{"id":85864,"date":"2019-09-14T08:00:35","date_gmt":"2019-09-14T13:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=85864"},"modified":"2019-09-09T16:52:52","modified_gmt":"2019-09-09T21:52:52","slug":"vip-1999-back-issue-pro-wrestling-torch-566-september-18-1999-cover-story-on-eric-bischoff-being-dismissed-as-wcw-vice-president-mitchells-open-letter-to-bischoffs-replacement-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2019\/09\/14\/vip-1999-back-issue-pro-wrestling-torch-566-september-18-1999-cover-story-on-eric-bischoff-being-dismissed-as-wcw-vice-president-mitchells-open-letter-to-bischoffs-replacement-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"VIP 1999 BACK ISSUE \u2013 Pro Wrestling Torch #566 (September 18, 1999): Cover Story on Eric Bischoff being dismissed as WCW Vice President, Mitchell&#8217;s open letter to Bischoff&#8217;s replacement Bill Busch, WCW Fall Brawl PPV coverage, more"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-683852516\" 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 #566 cover-dated September 18, 1999:<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"s1\"> This issue features coverage of the MAJOR STORY of Eric Bischoff being dismissed as WCW Vice President after the fall of Nitro and overall WCW on his watch. Besides Wade Keller&#8217;s in-depth cover story, Bruce Mitchell writes a feature column titled &#8220;Dear Bill,&#8221; an open letter to new Bischoff&#8217;s replacement Bill Busch&#8230; WCW Newswire featuring the latest on Bischoff&#8217;s pet project, a KISS PPV concert, the fate of the Nitro Girls, and much more backstage info at a time of turmoil in WCW&#8230; WWF Newswire with Raw&#8217;s latest decisive blow to Nitro, Smackdown&#8217;s rating progress after two weeks, WWF at the MTV music awards, and much more backstage news&#8230; ECW Newswire with the breaking news of Tazz agreeing to join the WWF and why Paul Heyman was furious at Tazz for the move, plus more backstage info&#8230; Full coverage of the WCW Fall Brawl PPV including Keller&#8217;s match reports and star ratings for Sting vs. Hulk Hogan, Goldberg vs. Dallas Page, and Sid vs. Chris Benoit and the Torch Roundtable Reviews with Keller, Mitchell, and Jason Powell&#8230; Reports on Raw, Nitro, the third Smackdown, ECW TV&#8230; Keller&#8217;s End Notes&#8230; ETC. Newswire&#8230; And more&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u2013<a href=\"http:\/\/vip.pwtorch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/PWTorchNewsletter566PDF.pdf\">DIRECT LINK: PWTorchNewsletter #566<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2013<a href=\"https:\/\/vip.pwtorch.com\/category\/vipexclusives\/1998-back-issues\/\">LIST OF LATEST 1998 BACK ISSUE PDF POSTS<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s1\"><span class=\"s2\">\u2013<a href=\"https:\/\/members.pwtorch.com\/torchbackissues98\/backissues98.shtml\">LIST OF ALL\u00a01998 BACK ISSUES<\/a>\u00a0(old text article format)<\/span><\/span><\/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><div id=\"pwtor-1402433070\" class=\"pwtor-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280 __336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\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\/2019\/09\/14\/vip-1999-back-issue-pro-wrestling-torch-566-september-18-1999-cover-story-on-eric-bischoff-being-dismissed-as-wcw-vice-president-mitchells-open-letter-to-bischoffs-replacement-bill\/\" title=\"VIP 1999 BACK ISSUE \u2013 Pro Wrestling Torch #566 (September 18, 1999): Cover Story on Eric Bischoff being dismissed as WCW Vice President, Mitchell&#8217;s open letter to Bischoff&#8217;s replacement Bill Busch, WCW Fall Brawl PPV coverage, more\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":85865,"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-85864","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\/09\/TorchCover566_3x2_600.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85864","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=85864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85866,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85864\/revisions\/85866"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}