From: hekunze@jeeves.uwaterloo.ca (Herb Kunze)
Subject: Wrestling TidBits   -   12/17
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 20:18:43 GMT


 - WCW has Starrcade '92 on 12/28/92 from Atlanta's Omni.  Matches are:
     - Masa Chono vs. Keiji Muto for the NWA Title
     - Ron Simmons vs. Rick Rude for the WCW Title
     - Sting vs. Big Van Vader in the finals of the King of Cable tourney
     - Rick Steamboat & Shane Douglas
        vs. Barry Windham & Brian Pillman for the WCW & NWA Tag Titles
     - The second annual Battlebowl match with 8 teams to be drawn live at
        the PPV.  The only announced match is:
          - Cactus Jack & Johnny B. Badd vs. Dan Spivey & Van Hammer
          - Remaining BattleBowl participants: Sting, Dustin Rhodes,
            Paul Orndorff, Too Cold Scorpio, Kensuke Sasaki, Jushin Riger,
            Erik Watts, Steve Austin, Marcus Bagwell, Barbarian, 
            Steve Williams, Barry Windham.

 - Shane Douglas and Rick Rude both suffered minor injuries on the 
   weekend (no details), but are expected to be fine for Starrcade.

 - Dusty Rhodes' booking deal runs out in the near future.  There's talk
   that he'll take a walk at that time since there's no way that he'll
   keep the same salary.  Greg Gagne has been brought in to work on the
   the creative team.

 - WWF has it's annual Royal Rumble PPV on 01/24/93 (or is that 01/23/93?)
   from Sacramento.  The line-up will include:
     - Bret Hart vs. Razor Ramon for the WWF Title
     - 30-man Royal Rumble, the winner of which will get a WWF Title shot
       at WrestleMania.
   The participants of the Rumble were reported in the Observer as being
   Bob Backlund, Berzerker, Carlitos Colon, Crush, Damien Demento,
   Ted DiBiase, Jim Duggan, Earthquake, Head Shrinker Fatu, Ric Flair, 
   Owen Hart, Curt Hennig, Jerry Lawler, Rick Martel, Nailz, 
   Nasty Boy Brian Nobbs, Repo-Man, Nasty Boy Jerry Saggs,
   Head Shrinker Samu, Tito Santana, Randy Savage, Papa Shango,
   Irwin R. Shyster, Tatanka, Genichiro Tenryu, Typhoon, Undertaker, 
   Virgil, Koko B. Ware, Yokozuna.
   Potential other matches have been reported here as:
    *- Shawn Michaels vs. Marty Janetty for the IC Title
    *- Bam Bam Bigelow vs. Big Boss Man
    *- Max Moon vs. Terry Taylor
    *- Steiner Brothers vs. Beverly Brothers
    *- Undertaker vs. Nailz in an electric chair match
   The last match looks to be scrubbed if UT & Nailz are in the Rumble.
     Jerry Lawler will become a regular colour commentator for the WWF 
   Superstars syndie and will work occasional big shows.
     Eveybody is betting that either Curt Hennig or Yokozuna will win 
   the Rumble.  There is a rumour that Bret Hart is slated to drop the
   WWF strap to Ric Flair in February.  I guess this goes hand in hand 
   with Curt Hennig winning the Rumble, giving us a Flair vs. Hennig
   main event at WrestleMania.  There is also talk that Lex Luger will
   get pushed to the top overnight once March arrives, so there are
   some title change scenarios with him involved.  The more sedate
   rumours have Bret Hart being given the push as champion, with the
   next heel at bat being Yokozuna.  Yokozuna is slated for a major
   push at the house shows in late Januray and early February.

 - Apparently, the Steiners debuted this past Tuesday night at a WWF 
   TV taping.  WCW let them out of their contracts early. 

 - WCW & New Japan co-promote the third annual SuperShow from Tokyo Dome
   on 01/04/93.  Tentative line-up includes:
     - Masa Chono vs. Great Muta for the NWA & IWGP Titles
     - Rom Simmons vs. Tony Halme for the WCW Title
     - Riki Choshu vs. Genichiro Tenryu
     - The Steiners vs. Kensuke Sasaki & Road Warrior Hawk
     - Jushin Riger vs. El Ultimo Dragon (Yoshihiro Asai) for the 
        IWGP Jr. Title
     - Norio Honaga & Super Strong Machine & Tatsutoshi Goto & Hiro Saito  
        vs. Kengo Kimura & Shiro Koshinaka & Akitoshi Saito & Kabuki
    *- Sting vs. Hiro Hase
   There will also be matches involving Rick Rude, Dustin Rhodes
   and one other WCW wrestler.  No word yet on whether parts of this
   card will be aired as a mini-PPV.
     Hiro Hase has title matches with both Muto & Chono before this show
   and if he wins either belt the card will be adjusted appropriately.

 - The TV station in my area that carries WCW World Wide Wrestling seems
   to have dropped it.  On this coming week's WWW, Van Hammer upsets
   Ron Simmons in the Strongest Arm tourney.

 - WCW has a Clash of Champions on 01/13/93 from Milwaukee.

 - WCW has a SuperBrawl on 02/27/93 from Asheville, NC.

 - WWF has WrestleMania on 04/04/93 at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas.
   The promo tape includes some footage of Hulk Hogan and rumour has
   him appearing but not wrestling.  The talk is that he'll either do
   commentary or be a guest referee.  My guess is that he'll give Bret Hart
   the Hulkster's seal of approval. The main event will have the WWF 
   champ defend against the winner of the Royal Rumble.  

 - Videos: I must have overextended myself on the weekend because my
   back was very sore for the past few days.  Luckily, the term's over
   and my teaching commitments ran out on Monday so I've been able to
   stay home and rest.  I took the time to watch some tapes I've
   received over the past while.  I've now watched all my old Calgary,
   a bit of Smoky Mountain and am now looking at some EMLL from 1991.
   Pretty good stuff, all of it.

 - I won't be posting a note next week since my Christmas plans will
   take me to Toronto and Montreal.  I should resume my weekly schedule
   after that.  Here's hoping that everybody reading this has a great
   holiday.

                                                           Herb...
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