Torch Today 8/17 SUNDAY UPDATE: Summerslam news & notes, predictions for who's winning the PPV main event, ROH says farewell to Steen, more
Aug 17, 2014 - 4:10:29 PM
PLEASE TAKE A MOMENT TO BOOKMARK US & VISIT US DAILY
By James Caldwell, PWTorch assistant editor
NEW FOR APP USERS: So you don't have to click back and forth from article to article on your phone, we're putting the day's news in an easier-to-digest format for quick reading on your phones. For breaking news instantly and longer-form features, please visit www.PWTorch.com on your phone's browser (Safari or Chrome on iPhone, your default Android browser or Chrome on your Android device, etc.). Our full-featured PWTorch.com website is customized for your phone, tablet, laptop, or desktop.
SUMMERSLAM SUNDAY UPDATE...
-WWE's Summerslam PPV is tonight with WWE champion John Cena vs. Brock Lesnar for the WWE Title. WWE is selling commemorative t-shirts featuring Cena vs. Lesnar outside of the Staples Center in Los Angeles prior to the PPV. On-site reports and tweets via PWTorch specialist Ben Tucker @BTuckerTorch on Twitter.
-Betting odds for Summerslam have been all over the place leading up to the event. Stephanie McMahon and Brie Bella have gone back-and-forth as the favorite on a minute-by-minute basis. The only clear favorite is Bray Wyatt over Chris Jericho. All other matches have tight odds. PWTorch reader David has covered the odds.
-PWTorch columnist Pat McNeill makes his Summerslam PPV predictions in his monthly PPV preview column. He's predicting Brock Lesnar wins the main event. Read McNeill's preview HERE.
-ROH TV Report: Ring of Honor said farewell to Kevin Steen on this week's syndicated ROH TV show. ROH TV specialist Mike Metzger covered the episode on PWTorch.com.
-VIP ALERT: PWTorch editor Wade Keller offered his final preview & thoughts on Summerslam in his Daily Keller Hotline available for VIP members via PWTorch.com/GoVIP.
-Be sure to go to the main listing of this app for the new APP EXCLUSIVE version of Ask PWTorch posted last night along with the new APP EXCLUSIVE cover story flashback featuring Wade Keller's preview of SummerSlam 2013 with a look at the various possible finishes that might be booked for the main event. We will feature exclusively here on the PWTorch App retro cover stories from this week in history from 1, 2, 5, 10, and even 20 years ago on a regular basis throughout the week. Only VIP members have had access to read these historical cover stories in the past. If you're interested in a VIP membership with includes new exclusively daily content in text, PDF, and audio, plus nearly 27 years of archives of the PWTorch Newsletter and audio/radio shows dating back to the early 1990s, 2000s, and today, visit: www.PWTorch.com/govip.
READ MORE: Full articles on these stories and more on the PWTorch mobile website available by typing in www. pwtorch.com on your mobile web browser.
THE TORCH REACHES MORE COMBAT ENTERTAINMENT FANS THAN ANY OTHER SOURCE
PWTorch editor Wade Keller has covered pro wrestling full time since 1987 starting with the Pro Wrestling Torch print newsletter. PWTorch.com launched in 1999 and the PWTorch Apps launched in 2008.
He has conducted "Torch Talk" insider interviews with Hulk Hogan, The Rock, Steve Austin, Kevin Nash, Scott Hall, Eric Bischoff, Jesse Ventura, Lou Thesz, Jerry Lawler, Mick Foley, Jim Ross, Paul Heyman, Bruno Sammartino, Goldberg, more.
He has interviewed big-name players in person incluiding Vince McMahon (at WWE Headquarters), Dana White (in Las Vegas), Eric Bischoff (at the first Nitro at Mall of America), Brock Lesnar (after his first UFC win).
He hosted the weekly Pro Wrestling Focus radio show on KFAN in the early 1990s and hosted the Ultimate Insiders DVD series distributed in retail stories internationally in the mid-2000s including interviews filmed in Los Angeles with Vince Russo & Ed Ferrara and Matt & Jeff Hardy. He currently hosts the most listened to pro wrestling audio show in the world, (the PWTorch Livecast, top ranked in iTunes)
REACHING 1 MILLION+ UNIQUE USERS PER MONTH
500 MILLION CLICKS & LISTENS PER YEAR
MILLIONS OF PWTORCH NEWSLETTERS SOLD
PWTorch offers a VIP membership for $10 a month (or less with an annual sub). It includes nearly 25 years worth of archives from our coverage of pro wrestling dating back to PWTorch Newsletters from the late-'80s filled with insider secrets from every era that are available to VIPers in digital PDF format and Keller's radio show from the early 1990s.
Also, new exclusive top-shelf content every day including a new VIP-exclusive weekly 16 page digital magazine-style (PC and iPad compatible) PDF newsletter packed with exclusive articles and news.
The following features come with a VIP membership which tens of thousands of fans worldwide have enjoyed for many years...
-New Digital PWTorch Newsletter every week
-3 New Digital PDF Back Issues from 5, 10, 20 years ago
-Over 60 new VIP Audio Shows each week
-Ad-free access to all PWTorch.com free articles
-VIP Forum access with daily interaction with PWTorch staff and well-informed fellow wrestling fans
-Tons of archived audio and text articles
-Decades of Torch Talk insider interviews in transcript and audio formats with big name stars. **SIGN UP FOR VIP ACCESS HERE**
