From: pmbarlow@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (The Candy Guru)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.pro-wrestling
Subject: Re: Wrestling TidBits   -   07/23
Date: 24 Jul 92 06:19:19 GMT
Article-I.D.: miavx1.1992Jul24.111919.11879
Organization: Miami University Academic Computer Service"

I apologise if this post shows up twice at everyone's location.  Apparently,
there's something going on here at Miami, so I'm looking into that.  My last
post here DID show up twice on my system.  So this post will serve as a test. 
Pardon the inconvenience.

In article <Brv0xt.2tI@watdragon.waterloo.edu>, hekunze@jeeves.waterloo.edu (Herb Kunze) writes:
>  - 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...

It also serves to muddle the SS tag title picture somewhat.

If DiBiase jumps to WCW, what would anyone give the chances of him seeking out
his old tag partner, Dr. Death Steve Williams, and joining him and Terry Gordy
in a possible romp to the 6-man titles?

>  - 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.

Well, lessee... scrap the LOD-$$$ match, if the above is true.  But I figure
the Fat Boys to drop the belts to the Bevs by SS anyway, setting up the oh so
popular LOD-Bevs match with the Bevs destroying Rocko before the match, and LOD
reclaiming the tag titles.

On the other side of things, you may as well get ready to add two other matches
to this lineup, those being Shawn Michaels w/Sherri Martel vs. Model Rick
Martel (no relation, apparently), and the spoiler posted match from two days
ago, Nature Boy Ric Flair vs. Mr. Perfect Curt Hennig.  Vince needs desperately
to add some matches to this card which actually MEAN something.

>  - 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.  

To that, I'll agree.  Indeed, the MM+UW v. Nasties television match seems an
even more likely place for Savage to make his turn.  But I figure that once
Savage has made his move, either Hennig or Flair will be ready to make his,
depending on what Vince decides to do.

>  - 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.

Say, does this mean I'll FINALLY get to see some CMLL-type wrestling on a
regular basis?  Probably not, but having only ever seen three wrestlers out of
CMLL (those being the Silver Kings and Mil Mascaras) I'm pretty well excited by
this.

>  - 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.

Yeesh.  Hopefully they'll name this team "Big and Dumb".  You can decide for
yourself which is which.

>  - 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.

Yeesh again.  Who really wants to watch a 40-year-old wrestler go against a
40-year-old boxer?  Or should I even ask the average WWF fan?

As to Hogan entering New Japan... all I can say is better them than us.  :)

>  - 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.

This also means, apparently, that Lex Luger is AGAIN out of a job, unless Bill
Watts decides to let him back on board, but that, as I understand it, is
doubtful.

But the WBF was a bad idea gone worse due to Vince's involvement... and since a
large number of WWF viewers don't have access to USA Network, the only
commercial or cable television outlet for WBF, Vince was, realistically,
wasting his time and money on this project.

>  - 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.

Which is probably true, due to the large number of people therein.

But if you want to feel sorry for yourself, Herb, please try and remember that
there are people worse off PPV-wise than yourself.  The first PPV wrestling
card that Continental Cable of Dayton (in Ohio) picked up ever was WM VIII in
April... that's 7 years of having to wait until the next wrestling show to find
out what the hell happened.  So keep that in mind.


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