Issue #
009
Date:
Tuesday July 28th, 1998 3:48 pm
Dozens of reactions have
poured in regarding the Sable /Jaqueline bikini
contest. The WWF definitely pleased its fan with
this one. Jackie shows a nipple (accidentally?),
Sable goes topless, with hands body painted over her
upper torso. While entertaining, this was as extreme
a display of flesh ever shown on a wrestling show.
Was it too much? While this
storyline was well received by the new hardcore fan
base, I'm not certain this was appropriate for the
younger fans. Should 12 year olds be encouraged to
drool over Sable, a breast enhanced Barbie doll? As
much as Titan talks about how their new hardcore
image is aimed at young adults, the reality is far
different.
Live Wire, televised at 10 AM
Saturday mornings, usually replays the raciest of
the DX & Sable angles. Regardless, I enjoy these
angles; show me all the flesh you can. Both Sable &
Jackie are attractive; Sable is among the most over
WWF characters. The Jerry Springer aspect of it all
doesn't offend me; it also makes me glad that I'm
not in the uncomfortable position of deciding if
children should be allowed to watch the "new WWF".
Maybe its just wishful
thinking that Sunny would be involved in storylines
like this one. At the same time, Tammy Sytch can get
over without the bikini contests; she can rely on
charisma alone.
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Reader:
Mortis65
8/3 Monday Night RAW- Mick
Foley (as himself) walks out. He says that he craves
hardcore wrestling. He goes on to say he can't stay
in a place where there is not the hardcore style of
Japan or ECW for as long as he's been in the WWF. He
says that since he is still under contract that he
will not have to adapt to the WWF style, that he'll
make the WWF adapt to his style. He calls out anyone
that would be interested in this style of wrestling.
He waits. Steve Williams comes out. They wait. 54
year old veteran Terry Funk comes out.
Mick asks Vince McMahon to
join them. McMahon comes to the ramp with a mic and
asks Mick what he wants. Mick says that four men
isn't enough to do it and asks Vince to give him
until Summerslam to find some more competitors for
this new hardcore style. Vince tells that he'll pay
for all the guys BUT, if he cannot get 13 more guys
by Summerslam that the hardcore idea will be thrown
out and Mick will have to wrestle the matches Vince
tells him to. Mick says that'll he'll do so and
check in every week on RAW.
8/10 Monday Night RAW- At the
top of the program JR says that Mick has two weeks
to find 8 more men for his hardcore inside league.
(Later in the show) Mick comes
up on the Titan Tron. He says the first place he hit
was ECW. And he got some ECW legends. Sabu, The
Sandman, New Jack, Axl Rotten and Tommy Dreamer. He
says the next place he it going is Japan to check
out guys in the FMW, IWA, some Indy's and W*ING.
8/17 Monday Night RAW- JR says
that Mick has to get 8 more guys and very soon.
(Later in the night). Mick again shows up on the
Titan Tron. He says he checked out a lot of guys and
got: Atsushi Onita, Mr. Pogo, Mad Man Pondo, Ian
Rotten, W*ING Kanemura, and Leatherface. JR pees his
pants and starts screaming about what big stars some
of those men are. Mick then says he has a special
surprise for Summerslam.
8/23 SUMMERSLAM- Cactus Jack
comes out and gets in the ring. The crowd is going
insane. Cactus tells all the men that he got to come
out. They come out in the order they were mentioned
over the weeks. Steve Williams, Terry Funk, Sabu,
The Sandman, New Jack, Axl Rotten, Tommy Dreamer,
Atsushi Onita, Mr. Pogo, Mad Man Pondo, Ian Rotten,
W*ING Kanemura, and Leatherface. Then he says, its
time for the BIG surprise and he calls out TNT (who
you may know as Savio Vega. He wrestled as TNT in
Carlos Colon's WWC years ago). The crowd goes insane
again.
Vince McMahon walks out
laughing. Cactus asks him what's so funny. Vince
says Cactus must have taken too many shots to the
head because there are only 15 men in the ring. They
all look disappointed. Then Stone Cold's music
begins to play and the crowd starts to shake the
building with their screams. Stone Cold walks by
Vince and flips him off. Then he gets in the ring.
Vince McMahon looks like he's about to kill the
first man he sees and he storms off. Stone Cold says
"If you think I should join these hardcore guys give
me a hell yeah" and the crowd gave their response.
Which (like you didn't know) was hell yeah.
(Later at Austin vs.
Undertaker) Undertaker comes out. Austin comes out
and says now that he's the most HARDCORE SOB in the
WWF, that he can have a more hardcore match, if its
ok with the Undertaker. The Undertaker shakes his
head yes. Austin says there going to have a Ladder
Match. Atsushi Onita and Terry Funk carry a ladder
out to the ring and put it in the middle. Cactus
comes out and says that the ladder is a good start
but it needs something more. Cactus, even though he
knows what he is gonna do, stares out into nothing
and taps his chin. Then he says that he has it and
tells Mr. Pogo to bring out the extra prop. Pogo
comes out with a spool of barbed wire and he wraps
it around the ladder. Jerry Lawler is speechless and
JR is, once again, peeing in his pants.
The match starts with a
slugfest but eventually they start to use the barbed
wire covered ladder. About 20 minutes into the match
The Undertaker hits the chokeslam. The "Extreme
Alliance" comes out and distracts the ref. Everyone
but Cactus. Cactus comes out behind the ref's back
with a barbed wire bat. He gets up on the apron but
the Undertaker knocks him down. UT turns and Stone
Cold hits him with a hard right that staggers the
Undertaker. Cactus tosses the bat to Stone Cold and
Austin wallops the Undertaker with it. Cactus
escapes threw the crowd.
The referee turns to see
Austin covering a bloody Undertaker. He counts and
Austin holds onto the belt. The Extreme Alliance
didn't stay as a group. They started fighting each
other in hardcore and extreme matches, like they
were meant too. But the hardcore circuit quickly
became the biggest thing the WWF has ever seen.
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past newsletters, has sent in his own booking plan.
He has his own booking plans on his web site, where
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Reader: Jon White
(nkwhite@xxxxpright.net)
This is a Fantasy
Cruiserweight tournament. It is a 14 man round robin
tournament, so its huge. So I've decided to break it
into two catagories. The first one is below and the
second will be out when I get it done.
Well here is the plans for a
WCW Cruiserweight tournament. If you are like me,
you've been disgusted in the way the Cruiserweight
division has been lately, so here's what happens.
On 7/27 of Nitro in the
Malenko vs. Jericho title match. If Malenko doesn't
get the title he loses his career. Anyways JJ Dillon
bans Rey Mysterio from the arena tonight. During the
match Rey comes down and looks on even though he
isn't supposed to. Jericho goes on to defeat
Malenko. JJ Dillon comes out and says that because
Rey Mysterio comes out that the match is void and he
is declaring the Cruiserweight title vacant!
7/30 Thunder. JJ declares that
WCW will have a Round Robin tournament to decide who
is the Cruiserweight champion. He says that he has
talked to New Japan Pro Wrestling and other Japanese
wrestlers and that they will be coming over for the
tournament. He says he has divided the 14 wrestlers
into 2 groups as follows: Group A North America
Group B Japan (Juventud Guerrera Jr., Jushin
“Thunder” Liger, Chris Benoit, Great Sasuke, Eddie Guerrero, El Samuri, Dean Malenko, Jinsei Shinzaki,
Rey Mysterio Jr,. Shinjiro Otani, Chris Jericho,
Ultimo Dragon, Psychosis, & Koji Kanamento). He says
that everyone will wrestle each other in their
group, plus each wrestler will have a inter-league
match against a member from the group. 2 points for
a win and 1 point for a 15 minute time limit draw.
If there is a tie it will be broken on whoever has
the most wins, if its still tied it will go to head
to head competition. He states that the top 3 in
each group advance to a double elimination 6 man
tournament, and he also states that the tournament
will start this Monday Nitro!
8/3 Nitro Group A Benoit(2
pts. 1-0) beats Juvi (0 pts. 0-1) in 10:37 with
Diving headbutt. Malenko (1 pt. 0-0-1) draws with
Mysterio (1 pt. 0-0-1) with a 15 minute time limit
Group B Great Sasuke (2 pts 1-0) beats Jushin Liger
(0 pts. 0-1) in 11:48 with Powerbomb. 8/6 Thunder
Group B Jinsei Shinzaki (2 pts 1-0) beats El Samuri
(0 pts 0-1) in 8:13 with a Moonsault. Ultimo
Dragon(2 pts 1-0) beats Otani (0 pts 0-1) in 14:05
with Dragon Sleeper
Group A Eddie Guerrero(1 pt
0-0-1) Draws with Jericho (1 pt 0-0-1) after a 15
minutes time limit. 8/8 Saturday Night before Road
Wild Inter-league match Kanamento (2pts 1-0) beats
Psychosis (0pts 0-1) with a Fisherman's suplex in
7:15 8/8 Road Wild PPV Group A Jericho (2pts 0-0-2)
Draws with Juvi (1pt 0-1-1) at 11:36 with a double
countout.
Group B Ultimo Dragon (3pts
1-0-1) Draws with Liger (1 pt 0-1-1) with 15 minute
time limit. 8/10 Nitro Group A Eddie Guerrero(2 pts
0-0-2) Draws with Mysterio (2 pts 0-0-2) with 15
minute time limit Chris Benoit (4 pts 2-0) beats
Psychosis (0 pts 0-2) in with Crossface at 9:23 Group
B Kanamento (4 pts 2-0) beats Great Sasuke (2 pts
1-1) with Boston Crab at 13:56 8/13 Thunder
Group B Samuri (2 pts 1-1)
beats Otani (0pts 0-2) with Powebomb at 13:02
Inter-League match Malenko (3pts 1-0-1) beats Jinsei
Shinzaki(2 pts 1-1) with Texas Cloverleaf at 10:48
Group A Juvi (3pts 1-1-1)
beats Psychosis (0pts 0-3) at 7:32 with 450 Splash
8/15 Saturday night Group A Jericho (4 pts 1-0-2)
Beats Benoit (4pts 2-1) with Rollup at 13:41 Group B
Liger beats (3 pts 1-1-1) beats Konamento (4 pts
2-1) with LigerBomb at 14:54 Ultimo Dragon (4 pts
1-0-2) Draws with Great Sasuake (3 pts 1-1-1) with
15 minute time limit 8/17 Nitro
Group A Malenko (4 pts 1-0-2)
Draws with Guerrero (3 pts 0-0-3) with 15 minute
time limit Group B Otani (2 pts 1-2) beat Jinsei
Shinzaki (2 pts 1-2) with Frankensteiner at 13:12
Inter-League Match Mysterio (3 pts 0-0-3) Draws with
Samuri (3 pts 1-1-1) with Top rope Frankensteiner at
12:46 Standing after 3 matches
Group B Benoit (4pts 2-1-0)
Konamento (4pts 2-1-0) Jericho (4pts 1-0-2) Dragon
(4pts 1-0-2) Malenko (4pts 1-0-2) Liger (3pts 1-1-1)
Juvi G. (3pts 1-1-1) Samuri (3pts 1-1-1) Guerrero
(3pts 0-0-3) G. Sasuake(3pts 1-1-1) Mysterio(3pts
0-0-3) J.Shinzaki(2pts 1-2-0) Psychosis(0pts 0-3-0)
Otani (2pts 1-2-0)
8/20 Thunder Group A Mysterio
(5 pts 1-0-3) beat Juvi (3 pts 1-2-1) with a rana at
12:18 Benoit (5 pts 2-1-1) Draws with Malenko (5 pts
1-0-3) with 15 minute time limit
Group B Liger (5pts 2-1-1)
beats Samuri (3 pts 1-2-1) with LigerBomb at 10:49
8/22 Saturday Night Group A Psychosis (2 pts 1-3)
beats Jericho (4pts 1-1-2) with Guillitine Leg Drop
at 9:11. Jericho goes insane because he can't
believe he lost to Psychosis
Group B Jinsei Shinzaki (3 pts
1-2-1) Draws Great Sasuake (4pts 1-1-2) with 15
minute time limit draw Ultimo Dragon (6pts 2-0-2)
beats Konamento (4 pts 2-2) with Dragon Sleeper at
12:46 8/24 Nitro Inter-League Match Otani (4pts 2-2)
beats Eddie Guerrero(3 pts 0-1-3) with Powebomb at
14:25 Group A Malenko (7pts 2-0-3) beat Juvi (3 pts
1-3-1) with Texas Cloverleaf in 8:48 Group B Samuri
(4 pts 1-2-2) draws Konamento (2-2-1) with 15 minute
time limit 8/27 Thunder Group A Eddie Guerrero(5pts
1-1-3) beats Psychosis (2 pts 1-4) with Frog Splash
Benoit (6pts 2-1-2) draws with Mysterio (6pts 1-0-4)
with 15 minute time limit
Group B Liger (7pts 3-1-1)
beats Jinsei Shinzaki (3pts 1-3-1) with Ligerbomb at
10:32 8/29 Saturday Night Group B Otani (6pts 3-2)
beats Sasuake (4pts 1-2-2) with Powerbomb at 12:13
Inter-League match Jericho(5pts 1-1-3) draws with
Dragon (7pts 2-0-3) with 15 minute time limit draw.
Group A Juvi (5 pts 2-3-1)
beats with Guerrero (6pts 2-2-2) with 450 Splash at
11:01 8/31 Monday Nitro
Group A Dean Malenko (8pts
3-1-2) beat Psychosis (2pts 1-5) with Cloverleaf at
9:25
Group B Otani (7pts 3-2-1)
draws with Liger (8pts 3-1-2) with 15 minute time
limit Ultimo Dragon (7pts 2-0-3) draws with Samuri
(5pts 1-2-3) with 15 minute time limit 9/3 Thunder
Group A Jericho (6pts 1-1-4) draws Mysterio (7pts
1-0-5) with 15 minute time limit Group B Jinsei
Shinzaki (5pts 2-3-1) beats Kanemoto (5pts 2-3-1)
with Powebomb at 11:58 Inter league Great Sasuake
(6pts 2-2-2) beat Benoit (6pts 2-2-2) with Powerbomb
at 12:29
Standings after 6 matches:
Group A Group B Dean Malenko (8pts 3-1-2) J. Liger
(8pts 3-1-2) Mysterio (7pts 1-0-5) Otani (7pts
3-2-1) Guerrero (6pts 2-2-2) Dragon (7pts 2-0-3)
Benoit (6pts 2-2-2) Sasuake (6pts 2-2-2) Jericho
(6pts 1-1-4) Konamento(5pts 2-3-1) Juvi (5pts 2-3-1)
Shinzaki (5pts 2-3-1) Psychosis (2pts 1-5-0) Samuri
(5pts 1-2-3)
Everyone can still make the
top 6 except Psychosis of course and El Samuri. The
following last matches will occur: Group A Jericho
vs. Malenko Benoit vs. Eddie Misteiro vs. Psychosis
Group B Konamento vs Otani Dragon vs Shinzaki Samuri
vs Sasuake InterPromotional match Liger vs. Juvi The
rest of the tournament will be sent out next week.
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