Issue #
018
Date:
Monday August 24th, 1998 12:31 pm
Before we print some
of your booking plans a warning is in order.
Most of you
already know this, but it bears repeating. All
booking
plans printed
in this newsletter are fantasy. They will probably
never happen.
They are one person's idea of what they would like
to
see; they will
not happen.
I thought you
all knew this, but it still hasn't been clear to all
our
readers. I get
around 20 letters a day from people who think the
plans are real
and they get disappointed when they don't come true.
I
hope this is
the last time the subject needs to come up so we can
devote more
space to the actual booking plans.
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Submitted by reader:
Dancol10
I totally agree
about no one caring about Mick Foley! He has been my
favorite
wrestler since he was Cactus Jack in WCW. I first
liked him in
1991 at
Halloween Havok when it was that cage match where
you had two
teams and to
win you had to put a member of the other team in to
an
"electric
chair" in the center of the cage and pull a lever
that
"electrified
the chair". Well the teams were I believe Cactus
Jack,
Abdullah the
Butcher, Big Van Vader (and someone else who I can't
remember)
against Sting, Steiner Brothers and Giant Gonzales
(whatever
his name in WCW
was, like El Gigante or something)
They fought it
out, getting bloodied up and finally Abdullah the
Butcher
put a Steiner in the chair, Then Cactus climbed the
cage and was by
the lever and
he looked back at the chair and saw he was about to
win, but
before he pulled the lever he did his BANG! BANG!
and smiled
through the blood. Then the Steiners reversed
Abdullah into the chair
and Cactus
pulled the lever on his friend. Then he and Abdullah
went on a
rampage after Abdullah woke up.
I rewound it and
paused on Cactus
head when he
did the bang bang and I saw that his cut was not
fake blood
or a juiced razor wound he actually got it from
being bashed
around hardway
in the match! And being able to smile with your face
covered in
blood from a cut that's making you dizzy and must be
hurting like hell
is a feat in
itself.
I later rewound back
to where he got the cut and
saw that it was
not a jucied razor wound...or fake blood
undoubtfully.
-Dan
P.S. I love the
Newsletter Keep up the great work!!
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Submitted by reader:
SunniNAO
(Tia Wallace)
I would just
like to say that I'm really enjoying the column. The
ideas submitted
by the readers are hilarious. Anyways, I've had a
lot on my mind
and decided to address this so-called "adult image"
the
WWF is taking
on. Now, I know this has been said but I'll say it
too:
It’s not Vince
McMahon's job or the WWF's job to raise other
people's
kids. If
parents don't like what's on TV they can always tell
their
children no.
The WWF is doing their job as entertainers, and
that's to
keep people
watching and
attract new age groups (hence the adult image).
So,
parents should
be doing
their jobs as parents, and that's to say to
themselves: Is this
right for my
child? Would I let my 5 year old daughter watch WWF?
Absolutely.
Call me a
bad mother if you will but if there's something on
TV and she's
curious I won't
shelter
her from the
truth. I will monitor how much of it she watches but
I
will never ever
cut her off from it completely.
The new modern
age angles are very entertaining and I don't see how
watching
Austin swigging beer
is going to affect my daughter. How many
of you parents
knock down a cold one in front of your kids? It
doesn't
matter if you
do, it doesn't matter if
Austin does, hell if
it was the
President of
the
United States it
doesn't matter. If you don't like
your kids
watching
Austin knocking down
beer because you think its
bad then don't
knock down your own beer!
Look at what's
going on in the real world, that's not out there for
our
entertainment, its not planned its not scripted. And
yet it’s all
over the
evening news. And I know many parents that actually
expose
their children
to that. The difference between WWF and actual
reality
is that WWF is
ENTERTAINMENT. Look at Bill Clinton and Monica
Lewinsky, if
anything the WWF is more tasteful than what they
plaster
all over the
evening news and you don't have to have cable to see
THAT.
--- Tia Wallace
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Submitted by reader:
NaoRock
In response to the email
submitted by reader,
DTroupe902,
last issue,
I want clarify
something. He stated that he thought the Puke vs.
Bradshaw Brawl
For All match was a work because "Puke was in the
lead by 10
points going into the 3rd period" but Bradshaw ended
up winning
even though he didn't even score 10
points in the
last period.
Well, you're wrong
because Bradshaw was
actually up
by 5 points
going into the last round (it was 10 - 5), so he
didn't
need to score 10 points. That match wasn't a work,
it was total shoot.
You can tell
just by the way they fought.
All of the Brawl For
All
matches are
shoots, and I think it’s a great idea. I don't know
why the crowd usually starts booing when the lights
go out and the
infamous Brawl
For All theme begins. I mean, where else are you
going to
see 100% shoots in a wrestling promotion. NOWHERE!
Especially not
from WCW.
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Submitted by reader:
Acoustic76
I agree 100%,
Jim Cornette is excellent on the mic. I remember
when
Cornette did an
interview with Yokozuna before Summer Slam. Yoko was
to defend
against
Luger and Cornette did about a five minute run and
never paused. It was
incredible. Or
what about when he came on Raw before the NWA
"invasion", his
little blurbs were funny as hell.
He deserves mic
time and I
think he'd be a great addition to the WWF television
crew. Put
him on Code Red or something but just don't waste
him.
I don't think
people realize that someone's success in wrestling
is
based on how
good of a personality they have. Take a look at Ken
Shammrock. If
it came down to a real fight Shammrock would destroy
any wrestler
but because he is horrible on the mic and has zero
camera
appeal and he
will never amount to anything in the WWF. But if you
look
at a wrestler
like The Rock you see the future of wrestling. He's
wrestling
skills are improving but he's so good on the mic
that you
want to see him
wrestle.
Before I finish
I want to make a comment about Bret Hart. He, just
like all the
other WWFer's, will amount to nothing in WCW. I hope
that
one day he and
Vince can settle their issues and bring the Hitman
back
to the ranks of
the WWF.
Thanks for
reading!
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Submitted by reader:
Sherm69316
wrote:
Summerslam
predicts and the following Warzone.
Rocky Miavia vs
Triple H: Ladder match
Triple H wins
this one in a long fought battle. In the first 5
minutes DX
comes down and
starts to pound on the Rock, and the Nation comes
down
and chases them
out. Throughout the whole match the cameras show the
Nation and DX
brawling in the dressing rooms. Around the 25 minute
mark, the Rock
is about halfway up the ladder when Farooq, 2 Cold
Scorpio, and
the Gangstas come down and knock him off and
brutalize him.
Triple H climbs
the ladder and walks out with IC gold and Farooq
grabs the
microphone and
announces that there is a New Nation of Domination
in
town and he
challenges Rocky Miavia, D Lo, Kama, Mark Henry, and
Owen
Hart to a
street fight on the August 31 Raw, and goes on to
say that
there is still
one more member that will show up for the street
fight
match.
The New Age
Outlaws vs. Kane and Mankind
Bad Ass covers
Kane after a chair shot by Chyna, and a Bad Ass
Piledriver.
Right after the match the Outlaws issue an open
challenge
to anyone one
in either Nation for Raw is War the next night.
D-Lo Brown vs.
Val Venis
In one of the 3
best matches on the card, Val Venis wins with the
Money Shot
after the New Nation once again causes the Rocks
Nation to
lose another
title. Instead of Val Venis music coming on after he
leaves, the DX
theme blares and Triple H, the Outlaws, and X-Pac
come down
to the ring and
give Val Venis and invitation to join DX and Val
accepts.
August 31 Raw
is War
Nation vs.
Nation: Street Fight
Farooq and the
New Nation come down to the ring for the street
fight
and the Rock's
Nation follows. They fight 5 on 4 for the majority
of
the match,
until Ahmed Johnson comes down and nails a
Pearl River
Plunge on D-Lo.
Farooq grabs the mic and says this Nation will be an
extreme Nation.
Later on in the show
DX comes down and and makes fun
of the Rock and
his Nation, but before they could get to into it the
New Nation
comes down and tells DX that they shouldn’t feel too
comfortable
with the gold that they have now, because the New
Nation
just disposed of Rocky's Nation and DX is next.
New Age Outlaws
vs. any members of either Nation for the Tag titles
The Outlaws
come down to do their usual routine before the
match. Out
comes Farooq
and Ahmed and they start to brawl. The rest of DX
and the
rest of the New
Nation come down and begin to brawl. At one point
The Road
Dawg gets knocked out by a Pearl River Plunge from
Ahmed, but Triple H
throws Ahmed
off of the Road Dawg and then throws Ahmed out of
the
ring and chases
him outside. Out of nowhere The Rock and Owen come
down to the
ring. Rock nails the Rock Bottom on the Road Dawg
and
proceeds to pin
him while Owen fends of everyone just long enough
for
the Rock to get
the 3 count. The Rock grabs the mic and says that
since the
Outlaws said they would take on 2 men from either
Nation,
then that his
Nation had the right to take the belts.
Title holders- World -
Stone Cold
IC- Triple H
Euro- Val Venis
Tag Team- Rock
and Owen
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Submitted by reader:
CotNWeary
Re: WWF's new
adult direction. People seem to be doing a lot of
whining about
the WWF not being for kids but I see no one making a
significant
stand. Maybe that is because wrestling fans have
very
little product
to turn to if they are unhappy. I mean, give me a
choice between
Sable and her breasts and Eric Bischoff and I'm
likely
to take a
sudden interest in Suddenly Susan on NBC. If you
don't like
it, change the
channel. If you are a parent and you watch it in
front
of your
children don't get mad at Vince McMahon when your
six year-old
gets in trouble
at school for crotch-chopping.
I like this
Gangrel guy despite the horrible things I've heard
about
David Heath as
a wrestler. Though, his first two matches were very
short I got
into them and I love the little super-DDT move he
does. I
also like the
fact that they might be working Edge into the angle.
Could he be a
vampire hunter or something? This is one person who
wants to find
out.
Two things I don't
like about the gimmick is the
fact that no
one in the WWF knows how to properly pronounce
Gangrel.
It is NOT gang-grell, its gangrel. One syllable.
Number two is that
unless the WWF
has gotten permission from White Wolf Publishing to
use their
concept then Gangrel won't be around long. The name
itself is a
blatant rip-off
of a brood of vamps from their Vampire: The
Masquerade
series of games and books.
Eddie Guerrerofinally sticks up for himself. All I can say is good
for
him. Let's hope
some of the other up-and-comers stick by Eddie in
what
he said on
Monday.
I'm sure only
20% of the Ultimate Wash-Outs "speech" on Monday was
supposed to
be funny but I
was rolling on the floor over the fact that he made
up like
every third word he said. There are a lot of things
Warrior can
be accused of.
However, being intelligent is not one of those
things.
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Submitted by reader:
JJ29
I'd like to
send my views on Goldberg. It’s not his fault, its
WCW's.
But what gets
me mad is this: Independent wrestlers work their
"bleep" off for
a measly $40 and a hotel to shack up each night, but
then a
ex-football player just walks in CNN center and gets
a world
title and a 3
year multimillionaire contract. And he doesn't even
work matches
that well, Announcers talk about how this guy does
so
much new stuff
but what he
does isn't new, A single leg takedown isn't a move.
A football
tackle isn't new. Pumphandle slam isn't new. A
backflip
isn't anything new. Lets see the guy to a corkscrew
plancha, that'd
be impressive.
My point being is that
there is better talent in
Chicago than Goldberg
in all categories. Power, guys are stronger, so
WHAT if he
jackhammered The Giant, in case nobody knows it
takes TWO
people to execute a move.
The jackhammer: You
can clearly see the
opponent
jumping with the pick up and Goldberg simply holds
them, and
not for long. A spear? It’s a guy taking a bump. But
I don't blame
his
inexperience on himself, I blame WCW's bookers.
Comments will be
read and
replied to with the TRUTH.
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