Issue # 063
Date: Friday November 13th, 1998 11:17 am
The Wrestling
Booking Sheet
Here's the
results from our DX Poll.
The Question:
Who is
your favorite current member of DX?
1)
X-Pac 31% 61 Votes
2) Road
Dog 25% 48 Votes
3)
Triple H 18% 36 Votes
4)
Billy Gunn 16% 31 Votes
5)
Chyna 8% 19 Votes
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UCLA
Communications Survey
Only send responses
to:
KNGOTHESKA
Communication Studies Survey- Pro Wrestling
Fans and the Internet
Pro
Wrestling Fans and the Internet Survey
1. Sex
1. Male
2.
Female
2.
Approximate Hours A Week You Spend On The
Internet
1. 0-
1/2 hour
2. 1/2
hour- 1 hour
3.
1hour - 2 hours
4. 2
hours - 4 hours
5. 4
hours - 6 hours
6. 6
hours - 8 hours
7. 8
hours - 10 hours
8. 10
hours - 12 hours
9. 12
hours 15 hours
10. 15
hours - 20 hours
11. 20
hours - 25 hours
12. 25
+ hours
3. What
percentage of your time spent on the
internet is related to
pro
wrestling?
1. Less
than 25%
2.
25-50%
3.
50-75%
4.
75%-100%
Answer:
_______
4. In
regards to information pertaining to pro
wrestling: Where do
you get
the information which you rely on?
Please
rank
___Internet (web sites or e-mail)
___Industry Newsletters / "Sheets"
___Television News
___Newspapers
___Magazines
___Radio (NOT from the internet)
___1-900 Lines
___Friends/Family
___Other (please explain)
5. How
reliable do you believe information from
these sources is?
1. Very
Reliable
2.
Somewhat Reliable
3. Not
Really Reliable
4. Not
At All Reliable
___Internet (web sites or e-mail)
___Industry Newsletters / "Sheets"
___Television News
___Newspapers
___Magazines
___Radio (NOT from the internet)
___1-900 Lines
___Friends/Family
___Other (please explain)
6. How
often do you doubt the reliability of what
you read on the
internet?
1.
Often
2. More
often than not
3.
Sometimes
4.
Rarely
5.
Never
Answer:
_______
7. If
you were not on the internet, how do you
think you would spend
your
"extra" hours? (Please check all that apply)
_____Watching TV
_____Reading Newspapers
_____Reading Books
_____Reading Magazines
_____Reading Newsletters/"Sheets"
_____Calling 1-900 Lines
_____Socializing With Friends
_____Socializing With Family
_____Working
_____Studying/School Work
_____Sleeping
_____Other (explain)
_____Other (explain)
8. Are
You A Student
1. Yes
2. No
(go to number 9)
9. What
has been the direction of you Grade Point
Average since
starting to use the internet?
1.
Significantly Lower
2.
Lower
3.
Relatively Similar
4.
Higher
5.
Significantly Higher
10. Please send your
responses to
kngotheska
THANK
YOU FOR YOUR TIME.
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Reader
Mailbag
Submitted by reader:
Moj8681
At the
RAW following Survivor Series, Ricky "The
Dragon" Steamboat
makes
his
WWF
return, but as an announcer. In a Kaientai
match, The Dragon goes
off on
how
Kaientai is a disgrace to Asian wrestlers.
He brings up the pasts
of
Togo and Taka,
explaining that they were former champions
in Japan
and
that they have lost the edge that made them
champions.
He
becomes a regular on Sunday Night Heat, and
on the 22nd, a masked
man in
a
suit attacks Intercontinental Champion Ken
Shamrock. Another Blue
Blazer
type
incident is the reaction from the
announcers.
This time, the
Dragon vows
to find
out who this man is, only because everyone
is sick of the Blue
Blazer
thing, and the Dragon wants to find out what
is going on for
the
sake of the fans, so they don't have to
endure another Blue
Blazer-Owen Hart type angle.
The
next night on RAW, Steamboat is seen in the
back with the masked
man and
he
shoves the cameras away. Later on, Shamrock
comes out and says he
wants
to
know who jumped him. Steamboat denies
finding out who the man was, but
as a
broadcast journalist, he vows to find out
before the night is over.
Just as
the showdown is ending, the masked man
attacks Shamrock from
behind.
Steamboat
and the
man both beat up Shamrock. The mask is
removed. its Masato
Tanaka!
11/29
Heat- Togo and
Taka are in a tag match. The Dragon, who is
not
commentating at ringside, and Masato Tanaka,
beat up Yamaguchi and the
other
two
members of Kaientai.
Togo and Taka
help out Steamboat and Masato.
On RAW,
the next night, Steamboat, with his cohorts,
all in suits,
explains his actions, saying that he has
recruited the best Japanese
wrestlers in the world and he will be their
manager. This group is
the
Yakuza. Masato Tanaka is announced to face
Shamrock at IYH: Rock
Bottom,
in December.
Togo and Taka
are the new Orient Express.
All
three men go on winning tears in the WWF. At
IYN, Masato wins the
IC
belt. The Rock defeats the Undertaker (who
won the WWF title at
Survivor Series) for the belt. Immediately
after the main event,
Steamboat challenged the Rock to face any
one of his Yakuza members
for the
WWF title the next night on RAW. The Rock
says something like
"You
can't come here and throw your weight around
like you're the
boss.
The Rock's gonna put you and your boys in
their place because I
am the
boss, and this belt says so."
The
next night on RAW, the main issue is who
will face the Rock. Will
it be
the new IC champ, Masato Tanaka, the Orient
Express Taka or
Togo, or the
Dragon himself? Most people believe that
Steamboat
himself
will fight, and once the main event rolls
around, the Rock
enters
the ring, and Steamboat walks out alone, in
wrestling gear. The
Rock
laughs, thinking its a joke. Then, the
Dragon grabs a mic,
saying
he could kill the Rock any day of the week,
but that it won't
happen
because he's retired. He announces the man
who will face the
Rock.
its YOKOZUNA. Yoko, in a great match, wins
the WWF title.
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Reader
Mailbag
Submitted by reader:
ROBDON33
Regarding the Superkick/Glacier
LOL. I thought
this war was settled a LONG time ago! In
fact, the
man who
invented the kick was The Great Kabuki.
Chris Adams took the kick a
step
further and made the superkick a household
name long before Shawn
Michaels and Stevie Richards did. BTW, how
the mighty have fallen.
As I
said in the past,
Adams would've
beat the *$&% out of Glacier if
this
match took place in
Texas. Very
strange, huh? Adams still is a
major
force in
Texas
independents and jobbing in WCW. Iceman
Parsons
probably made the wise decision not to go to
WCW, he would've have the
same
thing happen to him too.
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Reader
Mailbag
Submitted by reader:
OHart32
I have
to commend Vince McMahon. I mean he is
really putting on a good
show
and whether some of you like to admit it or
not he is even
fooling
us "in the know" Internet fans sometimes.
Look at the Survivor
Series
tournament. We were all dreaming up our
cards but no one
thought
of a 16 man tournament to crown a new
champion. There were no
rumors
about it and suddenly on RAW Vince made it
happen.
Yes, even we were fooled.
My next
point is The Blue Blazer. Now none of us are
quite sure who he
is.
Owen Hart? Wait, we saw them together.
TEddie Hart? Wait, he was
released from training camp. Phil LaFon?
Wait, the Blazer has blond
hair.
People are tossing around rumors about it
being everyone from
the
Patriot to a thing where Jarrett and Hart
switch roles. Hey
Vinnie's got us all guessing and that adds
just that much more to our
viewing
experience.
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Reader
Mailbag
Submitted by reader:
Mortgmoney
Former
WCW Announcer Chris Cruise will be on Court
TV Wednesday evening,
November 18,
1998 on a panel on Media and Violence. The
one hour
program,
taped
Tuesday, November 10, 1998 in Washington,
DC, features Cruise
and
four
Attorneys General (from Maryland,
Mississippi, Minnesota, and
Delaware), along
with
representatives from the National PTA, the
American Medical
Association,
and the
Coalition Against Censorship as well as
conservative film
critic
Michael Medved.
On the
program Cruise was critical of the recent
direction of violence
in
wrestling and discussed the fact that his 9
year old nephew is no
longer
allowed to watch wrestling because of its
violent nature.
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Reader
Mailbag
Submitted by reader:
OStarr4834
Previously Chris Benoit promised to "have
Stevie Ray's Back" (it may
have
been
Booker
T). I would like to Him become the first
African -American 4
Horsemen.
Then
see he and Chris bushwack Bret Hart...yum
yum.
Second,
wouldn't
it be
great to see Hall and Nash reconcile and
challenge The
Undertaker and Kane. What a show.
In
addition, the WCW has the nWo B/W, NWO R/B,
The LWO. Why not a
AAWOorBWO? There are reasonable resources
of high quality octagon
combatants who could add some color to the
game.
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Submitted by reader:
Brent Burke (znes11@xxxxpccess.ETSU.Edu)
STARCADE '98:
Barry Darsow
vs. Brian Adams
"BATTLE
OF DEMOLITION"
The
proverbial thorn in the side of Brian Adams
is linked back to the
early
days of his career. The hatred between these
two men runs deep.
Darsow blames
Adams for the decline of the former WWF
tag-team
champions. The two have trash talked behind
the scenes for nearly a
decade,
but the feud comes to a boiling point at
Starcade.
WINNER:
Darsow's ring savvy wipes the mat with
Adams. A clean cut
victory
after a tap-out from Darsow's "Barely
Legal". After the
announced victory both men shake hands and
make amends...at least
until
Adams turns on Darsow and motions to the
dressing room. The
legendary Ax emerges as he and Adams pound
on Darsow, delivering the
ruthless Demolition finisher as Ax passes
Adams a make-up case,
Adams
smears the colors onto his brow and the new
Demolition is
formed.
Until, the
crowd goes NUTS as Nikita Koloff runs from
the
dressing room, and "Russian Sickles" both
Adams and Ax out of the
ring.
While helping Darsow to his feet, he hands
him a red and yellow
"CCCP"
shirt. And with that, Barsow reverts to his
old Krusher Krushev
alter-ego and we have a return of the
Russians! A great way to build
this
angle for further down the road.
Scott
Hall vs. A MYSTERY MAN
"WHO IS
THE TRUE ALCOHOLIC?!"
We
should of seen this one coming. The Scott
Hall "drunk" angle was a
set-up
for this angle. Bottom line, this is one
crazy matchup. The
Internet is abuzz with who will emerge as
the mystery man. Many vote
on
Ricky Morton, but better than that...The
Sandman
makes his WCW debut. A back and forth battle
with Sandman
showing
off his new lucha-style arial assault.
WINNER: It
looks as though he's put Hall away with the
"FrankenSander", but a hooded man enters the
ring and causes an
instant
disqualification. The masked man and Hall
beat Sandman into
oblivion, while security rushes to ringside.
Hall removes the mask to
unveil
Al Perez! Hall and Perez go on to form a
tag-team, under the
moniker
"Chicano World Order".
Alex
Wright vs. Disco Inferno
"DANCING FOOLS FIST-A-CUFFS""
Good
matchup, several dance offs.
WINNER:
Double disqualification after the original
dancing maniac "The
Honky
Tonk Man" makes an appearance, and nails
both men with the
guitar.
Shortly afterwards Wright regains
consciousness and pummels
the
Honky Tonk Man. Inferno joins in as the
"Dancin' Fools" reform.
Inferno
and Wright shake hands and dance in unison
until a died black
hair
Greg Valentine climbs from under the ring
and connects with two
more
guitar shots. Thus, "Rhythm and Blues"
re-unite and feud with
the
"Dancin' Fools" for months to come.
Raven
vs. Saturn/ Bigelow
"EXTREME vs. TWO EXTREME"
Bigelow
and Saturn have been named as spies and
headhunters for a
"un-named Extreme federation". They've got
orders to destroy the most
famous
ECW to WCW detractor.
Over the
months to come, Raven is played
as a
face, Bigelow and Saturn are ultimate heels.
Nitro after Nitro,
Bigelow
and Saturn team against Raven and JJ Dillon
finally intercedes
and
calls for a handicap extreme matchup. Why?
its WCW and they can
do
whatever the hell they want.
The night of
the event, both men wait
anxiously in the ring while Raven attacks
them from behind via the
crowd.
Raven is torn limb from limb, Death Valley
Driver after Death
Valley
Driver, Powerbomb after Powerbomb and Rings
of Saturn after
T-bonePlex. But, he never gives up. Dozens
of kickouts at the 2 and a
half
count. How much more can this man take?!
Much to the disgust of
the
announcers, Saturn and Bigelow stack up two
tables in the
ring...the fat lady's singing for Raven.
WINNER: Saturn
climbs the top-turnbuckle, as he and Bigelow
prepare
for a
super-extreme powerbomb from the top rope
onto two tables.
Suddenly Jake Roberts appears from nowhere
and pushes Saturn down from
the
turnbuckle, crotching himself on the top
rope. Bigelow is stunned
and
walks into a "Even Flow DDT" through a
table. Roberts follows suit
and
finishes Saturn with a wicked DDT through
the remaining table.
Raven
covers both men and gets the pin. Teacher
and student embrace
afterwards, in a long rumored reunion.
Booker
T/Rick Steiner vs. Stevie Ray/Scott Steiner
"OH
BROTHER"
The
split between these two legendary tag-teams
finally comes to a
head at
Starcade. Booker T and Rick Steiner take on
the role of faces
with
scenes of Booker T's mother cooking a down
home supper for
Steiner. Booker refers to Steiner as his
"brother of another color".
On the
other hand, Scott Steiner takes on the role
as a blood brother
to
Stevie Ray. Stevie even goes so far as dying
his hair platinum
blonde,
and walking to the ring in sunglasses.
WINNER: The
matchup takes place with a big push.
Emotional interviews
from
both Mothers are shown. The first classic
tag-team matchup in
several
years for WCW, very fast and action packed,
both sides showed
why
they are classic tag-team specialists.
Stevie Ray
pulls a bag of white dust from his drunk and
hurls
it into
Booker T's eyes. The blinded Booker T is
pushed from behind by
Scott
Steiner, as he nails Rick Steiner with a
Harlem Sidekick, and
covers
him for the pin. Scott and Stevie Ray
celebrate, but much to
their
surprise Rick kicks out! Booker T clears the
foreign
substance from his eyes, while Stevie Ray
loads his hands up with
another
dose of the white stuff.
Scott Steiner
grabs Booker T from
behind
and readies him for another illegal shot of
dust. Booker T
ducks
at the last moment, sending the foreign
substance into the eyes
of
Scott Steiner. Rick Steiner clocks Stevie
Ray with a forearm from
behind
that sends him into the blinded arms of
Scott Steiner. Steiner,
thinking he has Booker T, delivers a brutal
Steiner suplex on his
partner
and pins him for the 3 count.
Sting
vs. Warrior
"A
DECADE IN THE MAKING"
This
one is no frills. No smoke, no stables, no
makeup. Both of these
men
have had a rivalry since their beginnings as
the tag team of the
"Blade
Runners". Warrior has secretly been envious
of Sting and his
popularity throughout the years, while Sting
always looked down upon
his
'unstable' former partner. Both men surprise
the crowd as they walk
to
ringside without their traditional make-up.
This one looks like an
all-out
war.
WINNER:
What could've been a smoke and mirrors type
matchup between
the
Renegade and NWO Sting, actually turned into
being one of the best
performances by each grappler. Sting showed
his lighter side, and the
charisma that he's been famous for, while
Warrior overpowered with his
physique and turned it into a test of
endurance. After several periods
during
the match in which both moon look as though
they are going to
shoot
on one another, this one finishes with a
classic 1-2 punch.
Warrior takes
the lead as he pummels Sting from one corner
to the
next,
busting the superstar open. In the end,
Warrior lifts the
battered and bloody Sting high overhead in a
gorilla press, and drops
him
face first. Warrior begins to charge up, but
much to his surprise
he's
grabbed from behind by his hair...Sting
lands on his feet and
its
time for the Scorpion Death Drop. With that,
Sting places his
former
teammate in position and nails the finisher
with a sickening
thud,
getting the 1, 2, 3!
Hogan
(w/Bischoff) vs. Flair (w/Anderson)
Who
doesn't want to see this matchup. Maybe
these guys are past their
prime,
but hell, I'd love to see Flair stretch
Hogan one last time.
Bill
this as the be all end all of classic
matchups, "Flair vs. Hogan:
The
Final Chapter". A back and forth battle will
both men giving it
their
all, Hogan with his "hulk-ups" and Flair
bleeding like a stuck
pig.
It boils down
to the referee knocked down, Bischoff
interferes.
Arn,
always watching the champ's back, doesn't
hesitate while tossing
Bischoff into the ropes and nailing him with
his trademark Spinebuster.
WINNER: Flair
wins via submission after Hogan taps out
while in the
Figure
Four Leglock.
Nash
vs. Goldberg
This
one is set in stone, the man versus the
myth. Who will budge?
Tons of
hype for this matchup, with each wrestler in
the federation
taking
sides on this one. The matchup is a very
heated one, Goldberg
reversing several of Nash's power moves,
while Nash impresses the
onlookers by overpowering the unbeatable
Goldberg. A very well rounded
match
that lasts over a half an hour. Goldberg
finally spears the
giant
killer, and begins pumping up the crowd for
his infamous
"Jackhammer". Sure enough, he lifts Nash
into position and nails a
picture-perfect delivery, as the ref counts
1...2...3...NO! Suddenly
the ref
is pulled out of the ring just before the 3
count, as the
accomplice crawls beneath the ring, making
Goldberg release the pin
and
look for the ref.
Goldberg leans
over the ropes, looking at the
referee
Mark Curtis when he's tapped on the shoulder
from behind
and...*WHAMO*!!! Superkick! Stevie Richards
makes his presence known
as
Goldberg falls to the mat with a sickening
thud! Stevie jumps out
of the
ring while Kevin Nash makes the cover for
the WCW World
Championship...now wouldn't that be nice?!
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