Issue # 365
Date:
Sunday October 24th, 1999 9:27 pm
The Wrestling Booking Sheet
WCW HALLOWEEN HAVOK RESULTS
10/24/1999, Live in
Las Vegas, NV
By Nate Pelley of The
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The show opened up
with a run down of the action, and the announcement
that Rey Mysterio, Jr.
has been injured and thus could not wrestle. The
WCW board of directors
stripped the Tag Team titles from Mysterio and
Konnan, and ordered a
three way dance later in the evening for the
straps: Konnan &
Kidman vs. Hugh Morrus & Brian Knobs vs. Harlem Heat.
Match #1: WCW World
Cruiserweight Champion Disco Inferno vs. Lash
LeRoux.
Choppy opener to the
card, as LeRoux, the recipient of WCW's "midcarder
push of the month"
looked very green against Disco. Sloppy action for
most of the match, as
Lash seemed too interested in hitting highspots
and didn't concentrate
on much else. Interesting note about LeRoux, he
got his name from a
1920's silent film star. Speaking of silent,
that's what the crowd
was for this one. Disco eventually hit the Last
Dance for the merciful
end to this one. Afterwards, Lash hit his
"Ragin' Cajun" (AKA
the Amniville Horror that Chris Chetti uses, or the
finisher Ivory has
favored lately) and walked out with the title.
Please Russo, save us
from a rematch.
Winner: And still
Cruiserweight Champion, Disco Inferno
Pre-shot footage
showed Chris Benoit and Dean Malenko telling Saturn
they quit the
Revolution.
Match #2: WCW World
Tag Team Title Match -- 3 Way Dance:
Harlem Heat
(Booker T & Stevie
Ray) vs. The Filthy Animals (Konnan & Kidman) vs.
The First Family
("Laughing Man" Hugh Morrus & "Nasty" Brian Knobs)
(with Jimmy Hart).
This one was contested
under Hardcore rules (?). Wild brawl from the
outset, and it was
hard to follow all of the action. Knobs was tossed
into the cemetery set
up and had the tombstones broken and bashed over
his skull by Heat.
Hugh Morrus was working over Konnan in the ring,
while Kidman brawled
with Stevie Ray. Booker T and Knobs ended up in
the locker room, with
Morrus setting Konnan up on a table in the ring.
Booker T got the pin
in the back on Knobs, and just seconds later
Morrus put Konnan
through the table and got the pin there. The
referee's argued
briefly over who got the win, but eventually decided
Booker T has gotten
the pinfall first.
Winners: And for the
10th time, WCW World Tag Team Champions,
Harlem
Heat.
Ric and David Flair
are shown entering the building, Ric clutching a
crowbar. Meanwhile,
back in the ring, "Diamond" Dallas Page and
Kimberly were bad
mouthing Flair. DDP challenged Flair into making
their match a strap
match later in the night.
Goldberg was shown
entering the building and asking for Sid. Mike Tenay
talked to Kidman and
Eddie Guerreroabout Eddie 's upcoming match with
Saturn.
Match #3: Perry Saturn
vs. Eddie Guerrero. Eddie took off his watch
(which used to be Ric
Flair's watch) and gave it to Bobby Heenan. This
was a very good match,
with lots of back and forth action and solid mat
work. Saturn hit his
trademark moves (T-Bone suplex, savate kicks,
legdrops) and Guerrero
proved why he is one of the top five workers in
the
US today. Good exchange
as Eddie went for the
Frog Splash but Saturn moved, then Eddie got
crotched on the top
rope and fell victim to a super-Northern Lights
Suplex. Saturn then
looked like he was going for a super bomb, but Eddie
turned it into a top
rope brainbuster. Cue Ric Flair, who hit the ring
crowbar in hand. He
clocked Eddie , ending the match. Kidman, who tried
to help Guerrero, got
a crowbar
shot, too. Finally
Torrie got a big kiss planted on her by Flair, as
the "Dirtiest Player
in the Game" reclaimed his watch and walked out.
Winner: Eddie
Guerreroby DQ.
In the locker room,
Goldberg was beating the snot out of Sid Vicious.
Buff Bagwell came out
to the ring and called out Jeff Jarrett. Jarrett,
making his second PPV
appearance in two weeks, brought a guitar with
him. The two men
brawled briefly before Lex Luger ran in and tried to
nail Jarrett, but
instead clobbered Buff with the guitar.
Eddie Guerrerowas
shown in the back calling Rey Mysterio, Jr. on his
cellphone and saying
"Get back here now."
Match #4: Berlyn (with
his bodyguard) vs. Brad Armstrong. Decent back
and forth action in
this one, although a short match (thankfully).
Crowd was dead again.
Sounded like there was an "Alex Wright" chant,
but I couldn't quite
make it out. Anyway, Berlyn went for his
neckbreaker, but Brad
grabbed the top rope, blocking the move.
Armstrong then covered
Berlyn for a quick win. Berlyn's bodyguard then
beat down B.A., and
Berlyn walked out with his head held high. Huh?
Winner: Brad Armstrong
In the back, Ric Flair
accepts the strap stip for later tonight against
DDP.
Match #5: WCW World TV
Champion "Crippler" Chris Benoit vs. "Dog Faced
Gremlin" Rick Steiner.
This one was pretty
good, easily Steiners' best match in years. Benoit
once again proved why
he belongs in that elite status. Very
good action, with
suplexes flying back and forth. Match looked really
stiff, but then again
it did involve Benoit (and Rick has been known to
work hard too). After
a ref bump, Steiner brought a chair into the
ring, but Benoit
blocked it and hit a side suplex. Benoit placed the
chair on top of The
DFG and went for his diving
headbutt, but instead
caught the chair in
his face. Dean
Malenko ran out and
grabbed the chair then. He looked ready to hit
Steiner, but pulled a
swerve and KO'd Benoit. Rick got the pin to
regain the belt.
Meanwhile, Malenko and Perry Saturn hugged in the
aisle.
Winner: And for the
third time, WCW TV Champion, Rick Steiner.
Match #6: Bret "Hit
Man" Hart vs. The Total Package (with
Elizabeth).
The former Lex Luger
used his power to dominate most of this match, and
Bret was still selling
his knee injury from Nitro. Crowd came a live
for a bit in this one,
but it didn't last long. Bret limped for most of
the bout, and the
Package finally applied a half crab on "The Hitman."
To the shock of
everyone, Bret tapped out. I never remember Bret
submitting before last
week on Nitro to Sting, and now he does it again
against
TTP?
Winner: The Total
Package by submission.
In the back, Goldberg
was interviewed and promised to beat up Sid for
us. Yeah.
Medusa strutted out in
a bikini top promoting the new WCW Cologne. She
said she didn't want
to do this, it was degrading, blah blah. She ended
up dumping it on
Heenan at ringside.
Match #7: WCW World
Champion Sting vs. Hulk Hogan. Hogan's music
played, but he didn't
come out. Finally, Sting's new music ("Seek and
Destroy" by Metallica)
played, and out walked the champ. Eventually
when Hogan's music
played again, he appeared -- but in street clothes.
Hogan got in the ring,
said something to Sting, and laid down for him.
Sting covered, one,
two, three. Hogan walked out and they cut to a
video. Before anyone
even thinks about it: COMPLETE
WORK!
Winner: And still WCW
Champion, Sting.
Match #8: WCW United
States Champion Sid Vicious vs. Bill Goldberg. Sid
walked out bandaged
up, selling the attack from earlier. As Goldberg
came out, Scott Hall
and Kevin Nash appeared and attacked the
challenger. Goldberg
finally made it to the ring, and went head to head
with Sid. The two men
brawled, and soon Sid was bleeding again. Pretty
soon it got to be
messy, and it appears WCW is trying to push the
envelope a bit. Time
Warner has a policy against lots of blood in
matches, but it didn't
seem to be in effect for this one. However,
things finally got so
bad with Sid bleeding profusely that the match
was stopped. Goldberg
was awarded the
US title, and Rick Steiner
ran
down to help Sid.
Winner: And for the
second time, WCW United States Champion, Goldberg.
Sting came out and
said he didn't want a night off, challenging anyone
to a title match later
on.
Match #9: "Nature Boy"
Ric Flair vs. "Diamond" Dallas Page (with
Kimberly) in a strap
match. This one has been talked about all week
long as possibly
"Flair's last match." Of course, it was supposedly
Flair's last match at
Halloween Havoc 1994, too, so only time will
tell. If it is in fact
Flair's last bout, its good to see he went out
in the main event of a
PPV. Too bad they couldn't put him in there with
someone better than
DDP. Page is another guy who will be retiring from
the sport soon (and at
his age, he can't have much longer) so I don't
understand why Flair
didn't put over
someone younger
(Goldberg for example) who the company can rely on for
years to come. This
one was better than you'd expect from DDP and Flair
at this stage, but it
was not classic. The two men brawled out into the
audience, then back to
the ring. Page busted Flair open, as the two
continued to brawl.
Dallas eventually hit the
Diamond Cutter and
Charles Robinson
counted to three, but didn't call for the bell. Just
from their
expressions, it looked like a blown finish. David Flair ran
in and attacked Page,
but DDP took the crowbar and nailed David and Ric
with it. Ric was
strangled by the strap, and David and Robinson began
to cry. Flair was put
on a stretcher, and Tony and Bobby sold that it
could be "career
ending." Before Flair could be put in the
ambulance, the Filthy
Animals attacked him. They beat down Flair for
several minutes before
tossing him in the life squad and driving off
with him.
Winner:
Dallas Page
Match #10: WCW World
Champion Sting. vs. WCW United States Champion
Bill Goldberg.
OK, hang with me on
this one. I am not sure if this was a non-title
match or what, but
silly me, I assume when the champion of your
promotion wrestles in
the main event of your third biggest PPV of the
year, its a title
match. But hey, that's me, what do I know? Tony
said it was a
non-title bout... Anyway, Goldberg won the match (and the
title?) by pinning
Sting.
This was a very
confusing situation, and I would assume Goldberg is the
new WCW Champion (he
was announced as such). I guess WCW is building up
things like the WWF,
where the PPV ends and you are left going "huh?"
so you will tune into
Nitro tomorrow. Does this mean the
US belt is
vacant? Who knows?
Winner: Bill Goldberg
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DAVE MELTZER ON EYADA.COM
Most of you have heard
of Dave Meltzer & The Wrestling Observer, though
many of you have not
been exposed to The Observer (you don’t know what
your missing). Meltzer
is also doing a free daily internet radio show,
which can be found at:
http://www.eyada.com
The two hour show can
be heard live from
6:00 PM-8:00 PM on the East
Coast, and
3:00 PM-5:00 PM on the West
Coast. Meltzer & co-host Bryan
Alvarez discuss all of
the breaking news stories of the day, and have
had quite a variety of
featured guests (highlights include Chris
Benoit, Vince Russo,
Terry Funk , & Jim Cornette).
The previous days show
is available to listen to at any time; those of
you who really have a
deep interest in the inner-workings of wrestling
really do need to
check this out! Meltzer is generally considered the
top wrestling
journalist in the history of the business (not an
exaggeration, and
almost without argument), and you will benefit by
being exposed to his
knowledge of the business.
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A PERSPECTIVE ON THE
BIG
SHOW ANGLE
Written by reader:
Josh91896
I just have a few
thoughts about what some might call just a TV
show, and some people
saying not to get all upset about it. I am 17
years old, and lost my
father to lung/brain cancer on October 2 of this
year. My father and I
were very close, and this was the hardest thing
I have ever dealt with
in my life.
When I found out about
this angle, I was absolutely disgusted, and
when they furthered
it, saying that his father had died, and it was
Bossman that had made
it up and all of this, I turned off the
television, and
refused to watch any program that the WWF does.
I have some advice to
the people out there about not caring about some
of these angles, and
then comparing them to other TV shows and what the
represent is just
plain dumb. God forbid that
this ever happen to
any one of you reading this, but I suggest you try
and put yourself in
some of our situations before you so
easily let it roll off
your shoulder.
I am sure that most of
this is falling on deaf ears, because I know to
most of you, from what
I read anyway, think that the WWF can do no
wrong. Well, I am
telling you that they are, and that this is
probably the most
distasteful angle, along with the Pillman/gun thing
that has ever come
down the pike.
its a pity that
McMahon just put his company up on the stock market,
because if the WWF
keeps this up, I am promising that
most of you will
smarten up, and begin to not watch it as much.
Sorry for the venting,
but it had to be said. Thank you for taking the
time to read this.
-Josh
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THE
REPUBLICAN/DEMOCRAT DEBATE
Written by reader:
Kshi8762
Now that we have
opened up this proverbial can of worms, lets address
it in a logical
manner. Polls in and of themselves are normally
biased, in that
polling companies are not unbiased robots, but are
groups of folks who
have an agenda of some sort. This usually causes
any sort of poll to be
skewed. How they do this, 90% of the time it is
done by controlling
who is polled.
Telephone polling, for
instance, can be controlled by calling at
certain times of day
or sticking to certain area codes where you have a
fairly good idea of
how that demographic thinks. I don't think being
Republican or Democrat
causes one to be more or less likely to buy a
PPV. If the source of
the poll wishes to step forward and show us all
who, when, where the
poll was performed, then we can make a more
educated conclusion.
As for one of the
earlier posts referring to Republicans only caring
about the richer and
not caring about the poor, I have two questions:
If a man works hard
should he not gain more than one who does not?
And, what does this
have to do with wrestling or the poll in question,
please keep your
uneducated non-wrestling opinions out of this issue.
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LETHAL INJECTION
Written by reader:
Ryan Oaks (JO13squad)
This week’s wrestler
of the week is none other than the most Homicidal,
Genocidal, Suicidal
athelete ever to set foot into the squared circle.
That's right, Sabu. I
am a huge fan of Sabu and have been for a few
years. It is good to
see Sabu back in action in ECW.
Something that really
pleases me this week is that, as I'm sure you've
already heard, ECW has
re-signed two of its best former employees. The
first of which is
Mikey Whipwreck, whom I have spoken to a few times
and definitely belongs
in Extreme Championship Wrestling! I saw the few
matches he had in WCW,
and I knew then that WCW wasn't going to let him
expand his
superstardom even the slightest bit. After seeing his WCW
matches I prayed that
he would make his way back to his Hardcore Home.
My prayers were
answered and I am very glad to hear that Mikey is back
and better than ever.
The other person that
ECW has re-signed is James Fullington, The
Sandman, also known to
WCW fans as Hardcore Hak. I was deeply
disappointed to see
that Sandman left ECW for the career suicide that
is WCW. I am very glad
that he is back, and I can't wait for him to
start getting hardcore
(hopefully)! However, at the same time I am
looking for Paul
Heyman to make Sandman start all over like he said he
would, because Sandman
did treat ECW like crap by leaving without a
notice. Had he told
Paul in advance maybe things could be different,
but he didn't and now
he's lucky to even be let back into The ECW
Revolution. I know
that Sandman will eventually restore his main event
status, because let's
face it, he is a hell of a worker, but I hope for
his sake, our sake,
and ECW's sake that he doesn't make the same
mistake twice. Because
that would be an unforgivable act to say the
least. Welcome back
Sandman.
Now I would like to
comment on the World Title match on TNN Friday
Night between New Jack
and Mike Awesome. I for one am a fan of both of
these athletes and
happen to really enjoy the weapons that New Jack
brings to the ring.
This match was good, but it was sort of slow. It of
course had its high
points but it was completely overshadowed by
Sabu's match with
Rhino later on in the show. This match was great
because the young
athletic monster Rhino and the experienced lunatic
Sabu is a combination
that can and did indeed put on a main event
caliber match.
The women of ECW seem
to just keep getting better and better. Tammy is
back and its good to
see her again, and she of course is looking as
good as ever. Dawn
Marie is definitely one of the most beautiful women
in wrestling. The same
of course goes for Francine. Miss Congeniality
is a little
"different" but still good looking in a strange sort of
way. its too bad she
has signed with The World Wrestling Federation
because I don't think
she will find much of a future there, but who
knows, stranger things
have happened. ECW is far superior to WWF and
WCW when it comes to
its women, and its wrestling. I see bigger things
in the future for
Extreme Championship Wrestling. You've just been
Lethaly Injected by
Ryan Rage, so always remember and never forget that
Nobody Can Cage The
Rage! Visit my backyard wrestling character's site
http://members.xoom.com/PsychoVideo or email me with
comments or
questions at
JO13squad
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