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NEW VIP FEATURE: Vintage Audio Torch Talk Series - Keller's 68 minute British Bulldog interview from 1993 (never-before-heard!) - FREE 7 MINUTE CLIP Jan 3, 2009 - 9:54:47 PM
(Note: If you are reading this on a mobile device such as an iPhone or Blackberry, please visit PWTorch.com on a regular web browser to access the free audio clip and also the link to become a PWTorch VIP member so you can access the entire special VIP-exclusive feature below.)
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A new feature for 2009 for PWTorch VIP Members is a monthly vintage Torch Talk published in audio format for the first time ever. The first in our monthly series is from 16 years ago this month - a January 1993 Torch Talk with "British Bulldog" Davey Boy Smith.
LIMITED TIME OFFERING: This new Vintage Audio Torch Talk will be available only in the month of January, so you must be a member now to listen to this special audio interview. A new Vintage Audio Torch Talk interview will be made available in February, so stay tuned for that announcement.
Non-VIP members, click here for a seven minute preview excerpt: FREE SAMPLE CLIP
DETAILS...
This 68 minute Torch Talk interview with Davey Boy Smith includes facinating outtakes that were not originally published in the transcript in the Pro Wrestling Torch Newsletter in 1993.
In this British Bulldog "Torch Talk," he speaks about a variety of topics including:
-Touching comments about his then-seven-year-old-son Harry Smith's interest in pro wrestling as a kid and being a pro wrestler when he grows up.
-Frustration with Vince McMahon's lack of fairness with merchandising pay.
-Disappointment with wrestlers working for the WWF when it wasn't paying as well as WCW.
-Anger with McMahon using WWF profits to launch the World Bodybuilding Federation.
-A jaw-dropping moment for the ages when he named one of his favorite opponents over the years.
-Haunting comments about pain killers, steroids, HGH, and other drugs often associated with pro wrestlers who have died at young ages as Davey Boy did, including speaking about how difficult it was to keep up with the WWF schedule and still look the way fans expected him to. Especially sad is his telling of why he felt pressure to get bigger because other wrestlers were so big and he felt he needed to keep up.
-Conversation about his negotiations at that time with a major promoter.
-And many more subjects spanning his entire life and career, along with previously unpublished asides.
HOW TO LISTEN IF NOT A CURRENT VIP MEMBER
To become a PWTorch VIP member and gain access to this interview instantly, click here: Torch VIP Sign-Up Info.
For just $7.50 a month (or cheaper with a longer term subscription) - less than the price of a single "shoot interview" on DVD - PWTorch VIP members now gain access to an exclusive vintage interview from our 22 year history of conducting the best interviews in the business, plus many many other VIP exclusive features (new audio shows, post-PPV roundtable discussions, ad-free access to PWTorch.com, new PWTorch Newsletters with new Torch Talk transcripts, deep archives from our 22 year history, and more).
Listen to these interviews on your computer, burn to a CD to listen in your car, save to your iPod to listen anywhere!
As noted above, they currently will be available only one at a time, replaced by a new one each month, so you must be a current member each month to listen to the latest first-ever audio interview from our archives.
We do have dozens of other audio interviews in our permanent archives from more recent Torch Talk interviews, plus a collection of early 1990s radio shows hosted by Wade Keller with a variety of guests including Mick Foley, Jim Cornette, Paul Heyman, Eddie Gilbert, Eric Bischoff, Jim Ross, and many more.
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INCREDIBLE BENEFITS! Over 50 full-length audio updates per month (iPod compatible)... New weekly award-winning Pro Wrestling Torch Newsletter (text and printable pdf versions) with latest exclusive insider news, new Torch Talks, great columns, Keller's cover story, much more... Hundreds of full-length back issues of PWTorch Newsletter from late-'80s to today... Ad-free access to PWTorch.com's Main Listing... VIP Forum with interaction with other subscribers and Torch staff... Torch Talk Library with text and audio of hundreds of interview installments from last 20 years... Great layout... Deepest archives on pro wrestling history anywhere... Keller's PWTorch Today PDF Bulletins with email alerts... VIP Email reports on major PPVs and TV shows... Staff Roundtable Reviews (text and audio) followiing major events... The best staff of writers and world class reporting since 1987... We'd love for you to join us and experience the most entertaining, authoritative, experienced staff of professional reporters and commentators in the business...
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AND NEW FOR 2009! Monthly "Vintage Audio Torch Talks." We are releasing for the first time ever audio versions of our text Torch Talk updates, the historical first series of insider interviews ever. Wade Keller's newsmaking in-depth interviews with wrestling's biggest names are now being made available exclusively to VIP members. But you must be a member each month, as these are not archived, so they are replaced with a new one each month! This debuted in January 2009 with a 68 minute interview with the late "British Bulldog" Davey Boy Smith. Who's next? Hulk Hogan? Eric Bischoff? The Rock? Goldberg? Jeff Hardy?
