Issue # 210
Date:
Sunday April 11th, 1999 5:07 pm
The Wrestling Booking Sheet
BULLDOG TO SUE WCW
The British Bulldog,
Davey Boy Smith, who remains in a hospital with a painful
spinal infection, told
the
Calgary Sun that he plans on
suing WCW with a lawsuit
after receiving his
termination notice from the company a few days ago.
Bulldog says it was
WCW's fault he was injured, due to being slammed on The
Warrior's trap door in
the ring several months ago. All the luck in the world
to Davey Boy, since
his injury was directly related to WCW's negligence when
they tampered with the
ring.
Reported by Joe De
Leon at:
http://www.ultimowrestling.com/rwin/index.shtml
WWF Results in
Cincinnati, OH, April 10th,
1999
The Acolytes & The
Brood (Christian and Edge) defeated DOA and Too Much.
The Godfather defeated
Tiger Ali Singh.
IC Champion Goldust
defeated Mankind and Ken Shamrock in a Triple Threat Match
Al Snow defeated Droz.
Paul Wight defeated
The Rock by DQ after Test interfered.
Hardcore Holly
defeated Gangrel to retain the Hardcore Title.
The New Age Outlaws
defeated Owen Hart and Jeff Jarrett.
D-Lo Brown and Ivory
defeated Val Venis and Tori.
Kane & X-Pac defeated
The Big Bossman & Triple H to retain the Tag Team Titles.
Reported by William
Moore at:
http://www.1wrestling.com/
ECW Results,
April 10th, 1999, in Dayton,
OH
Nova & Chris Chetti
defeated Danny Doring and Roadkill.
Spike Dudley
eliminated Mustafa & Bubba Ray to win a Hardcore Battle
Royal
Jerry Lynn pinned
Rhino
New Jack defeated
Mustafa in a "Gangsta Death match"
ECW World Champion Taz
defeated Spike Dudley via submission
Tommy Dreamer
(w/Francine) pinned Steve Corino
Justin Credible vs.
Shane Douglas never took place when Douglas was jumped.
Bubba Ray Dudley
pinned Balls Mahoney
Rob Van Dam pinned
D-Von
Dudley
Reported by Tyler
Turner at:
http://www.1wrestling.com/
CANDIDO & SYTCH ON THE
RADIO
Marc Middleton's
CandidoSytch newsletter had the report from Chris Candido &
Tammy Sytch's
appearance on Mark Madden's ESPN Radio show 4/9. To
subscribe to
CandidoSytch, send a
blank e-mail to
candidosytch-subscribe@xxxxpgroups.com
Reader Zach Williams
sent in the following:
- Tammy agreed with
Mark that she was one of the only women in the wrestling
business that can get
over without having to get naked.
- Tammy says the
problems between her and the WWF started when she refused to
start showing more
skin... Tammy mentioned that she turned down the order to
participate in one of
the evening gown matches, which was really the beginning
of the end.
- Chris Candido
commented on steriod use in the business (this came up
because
of the ESPN special
last week). Chris said we won't know the full effects of
steriods for a few
more years. Mark Madden agreed and said in about 10 years we
will see the full
effects of steriods on wrestlers as they get older.
- Tammy and Chris
talked about their contracts with ECW. Basically they are
making about as much
money with ECW as they did with the WWF. They still have
4 years left with the
ECW but they can get out of their deals any time they want
if they ask Paul
Heyman.
- Tammy seemed very
excited when the idea was mentioned that there was talk
of her becoming Ric
Flair's valet VERY soon. Tammy said you never know. Chris
mentioned earlier that
he would never burn his bridges with the WWF but they
are much more likely
to go to WCW than WWF if they were to jump in the near
future.
- Chris Candido is out
of action right now because he reinjured his neck.
Reported by Zach
Williams & Marc Middleton
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Spinal infection
threatens British Bulldog's career
By Mike Mooneyham
Sunday, April 11, 1999
Davey Boy Smith, the
popular "British Bulldog" whose career has been marked by a
series of ups and
downs, is waging his toughest battle yet.
Smith, 36, has been
hospitalized in
Calgary, Canada, since March
31 with a
spinal infection that
now threatens his future in the wrestling business.
Doctors have told
Smith that the recovery period will be long and painful, and
that he could be
hospitalized for as long as three months.
Smith, brother-in-law
of Bret Hart, has been fighting intense back and abdominal
pain for the past
several months and hasn't wrestled for WCW since injuring
his
back more than six
months ago following a powerslam on a steel trap door.
Smith,
who lost 40 pounds
after the incident, initially feared that the ailment could
be related to cancer.
"I thought my life was
over and I was going to die," said Smith, whose sister
Tracy lost a battle with
cancer on Nov. 7, just 12 weeks before the disease
claimed his mother.
Smith also suffered another setback recently when his
13-year-old son Harry,
a top amateur wrestler, had to have a steel plate
inserted in his right
arm.
A lump on Davey
Smith's back recently was diagnosed as a bone infection, not
a
cancerous growth, and
Smith was put on heavy antibiotics for the excruciating
pain. Smith, who
nearly had to have a leg amputated due to a staph infection
several years ago,
developed another staph infection in his spine last week and
was in guarded
condition.
"Although it feels
like a Rambo knife in my back, they tell me I haven't
started
feeling the real pain
yet," Smith recently told a
Calgary newspaper. "its not
something I'm looking
forward to. The infection is going through my body right
now and the doctor
told me I'm in for the long haul. I'm scared because if the
infection gets in my
spinal column, well, the doctors said they didn't even want
to talk about what
that would mean."
WCW added to Smith's
woes by sending him a termination notice last week as Smith
lie in intensive care
wrapped in a body cast.
Smith also has been
plagued with a lingering knee problem that was aggravated
trying to break up a
backstage skirmish between brother-in-law Bret and Vince
McMahon following the
infamous double-cross on
Oct. 9, 1997.
Smith battled major
problems outside the ring during the mid-'90s when he was
involved in a $1.3
million civil suit which charged that Smith attacked a man
in
a bar fight. The
victim spent six weeks in the hospital and suffered
permanent
brain damage.
The suit alleged that
Smith, facing a maximum 14 years in prison, smashed a bar
patron's head into a
concrete floor on
July 25, 1993. Smith was
acquitted in
February 1996, but the
story made headlines throughout
Canada.
According to court
records, 20-year-old Cody Light asked Smith's wife, Diana
Hart Smith, a former
Mrs. Calgary, to dance and allegedly made a crude sexual
remark. Davey Smith,
not hearing the remark, was introduced to Light, a college
student at the time,
who shook his hand and wouldn't let go. Some witnesses
claimed that Smith
grabbed Light in either a headlock or a front facelock and
carried him over to
the bouncers. Smith turned and walked away, and at that
point Light went after
Smith, but slipped on the wet floor, landing on the back
of his head and
knocking himself out.
A
Calgary medical examiner
testified Light's injuries were consistent with
people who fall on
their own and land on the back of their head. The judge
ruled
in the non-jury trial
that Smith didn't cause the injuries, that he acted in
self-defense and that
the rights of a pro wrestler are no different than those
of an average citizen.
Smith began wrestling
professionally in
England at the age of 15 and
was brought
to the
Calgary circuit in 1981 by
Stu Hart when Smith was only 18. He married
Hart's daughter in
1984 and formed a legendary team with Dynamite Kid in
Japan
in the mid-'80s before
joining the WWF as The British Bulldogs.
• Bret Hart, who has
been pushing his retirement angle despite the fact that
its a total work,
underwent groin surgery on Tuesday.
The angle that Hart
had quit pro wrestling got tremendous mainstream coverage in
Canada. A number of WCW
performers also were upset that WCW boss Eric Bischoff
attempted to portray
the angle as a shoot backstage.
Hart recently appeared
on the Mancow radio show in
Chicago and said that he
simply doesn't fit
into the wrestling scene anymore. Hart, whose WCW contract
doesn't expire until
the end of 2000 despite claiming that his deal is up this
December, dismissed
rumors that he was a spy for Vince McMahon, but didn't rule
out that he might
return to the WWF at some point. He also said that all the
problems at WCW
weren't Eric Bischoff's fault. Hart should be out of action
for
nearly four months.
• Former mat star
Nikita Koloff will be guest speaker at Youth Night at
7 p.m.
April 16 at
Calvary Lutheran Church, 1400
Manor Blvd., West Ashley, NC. Koloff
also will be featured
at the church's Youth and Parent Night on April 18 at
7
p.m.
... Scott and Dana Hall were remarried on March 26. Hall,
who took a leave
of absence from WCW,
plans to return to wrestling on a limited schedule and
should be back on
Nitro in several weeks ... Shawn Michaels (Michael
Hickenbottom), who
broke up with longtime girlfriend Julie several months ago,
tied the knot with
former Nitro Girl Whisper on March 30 in
Las Vegas. The two,
who were introduced by
Kevin Nash, were backstage at a recent Texas Wrestling
Alliance show in San
Antonio put on by Michaels and mentor Jose Lothario.
Michaels may return to
Raw this week to take over Degeneration X ... Ric Flair
threw out the first
pitch at the St. Louis Cardinals baseball game on Thursday
... Country music star
Chad Brock, who performed at Desperado's Carolina Stage
in March and whose
song "Ordinary Life" has been No. 1 on the country charts,
worked as a WCW jobber
last year. Brock, 35, who looks more like a wrestler than
a county singer, would
like to get back into the wrestling business as part of a
cross-promotional
venture. Brock, who wrestled 19 matches for WCW, used a
country western singer
gimmick ... Sid (Sid Eudy), unhappy with how he was being
used in ECW, is
history with that promotion ... WCW has dropped the Dusty
Rhodes
angle ... The ratings
were closer this week with Raw doing a 5.8 (5.5, 6.1 for
its two hours) against
Nitro's 4.3 (4.2, 4.2, 4.5 for its three hours). WCW
continues to struggle
in its opposed first hour. Nitro actually challenged Raw
in the final quarter,
with the Flair-Hogan-Goldberg-Page four-way doing a 5.42
against a 5.55 for the
Wight vs. Rock-Helmsley match. The only competitive
quarter was a 4.9 for
the atrocious NWO Black and White battle royal against a
5.2 for Bob Holly vs.
Al Snow. Raw peaked at a 6.72 for Godfather vs. Goldust
and the Undertaker's
angle with Ryan Shamrock. That segment went up against a
3.76 registered for
Bam Bam Bigelow vs. Buff Bagwell. The previous week saw Raw,
despite going against
the NCAA championship game, break its Monday night record
with a 6.51 rating ...
WCW unveiled its new Nitro set, including its futuristic
logo, last Monday
night in Las Vegas. Tony Schiavone and Bobby Heenan are now
calling the matches
from ringside ...
UFC star Tank Abbott is close
to signing a
deal with WCW for a
match with Bill Goldberg ... Madusa was backstage at last
week's Nitro and
should be signing shortly with WCW. She is scheduled to do a
segment on Nitro ...
Diamond Dallas Page will appear on the Tonight Show with
Jay Leno on on May 4,
while Bill Goldberg will guest on May 19. Goldberg also is
featured in the
current Rolling Stone magazine and is profiled in
Entertainment
Weekly.
Mike Mooneyham can be
reached by phone at (843) 937-5517 or by e-mail at
mooneyham@xxxxc.... More wrestling news with Mike
Mooneyham is
available every Monday
on The Wrestling Observer Hotline. The number is
1-900-903-9030. Calls
are 99 cents per minute, and children under 18 must get
parental permission
before dialing.
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April 10th, 1999
Jackal's Winnipeg
Sun/Thunder Bay Chronicle Column
by Don Callis
http://freeweb.digiweb.com/sports/thejackal
Had the opportunity to
run into WCW wrestler Raven this past week. I had never
met him before, and
was pleasantly surprised when he came over to me to tell me
what a big fan he was
of my interview and acting ability. Coming from Raven, it
was a hugh compliment.
It was interesting in
that during my stint as Jackyl in WWF, I was constantly
compared to Raven,
with some of my more vapid detractors claiming that I was
"stealing his
gimmick". This was never really the case, as my character
was a
charming, intellectual
elitist, who had no compunction about using his charisma
and intellectual,
tempered with some message. Kind of a psychotic Anthony
Robbins.
The Raven character,
as I always understood it, having been a hugh fan since he
debuted the gimmick in
ECW, was a disenfranchised gen-X slacker, a brooding open
sore of societal
angst. Raven wasn't interested in "intellectual intercourse"
or
"jackyling off", it
was always "what about Raven?", and it was and is a
revolutionary idea,
and one that has worked well, particularly in ECW.
Although there were
differences in our gimmicks, our paths are remarkably
similar. Both of us
went to the WWF as wrestlers, only to be turned into
"wrestling managers",
an innocuous title to be sure. Neither of us was promoted
to the level we might
have liked, and both of us were talked to about working at
TitanTowers. Raven
left the WWF for ECW, where he recreated himself, as I have
done in the past few
weeks.
With the many
similarities, both real and concocted, it was a pleasure to
finally meet Raven
face to face.
Jackal opens Wrestling
School in Winnipeg
One of the questions
I'm most frequently asked is "How does one get into the
wrestling business?".
After hearing so many horror stories about terrible
wrestling schools
bilking people out of money, then training them badly, I
have
decided to share my
wealth of experience with potential wrestling superstars.
Starting this summer,
I will be running the No Holds Barred Hardcore Wrestling
Camp. Besides enjoying
the benefits of my tutelage, you will learn from Bad News
Allen, Jim Brunzell
and others, on how to be a wrestler, manager or referee.
Those interested can
call the school at (204) 935-9626.
Insider News:
Apparently the rumors
of Shawn Michaels and former Nitro Girl Wisper getting
married on April 1st
were real. All the best to HBK...Supposedly Tank Abbott of
UFC fame is on his way to WCW
to feud with Goldberg. I would have to think this
is a bad idea, given
Abbott's reputation for being a nutbar...Word has it that
the infamous Doink the
Clown gimmick is being revived in the WWF. The original
Doink was Matt Borne
who was in real life, one of the wildest customers I've
ever seen. The Doink
gimmick took a lot of heat at the time it debuted in 1992,
but to me, it was a
revolutionary gimmick that should go over well in today's
wrestling
environment...I was a part of the ECW Arena show last
weekend, which
has been universally
hailed in the wrestling industry as one of the best
wrestling shows of the
year, and I would concur. I ran into everyone's favorite
pin up girl Tammy
Sytch, formerly Sunny in WWF, she looked great...Mark Henry
the World's Strongest
Man, will be in Winnipeg for a fan breakfast at the. Hope
they've got lots of
food...Rumor that I don't believe has the Hardy Boyz joining
DX. Apparently my
prediction of Val Venis joining was on the money, but was
nixed by someone with
political power...On the Chris Jericho front, WCW is
apparently now
babyfacing Chris, hoping to get him to re-sign. A rumor on
the
internet (so take this
with a grain of salt), saw We Want Chris Jericho, and WWF
Needs a Lion-Heart
signs, supposedly made by the WWF being handed out to fans
at
a WWF Raw
event...Davey Boy Smith is laid up in hospital in Calgary
with a
spinal infection. All
the best for a speedy recovery...And finally, the quote of
the day is from none
other than Bret Hart, who in referring to what has gone on
in his career over the
past two years said "its a crying shame what the WWF did
to me, but its also a
crying shame what the WCW didn't do with me."
Jackal can be heard
every Sunday on "Joe & Jackal: No Holds Barred" from 6-7pm,
on 92
CITI FM LIVE from the Pony
Corral on Grant avenue.
Cyrus (formerly known
as the...)
Jackyl
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PARENTAL
RESPONSIBILITY
Submitted by reader:
Wolvaka
For months and months
I have read all of the bull crap debate about kids and
wrestling. The crotch
chop and the s*ck it. We live in Miami, and we have an
independent wrestling
promotion in our area, FCW. Once a month they put on a
good show, but like
any other show there are kids there. Half of the kids are
there unsupervised,
and the other half are there with their parents. I can tell
you this, more than
half of the kids are between the ages of 8 and 11, and
almost all of them are
running up to the wrestlers doing the crotch chop and
screaming s*ck it !!!
I am more appalled by the parents that do absolutely
NOTHING but sit there
and watch or just laugh. They might as well not even be
there. If they do this
right in front of there parents, and the parents only
laugh at them, then
they are only being taught that not only is it acceptable it
is funny.
As a parent of two ten
year olds, a boy and a girl, I have to say IT IS THE
PARENTS RESPONSIBILITY
to monitor what their children watch and to teach their
kids right from wrong.
My kids do not stay up past 9:00pm. However they do
have these things
called VCRs and you can tape the shows. I watch Nitro and
tape Raw. When my kids
come home from school and they finish their homework they
have the option of
watching Raw. Sometimes they want to watch it and sometimes
they don't. As a
parent I know there will be some things in the show that I
don't want them to
see. So when these parts come on I hit the little button
that says fast
forward. It is real simple. The kids don't say a word, they
know there is a reason
I don't want them to see it.
The problem does not
lie with Vince McMann and the WWF, it lies with parents
that are to lazy to do
their
JOB and love and protect
their children from
anything they think
might be harmful to them. It is easy to blame someone else
for your children's
behavior, especially when it is vile or immoral. If a child
is brought up with
good morals and a strong belief system in what is acceptable
behavior and this is
instilled in them from a young age, then society and our
children would be much
better off.
There are movies that
come out all the time, sick twisted movies where people
are using some of the
most disgusting vile language imaginable. Every other
word is
the F word, people
shooting, and stabbing and hacking people up. I personally
do not care to watch
these movies nor do I allow my children to watch them. But
I can almost guarantee
you that the same parents that are ranting and raving
about the crotch chop
and the s*ck it are the same parents that allow their
children to watch this
filth without ever checking it out themselves.
However once their
children watch these movies or anyone else watches these
movies, they are not
expected to come out of the theater and start shooting and
hacking people into
pieces. Why? Because it is a
SHOW, it is only there for
entertainment nothing
more nothing less. If the people and the children that
come out of the
theaters know it is only a show, and do not go around
imitating
everything they saw in
the show then why do they do it after watching wrestling?
Simple because the
parents LET them. You cannot separate one show from
another!!! If you
teach your children to respect others and you lead the
example than you will
have nothing to worry about.
When you squeeze an
orange you will only get orange juice because that is what
it was groomed to be.
If you don't teach your children morals and right from
wrong then please
don't expect ANYONE else to. Do your own job and take care
of
the gift that God has
placed in YOUR hands.
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WCW
MAY NOT BE PERFECT, BUT...
Submitted by reader:
ILuVzuBy
Ok, I was reading what
tommymaniaxv had to say about WCW the other
day. He was remarking
about what the Nitro Girls purpose was. If you think
about it they are like
a football teams cheerleaders. They are there to get the
crowd pumped up and to
have fun. There is nothing wrong with a couple of girls
dancing and getting
the crowd into the music.
Maybe WCW isn't the
most wholesome entertainment on television today. But in my
opinion its a hella
lot better then the bull the WWF has been throwing around.
A lot of people tune
into this stuff to see wrestling, not to see a bunch of the
same guys every week
talk and complain about the same stuff. I went to a Raw
the other day, and
there were only like four real matches. The rest just
talking. I used to
really love the WWF, but it got so bad. Godfather coming
out with those trashy
hoes (by the way, prostitution is illegal.) Val Venis
getting blow jobs
(gross). Undertaker trying to kill and hang
people.(ok.......murder). I'll give McMahon one thing, he
should be
nominated for an Emmy,
Best drama series of the year. All the crying and crap,
this isn't "Days of
our Lives" people.
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