{"id":92047,"date":"2020-01-20T13:14:37","date_gmt":"2020-01-20T19:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=92047"},"modified":"2020-01-20T13:14:37","modified_gmt":"2020-01-20T19:14:37","slug":"vip-2000-back-issue-pro-wrestling-torch-583-january-8-2000-second-part-of-torch-talk-with-the-rock-cover-story-reports-on-naming-of-terry-funk-as-commissioner-of-wcw-newswire-detailin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2020\/01\/20\/vip-2000-back-issue-pro-wrestling-torch-583-january-8-2000-second-part-of-torch-talk-with-the-rock-cover-story-reports-on-naming-of-terry-funk-as-commissioner-of-wcw-newswire-detailin\/","title":{"rendered":"VIP 2000 BACK ISSUE \u2013 Pro Wrestling Torch #583 (January 8, 2000): Second part of Torch Talk with The Rock, Cover Story reports on naming of Terry Funk as commissioner of WCW, Newswire detailing Goldberg&#8217;s injury and planned returns of Hulk Hogan and Ric Flair, more"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-3804261412\" 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 #583 cover-dated January 8, 2000:<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"s1\"> This issue features the second part of the &#8220;Torch Talk&#8221; with The Rock including his controversial comments about having no interest in wrestling Shawn Michaels, his problems with Road Dogg and Juventud Guerrera, his picks for future top stars, and much more&#8230; The Cover Story reports on the naming of Terry Funk as commissioner of WCW and the major Nitro storyline built around that announcement&#8230; Plus WCW Newswire with details on Goldberg&#8217;s injury and the planned returns of Hulk Hogan and Ric Flair&#8230; WWF Newswire with follow up on the USA Network situation and stock price dropping&#8230; ECW Newswire with more on the squabbling between TNN and ECW&#8230; 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\/2020\/01\/20\/vip-2000-back-issue-pro-wrestling-torch-583-january-8-2000-second-part-of-torch-talk-with-the-rock-cover-story-reports-on-naming-of-terry-funk-as-commissioner-of-wcw-newswire-detailin\/\" title=\"VIP 2000 BACK ISSUE \u2013 Pro Wrestling Torch #583 (January 8, 2000): Second part of Torch Talk with The Rock, Cover Story reports on naming of Terry Funk as commissioner of WCW, Newswire detailing Goldberg&#8217;s injury and planned returns of Hulk Hogan and Ric Flair, more\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92048,"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-92047","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\/2020\/01\/TorchCover583_3x2_600.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92047","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=92047"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92049,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92047\/revisions\/92049"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}