Farewell to Power Slam

[Bret Hart Rules]

Just read in the latest issue of Power Slam that this issue will be the last. This really sucks as I've hardly ever missed an issue and it's my favourite wrestling magazine ever. Still, it had a 20 year run and that's something to applaud. Anyone sad to see it go? I know I am as it only leaves FSM as a credible alternative and I don't really like it.

[TGM]

That's terrible, any ideas why?

I won't miss the needless Cena hate though.

[AtomSmasher]

The last is in the last paper copy? Or the actual last? I haven't read it yet as i get it in magazine format.....

[Bret Hart Rules]

Jul 14, 2014 12:23:56 GMT -5 AtomSmasher said:

The last is in the last paper copy? Or the actual last? I haven't read it yet as i get it in magazine format.....

[Hit Girl]

Well that sucks. I read it religiously.

[AtomSmasher]

Well, i can't say i'm overly surprised.
The editorial (in terms of 'features') has been a bit repetitive/dull for a while. And at least there will still be online content (which looks like it will be current news rather than 'features').
Not sure about the 'ebook'. Sounds like PowerSlam: 'The Collected Works' to me, rather than anything particularly original (despite his protestations to the contrary).
Having said that i'll probably buy it (like i was still buying PowerSlam every month)!

[Essential1]

I was thinking of buying a copy today strangely enough. I hardly ever bought it as a adult but loved it when I was a teenager before I got the internet.

[Deleted]

Given Fin was pretty much stubborn about a LOT of things in wrestling -I'm not a big Jericho fan, but his HATE for Jericho and dismissal of his quality in any regard was always awful- and never seemed able to stop being an example of a snarky middle aged smark cliche for the most part.

I know it wasn't always like that, but post-2006 the magazine was a joke for the most part, it had some nice sections (select commentary lines/interviews which podcasts have stripped from magazines these days) but mix the out of touch editors sensibilities (Cena/Jericho/Corino hate being the Powerslam hate bingo) with a declining market for magazines and it's no surprise. The fact the TINY magazine cost over £3 in the UK is pretty horrendous too. Little value, and often had recycled articles/editorials that freelancers for the magazine would repeat in some way or another on their own sites.

Hopefully the ebooks do well for him and without having to put a magazines out every month and a half allows him to edit/sort of see logic in things before putting them out to the world.

I still preferred it to Fighting Spirit albeit, at least Powerslam was good once upon a pre-2006 disposition.

[dablueboy]

I usually throw out my copies of PS after a couple of months but, much like the final ever issue of the Dandy comic, I intend to hold onto the final issue of PS when I pick it up from WH Smiths on Thursday. Will be a bit weird not seeing it on the shelves there next month alongside FSM, WWE Magazine and PW Illustrated

[Smiley Smile]

I haven't bought a copy of Power Slam in probably seven or eight years, but it was a key part of my wrestling education in the late 1990s when I was first getting fully interested in wrestling. Power Slam gave me my first exposure to ECW and puroresu, so I will be eternally grateful to the magazine for that.

[Futureraven: Beelzebruv]

I stopped about 2 years ago, it just seemed so relentlessly negative every month it was becoming a chore to read.

[Famous Rocking Chimes]

I stopped reading it a few years ago, the last one I bought was the issue that focused on Edge's retirement. As soon as I read the Extreme Rules report that claimed that Cena had tried to kill Miz during the double suplex spot off the cage and the barricade spot at WM the previous month I just threw up my hands and tossed it aside. I just couldn't believe that they actually printed what was basically accusing someone of attempted murder.

[Paul E. Funk]

Well, this is very upsetting, but not unexpected, news. I feared this day was coming when they started spreading out the publication dates last year.

Whilst I don't disagree with the criticisms of PowerSlam's content over the last few years. I've come to look at reading PS as like getting a phone call from an old friend to shoot the breeze on Pro wrestling.

It was my main source for news back in my formative years and I've been buying it religiously for the last 17 years. (still got most of them too).

I can't measure the effect it's had on the way I write and talk and the way I watch wrestling. It's been a companion of mine for the majority of my life. I even had a few private conversations with Maffew on this forum in regards to PowerSlam as he seemed to have a similar affinity with it as I did and wanted to compliment me on the PS Sig and Avi I had at the time.

Power Slam; the wrestling magazine. Thank you for the entertainment, the guidance and the memories. There's never been a magazine like it in it's time and probably won't be again.

[AJ Smudgico]

I'm not sure what to think. Whilst I'd never want to see anyone go out of business and I enjoyed a lot of articles (The history of PPV and the History of the Championship were pretty good reads) I also found a lot of the Jericho hate embarrassing and the TNA bashing ridiculous.

Funnily enough I stopped reading it after the disgraceful 'tribute' to the Ultimate Warrior which slated him and his career with not one glowing comment about him. I read it again today in disbelief and almost started a thread about it

[WesternSloth]

Bought the last issue today. Huge shame for the magazine to go. Been reading it since the 90s. Got me into ECW as well as Japanese wrestling.

[Marty McFry]

As I purchased this months issue, along with Empire and GamesTM I said to my wife 'I might stop getting empire and powerslam after these issues' I've got every issue of powerslam other than a few from 1994 and a few from 99/2000 that appear to have gone missing in a house move.

I was half sad/half relieved it was going when I read it, like a few have said it stopped being essential reading a good 3-4 years ago.

I'll continue to pull out the odd back issue though when I fancy a quick toilet read.

Side note: judging by the thinness of this months empire magazine, it might be the next to go!