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20 Years Ago PWTorch Back Issue: Crockett-Turner Sale Drama, Hot News with Brother Love, Wrestler Rankings, More Aug 21, 2008 - 10:43:31 PM
The latest Torch Newsletter "20 Years Ago" back issue has just been converted to PDF format and is now available to Torch VIP Members in the "Access Torch Archives" section. It is Torch Newsletter #24 from 20 years ago (cover-dated August 25, 1988). VIP members can access the complete Torch Back issue by clicking here, or just click on the VIP Feature Jump Menu and select 1988 Torch Back Issues.
This issue leads with the Torch Newsbreakers summarizing the top stories of the week... Also on page one is "The Hot News" featuring breaking newz about Brother Love's planned special guests on his interview segment at SummerSlam '88... Also, Torch News Run-Down, the "If I Became Booker" column, Reader Rhetoric letters, staff feature columns, a "Wrestling Image" comic, The Unofficial Ratings by the Torch staffa video review of Bruno Sammartino's tape, Ringside Beat including Keller's trip to Chicago for Paul Heyman's early booking of Windy City Wrestling, Quotebook, History Lesson, and Keller's Komments...
The VIP section adds two or three new complete Torch Newsletter back issues roughly every week to the Torch VIP Archives section - one from 20 years ago this week, one from ten years ago this week, and another from five years ago this week. The back issues catch you up on insider stories and controversial commentaries at a very different time in the wrestling industry. Learn how we got to where we are today one week at a time as a VIP member! Sign up today and catch up on all of the posted back issues from 1988, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, and 2003 now available, with new ones being added every week. Over 500 complete back issues have already been posted, available right now for VIP members!
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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?
