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Issue # 290
Date:
Sunday August 29th, 1999 7:01 pm
The Wrestling Booking Sheet
SCOTT STEINER RETURNING
MONDAY?
Reported by Bob Ryder
at:
http://www.1Wrestling.Com
Ryder reports that
Scott Steiner may be returning to Nitro as early as
this coming Monday
night. While I'm glad to see that his back is
feeling better, I'm
also of the opinion that Steiner's interviews were
among the more
loathsome segments on WCW television, ranking with the
worst of the WWF.
WCW CLASSICS ON TURNER
SOUTH
Reported by Bob Ryder
at:
http://www.1Wrestling.Com
Plans for the new WCW
"classic" show on Turner South are moving ahead.
Several ideas are
being considered, but producers of the show hope to
have some of the
oldtimers make appearances in studio to talk about the
matches that will be
shown on the program. Producers are looking at
vintage footage from
the WCW archives, and will be pulling out some
real gems to include
in the program.
I believe that besides
the old Georgia &
JCP tapes, WCW also owns the
footage of the Florida
& Mid-South (UWF) footage. Even with all of the
practical political
considerations, there is some terrific footage
available.
unfortunately, I have a feeling that cable systems in
California may pass on
carrying Turner South...
WWF, August 28th, Live
from Madison Square Garden, NY
Reported by Buttlip &
David Taylor at:
http://www.cataclysmal.com/big3
/index.html
IC Champion Jeff
Jarrett pinned D-lo Brown
Gangrel pinned Chaz
Val Venis pinned
Midian
The Big Boss Man
pinned Test
The Acolytes defeated
Edge/Christian & The Hardy Boyz in a Triangle
Match
Mankind defeated Bad
Ass Billy Gunn
Al Snow & Tori
defeated Hardcore Holly & Ivory
Steve Blackman
defeated Ken Shamrock via submission after Jericho
interfered WWF Tag
Team Champions Undertaker & Big Show defeated Kane &
X-Pac
WWF World Heavyweight
Champion Triple H pinned The Rock
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Jackal's Winnipeg
Sun/Thunder Bay Chronicle Column
By Don Callis
Courtesy of:
http://freeweb.digiweb.com/sports/thejackal/main.html
Attention! Wrestling
legend and former WWF and WCW World Champion
actively seeking
employment. Will work for a paltry one million per,
likes to book own
angles but does not like to sell. Sometimes injures
opponents in attempt
to get over and protect knee and does not like
Hulk Hogan. Will go on
strike if unhappy. Check your local want ads for
this one!
In a shocking yet
hardly surprising move, WCW wrestler Randy Savage
first went "on strike"
and then supposedly quit apparently due to his
unhappiness with how
he is being promoted and the fact that Hulk Hogan
is out to sabotage his
career.
What? Isn't Hogan the
same guy that Savage has been joined at the hip
with since he came to
WCW. Haven't we had to endure a thousand matches
between the two? Is
there any doubt that over the years Randy Savage
has been Hogan's
favorite opponent?
I have my doubts that
Hogan actually tries to sabotage careers, at
least not in a direct
way. If promoting himself to a sickening degree
is sabotage, then it
is sabotage of the entire company, not Savage, who
has been hurt the
least by Hogan of anyone in WCW.
Which leads one to
ponder: How can a man who is pushed through the roof
(and down our throats)
for four months, beating everyone and injuring a
few in the process of
earning a reported cool million be that unhappy?
I mean, he has clearly
been the top heel for months and WCW management
has appeared to let
him push the envelope to get over. He has not
signed a contract
renewal, yet was still pushed through the roof,
unlike Chris Jericho
who was told he would be banned from TV until he
signed a renewal.
The fact that Savage
could go on strike and get away with it is a sad
commentary on the
state of WCW management. At least if it were Flair we
could see the reason
for it, but Savage has been booked with a golden
pencil during his
entire tenure with the company. Perhaps Savage is
taking a page from the
book of the very man that is trying to sabotage
his career, and all
this is a negotiating ploy from a man who is not
over like he would
like.
As far as Hogan is
concerned, he is now, interestingly enough, a huge
babyface, which would
lead one to believe that Savage, as the top heel
would be well
positioned for yet another big money yet boring feud with
Hogan. Maybe Hulk has
had enough of pinning Savage with the legdrop
every time and wants
to move on to other guys and that is why Randy is
hot.
Is Savage mad because
he didn't get over like he wanted to? And if the
answer to that
question is yes, then who should the finger of blame be
pointed at? I think we
know the answer to that one.
Inside Stuff
Latest rumor has the
former Ultimate Warrior wanting to start up with
ECW. Now that would be
interesting.....Lots of heat backstage in the
WWF about the finish
of the SummerSlam main event......Chris Jericho
proved what many
suspected was the case when he recently drew a 7.3
Nielsen rating on
Raw.....Thunder Bay's own Vampiro is currently in
negotiations to renew
his contract with WCW, who are very high on
him....My next NHB
wrestling camp opens next month email me at:
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every Sunday from
6-7pm on 92 CITI FM on
Winnipeg's
only wrestling call in
show: Joe & Jackal: No Holds Barred, live from
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ROUNDING THE SQUARED
CIRCLE
ECW HARDCORE TV -
AUGUST 27, 1999 - TOLEDO, OH
BY
SAMJERRY
Visit My Home Page At:
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The program began with
a match from last week between Jazz and Steve
Corino picked up in
progress. There was an Acme Table, manufactured by
The Acme Table and
Steel Chair company, Division of The Acme
Corporation, leaning
against a corner of the ring. Tommy Dreamer and
Francine were at
ringside.
Corino lifted Jazz on
his back and shoulders, setting her up for a
table move but she
slid off and applied a Testicular Claw. Corino was
reduced to tears and
cried for his mommy. She next hit him with an
Inverted DDT. That
brought Jack Victory in to prevent a pin. Francine
came in and nailed
Victory with a Low Blow. Corino and Victory have
auditions next week
for The Vienna Boy's Choir as sopranos. Corino
grabbed Francine, but
Jazz pulled him off. Next up were Double Bronco
Busters by Francine
and Jazz on Corino and Victory, followed by Stereo
DDT's. Jazz pinned
Corino. Jason, who had paid Corino to take Jazz out,
cried over money
wasted. Yoshohiro Tajiri rushed in and kicked Tommy,
then blew his Japanese
Red Mist, manufactured by The Acme Oriental Mist
and Tea Company,
Division of The Acme Corporation, into the faces of
Francine and Jazz. He
then beat on Tommy as Victory waved a Japanese
Flag, manufactured by
The Acme Flag and Steamship Company, Division of
The Acme Corporation.
Tajiri tied Tommy in the Tree Of Woe and hit him
with a Drop Kick to
the face. The crowd chanted "We want Taz." Dreamer
dropped to the mat and
Victory covered him with the flag. Rhino joined
the celebration. The
crowd got their wish. Taz came to the ring and
everyone took off so
fast, they almost left their shadows behind.
Everyone but Rhino
that it. He must have believed all the smoke Corino
had been blowing up
his candy @$$ as he faced off with Taz.
The ECW opening was
run. When we returned, Rhino found out how big a
mistake he had made,
and quickly. He was TazPlexed thru the table. So
much for all of
Corino's convincing him he could take out Taz. Oh, BTW,
Winner - Jazz
Loser - Steve Corino -
Beaten by a woman; wait until Taz gets his
hands on him
Loser - Jason - Pissed
his money away
Loser - Tommy Dreamer
- Got his @$$ kicked by Tajiri again
Loser - Rhino -
Learned two lessons: 1. Don't believe anything Steve
Corino tells him - 2.
Playing with Taz is hazardous to his health
Announcer Joey Styles
was at the desk. He said despite Rhino getting
destroyed by Taz, he
has a great career ahead of him. This led us into
the next match, which
was also from last week. It pitted Rhino, who
Styles called "Steve
Corino's Rookie Monster" v. Tom Marquez. Marquez
started by hitting
Rhino with a Drop Kick. Rhino came back with a
Clothesline, a series
of punches and chops and Irish Whipped Marquez
off the ropes. Marquez
avoided a Clothesline as he came off the ropes,
hit a Springboard
Missile Drop Kick and went for a pin. Rhino put the
boots to his opponent,
pounded him with a series of punches, hit him
with a Sit Out Power
Slam and went for a pin. Rhino then Irish Whipped
Marquez into a corner,
hit him with a boot to the mid section and
completely demolished
him with a Sit Out Pile Driver that was nasty
enough to get another
"Oh, my G-d" from Joey. The pin was academic. The
crowd chanted "ECW."
Winner - Rhino
Winner - Marquez's
Chiropractor
Not to fear, that was
the end of the rerun stuff.
We went backstage
where Dangerous Danny Doring, Road Kill (The Amish
Chicken Killer) and
Doring's girlfriend/valet Angelica were talking.
Doring introduced
Angelica as Miss Congeniality of the New Millennium.
If she's "Miss
Congeniality," Lucrezia Borgia is a candidate for
sainthood. She made a
few comments about Road Kill. Doring tried to
cool things down as
Road Kill began seething. Doring finally just
smiled and walked
about with her, leaving Road Kill to contemplate if
the problem was with
his deodorant or his personality. The general
consensus is that its
both, and more.
Joey said that with
the advent of ECW on TNN, and now that ECW has two
TV programs, the
younger talent will have more of a chance to shine. He
mentioned Tommy
Dreamer as being one of the younger talents, being he
is only 28 years old.
Most don't think about him as being "young"
because he has been
with ECW six years. He moved on to discussing
Tommy's back injury
and that he may never wrestle again because of it,
and how great a guy
Tommy is. You almost got the impression he was
Tommy's agent. He went
on to say the same thing can't be said of "that
jerk Steve Corino."
We switched backstage
to Corino, Jack Victory, sans his wheelchair,
Rhino and Yoshohiro
Tajiri. Corino rambled on trying to draw some
analogy between
Barnaby Jones (for the young among us, Barnaby Jones
was a TV show about 10
years ago, with Buddy Ebsen in the title role.
See, he did play
characters other than Jed Clampett). I was lost trying
to follow him, but
remember this is the same yo-yo that convinced Rhino
he could handle Taz,
and he himself has been taunting Taz for several
months. He went on to
say Tommy Dreamer would pay or "wrapping
Victory's leg around
the flag pole," as he began crying. He continued
that Taz will pay for
hurting Rhino and the whole locker room for what
has happened to
Tajiri. He closed with telling us that he and his group
of wonders were going
to take over ECW. Note to Steve: You might want
to check with Lance
Storm, Justin Credible and Jason, who have a
similar plan.
The next match was
Tajiri, with Corino at ringside waving a Japanese
Flag, manufactured by
The Acme Flag and Steamship Company, Division of
The Acme Corporation,
v. The Insane Luchadore, Super Crazy. Joey said
that Tajiri will meet
Taz for the ECW Championship, September 3, 1999,
on ECW On TNN. Tajiri
extended his hand to Crazy. You just knew that
Crazy would accept
after checking with the crowd who advised otherwise.
You also knew what
Tajiri would do. He did, with a Kick to the side of
Crazy's head, followed
by a little old fashion stomping. Tajiri hit a
Tilt-A-Whirl Flying
Head Scissors that sent Crazy to the floor. He took
a Baseball Slide as he
started back in, followed by an Asahi Moonsault.
Tajiri went out after
Crazy and Irish Whipped him into the guard rail.
They got back into the
ring. Tajiri kicked Crazy in the head and tied
him up in a Tarantula
in the ropes. Crazy reversed an attempt at a
Huricanrana into a
Power Bomb, and followed with Springboard Missile
Drop Kick. Tajiri went
to the floor and got blasted with a Crazy
Special (a flying leap
over the top rope) landing on Tajiri like a 747
coming in hard. Crazy
delivered a pair of kicks before they got back
in. Crazy had Tajiri
against a corner and gave him the traditional ten
punches to the head as
the crowd counted for him. Crazy may not speak
much English, but he
understands that much. Tajiri was happy he didn't
know any numbers
beyond ten. Tajiri shook it off and came back with a
Hand Spring Elbow off
the ropes, following with a Drop Kick to the
knees, and a German
Suplex. Tajiri got into an argument with the fans
allowing Crazy to get
it together. A kick in the face was his reward.
Crazy avoided an
attempt at a Brain Buster, and followed up with a
series of chops. Crazy
then hit his patented first, second and top turn
buckle Moonsaults.
Tajiri was happy there were only three. Crazy tried
for a pin, but Tajiri
kicked out. Corino bad mouthed Crazy, prompting
Crazy to go out after
him. Jack Victory appeared and grabbed Crazy from
behind. Corino swung,
and surprise, Crazy ducked and Victory ate
Corino's fist. Crazy
got back in just in time to take a face full of
Japanese Green Mist,
manufactured by The Acme Oriental Mist and Tea
Company, Division of
The Acme Corporation, spewed by Tajiri. Tajiri
followed with a Brain
Buster, that got us an "Oh, my G-d" from Joey.
The pin was academic.
Crazy's body may have been in the ring, but he
was really somewhere
south of Tampico. Corino came in and waved the
flag, with Victory
joining the festivities. In what will go down as the
silliest statement of
the year, make that the century, Joey said "Taz
may be in trouble." I
can just hear his knees shaking from here.
Winner - Yoshohiro
Tajiri - With a Title shot v. Taz on TNN next week,
the outcome of this
match was a given
Loser - Steve Corino -
Also a given
Joey gave a list of
ECW's shows thru September, including the next PPV,
Anarchy Rulz,
September 19, 1999, in Chicago. We can expect to have
this drummed into us
in the coming weeks.
The next match was for
the ECW Tag Team Championship, with The Dudley
Boyz, Bubba Ray (BBR)
and D-Von (C), along with Sign Guy Dudley,
meeting Balls Mahoney
and Little Spike Dudley (LSD).
BBR argued with
the fans on his way to
the ring. He praised Vince McMahon on his way
down. Balls brought
his customized Steel Chair, manufactured by The
Acme Table and Steel
Chair company, Division of The Acme Corporation,
and LSD a metal
ladder, manufactured by The Acme Ladder and Fire
Fighting Equipment
Company, Division of The Acme Corporation. They hit
the ring and the match
started right away with all four going at it.
BBR and LSD paired off, as
did Balls and D-Von. The crowd chanted
"Balls." LSD hit
BBR with a Huricanrana. Balls
hit D-Von with a Side
Kick. The Dudley's
went to the floor to regroup. Balls launched LSD
onto them, and
followed with a Plancha onto the dazed pair. The crowd
chanted "ECW." Spike
opened the ladder in the ring, climbed to the top
and dove fifteen down
onto The Dudley's. This got us yet another "Oh,
my G-d" from Joey. It
also got us a trip to commercial land where we
had a chance to buy
every tape ever made by ECW.
When we got back,
Balls was pounding D-Von. He then Irish Whipped him
into the corner, but
D-Von caught him coming in and hit him with a
Sit-Out Power Bomb.
BBR and LSD were out on the
floor. BBR's face was
covered with blood as
he pounded his half-brother. D-Von got a Cheese
Grater, manufactured
by The Acme Kitchen and Home Products Company,
Division of The Acme
Corporation, and raked it across Balls' face. This
got us another "Oh, my
G-d." As usual Balls was bleeding like a stuffed
pig. He is no longer
eligible for transfusions from the Blood Bank, he
has bled them dry
(that was bad!).
BBR continued beating on LSD,
and at
the same time arguing
with the fans. LSD hit
BBR with a chair shot and
tried for The Acid
Drop, but
BBR blocked it and dumped him
into the
first row of fans. LSD
pulled
BBR in after him. LSD was a
bloody mess
at this point. They
fought in the crowd. LSD tore away at
BBR's face,
and dragged him deeper
into the bleachers.
BBR had enough of it and
dropped LSD onto a
steel hand rail.
BBR wiped his face and we saw
it
was LSD's blood that
he had been covered with.
BBR yelled Vince
McMahon's praises as
he went. We switched over to the other two and saw
that Balls and D-Von
were now fighting in the crowd also.
BBR hit LSD
with a Trash Can and
then threatened to deck one of the fans who got
into his face. Balls
and D-Von were back in the ring had Balls covered,
but the referee was
out with
BBR and LSD, who were now
fighting at the
concession stand. LSD
crowned
BBR with a metal tray and hit
him with a
forearm to the face.
Thinking
BBR might be a little hungry,
he then
threw a bag of Nachos
in his face and then poured a bucket of drink
over him. Joey said
ECW will be stuck with the bill for the destroyed
concession stand ...
again. Meanwhile D-Von Suplexed Balls and followed
with a middle turn
buckle Diving Head Butt. Sign Guy was trying to find
the referee to have
him count Balls out. Balls came back with a boot to
the midsection and a
Power Slam. Balls kept on D-Von and Splashed him.
BBR and LSD fought their way
back to ringside as a chant of "ECW" rang
out again. Balls went
for a chair shot, but D-Von hit him with a Low
Blow and tried for a
pin. D-Von then hit Balls with a series of punches
to the head and face.
Balls retaliated with a Scoop and Slam. He went
for The New Jersey
Jam, but D-Von moved out of the way. Balls wont sit
down for a week as a
result.
BBR came into the ring and he
and D-Von
completely ruined
Balls' entire day with one of their patented moves, a
belly to-back Suplex
and Hangman's Neck Breaker Combo. Balls kicked out
of the pin. The
Dudley's thought the referee gave them a slow count and
were all over him.
That provided the opening Balls and LSD needed.
Balls hit
BBR with a Spine Buster and
LSD clobbered D-Von. Next up was
a Nutcracker Suite by
Balls on D-Von and an Acid Drop on
BBR by LSD.
Sign Guy came in,
prevented a pin and sped back out. Both LSD and Balls
went out after Sign
Guy and Double Whipped him into the guard rail.
They then opened two
Acme Table and stacked one atop the other at
ringside. D-Von and
BBR recovered and stopped
Balls and LSD as they
were trying to get
Sign Guy on the top table, and pounded away at them.
BBR was caught on the middle
turn buckle by Balls who attempted a
Huricanrana, but took
a Bubba Bomb for his efforts. LSD and D-Von were
out on the floor. LSD
Irish Whipped D-Von into the guard rail. With
BBR
was in a corner, LSD
climbed to the top turn buckle, Sign Guy threw his
loaded sign to
BBR, but LSD intercepted it
and bashed BBR in the head
with it.
BBR got a can of Lighter
Fluid, manufactured by The Acme
Barbecue and Outdoor
Products Company, Division of The Acme
Corporation, and
poured it on the stacked tables. Sign Guy lit the
tables.
BBR picked up LSD and Bubba
Bombed him thru both burning
tables. This got us
still another "Oh, my G-d" from Joey, and a chant
of "ECW" from the
fans. LSD was down and not moving among the rubble.
Balls was left to fend
for himself. D-Von began the execution with a
chair shot to Balls'
head (Chair Shot To The Head No. 7,880, Unofficial
Count) that he has
taken. He followed with No. 7,881.
BBR held Balls
from behind as he
stood on the apron. D-Von swung for No. 7,882, but
Balls ducked and
BBR had his pretty face
rearranged by the chair. Balls
followed with a
Nutcracker Suit and pinned
D-Von. The crowd broke
into the "Balls has Balls" song.
Winners - Balls
Mahoney and Little Spike Dudley - Now two time ECW Tag
Team Champions
Losers - The Dudley
Boyz - They can't bring the Belts to the WWF
Loser - The Blood Bank
- They have to give Balls and LSD transfusions
Joey was ecstatic over
the outcome and proud that The Dudley's wont be
able to deliver the
Belts to McMahon. He said "G-d bless Balls and
LSD." In the ring,
D-Von was groggy,
BBR was PO'd, Sign Guy was,
... Sign Guy. The crowd
serenaded them with
"Good-bye, Na Na Na Na, Hey Hey, Good-bye." Joey
predicted they would
be WWF Tag Team Champions and hoped they never
returned to ECW.
He closed the show
with the list of September dates. I told you he
would be relentless.
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