Issue # 206
Date:
Friday April 9th, 1999 7:38 pm
The Wrestling Booking Sheet
BULLDOG RELEASED?
Reports are that
yesterday Dave Boy Smith received his termination notice
from
World Championship
Wrestling via special delivery. Smith is still hospitalized
in
Calgary due to a severe
infection in his back, and he will remain there for
at least three more
months. Now granted, Smith has been inactive for several
weeks now, and its
possible that his wrestling career is over, and I suppose
WCW had a business
decision to make. But (if the story is true) this is
certainly questionable
timing ... to say the least. Bear in mind that this is
the same company that
signed Mikey Whipwreck, Vampiro, Sandman and others to
contracts well before
they even had an idea what to do with them.
Reported by
http://www.wrestlemaniacs.com/
HOGAN ON THE RADIO
Jeremy Cameron sent
the following. ... Hulk Hogan was on Sports Radio 950 KJR
today promoting Spring
Stampede Sunday. Dave "Softy" Mahler, the host, hates
wrestling for your
information. Here are some of Hogan's interesting quotes. He
stayed in character
the whole time.
"I am the Babe Ruth of
wrestling."
"Goldberg has to have
15 security guards to go wrestle a jabronie"
"Everytime you call me
Hulk I have to cut a check to Marvel. Thats why its
Hollywood now."
"Wrestling is cleaner
than football or Jerry Springer."
"WWF has women pulling
their breasts out to 6 and 8 year old kids for ratings."
"I've got the shiniest
chrome done in wrestling and Sunday I'll have a shiny
belt to match."
Reported by Dave
Scherer at:
http://www.1wrestling.com/
THUNDER RATING
The 4/7 Thunder did
what I believe is its all time low number, scoring just a
2.0 rating (with a 3.4
share). The show did 3.1 ratings the last two weeks, so
it was already in a
downward slope, but a 2.0 is just a terrible number for the
show, even if it was
not on its regular day.
Reported by Dave
Scherer at:
http://www.1wrestling.com/
NAWA RETURNS
The NAWA of the
early-mid 1990's is back! They have an upcoming show at the
Westchester County Center in
NY featuring WWF stars The Big Show Paul White, Too
Much Scott Taylor,
Droz, Public Enemy, Gillberg, and Jim Cornette. In addition
two time WWF Champion
Sid will be appearing among many others...The show will
take place on May 20th
and they will be running again on a full time basis with
TV as early as July
1999.
Reported by Tony Mura
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ROUNDING THE SQUARED
CIRCLE
"TV, OR NOT TV, THAT
IS THE QUESTION"
OR
"its THURSDAY, DO YOU
KNOW WHERE SEINFELD IS?"
BY
SAMJERRY
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Another installment in
RTSC's never ending battle for truth, justice and the
SamJerry way, as once
again I proudly provide you with all you will ever need to
know about the goings
on in wrestling.
Item: The WWF will
present a two hour program on UPN: Looking to cash in on
wrestling's soaring
popularity and having developed less hit programs than the
number of leftover
French Fries on one of Fat Tony's Happy Meals, UPN has
reportedly inked a
deal with McMahon And Family (formerly known as The WWF) to
provide a two hour
program to air on Thursday, opposite WCW Thursday Night (Nee
Thunder). This program
is rumored to be a launching pad for the WWF's expanding
Ladies Division. Just
what we needed, another prime time wrestling program.
Having long passed
saturation with NITRO Light on Thursday the problem is
solved
with yet another
program. Don't get me wrong, I will watch it, as I expect
most
die hard fans will,
but what will it do in the long run. If I were the Golden
Goose, I would look
for a real safe place to hide, with no sharp objects
anywhere in the area.
Now we be witness to The Thursday Night Ratings War in
addition to the one on
Monday.
Item: NITRO gets a new
Set: There are strong indications that WCW's decision to
build a new set was
prompted by info they had that the WWF was building a new
for RAW. The rumor
says that when WCW heard of the WWF's plans, Good King Eric
ordered a new set
built, no expense spared, with a directive that it be ready
before McMahon's new
toy was. WCW announced the new set in the weeks before it
was unveiled. On Raw
this past Monday, Stone Cold Steve Austin (SCSA) and his
new found @$$hole
buddy, The Big Show, destroyed the TitanTron, leading one to
believe that indeed we
shall see a new set next week on RAW. That the WWF said
nothing and destroyed
their set lends credence to the rumor. No matter who was
first, what one does
the other must do. Heaven forbid they should fail to keep
up with each other.
Sounds like McMahon's Stooges arguing over who goes first
when they play
Battleships.
Item: NITRO splits
their announcers: Two down, one to go. In what looks like an
attempt to improve
NITRO, Larry Loser and The Very Old Perfesssa were banished
to NITRO Light.
Getting rid of the dead weight can't help but improve NITRO.
Early indications are
that Booby will be allowed to become Bobby once more. With
only Fat Tony to
compete with, one can hope that The Brain will be unleashed
a
bit and allowed to be
the selfish, funny, oaf we all know and love. It will be
nice not to have The
Very Old Perfessa dissect a simple headlock like the
@$$hole of a dead
horse. Of course we will miss such vital info as what brand
of
Tortilla Chips Silver
King prefers, and how many holes Larry Loser cheated on
when he played the
local front nine. It will be a sacrifice, but I feel
confident we will
persevere.
Item: Sting is here,
Sting is here, Sting is here: OK Fat Tony, we heard you the
first 64 times. Now if
only Sting had a word, any word, to say. Reverting to his
Crow In The Rafters
gimmick, The ex-Franchise swooped down, trusty
Louisville
Slugger in hand. He
thrilled us by deftly pointing his bat around until he
spotted the scoreboard
where we would see and hear words from The Once Was A
Macho Man, about his
being the Guest Referee at the Four Corners Match this
Sunday for the WCW
Championship. One questions comes up: Why does Sting merit a
shot at the Title
after being gone for so many months? Heck, as much as I hate
to say it, even
Dirtbag is more deserving. Think Sting might have some
embarrassing video on
Good King Eric? Nah, not G-Rated Eric.
Item: The Undertaker
Strikes Again (Well almost): This past week on RAW,
everyone's favorite
Dead Man "terrorized" Dead Old Dad and Daddy's Little Girl,
with a threat of
abducting her. Instead he "sacrificed" Nutso's little sister
Ryan. One thing we
know for sure based on Ryan's exploits with half the men in
the WWF, it wasn't a
Virgin Sacrifice. Inquiring minds want to know: Hey Ryan,
was it good for you.
Item: ECW is about to
fold; WCW and the WWF will divvy the spoils: Forget it
folks, we will be
hearing "ECW, ECW, ECW.." for a long time to come. The cash
infusion from Buena
Vista (or whoever) is still in the works. Funny that Buena
Vista, a Division of
the "G-est" Rated Company on this planet would bankroll the
foulest, bloodiest,
wildest, and most action filled Fed. This could cause old
Walt turn over in his
grave. It appears that the popularity of wrestling trumps
morality. Calling
Jerry Falwell.
Item: ESPN badmouths
wrestling: Enough people have written about this, so all I
will say is you got
rid of Mr. Kathy Lee and it didn't help The Ratings, do you
really thing this
cheap shot will? As The Rock would say, they will keep
"kicking your Roody
Poo Candy @$$." And that's the bottom line, because the fans
said so. I got two
words for you ESPN, "Suck It."
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WCW Thunder Report for
April 7th, 1999
By Rick Phelps (wrestleric)
The end of Monday
Nitro where Sting reappeared was shown. Mike Tenay and Larry
Zybysko are the new
announce team for Thunder.
Evan Kourageous versus
Rey Mysterio Jr.
Rey Jr. retained the
cruiserweight title with a frankensteiner from the top
rope.
Winner: Rey Mysterio
Jr. via pinfall (Retains cruiserweight title)
--Clip of Bret Hart
"pinning" Goldberg on the Nitro from Canada and his
subsequent resignation
from WCW.
Wrath versus Damian
The big man crushed
the luchadore with the Meltdown.Winner: Wrath via pinfall
--Gene interviewed
Konnan. K-Dogg was explaining how he and the Disco Inferno
were going to settle
their differences at Spring Stampede when Juventud Guerrera
and La Cucaracha
(Disco Inferno) hit the ring. Juvi said the cockroach could
not
speak English, so he
was going to be his translator. Juvi translated that La
Cucaracha thought
Konnan was a terrible wrestler and that his video was even
worse. Konnan
responded by saying......."Translate this" and preceeded to
deliver a beating to
both men who ran from the ring.
--The Kevin
Nash/Goldberg confrontation where their match for Spring
Stampede
was set up was aired.
Mikey Whipwreck versus
Hardcore Hak w/Chastity
After a brutal match
which saw the use of the Kendo stick and steel chairs, Hak
came away with the win
with the side Russian leg sweep with the Kendo stick
against Whipwrecks
throat. After the bell, Bam Bam Bigelow rushed the ring and
delivered his
"Greetings from Asbury Park" to Hak. Chastity hit Bigelow
with the
Kendo stick, to no
effect. Bigelow took the stick and tried to nail Chastity
with it, but
missed.Winner: Hardcore Hak via pinfall
Super Calo versus
Blitzkrieg
The rookie Blitzkrieg
won this fast paced match up with an amazing twisting
moonsault from the top
rope. Winner: Blitzkrieg via pinfall
--Clips were shown of
the feud that has been building up between the
Horseman/Saturn and
Raven.
Raven versus Chris
Benoit w/Arn Anderson
Raven won this match
via DQ when "AA" hit the ring. The enforcer was preparing
to nail Raven with a
DDT when Saturn hit the ring. Raven then attempted to nail
Anderson with the
Evenflow DDT, but Malenko ran in and made the save. The
Horseman then beat on
Raven and Saturn. To add insult to injury, Benoit
delivered and Evenflow
DDT to Raven while Malenko hit Saturn with the Death
Valley Driver.
Anderson then picked up the microphone and said "The
Horseman Are
Back". Winner: Raven
via disqualification
--The last several
minutes of the four corners match main event from Nitro was
shown in which Sting
let everyone know that he would be in a four corners match
on Sunday with Randy
Macho Man Savage as the referee.
Booker T versus Chris
Jericho
Towards the end of
this match, the referee was knocked out. Booker climbed to
the top rope, but was
hit with a steel chair by Scott Steiner. Jericho then
applied the lion
tamer, but was hit from behind with the slapjack by Stevie
Ray.
The referee came to
and counted the pinfall as Booker T rolled over on Jericho
for the win.Winner:
Booker T via pinfall
Ricks Comments:
--Mike Tenay did a
great job...In my opinion.......heading Thunder for the
first
time without Tony
Schiavone.
--It was announced
that Juventud Guerrera would meet Blitzkrieg at Spring
Stampede. Talk about a
high flying matchup!
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IN DEFENSE OF THE WWF
Submitted by reader:
PoetsSoul
This goes out to King
Eric and all his mininons. You complain and moan about
the WWF's non
wrestling match related topics, but you never do anything
about
it. Maybe if you put a
quality match on your program every once in a while
people wouldn't be so
drawn to The Son of Texas and the Brama Bull. You misuse
what talent you have.
Why doesn't Bret Hart have a title while some 50 year old
man who I will admit
is a legend but long past his day, holds one of the two
most prestigous belts
in the wrestling world.
Since last
Wrestlemania WCW has not been able to capult above WWFeven
with
the signing of Bam Bam
Bigalow, Mikey Whipwreck, The Sandman,. The misuse of
this characters is
blantant. Bam Bam deserves more than midcard status after
all these years, the
fact that a organization would ever name anyone HAK and
turn a beer swilling
smoking peoples champ into the midcarder with a cane, and
Whipwreck has been
with you since November, and yet I don't see this former ECW
Heavyweight champion
even wrestling. This goes without saying of your misuse of
Beniot, Malenko,
Raven, Saturn, The Public Enemy (during the tenure).
I beg of you upon
everything holy if you can't do anything with ECW stars when
you sign them please
leave them in ECW, they would be better off and so would
the fans. But i have
gotten way off topic here. I wrote this piece in defense
of the creativity of
the WWF.
WCW has no creativity
what so ever and will not as long as Good King Eric,
Hogan, Nash and Page
run the back. Has anyone else noticed that Bischoff's only
defense to the WWF's
assault on the ratings is to either:
a) tell the community
how much dirtier there product is and how his morals are
so
much higher than
Vince's... please note here that in the America of the past
decades morals has
become less important to people especially when searching
for
their
entertainment.... or
First of all find a
group of men besides Jericho with mic skills that don't make
me woozy... second of
all if I see Goldberg wrestle at Starcade's main event
again this
year I am officially
blowing up my TV.... how many true wrestling fans would
rather see the Hitman
and Sting fight for the belt...
I say stop blaming WWF
for winning and try to compete. By the way... Kudos to
Vince and Paul E.
because if Bischoff was the only game in town I would be
watching Monday Night
Football again.
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IN THE WWF'S DEFENSE
Submitted by reader:
SAdams9020
I am really sick &
tired of people whining about how the WWF is selling sex and
how bad it is for
kids. While I agree that young kids should not be watching
the sex that the WWF
has to offer, I believe that it is the PARENTS
responsibility to be
aware of what their child is watching on TV. I have two
young kids that can
only watch the WWF on the weekends when they edit out the
bad language, etc. If
there is something on there that I believe is
inappropriate for them
to see I change the channel. its always so easy for
people to put the
blame on others when they should look at themselves for the
cause of the problem.
There is no way my four year old would be doing crotch
chops or flipping the
finger without being properly punished, and also with me
explaining as best you
can to a four year old how the behavior is
unacceptable.
If some parents didn't
use the TV as babysitters and spent more quality time
with their children,
maybe we wouldn't have kids out there imitating wrestler's
on TV. These kids
would know that what these guys do on TV is exactly that, on
TV. I'm sure that
these young men and women who work to entertain the public
do
not go around crotch
chopping and saying suck it to the people they encounter in
their daily lives.
As for WCW, I don't
think their storylines are too long, they just create an
overkill. I mean 3
hours Monday night, 2 hours Thursday night, then you have it
in someplaces twice on
Saturdays. That's just too much. They have very
talented wrestlers,
but way too many. I can't even keep track of all the guys
that come out. The one
and only show that I attended of WCW's, Starrcade, was
something that
probably would have been better suited for Nitro. I would
hate to
have been someone who
ordered it on Pay Per View because it was not worth the
money. Actually I'm
kind of ticked I bought a ticket to the thing.
It appears that WCW is
trying to improve. Of course, after 9 pm my TV is turned
to USA.
P.S. By that time my
kids are in the bed. I'm sure many people may disagree
with me and that's
fine, that's what's so great about this country: Freedom of
Speech and Freedom to
believe in whatever you want. Don't blame WWF for
provided a show that
many people enjoy seeing. The parents who have a problem
with the WWF should
first take a look at the role that they are taking in their
kids lives. TV's are
not
babysitters.
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WRESTLING PHASES
Submitted by reader:
TheRock127
This is in response to
the pro WCW letter. Yes, I admit that the WWF has alot
of sexual angles, but
they are still keeping me on the edge of my seat. I never
can tell what will
happen next when a certain faction comes to the ring. You
have to admit that you
were shocked when Austin drove that Beer Truck right down
to the ring. Or when
he ripped apart the TitanTron. Yes, it is fake, but still
something to be
surprised and shocked about. Triple H joining the
Corporation
was priceless.
Now, about the
Ministry angle being long and drawn out. I think this is
done
intentionally. The
Undertaker is obviously a man that looks like he would take
a long time to hatch a
plan, especially one like this. I admit it is slow, but
this is simply done so
you say, "Geez! Get on with it!" and every time he comes
to the ring you say,
"Ok, what's next Taker?" It is going somewhere, and I
think it'll climax
around KOTR, so sit tight.
Now, my opinion
towards WCW. Yes, it has our favorite wrestlers from when we
were kids, but it is,
One: too predictable, and Two: is all money. Uncle TEddie
is the one who started
all of our battles against each other, for all we know,
if he wasn't here, we
may all still be watching one WWF. Then again, Vince
wouldn't have had to
use sex to run competetion against his rival WCW, which
would be non existent.
This would probably have us still watching Hulkamania
and Macho Man running
out to All-American music, which I have to say I'd get
tired of. As for too
predictable, don't tell me you didn't know Sting was going
to drop down from the
ceiling during that four way match on Monday. And the nWo
has went too far.
Before you know it, we could be watching nWo 10th
Anniversary
specials showing the
highlights of the
nWo's last years in
the future!
So I guess I will
still watch both, but always have open eyes on the WWF,
since
I have watched it from
age 3. At age 10 I was a Hulkamaniac, and at age 12 one
of Razor's chicos; Now
at age 15 I am a Degenerate and one of Stone Cold's
SOB's???? Well, its
gotten a lot different since then and if its still like
this in 10 years when
I have kids they're watching WCW!!! Now everyone brush
your teeth and go to
bed!!!!!
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A PROGRESSING
VIEWPOINT
Submitted by reader:
SHough1
I'm a huge WWF fan, I
always have been. When I was three I cheered for Hulk
Hogan against the
"evil" bad guy heels. When I was nine, I came back to
watching
wrestling, only this
was much different. This was right before Wrestlemania and
being a stupid little
kid I thought that neither Shawn nor Bret should have the
title because I
thought it was a title for a"big" man like Vader. At this
time
we (my family) were
plugging into the information super highway and I decided to
call up wrestling on
the database. I read for hours just listening to new words
like "face" and "heel"
and a brand new wrestling fed called ECW. This fed
blurred the lines of
"good" and"evil" and they had a guy named Raven. I soon
learned stuff I'd
never known. Nitro had usually reved me up, but with the nWo
I started to like the
WWF. Every week I'd tune into the WWF at 8:57 on Mondays
(had to have that
three more minutes!). I started to try to get tickets to an
ECW show, I'd been
back when I was home and had not noticed how great it was. I
watched Raven brawl
all over the place.
But for now and for
the subject of this letter let's forget ECW. I watched RAW
transform under
unbearable pressure of Nitro, more T&A, more Austin versus
Hart,
more crap over all
basically. I loved RAW and my new favorite Bret Hart but
sadly he left and my
two favorites Mick Foley (his ECW days) and SCSA. I always
watched RAW but on
Monday it wasn't on my TV all that much, I cared too much
about Nitro, it was
great from start to finish (now honestly, when was the last
time you could say
that.). And Raw was mediocre. I thought I'd just tell the
story of a little kids
view of wrestling.
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