{"id":40914,"date":"2017-04-08T08:00:51","date_gmt":"2017-04-08T13:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=40914"},"modified":"2017-04-04T18:17:57","modified_gmt":"2017-04-04T23:17:57","slug":"vip-1997-back-issue-pro-wrestling-torch-436-apr-19-1997-depth-coverage-first-ecw-ppv-barely-legal-paul-heyman-tod-gordon-reactions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2017\/04\/08\/vip-1997-back-issue-pro-wrestling-torch-436-apr-19-1997-depth-coverage-first-ecw-ppv-barely-legal-paul-heyman-tod-gordon-reactions\/","title":{"rendered":"VIP 1997 BACK ISSUE \u2013 Pro Wrestling Torch #436 (Apr. 19, 1997): In-depth coverage of first ECW PPV, Barely Legal, Paul Heyman &#038; Tod Gordon reactions, more"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-3092107294\" 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 #436 cover-dated April 19, 1997: <\/span><\/strong><span class=\"s1\">This issue covers the first ECW PPV, Barely Legal, in depth with Keller match report with star ratings, Keller&#8217;s cover story, a John Williams in-depth column, ECW Newswire with quotes from Paul Heyman and Tod Gordon in reaction to the event, and Reader Reax with Poll Results&#8230; Also, Chris Zavisa&#8217;s New Japan Tokyo Dome report, WWE Newswire, WCW Newswire, ETC. Newswire, and more&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u2013<a href=\"http:\/\/vip.pwtorch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/436TorchNewsletterPDF.pdf\" rel=\"\">DIRECT LINK: PWTorchNewsletter #436 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\/04\/08\/vip-1997-back-issue-pro-wrestling-torch-436-apr-19-1997-depth-coverage-first-ecw-ppv-barely-legal-paul-heyman-tod-gordon-reactions\/\" title=\"VIP 1997 BACK ISSUE \u2013 Pro Wrestling Torch #436 (Apr. 19, 1997): In-depth coverage of first ECW PPV, Barely Legal, Paul Heyman &#038; Tod Gordon reactions, more\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40915,"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":[4971,4301,198,1698,148],"class_list":["post-40914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vipexclusivealerts","category-vip_newsletters","tag-ecw-barely-legal","tag-new-japan-tokyo-dome","tag-paul-heyman","tag-tod-gordon","tag-vip-audio"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2017\/04\/TorchCover436_3x2_600.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40914","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=40914"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40924,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40914\/revisions\/40924"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}