Issue #
027
Date:
Friday October 9th, 1998 11:26 am
Below are some news
reports direct from Dave Meltzer's Wrestling
Observer.
Subscription information for the Observer can be
found later in
the newsletter, I suggest you order it.
Straight from
the Observer.....
Vader's release
from the WWF allows him to work anywhere in the
world
besides WCW,
which means he can work in New Japan. Meltzer
speculates
that Eric
Bischoff may try to exert pressure on NJ to not hire
Vader
since he has
legit beefs with him. If nothing else, I think All
Japan
would love to
snap Vader up. With Steve William's departure and
Stan
Hansen's age
they are without a commanding foreign presence
(Johnny
Ace doesn't cut
it). ECW also has some interest in Vader as well.
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ECW and The NWA
sat down for some negotiations about working
together.
NWA President
Howard Brody offered Shane Douglas an NWA World
Title
victory over
Dan Severn on an ECW pay per view, as long as
Douglas
dropped the
strap back three months later, although this match
wouldn't have
to be on PPV.
Heyman's idea
was for the NWA to strip
Severn of the NWA
title because
of his injury
and for Brody to present Taz with the NWA World
CHampionship,
replacing Taz's FTW belt. In this scenario, Taz
would
face
Douglas in March in a
title VRS. title showdown. Brody turned
down that idea.
I don't personally see these negotiations going
anywhere. The
NWA doesn't have much to offer ECW so any
concessions
the NWA makes
will be to their disadvantage. Besides that, Paul
Heyman and
Dennis Coraluzzo sincerely dislike each other.
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The Jackyl's
wrestling column in The Winnepeg Sun presented an
old
story involving
Andre the Giant and Bad News Brown, when Brown
backed
Andre down in
Japan. According to
the story, Allen, who won a bronze
medal in the
1976 Olympics in Judo and was no doubt one of the
toughest men on
the wrestling scene, was sleeping in the tour bus
when he sort
of heard Andre
tell a racist joke.
Allen woke up and told
Andre to
keep his racist
remarks to himself. Andre told Allen to take a
flying
leap. Allen took off his earrings, and according to
the story, Hulk
Hogan, on the
same bus, dove under his seat figuring that nobody
would
challenge Andre to a fight without a weapon. Allen
told the driver to
stop the bus
and challenged Andre to go outside, which Andre
didn't.
He challenged Andre to
another fight the next morning in the hotel
lobby and Andre
simply apologized for his remarks and promised not
to
tell any more
racist jokes in front of Allen.
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Chris Candido,
Tammy Sytch (Sunny), Rob Van Dam and Justin Credible
all recently
signed five year contracts with ECW.
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In the biggest
and best news of them all, Meltzer reports that the
cyst removed on
Rick Rude's testicle was determined NOT to be
cancerous. Rude
spent eight or nine days in the hospital but he will
apparently be
fine.
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Barry Windham
was backstage at the 10/5 Nitro in
Columbia. I was
under the
impression that
Windham was still
under WWF contract so I'm
not sure what
you should read in to this.
====================
The return date
for Triple H is still up in the air. The
WWF is hopeful
he will return by Survivor Series but if the surgery
didn't take, he
may not return to the ring until Spring.
====================
Playboy is
preparing a wrestling article along with a photo
spread of
Sable. To
answer your next question, I have NO idea if she
will be
nude in this
spread. NO idea at all. I'll fill you all in when I
find out
myself.
====================
The hopes are
for Shawn Michaels to wrestle at the Royal Rumble,
if
not maybe even
in December, to have time to shoot and put together
a
major angle
involving him for Wrestlemania.
All this news
was reported by Dave Meltzer of The Wrestling
Observer and subscription info can be found later in
this issue.
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At the bottom
of the newsletter are the results for next week's
Thunder, which
was taped last night. Skip the bottom section if you
do not want to
read it.
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ECW Television
Report form
October 2nd, 1998
by Thomas A
Misnik "Mr ECW"
MRECW
E-Mail Thomas
to subscribe to ECW News, a free newsletter devoted
to
ECW.
This week’s ECW
show starts off with a return to the CNN- like
format
with headlines
underneath as we have the match in which Mike
Awesome
injures
himself, but first showing how incredibly Awesome he
has been
in his matches
vs. Tanaka. Awesome was wrestling with an injured
ankle
and then went
out of the ring and messed up his ACL. Then it was
to
the FBI match
in which it was a progressive vendetta match…
This was
similar to a War Games without the cage, it starts
off as
its Tracy
Smothers vs Tommy Rogers. Soon after Little Guido
joins the
mix and then
the odds even up as Chris Chetti is next into this
match
up- Chetti goes
for a pin, but Guido breaks it up. Next in is hte
big
Don, Tommy Rich
and then its the original Full Bloodied Italian, JT
Smith in to the
strains of Fly me to the moon. JT in cleaning house
of the alleged
FBI- then Big Sal E Graziano hits the ring and gets
thrown into the
FBI and JT Smith gets the win in this match up as we
play out this
segment in which some of JT’s “clutziness” to ‘Fly
Me
to the Moon’.
Some of the
battles between Taz and Sabu have been legendary and
we
have Bill
Alfonso, who is about to offer something to Taz to
make him,
Sabu and RVD a
“new Triple Threat”- Bill had a new special FTW
title
belt make for
Taz- Taz thinks that Fonzie wants money, but no,
what
Fonzie wants
the new Triple Threat. Taz doesnt want to shake
Fonsie
or RVD’s hand,
he wants to shake Sabu’s. Sabu extends his hand,
then
Taz walks by
him, but then we remember that is how the union of
RVD
and Sabu
started. Tonight, its a triple threat match in which
its
Shane Douglas,
Chris Candido and Bam Bam Bigelow taking on Sabu,
Rob
Van Dam and a
mystery partner-- will it be Taz?
Back to the ECW
Arena and Justin Credible with entourage make their
way to the
ring, a match is scheduled between Dreamer and
Justin.
Well it seems
that Dreamer may not be able to make it after what
happened to him
last week on ECW TV as he was brutalized at the
hands
of Credible,
Rod Price and Jack Victory.
Tommy Dreamer
refused to leave the building and go to the hospital
to
seek medical
attention. He will in fact be in the ring to take on
Justin
Credible. Tommy makes it to the ring and he looks a
mess- blood
still all over
him and he wants to have an old fashioned Philly
street
fight- but he
brings out reinforcements-- New Jack and Kronus with
the
trash can and
its all over the place - very tough to call what is
going on- just
that people and weapons are flying all over the
place.
Dreamer had no
choice but to call in the reinforcements in this
one,
but it was his
way to even the odds as Victory and Price were
brought
out by
Credible. Then as Chastity kicks Dreamer, then as
Kronos about
to apply some
discipline- Nicole Bass gets involved, Kronos kisses
Nicole and then
applies a shot downstairs. New Jack gets the pin in
this one and
wins it for Dreamer after Rod Price gets the guitar
shot
to the head.
After the match
Bill Wiles is cleaning up the ring
while we’re
waiting for that to get done- Joey lets us know
about
ECW’s Musical CD coming out October 27th. One of the
stars on that CD
is Rob Zombie--
last week we enjoyed the video from Rob’s song
“Dragula”
interpersed with ECW footage-- so while Wild Bill
Wiles
cleans up the ring- we get to enjoy that video once
again.
Back to the
ring and Bill WIles having his problems, this time
the
broom breaks-
then the fans chant “asshole” and then he gets the
mic
and berates the
crowd with an expletive deleted tirade. We then hear
Frankenstein
and Joey wonders who dusted that album off, but its
911
who is out to
chokeslam Bill- after that Jeff Jones out and is
called
911 a triple
threat onto himself- Jeff issues a challenge to
anyone
who thinks they
are bad
enough to take on that giant- well Spike Dudley is
professional
wrestling’s
true giant killer and he’s going to take on 911-
Spike gets
the win after the acid drop.
Last time in
ECW- Lance Storm had the mike and made some
interesting
introductions
as he introduced Tammy Lynn Bytch as “no silicone
needed”
and then himself as being all natural and from the
wrestling capital
of the world,
Calgary. Chris Candido was announced as being
performance
enhanced and as being 4 foot 2 and that Sunny is
ECW’s
newest piece of ass.
Shane Douglas,
Bam Bam Bigelow and Chris Candido in the ring now,
the
first in ring
reunion in action of the Triple Threat and Shane
seems
to feel that
there is no way that Taz will be out with Sabu and
Van
Dam. Well, Sabu
and Van Dam are out along with Bill Alfonso- there’s
alot of
championship belts in that ring-- well who is to be
that
third? Well,
its Masato Tanaka who joins them- last time Bigelow
lost
to Tanaka with
the help
of Rob Van Dam.
RVD and Douglas
start things off and soon they are both out of the
ring- then back
in the ring, Candido causes RVD to miss his high
flying
maneever, but Sabu is flying out into the third row.
We then
have Bigelow
and Tanaka and soon all men in the ring, then the
Dudley
Boyz hit the
ring and then all go after Tanaka. The 3D is
delivered on
Tanaka- then we
have all kinds of officials out to help Tanaka and
to
try to maintain
some order.
Mikey Whipwreck and
Jerry Lynn try to
maintain order-
but then get powerbombed as does Meanie and Nova,
then
Chetti tries his luck as does Tommy Rogers, then
Balls Mahoney, then
JT Smith-- all
get cleaned out by the Dudleys and the Triple
Threat.
Then finally, as the mood is about to change, the
FTW champ hits the
ring, Taz and
he cleans out the Dudleys, especially with a belly
to belly
to Shane and then we have Taz in the ring with Van
Dam and Sabu.
This triple
threat has headed back to the locker room the “real”
Triple Threat-
Taz shakes Bill Alfonso’s hand, high fives RVD and
then
Taz poses with
them both- then we see Taz and Sabu high five and
them
embrace and we
have ourselves a new Triple Threat of Sabu, Taz and
Rob
Van Dam.
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Reader Mailbag
Submitted by reader:
Robb0879
Sorry to say
but myself and lots of others I know are sick to
death of
Austin and the
same tired storylines over and over and over again.
Come on, are we
expected to be taken in by the same crap week
in,week
out.
Lets have some new
storylines involving the unsung heroes of the WWF.
Triple H should
be a contender for the title as he is a firm fan
favorite but I
think he would
be best used as a heel breaking away from DX and he
and Chyna
going solo. However I think its time for a new champ
and its
not Austin, Taker or Kane its THE ROCK. Great
athlete and a great mike
worker. Lets
have some new contenders for his crown.
Triple H I have
said already
but Ken Shamrock in his new bad guy role sounds like
a good
opponent for The People’s Champ. All the matches
they have had
before were
great. Vader has had the worst of the WWF for the
past 6
months now, no wonder he wants to leave after all
they have made him
job to some of
the worst in the game like Mark Henry. Used
correctly
Vader was the
best bad guy in the game.
AL SNOW IS UNUSUAL but
he
would be
greatly used as a contender against the Rock or a
replacement
IC champ after
Triple H goes heel. BOTTOM LINE WWF: GET YOUR ACT
TOGETHER SO THAT I
FIND MYSELF NOT
TURNING NITRO OVER WHEN RAW STARTS ANYMORE.
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Reader Mailbag
Submitted by reader:
DudeLuvOWW
I would like to
quickly respond to what you said about Ed Leslie not
giving anything
to the business. He sure as hell does!! He gives us
stuff about WCW
to criticize, and if you try really hard, you could
write a whole
book on how horrible the Disciple truly is. Hogan,
Randy Savage,
Warrior, etc. may be old, but at least they can put
on a
good show here
and there, and everyone loves to hate Hogan. He
fulfills that
role exceptionally well if even the "smart" fans on
the
'net hate him.
Disciple... well, he's nothing special. He would
best
be served
retaining his past status simply as Hogan's
background
bodyguard, or
just going away.
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Reader Mailbag
Submitted by reader: R.
Whicker (Regweiser)
You know, most
of the time on Monday Nights I tune in at 8 o clock
and
watch hour 1 of
Nitro...and thinking about all the talent WCW has,
why
in the hell do
they have all these jobbers fighting for 1 hour
straight? I
mean, would people rather see Evan Kourageous v.
Cyclope,
or a good WCW
midcard match like Wrath v. Bryan Adams. I think
most
would rather
see about 4 good midcard matches on the 1st hour
rather
than 16
unknowns making their debuts.
And, this tells
me nothing but while WCW tried to show up the WWF by
making
their show 3
hours long, it didn’t hurt RAW, it only hurt WCW
Face it, the
bookers do not have enough upstairs to properly book
the
first hour, or
anything else in WCW for that matter.
The WCW Bookers
cannot come up with a good gimmick and when they do,
the guy is
called "Wrath" a.k.a. "Adam Bomb". Now, WCW all of
a sudden
gives Wrath
a push and his
finisher is called the "Meltdown", and when he
wrestles the
genius Mike Tenay always says "Look at this
sub-ATOMIC,
human being".
They steal ideas left
and right, I'm not even going to touch on the Scott
Hall crap. Also, they have a bald man waltz into
the league
wearing solid black, that has 3 moves on a good
night, and
he takes the world title? Either WCW sees some kind
of talent in
this bald moron
called Goldberg, but I think if anyone deserves a
world title in
WCW is would be a hard worker like Chris Benoit,
Booker T, or Chris Jericho. The WCW bookers only go
with what's
popular short
term, not what’s right.
In conclusion,
WCW shouldn’t even be televised because I think it
is
total trash
with a few exceptions (Bret Hart, Jericho, Benoit,
and the
other hard
workers). I personally am waiting to see WCW 5
years
from
now...Sting will be around 40, Nash will be 45, Hart
will be 45,
same with Hall
(probably). Flair, Hogan, Savage & DDP will all be
in
their 50's, so
it looks like WCW better hire some good recruiters
and
good bookers
before they collapse from within...and I'm waiting
to see
it.
Whicker (Regweiser)
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Reader Mailbag
Submitted by reader: Brandon M
Salmon (hornets4life@xxxxpuno.com)
Nitro: It needs
to be more spectacular, they need to get better main
events. Some
good main events were: Goldberg vs. Hogan, Macho
Man,
Giant, Sting,
vs. Hogan, Nash, Hall. That's about it. The brawl
between Sting,
and Hart, give me a break, two grandmas could do
better.
Now DX, The
Nation, Mankind, Undertaker, and Kane. That's
entertainment.
They need to have better Thunder matches, I liked
the
Goldberg/Raven
angle, but we all knew that Goldberg would win,
because it
wasn't highly announced. The DDP/Goldberg,
Hogan/Warrior angle are
boring. In the
1st hour of Nitro on 10/5/98, they advertised it,
about 4 times.
I mean come on!!! Also a NO DQ match in the 1st
hour,
getting viewers attention would be nice.
RAW - Great
angles. The Al Snow/Slaghter thing should end on Raw
in
another
BOOTCAMP MATCH. Also, I love it when tables, chairs,
ladders
are used. They
need NO DQ matches. Also the HELL IN THE CELL
matches
on Raw are
pathetic. The SCSA/UT vs. Kane/Mankind and Kane vs.
Mankind match
weren't too good. Also Sunday Night Heat needs to
get
serious!!! More
great spectacular matches. Also more triple threat
matches. BUT
REMEMBER THIS IS ONLY MY OPINION
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SPOILER
WARNING:
Below are the results
for next Thursday's Thunder, which was
taped last
night. Skip this section if you want to be
surprised. You
have been
WARNED!
Submitted by reader:Bsgk4
I was in
attendance at the 10-8-1998 Thunder taping. After
the taping
they went on
shooting
matches for next week results, which were:
-Van Hammer
defeated Sick Boy
-Fit Finley won
a match
-Chavo Guerrero
Jr. defeated Prince Iakuea
-DDP interview
-Main event
Michael Buffer announcing Dean Malenko vs Stevie Ray
Scott Norton runs in
and Vincent, Norton and Stevie Ray triple team
Malenko
Flair,
Anderson, McMichael & Benoit run in and make the
save.
All the
Horesman take turns on the mike with Flair speaking
last and
running typical
Flair smack
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