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From: grobi@uni-paderborn.de (Juergen Peus)
Subject: Re: Wrestling GIFs
Organization: Uni-GH Paderborn, Germany
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 09:26:28 GMT

In article <1992Sep25.100927.7752@ac.dal.ca>, jsteeves@ac.dal.ca writes:
|> Does anyone have an FTP site for the wrestling GIFs that Kurgen put up over
|> the summer? 
|> 
|> Frey.Newcastle.edu.au was where he put them up, but they're not accepting
|> anonymous logins anymore. Didn't someone get them and upload them to a
|> North American site?
|> 
|> A site (and directory) would be nice. Thanks.
|> 
|> 
|>    ______       
|>   (__  __)     .----------------------. 
|>  _  / /        | Jason Steeves        |
|> ( \/ /         | (jsteeves@ac.dal.ca) |
|>  \__/ ASON     `----------------------'


Public please !!! It's very difficult to get those things here in germany.

Ciao,
	J"urgen

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J"urgen P'eus    (grobi@uni-paderborn.de)

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From: jewell@Data-IO.COM (Cal Jewell)
Subject: Re: Comet Kid=Paul Diamond
Organization: Data I/O Corporation
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 00:09:39 GMT

In article <mjenkins.717616810@cunews> mjenkins@alfred.carleton.ca (Michael Jenkinson) writes:
#In <1992Sep27.120441.1@bcvms.bc.edu> joes@bcvms.bc.edu writes:
#
#
#I guess this is Paul's reward for being such a good jobber as Kato.

Is this Vince's way of rewarding his more talented jobbers? He gives
them a mini gimmick and a mini push and then books them on some 
mid-card matches. He's done it before with Brady Boone (Battle Kat, it
was Boone wasn't it?), Steve Lombardi, etc.

Usually, they get to strut their stuff for a few weeks and then they
get squashed by a mid-card jobber (ala Santana or Kiern) and it's
back to jobbing obscurity for them.

Lemme see if I get this straight: I job for everybody under the sun
for a year or two and then I get to wrestle under a mask for a few
weeks and get a mini push?

Gee, what a deal. It almost makes taking all those Earthquake butt
drops and Nasty Boys armpit rubs worth it.

Ack.

-- 
Cal...                        "By analysis of usenet source, 
                               the hardest part of C to use 
 jewell@Data-IO.COM            is the comment."
 ...!uunet!pilchuck!jewell       -- bill davidsen (davidsen@crd.ge.com)
From: ba446@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Todd M. Hanson)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.pro-wrestling
Subject: Re: MVC, and the N. American tag talent pool.
Date: 28 Sep 1992 03:35:41 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: ba446@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Todd M. Hanson)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


In a previous article, pmbarlow@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (Dan Fielding) says:

>Dan Fielding, who gets more in one night than Ric Flair does in a month.

Yeah... but Im sure Slick Ric isnt alone when he gets HIS...


Todd



-- 
* Todd Hanson                              ba446@cleveland.freenet.edu  *
*                                                                       *
*     "No woman's worth a bullet between the eyes.. "                   *
*          "Depends on who's eyes.. and which woman."    'Bugsy'        *
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From: umturne4@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Daryl Turner)
Subject: Re: TV Taping in Brandon, Man., Can 09/22
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 17:33:38 GMT

In article <1992Sep26.105247.2374@brandonu.ca> brycerw@brandonu.ca writes:
>>>Bulldog Bob Brown (a local wrestler - don't know how well known he is) came
>>>out to ref about 4 matches.  A lot of people recognized him.  It was funny
>>>to see the crowd cheer 'Bulldog...Bulldog...' at the ref, ignoring the
>>>wrestlers.
>> 
>> Hey, that would have been fun.  Bob didn't show his face around here.
>> 
>Funny, you guys get Jumpin' Jim Brunzel?

Yep, Jumpin' Jim had one match in Winnipeg, against 'Terrific' Terry
Taylor.  Had him going for a while, but eventually lost.  :(


>>>Looks like McMahon is pushing a new guy - called something like 'Madd-Million-
>>>Moon'.  Another comic-book character.  Comes in with a toy on his wrist to
>>>shoot out colorful stringers into the crowd.  Looks and moves a lot like
>>>Shawn Micheals' old partner (can't think of his name).  He had 2 matches.
>> 
>> 
>> I caught the name as something like Maximillian Mure, butt we only had him
>> once.  I don't think he could have been Marty Jannetty.
>> 
>The sound system was blurry here.  Could have been anything like that.  Reason
>why I thought it might be Janetty is because some of his moves looked similar,
>and he left the ring exactly the same way as the Rockers always did.

Yeah, it did look a bit like Jannetty, but after this weekend, I know better.
The character is now the Komet Kid, and according to Herb's 'Who are they'
list, it's Paul Diamond (Kato)...which if you look REAL close when they show
a face shot of Komet Kid, you'll notice that it does look like Paul.


          Daryl


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From: art30248@nusunix1.nus.sg (NG LING LING)
Subject: Top of the Pops
Organization: National University of Singapore
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 04:36:13 GMT

Based on TV programmes, here's my ranking of WWF characters which get
pops (heat, whatever you call the "They're going Bananas!" said Monsoon)

Faces           
1.   Warrior
2.   Savage
3.   Undertaker (!!!)
4.   Legion of Doom (before Crush)
5.   Bossman

Heels
1.   Flair
2.   Razor
3.   Shawn Michaels
4.   Papa Shango
5.   Beverly Sisters

All-time Pops (Faces/Heels)
1.   Hulkster (pre-Royal Rumble 1992)
2.   Sid Justice
3.   Piper
4.   Warrior
5.   Legion of Doom 
6.   Jake Roberts
7.   Savage
8.   Undertaker
9.   Flair (after he bopped Piper with a chair)
10.  Demolition (after they beat Colossal Connection)

I am prepared for all your figure 4 flames or flame suplexes. Come on!
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From: heard@franklin.cc.utas.edu.au (George Heard (Laurie 8))
Subject: Re: JellyMANIA - Ooohh what a GUSH!!!!!
Organization: University of Tasmania, Australia.
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 04:22:04 GMT

Mark Byrne <M.Byrne@compserv.utas.edu.au> writes:

>Last Night at the Uni Dome in Launceston, Tasmania - AUSTRALIA, the world
>was allowed to witness JELLYMANIA III 

>It was sticky, gross, slimey and in some cases very, very sexy

G'day Wrestleophiles,

    First, thanks to the guys in Launceston for putting this on. It was a great
night and I had a lot of fun. Totalling my car in a roll after a tyre blew out
on the way home wasn't, but that's another story...

    Mark, the Gross Gladiator is something to behold. Imagine three or four
people squashed together into one person. Great referee, wished I had his
view of the ladies tag, although the less said about "Vanessa the Undresser"
the better...

>The other matches included Mixed TAG, Ladies Singles and the MAIN
>EVENT.......the Mens Title Match ( due to injury I retired
>undefeated....as I could not enter ), but defending the honour of Larry
>O'Dea and R.S.P-W. was.........
>             Leaping Laurie8.... Direct from Melbourne via sleepy HOBART. 
> He was a MONSTER HEEL.... and the crowd HATED him and his POETRY.  He
>bribed the Ref, exited the ring when the the going got tough only to
>blindside his OPPONENT. But unfortunatly for George (LAURIE8), his foe
>was the eventual winner of JELLYMANIA the PILLAGING PIRATE Number 2. But
>credit where credit is due LAURIE8 did it with style......He had an
>ambition to make the crowd hate him......and He did it.......took some
>good bumps too. 

Leaping Laurie 8 was in good form, and this match saw more actual wrestling
moves than all the others combined. I've done a tumbling clown act before, so
I was there to take bumps - I actually convinced the two people at the bell
that I was really being fought in the ring. The poem Laurie 8 read at the start
of the match was...

I'm going to break your skeleton
And I'm going to break your heart
And take the wrestling belt of gelatin
Back with me to Hobart.

Anyway, this was pots of fun (about four or five pots), and if it is on next
year, expect a repeat performance from the leapster.

George

               \ George Heard <heard@franklin.cc.utas.edu.au> /
                \   Chemistry Department, Uni of Tasmania    /
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Subject: Re: Asking marks
From: pmbarlow@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (Dan Fielding)
Date: 27 Sep 92 17:57:42 -0500
Organization: Miami University Academic Computer Service"

In article <1992Sep15.132814.7549@ac.dal.ca>, jsteeves@ac.dal.ca writes:
> In article <mjenkins.716520943@cunews>, mjenkins@alfred.carleton.ca (Michael Jenkinson) writes:
>> Is Davey Boy Smith *really* Bret Hart's brother-in-law? (See, I
>> figured marks are so confused by all the junk fed to them, they may
>> not believe the actual truth for once...ignoring, of course, that Bret
>> Hart WON the I-C title from this *other* brother-in-law, Curt Hennig)
> 
> Curt Hennig is Bret's brother-in-law too?!? I knew Neidhart, Davey Boy,
> and the Dynamite Kid were his brothers-in-law. How are they related?
> Is Curt married to a Hart or Bret married to a Hennig?

Here, and I thought both of you had been reading this group longer than I
have...

The following wrestlers are married to various sisters of Bret Hart:
Ben Bassarab (is THIS guy the Dynamite Kid?)
Curt Hennig
Jim Neidhart
Davey Boy Smith

The "Wrestling Relations" post will confirm this.

All this means is that 3 of the last 5 I-C champions are, one way or another,
involved in the family Hart.  You figure it out.


Dan Fielding.  NOT married to a Hart sister.
From: kzim@ucrmath.ucr.edu (christopher zimmerman)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.pro-wrestling
Subject: Re: Espata Isn't Comet Kid, Unfortunately
Date: 2 Oct 92 22:22:22 GMT
Article-I.D.: galaxy.22672
Organization: University of California, Riverside

In article <1992Sep30.111523.1@uncavx.unca.edu> west@uncavx.unca.edu writes:
>
>BTW, did anybody see the wookie doll angle in the La Briosa match on
>AAA this sunday?  I thought I was gonna faint when the doll hopped up
>and did the Shooting Star off the top ropes.  The match was dull, but
>I laughed about the Wookie for hours...
>
>Mark West   WEST@UNCA.EDU   "It's Vader Time!!" 

Actually, it was more like an Ewok.  I meant to ask about that, but since
it was my first AAA and I know only enough Spanish to get me from El Paso
to Juarez and back, I decided to hold.  But since you brought it up,
hasn't this guy been involved in Lucha Libre matches for some time now?
Who is he?  Without Mr. Fields' knowledge, will I ever find out?

Christopher Zimmerman
kzim@watserv.ucr.edu
kzim@ucrmath.ucr.edu
From: dave.scherer%acc1bbs@ssr.com (Dave Scherer) 
Newsgroups: rec.sport.pro-wrestling
Subject: Re: Flair as a Face
Date: 26 Sep 92 13:23:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Advanced Computer Concepts BBS, New Rochelle, NY 914-654-1981
Reply-To: dave.scherer%acc1bbs@ssr.com (Dave Scherer) 

  >>If that happens, I would
  >>consider boycotting the WWF. - Only thing is, then I would have to watch WC
  >>a fate truly worse than death.

LU>You like the WWF better than WCW? Bahahahahahaha. Have the doctors
  >told you how long you have before they put you back in the padded
  >room, or have you never sought treatment for your obvious imbalance?
  >I'm not being callous - I care! I really do!

The really scary thing is that a LOT of people prefer the WWF to WCW.
While the vast majority of the actual wrestling matches in the WWF are
pitiful, their production values and booking are far superior to WCW.
In addition, their long range planning runs circles around WCW's.

I prefer to watch Smoky Mountain to either of these two any day.
---
 . SLMR 2.0 . Dislexics of the world, untie!
                                                                                                   
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From: macika@emunix.emich.edu (Dominic Macika)
Subject: Yup, Herb's getting soft allright
Organization: Eastern Michigan University
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 16:47:40 GMT


Yes, Herb, you are getting soft.  This is quite a changes from your
month long debate with John Price on the topic of Hogan fandom vs.
Riger fandom.  Your lucky John's not here to gloat.

-- 
Dominic Macika

"Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please"
			-Mark Twain (1835-1910)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.pro-wrestling
From: ccjames@cybaswan.UUCP (j hussell)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.pro-wrestling
Subject: Komet Kid (Looks like .....)
Date: 29 Sep 92 17:02:08 GMT
Reply-To: ccjames@pyr.swan.ac.uk (j hussell)


Who thinks that the Komet Kid looks a little bit like, in body size, WCW's
Super Invader???  

I saw the Komet Kid's debut match.  What a load of !@@@#%I((#@.  Mr. Perfect
and Vince were commentating and Perfect said, "He's got a jet-pack!!"

Sssshhhhhhyyyyyeeeeaaaaah, riiiight!!  And monkeys might fly outta my butt!

If Perfect had a braincell, he'd be dangerous, AND I DON'T CARE WHO TELLS
HIM!!!!!


I'am also wondering if what I hear is true; that some, if not most, of the 
WWF superstars have access to this usenet newsgroup???  I was told by one of
the guys over here!!!

Apparently, the WWF have their own computer dept. so the stars have access to
quite a few things.  Is this true, and if it is, Curt Hennig is an a*****e!!


Long live the Undertaker (and you know he will!!),



The Whizzkid.

-- 
James W. Hussell			      University College Swansea, Wales.
ccjames@uk.ac.swan.pyr			 	  	  ccjames@uk.ac.swan.vax
	    "The opinions above are not those of my employers"
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From: mjenkins@alfred.carleton.ca (Michael Jenkinson)
Subject: Ottawa Citizen's NEW monthly wrestling column
Organization: Carleton University
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1992 18:34:09 GMT

The Ottawa Citizen has started a new monthly wrestling column. Here's
highlights from the first edition:

* Randy Savage and Elizabeth are officially divorced. The papers were
signed this month. According to the article, WWF officials are in no
hurry to explain Elizabeth's disappearance, but realize they will have
to eventually.

* Six preliminary wrestlers who drove to Ottawa for the June WWF card
were denied rooms at a local hotel. After management heard what
they did for a living, they said, no wrestlers allowed, period.

* Sid Justice was banned permanently from the WWF for steroid use.
Honest, that's what the article says. Alana Kainz, the writer, then
says, is it just me, or does the WWF get rid of one steroid monster
and then replace him with "even bigger muscle dogs like newcomers
Tatanka, Crush and bejeweled Razor Ramone <sic>" She also calls
Justice "the disgraced former WWF champion."

Michael
From: ottoh3@cfsmo.honeywell.com (Otto Heuer #3)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.pro-wrestling
Subject: [WCW] Watts up Doc?
Date: 27 Sep 92 02:16:39 GMT
Organization: Honeywell Systems & Research Center
To: rec.sport.pro-wrestling
Posted-Date: Sat, 26 Sep 92 21: 16:39 -0500
Received-Date: Sat, 26 Sep 92 21: 15:57 CDT


Eric Watts will make his pro-wrestling debut on October 17, 1992
in St. Paul, Minnesota.  

Anyone going?

		--Otto "Cactus Hack" Heuer
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Subject: Re: Recent News
From: pmbarlow@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (The Candy Guru)
Date: 2 Oct 92 20:10:54 -0500
Organization: Miami University Academic Computer Service"

In article <92275.182052IO20738@MAINE.MAINE.EDU>, IO20738@MAINE.MAINE.EDU writes:
> Recent news from Arena Report newsletter-
>      -Rick Steiner tore a pectoral muscle in Japan and should be out for
> a minimum of six weeks.  The tag team scene gets worse!
>      -The Undertaker broke his collarbone in a TV match in Winnipeg.  He
> will be out for about two weeks.
>      -Brian Knobbs recently had knee surgery.  The tag team scene gets
> even worse!

Well, even though I don't like looking at two of these guys, (Steiner and
Knobbs) this IS rather bad for the tag team scene.  With Knobbs presumably out
for some time, that brings the WWF team pool to just four, Fat Boys, Money Inc,
Bevs, and the Sheepwhackers.  With the Steiners split up, Rick out with an
injury, and Scott being the TV champion, the WCW team pool gets even worse than
it already is.  PLUS, Watts and company now look pretty damn stupid, having
announced that there will be an MVC-Steiners title match at HH'92.  About the
only way they can save themselves would be to replace the Steiners with Windham
and Rhodes.

As for the Undertaker... well, you know what they say... Death Takes a Holiday.
(sorry, couldn't resist.)

>      -75% chance the Steiners will jump to WWF in January,but there is
> a major "substance" standing in the way.

And just what would that substance be?  Roids?  In Scott's case, maybe, but I
doubt in Rick's.  Contract?  Possibly... their term with WCW ends at the year's
end.  Cash?  Another possibly... will WWF pay the bucks the Steiners want to
get from them?  Guarantee push?  Doubtful... with the WWF pool as shallow as it
is, a push is almost guaranteed for an entering team.

>      -WCW was thinking about bringing in Marty Jannetty to team with
> Shane Douglas.  They backed down fearing negative publicity.  Can someone
> tell me what Arena Report meant by this?

Ah... that would have something to do with Marty, a teenager, and a bar in
Florida.  Or would it be the rumour thread from here that Marty liked boys...
no, wait, that was Mel Phillips...

>      -Doc and Gordy suggested to Watts the tag team title change.  Since
> most of their next few months will be spent in Japan.

Which is a shame, really... 'cause I liked having them as champs.

>      -Kendall Windham now owns a video dating service in Tampa.  Oh joy!

This is really non sequitur...

>      -On 9/19 both WCW and WWF were in Philadelphia.  After the cards
> more than 30 wrestlers were at a local bar.

Trading company secrets... setting up the first combined PPV... getting drunk
with underage girls... no, that's Marty again.

>      -Junkyard Dog defeated Eddie Gilbert for the USWA title on 9/21 in
> Mephis.

Uh... well... he's a better candidate than Kamala.

>                    Bobby "The One and Only Brain" Heenan on the team of
> Jim Duggan and the Bushwackers,  "Larry, Darryl, and Darryl."

Accurate, if nothing else...


The Candy Guru.
From: fippjc@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Joe Fipp)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.pro-wrestling
Subject: Steiners vs Doc & Gordy
Keywords: World Wide Wrestling
Date: 26 Sep 92 18:38:42 GMT
Organization: Purdue University


  In a non-title match on World Wide Wrestling, the Steiners beat Doc &
Gordy when Rick beely-to-back suplexed Gordy and bridged for a pin.  Not
many moves at all by either team.

  Jim Ross anounced it would be the Steiners versus Doc & Gordy at Halloween
Havoc for the belts.  Interesting to see what happens with Windham & Rhodes.
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From: MJFORRES@SUVM.SYR.EDU (maurice)
Subject: Re: "Nature Boy" Steve Austin
Organization: Syracuse University
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 92 14:38:41 EDT

In article <1a4a4oINNfnq@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
bh929@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Mike Palij) writes:
 
>(3)  Has it been sloppy booking but weren't there a couple of Nature
>Boys around at the same time without any real feuding about who was the
>World's Real Nature Boy (tm) (was it Flair and Landel in the NWA or WCW?)?
 
My vague recollection is that Flair and Landel were headed for a feud in
the NWA when Landel once again dropped out of sight.  I think Landel had
a manager then.  Was it Gary Hart?
 
Too bad Buddy Landel never pulled himself together.  He's got a lot of
natural talent.
 
maurice
                                                 Maurice Forrester
                                                 mjforres@suvm.syr.edu
From: kipilman@cats.ucsc.edu (Lou Kipilman)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.pro-wrestling
Subject: Re: Company Men
Date: 1 Oct 1992 01:52:38 GMT
Organization: Team Slack
NNTP-Posting-Host: si.ucsc.edu


In article <mjenkins.717806848@cunews> mjenkins@alfred.carleton.ca (Michael Jenkinson) writes:

>When did Gagne and Brunzell wrestle in the NWA? Brunzell wrestled in
>the mid-Atlantic area for a while, even became Mid-Atlantic champion
>briefly, but Gagne never followed him. They had two reigns as AWA tag
>champs around the time Brunzell was in the NWA.
>
>I honestly think Greg Gagne has never signed a contract with any
>organization other than the AWA.
>
>Who are the historians in this group?
>
>Michael

This is a dim memory, so excuse me if I'm off the mark. I remember a match
rundown of classic cards in something like a 10th anniversary issue of PWI.
They listed the WWF's Shea Stadium card, which had matches like Andre vs.
Hogan (w/Fred Blassie), and the main event being Larry Zybyszko (sp) vs.
Bruno Sammartino in a cage match. On the undercard, I think it listed a
successful defense of the WWF junior heavyweight title by Greg Gagne. This
was from circa 1980.

Was Greg ever champion in the Whiff? I'm sure he may have wrestled men from
other federations, when it was common to do so. Otherwise, I've never seen
him elsewhere but the AWA.


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From: hampton@ais.org (Kevin Podsiadlik)
Subject: Re: Wrestling Challenge
Keywords: Update
Organization: UMCC
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1992 19:27:38 GMT

In article <BvLwFw.Dz1@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> fippjc@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Joe Fipp) writes:
>  Ended with an interview by Davey Boy Smith.  I didn't pay too much attention,
>but he did mention his match with Bret Hart at S Slam.  Did he say he was
>fighting anyone?

Nope.  About the only point of the speech was to say, "Yeah, things are
just fine."  He made it sound like he'd won an Oscar for his performance
in the Hart family drama, around about the fifth "I'd like to thank..."

-- 
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Vaporware Engineer          | election were to be held tomorrow, a whopping
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