From: ottoh3@CFSMO.Honeywell.COM (Otto Heuer #3)
Subject: [WCW] World Wide commentary?  No...WCW Pro
To: rec.sport.pro-wrestling
Posted-Date: Sat, 11 Apr 92 22: 02:23 cst
Organization: Honeywell Systems & Research Center
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1992 04:02:23 GMT
Received-Date: Sat, 11 Apr 92 23: 01:05 CDT

Well, the first ep of "World Wide" with Jesse "The Body" Ventura
just aired here.  Here's a few comments.

Bagwell and Zenk over Paul Lee and John Peterson

They're still claiming Steamboat has a broken nose and cheekbone.
Showed a clip to open the show.  
Big pop for both MAB and TZ.  Chant of "Z-Man" when Tom was in.
No mention (or commentary) of Jesse the Body.
Pushing WrestleWar.
Saturday's TBS show had Steamboat's face digitized (my guess is
because it wasn't hardway juice (and was obvious)).
Pushing the WCW Ragazine.
Tony calls Paul Lee "Paul 'don't call me Bruce' Lee".
Zenk pinned Paul.

Ross seemed to be doing the commentary instead of Tony S...strasnge...


Wargames will have the 5 Dangerous Alliance members against Dustin,
Windham, Sting, Nikita, Steamboat.

Cactus beat up on Jumpin' Joey Maggs for a few minutes before
pinning him.  Cactus listed at 303 pounds.  He'll be matched
against Junkyard Dog next week.

Jesse Ventura talks against steroids.

Apparently, this is "WCW Pro" instead of "World Wide".  Hopefully
this is just a one-week substitution... I don't think I could
stand another hour a week of Jim "The Walking Cartoon Character"
Ross.  He's no Tony S, and couldn't was Jesse's do-rag.

Clips of Van Hammer and JT Southern.  Apparently last week
JT Southern was playing guitar over VH's talking.

JT Southern over Terry Bronson.

Jim has mentioned twice so far that the arena is sold out and they
had to turn people away at the door.  Interesting since all the
matches so far have been names squashing jobbers...
JTS won with leg drop of doom.

Second installment of WCW Ragazine.
Clips from last year's war games.
TBS show Saturday showed Muta beating up on Flair as well as Muta
beating up on Luger.  interesting choiced.  :-)
Interview with Nikita for Wargames.
Interview with Arn Anderson, who says he was in the First Wargames
in Atlanta, and was sent to the hospital.

Showed the clip of Steamboat - distorted again.  Must have been
a really bad attempt at juicing, eh?  Nikita came out to help
out.  

Interview with Rude (PED & Madusa behind him).  Asked what RS
was going to tell his 4-year-old son about this.  (But then he
switched from yelling to whispering, so I couldn't tell if he was
talking about hitting a woman or just about the broken nose).

On a side note, when did this annoying habit of wrestlers' 
interviews alternating between shouting and whispering start?
It wouldn't be so bad if one of my TVs had a knob for the volume,
but they all have "up" and "down" buttons.  When they start
whispering... by the time I get the volume up to a level where
I can hear anything they start shouting again (and blow out another
set of speakers).  God, I wish they's stop doing interviews like
that.  I miss the old days.  :-)


Big pop for Sting.  Ross says Vader is the biggest challenge of
his career.  Does ANYONE really think Vader has a chance?  Didn't
think so.

Todd Champion vs Vinnie Vegoz.
Ross saying Sting won't win unless all the little stingers come
out to shout at him.  Pretty pathetic, Jimmy.
Vinnie is down to 6'10" now, eh?
"Wargames is my favorite match of all time." --Jim Ross
Ross mentions a third time about the sold out arena.
Some decent spots by Kevin... Todd wasn't too bad, either.
Crowd chanting "USA".. I guess I didn't realize Nevada had
seceeded from the Union.  :-)
Vinnie won, using the ropes.

Third installment of the WCW Ragazine. (barf).
Showed he EXACT SAME interview with Paul E. about Nikita that
they showed during the first installment about 40 minutes earlier
in the show.

Next week - freebird vs DA and a six-man tag match and steiner bros vs
DDP and a partner.

		--Otto "Cactus Hack" Heuer