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2004 Torch Back Issue PDF: 2003 Awards (Worst Promos, Most Overpushed), Mitchell's Flair DVD Review, Fairplay Torch Talk on Piper's car wreck (#794) Jan 5, 2009 - 1:12:14 PM
Torch Newsletter #794 (cover-dated January 24, 2004) has just been added to the Torch VIP Archives. VIP members can access the complete Torch Back issue by clicking here, or just click on the VIP Torch Archives button in the upper right cover of this webpage, then go to "Torch Newsletter Back Issues 2004" for a list of all 2004 back issues since the beginning of the year.
You can read this back issue online in two ways: either as text on a web browser or as a PDF (which is also printable) so you can see the news and features as they were originally formatted and featured - a new feature for select PWTorch Newsletters.
This week's "Cover Story" and "WWE Newswire" features even more unreported details and reactions to Vince McMahon's all-talent, all-staff meetings over the past couple weeks. Also, it features part three of our "Torch Talk" with Jonny Fairplay (who debuts as a full-time on-air character on NWA-TNA PPV tomorrow night). In this installment of the interview, he talks in detail about the car crash that sent him to jail and Roddy Piper to the hospital and in his words why Piper accused him of trying to murder him. Fairplay also details a bar incident beforehand where he says Piper pulled a knife on a woman. Crazy stories and fascinating insight into Piper's daily life during the time Fairplay was Piper's personal assistant. Plus, the final Torch Year-End Awards are featured (Best Promos of 2003, Worst Promos of 2003, Most Underutilized of 2003, Most Overpushed of 2003). Plus, Wade Keller's "End Notes," Pat McNeill's "2004 Predictions," Jason Powell's feature length column looks at the departure of Brian Kendrick from WWE with a variety of insider insight into the circumstances leading up to it, the fifth part of Bruce Mitchell's invaluable "Ric Flair DVD: Unofficial Liner Notes" with insider stories on everything on the DVD, James Guttman's "Bizarro 2003 Awards" (the awards that would have been given out had everything gone as promoters wished). And a full Newswire section featuring previously unreported, first-generation insider news and tidbits on WWE and TNA and the weekly "Top Five Stories of the Week," and reviews of all major TV shows and live events from the week...
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, 1989, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2008, and 2009 now available, with new ones being added every week. Over 700 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?
