{"id":36920,"date":"2017-01-14T08:00:22","date_gmt":"2017-01-14T14:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=36920"},"modified":"2017-01-03T15:03:33","modified_gmt":"2017-01-03T21:03:33","slug":"vip-1997-back-issue-pro-wrestling-torch-424-jan-25-1997-royal-rumble-wcw-clash-champions-cwa-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2017\/01\/14\/vip-1997-back-issue-pro-wrestling-torch-424-jan-25-1997-royal-rumble-wcw-clash-champions-cwa-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"VIP 1997 BACK ISSUE \u2013 Pro Wrestling Torch #424 (Jan. 25, 1997): Royal Rumble, WCW Clash of Champions, CWA Europe, more"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-2766507373\" 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 1997 for the first time ever. These issues from 1997 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 #424 cover-dated January 25, 1997: <\/span><\/strong><span class=\"s1\">This issue includes in-depth coverage of the Royal Rumble PPV including a cover story, Keller&#8217;s match report with star ratings, staff Roundtable Reviews, Reader Reax and Poll Results&#8230; Keller&#8217;s WCW Clash of the Champions report&#8230; A CWA Europe live event report with Terry Funk vs. Finlay&#8230; Plus WWF Newswire, WCW Newswire, ETC. Newswire, TV reports on Raw, Nitro, ECW, USWA, and Letters to the Editor&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u2013<a href=\"http:\/\/vip.pwtorch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/424TorchNewsletterPDF.pdf\" rel=\"\">DIRECT LINK: PWTorchNewsletter #424 PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u2013<a href=\"http:\/\/vip.pwtorch.com\/category\/vipexclusives\/1997backissues\/\">LIST OF LATEST 1997 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 1997 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\/2017\/01\/14\/vip-1997-back-issue-pro-wrestling-torch-424-jan-25-1997-royal-rumble-wcw-clash-champions-cwa-europe\/\" title=\"VIP 1997 BACK ISSUE \u2013 Pro Wrestling Torch #424 (Jan. 25, 1997): Royal Rumble, WCW Clash of Champions, CWA Europe, more\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36927,"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":[4299,4521,2154,693,157,4520],"class_list":["post-36920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vipexclusivealerts","category-vip_newsletters","tag-1997-back-issue","tag-cwa-europe","tag-finlay","tag-royal-rumble","tag-terry-funk","tag-wcw-clash-of-champions"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2016\/12\/TorchCover424_3x2_600.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36920","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=36920"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37068,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36920\/revisions\/37068"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}