Issue #
044
Date:
Friday October 23rd, 1998 10:11 pm
Reader Mailbag
Submitted by reader:
Zapple9999
Its time...its
time....Its Vader Time!!!!!!! NOT ANYMORE!!!!! Vader
is finally out
of the WWF and I for
one am glad. Is there
no sound
more
frightening to the human ears than that horrible
Vader Time
shout/yell?
When was the last time Vader won a match? Losing to
a
competitor the
class of Bradshaw is rock bottom for the once mighty
Mastodon. WWF
completely ruined his character (as they did Ron
Simmons
A.K.A. Faarooq)
and the best thing for his career is to get out!
Southern Justice- Its
been rumored that these "wrestlers" actually
were going to
win the tag titles. What was the WWF thinking? NO
ONE....I repeat
NO ONE can get Jeff Jarrett over, especially these
two
"tough guys"
nicknamed the "problem solvers." What problems do
they
solve? Ummmmm......well....the
problem of having no one to job the LOD.
Speaking of LOD,
what is the deal with Hawk and Droz? I think the LOD
should
disband with
Droz staying on as one member and bringing on a NEW
partner and
getting rid of
the 2 guys who most represent 80's wrestling, Animal
and Hawk.
(Note to LOD:
the football shoulder pads with spikes are no longer
fresh!!!)
Now onto
another one of the thousands of teams that somehow
defeats
LOD weekly,
DOA. Weren't there like 5 of these guys originally?
I
guess the other
3 got a clue and left while they still had their
careers intact.
Why bring in Paul Ellering? The whole LOD-DOA thing
is
lame
anyway....his scrawny presence at ringside helps not
at
all.....most
fans don't even remember when he was LOD's manager
so the
rivalry is
pretty much Dead On Arrival (DOA)
How about 2
Cold Scorpio? Enough said.
Is anyone else
tired of this Kane-Undertaker thing? They are really
pushing it to
the max and if I have to live through one more PPV
with
these guys in a
feud I think I will go to the darkside (WCW) myself.
This is getting
very old very fast. Endless feuding where the bad
guy
changes after
every PPV is lame. Get it over with and find someone
new to bring
into the main event.
What happened
to Bob Holly? There is nothing I enjoyed more than
seeing him as
a member of a
different tag team every week. He was in the
Midnight
Express,
Rock and Roll Express, Formerly Sparkplug, Fuel
Injection, and Oil
Filter. The WWF
needs a jobber like Bob Holly to take the punishment
of real men
like Bradshaw (sarcastic).
I think that is
quite enough for now.....stay tuned for more
punishing
DDT's on the
horrible things in wrestling. (Let me book matches,
Mr.McMahon!!!)
EMAIL COMMENTS
PLEASE!!!!!!!! HAVE A NICE DAY!!
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Reader Mailbag
Submitted by reader:
MJJnWo
Here's a better
way, in my opinion, of settling the WWF championship
tournament
WHILE ALSO
having the traditional Survivor Series matches
format. You
should get 8
teams, and have a Survivor Series tournament. For
instance, let's
say the first team is SCSA, The Rock, Foley, Kane, &
Al Snow.
The first round of the
tournament progresses, Snow is gone,
so in the
second round of the tournament, only SCSA, Foley,
Rock, & Kane
are left. Then,
as they progress to the finals, only SCSA, Foley &
Rock are left
against the other batch of tournament Survivors, UT,
Bossman &
Shamrock. Then, for the finals, the 6 remaining
Survivors
are put into a
Wild Card match, where teams are randomly chosen
from
the Survivors
for the last tournament match. Then, when it gets
down to
two wrestlers
left after the other four are eliminated, those two
have
a no-DQ, falls
count anywhere match to determine the new WWF champ.
This way, we
get all the Survivor Series tag team matches (with 5
teams of 8,
lots of the roster can be used!) and we also get a
tournament w/ a
new champ!
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Reader Mailbag
Submitted by reader:
UMWChris
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Submitted by reader: Clint
Blankenship (dxheartbreakkid4@xxx.com)
The Four
Horsemen. The symbol of excellence. What can we do
with them?
FANTASY BOOKING
(This will not really happen)
Nitro, October
26th
Mongo jumps the
rest of the Horsemen, takes off his Bears jacket and
reveales an nWo
Hollywood shirt.
Bischoff comes out laughing with
the rest of nWo
Hollywood as they beat
down the Horsemen.
Thunder-
Horsemen come
out and tell Mongo he's made a BIG mistake and that
they
have a BIG
surprise for him at World War 3.
Nitro- Malenko
and Benoit face Mongo and Stevie Ray in the main
event.
Benoit puts
Mongo in the Crippler Crossface while Malenko has
Ray in
the Cloverleaf,
but Hogan, Adams, and Vincent make the save. They
are
beating them
down until Flair,
Anderson and the
Wolfpac make the save.
Nitro- Flair
comes out and says the newest member of the Horsemen
will
be facing Mongo
at WW3. They announce that Luger, Sting, Buff and
Jericho are all
missing.
Nitro- Buff and
Jericho appear again
while Benoit destroys Scott
Norton to win
the IWGP World title. Flair and Arn tell everyone
that the newest
Horsemen is a former Horsemen and warns Mongo again
that's its
merely days away.
World War 3-
Mongo enters the ring waiting for the newest
Horsemen.
We hear the
stampede of Horses, but then we hear, OWWW A MAN
CALLED
STING, A MAN
CALLED STING, play over the loud speakers. The OLD
Sting
returns as the
blond hair colorful wrestler of the past. He
destroys
Mongo in less
than 2 minutes. Later, the final 6 men in WW3 are
Benoit,
Flair, Nash,
Hogan, Hall (of nWo Wolfpac now), and the Giant.
Hogan
and Nash are
sent over the top rope by Benoit. Hall and Benoit
hook
up now but are
sent over by the Giant. From behind Flair sends
Giant
over the top
rope to win the title shot.
Nitro- The
Horsemen stand in the ring, Sting, Flair, and
Malenko.
They explain
Benoits moved to a much cooler climate than
Atlanta.
They introduce
the newest Horsemen, Lex Luger!
Nitro- Malenko
now has departed. They reveal that the pow's are
finally being
released. To take his place they introduce Buff
Bagwell!
Nitro- The Four
of them take on nWo
Hollywood and defeat
them easily.
A confrontation
between Flair and Page is made.
Starrcade-
Flair and Page face off for the World title. It is a
classic going
both ways. Finally Flair scores the win with the
figure
four. He
celebrates with Bobby Heenan and the Horsemen. He
then says
goodbye for
some reason.
Nitro- Flair,
Bobby Heenan and
Jericho all don't show
at the next
Nitro and
everyone is stunned. Weeks go by, no sign of the
World's
champ or anyone
else.
Royal Rumble- A
knock at The Rock's dressing room door during an
interview.
Bobby Heenan is standing at the door with the World
title
and offers him
a match against the true world's champion that
night.
The Rock laughs
and the Horsmen,
Jericho, Arn, Benoit,
Malenko and
Flair attack
The Rock and the legacy lives on.
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Reader Mailbag
Submitted by reader:
NashBDC
I saw a letter
from a reader ripping on Kanyon. Now, we are all
entitled to our
own opinion, so you can have your opinion. But here
is what I
think: Kanyon is one of
the best
workers, scratch that, one of the only workers in
WCW. Sure,
he doesn't have mic skills, but mic skills don't
make you a superstar.
Example: Jericho has
great
interviews, but is also a great worker as well. And
Kanyon may
not have a storyline, but hey, your talking about
WCW here. The last
good storyline
they had was Hall turning on Nash. Anyways, my point
is this: Don't
judge a performer simply by his mic skills. Hogan
can work
the mic OK (He comes off as a good heel), but his
in-ring skills
are awful.
That's my opinion. Let me know what you think.
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Reader Mailbag
Submitted by reader:
Ginasdaddy
I think WCW is
doing some stupid things right now. If they want to
get good
ratings here is what they should do:
1. Bring in old
Horsemen to feud with the new, but not the most
likely
ones. I suggest
Paul Roma instead of
Windham and/or
Blanchard as
they aren't
that great. Didn't Paul Orndorf get his neck broken
by
the Horsemen a
few years back? Yes, he did. In fact, the last time
he was on
TV he was hitting Arn Anderson with a broom. So what
happens?
THE RETURN OF
PRETTY WONDERFUL AS THEY FEUD WITH BENOIT AND
MALENKO.
What would
happen if Ole Anderson came in as well. Just have
Mongo
turn on the
Horsemen and let Flair teach him how to wrestle.
Mongo
could lead this
group
2. Give the LWO
some kind of push. Maybe a Eddie /Konnan feud
3. This thing
with Buff leaving nWo is another swerve. I think he
really should
turn on them, and they could build up a big match,
Buff
and Rick
Steiner VS Hogan and Scott Steiner. They could have
done
this a while
ago, when Hogan pushed Buff out of the wheelchair.
4. This thing
with Bischoff getting embarrassed every week is
getting
old fast. DROP
IT.
5. BRING BACK
HULKAMANIA. I know, plenty will disagree with this
but
here's how I
see it. The Warrior said "I have the power to
destroy
you, you see a
bit of yourself in me and you are scared" or
something
in that
jibberish. So this means what? At Havoc, Warrior
gets a DQ
win on Hogan
after nWo comes in just when the Warrior takes
control of
the match Hogan
had dominated. The next night Hogan goes "I beat the
Warrior, nWo
can't back me up all the time, I can fight my own
battles. Over
the years I've gotten weak, I need something to wake
up
my career" so
what happens? Warrior is the man that beats
Goldberg.
Then in a
Hogan/Warrior rematch the yellow and red face comes
out and
gets that win
back and in the process gets the world title again.
This could help
merchandise sell better and this is really how Hogan
should finish
out his career, with the people marking out to him
again. Oh, and
on a side
note, after Hogan beats the Warrior the Warrior goes
"This is all
I wanted, for
you to
realize you had the ultimate power inside you, now I
must go" and
he disappears,
leaving Hogan to fight for WCW.
That's all I
can think of for now. Oh yeah, FIRE SCHIAVONE, MAKE
TENAY
THE HEAD
ANNOUNCER AND GET JIM ROSS. Then when Nitro is on I
won't
have to hit
the MUTE button
all the time.
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Submitted by reader:
UMWChris
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Submitted by reader:
Hammerly99
I think this
would be a great scenario for the Rey Mysterio Jr.
VS.
Billy Kidman
match. I think that as many expect the Wolfpac
should
rush the ring
after the match, no matter the outcome. However, I
think
that instead of
attacking Kidman, the Wolfpac should go after
Mysterio,
making Kidman a member of the 'pac. I think Kidman
would do
well 'cause he
has good mic skills, at least better than Luger and
Sting, and he
is one helluva performer. Please e-mail me with
opinions >>
I do believe
that what is said in this newsletter by hammerly99
should
be taken as the
best idea that I've heard in a long time!!! I think
that maybe if
we can form something with App's guidance,
with it
being his
newsletter, to form a petition to send to WCW's
e-mail box,
with a list of
e-mail addresses of those that agree, we
will be heard.
You see, WCW won't feel pressured to compensate, so
they may
do it, because
of the fact that they can make decisions based on
what the
public
wants, and won't have to compensate anybody.
So, therefore, I'm
encouraging
those to help
get this idea off the ground. I feel that if Mike
Tenay said
something about the Rey Mysterio Jr joining the
Wolfpack rumor,
just as the
Wolfpack ran into the ring, and then they shocked
everybody by
turning on Rey Mysterio Jr, that then we could
really
have an exciting Wolfpack. Plus, the Wolfpack isn't
really a group
that would tie
Kidman down like the Flock or nWo
Hollywood, so please,
let's get
something going.
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