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From: mb20@prism.gatech.EDU (BRANCH,MICHAEL B)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.pro-wrestling
Subject: Re: Zeus' "Wonky" Eye (WAS Re: Nailz is Nailed)
Date: 31 Dec 92 07:33:22 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology

In article <C03C09.19r@askinc.ask.COM> robert@askinc.ask.COM (Robert McMullen) writes:
>The actor who played Zeus (in both "No Holds Barred" and the subsequent
>WWF angle) is Tim "Tiny" Lister, whose eye really is "wonky". <---cool word!
>
>(He also was on HBO's football sitcom, "First and Ten", and is apparently

  He also has nerves of steel...
  A very trivial story; Lister lives here in Atlanta (or used to
  at least) and when I would attend Hawks' basketball games I'd see him
  around. So anyway, my friend had really good season tickets 
  and thus one of the guys that sat next to us was
  Evander Holyfield. One evening, I watched Lister walk in, reach down
  over Evander's back and err... grab Holyfield in a *sensitive* area.
  Evander (and Evander's bodygaurds) looked up glaring, but chuckled slightly
  when he saw who it was. Granted, they're kind of friends, but I don't
  believe I would've tried my luck in that way...

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From: MJFORRES@SUVM.SYR.EDU (maurice)
Subject: Re: Sonny King
Organization: Syracuse University
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 13:09:35 EST

In article <2275@newsserver.cs.uwindsor.ca>
cquimb1@server.uwindsor.ca (QUIMBY  COREY) writes:
 
>Could anyone out there give information on Sonny King?  {...}
 
Wow, that's a name I haven't heard in a long time.  Sonny
King teamed with Chief Jay Strongbow in the WWWF when I was
a kid.  I think they held the belts, but I don't have my list
handy.  I also think that there is some footage of Sonny King
on one of those "Best of the WWF" tapes, but I don't know which
one.
 
maurice
                                                 Maurice Forrester
                                                 mjforres@suvm.syr.edu
From: ckennedy@doc.helios.nd.edu (chris kennedy)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.pro-wrestling
Subject: dirty yellow dogs
Date: 21 Dec 92 19:25:08 GMT
Organization: OUC, University of Notre Dame

What does anyone think,  Barry and Brian lose to Ricky and Shane at Starcade,
attack them in the parking lot afterward, causing lots of damadge.  Near the
expiration of the 30 days that the belts have to be defended by they agree
to another tag match with Barry and Brian with the stipulation that if Ricky 
and Shane win Barry nad Brian have to leave the WCW.  R&S win when nepo boy #1
interferes.  Ricky, Shane and Dustin celebrate, B&B attack with chairs and 
put R&S out for 30 days, oh no we need a tournament, but wait, who is this 
masked team, the dirty yellow dogs.  They....could.....go....all....the...way..
About this time Barry and Brian should return, sans masks, and start bad
mouthing the Dirty Yellow Dogs.  Watts is forced to let them back in because 
they lost due to dustins interferance.  A match is signed, Barry and Brian 
show up two masked wrestlers show up as the dogs and are beat.  The masks are 
taken off and it is Mike Thor and Sonny Blaze or some other jobbers.  All
this time Barry and Brian are denying that they were ever the dogs.  The next
week two people come out in the masks and say that Thor and Blaze are not the
real dogs, they are and they want a shot at Barry and Brian, a series of matches
ensues and the dogs either win and are revealed to be nepo boy #1 (Dustin) and
Brad Armstrong or get their butts kicked and are revealed to be Nepo boy #1 
and Nepo boy #2 (Eric).  

So how 'bout it could I get a job as a booker for WCW


chris
From: scholly@tron.gun.de (Ulrich Scholz)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.pro-wrestling
Subject: DSF-Ladies-Wrestling
Organization: TRON Public Mailbox, Neuss, Germany
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 02:47:00 +0100

Hi Folks,

here in Germany there appeares a 'New Wrestling Show', it is, as i can
recognize, 'GLOW' = '_Georgies _Ladies _Of _Wrestling'.

Well, it appears in the DSF =_Deutsches_Sport_Fernsehen, the followup to
TELE 5, a former TV-PRODUCTION, which brought us several WWF main Shows.

so my Question is:

What kind of SHIT is THIS ????

It's not only the poor (german) comantator, 'horst brack, der bestrafer'
who puts it down, it's also the poor moves this (wrestling?) women can do !

It's really only posing and showing female 'specialities' it seemes,
it has nothing to do with what we can read here about japanes women:-(((
and that leguage in japan !!!

So what, can anyone enlight us, what this shit is ?????

angry, about losing our (small) possibility to WWF-Wrestling...
scholly :-((((


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From: MJFORRES@SUVM.SYR.EDU (maurice)
Subject: Re: This Group Should Be Killed & John Arezzi
Organization: Syracuse University
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 93 23:54:16 EST

In article <19182@mindlink.bc.ca>
Steve_Hooper@mindlink.bc.ca (Steve Hooper) writes:
 
>And as for his supposed book that will expose the business, well, if it
>goes to print you can expect to find him dead somewhere.  NONE of the
>boys will put up with that.
 
I'm not interested in commenting on most of Steve's argument.  It's
the same tired argument I've heard dozens of times.  Like it or not,
people will continue to expose the business.  Frankly, I don't
think it matters.
 
But this bit about Arezzi's book is such utter nonsense that I can't
let it go by.  Here's what will happen if Arezzi's book (or Eddie
Mansfield's book or Irv Muchnick's book) ever get written and
published:  Nothing.  The folks in the business will complain, of
course, but in a few months the whole thing will be forgotten.
 
You think the business has never been exposed before?  Listen, in
1954, Herman Hickman exposed the business in an article in the
"Saturday Evening Post."  More people read that article than would
ever read a book written today about wrestling.  And it didn't do
a damn think to hurt the box office.
 
Did the 20/20 expose hurt the business?  No.  Hell, it probably
brought in more fans.  Did Satoru Sayama's book hurt wrestling in
Japan?  Obviously not.  Steve's assumption that fans stop coming
to the arena when they stop being marks is seriously flawed.
 
Face it, the people who watch wrestling don't care if it's a work
or not.
 
maurice
                                                 Maurice Forrester
                                                 mjforres@suvm.syr.edu
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From: rusbasan@expert.cc.purdue.edu (Bob Rusbasan)
Subject: Re: Rude to Definitely win strap
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 11:24:42 GMT

In article <78836@hydra.gatech.EDU> dsrekjk@prism.gatech.EDU ( Jon Kincaid) writes:
>As if it needed any more subsatnce, matches for a tournament for the
>US Belt were held at the last Center Stage taping. A friend who went
>said that two matches were Steamboat defeating Windham and Duh-ustin
>defeating either Jack or Atlas (he couldn't remember which). He said that
>these were semi-final matches (setting up a Duh-ustin/Steamboat final)

For what it's worth, this isn't some deep, dark secret that WCW is
taping now but will not talk about until after Starrcade.  On one of
their shows over the weekend, they said next week's WCW Saturday Night
would feature the start of a tournament to determine a nunmber one
*contender* for Rude's US title.  Yes, I suspect it will end up being
a tournament for the title itself, but they are being consistent.

Did they announce this as a tournament for the belt at the taping?

>but I wonder whether they weren't quarter-finals. In any case, it's now
>clear that Daddy Bill has his son set on the big prize. Wonderful.
>There's a good chance that Michael "Don't Quit" Branch and I will be
>at the big Omni PPV thing tomorrow. If so, you may see us (for one
>special reason, not because the place will be well under capacity).

I don't understand how it is clear that Watts has his son for the prize.
According to your friend, the match for the title will be Steamboat vs.
Dustin.  This clearly will end up with E. Watts as champ?  How?

I have long felt that Dustin, not Watts, was being set up to be US
champ.  He's said for months that he had his eye on the belt, even
when he was still a tag champ.  The fact that he's apparently in the
finals just confirms my suspicions.

As you said, your friend may be wrong about how far along the tournament
is.  For some idiotic reason, WCW has taken to calling the biggest
non-main event match a "semi-final" match every week on WCW SN.  I've
noticed this has had many people here confused.  I just figured out
what the hell they were talking about a few weeks ago myself.  If they
had to give the sub-main event a name, why did they have to use
terminology that is used for tournament matches?  To top it all off,
they started this while the King of Cable tournament was going on,
thus making it even more confusing when they announced a "semi-final
match" and it was a tag team match.

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From: spr@prism.gatech.EDU (Stefan Roth)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.pro-wrestling
Subject: Re: Wrestlers' Real Names (was Re: Wrestling FAQ...)
Date: 21 Dec 92 17:01:25 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology

hekunze@jeeves.uwaterloo.ca (Herb Kunze) writes:

>============================================================================
>The WCW Wrestlers and Managers List:
>=============================================================================
>WRESTLING NAME     OTHER WRESTLING      REAL NAME              AGE   YEARS
>                   (NICK)NAMES                                        PRO
>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

>Bagwell, Marcus    Handsome Stranger    ??                       ?      ?

Bagwell works out at my gym. One day he arrived before me and I scanned the
recent signatures on the sign-up sheet. It contained the name "John Bagwell."
No way to know if that was him, though. 
Years Pro: 3 or 4 now. He spent a year at the old GA All-Star Wrestling (as
Fabian), a short time in the GWF (as Handsome Stranger), and then went to WCW.


  |\   _		Stefan Roth
  `O.x'/  ACK!		Internet: spr@prism.gatech.edu
 =(___)=
    U	 PFTTH!
From: dave.scherer%acc1bbs@ssr.com (Dave Scherer) 
Newsgroups: rec.sport.pro-wrestling
Subject: Re: Radio wrestling talk
Date: 24 Dec 92 15:43:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Advanced Computer Concepts BBS, New Rochelle, NY 914-654-1981
Reply-To: dave.scherer%acc1bbs@ssr.com (Dave Scherer) 

  >Thanks in advance.  Good luck on your time at the mick!  Let us know
  >please when your book will be out and the Title also Gary!!!

Unsolicited Plug Time.

Gary's book is fabulous.  Any fan of the history of the business owes it
to themselves to get it.
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Subject: Re: Japan report
From: pmbarlow@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (Pete Barlow... 'The Candy Guru')
Date: 28 Dec 92 11:30:41 -0500
Organization: Miami University Academic Computer Service"

In article <andyp.09rh@tension.UUCP>, andyp@tension.UUCP (Andy Patrizio) writes:
> Saw something interesting in "Inside Wrestling" last week. It was a match
> report from Tokyo. Among the reports, Jushin Liger and The Pegasus Kid jobbed
> for some tag team I never heard of. That surprised me, since Liger and TPK had
> one doosy of a feud. Also, I thought Benoit had given up on that angle.

Don't hold your breath on this one.  This is Inside Wrestling you're talking
about... which is a sister publication for PWI.  That group of people is
notorious for bringing things out of the past and making them seem current. 
For example, quite some time ago, they had a cover picture of Davey Boy Smith
and the Dynamite Kid, and a headline reading "Bulldog vs. Bulldog!  It really
happened!  And we have the photos!"  This is DURING their WWF tag title reign,
mind you.  Being the mark that I was, I bought the mag, and poof!  There it
was.  Dynamite and Davey against one another... FROM FIVE YEARS BEFORE THE MAG
WAS PRINTED!  They gave us fabulous photos of Dynamite, Davey Boy Smith, and
Gary Hart, I believe, all still wrestling up in Stampede.  The match was
pre-Bulldogs-conception by Vince... well, you get the picture.

The point is, in all likelihood, had Riger and Benoit done a job for someone
recently, chances are, we'd have heard about it here a long time ago.  And if I
recall correctly, Benoit can't use the Pegasus Kid angle anymore, because he
lost the mask to Riger in Japan a couple of years ago.  So fair warning... it
may just be Bill Apter pulling your leg again.

TCG, pb.
From: bh929@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Mike Palij)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.pro-wrestling
Subject: Re: WWF Slam
Date: 27 Dec 1992 22:17:45 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: bh929@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Mike Palij)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


In a previous article, mjenkins@alfred.carleton.ca (Michael Jenkinson) says:

>Ya know...take away that silly "rap" (well, "talk" at the beginning,
>with Hart, Savage, et al.) and its not THAT bad a song. 
>
>Admit it. Your toes tapped.

I think that it improves a little on repeated listening (I heard
it again today on Wrestling Challenge).  Yes, you can tap
along to it but I think that most of the "music" could come
from rythmn and drum machines (especially the cowbell part).

>But you could get a real sense of the time-element involved. When they
>filmed the video, Savage was still an Ultimate Maniac, and I'm sure
>Davey Boy was still I-C champ (seeing as he lost his belt and his
>career in the WWF at the same time, more or less).

I wouldn't be surprised if they had to re-arrange the video and
take out the bits with UW (God, can you imagine him *singing*).
They couldn't take out the Bulldog's parts because he had several
lines of lyric.  I'm sure Vince would have removed all references
to Davey Boy if he could.
 
>Makes me wonder if there wasn't an Ultimate Warrior section in the
>video that had to be edited out. Why would they use Ultimate Maniac
>Savage and not Ultimate Maniac Warrior? (Sorry if that sounds
>markish..it was intended to<g>)

Like I said above, I'm willing to bet that the UW parts got edited
out.  I think Randy's parts stayed in (the bits with him wearing
the Ultimate Maniac glasses) because it would have been too difficult
to match up his singing with a new film/tape.  Vince probably
figured (correctly) that few people would notice or care about
this.
 
>Michael
>Just heard Duh-stin Rhodes new song on WCW SN...ugh.
                            ^^^^^^^^ 
Fortunately, I have not had the pleasure of hearing this yet.

-- 
Just this person's view of netlife.

======> mike palij ::  bh929@cleveland.freenet.edu
From: dave.scherer%acc1bbs@ssr.com (Dave Scherer) 
Newsgroups: rec.sport.pro-wrestling
Subject: Winter Rec Tape
Date: 22 Dec 92 17:29:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Advanced Computer Concepts BBS, New Rochelle, NY 914-654-1981
Reply-To: dave.scherer%acc1bbs@ssr.com (Dave Scherer) 

Hi Folks.

I am off from work next week so I though I would delve into the
archives to start putting together matches for the ballot of the
Winter Rec Tape.

At this time, feel free to E mail any specific matches that you are
looking for to be put on this tape, E mail them to me.  If I have them,
in original to second generation video quality, I will put them on the
ballot.


Thanks.
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From: ab016@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Scotty Meredith)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.pro-wrestling
Subject: WWF Slam Video
Date: 30 Dec 1992 21:43:17 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: ab016@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Scotty Meredith)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc10.ins.cwru.edu


To all who were wondering....


I was at the Survivor Series.  Durring a break, they showed the Slam *JAM*
video.  Yes, Howard called it Slam *JAM*!!  Anyhow, there were parts with
the Warior in it.  He did not do any vocal parts from what I remember. 
This is NOT the same video they showed on the syndies.  It has been
re-edited and dubbed, because they were saying SLAM JAM all throught the
song.  Anybody notice that Macho Man has on the glasses that say MANIACS
instead of the ones he usually wore that said ULTIMATE??


Scotty

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From: andyp@tension.UUCP (Andy Patrizio)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.pro-wrestling
Subject: Re: UW ?
Date: 30 Dec 92 22:36:57 EST
Organization: High Tension BBS

In article <Bzznnv.ABB@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, wayne@bragg.bio.purdue.edu (Wayne
Twitchell) writes:
>This is a what ever happended to? post
>SO what ever happended to UW?  or a minor leager named Chris (conan) Walker
(WSW
>)?
On America Online, someone said that UW will be appearing in Billerica, Mass.,
against Hercules. He'll be introduced as "The man who used to be called The
Ultimate Warrior." Gonna be kinda tough to put on a t-shirt. :-) Anyway, this
guy also claims that Hellwig will get $1000 per show. Take it for what it's
worth. I don't believe all of it... but if anyone in that region can confirm
it, let us know.
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From: marv.bloom@rose.com (marv bloom)
Subject: Good Grief!
Organization: Rose Media Inc, Toronto, Ontario.
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 00:38:46 GMT
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Date Entered: 01-03-93 19:32
V :From: vincent@Micor.OCUnix.on.ca (Victor W. Wong)
V :Subject: Are Canadians Taking Over the WWF? (Was: Re: Joey Aiello)

V :I have this rather silly feeling that Vince McMahon is starting to
V :hire broadcast personnel from north of the border.
V :... and that the operations of the WWF's TV segments are going to move
V :from Stamford to Toronto.
V :I mean, first we see this Joey Aiello guy from Winnipeg, and now Ray-
V :mond Rougeau, who'd been pretty well confined to WWF promotions in
V :Montreal, doing interviews on Wrestling Challenge.
V :Now, what's next?  Will Jack Tunney (of Toronto) be replaced by Stu
V :Hart (of Calgary)?  Will we see Bret Hart coming down the aisle to the
V :strains of "I Am a Real Canadian"?  Will the Big Boss Man start wearing
V :Jacques Rougeau's Mountie uniform?  Will--heaven forbid--wrestling
V :QUALITY slowly infuse the WWF's ranks?
V :======================================================================
V :                            VICTOR WONG
V :                     vincent@micor.ocunix.on.ca
V :            "Closed minds lead short lives."--Anonymous

 
 Whoa, WHAT A LOAD OF CRAP ('scuse me for Shoutin')!!
 
Victor Wong........hmm that's a "Real American" Name........sounds 
like way of Hong Kong to me. I'm a "REAL Canadian" (my Parent's 
emmigrated from Poland a generation back)...........;-)
 
 Interesting that you should bother to comment, since the largest 
Population of Chinese Outside of HK or the mainland is right here in 
Toronto and guess what.........They're ALL Considered Canadians!
 
 Learn some Geography and Experience what's above the 49th Parallel, 
or ask some people onboard (Eric, you there?) that some parts of 
Canada (Toronto) is only about a 70 miles away.
 
 Hey, I grew up with ABC/CBS/NBC, my Relatives live in California and 
New York State, I've been to 44 States, obviously you haven't been ten 
miles out of town.
 
 I'm sending Bam Bam Bigelow to your House, alert your Sister to 
Answer the door and if some guy shows up and is 6'8" and has a shaved 
head and tatooed........make Sure She Tells Him, that you aren't 
home........;-)
 
PS Bam Bam, if you have your notebook, hope you're reading this...
   was only Kidding.....................
 
PPS sorry, have to LogOff and call my Attourney
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From: dave.scherer%acc1bbs@ssr.com (Dave Scherer) 
Newsgroups: rec.sport.pro-wrestling
Subject: Hart makes History
Date: 20 Dec 92 13:10:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Advanced Computer Concepts BBS, New Rochelle, NY 914-654-1981
Reply-To: dave.scherer%acc1bbs@ssr.com (Dave Scherer) 

Midnight Rider?

<J>I back and surpised by the response I had received about my articles.  First
  >granted there still grimmicks in the WWF, but they had been toned down compa
  >to several years ago.

A clown, a Sumo wrestler, a dead man, a latino (who's American), etc.
Toned down?  I don't think so.

  >My subject is not on who he defended against, it abou
  >one thing that McMoney had not told the public.  I am shocked that no one ha
  >said any thing about it.  I bored with Brody murder parts, sicked of reading
  >predictions on 500 pounds wrestler being the main event at Wrestmania 9.  So
  >of the articles I read are so off that my younger brother who no longer watc
  >wrestling regularly could get a good laugh.

So when people don't reply to your articles, you feel you have to rip
others?  Why?

  >Anyone who reads my articles knows that I understand wrestling.

Oh really?

  >Flair, Ramon, Lawler, Savage, and Micheals.  Starcade 92, Rude will be the n
  >champion.  Sting will be a big winner this year.  Vader will begin to turn o
  >Race.  Muta will be NWA champion.  Windham and Pillman may win the Unitifed

I thought you were "sicked of reading predictions."  Why are you writing
them then?

  >and are not as hungry as Windham and Pillman.  I will be looking forward to
  >what people have to say about this article.  I sorry that I am unable to giv

I hope they say something, so you attitude improves.

  >.  I will be back tomorrow to make more comments on what others had written.

Thanks for the warning.

<J>                                     Signed The Midnight Rider.
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Posted-Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 00:39:58 -0600
Received-Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 00:38:59 CST
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 00:39:58 -0600
From: Otto Heuer #3 <ottoh3@cfsmo.honeywell.com>
To: rec.sport.pro-wrestling
Subject: [WCW] WrestleWar '91
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Organization: mailEnteringNews at Honeywell SRC


Chrispy Cruiser asks if the "Bobby, Bobby" chant was canned.

Yes, which if The Big Virge thought us too stupid to figure out,
they even started the tape too early to make SURE everyone knew
it was canned.

Did they edit it from the tape?  I remember posting live (or
nore likely on IRC) about this as it happened... I almost fell
out of my chair and spilled my beer.

		--Otto "Road Hacker" Heuer