Issue # 311
Date:
Monday September 13th, 1999 9:19 pm
The Wrestling Booking Sheet
FALL BRAWL INJURY REPORT
Reported by Bob Ryder
at:
http://www.1wrestling.com
Vampiro suffered a
broken nose, a concussion, and has a loose front
tooth that may have to
be pulled. He was taken to a hospital by
ambulance at around
1:30am for a skull x-ray
after his eye began to
swell.
Shane Douglas suffered
what appears to be a partial tear of his bicep,
and a sore shoulder.
Rey Mysterio Jr. came out of his match with a knee
injury, but its not
known how serious it is.
TAZ TRADEMARK DISPUTE?
Reported by Bob Ryder
at:
http://www.1wrestling.com
There had been some
talk backstage under the Bischoff regime that if
Taz signed with the
WWF that WCW might try to cause problems over the
use of the name "Taz",
which is a trademark of Time Warner. The
trademark is related
to the very popular Warner Brothers/Looney Toons
cartoon character.
WHO WILL TAZ DROP THE
STRAP TO?
Reported by Al Isaacs
at:
http://www.scoopswrestling.com
While I predicted that
Taz would probably end up dropping the ECW strap
to Rob Van Dam,
Isaccs's theory is that Sabu will get the victory over
Taz at the November to
Remember PPV. Interesting, and it would set up
a full-blown Sabu vs.
RVD feud for early next year…
ECW/TNN RATING
Reported by Dave
Scherer at:
http://www.1wrestling.com
ECW's TNN rating
(9/10) took a step back this week, doing a 0.9 with a
1.6 share, down 11%
from last week. The quarter hours were 0.6, 0.8,
1.0 and 1.0. RollerJam
followed with a 0.5.
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Our regular Nitro
Reporter, Rick Phelps, was unable to do a Nitro
Report tonight;
helping Florida get through a Hurricane takes
precedence (Rick is a
member of the reserves). Good luck, Rick,
Thunder will be here
soon enough...
WCW Monday Nitro -
September 13, 1999
Hosted by Tony
Schiavone and Bobby Heenan
Live from Chapel Hill,
North Carolina
By Joe De Leon at:
http://www.ultimowrestling.com/rwin/index.shtml
• Chris Benoit
defeated Dean Malenko via Pinfall, to earn a Heavyweight
Title shot. - This
rematch between the two Revolution members took
place after Sid
Vicious interfered in the one the previous week. Shane
Douglas and Perry
Saturn were at ringside. Both Dean Malenko and Chris
Benoit wrestled a
nice, technical match, that saw many unique holds and
pin attempts. Benoit
signaled for the Diving Headbutt, but Malenko
recovered. He took
Benoit down with a superplex, but Benoit then turned
it into a roll-up for
the victory. Malenko and Benoit showed their
sportsmanship in the
end, as they hugged and raised each other's arms.
Benoit would go on to
wrestle Sting for the Heavyweight Title later in
the show.
• Ric Flair Interview,
Conducted by Gene Okerlund.
- Gene Okerlund told
Ric Flair, "Welcome home." Flair said he was glad
to be back. Okerlund
told Flair to explain where he had been the past
few months. Flair said
he actually didn't know where he had been the
last six months, since
he had a heart attack, been in an institution,
had a daughter getting
married, had a son in the wrestling business, a
daughter in varsity
cheerleading, and son in Japan for national amateur
wrestling finals.
Flair said he had been held back, but was back to
take over. He said he
and Hogan had a date with destiny. He said he
kept his eyes off the
business for six weeks, and saw that Sting became
the Heavyweight
Champion by hitting Hogan with a baseball bat. The
crowd booed. Flair
said may be he was jealous of Sting in the past, but
he knew he was the
bigger man, while Sting was "the franchise." Sting
and Lex Luger made
their ways out, with a ball bat. Okerlund told Sting
to start with what
went down the previous night on Fall Brawl. Flair
said Sting needed to
instead walk back to the locker room, so he
(Flair) could finish
up what he was saying. He said the format read,
"Ric Flair, 10
minutes." Sting said he and Flair went way back. He said
after looking back 10
years, he wondered how many times Flair lured him
in to stab him in the
back. Sting said Flair made him what he was. He
called Flair the
dirtiest player in the game that he (Sting) learned
from. He said deep
down inside, he loved and respected Flair. Sting
said he would give
Flair the opportunity to walk peacefully to the
back. Flair said it
was a fact that he made Sting a millionare, but
Sting sounded like his
wife. Flair said, "You're right, I'll leave." He
acted as if he would
leave, but then returned. Sting said he and Luger
were ready to run with
the ball. Luger said he had respect for Flair,
which was why they
were giving him the opportunity to walk out of the
ring. The crowd
chanted, "Luger sucks." Luger said he didn't mean to
lecture Flair, but it
had been a year of retirements of great sports
athletes. He told
Flair to take a walk, because it was his and Sting's
time. Flair said he
was ready to retire after not watching WCW for six
weeks, but after
tuning in the previous day, he said WCW needed him
back. He said Sting
wouldn't walk over him to get recognition. Luger
then decked Flair.
They stomped on on him. Luger followed-up with a
clothesline and the
Torture Rack. Sting then applied the Scorpian Death
Drop. Hulk Hogan and
Bret Hart then made their ways out. Sting and
Luger slowly exited
the ring. Hogan said he didn't know what planet
Sting and Luger were
living on, but he was going to take them out of
their dreamworld. He
said Luger and Sting crossed the line when they
attacked Flair. He
said both he and Hart would show Sting and Luger
what kicking someone's
ass meant. Hart said it was about time they got
rid of some wrongs. He
told Luger and Sting to prepare themselves to be
excellently executed
later in the show. Hogan said it was for not only
him, but for Flair,
since the crowd respected him. Sting and Luger were
shown in the backstage
area. Luger said he didn't have his medical
release or wrestling
gear, so they couldn't wrestled. Both smiled and
walked away.
• Backstage, Berlyn
arrived with security and his intrepreter, Uta
Luddendorf.
• Ricky Rachtman,
Kimberly, and Spice updated The Nitro Girl search.
• Backstage, J.J.
Dillon was on the phone, requesting immediate
information on the
medical condition of Lex Luger. Dillon was told
Luger was cleared to
wrestle later in the show and actually had been
for three weeks.
• Disco Inferno
defeated Erik Watts with the Last Dance.
- Close to the end of
the match, Sid Vicious was shown in the backstage
area, viewing the
ongoing action in the ring. Disco bragged about
himself afterwards,
saying he was an icon. Sid, along with Charles
Robinson, then made
his way down. He chokeslammed and Powerbombed Disco
and
Watts. He pinned Watts to
make his "winning streak" at 81-0. He
bragged about the
United States Champion and taunted Goldberg. He
Powerbombed Disco once
again for win number 82.
• Norman Smiley and
Silver King went to a No-Contest.
- As the match went
on, Sid Vicious made his way down. He chokeslammed
Silver King and
Powerbombed Norman Smiley for 84-0.
• Kendall and Barry
Windham (w/Curt Hennig, Vincent) defeated Steven
Regal and Dave Taylor
via Pinfall.
- As Vincent
distracted the referee, Curt Hennig nailed Steven Regal
with the cowbell.
Barry Windham made the pinfall to pick up the win for
The West Texas
Rednecks.
• Jerry Flynn (w/Jerry
Flynn) vs. Prince Iaukea resulted in a
No-Contest.
- Goldberg made his
way down in regular clothing, along with security.
Prince Iaukea, who was
scheduled to wrestle the match against Jerry
Flynn, was in the
backstage area, confused. Goldberg apologized to
Flynn and asked for
just a second. He said he had always been told good
things are worth
waiting for, but he had run out of patience. He said
every week, he had
been watching Sid Vicious wreak havoc. Goldberg
admitted he admired
Sid's skill, size, strength, but one thing he would
not stand for was
Sid's mouth. He said he would put a stop to it on the
show. He said he
worked hard at his record by destroying everyone
one-by-one, but Sid
cheated, as he came out and interrupted matches.
Goldberg said he
didn't admire that, so he would draw the line on the
show. He said he would
stomp a hole in Sid's ass. He told Sid to show
him and people that he
had a backbone. He waited for Sid to appear. Sid
appeared in the
backstage area. He said Goldberg's talk was cheap and
he wasn't wrestling
him, because it was his show and his
United States
Title. He packed his
bag and left. Goldberg said if that was the case,
the match could down
whenever, because Sid's ass was next. Flynn then
kicked Goldberg, but
received a spear and Jackhammer in return.
• Harlem Heat vs.
Brian Knobs and Hugh Morrus (w/Jimmy Flynn) resulted
in a No-Contest, to
let Harlem Heat retain the Tag Team Titles.
- Brian Knobs called
the crowd
North Carolina losers. He
told them he
and Hugh Morrus would
become the Tag Team Champions after defeating
Harlem Heat. Jimmy
Hart got in several cheap shots to The First
Family's advantage.
Stevie Ray later made the hot tag to Booker T.
After taking Morrus
down, Booker set himself up for the Missle
Dropkick, only to be
attacked by Kendall and Barry Windham. Curt
Hennig, along with
Vincent, pulled his troops back.
• The Insane Clown
Posse (w/Vampiro) defeatedLenny and
Lodi via Pinfall.
- Before the match,
the
Lodi fan ran in the ring. He
was taken away by
security. Vampiro was
shown with a bruised eye. He got onto the
cameraman, saying
there was something more important going on in the
ring. The Insane Clown
Posse dominated. Lenny and
Lodi took the
advantage at one
point. Lenny superplexed Shaggy 2 Dope down the
canvas. Shaggy,
however, rolled-up Lenny for the win. Vampiro said to
the camera, "This
ain't over, Kidman."
• Chris Benoit
defeated Rick Steiner via Pinfall, to capture the
Television Title.
- Chris Benoit said
the previous night was one of the worst nights of
his life. He said Sid
Vicious beat him and showed him why he (Sid)
called himself The
Millennium Man. He said he wasn Sid tapped out
whenever he was
strapped in the Crippler Crossface, but he didn't,
according to the
referee of the match. However, after going to the
production truck to
view a replay of the match, he saw Sid tap out. He
then told Sting to get
his rear out there to show what kind of true
Heavyweight Champion
he really was. Rick Steiner came out instead. He
said he heard Sting
wanted a title shot. He said Sting had better
things to do than
wrestle Benoit. Steiner said if Benoit wanted a title
shot, he had his
Television Title belt with him. Benoit took his
t-shirt off to get an
unscheduled match underway with Steiner. As the
match went on, Steiner
grew frustrated and threw out the referee.
Benoit then
backsuplexed Steiner for the pinfall. Steiner attacked the
referee and Benoit
afterwards. Dean Malenko made his way down to scare
off Steiner.
• Perry Saturn
(w/Revolution) defeated Eddie Guerrero(w/Filthy
Animals) via Pinfall.
- Just before Eddie
Guerreroand Perry Saturn were about to go at it,
Kidman, Rey Mysterio,
Jr., and Konnan (new addition) made their ways
down to the ring.
After Saturn bodyslammed Guerrero, he went for the
Death Valley Driver,
but Guerrero countered with a huracranana and
brainbuster. He then
went for the Frog Splash, but Saturn moved. Saturn
then locked down
Guerrero for the pinfall. Both teams entered the ring
and faced off, as we
went to a commercial break.
• Berlyn (w/Uta
Luddendorf, Bodyguards) defeated Buff Bagwell with the
Reversed Neckbreaker.
- Buff Bagwell and
Berlyn went one-on-one after their match wasn't
delivered the previous
night on the Fall Brawl PPV. Uta Luddendorf
joined in for color
commentary. Bagwell dominated Berlyn in the
beginning, until
Berlyn was on top after countering a Blockbuster
attempt. After
Berlyn's head bodyguard punched Bagwell, Berlyn finished
things off with the
Reversed Neckbreaker.
• Sting and Lex Luger
defeated Hulk Hogan and Bret Hart via Pinfall.
- Lex Luger was in
regular clothing. Hulk Hogan and Bret Hart
immediately went at it
with the heels. Sting and Luger remained on top
by working on Hogan's
knee. Hogan later made the tag to Hart. All four
superstars were soon
in th ering. Diamond Dallas Page interfered with a
baseball bat, but
Hogan took him out. Meanwhile, Hart had Sting in the
Sharpshooter, until he
was whacked in the face with the bat by Luger.
Sting then made the
pinfall for the win. Luger and Sting left with DDP,
while officials tended
to Hart's face.
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WHEN its TIME TO SHOOT
FAITHFUL OLD TRIGGER
Written by reader: Bob
Colby (bobcolby)
I've been trying to
think of a way to make it clear to people like
"madspector"
("Shooting The Horse That Brought You There"; WBS 308)
just why the Turner
people did what they *had* to do in regard to Eric
Bischoff's role in the
company. Luckily, an event at Fall Brawl '99
made my point for me.
Buff Bagwell's refusal
to job to Berlyn at the PPV, and the horrible
match that resulted
from having to throw an unprepared Jim Duggan in at
the last minute, is a
perfect symbol of everything that's gone wrong in
WCW. And it happened
because WCW has become the kind of place where a
star can believe that
he can take the best work the creative team has
come up with in a long
time (namely Berlyn's gimmick), and toss it in
the dumpster without
any consequences to himself. That he managed
(according to the
latest reports) to get the creative committee to
agree to sabotage
their hard work at the last possible moment only
points up just how bad
things really are.
Yes, there is
"infantile" behavior running rampant, but there are far
better people to point
your finger at than Ric Flair. For awhile, Flair
was the only top star
in the promotion (except for the one who was
doing the booking)
willing to job to the up-and-coming midcarders (he
even added himself to
a house show match and laid down when it became
clear that neither of
the scheduled competitors wanted to job to each
other). It certainly
says something when the most consistently
mistreated star in the
promotion shows the most team spirit!
Now compare that to
some of the people who gained favor with the old
regime. Like Savage,
who went on strike after a monster push didn't
get over with the
fans, or Hogan, whose eyes turn northward whenever
any challenge is made
to his prerogatives. While "madspector" worries
about the precedent
set by listening to the voices of the justifiably
disgruntled, he would
do well to also consider the precedent set by
further indulging the
already pampered.
Now I'm not one of
those people who try to negate or minimize
Bischoff's very real
contribution to this field (including the way his
success energized his
competitors). But any business has to make
decisions based on
*today's* reality. Would the Turner people really be
honoring Eric's
achievements by standing around and letting him go down
with the ship? That
wouldn't exactly be doing any favors for all the
other people who
depend on WCW to keep a roof over their heads (and
their families fed),
would it?
The fact is that for
all of his accomplishments Eric Bischoff still has
to take responsibility
for the destructive,couldn't-care-less-about-the
-company attitude that
has developed among the favored talent in WCW.
It happened on his
watch, nothing has been done about it, and now its
time for a change.
And we had better hope
that change comes right now. Bagwell's selfish
act (which may very
well have killed the best angle WCW has developed
in many months) has
given Bill Busch his golden moment of opportunity
to demonstrate that
he's serious about making a real difference. If the
stars of the promotion
continue to exercise veto power over storylines,
even the best creative
team the company can find will find it that much
harder to tell the
kind of coherent stories that will get people caring
again, and if they
can't do that then it really is all over.
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HARLEM HEAT
Written by reader:
ReaprGrim9
I met Booker T and
Stevie Ray at Richmond International Raceway as they
and Road Dogg were
there to help promote the WCW/WWF sponsored cars for
the races this past
weekend
I talked to them for a
few moments and asked Stevie Ray what his
favorite part of
wrestling was and Booker T quipped "the days off".
Then joking aside both
said, "the fans. ". I asked him what did it
feel like to come into
the ring and get the fan reactions they get,
whether it be as a
face or heel, and Booker T said "that's what makes
it all worthwhile".
I also asked about his
feelings towards the past split up of
Harlem
Heat and he said "it
was hard BUT, I got to work on my singles
competition and I
liked that alot." Booker T seemed very outgoing,
even though he may
have been tired. Stevie Ray was a little less
outgoing, but both
were very cordial to the crowd and shook my hand as
I wished them luck in
their respective futures. Thought I would pass
this along: free
autograph sessions are becoming a thing of the past as
I was glad to see
these two NOT charge for theirs. I was surprised to
not see them in Harlem
Heat garb in the picture, though. Even
wrestling can't pass
up the huge following in Winston Cup these days;
both cars were very
well painted although the WCW car I only saw on the
track while the WWF
car was next to the trailer / very heavily
promoting Stone Cold
Steve Austin on the car itself…
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FANTASY BOOKING (This
will not be happening)
Written by reader:
Moj8681
Granted, the Bossman
will be pretty upset with the Bulldog. On RAW,
Davey Boy says he's
back in the federation for one more legendary run
and that he's already
started by winning the Hardcore title. He also
brags about how he is
the strongest WWF star in recent memory.
He and the Bossman
have a match, which is interupted by Mark Henry, who
takes
exception to the
Bulldog's comments. Henry, the new strong man in the
WWF,
feels threatened by
the Bulldog. Bossman doesn't appreciate Henry's
"help" in the match,
and a brief 3 way feud emerges, with the Bulldog
claiming the European
title.
At the December PPV,
the tag team champs, Edge and Christian, lose the
belts to the
Dudleys. The next night on
RAW, the Bulldog loses his Euro
belt to Christian,
after a memorable 3 month title reign.
In the meantime, the
new tag champs, the Dudleys, are still out to
prove how tough they
are. They dismantled the Acolytes in September,
and had a long lasting
feud with Edge/Christian and Big Show/Undertaker
for the tag titles.
Now, they go after Ken
Shamrock, and the Bulldog, the world's most
dangerous man, and the
WWF's resident strong man. This leads to a
coalition between
Davey Boy and Shamrock. They eventually win the tag
belts at the Royal
Rumble, and Shamrock also regains the
Intercontinental title
from his longtime nemesis, Chris Jericho the
next month.
The Bulldog gets
jealous of Shamrock's added success, and the team
splits up at
WrestleMania, resulting in a Bulldog/Shamrock feud for the
IC title. Bulldog
comes out on top, and Shamrock finally graduates to
main event status.
The now heel Bulldog
has another long IC run, from April to August of
2000. He loses the
title to Val Venis, and in the meantime, Ken
Shamrock finally gets
his first World title, defeating the 4 time
champ, the Rock.
After SummerSlam, the
Bulldog goes over his awesome year, and says that
he did it all, except
get the big one. He says he beat his former
partner once, and
he'll do it again if Shamrock has the guts to put the
belt on the line. They
fight a series of matches that never have a
decisive winner.
First a double
countout on RAW. Then a steel cage match in which both
men fall off
simultaneously at a PPV. Another NO Holds Barred RAW match
results in both men
falling unconscious. Finally, the Bulldog wins the
belt in an Iron Man
match. At the end, he celebrates and says it was
all for Owen.
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