{"id":80116,"date":"2019-05-18T08:00:58","date_gmt":"2019-05-18T13:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=80116"},"modified":"2019-05-22T20:12:23","modified_gmt":"2019-05-23T01:12:23","slug":"vip-1999-back-issue-pro-wrestling-torch-549-may-22-1999-cover-story-titled-ecw-features-good-matches-puzzling-booking-coverage-of-ecw-hardcore-heaven-ppv-newswire-on-goldbergs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2019\/05\/18\/vip-1999-back-issue-pro-wrestling-torch-549-may-22-1999-cover-story-titled-ecw-features-good-matches-puzzling-booking-coverage-of-ecw-hardcore-heaven-ppv-newswire-on-goldbergs\/","title":{"rendered":"VIP 1999 BACK ISSUE \u2013 Pro Wrestling Torch #549 (May 22, 1999): Cover Story titled &#8220;ECW features good matches, puzzling booking,&#8221; coverage of ECW Hardcore Heaven PPV, Newswire on Goldberg&#8217;s beef with WCW, final installment of Jim Brunzell Torch Talk, more"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-1104597129\" 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 #549 cover-dated May 22, 1999:<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"s1\"> This issue features a Cover Story titled &#8220;ECW features good matches, puzzling booking&#8221; along with in-depth coverage of the ECW Hardcore Heaven PPV with Roundtable Reviews from the Torch staff and reader reax and poll results&#8230; WCW Newswire covers Goldberg&#8217;s beef with WCW and Wade Keller&#8217;s &#8220;End Notes&#8221; comments on Goldberg&#8217;s issues&#8230; Vince McMahon takes out an ad in USA Today comparing the WWF to the NBA&#8230; Jim Brunzell, in the final installment of his Torch Talk, discusses Hulk Hogan, Jesse Ventura, Nick Bockwinkel, Ric Flair, and more&#8230; Plus in-depth reviews of Raw, Nitro, Heat, ECW TV, and Power Pro TV&#8230; WWF Newswire, WCW Newswire, ECW Newswire, and 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\/2019\/05\/18\/vip-1999-back-issue-pro-wrestling-torch-549-may-22-1999-cover-story-titled-ecw-features-good-matches-puzzling-booking-coverage-of-ecw-hardcore-heaven-ppv-newswire-on-goldbergs\/\" title=\"VIP 1999 BACK ISSUE \u2013 Pro Wrestling Torch #549 (May 22, 1999): Cover Story titled &#8220;ECW features good matches, puzzling booking,&#8221; coverage of ECW Hardcore Heaven PPV, Newswire on Goldberg&#8217;s beef with WCW, final installment of Jim Brunzell Torch Talk, more\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80118,"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":[],"class_list":["post-80116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vipexclusivealerts","category-vip_newsletters"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2019\/05\/TorchCover549_3x2_600.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80116","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=80116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80122,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80116\/revisions\/80122"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}