Issue # 426
Date:
Wednesday December 8th, 1999 10:28 am
The Wrestling Booking Sheet
SMACKDOWN & THUNDER SPOILERS
The Thursday spoilers of both
Smackdown
& Thunder were taped Tuesday
(12/7) and
are presented at the
conclusion of this
issue. If you would rather be
surprised
be sure to skip those
sections…
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RATINGS & ADVERTISING
Written by reader:
Kshi8762
I will make this short and
simple.
This is directed towards the
reader
who says that since the WWF
ratings
are so high, they should not
change
their content because
advertisers
are dropping them.
Ratings are only important in
so
much as how much advertising
dollars
they bring in, without the
advertising,
the ratings are pointless.
After all,
advertising pays bills, not
ratings
points.
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IF YOU ARE GOING TO MARKET TO
CHILDREN…
Written by reader:
StarSaucer
In response to
UltraViruz's
article about the WWF:
To say that WWF is for adults
and older
kids is all well and good but
the fact
is that the WWF markets toys.
How can
we say that it's not for
children when
Toys R Us is crammed with WWF
merchandise?
I am a huge WWF fan; I attend
RAW
whenever it comes to my city
and I am
going to Royal Rumble at
Madison
Square Garden in January. I
see tons
of kids there, and I don't
think it
would kill Vince to get rid
of a few
expletives, the Godfather's
ho's and
"roll a fatty" comments,
middle
fingers, gravy/mud/bikini
matches,
references to poontang pie,
and
DX/HHH alluding to the fact
that
they commit assaults against
women.
I mean, really, that stuff is
so
freaking stupid. The
funniest, most
entertaining stuff is the
clean or
semi-clean stuff anyway. Why
wouldn't they want as many
viewers
as possible?
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A DEFENDER OF THE BIG SHOW
Written by reader:
Flynn316dx
Why don't you lay off the big
guy
(Paul Wight)? Have you ever
watched
Kevin Nash? That is evidence
of what
wrestling does to a big guys
body. It
just seems to me that The Big
Show is
not very comfortable or
confident
when he performs.
You still need to think about
something...how many 500
pound people
do you know? Well, Viscera is
a big
guy but he looks like a
marshmellow
rolling around in the ring.
Paul is
very athletic for his
tremendous
size. I can feel it, The Big
Show
will soon find his niche and
many
of you will change your mind
about
him.
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MISUSE OF TALENT
Written by reader: Richard
Lopez (RIZZDAWG)
While I understand your point
regarding Paul Wight being
pushed
whether we like it or not, I
don't
think the push itself is what
everyone
has the problem with. It is
the way
he is being pushed.
By this I mean several
things. First,
who exactly is his character?
A common
man in mourning over his
fathers death?
Inspired to strive to be
champ? A
bastard? What? The WWF has
rarely
made such a huge mistake in
misusing
talent (what little Wight
has). This
is something that WCW has
perfected.
The WWF has always given us a
reason
to care about their
wrestlers,
especially the World
Champion. The
build up to earning that
title has
always been so huge. From
Bret Hart
to HBK to Mankind to HHH,
earning the
title has become an emotional
moment
between wrestler and the
crowd. Who
will forget HBK winning his
first
title? Or Mankind? Or HHH?
Even
if you dislike the wrestler,
you
react. Not with Wight.
Second, the WWF has made
their own
World Title into a mid-card
belt.
Since Wight won the belt, has
he
had one main event? Non-title
tag team matches get main
event
status over a world title
defense
now. Has he, or will he
headline
a pay per view? Not anytime
in
the near future.
For Armageddon, is anyone
talking
about who will walk away with
the
World Title? No. If the WWF
is
trying to push Wight, they
are
doing a terrible job, and are
instead tarnishing the status
of their own World Title.
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THE PTC (IN 11 WORDS OR LESS)
Written by reader: Dan Murray
(murraydan)
I've seen a lot of the
comments
about the PTC, and I think I
can
sum up what it comes down to.
I
can put this whole thing into
11 words:
"It's not what the kids
watch. It's
who's watching the kids."
Thanks,
Dan Murray
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TEST'S FORTITUDE (OR LACK OF)
Written by reader:
KMAx319
I would like to give my
opinion of
the push that Test has
received in
the past couple of months. In
my
opinion Test did not in any
way
deserve such a large push.
His
storyline with Stephanie
McMahon
was one that was based on
emotion.
Test seems to have a hard
time in
front of the camera and just
can't
seem to sell an angle. Seeing
him
team with Kane against HHH
and
X-Pac this past Monday was a
perfect example.
After HHH had ruined his
wedding
day, don't you think Test
would
have been extremely angry at
him.
You would think that he would
have
come at HHH with a ton of
rage and
emotion. I know I would try
to
cripple HHH if he did that to
me.
But no, Test wrestled as if
nothing
was wrong. This made me
become
completely disinterested in
Test's
character.
Besides he doesn't belong in
the
ring with main event
wrestlers,
because his in-ring skills
still
leave a lot to be desired. I
think
that the WWF should have gone
with
someone else for this angle
and
given Test more time to
develop.
I'm sure he will improve and
one
day be a good wrestler, but
as for
now, he just doesn't seem to
get
the job done.
-KMAx319
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WWF SMACKDOWN! & HEAT
SPOILERS FOR 12/9/1999
SKIP IF YOU WOULD RATHER BE
SURPRISED!!!
Taped 12/7 in Boston, MA
Reported by Joe, Dennis &
Curt Creighton at:
http://www.ultimowrestling.com/rwin/index.shtml
Sunday Night Heat Results
To air Sunday, December 12th,
1999.
- Gangrel d. Papi Chulo
- Superman Steve d. Mideon
- Headbangers d. TAKA
Michinoku & Sho Funaki
- Godfather w/ hoes d. Local
Worker
SmackDown Taping Results
To air Thursday December 9th,
1999
Road Dogg d. Chris Jericho.
Jericho pinned Road Dogg and
won until
Chyna told the ref that Road
Dogg's
foot was on the rope. Road
Dogg
secured the win when Chyna
shoved
Jericho's leg off the rope.
- Vince McMahon was shown in
the back
with Test, who was coming in
to talk
with Stephanie.
- Dudley Boyz d. Kurt Angle &
Steve Blackman
- There is a Test segment
with Stephanie,
which builds up to a match
with X-Pac.
Bossman & Prince Albert NC
Hardy Boyz w/ Terri.
The Big Show's interference
attacking
Bossman and Albert. Taz's
symbol
appears during entrance.
Mankind defeated Al Snow via
DQ
Snow beat down Mankind with a
chair.
Vince and the family come out
for the
contract signing for
Armageddon. He
calls out Triple H, who gets
an ok pop,
plus that infamous chant.
Triple H asks
for Stephanie to retrieve the
paper for
Vince to sign. Instead Shane
goes and
gets it. Vince signs the
papers and
notices that Triple H hadn't
signed.
He then sends Shane back,
Triple H
signs and then cheap shots
Shane.
Triple and DX beat on him as
Vince
watches in the ring in
despair. He
then throws Shane off of the
runway
and 15 feet down to the
ground.
DX music hits and they leave.
X-Pac d. Test.
The Rock d. Bad Ass Billy
Gunn.
Kane w/ Tori NC. Triple H.
Triple H comes out to a good
pop
& the infamous chant. Kane
and Tori
come to a big pop. Earl
Hebner is
beat up by Triple H and a
referee
with a Vince mask comes out.
A
couple of referee's in Vince
masks
come out after Triple H beats
them
up as well. Kane hits a
Chokeslam
and Triple H ends up outside
the
ring. The 3 refs corner him
at
the top of the ramp and
someone
(possibly Vince) in a Vince
mask
and clothing hits him with a
bat.
DX then comes out to be hit
by bats,
and the Vince's leave. DX
then heads
back to the ring to fight
Kane.
Chokeslams and finally a
Tombstone
on Triple H leaves DX on
their backs
as Kane leaves.
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THUNDER SPOILER (SKIP IF YOU
WOULD RATHER BE SURPRISED)
Taped 12/7 in Madison WI
WCW Thunder Taping Results
for the 12/9 broadcast
Reported by Tracy Thom & Curt
Creighton at:
http://www.1wrestling.com &
http://www.ultimowrestling.com/rwin/index.shtml
The show starts with Hall and
Nash
coming down to the ring. Hall
is
carrying a ladder. Hall
conducts
the interview sitting on the
ladder.
He tells Chris Benoit to go
watch the
WWF's Greatest Matches and
see him
and Shawn Michaels in a
ladder match.
Nash gets on the stick and
calls out
Sid. Nash said, "I am the
only badass
in town." That brings out
Sid, who
comes out and knocks Hall off
of the
ladder. Nash takes over on
Sid, which
brings out Dustin Rhodes, and
Jeff
Jarrett. Jarrett hits the el
kabong
guitar shot on Dustin. Out
comes
Chris Benoit; The Outsiders &
Jarrett
dominate the faces and leave
them
laying.
Next, Madusa came out wanting
to know
why Rhonda Singh was
scheduled to get
a Cruiserweight title shot
when Rhonda
hasn't been a cruiserweight
since birth.
Next up, they introduce Mike
Tenay's
partner in the broadcast
booth,
JUVENTUD GUERRERA!! Juvie
gets on the
mic and says, "Finally, the
Juice has
come back to Milwaukee." Ah
Juvie,
Milwaukee was yesterday, you
are in
Madison tonight.
Booker T vs. Dean Malenko
Prior to the match, Shane
Douglas cuts
an interview that states if
Duggan's
team loses to the Revolution
at Starrcade,
Duggan will have to renounce
his
citizenship to the U.S.
Early on in the match, Saturn
and Stevie
Ray battle their way
backstage. This
leaves the ref distracted and
Douglas
hits Booker with the cast.
The Texas
Cloverleaf is applied and
Malenko wins
in less than 3 minutes.
Next up was the debut of The
Artist
Formerly Known as Prince...
Iaukea.
TAFKA Prince Iaukea ring
entrance was
filled with purple light and
the
illusion of rain. His song
was a
cheap rip-off of Purple Rain.
TAFKA
Prince Iaukea wa escorted to
the ring
by his new valet, Paisley.
His opponent
was Vampiro, with Jerry Only.
Oklahoma
joined the broadcast team.
TAFKA Prince
Iaukea spent most of the time
flirting
with Paisley. He did take a
sweet bump
over the turnbuckles onto the
ring
steps. Chants of "You still
suck" rang
out. Towards the end of the
match
Paisley slapped Oklahoma.
Distracted,
Vampiro hit a side kick on
TAFKA Prince
Iaukea for the pin. Following
the match,
TAFKA Prince Iaukea attacked
Oklahoma
until Dr. Death Steve
Williams made
the save and back suplexed
TAFKA
Prince Iaukea. Williams has
yet to
really kill anyone with his
backdrop
driver since coming to WCW.
Next up was a promo where the
Powers
That Be fire Mona. Rhonda
Singh jumps
in and guarantees ratings.
They then
cut to an interview with
Roddy Piper
and Nick Patrick where Piper
states,
"The referee's decision is
final."
David Penzer announced that
it was
going to be Rhonda Singh vs.
Evan
Karagias, but Madusa took
Evan's
spot. Another short match
that
Madusa won after a roll-up
after
Rhonda hit Evan after Madusa
and
he was kissing.
After the match, the lights
went
out and static appeared on
the
screen, and Rhonda was
attacked
by someone in a black
trenchcoat
and blonde hair, probably
Mona.
In the back, Stevie Ray and
Saturn
continued to fight.
David Flair vs. Jerry Flynn
in the
boiler room. Buzzkill was
also in
the back room, doing who
knows what.
Flynn dominated the match,
but it
was interrupted by Tank
Abbott, who
called Flynn a "martial arts
moron."
Creative Control vs. Bret
Hart/Goldberg.
Piper came down midway
through the
match and tossed out ref Mark
Johnson.
2 spears and a jackhammer and
sharpshooter
later, new WCW tag team
champs, Bret Hart
and Goldberg.
Next up was a promo where the
Powers That
Be ordered Shane to go get
Roddy Piper.
Stevie Ray and Saturn
continued to fight 3
and they eventually made it
to the ring.
A minute or two in, the ref
went down,
allowing Creative Control to
interfere
and Saturn rolled up Stevie
Ray for the
pin. Booker T cleared the
ring.
Promo with Piper and the
Powers That Be.
Russo told Piper that "he
ripped the
titles off his boys." Russo
threatened
that he would kick Piper out
of the
sport.
Total Package vs. Buff. DDP
was in for
commentary. About 2 minutes
in, Buff
confronted DDP, and they went
at it.
They were fighting pretty
stiff, and
Terry Taylor, Arn Anderson,
and Van
Hammer came in to break it
up.
No Contest.
Jim Duggan was then
interviewed by the
Powers That Be. Russo asked
Duggan if
he thought that this country
cared about
him. Russo then asked him
when the last
time was that he saw kids
carrying foam
2x4s. Duggan said that he has
faith in
people, to which Russo
replied "that
these people could care less
if you are
dead".
The Revolution's music came
on, and Asya
was introduced. Then they
played Hacksaw
Jim Duggan's music. Before
Duggan could
even lock up with Asya,
Creative Control,
Shane, La Parka, and Curt
Hennig jumped
Duggan. The Revolution then
shoved apple
pies in Duggan's jumpsuit.
Harlem Heat
made the save. Duggan is WAY
over.
Next up was DDP vs. Sting.
About 30
seconds in, the ref went
down. The
Total Package came in and hit
Sting
with the bat. DDP followed
with a
Diamond Cutter for the pin on
Sting in less than 2 minutes.
Final match-up was
Outsiders/Jarrett
vs. Dustin Rhodes/Sid/Chris
Benoit.
Nothing really spectacular
happened
in this match. Sid was going
for the
Powerbomb on Nash, and
Jarrett hit
Sid with the guitar, and Nash
got
the pin. The faces were left
laying,
and that was it.
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