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From: jewell@Data-IO.COM (Cal Jewell)
Subject: Re: WWF Prime Time Wrestling - 2/11/92
Keywords: Is it sweeps month yet?
Organization: Data I/O Corporation
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 16:53:20 GMT

In article <23649@galaxy.ucr.edu> kzim@watserv.ucr.edu (Christopher Robin Zimmerman) writes:
#
#"Slam Jam coming January 9th."  What is it?  Why should we mark our  
#calendars?  I don't know, and the onscreen graphic says nothing.

Sounds like a USA cable network special. Similar to the SummerSlam
spectactular they have just before (you guessed it) SummerSlam. Or,
it could be a SNME/Clash type thing. Anybody know for sure?

#
#"Courtesy WWF Superstars:  2 weeks ago"  For the second week, we are blessed  
#with "Mean" Gene Okerlund interviewing the Ultimate Madness.  I just noticed  
#this time around that when the Ultimate Warrior comes out Savage extends the  
#hand but the Warrior doesn't notice.  I'm sure this was unintentional, but  
#I'll bet they use it when the team splits.  Also, I was mistaken last week:   

Geez, they used the same setup for the Hogan-Savage split up a few years
ago. Looks like Vince is resorting to recycling angles.

#  Doesn't showing clips like this make the marks  
#go, "Gee, where *is* Hot Rod nowadays?"

Better yet, what about the Hulk Hogan video tape display rack that was
holding the new videos? Seems to me that Vince is doing some foreshadowing.

#
#Heenan interrupts Jim:  "Speaking of tapes, you know that great tape, "Connie  
#Does Dallas?"  Well, they're going to release a new one from Mooney's  
#honeymoon:  "Sean Mooney Does Nothing."  I'm telling ya, it's Mooney v.  
#Heenan at WrestleMania.

In a weaslesuit match? :-)

#
#Max Moon v. Repo Man (Monsoon, Hayes)  Repo was playing the crowd pretty  
#well.  Monsoon announced during this match that the Bushwhackers had stepped  
#aside in favor of the Nice Guys.  Man, was this match boring.  Repo get a  
#nice move catching Moon when he attempted to leap over him and instead  
#dropping his neck on the rope.  For being as new as he is, Moon didn't show a  
#push, winning only by DQ after Repo went to the hook.

Maybe Vince is setting Max Moon up as Jobber from the Stars rather than
Jobber to the stars. :-)

#No Jamison.  

Thank God.


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Subject: Re: Glenn Danzig a wrestler??? (was Re: Recent Rumors
From: sir@vax1.mankato.msus.edu (Shadow's Master)
Date: 13 Nov 92 19:31:25 -0600
Organization: Mankato State University

In article <13494@operator>, oliver@Software.Mitel.COM (Oliver Postlethwaite) writes:
>>... She told me many things about him, and one of them is that
>>he used to be a wrestler in the late 70s. If I remember right, she said it
>>was mostly in the Northeast, around NY/NJ.
> 
> Can anyone here confirm this? I believe that you're telling me the 
> truth of what you heard Andy, it's just that I find the info.
> incredulous. During the late '70s he as still w/the Misfits, a
> hardcore/punk band and wasn't nearly as pumped ('roided?) up as he is now.
> 
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i have heard similiar stories before.

not sure where so take my comments with a grain of salt (or two if you prefer)


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From: mjenkins@alfred.carleton.ca (Michael Jenkinson)
Subject: Animal's tatoo
Organization: Carleton University
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 16:57:15 GMT

I rented SummerSlam 92 today (slow day) and I noticed that Animal's
Tasmanian Devil tatoo was, well, gone. In its place on his right arm
was a bigger tatoo that looked something like a starburst. (I never
got a good look at it).

I suppose he just got the old one tatooed over. Does anyone know what
the new design is?

Michael
From: luther@i5160e.nrl.navy.mil (Luther)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.pro-wrestling
Subject: Re: tape
Date: 9 Nov 92 19:03:57 GMT
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Organization: US Naval Research Laboratory, Acoustics Division

In article <BxGM8z.8zq@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> fippjc@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Joe Fipp) writes:
>
>  I just got my copy of the wrestling tape Eric & Dave put out.  All I
>

Me too! Great stuff. I also noticed that while the Japan matches are
called and captioned in Japanese, the referee uses English when 
counting a wrestler out of the ring. You can distinctly hear "one...
two... three...". What's the reason for this?

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From: macika@emunix.emich.edu (Dominic Macika)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.pro-wrestling
Subject: Re: Jimmy Garvin enters WWF
Date: 5 Nov 92 07:47:54 GMT
Organization: Eastern Michigan University

In article <1d8i77INNs36@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> aa519@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Scotty Meredith) writes:
>
>
>I just got off GEnie, and they were throwing around a rumor that Jimmy
>Garvin is now in the WWF.  Apparently, he has NOT wrestled yet, but has
>done the promos we see for weeks at a time before they debut.  From what I
>have read, he wears a suit, and is going to be a heel.

going back to the "sharp-dressed man" angle?  I hope so, it worked well
for him, I especially liked him in WCCW...


-- 

Dominic Macika
"And the sign said: long-haired, freeky-looking people need not apply,
so I pulled my hair up under my hat, and I went in to ask him why.
He said, 'Son, you look like a fine upstanding young man, I'm sure you'll do.'
So I pulled off my hat and said 'Imagine that, me working for you.'
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From: mjenkins@alfred.carleton.ca (Michael Jenkinson)
Subject: Re: Lex Lugar
Organization: Carleton University
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 13:35:27 GMT

In <17168@mindlink.bc.ca> Steve_Hooper@mindlink.bc.ca (Steve Hooper) writes:

>soon as his WCW contract expires in the spring.  Also, at this point, it is
>expected he will be a transitional champ and drop the strap to Backlund.

Wow! So far we have the following people dropping the title to Bob
Backlund:

1) Lex Luger

2) The Mountie

3) Papa Shango

4) Bam Bam Bigelow

5) Razor Ramon

Looks like Bob's gonna end up as a 6-time champ in the WWF!

Sorry if this sounds really facetious, but I guess I'm getting a
little annoyed at all the speculation about whose going to beat Bret
Hart and then subsequently lose the title to Backlund. 

First of all, Bob has yet to really make that long-awaited comeback
in the WWF (yes, he's scheduled for Ottawa on Nov. 26), and there's no
way of telling right now if he's going to go over well or not. Bob
hasn't had those little promotional spots on the syndies for a month
now, and I doubt if the marks are sitting on the edges of their
collective seat eagerly awaiting his return. 

Second, if Herb is right and Vince is desperate to get Hogan back, why
would McMayhem give the title back to Bob anyway? It would go
immediately to Hogan.

Third, how many "interim" champs is the WWF going to have? Even if
Hogan comes back, it's not going to be for five years again, so Vince
will have to pass the title around some more after that.

I think all this speculation (mine included) is just a bit premature
at this juncture. Not prudent. (Bush mode off.)

My thoughts.

Michael
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From: hampton@ais.org (Kevin Podsiadlik)
Subject: Re: Slam Jam
Organization: UMCC
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 02:13:47 GMT

In article <carmel.721092755@phage.cshl.org> carmel@phage.cshl.org (Gilles Carmel in Kuret Lab - CSHL) writes:
>I have read this on Prodigy:
>
>And Doink the Clown will be dancing to these new entrance songs with
>kids, until his heel turn.

Yes, fans, the clown's name is Doink, and he will be a heel.  You may
know him better as Matt Borne, or by his WCW name, Big Josh.

His eventual role would seem to be the equivalent of an evil Bushwacker.

Well, we lose one dummy (Rocko), gain another...

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From: Steve_Hooper@mindlink.bc.ca (Steve Hooper)
Subject: Re: Chrispy WVR : Clash of the Champions VII - Guts and Glor
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 06:39:45 GMT

> Cal Jewell writes:
>
> #I think Chris is grading this Clash too low.  One of the things that
> #he doesn't mention and that made this Clash one of my favorites was
> #that the heat was incredible -- both literally and figuratively.
> #Clash 7 was held at an army base and the place was filled with GIs
>
> Fort Bragg, NC to be exact.
>


A small flashback...

Recall the Corporal Kirschner used to be billed from Fort Bragg, NC.


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From: hekunze@violet.uwaterloo.ca (Herb Kunze)
Subject: Re: [WCW] Clash of Champions
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 14:14:52 GMT

In article <9211091914.AA25687@pserv.CFSMO.Honeywell.COM>, Otto Heuer #3 <ottoh3@cfsmo.honeywell.com> writes:
> Rob C writes:
> >        - Erik Watts & Kunsuke Sasaki v. Arn Anderson & Bobby Eaton
> Oh Gawd!  AA & BB jobbing for Erik and KS.  If Sasaki's workrate  is as bad
> as his last two US matches this will be absolutely pitiful.

  Are you mixing up Masa Chono (who has had two bad matches air - one
  on TV and one at Havoc) and Kensuke Sasaki?

                                                             Herb...
From: v070qg5d@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Eric M Chmiel)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.pro-wrestling
Subject: Re: Wrestling Superstars
Date: 12 Nov 92 04:57:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

>In their mag, they also said something about how someone could possibly
>become the first person to ever hold the tag and world titles at once.
>I'm pretty sure Bruno or Pedro holds...er, *held* that honor.
>
>Bob Rusbasan     

    Actually, the only man ever to hold the WWF World and WWF tag titles
simultaneously was Bob Backlund.  He was WWF champion when the big Shea
Stadium card featuring the Bruno/Zbyszko cage match came around.  I think
it was that Vince Sr. didn't want to steal any of the thunder of that main
event by putting the immensely popular (at the time) champion on the card in
a title defense, so he dreamed up having Baklund team with Pedro Morales to
battle Afa and Sika, the Samoans, then tag champs.  You can't let a team of 
two of your three top faces get beat on such a big card (sound familiar?) so 
he had Backlund and Pedro win the titles, and then immediately surrender them,
since Backlund (according to "WWF bylaw") couldn't hold both titles at the 
same time (then why have the match in the first place?).  Afa and Sika 
simply won them back (in a non-existent tournament, of course).    

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From: mjenkins@alfred.carleton.ca (Michael Jenkinson)
Subject: Re: WWF Real Clown
Organization: Carleton University
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 16:44:22 GMT

In <1e07d7INN1ev@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> aa519@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Scotty Meredith) writes:

>>Please note the last time a character was following the WWF in the
>audience was Hillbilly Jim who went on to a "great" career in the WWF.


>CORRECTION:  Saphire w/Dusty Rhodes.  She did not wrestle, but she was the
>last audience plant.

CORRECTION: The last audience plant was Jamieson. He was at several TV
tapings before being hauled out and beaten up.

Michael
From: cbcs3440@Oswego.EDU (Kevin)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.pro-wrestling
Subject: Re: Wrestling Superstars
Keywords: Update
Date: 13 Nov 92 16:36:22 GMT
Reply-To: cbcs3440@oswego.Oswego.EDU (Kevin Mundstock)
Organization: Instructional Computing Center, SUNY at Oswego, Oswego, NY

In article <BxKxLr.AD2@ulowell.ulowell.edu> hsano@cs.ulowell.edu (Hitoshi Sano) writes:
>In article <1992Nov9.231443.11003@ists.ists.ca> dchhabra@stpl.UUCP (Deepak CHHABRA) writes:
>
>blurted out," ...former World Wrestling Federation Champion.  Now calling
>himself 'Col. Mustafa'."  It was so casual that it was very easy to miss.
>I believe that it was on the Sunday noon show, whatever it was called back
>then.  Anybody else remember this?

I was reading a WWF Magazine (yes, believe it or not I'm admitting this),
and in the trivia section it had the following question concerning the
main event at Summerslam 1991:

What did three of the participants of the main event in SummerSlam
(Hulk Hogan, Col. Mustafa, and Sgt. Slaughter have in common?
The answer was: They were all WWF World Champions.

Which brings up the question: Why wasn't the Warrior mentioned?

Plus, I've heard Gorilla mention a couple of times that Mustafa was
the Iron Sheik.

Also, I was playing WrestleFest at the arcade at my school, and noticed
that all of the wrestler's names had the TM symbol after them
(even Hulk Hogan) except for The Ultimate Warrior, which had the
(R) Registered Trademark symbol. Any idea why Vince got a registered
trademark for the Warrior name and not for Hogan's?

Kevin
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From: hsano@cs.ulowell.edu (Hitoshi Sano)
Subject: Re: Wrestling Superstars
Keywords: Update
Organization: University of Massachusetts at Lowell Computer Science
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 01:32:14 GMT

In article <1992Nov9.231443.11003@ists.ists.ca> dchhabra@stpl.UUCP (Deepak CHHABRA) writes:
>**he said that Afa was a former WWF tag team champ**.  I do remember Afa
>and Sika, managed by Lou Albano, being the champs.  As I recall, they wrestled
>Tony Atlas and Rocky Johnson quite a few times, but I almost choked when past 
>history was mentioned on a syndie.
>
>dchhabra@stpl.ists.

I can remember some time ago when Col. Mustafa was new that Vince quietly 
blurted out," ...former World Wrestling Federation Champion.  Now calling
himself 'Col. Mustafa'."  It was so casual that it was very easy to miss.
I believe that it was on the Sunday noon show, whatever it was called back
then.  Anybody else remember this?

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"Irrelevant never forgets."
From: ventura@camelot.bradley.edu (Brian Wawczak)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.pro-wrestling
Subject: Re: trivia
Date: 12 Nov 92 06:52:41 GMT
Article-I.D.: camelot.ventura.721551161
Distribution: rec.sports.pro-wrestling
Organization: Bradley University

In <BxL6Hq.CAM@news.udel.edu> davez@brahms.udel.edu (David Micha Zlotkin) writes:

>     Money Inc's victory over the Natural Disasters got me thnking of
>a trivia question: What was the last team (before Money Inc) to regain
>the WWF tag-team titles from the team which ORIGINALLY beat them for
>the titles? I think I know the answer, but I want to see what 
>everybody else thinks.

Here comes the Axer...Here comes the Smasher...The Demolition....Walking
Disaster....

                      
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From: MJFORRES@SUVM.SYR.EDU (maurice)
Subject: snakeater 3
Organization: Syracuse University
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 14:28:47 EST

Alerted to Bam Bam Bigelow's appearance in Snakeater III: His Law by the
more culturally aware members of the group, I've been haunting the video
store for the past week hoping to see this.  Finally, Lori happened to
be leaving the store without the tape once again when she passed the
person who was returning it.  Imagine my surprise when I started
watching the tape and learned it was based on the book "Rafferty's
Rules" by, umm, mumble mumble.  How come none of you guys mentioned that
earlier?  Are the other Snakeater movies based on the Rafferty books?
 
Bam Bam plays Goose, for those who have read the book, and Goose's role
is expanded somewhat to suit Bigelow's girth.  I thought Bigelow did a
credible job in the part of an outlaw biker, but I don't see Hollywood
banging down his door to play any other sort of part.
 
The movie is okay.  But you'd be better off reading the book and
watching Bigelow wrestle.  There's no need for the two to ever meet.
 
maurice
                                                 Maurice Forrester
                                                 mjforres@suvm.syr.edu
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From: hit@sol.acs.unt.edu (Hisaharu Tanabe)
Subject: Re: Wrestling TidBits - 11/05
Organization: University of North Texas
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 06:15:04 GMT

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

> - Yokozuna debuted on the weekend.  Bam Bam Bigelow has already worked
>   a TV taping.  I guess Vince has decided that he needs new monster 
>   heels for Bret Hart to beat.  Speaking of Yokozuna (which is the 
>   title given a Sumo grand champion), prospective future yokozuna
>   Takahanada shocked Japan last week when he announced that he would
>   be marrying sex symbol Rie Miyazawa.

...and Rie is one of few actress who still have pure(?) pink nipples!!!

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From: v070qg5d@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Eric M Chmiel)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.pro-wrestling
Subject: Re: Will LOD Get Back Together
Date: 6 Nov 92 16:48:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

(Joe Fipp) writes...
Why they would go to WCW:
>   Animal has a family and would probably want the steady income of a large
>promotion rather than sporadic appearances in the independants.

    Animal is a multi-millionaire from selling zubaz clothing and surely does
not need a steady income.

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From: rela@beach.csulb.edu (Robie Elizabeth La)
Subject: Re: WWF question
Organization: Cal State Long Beach
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 05:38:14 GMT


Was this Damien Demento  ever in the IWF as the Stomper?  There's this picture
of him in a magazine, and it sort of looks like him.

Of course, all bald, snarling men with stringy mustaches look alike to me!

In homage to the great urn,


The Grand Pooh-bah
From: kipilman@cats.ucsc.edu (Lou Kipilman)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.pro-wrestling
Subject: Separated at Moustache?
Date: 9 Nov 1992 22:38:39 GMT
Organization: Team Slack
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Is it just me, or does a clean-shaven Rick Rude kinda remind you of mass
murderer Jeffrey Dahmer?

[Insert Phil Stromer-ism here.]

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From: Andy@Birdland.UUCP (Andy Patrizio)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.pro-wrestling
Subject: Re: Separated at Moustache?
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 19:15:04 EST
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In article <1dmp9fINNgr@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>, Lou Kipilman writes:

> 
> Is it just me, or does a clean-shaven Rick Rude kinda remind you of mass
> murderer Jeffrey Dahmer?
> 
> [Insert Phil Stromer-ism here.]
> 
> -- 

Actually, I always thought Lex Lugar in his early days looked a lot like 
Dahmer. Back in Florida, when he had the beard and played a heel. He did
bear some resemblance.

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From: yonatan@csri.toronto.edu (Gary Will)
Subject: Re: Yokozuna
Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto
Distribution: rec.sport.pro-wrestling
Date: 5 Nov 92 12:16:56 GMT

In article <Bx7M1A.5oA@acsu.buffalo.edu> v070qg5d@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Eric M Chmiel) writes:
>    I've been told this: Yokozuna is only given to a sumo wrestler after a
>lifetime of achievement, and it is akin to calling a sumo one of the greatest
>that has ever lived.  It is only awarded in extreme circumstances of extreme
>perfection over a lifetime.  There has not been a Yokozuna awarded in decades.

It's not quite THAT rare -- there have been several active Yokozuna
since the mid-80s.  The best known in this group is probably Koji Kitao,
whose sumo name was Futahaguro.  The embarrassment that Kitao caused
has undoubtedly made it more difficult for others to be given
yokozuna ranking.

The other recent yokozuna were the great Chiyonofuji -- the greatest
rikishi that we may see in our lifetime, Onokuni, and Hokutoumi.  All
four would have been active in 1988, but each has retired (or in Kitao's
case, been expelled) since then.

--Gary Will


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From: hekunze@jeeves.uwaterloo.ca (Herb Kunze)
Subject: Re: WCW News & Views
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 15:42:22 GMT

In article <BxD2K5.GyK@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, fippjc@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Joe Fipp) writes:
>   They announced some of the matches on Clash, they were:
>   Dustin/Windham  vs Shane Douglas/Steamboat
>   semi-finals of King of Cable
>   First two teams of Battle Bowl will be drawn

  They actually said that we will see "a" semi-final match from the
  King of Cable tournament.  I guess they don't plan to finish out 
  the tourney at the Clash.  Speaking of the tourney, does anybody
  else expect a Rick Rude vs. Van Vader final match?  

>   On World Wide they also showed Masa Hiro Chono vs Scotty Flamingo.  Chono
> must still be hurt, cause he didn't show anything that great.  I take it
> he is supposed to be good.

  While he probably was hurt when this was taped, I still doubt we'll
  see more than one or two awesome matches from Chono during his stay 
  in WCW.  Ditto for Kensuke Sasaki.  I just think they'll both have
  to work North American style matches at least 99% of the time, thus
  disappointing everybody who has ever seen them work in New Japan.

  There are very few opponents in WCW who could work with either guy
  to give us the type of match we want.  Let's see.  There's Van Vader,
  Brian Pillman, Chris Benoit (if he does come in at the end of the month),
  possibly Rick Rude, Brad Armstrong, and...

  Jushin Riger's only great match in WCW was with Pillman, the best
  worker in WCW.  

  I guess I'm just being pessimistic, but think about all those awesome
  Great Muta matches we've seen in North America (were there any?) 
  and how great he works in New Japan with and without the gimmick.
  
                                                               Herb...