro-wrestling-torch-418-dec-7-1996-ecw-controversial-debut-ppv-bret-harts-disappointing-return-raw\/","title":{"rendered":"VIP 1996 BACK ISSUE \u2013 Pro Wrestling Torch #418 (Dec. 7, 1996): Is ECW too controversial to debut on PPV, Bret Hart&#8217;s disappointing return to Raw, more"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-275468353\" 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 #418 cover-dated December\u00a07, 1996:<\/span><\/strong> This issue includes a cover story on whether ECW is too controversial to debut on pay-per-view&#8230; WWF Newswire details Bret Hart&#8217;s disappointing return to Raw, Shawn Michaels ripping on fans, and more&#8230; Chris Zavisa&#8217;s feature column analyzes the two paths WCW took&#8230; Plus WCW Newswire, ETC. Newswire, WWF Live Event Reports, reports on Raw, Nitro, ECW, and other TV shows, and more.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013<a href=\"http:\/\/vip.pwtorch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/418TorchNewsletterPDF.pdf\" rel=\"\">DIRECT LINK: PWTorchNewsletter #418 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\/11\/26\/vip-1996-back-issue-pro-wrestling-torch-418-dec-7-1996-ecw-controversial-debut-ppv-bret-harts-disappointing-return-raw\/\" title=\"VIP 1996 BACK ISSUE \u2013 Pro Wrestling Torch #418 (Dec. 7, 1996): Is ECW too controversial to debut on PPV, Bret Hart&#8217;s disappointing return to Raw, more\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34646,"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":[2126,742,152,248],"class_list":["post-34645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vipexclusivealerts","category-vip_newsletters","tag-1996-back-issue","tag-bret-hart","tag-ecw","tag-shawn-michaels"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2016\/11\/TorchCover418_3x2_600.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34645","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=34645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34651,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34645\/revisions\/34651"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}