{"id":43094,"date":"2017-06-03T08:00:57","date_gmt":"2017-06-03T13:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=43094"},"modified":"2017-05-31T21:12:56","modified_gmt":"2017-06-01T02:12:56","slug":"vip-1997-back-issue-pro-wrestling-torch-444-june-14-1997-hart-michaels-locker-room-fight-wwf-leading-michaels-quitting-nash-piper-locker-room-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2017\/06\/03\/vip-1997-back-issue-pro-wrestling-torch-444-june-14-1997-hart-michaels-locker-room-fight-wwf-leading-michaels-quitting-nash-piper-locker-room-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"VIP 1997 BACK ISSUE \u2013 Pro Wrestling Torch #444 (June 14, 1997): Hart-Michaels locker room fight in WWF leading to Michaels quitting, Nash-Piper locker room fight, more"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-3022743777\" 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 #444 cover-dated June 14, 1997: <\/span><\/strong><span class=\"s1\">This issue begins with two cover stories on two legitimate locker room fights &#8211; one in the WWF between Bret Hart and Shawn Michaels leading to Michaels quitting, and the other between Kevin Nash and Roddy Piper&#8230; Keller&#8217;s in-depth report on the WWF King of the Ring PPV&#8230; Plus WWF Newswire, WCW Newswire, ECW Newswire, ETC. Newswire, and reports on Raw, Nitro, ECW TV, and more&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u2013<a href=\"http:\/\/vip.pwtorch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/444TorchNewsletterPDF.pdf\">DIRECT LINK: PWTorchNewsletter #444 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\/06\/03\/vip-1997-back-issue-pro-wrestling-torch-444-june-14-1997-hart-michaels-locker-room-fight-wwf-leading-michaels-quitting-nash-piper-locker-room-fight\/\" title=\"VIP 1997 BACK ISSUE \u2013 Pro Wrestling Torch #444 (June 14, 1997): Hart-Michaels locker room fight in WWF leading to Michaels quitting, Nash-Piper locker room fight, more\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43095,"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":[4299,742,554,342,248,3291],"class_list":["post-43094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vipexclusivealerts","category-vip_newsletters","tag-1997-back-issue","tag-bret-hart","tag-kevin-nash","tag-roddy-piper","tag-shawn-michaels","tag-wwf-king-of-the-ring"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2017\/05\/TorchCover444_3x2_600.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43094","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=43094"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43104,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43094\/revisions\/43104"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}