{"id":45397,"date":"2017-07-29T08:00:12","date_gmt":"2017-07-29T13:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=45397"},"modified":"2017-07-25T15:42:24","modified_gmt":"2017-07-25T20:42:24","slug":"vip-1997-back-issue-pro-wrestling-torch-452-august-9-1997-hart-wins-wwf-title-summerslam-luger-captures-wcw-title-austin-suffers-neck-injury-hart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2017\/07\/29\/vip-1997-back-issue-pro-wrestling-torch-452-august-9-1997-hart-wins-wwf-title-summerslam-luger-captures-wcw-title-austin-suffers-neck-injury-hart\/","title":{"rendered":"VIP 1997 BACK ISSUE \u2013 Pro Wrestling Torch #452 (August 9, 1997): Hart wins WWF Title at Summerslam, Luger captures WCW Title, Austin suffers neck injury against Hart, more"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-688383803\" 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 #452 cover-dated August 9, 1997: <\/span><\/strong><span class=\"s1\">This issue headlines with dual cover stories of dual major title changes &#8211; with Bret Hart winning the WWF Title at Summerslam and Lex luger capturing the WCW Title. Also, Steve Austin suffers what would turn out to be a career-changing neck injury against Owen Hart&#8230; In-depth coverage of Summerslam with Keller&#8217;s match report with star ratings, Roundtable Reviews, Reader Reax, and Poll Results&#8230; WWF Newswire details Shawn Michaels snapping against the fans&#8230; Japan Special Report on the G1 Tournament&#8230; Plus, reports on Raw, Nitro, ECW TV, USWA TV, Wade Keller&#8217;s &#8220;End Notes,&#8221; WCW Newswire, 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\/07\/29\/vip-1997-back-issue-pro-wrestling-torch-452-august-9-1997-hart-wins-wwf-title-summerslam-luger-captures-wcw-title-austin-suffers-neck-injury-hart\/\" title=\"VIP 1997 BACK ISSUE \u2013 Pro Wrestling Torch #452 (August 9, 1997): Hart wins WWF Title at Summerslam, Luger captures WCW Title, Austin suffers neck injury against Hart, more\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45400,"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":[4299,742,187,343,248,353,142],"class_list":["post-45397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vipexclusivealerts","category-vip_newsletters","tag-1997-back-issue","tag-bret-hart","tag-lex-luger","tag-owen-hart","tag-shawn-michaels","tag-steve-austin","tag-summerslam"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2017\/07\/TorchCover452_3x2_600.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45397","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=45397"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45403,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45397\/revisions\/45403"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}