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Issue # 386
Date:
Saturday November 6th, 1999 6:34 pm
The Wrestling Booking Sheet
WWF House Show Report for
October 5th, 1999
Live in
Lexington, Kentucky
Reported by Brad
McPeek & David Tyler at:
http://www.cataclysmal.com/big3/index.html
The Godfather defeated
Midean.
The Godfather came out
to heat until he brought out the ho's. Midean
came out with Viscera
(who is alive). Viscera said he was the real pimp
in this house. The
match saw a lot of outside interference until Midean
went to hit Godfather
and hit Viscera. The Godfather hit the Ho Train
forthe pin.
Al Snow defeated Steve
Blackman.
Snow received a good
pop. The match went back and forth. A lot of
submission holds by
Blackman. Snow got the win with the Moonsault; he
didn't use the
Snowplow.
Kane defeated
Prince Albert.
Decent match, and Kane
received a great pop.
Prince Albert actually had
more moves than what I
expected. Kane hit a Chokeslam for the pin. A
lot of boos because
there was no pyro for Kane.
The Big Show defeated
The Big Bossman
The Big Show got a
huge pop. Pretty slow match. Bossman used the
nightstick to gain the
advantage. TBS hit the Chokeslam on Bossman and
halfway through the
pin
Prince Albert ran in, only to
receive a
Chokeslam.
The Hardy Boyz
defeated The Dudly Boyz.
The
Dudleys came out and trashed
Kentucky women and the Wildcats. Great
match.
Dudleys did hit the Dudley
Death Drop on Matt but Jeff broke up
the pin. Hardyz won by
using a double team move. After the match the
Dudleys celebrated as if they
won the match.
Intermission (my seats
were right by the door where the wrestlers came
out. I was waved at by
Bossman, Al Snow, Road Dogg, Matt Hardy,
Bulldog, Edge and THE
ROCK. It was great.)
D-lo Brown defeated
Gangrel.
Great match. D-lo
received a huge pop. A lot of trash talking by D-lo.
The end came when D-lo
hit the Lo Down for the pin.
British Bulldog
defeated Test.
Test got a good pop. A
lot of power moves by the Bulldog. At one point
the Bulldog tried to
leave and Fink said if he did Test would be the
European champ. The
end came when Hebner got pushed down, Bulldog
grabbed a chair and
tried
to nail Test but Test
grabbed the chair and nailed him. Hebner saw it
and awarded the match
to the Bulldog.
The New Age Outlaws
defeated The Acolytes and Edge and Christian in a
Triangle match
Outlaws got a huge pop
from the
Lexington crowd. The Acolytes
were out
early because they
pushed the referee twice and he sent them to the
back. Great match
between the remaining teams. The Outlaws won when
Mr. Ass hit a
low blow on Christian
and then the Famasser for the pin.
The Rock defeated Val
Venis.
The Rock came out to
the biggest pop I ever heard in my life. Back and
forth match until The
Great One hit the Rock Bottom and the People's
Elbow for the pin.
After the match the Rock said he served Val Venis a
piece of pu tang pie
and he sang Smackdown Hotel and left to a huge
pop. It was a great
show!
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MORE ON THE "MARK"
CONTROVERSY
Written by reader:
Brad Michaels (BMichaels3)
Hey, this is Brad
Michaels again. I read the comments by Kevin Cooper
about being a mark,
and I decided to give you my side, from a wrestlers
point of view.
Simply put, if you are
a wrestling fan, you are a mark. In my opinion
there is no such thing
as a smart mark. There's no degree. Either
you're a mark or
you're not. There are definitely no "smarts" on the
internet. Just because
you know some inside stuff, or rather, you think
you do, or you are up
to date on the latest news and rumors, doesn't
make you a "smart".
Unless you are in the business, you are by no
means a smart.
In closing, there is
nothing wrong with being a mark. In fact, I am
one, or why else would
I be in the business? And in reply to Ken
Kobiernicki's
comments, I couldn't agree more. If you don't even know
the proper context of
wrestling terminology, don't waste your time
using it. You will
just end up looking like an ass in the end.
-Brad Michaels
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DECADES OLD
STEREOTYPING
Written by reader:
Mike (MNR1118)
I was at a friends
house recently, watching old wrestling tapes from
the mid 70's to the
early 80's when it hit me. Racial stereotyping has
been in professional
wrestling for a long time, I just never payed
attention to it. The
first match we watched involved a Native American
wrestler named Wahoo
McDaniel, and Wahoo came to the ring in full
Indian head-dress, a
loin cloth with wrestling trunks underneath, and
boots that matched the
color of the feathers on his head-dress. As
soon as they announced
his name, Wahoo let out this scream (Like Xena
Warrior Princess) and
danced around the ring with all his might, Put it
this way, It should
have rained cats and dogs with the way he danced,
and his finishing move
was "The Tomahawk Chop".
Other wrestlers we saw
was a Mexican guy named "Nachos Guerarra".
There was a Puerto
Rican wrestler named "Kahlua"; later on there was a
African American
wrestler named "Sweet Daddy White", who was dressed
very similiar to "The
Godfather", with the loud colored clothing and
the fedora hat with
the large feather on the side.
Now the stereotyping
was very plain to see in these wrestlers (more
then 20 years ago, I
might add) but the crowd didn't seem to mind, They
were too busy having a
good time, and I guess that's what counts. Oh by
the way, Nacho,
Kahlua, And Sweet Daddy (No Ho's) all sucked, but Wahoo
was pretty good
though.
-(MIKE)
MNR1118
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CORPORATE BACKSTABBING
Written by reader:
AlSnow6995
Would you agree that
McMahon brought wrestling to the national front
instead of sectional?
Also, I thought the Kevin McMahon skits were
funny. What's wrong
with two rival organizations taking shots on each
other on their own
programs? I don't think anything. It's a clever
game of one
upsmanship that us
wrestling fans enjoy so much between wrestlers
inside the
organization.
Let me put it this
way, we enjoy that game when it is staged between
wrestlers by bookers,
shouldn't we enjoy it more when it's on the
corporate level and
not staged, so the two ogres have to actually think
to outwit each other.
I love the Kevin
McMahon skits, and I loved the Billionaire Ted skits,
and may the low, petty
insults continue forever!!!!
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IN RESPONSE TO "AN
ADVOCATE FOR DEAN MALENKO"
Written by reader:
Written by reader:
SMADIA25
After Thursday night's
match between Hammer & Malenko, YOU (reader
drawboom) and Malenko backers better have your feet
SQUARE in
you're mouths. First
of all, Malenko, granted every fact that was
described well in your
letter, including his well executed matches &
power moves, just
turned his rights in to claim ANY of that when the
bell rang at THUNDER.
He needed help to
defeat Van Hammer? Van Hammer, who originally was set
for a "BIG" tag-team
push with the now-released Bryan Clark (WRATH),
has defeated some
noticeably decent talent in WCW, but no one to the
bragging rights of
Malenko. Dean could not do it on his own. Plain &
simple. I know of
another "Vertically Challenged" wrestler that would
not only wipe the
floor with Malenko's potbelly, but literally
OUTPERFORMS,
OUTMANEUVERS, and CERTAINLY OUTCLASSES "Deeno Machino" as
well as having
defeated Hammer already, and he is his ex-partner, and
the strongest under 6"
Footer (PROVEN) "The Crippler" Chris Benoit.
Benoit is CLEARLY the
faster, better built, as well as the more
"sound-superior"
technician. His better shape allows for a more
realistic experience,
proven with Dean's horrible, out-of-shape,
"kindergarten-like"
kicks at the end of the crappy match that Hammer
was about to win until
Saturn & Asya grabbed and held his legs, Wow,
holding Van Hammer,
somebody is desperate for a real win, just think
about it.
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Steve Appy
responds:
It's not fair to blame
Malenko because WCW bookers don't like writing
clean finishes.
Actually, it was silly for WCW to even place Malenko
in with the oversized
Hammer (you'd think they would have learned after
matching him against
the likes of Stevie Ray & The Windhams).
As for a
Benoit/Malenko comparison, I'm not sure I see the point. I
agree that Benoit is
the more marketable of the two, and he's also the
more heavily pushed (I
would also say that Benoit is the best worker in
the country as well).
Malenko's biggest fan
would probably be Chris Benoit, and I'm pretty
sure that neither man
would begrudge the success of the other.
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AUSTIN VIEWS
Written by reader:
Sonya Schell (schell)
Response to THE
DECLINE OF STEVE AUSTIN
I have to agree that I
see Austin losing all the luster he had but
let's remember that
after he won his first title at Wrestlemania that
he has had to carry
the company torch. One man had to carry the company
and give them the
exposure that has gotten pro wrestling to its all
time high.
Truly, I think Steve
is tired - extremely tired - I mean this man does
talk shows, TV shows,
newspaper and magazine articles, radio shows etc.
He is probably the
busiest man in ANY sport. As much as he loves his
daughters, you know
that he must hurt not seeing them more. I do agree
that he needs to get
back in the 100% Whoop Ass mode and quit jobbing
to people. I have
watched the Rock's popularity explode and be bigger
than Austin's. Even
when Austin and Rock tagged team, 90% of the fans
were yelling Rock's
name while Austin was in the ring.
I just think that
maybe Austin's time has come to hand the torch over
to HHH or Rocky. How
tough of an SOB can someone be when they are
wearing TWO knee
braces? That's not very scary. Also, his mike work is
getting boring and he
needs to pick it up.
Austin will remain in
history as a great worker in the ring but let's
hope that he doesn't
try to hang on when he is fading like Hogan,
Savage, Flair. Maybe
he needs to talk to my friend, Ricky "The Dragon"
Steamboat about
knowing when to retire when injuries are too much.
-Sonya Schell
President of The
OFFICIAL Sting Fans Without Order Lair
http://sfwolair.freeservers.com
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Steve Appy
responds:
I think we're jumping
the gun here about Austin losing it. I feel that
he suffering from the
overexposure that comes with dominating 3-4
segments of RAW nearly
every single Monday for the past three years.
Austin will recover;
give him time off to rest those chronically bad
knees and to get fresh
again for television. Upon his return most of
the backlash will be
gone, and he really is good enough to dominate the
business for years to
come.
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THE CONDITIONING OF
THE "WRESTLING" FAN
Written by William (madspector)
5 simple steps towards
stupifying your wrestling fans...Hey, why not,
it worked in the WWF.
What works up there is assured to work
everywhere, right???
By Vince Russo and his
dog Ed
Step 1.
Defame the sport. Tell
them its "Sports Entertainment", that its just
like any other TV show
(even thought it isn't). That's it! Tell them
its just like NYPD,
and if they believe you (!!!??) capitalize on it
and use that as an
excuse to take the "sport" of the fraudulent Vince
MacMahon created term
"sports entertainment"
Step 2.
Have storylines take
up 99.9% of your show, train your fan not to
expect a decent
wrestling match to the point he or she will go into a
state of confusion if
they ever see one. This way they'll sit for
hours on end watching
sports "call it what ever the hell you want its
still wrestling"
entertainment without being disappointed since its all
they know...cuz its
all you've shown them.
Step 3.
Have them wipe their
ass with the tradition and prestige of the sport.
Teach them to call
anyone who cares about all of the aspects of
wrestling a
"purist"...even the though that word is only used by idiots
who haven't been
informed that at no time during its history has
wrestling been "pure".
The correct term is "traditionalist" and that
with out tradition
there is no sport. But be careful, having them even
hear the word
tradition might make them think for themselves, it might
broaden their
attention spans, in effect threatening their desire to
watch your short
attention span oriented show, and we couldn't have
that, could we?
Step 4.
Implement shock value.
Do as many stupid and ignorant things as
possible, you've got
them well on the road to being vegetables, the
last thing you want
them to do is wake up. and finally…
Step 5.
Keep em stupid, keep
em watching. Follow these quick and easy steps
and you too can turn
your wrestling company into a complete and utter
joke just like Vince
Russo has…twice. For more info log on to our web
site
http://www.SportsEntertainment.com/Fraud.htm
and have a nice day.
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ECW-TNN Television
Report – November 5, 1999
Hosted by Joey Styles
and Joel Gertner
By Joe De Leon at:
http://www.ultimowrestling.com/rwin/index.shtml
The Show begins with
the return of Sandman as seen on ECW Hardcore TV
from the ECW Arena.
The Baldies and Balls
Mahoney & Axl Rotten went to a no contest.
The Baldies are shown
in the ring. They call out Balls and Axl. Balls
and Axl clear the
ring. Skull enters the ring and begins to argue with
Balls Mahoney. He is
crushed with a chair. All four Baldies enter the
ring and attack Balls
and Axl. New Jack enters with his trash can. He
uses all of his
weapons on the Baldies until Angel stapled him in the
eye. New Jack rived in
pain, and Balls and Axl had to cover over him to
protect him. The
EMT's had to aid New Jack out
of the ring.
Baldies promo. They
are on the streets of Philadelphia telling New Jack
that they took the
streets from him.
Super Crazy defeated
Little Guido w/Big Sal Graziano and Spike Dudley
in a three way dance.
Spike gave his glasses
to a fan, but Guido stole them from the fan. All
three men were in the
ring. Little Guido was sent out of the ring.
Spike then did a
rolling tilt a world from the ring on to the ground.
While both men were in
the crowd, Super Crazy did a moonsault from the
second rope into the
crowd. Guido took control outside the ring. As the
match made its way
back to the ring, Spike Dudley was eliminated by
Little Guido. Super
Crazy and Guido then battled back and forth until
Super Crazy was able
to hit a powerbomb and take the victory.
Backstage, Rob Van Dam
and Bill Alphonso tells Taz that he has no
chance. He says he is
the best wrestler in the whole world, and he will
beat him at November
to Remember.
Backstage, Danny
Doring, with the Amish Roadkill, is crying because he
lost his women. He
said it would probably take him two hours to get
over her. He then
tells the ladies what room he's in.
Backstage, Sabu and
Bill Alphonso tell Chris Candido that he is crazy
to make his comeback
against Sabu.
Backstage, Simon is
with Dick Hertz.
Backstage, Jerry Lynn
threatens Tajiri.
On the streets, the
Baldies again are making fun of New Jack.
Backstage, Steve
Corino, with Rhino and Jack Victory, tells Sandman
that Rhino will
destroy him.
In one of his
vignettes, Raven asked Tommy what he was thinking
bringing Sandman into
their family. He then tells the Impact Players he
will hurt them.
The Show was filled
with promos of November to Remember throughout.
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