{"id":48063,"date":"2017-10-07T08:00:03","date_gmt":"2017-10-07T13:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=48063"},"modified":"2017-10-07T11:43:45","modified_gmt":"2017-10-07T16:43:45","slug":"vip-1997-back-issue-pro-wrestling-torch-462-october-18-1997-cornette-rips-wwf-critic-phil-mushnick-raw-bischoff-pulls-offer-jeff-jarrett-dan-severns-departure-ufc-torc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2017\/10\/07\/vip-1997-back-issue-pro-wrestling-torch-462-october-18-1997-cornette-rips-wwf-critic-phil-mushnick-raw-bischoff-pulls-offer-jeff-jarrett-dan-severns-departure-ufc-torc\/","title":{"rendered":"VIP 1997 BACK ISSUE \u2013 Pro Wrestling Torch #462 (October 18, 1997): Cornette rips on WWF critic Phil Mushnick on Raw, Bischoff pulls offer to Jeff Jarrett, Dan Severn&#8217;s departure from UFC, Torch Talk with Sandman, more"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-198403637\" 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 #462 cover-dated October 18, 1997:\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"s1\">This issue headlines with a &#8220;Hot News&#8221; cover story on Jim Cornette ripping on Phil Mushnick, a WWF critic, on Raw&#8230; WCW Newswire details Eric Bischoff pulling his offer to Jeff Jarrett and more&#8230; WWF Newswire features follow-up on the Brian Pillman death&#8230; ETC. Newswire headlines with Dan Severn&#8217;s departure from UFC&#8230; Part one of a Torch Talk with Sandman&#8230; Letters to the Torch on Brian Pillman&#8230; Bruce Mitchell&#8217;s feature column on Brian Pillman&#8217;s life and death&#8230; Wade Keller&#8217;s End Notes explains the &#8220;Hot News&#8221; cover story and puts it in historical context&#8230; Plus ECW Newswire, reports on Raw, Nitro, ECW TV, a WWF Arena Report, and more&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u2013<a href=\"http:\/\/vip.pwtorch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/TorchNewsletter462PDF.pdf\">DIRECT LINK: PWTorchNewsletter #462<\/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><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><span class=\"s2\">\u2013<a href=\"http:\/\/members.pwtorch.com\/torchbackissues97\/backissues97.shtml\">LIST OF ALL\u00a01997 BACK ISSUES<\/a>\u00a0(old text article format)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\"><span class=\"s4\">\u2013<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/members\/artman\/publish\/vipcatchall\/article_76799.shtml\">TUTORIAL ON DISPLAYING NEWSLETTER PDFS ON IPAD OR ANDROID TABLET<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/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\/10\/07\/vip-1997-back-issue-pro-wrestling-torch-462-october-18-1997-cornette-rips-wwf-critic-phil-mushnick-raw-bischoff-pulls-offer-jeff-jarrett-dan-severns-departure-ufc-torc\/\" title=\"VIP 1997 BACK ISSUE \u2013 Pro Wrestling Torch #462 (October 18, 1997): Cornette rips on WWF critic Phil Mushnick on Raw, Bischoff pulls offer to Jeff Jarrett, Dan Severn&#8217;s departure from UFC, Torch Talk with Sandman, more\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48064,"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":[43,4270,1361],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vipexclusivealerts","category-sale-announcement","category-vip_newsletters"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2017\/09\/TorchCover462_3x2_600.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48063","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=48063"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48065,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48063\/revisions\/48065"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}