From: hekunze@jeeves.waterloo.edu (Herb Kunze)
Subject: Wrestling TidBits   -   07/23
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 20:58:40 GMT

 - Money Inc. lost the WWF Tag Titles on Monday evening to the Natural
   Disasters.  IRS hit DiBiase with his briefcase by mistake and 
   Typhoon pinned DiBiase.  I'm not sure if this title change was in 
   Vince's plans all along or if something sudden prompted it.  There
   was talk at one time of DiBiase being a potential WCW jumper...

 - The WWF has it's SummerSlam PPV scheduled for August 31st (to be
   taped at Wembley Stadium in London, England, on August 29th).
   The following line-up has been announced:
     - Randy Savage vs. Ultimate Warrior for the WWF Title
     - Bret Hart vs. Davey Boy Smith for the IC Title
     - Money Inc. vs. Legion of Doom 
     - Undertaker vs. Kamala
     - Papa Shango vs. Kerry von Erich
     - Beverly Brothers vs. Natural Disasters
     - Tatanka vs. Berzerker
     - Crush vs. Repo-Man 
     - Nailz vs. Virgil
   I'm not sure how the above title change will effect this line-up,
   if at all.  These matches have all apparently been announced on 
   television in England, although I'm uncertain whether the Money Inc.
   match was ever announced as a title match.

 - Apparently, Ric Flair and Curt Hennig will figure prominently in the
   set-up to the SummerSlam main event.  Curt Hennig's advising skills
   will be offered to both Savage and Warrior.  Savage will refuse and
   Curt and Ric will pummel him.  Warrior does a run-in save and Savage
   will get mad at him afterwards for stealing the spotlight.  Looks
   like Savage will be cast as the heel (to some degree) for SummerSlam,
   which seems to make his losing even more probable.  

 - Konnan, Konan, or Conan, depending on how you want to spell his name
   finally debuted at the WWF tapings.  He's the Mexican Lucha Libre
   wrestler who worked some shots in WCW.

 - It's been rumoured that El Gigante will be teamed with Andre The Giant
   in the WWF.  They better have cool entrance music because it will be
   the slowest entrance for any tag team.

 - Talk persists that Hulk Hogan will work for New Japan pro-wrestling.
   Rumours had him being offered the unbelievable deal of $100000 each
   for 6 appearances.  Apparently, Weekly Pro Wrestling (a Japanese
   wrestling rag) reported that Hogan would debut for New Japan on
   September 23rd.  There is talk of Hogan working a wrestler vs. boxer
   match against George Foreman.

 - The World Bodybuilding Federation will cease publication of its
   Bodybuilding Lifestyles magazine after its September issue.  Vince
   has even offered to have the WBF stars work with other bodybuilding
   groups (not sure if this includes Joe Weider or not ;-)).  If the
   WBF closes down completely, it will be interesting to see if the
   bodybuilders will get work again with Joe Weider.  Weider originally
   threatened all his bodybuilders that if they accepted Vince McMahon's
   more lucrative contracts they could never work for him again.

 - I've received some confirmation from a local pro-wrestling columnist
   that our cable system is indeed considering dropping pro-wrestling
   PPV events in the future, or at least picking them up sporadically.
   WCW PPV buy rates are way down.  While the WWF buy rates are a little
   higher, they are also waning and our cable company is considering
   what to do once it's aired the PPVs it's already picked up (SummerSlam,
   Survivor Series, and Royal Rumble).
     He also tells me that the only proifitable markets are in Philadelphia
   and in New Jersey.

                                                               Herb...
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