Issue # 236
Date: Tuesday May 4th, 1999
3:22 pm
The Wrestling Booking Sheet
Ratings for May 3rd, 1999
RAW NITRO
1st Hour n/a 4.0
2nd Hour 5.9 3.4
3rd Hour 6.9 2.8
Composite 6.4 3.4
The May 2nd edition of
Heat scored a 4.0. A crushing defeat for WCW, with their
lowest rating in over
three years. While Nitro itself has improved over the
past month, the
numbers are not reflecting the improvement.
Reported by Georgiann
Makropoulos at:
http://www.1wrestling.com/
JOS LeDUC PASSES AWAY
We have some sad news
to report. Veteran professional wrestler Jos LeDuc died on
5/2 in
Atlanta, GA. My records
indicate that he was 53 years old. LeDuc was one
of the businesses’
original hardcore wrestlers, often working crazy pyscho
matches. I will never
forget the bit he did in
Memphis where he cut his own
arm
with his axe. His
funeral service will take place on 5/6 in his hometown of
Fayetteville, GA.
Reported by Dave
Scherer at:
http://www.1wrestling.com/
CHYNA APPEARANCE
Look for Chyna on
REGIS & KATHY
LEE this Thursday.
Reported by Al Isaacs
at:
http://www.scoopscentral.com
GOLDBERG CHARITABLE
APPEARANCE
Kim Peterson, a local
DJ here in
Atlanta was "singing the
Praises" of how
"respectable and
chraritable" Goldberg was in this past weekend's, "Ride For
Life, Motorcycles For
Childrens Charity". He carried on that while he and the
other "staff" were
looking in the dressing rooms and other "comfortable"
sitting
areas for Goldberg,
(expecting that he would be in there waiting for his
"appearance") -
instead Goldberg, on his own was perusing through the throng
of
a crowd- giving
autographs and pictures to everyone. He continued doing this
for
several hours! He made
the comment that it was the single most impressive thing
he had seen done in
all his work with any celebrity- ever. It was quite glowing
and good to hear- With
all the deservably negative publicity Wresting has tended
to get lately, this
type of info needs to be aired!
Reported by Al Isaacs
at:
http://www.scoopscentral.com
DDP ON THE TONIGHT
SHOW
Don't forget WCW
Heavyweight Champion, Diamond Dallas Page will appear on the
NBC Tonight Show with
Jay Leno tonight (Tuesday, 5/4). The program starts at
11:35 pm EST.
Reported by Joe De
Leon at:
http://www.ultimowrestling.com/rwin/index.shtml
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ROUNDING THE SQUARED
CIRCLE
RAW -
MAY 3,1999 - SAN DIEGO, CA
BY
SAMJERRY
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The program began with
a clip from Smackdown last Thursday highlighting the
formation and
introduction of The Corporate Ministry (CM) by Shane The
Ingrate
and the events that
took place including Mr. McMahon coming to the ring and
taking a chair shot
from The Undertaker intended for Stone Cold Steve Austin
(SCSA) and Shane's
subsequent attack on Dear Old Dad (DOD). This was followed
by
a clip from last
night's Heat of CM attacking Nutso, Mankind, Test and The
Big
Show, along with
Shane's promise to "see" DOD on RAW.
After the RAW opening,
JR and The King were at the desk to open the show.
The entire CM, Shane,
The 'Taker, The Fat Man, Triple H, Chyna, Bossman, Viscera,
Midian, The Acolytes
[Bradshaw and Farooq] and The Mean Street Pussies, er ..
Posse (MSG) (Rodney
and Pete Gas) came to the ring. Shane called CM the most
potent force ever in
wrestling and was warmly greeted by what can now officially
be called his personal
chant, "@$$hole." He then proceeded to tell us how
wonderful a person he
is, calling himself "compassionate" (yeah, if you could
call Dracula
compassionate, then Shane would be). He then dissed the
average
working guy as being a
loser, noting that he has always been rich and now the
power to crush anyone
he wants to. He crowed about having the balls to bitch
slap DOD.
Triple H took the mic
and tore The Rock a new rectal orifice, referring to him as
"The Crock." He said
he has The Rock's faith in his hands and at the next PPV,
Over-The-Edge (OTE),
was going to kick his @$$. He said The Rock called himself
"The People's Champ,"
but was nothing but a poetry spouting phony. He called the
fans that worship The
Rock "worthless."
Next up was The 'Taker
who said he hates everyone [a revelation]! But that SCSA
was No. 1 on his Sh*t
List. He went on to say that he had given SCSA leeway up
until now, but that
was all over. He now planned to not only beat SCSA worse
than he has ever been
beaten at
OTE and take the WWF Title,
but was going to
"execute" him. After
beating him, The 'Taker said he will bring him to RAW the
next night and make
him "The Ultimate Sacrifice" to a power even greater than
himself. He closed by
saying there was nothing SCSA could do about it. Note to
The 'Taker: I listened
and didn't hear SCSA's shaking too badly.
Much to everyone's
chagrin, Shane took the mic again to remind us that he will
be the Special Guest
Referee for the SCSA/Taker Title Match and "assured" (he
doesn't 'guarantee')
us that The 'Taker will be the new WWF Champion. A check of
the Official WWF Rule
Book was inconclusive as to whether a dead man can hold
the Title, however,
since other "stiffs" have held it, it would seem to be OK.
He then gave DOD two
hours to drag his sorry @$$ to the arena (to do lunch)? He
closed (thankfully)
with words that "the pieces are all falling into place."
That got a his
personal chant going again. Shane wasn't smiling.
At this point,
Mankind, Nutso, Test and The Big Show came out to the top of
the
ramp. They were all
carrying 2x4's. Mankind said all four of them used to work
for The Corporation,
but now were just "disgruntled employees," who had formed a
Union. He called them the
Union of People You Ought to Respect Shane (UP YORS).
He continued that when
DOD ran the WWF, he may have been called am @$$hole, but
at least they got
paid. With Shane running things, the paychecks suck. He
added
that Shane didn't have
their future in his hands, called Shane "a little twit,"
and they would have
his "testicles" in theirs (Hmm, does that make them gay?).
He then said the four
of them were going to "grab some balls" and they headed to
the ring. They used
their 2x4's to clean house and send CM running. Shane had a
parting comment that
they hadn't seen the last of CM tonight (Damn!) and would
pay. The crowd chanted
"Union."
Jimmy Hoffa, turned over in his resting place
(wherever that be) and
smiled.
The first match was
Badd @$$ (BA) v. X-Pac. Prior to the match we saw a clip
from Smackdown of
X-Pac pinning BA during a tag team title match to retain the
title along with Kane
and BA searching for, finding and beating up X-Pac. It was
followed by a clip
from Heat of BA feigning an apology and then attacking X-Pac
from behind. X-Pac got
a big pop, while the crowd was all over BA. BA dominated
the early stages of
the match, X-Pac came back and went for the Bronco Buster,
however, took a boot
to the short and curlies when he came in. This turned
things around and BA
hit him with The Fame-@$$er and won the match. After
pinning him, BA
continued abusing him. Road Dogg came down to make the save
and
BA left the ring. As
Doggie was checking on his little buddy, BA returned with
one of Acme's finest
steel chairs. Road Dogg got up and took it right on his
snout. The lights went
out and that signaled that it was Kane time. He came to
the ring and BA
decided two down were enough. He didn't want to number three
and
took off leaving X-Pac
and Doggie unconscious in the ring. Kane picked X-Pac up
and carried him to the
locker room.
Winner - Badd @$$
Loser - X-Pac
Loser - Road Dogg,
proving no good deed goes unpunished
We saw the door to
Shane's locker room. He was behind it yelling that The Union
would pay.
The CM came to the
ring again. Obviously PO'd, Shane announced changes to the
card. The crowd
announced their feeling for Shane with his personal chant.
At
this point, we
switched backstage and saw McMahon, Daddy's Little Girl
(DLG),
and McMahon wife Linda
arriving, accompanied by two policeman. Just when you
thought it was safe to
go back in the arena, another McMahon joins the party.
Can we expect the
maid, the butler, the family dog next? Shane then announced
the revised card. A
Four Corner Match, with Test v. Bossman v. Visera v. Midian,
or stated another way,
Test v. A Major @$$ Kicking; A Handicap Hardcore Match
pitting Mankind v. The
Acolytes, which sounds quite fair; Triple H v. Nutso, with
Chyna as Special Guest
Referee, showing things just keep getting fairer; The MSP
v. The 'Geriatric'
Stooges, Pat Patterson and Jerry Briscoe; The Big Show v.
The
'Taker; An Evening
Gown Match, Debra v. Sable, (the crowd erupted) with the
loser being stripped
to her panties and bra (the crowd went absolutely insane);
and The Rock v. SCSA
(the top blew off the arena). At the suggestion of Triple H,
Shane made this a
Lumberjack Match, with CM as the Lumberjacks!! He had one
more
match to announce when
McMahon came to ringside, followed shortly by DLD, Momma
McMahon and the
policemen. Shane asked Daddy if "he had brought
reinforcements."
McMahon got into the ring and pleaded with Shane to stop
before
he went too far. Shane
blew him off, suggesting they meet in a match and noting
that it would be big
box office. McMahon said no. DLG and Momma came into the
ring and tried to get
Shane to listen to reason. He cut her off. As he kept
demanding a match with
his daddy, McMahon, DLG and Momma left the ring. The
crowd told Shane where
to go, and it wasn't for an ice cream cone. As they
walked away, Shane
called after them and said he was the one behind DLG's
abduction by The
'Taker; he was the one who gave The 'Taker access to their
home; he was the one
who gave The 'Taker DLG's tEddie bear; and the one who gave
The 'Taker the
pictures. He told DLD that he was the one who picked out her
wedding dress. With
that McMahon went crazy and charged in after Shane. By my
count he was slightly
outnumbered and the CM kicked the crap out of him. The CM
left him in the ring.
DLG and Momma went in to check on him. As he walked away,
Shane said he would
"take that as a yes." McMahon responded "Damn straight."
We saw McMahon in his
office, where DLG and Momma were trying to talk him out of
his match v. Shane. He
told the policemen to take them back to their hotel. The
"Geriatric" Stooges
looked on.
The Next match was MSP
v. The Geriatric Stooges. MSP came to the ring in their
Gucci Shoes and Ives
St. Laurent clothes. Pete Gas took the mic and told
Patterson and Briscoe
"that its time to put the Geritol down and get their old
@$$es down to the ring
and then they would be sent back to the Old Folk Home"
(Shady Acres Rest Home
For Very Old Wrestlers)? We switched back to McMahon's
locker room where The
Geriatric Stooges promised McMahon that they would kick
MSP's @$$es. They went
to the ring wearing their Sunday Go-To-Church Polyesters
and attempted to
reason with MSP. No deal and the match, or should I say
slaughter, began. The
two fossils kicked MSP's gold plated @$$es seven ways to
Sunday, and chased
them out into the crowd. The crowd cheered the old dudes,
which had to be the
first times in a couple of decades. One has to wonder if
The 'Taker will demand
retribution from MSP for losing.
Winners - The
Geriatric Stooges
Losers - MSP
Losers - All young
wise @$$ rich punks
Score - Union/Friends
1 - Shane/CM - 0
We saw Shane backstage
telling CM that it was time to make an "office visit." JR
and The King had
little doubt who was going to be receiving a visit.
After a commercial, we
saw CM heading to their appointment. It must have been a
long walk because it
was taking them a while to get there.
The next match was the
Four Corners Match pitting Test v. Bossman, Viscera and
Midian. Wait I mean,
Test v. Bossman V. Visera v. Midian .. yeah, sure I do. To
absolutely no one's
surprise Test was unable to get a tag and was in the ring
the entire match. He
handled himself very well and won when Bossman accidentally
hit Midian with his
Nightstick. However, his victory was short lived as his
three "opponents" then
beat the crap out of him. The other "Union" members came
down and chased CM
away. Seeing Test perform gives me reason to think that the
next time I go a Top
20 Draft, he stands an excellent chance of making it.
Winner - Test
Loser - Test
Score - World/Union 2
- Shane/CM - 0
We saw Triple H,
Chyna, The 'Taker and The Fat Man leaving McMahon's office
after
their unscheduled
meeting with him. It was a meeting of their fists and boots
with McMahon's face
and body.
Shane came to the ring
to his personal chant and demanded Daddy come out. Gee,
where do you think
Daddy might be? He said Daddy didn't have the "grapefruits"
to face him and
probably sneaked off with DLG and Momma, because he couldn't
handle Shane being the
man. He said the match wasn't going to happen and
instructed the referee
to declare him the winner. McMahon stumbled out onto the
ramp, barely able to
walk. Being a good and compassionate son, Shane went out to
meet Daddy .. with a
Clothesline and a kick. He dragged him into the ring and
sat him in a corner,
where he did The Bronco Buster to him. Daddy got to his
feet and took another
Clothesline. Shane went to the well one time to many as
Daddy avoided another
Clothesline, hit one of his own, followed by a kick to the
stomach, twin middle
finger salutes and a Stone Cold Stunner (I think I remember
seeing that sequence
before, but can't quite put my finger on it. Shane went off
to dream about his
Ferrari, Yacht, Golf Handicap, and lack of girl friends. The
crowd cheered McMahon!
You read that right, they cheered McMahon. As Daddy
stumbled back to his
office, Shane yelled after him that it was far from over.
The crowd chanted
"loser" at Shane.
Winner - Mr. McMahon
Score - Union/Friends
3 - Shane/CM - 0
The next match was the
Handicap Hardcore Match pitting Mankind v. The Acolytes.
The match was really a
Handicap Match, to Mankind that is. It was 2-on-1
throughout. Mankind
brought his 2x4 and Bradshaw a shovel, which he promptly
used on Mankind's
back. Chairs, the ring steps, boxes, the ring bell, a metal
trash can and other
junk were used. Mankind didn't have much of a chance. He did
get a few shots in
where they were all on the floor. In the ring he avoided a
chair shot by Farooq,
nailed him with a Double Arm DDT and almost won when he
jammed Mr. Socko down
Farooq's throat. However, Bradshaw blasted him with a big
time Clothesline to
break it up. They then demolished him with a Spike Power
Bomb onto two open
chairs. Foley continues to make major hits. The crowd loved
the match.
Winners - The Acolytes
Loser - Mankind - Big
Time
Score - Union/Friends
3 - Shane/CM - 1
The next match was
Triple H v. Nutso, with Special Referee Chyna. Chyna began
by
patting Nutso down and
indicating that he was less than amply endowed by holding
her fingers close
together. The match was an excellent, hard fought one, with
mostly scientific
moves. Chyna was impartial, with just a few exceptions: slow
count for Nutso, fast
count for Triple H; bringing the ropes to Triple H when he
couldn't
quite reach to break a
submission leg lock; raking Nutso's eyes to break an
ankle lock submission;
allowing Triple H to beat on Shamrock as he was in the
ropes;
choking Nutso when he
wouldn't release a hold; small things like that. Nutso
finally had it and was
about to nail her with a belly to-belly Suplex, but Triple H
broke it up. Then
Chyna kicked Nutso in his under-endowed area and Triple H
nailed
him with The Pedigree.
Case closed.
Winner - Triple H
Loser - Nutso's Nuts
Score - Union/Friends
3 - Shane/CM - 3
The tension mounts...
We saw The Big Show
and The 'Taker on their way to the ring as we went off to
Commercial Land.
The next match was The
Big Show v. The 'Taker, with The Fat Man, in their first
meeting ever. Prior to
the match we saw a clip from last week of The Big Show
attempting to stop the
Sacrifice/Wedding of DLG and being beaten down by the
Ministry of Darkness.
The 'Taker may be the only man alive that can match up
with The Show and he
did so for a short time. However, when it became apparent
that The Show was able
to handle him, he went to the floor where the Fat Man
doused his elbow pad
with ether. He got back in and applied a sleeper with the
pad across The Show's
nose trying to knock him out. The Show somehow broke in
and that sent The
'Taker over to Fatso again. Fatso gave him a Louisville
Slugger and he played
Mark McGwire on The Show's forehead. He hit a 45o foot
homer that put The
Show down and broke his forearm into a bloody mask. The
'Taker added insult to
injury as he stomped on The Show's bloody forehead and
yelled "This is my
show" at him. I think they may meet again and the time, The
'Taker better bring
more than a bat.
Winner - The Big Show
by DQ
Loser - The Big Show -
Need I say more
Score - Union/Friends
4 - Shane/CM - 3
We saw Debra on the
way to the ring. the King went "Puppy" happy.
We saw a bleeding Big
Show being helped from the ring during a commercial.
Debra got into the
ring for her Evening Gown Match v. Sable, however, America's
Sweetheart appeared on
The TitanTron and said she was unable to be there because
she was at The Playboy
Mansion shooting her next Playboy Magazine. She said
"like all Hollywood
Diva, she has a 'stunt double' [do you think it could
possibly be Nicole
Bass, AKA "It"]? and besides we couldn't expect her to
bruise
her wonderful bod. No,
but there are several million men who wouldn't mind
bruising it .. gently,
of course. It came out wearing an Evening Gown, when a
cage would have been
more appropriate. Debra saw her life flash in front of her
and removed her Gown,
stripping to her bra and panties. She seemed too like it,
The King did, the
crowd did, as did just about every male in the country. It
didn't seem to happy
and went after Debra. I hope It doesn't remove her Gown, I
may go blind. Saved by
Double J who rushed in and blasted It with Guitar No.
3,678. Wait, here come
Val Venis. He nailed Double J with a Clothesline. Helping
It? A change of heart
(and species) by Val? Whew, no. He scooped up a very
willing Debra and rode
(OK, so he walked) off into the sunset .. to make her his
costar in his newest
video? Double J headed out after them. It was left alone
(as nature intended)
in the ring.
Winner - It - By
default. Thank goodness
Winners - Men all over
the world
We saw SCSA and The
Rock on their way to the ring.
We saw a clip taken
backstage during a commercial. Double J caught up with Venis
and blasted him. They
fought backstage, knocking down all kinds of equipment.
They were pulled apart
by a couple of referees. Debra disappeared during their
fight. The King was
hoping to see more of Debra's Puppies. So was I and almost
everyone watching.
The next match was the
Main Event, a Lumberjack Match pitting SCSA v. The Rock,
with CM being The
Lumberjacks. The Rock got a monster pop. SCSA got an even
bigger one. Is there
any doubt who the top two are? The CM Lumberjacks came to
the ring. SCSA and The
Rock went out after CM rather than each other.
The entire CM got into
the ring and pummeled SCSA and The Rock. Shane came down
to watch. McMahon came
out from the back and motioned The Union and the rest of
the WWF roster to help
SCSA and The Rock out. The ring filled and it looked like
a Battle Royal. They
fought out of the ring and as everyone else scattered, SCSA
chased Midian under
the stage and Triple H, The 'Taker, and Chyna worked The
rock
over. They dragged him
to the top of the ramp and beat on him as the crowd
chanted "Rocky." SCSA
came up thru the riser in the stage and joined in. They
paired off Rock/Triple
H and SCSA/'Taker. SCSA and The 'Taker went back down the
riser. Triple H and
Chyna worked The Rock over. He fought back and decked both
of
them. SCSA returned
and worked over Triple H. Triple H threw The Rock off the
stage about
10 feet to the
concrete floor. SCSA stomped Triple H. The 'Taker returned
and blasted
SCSA. He threw him off
the stage, thru a table and onto the concrete floor. The
Rock and SCSA lay
unconscious on the floor. The 'Taker, Triple H and Chyna
stood in
triumph on the stage
as the program ended.
This was one hell of a
show and anyone who missed it really missed something
special. It will be a
tough act to follow.
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