{"id":39236,"date":"2017-02-25T08:00:16","date_gmt":"2017-02-25T14:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=39236"},"modified":"2017-02-24T15:49:20","modified_gmt":"2017-02-24T21:49:20","slug":"vip-1997-back-issue-pro-wrestling-torch-430-mar-8-1997-nitro-slams-raw-ratings-despite-wm-buzz-hogan-sex-assault-lawsuit-piper-fiasco-jerry-jarrett-torch-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2017\/02\/25\/vip-1997-back-issue-pro-wrestling-torch-430-mar-8-1997-nitro-slams-raw-ratings-despite-wm-buzz-hogan-sex-assault-lawsuit-piper-fiasco-jerry-jarrett-torch-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"VIP 1997 BACK ISSUE \u2013 Pro Wrestling Torch #430 (Mar. 8, 1997): Nitro slams Raw in ratings despite WM buzz, Hogan sex assault lawsuit, Piper fiasco, Jerry Jarrett Torch Talk, more"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-3319743781\" 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 #430 cover-dated March 8, 1997: <\/span><\/strong><span class=\"s1\">This issue features a cover story on Nitro slamming Raw in the ratings despite WrestleMania buzz on the WWF&#8217;s side&#8230; WCW Newswire details Hulk Hogan&#8217;s sex assault lawsuit and the Roddy Piper fiasco, plus much more&#8230; WWF Newswire details Ken Shamrock joining the roster and a Shawn Michaels update, and much more&#8230; Torch Talk with Jerry Jarrett, part one&#8230; Chris Zavisa&#8217;s feature column writes about the NWO&#8217;s chances in Japan&#8230; Plus Letters to the Editor, Wade Keller&#8217;s End Notes, ECW Newswire, ETC. 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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\/02\/25\/vip-1997-back-issue-pro-wrestling-torch-430-mar-8-1997-nitro-slams-raw-ratings-despite-wm-buzz-hogan-sex-assault-lawsuit-piper-fiasco-jerry-jarrett-torch-talk\/\" title=\"VIP 1997 BACK ISSUE \u2013 Pro Wrestling Torch #430 (Mar. 8, 1997): Nitro slams Raw in ratings despite WM buzz, Hogan sex assault lawsuit, Piper fiasco, Jerry Jarrett Torch Talk, more\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39237,"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":[4299,362,747,679,194,342,248],"class_list":["post-39236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vipexclusivealerts","category-vip_newsletters","tag-1997-back-issue","tag-hulk-hogan","tag-jerry-jarrett","tag-ken-shamrock","tag-nitro","tag-roddy-piper","tag-shawn-michaels"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2017\/02\/TorchCover430_3x2_600.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39236","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=39236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39238,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39236\/revisions\/39238"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}