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Issue # 357
Date:
Monday October 18th, 1999 11:33 pm
The Wrestling Booking Sheet
ECW ON TNN RATING
Reported by Bob Ryder
at:
http://www.1wrestling.com
The
10/15/1999 TNN edition of ECW
drew an all-time high rating of 1.2,
with quarter hour
ratings of 1.2, 1.1, 1.2, & 1.2.
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WWF MONDAY NIGHT RAW
LIVE FROM:
OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY
By Rick Phelps (wrestleric)
Still shots from the
main event at No Mercy were shown. The Rock then
made his way to the
ring. The Rock said that he did not mean to nail
SCSA with the
sledgehammer at No
Mercy, and described what he would do to Triple H at
Survivor
Series. SCSA came out
and said that he doesn't see the Rock being the
number
one contender at the
PPV. SCSA said that if there was a problem they
could settle it in the
ring. A both men were taking their shirts off,
Vince McMahon stepped
in and said that even though he would like to see
the two go at it, that
the opinion of Triple H did matter. Triple H bragged about
hurting all three men.
McMahon then ordered a triple threat match
between the three at
Survivor Series.
X-Pac/Kane versus The
Dudley Boyz
A distraction by the
Headbangers allowed Kane to chokeslam Bubba Ray
for the
win. After the bell,
the Dudleyz and Headbangers fought on the floor.
Winners: X-Pac/Kane
via pinfall
--In the back, the
Acolytes, Howard Finkel and Curtis Hughes were
playing poker. The
Acolytes would later defeat Finkel in the game when
Hughes ran out of
money.
--The Holly's asked
Vince to grant them a tag team title shot. McMahon
said he wasn't sure if
they deserved it, but it would be "entertaining
as hell."
--The Big Bossman
challenged the Big Show to a match, mocking the fact
that the Show's father
is dying. The Big Show accepted saying that he
would squeeze the Big
Show so tight that he would break him in half.
--The Fabulous Moolah
and Mae Young began arguing during an interview,
topped
off with Young
challenging Moolah to a title shot and the two women
fighting on the floor.
--At Mark Henry's
fourth sex therapy session, Sexual Chocolate was
taken advantage of by
his large therapist.
The Godfather w/Hos
versus Viscera w/Mideon
After a distraction
from Mideon, Viscera splashed the Godfather for the
win.
Winner: Viscera via
pinfall
--After searching for
the Rock, Mankind found the Great One and told
him that he was going
to carry the team during their match tonight and
then presented him
with a copy of his autobiography. Although the Rock
refused to take it,
Mankind attempted to give the Rock Mr. Rocko to use
as a bookmark.
--Chyna along with
Miss Kitty (dressed exactly like Chyna), stated that
she felt good being
the first female Intercontinental champion. She
then challenged any
man in the back that wanted a match to bring it on.
Chris Jericho appeared
and said seeing Chyna as the IC champ made him
sick. As Y2J insulted
Chyna's womanhood and credibility as a champion,
Chyna walloped
Jericho with the IC belt,
sending him flying off the
apron and across the
Spanish announce position.
Test versus British
Bulldog
Test came to the ring
carrying a large trash can resembling the one
that gave Stephanie
McMahon temporary amnesia. The
Mean Street Possee
attacked,
forcing the bell. The
Bulldog then delivered several kidney shots with
the trash can.
Winner: Test via
disqualification
--In the back, Al Snow
found a copy of Mick Foley's autobiography in
the trash and when he
told Mankind of where he found it, Foley (after
realizing Snow was not
joking) walked away looking dejected.
Val Venis versus Al
Snow
Venis put away the
president of the J.O.B. squad with the Money Shot.
Winner: Val Venis via
pinfall
--Mankind angrily
confronted the Rock and let him know that he was
unhappy about the Rock
throwing away his book. Even though the Rock
said he did not know
what he was talking about, Mankind laid into the
Rock, calling him
egotistical and self centered, and screamed at the
Rock to grow up.
Big Bossman (c) versus
The Big Show *Hardcore Championship*
The Big Show did not
make it to the ring as a police officer delivered
some type of bad news
to the Big Show, who broke down and started
crying.
Winner: Big Bossman
via forfeit (Retains Hardcore Championship)
New Age Outlaws versus
The Acolytes (w/Howard Finkel)
During this match,
Farooq ran chest first into one of the turnbuckles,
snapping it loose,
causing the entire top rope to droop all the way
around. Mr. Ass nailed
Bradshaw with a chair (that Finkel threw in the
ring), allowing the
Road Dogg to roll him up for the win. The Acolytes
then gave Finkel a
wedgie from hell, and continued to chastise him in
the showers.
Winner: New Age
Outlaws via pinfall
--Michael Cole
introduced the New Brood. Matt Hardy began by saying
that they are not the
Brood, but the Hardy Boys. Edge and Christian
came down and all four
men received another standing ovation while the
four shook hands.
Terri Runnels and Gangrel then made their way to the
ring. Gangrel made a
comment implying that he and Runnels slept
together, which caused
ALL FOUR men to attack
Gangrel.
--GTV picked up the
Bossman talking to the "cop" that delivered the Big
Show the news earlier.
The Bossman gave the man he hired to play cop
money, telling him
that it was a great performance and wanted to know
how the Big Show was
crying.
The Rock n Sock
Connection (c) versus The Hollys *Tag Team Titles*
An upset Mankind sat
on the ring steps with his back turned to the Rock
during this match,
letting Rock wrestle the match. Triple H ran in and
delivered a pedigree,
allowing Hardcore to make the cover and give the
fighting cousins the
tag team belts. The champion was attacked by SCSA
and thrown into the
ring. Triple H was almost a victim of the people's
elbow, but stopped
dead in his tracks when SCSA stood over Triple H and gave
the Rock some "sign
language." Raw went off the air with SCSA and the
Rock burning holes
through each other with their eyes.
Winner: The Holly's
(New Tag Team Champions)
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ECW House Show Results
for
Sunday, October 17th, 1999
Reported by
MrSocko879
Live at The Roxy in
Boston, Massachusetts
Roadkill & Dastardly
Danny Doring defeated The Dupp Brothers by pinfall
after Doring hit the
top rope leg drop and Roadkill hit the splash.
P.N. News defeated Tom
Marquez after a huge top rope somersault onto
Marquez.
Tajiri defeated Davey
Cash & Simon Diamond in a
Three Way dance after a
Brainbuster to
Diamond.
Lance Storm (w/ Dawn
Marie Bytch) beat Spike Dudley by curling him up.
Balls Mahoney and Axl
Rotten defeated C.W. Anderson and Wild Bill Wiles
in a
Boston Street fight after a
chair shot and Nutcracker Suite.
Raven & Tommy Dreamer
(w/Francine) defeated The Baldies (Spanish Angel,
Tony Devito, and Vito
"The Skull" Lagrasso) after two DDTs. After the
match, Raven
challenged Dreamer then left before they could fight.
Raven came out again
with a Red Sox hat on and Dreamer said if Raven
could name three Red
Sox players in its history he would lay down and
let him give him a
beating. Raven did, but when Dreamer laid down,
Raven spit on the Red
Sox hat and just left.
Mike Awesome beat
Little Guido (w/Big Sal Graziano) after an Awesome
Bomb through a table
in the ring.
Jazz beat Jason
(w/Justin Credible) by a roll up. After the match,
Credible and Jason
attacked Jazz. Nova tried to make the save but got
caned by Justin. Sabu
made the save and put Jason and Credible on the
table, but missed the
leg drop. Rhino, Corino, and Victory came out
and Rhino attacked
Sabu. The bell rang for a one on one match.
Sabu (w/Bill "Fonzie"
Alfonso) beat Rhino after a legdrop to Rhino
through a table.
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CONTROVERSIAL ANGLES
Written by reader:
Dojo818
Hey, I read your
Booking Sheet and the part about WWF using cancer to
get Paul Wight over as
being disgusting. Well, I have lost 2 uncles to
cancer, and I agree
with you, but we are both still wrong on this. The
majority of WWF angles
offend certain people in some ways. I'm sure
female victims of
spousal abuse are disgusted by the JJ angle. I'm
sure homosexuals were
disgusted with Goldust. Religious people
disgusted with The
Undertaker. Sexual addicts disgusted by Mark Henry.
The list goes on, but
the point is we can't ask WWF to take out an
angle because we have
personally gone through the story in real life,
and feel its
inappropriate. If we did that, then there would be no
stories. It would just
be pure wrestling, and the ratings would
plummet.
I agree with you and
think its disgusting, but I realize that its all
just a story to offend
everyone.
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Steve Appy
responds:
The thing is that all
of the angles you mentioned truly were offensive,
and few of them ever
drew money. The women-beater character did
finally get Jeff
Jarrett some attention, but at what cost? Jarrett's
character was actually
gleeful in his violence.
While Goldust had a
short run as an effective heel, his character
didn't have legs. None
of the other angles cited drew a cent for the
WWF. It is possible to
draw money/ratings with compelling behavior
that doesn't emulate
the worst of The Jerry Springer show. While its
debatable, I think
that this cancer angle may be the worst yet (and it
is debatable, because
there have been some pretty bad ones!).
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Re: THE SUBJECT OF
SCRUTINY
Written by reader:
ChicagoM0B
I'd first like to say
that I do not consider myself a smart because I
don't know all of the
"inner workings" of the business, nor could I get
in the ring and do
what they do; so I don't try to act like I do/can
like some of your
aforementioned "smarts." I just consider myself a
fan that knows what he
likes. I like matches that make sense.
What I mean is, that
make a match seem as real as possible. its the
subtleties that make
the matches I like. The psychology - transitions,
great selling, the
stiffness,
the flow of a match.
That's the kind of stuff I mark out for. I began
to like that
stuff at a young age,
because in a world of absurd characters and
nonsensical angles,
those were the believeable aspects of the sport.
It also helped to
understand things for me when there were still
announcers focusing on
the match as opposed to which faction is feuding
with which faction or
cracking jokes about a valet's breasts.
Now obviously I can't
speak for anybody else, but I can share my views
(and possibly others)
for not being the biggest fans of the certain
workers you brought
up.
Austin - He used to be
a well versed, technically sound mat wrestler.
He busted his a** to
get to where he is today and deserves the success
he has achieved. That
being said, at Summerslam 97 he suffered a
career-threatening
neck injury against Owen Hart, and since then
changed his style
severely. He's more or less become a "punch, kick"
wrestler. I don't mind
his gimmick because its believable, and I've
always liked a
no-nonsense (although some of the angles he's been in
are nothing more than
nonsense) a**kicker.
But to me, his matches
have become very spotty, sometimes aimless,
brawls
with seemingly
choreographed spots, that have little to none of the
traits I mentioned
earlier. And, from his perspective, it makes sense.
It is a much easier
style to wrestle, and he doesn't have to take any
bumps that threaten to
reinjure his neck.
The Rock - All talk,
no action. Doesn't have a very good move set.
Uses the same, tired
catch phrases week-after-week, but charasmatic to
most. I really don't
like the way he over does things. Has perhaps
the most business
exposing move (right next to The VanDaminator; don't
get me started on him)
in the "People's Elbow." But what bothers me
the most is the fact
that people think he's a good wrestler. If he
gets in the ring with
someone to do his thinking for him, he's
carryable (barely). A
perfect example of how overrated he is: the
Ladder match versus
Helmsley. They
exposed themselves as
much as a Playboy model as they aimlessly
meandered around
trying to think of what to do next.
Hogan - Part of this
is the fact that he's terrible; simple and plain.
He was the Baba to
Flair's Inoki, in that he was much more popular
despite the fact that
his contemporary was a better worker (in Flair's
case, colossally). He
needed to retire years ago, but his ego won't
let him. If he truly
cared about the business, he'd put over some of
the young talent and
then retire, but I seriously doubt that will
happen anytime soon.
Nash - I have to
disagree. He is EXTREMELY lazy, and has a move set
that's more shallow
than a Hollywood agent's soul. He's a good big man
if you're comparing
him to the suckness that is Sid, but not next to
say Vader, or a young
Andre the Giant. He's good at being a big
smart-a**, but that's
where it ends. It doesn't help that he has the
knees of an 80-year
old either.
In conclusion, some
people DO enjoy wrestling by analyzing it. People
like the sport for
different aspects, and while I may respect people's
opinions, I also
disagree a lot. Many times I do get a selfish "I've
been a loyal fan of
wrestling for a long time, so give me what I want"
attitude. But then I
realize that this is a business and,
unfortunately, much
like the "real world," the all mighty dollar runs
all, so I guess I'll
have to accept it. I'll still have my cynicism
(and wrestling tapes),
so I won't really change.
Now the whole point of
this letter was to let everybody know that maybe
we should stop
analyzing everything and everybody and just enjoy
wrestling. I love the
news and different peoples columns but I miss
marking out. Before I
got into the wrestling internet world, I would go
crazy for the Rock and
Austin but now I just don't anymore. I just wish
everybody could love
everything wrestling has to offer again.
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THOUGHTS ON
RUSSO/FERRARA
Written by reader:
Tommy Fierro (ISPW2)
A lot of people have
been E-Mailing me asking me to post a weekly
column on the website,
talking about my feelings about what's going on
in the business. While
I don't want to put something like this on the
ISPW website, because
I want to keep it strictly ISPW, I would be more
then willing to answer
questions on the boards. You can get to them by
going to
ISPWwrestling.com and go under Message Boards.
I have received a few
E-Mails asking about my thoughts of the jump of
Vince Russo and Ed
Ferrara to World Championship Wrestling. Here are my
thoughts on the
situation:
I feel as though Vince
Russo and Ed Ferrara are geniuses. They took the
World Wrestling
Federation product and gave it a major face lift. They
totally helped turn
the ratings war around, and you have to give them
credit for that.
However, they are not the only reason why the WWF does
so well. Steve Austin
and The Rock are over HUGE, and they are going to
be regardless whether
Russo and Ferrara are writing their storylines or
not. Only a fool
wouldn't know what to do with Austin and The Rock.
However, I give credit
to the duo for getting EVERYONE in the
federation over.
However, the WWF will
go on and be as strong as it ever was. Two people
aren't going to change
the WWF product.
However, those same
two people
ARE going to change the WCW
product, and
change it GREATLY. I
am very much so looking forward to Nitro tonight
to see just what Russo
and Ferrara have in store for WCW. They have the
talent, and they have
the stars. its just that WCW had no clue what to
do with it. It will be
interesting to see if Jeff Jarrett is on the
show tonight, as I am
sure he will be. Here's a great idea to debut
him:
Have Nitro open with
Mona vs. Brandi Alexander, and two minutes into
the match, have Jeff
Jarrett come out of nowhere and destroy both
girls. The fans will
go crazy, as probably most have no idea that
Jarrett is leaving the
WWF, as they just saw him last night on the
PPV. Hot shot angles
like this will get people talking. They should
give Torrie Wilson to
him too, as she can be on of the hottest women in
the business today and
they aren't doing anything with her really. They
should also debut
Dustin Runnels tonight, as many remember him from the
WWF, and he hasn't
been off TV for that long.
My final opinion is
that Russo and Ferrara will make Nitro watchable
again, and their
ratings should increase very much so in the future.
However, will that be
enough to catch up to the WWF? Not right now. Not
six months from now.
Maybe not even a year from now. But never say
never in this
business.
If you have any topics
you'd like to get my opinion on, please leave it
on the boards and I
will answer all questions.
Also in the future, I
am going to be writing more on what I would do
with certain
situations, angle ideas, etc. If you think they sound
good, forward them to
the right people in WWF or WCW via E-Mail. Help
get the talk out about
Tommy Fierro, a 22 year old promoter from New
Jersey. Any little bit
helps, it really does. I appreciate your time
and effort.
Thanks,
Tommy Fierro
ISPW
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HULK HOGAN
Written by reader: Ed
Pyle (epyle)
Once again, I want to
put a wrestling story in perspective. I recently
saw Hulk Hogan
compared to Nolan Ryan and other sports greats with
long careers. The
thing is, even though Ryan was up in years when he
retired, he was still
probably still the number one pitcher on his
team. Before Ryan
became a liability he retired.
Hogan hasn't done
that. His slow pacing and mic style have hurt WCW's
main events for the
last couple of years, and I think its safe to say
that the strength of a
Nitro or PPV is judged on its main event. Yes,
its sad when the
greats can't break away from the game but when that
happens it takes
strong management to do the right thing. I'm not sure
that Bischoff was the
strong manager, and maybe WCW's new regime is. I
wouldn't be surprised
to see Hogan either cut or demoted in the next
few weeks if he
doesn't do the right thing on his own.
Thanks,
Ed
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NO MERCY
Written by reader:
Ovrthehll1
Last nights PPV was
without a doubt the biggest waste of time and money
that I have ever
watched in my life. The bouts were to boring,
predictable and so
overdone that I'm just thinking that this one might
be my last PPV
ordered. I've watched wrestling for the last 35 years
and I'll tell you
something, if the WWF doesn't come back with some
fresh and new
storylines I think they are going to start to lose alot
of people on both
sides of the ring.
I just hope that
someone can get through to them that they are getting
old fast and its time
for a change!!!!! (Owen was right!! )
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The staff of The
Wrestling Booking Sheet
Editor: Steve
Appy
Columnist:
Mark George
Columnist: SamJerry
Columnist: Fritz
Capp
Columnist: Rick Phelps
Columnist: Cindy
Barnes
Columnist: Josh Hewitt
Columnist: Swami
Columnist: Tom Misnik
Columnist: Nate Pelley
Columnist: Robert Troy (Osiris)
Columnist:
Tom
Kirkbride
Columnist: Ryan S. Oaks
Columnist: Darren Kramer
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