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picks him up, half-nelson suplex, 1-2-3. This was a little bit
longer than the above indicates due to Richards stalling and jawing
with the crowd. He's really evolved into a great character. I love
his gimmick. Suddenly, The Pitbulls show up on the scene for a
triple-team of Taz. But Tazmaniac grabs and suplexes both of them.
Dean Malenko runs in. 911 charges down with Paul E. to clear the
ring. The crowd is hot.
DEAN MALENKO vs. (A POSSIBLY DRUNK) MIKEY WHIPWRECK
Malenko starts off with a waistlock go-behind, Whipwreck reverses
and comes up behind him. Malenko reverses again with a hammerlock
and takes Mikey to the mat. Dean delivers two knees to the
midsection, followed by a whip to the ropes. Mikey flips over Dean
and rebounds to score two armdrags followed by a drop-kick. Dean
heads outside to cool down. When they return, a test of strength
which Dean wins. He tucks his head underneath Mikey's arm and does
a Northern lights suplex. Dean to his feet, kicks Mikey in the ribs,
then a headbutt. Whip to the ropes, Malenko lifts up Whipwreck and
drops him on his face. Dean puts him in airplane spin position,
heaves him up, and drops him on the knee. Malenko goes to the top
rope and steps down on Mikey's ribs, then throws the kid to the
outside. Malenko lifts him up for a suplex, then drops him on the
guardrail. Back inside. Malenko whips Mikey to the ropes, throws
him in the air, but Mikey fires a drop-kick off. Malenko quickly
regains control with elbows, kicks, and a choke on the ropes with
his foot. Malenko with a nice surfboard. Whips Mikey to the ropes,
Mikey flips over top, Dean with a kick to the nuts. Whips him again
and kicks him, then tries a powerbomb, but Mikey counters with a
Frankensteiner, 1-2. Whipwreck on the offense with punches, whips
Dean to the corner but Malenko catches him with a boot. Mikey tries
a sunset flip but Dean sits on him. Dean grabs him,
double-underhook powerbomb (nice), then puts on a sharpshooter.
Suddenly, Taz and 911 make their appearance and attack Malenko.
Referee calls for the bell, Mikey is DQ'd. Before much gets going,
Ed Zohn comes out and gets on the house mic, saying the fans
deserved a good scientific match and 911 ruined it. Guess what
happens? That's right, Ed takes the chokeslam twice. It was brutal,
we loved it. "Ed Is Dead!" chants emerge afterward.
PUBLIC ENEMY vs. THE PITBULLS (NO-DQ MATCH)
Pitbulls have Steve Richards in their corner. Fans start chanting
"WE WANT BLOOD!" only ten seconds into it. Told you they were sick.
Grunge and #2 have a staredown into center ring. #2 throws a punch,
Grunge returns. They exchange blows. Pit Bull #1 tries to run in,
Grunge with a backdrop, then double-teams both members of the
Pitbulls. Another staredown with #1 and Grunge. Fans want Rocco
Rock. Tag is made, but both Bulls get in and attack him in the
corner with kicks. #2 whips Rocco to the ropes, comes off with a
press-slam. Whips him again, Rocco counters with an Asai moonsault
(awesome), 1-2, save by #1. It heads out to the floor and this is
where it gets hazy in my notes. Grunge is juicing buckets thanks
to frying pans, chairs, crutches, and anything else. Rocco is also
bleeding. Public Enemy double teams #2 with a boat oar. Steve
Richards is chased by Rocco back near us and some kid in the crowd
jumps on him. Security (and Dave Scherer), haul him out. Back into
the ring go Grunge and #1. Slam by Grunge, hits the Vader splash
from the second rope, 1-2. On the outside, #2 wails Rocco with a
chair. They get in the ring. #2 whips Rocco to the corner, hits a
nice spin kick on him. #2 tries to suplex Rocco back into the ring,
but Rocco blocks it and dumps him outside with a suplex. Grunge hits
Classic moment during the intros. Simmons is coming out and Sammy
goes up to him with his hand out for a handshake. Simmons goes for
it, and Sam pulls back and slicks his hair. Ron yells at him.
Douglas starts right away with a microphone shot on Simmons' head
and a double-team (Sandman was delayed in showing up for some
reason). Cactus throws Ron into the guardrail at ringside. Finally
our hero the Sandman arrives with the cane. Cactus does a back
elbow in the ring that knocks the "All-American" to the floor.
Simmons gets back in, Douglas is tagged in, Ron hits a
belly-to-belly. Douglas tries to escape, Sandman throws him back
in. Douglas hits a reverse atomic drop, a drop-kick, tags Cactus.
Stomps to Simmons, but Jack is quickly driven to the opposite
corner. The fight goes ringside briefly. Sandman is tagged in and
hits Jack with kicks to the gut. While Sandman distracts the ref.,
Simmons uses the tag rope to choke Cactus, which gets good heat.
Jack kicks Sandman, runs his face along the top rope. Tag to
Douglas. Shane hits a suplex and goes to a reverse chinlock. Cactus
gets in and hits Sandman with a legdrop while Ron is talking to
"Jackie" Finnegan. Jack also hits a clothesline before Finnegan
turns around. Sandman regains advantage, slams Shane and hits a
nice elbow. Douglas counters with DDT. Tag to Cactus, who wails
away with stiff forearms on Sandman, tag back in to Douglas, punch
to Sandman's belly (large target there). At this time Dave and I
notice that Tom is hitting on Linda the photographer bad. Tom thinks
she is his woman. We chant "Tom's Got a Woody!" Back to live
action: Douglas whips Sandman to the ropes and puts his head down.
Sandman grabs it and slams it back to the canvas. Sandman with a
kneedrop and a suplex, tags Ron Simmons. Douglas is whipped to the
ropes, double-elbow by Ron and Sandman. Sandman back in, hits a
tombstone on Douglas. Sandman kicks Douglas, then slaps Cactus,
which allows Ron to choke Shane behind the ref.'s back. Ron kicks
Shane in the face and is tagged in. Shane knocks him down, climbs
the ropes, and tries a body press, but Ron counters with an awesome
powerslam, 1-2, Cactus saves. Ron catches Cactus and Shane with a
double-chokeslam. Then the match heads to the floor again briefly.
Back inside, Sandman DDT's Cactus, tags Simmons, who drops a knee
into Douglas' kidney twice. All four men in the ring. Cactus
clothesline Ron over the top to the floor. Sandman from behind,
hits Jack and piledrives him. Sandman then starts jawing with Woman
at ringside. Big mistake. Shane sneaks up from behind, decks
Sandman with the cane, Cactus with a double-underhook DDT, 1-2-3.
After the match, Shane and Sandman fence with chairs to set up their
match the next night.
OVERALL: A very good spot show. Tim Walker even thought it was
better than the April 8 Philadelphia show. Nice work from everybody
and nothing stunk out the joint (well, besides, the crowd).
A funny story from the main event: Security tossed out this mutant
freak and the guard told Dave to hold the guy's beer. Dave goes and
gives it to Tom, who starts drinking it. Sick! We all laugh at Tom,
but he is too busy hitting on Linda to notice.
After the show, we see Ron Simmons again. While Simmons had been
heading back to the dressing room after the main event, we were
getting on his case. Ron said he had a three-story home. So Sam
goes up and asks him if he really does have three stories on his
house. Ron says yes. Sam said, "I didn't know they built mobile
homes with three stories." Simmons laughs. He is really cool. Dave
goes up to him and tells him this sucks, because now we can't hate
him since he's cool. He says, "Don't worry, I still hate all of
you."
Dave, Eugene, and I stop at Carbon Mini-Mart (what a name), for gas
and food before making the long journey home. I hope to be back on
May 20, so until then . . .
WCW PRO WRESTLING 4/15/95 by RYAN CUNNINGHAM
WHAT YOU MISSED: THE BLUE BLOODS beat two jobbers . . . Gene
Okerlund gave a Slamboree Control Center . . . ALEX WRIGHT over
SONNY TROUT . . . A segment featuring THE RENEGADE . . . EDDIE
JACKSON lost to BIG BUBBA . . . An interview with EVAD NAVILLUS in
which THE DIAMOND DOLL made an appearance . . . MENG defeated JOHN
TAYLOR . . . The main event saw BRAD ARMSTRONG & TIM HORNER job for
BUNKHOUSE BUNK & DICK SLATER . . .
WWF MANIA 4/15/95 by BRYAN FISHER
WHAT YOU MISSED: ADAM BOMB and TATANKA fought to a double
countout . . . A look at the Fat woman attacking ALUNDRA BLAYZE
. . . post WM stuff . . . A look at SID killing SHAWN MICHAELS . . .
ALDO MONTOYA beat JEFF JARRETT . . . a PIERRE THE PIRATE PROMO . . .
HAKUSHI, YOKOZUNA and OWEN HART lost to BRET HART, BOB HOLLY and 123
KID . . .
WCW SATURDAY NIGHT 4/15/95 by RYAN CUNNINGHAM
WHAT YOU MISSED: ALEX WRIGHT beat "HOLLYWOOD" BOBBY STAR . . .
Yet another replay of the board's voting on Ric Flair's
reinstatement from 2 weeks ago . . . "MR. EXCITEMENT" JOHN TAYLOR
was no match for SGT. CRAIG PITTMAN . . . A Slamboree Control
Center: STING to meet BIG BUBBA, HARLEM HEAT will face THE NASTY
BOYS, THE GREAT MUTA encounters PAUL ORNDORFF and DORY FUNK JR.
takes on WAHOO MCDANIEL on Sunday, May 21 . . . MENG destroyed BARRY
HARDY . . . An interview with DAVE SULLIVAN at his home that saw THE
DIAMOND DOLL pay a warm visit to him . . . THE BLUE BLOODS axed
EDDIE JACKIE & SCOTT ARMSTRONG . . . The second board meeting saw
the final representative break the tie and vote YES to reinstate RIC
FLAIR into WCW . . . BARRY HOUSTON fell to PAUL ORNDORFF . . . Yet
another look at THE RENEGADE . . . FLYIN' BRIAN over RICK THAMES
. . . The US Championship lines up like this: Winner of STING vs.
ARN ANDERSON meets winner of JOHNNY B. BADD vs. PAUL ORNDORFF,
Winner of MENG vs. MARCUS BAGWELL meets winner of FLYIN' BRAIN vs.
BUNKHOUSE BUNK . . . Winner of RANDY SAVAGE vs. BUTCHER meets winner
of STUNNING STEVE vs. JIM DUGGAN, Winner of RIC FLAIR vs. THE
PATRIOT meets winner of ALEX WRIGHT vs. BIG BUBBA . . . The final
championship match will take place at THE GREAT AMERICAN BASH on
Sunday, June 18 . . . BIG BUBBA flattened LARRY SANTO . . . ARN
ANDERSON & VADER defeated STARS & STRIPES with the help of
interference by RIC FLAIR . . . Things ended with an interview from
ARN, VADER, and RIC FLAIR . . .
WWF SUPERSTARS 4/15/95 by Joel Geraghty
WHAT YOU MISSED: This week, there was no JERRY "THE KING"
LAWLER. Instead, DOK "Don't Call Me Michael Hayes" HENDRIX made his
WWF announcing debut. Dok said that the disease afflicting the King
was the Big D, D-I-V-O-R-C-E . . . TONY DEVITO & BURT CENTENO were
overpowered by the ALLIED POWERS when the BRITISH BULLDOG pinned
BURT after the powerslam . . . Next up was STEPHANIE "The Female
Pettenzoo" WIAND with your first WWF In Your House Report. The
$14.95 PPV will take place in Syracuse, NY, on May 14th, and as
expected, SID will challenge DIESEL for the WWF Title in the main
in there. Looking around, the place looked different. They were set
up for a concert that was taking place after the show. And man, it
sure looked better when I was half lit last time. That said, it is
still an awesome place for a show. Really intimate confines, but a
way scary crowd, which was around 400 and pretty strong by the way.
Oh, and for those coming in for the May 13th show, and were hoping
for a Friday show here, you are out of luck. It seems that some
school, rumored to be Charles Manson High, is having their PROM
here. Oh man. The bathrooms were just as lovely as I remembered
though. We get inside and meet up with Eric Tennant, Sam Siegel,
Mad Dog, and the Bingo Moose. Also in attendance is our main man,
Dreads, the total loopjob. He walks up to us and says "uuuuhhhhh."
We say "Hi Dreads."
At the beginning of the show, Tod Gordon announces that Sabu is not
there and offered refunds. We did a "F^ck Sabu" chant, but like I
said, we ain't in Kansas anymore Toto. These people had one chant,
and they said it all night. "We want blood." The whole crowd
stayed. Jess will cover the matches themselves.
Notes: Steve Richards worked his balls off all weekend. He got a
ton of time managing as Jason is gone . . . This crowd was scary. I
saw 10 people get thrown out. One guy got tossed, and as security
walked past, the guy handed me the tossed idiot's beer. I handed it
to Mr. Misnik. A few minutes later, Tom is DRINKING The beer of this
interbred freak who got tossed. Way to go Moose. You are hardcore
. . . The Rottens deserve every penny they get paid. These guys
work their freaking balls off and give everything they have . . .
Jess McGrath got lucky and got to collect the money while the Public
Enemy had their pics taken with fans at intermission . . . Misnik,
proving he is anything BUT no good, brought a bag of Pretzel
Goldfish. Great job Moose. We talked about convention 2, which I
already posted about on the 'net and just had a great freaking time.
At 9:40 I said "This is what wrestling is all about." Sammy did the
funniest stunt of the night. Ron Simmons, who we dog unmercilessly,
comes out. He screams that he has a 3 story home, a ton of money,
etc. After the show, Sam goes up to him and says:
"So Ron, you say you have a three story home?"
Ron says "Yeah."
Sam says "I didn't know they MADE three story mobile homes."
Ron CRACKS UP. We BS with him a little more, and he is really cool.
I go up to him and say: "You really suck Ron." He says "Why?" I say
"Because we love to hate your guts, and how we supposed to do it now
that we know you are a nice guy?" He says "I STILL hate all of you"
and starts laughing again. Cool guy folks.
On the way back, we stop at the Carbon Mini Mart, or something like
that, to get gas. I was just thankful somewhere was opened to get
gas. We see Linda Roufa and some of the Japanese contingent there.
They were here filming a documentary. Nice folks. We rode home, and
continued to be the morons that we are.
Saturday 4\15.
We had a great party, as usual, in the lot. In attendance were:
Rat, Eugie, 212, Alex (Killer of all beer), Mad Dog, Tim Walker
him and we are off to the races Grap fans. Typical psychotic, wild,
crazy, all over the place match that these two have become known
for. They just do not get paid enough, whatever it is, to take the
abuse they do. Both, of course, bled like stuck pigs from various
parts of their bodies. They use all of the gimmicks and brawl every
place. Rat calls it the "Starburst Match" cause the juice is loose.
Ian unravels the Barbed wire and wraps Axl up in. Axl has arm juice.
Ian gets back-dropped into the first row and then gets hit with a
pair of pliers to the head. Rat says "This would kill a lesser
show." Ian uses an orthopedic crutch. Ian puts a trashcan over Axl's
head and then hits him in the "head" with the ball bat." Axl does a
spinning kick to the face. Ian throws Sign Guy's chair, with his
jacket on the back, at Axl in the ring. I think somewhere in here
was where Tim Walker got blood all over his shirt. Axl and Ian
trade barbed wire necklaces. Molineaux appears to be about to lose
his lunch as he looks away from the carnage. Axl misses a kneedrop
from the top. Ian wrapped barbed wire around Axl's back and hit him
with a chair for the pin. Awesome. reads proves his insanity by
high fiving a bloody Ian's hand.
Joey comes out for an interview, and we do the Oh My God Chant. It's
Richards and Raven and since we can't really hear them, we decide to
crowd surf this kid Frankie. We pass him around the bleachers a few
times. It should look pretty cool on TV.
Raven, with Richards (who now has highlights in his hair and we
were chanting Fabio and Farrah at him) and the girl from Summer
Camp with a body to kill for vs. Tommy "He's Hardcore (TM Brian
Socha)" Dreamer. We are doing our "He's Hardcore" chant when Raven
does a plancha over the top onto him on the floor. How rude. During
the match, we goad sign guy to use the cane to lift up the chick's
dress. With that body, she HAS to be a dancer. Has to be. Finally,
the guy next to Sign Guy takes his cane and does flash us. She is
wearing hardly any underwear. Crowd does a "Show your Tits" chant.
Dreamer uses a kitchen sink. A fan hands Dreamer Godzilla and he
uses it. We sing Blue Oyster Cult's "Godzilla." Misnik makes up
for drinking the convicts beer last night by handing Dreamer a dozen
eggs, and he toasts Raven and Richards with them. How cool! Tommy
juices. Hot match with lots of great moves. Dreamer loses by DQ
when he goes nuts and DDT's everyone, including the ref., and then
piledrives the slink. Her dress goes all the way up and nothing is
left to the imagination. Tommy gives his pals in the Bleachers an
extra long look, if you get my drift. He then comes up into THE
Bleachers and leads the Bums in an ECW champ. I love this guy.
Really good match.
Eddy Guerrero and Dean Malenko went to a time limit draw in an
absolutely incredible match for the ECW TV Title. This was one of
the best technical matches I have ever seen live, and was completely
and total scintillating to watch. The crowd, with the exception of
the 4 @ssholes in the Wannabe Bleachers who we turned our backs on
earlier, loved this and gave them a standing ovation afterwards.
Eddy was supposed to wrestle Sabu, but we know what happened there.
As much as I like Sabu, there is simply no way he would have had the
*wrestling* match that Dean did. These guys were both just awesome.
Tons of hot moves like suplexes and top rope FrankenGuerreros.
Planchas and back body drops on the floor. Head scissors, Nuclear
Planchas. Awesome. Great crowd heat and everyone was popping for
the near falls. Jess says "this is Great." Jess is right. As long
as Eddy is here, I say Sabu Who? At the end of the match, I start
Terry Funk vs. Cactus Jack in the sickest, most violent match I have
ever seen. Ever. In fact, it was so violent and crazy, I almost
feel guilty that I enjoyed watching it. It makes me question if some
part of me is really that sick. Match was all over the place. Cactus
does the hip buster from the top stage onto a table on the second
stage. Pans, crutches cookie sheets etc. Funk goes to throw Cactus
over the guard rail and he does not make it. Ouch. Cactus throws
Funk headfirst into a table propped against the ropes, twice, and it
did not break. Funk kind of suplexes the table onto Cactus who was
sitting on the top rope, and as the table hits the floor, Golfer
John coolly pushes the table away before it creams two women at
ringside. Cactus grabs the toilet seat and puts it around Funk's
neck. Funk takes Cactus on the apron and powerslams him on the
floor. My God Mr. Foley, you are sick. Funk juiced. Funk brings a
trashcan into the ring. He pulls out a bottle and hits Cactus in
the head. BONK. He hits him again. BONK. Third time is the charm as
he smashes it to bits on Cactus' head. Then Funk takes two bottles
and breaks them. He takes the neck of one and starts carving up
Cactus' arm and head and throat. I could not tell if he really did
it or if Cactus juiced, but there was blood. You are WAY sick Mr.
Foley. "You're a sick f^ck" we chant. Mikey and Hack try to make
the save. No way as Funk ran them off. Funk was doing the spinning
toe hold when somehow, Cactus rolled up Funk for the win.
Afterwards, Sandman comes out and starts caning Cactus and pouring
lamp oil on Sandman when Funk comes out with the flaming Branding
Iron. Funk blew alcohol out of his mouth and toasts Cactus with a
fireball. I felt the heat of it all the way in the bleachers.
Totally psychotic. Funk chased Cactus around with the iron, and then
Cactus got it. The feud with these guys continues, and I am getting
the feeling that we will see Cactus vs. the Sandman on the 13th for
the title.
Awesome show, I am drained. See ya!
WCW WORLD WIDE WRESTLING 4/16/95 by BRYAN FISHER
WHAT YOU MISSED: MENG killed BILL PAYNE . . . JIM DUGGAN over
SLEDGEHAMMER . . . Some words from NICK BUTTWRINKLE . . . FRANK
ANDERSON over MANNY FERNANDEZ . . . A SB Control Center . . . BIG
BUBBA ROGERS over KENNY KENDALL . . . STARS AND STRIPES over 2
Italian dudes . . . ALEX WRIGHT and ARN ANDERSON fought to a draw
. . .
USWA WRESTLING 3/26/95 by CRUNGE
WHAT YOU MISSED: DAVE BROWN and COREY MACKLIN announced: PG-13
are new tag champs, TOMMY RICH has been fined and suspended for
hitting a ref. and RANDY HALES, BRIAN LEE is the new USWA
Heavyweight Champ after beating BRIAN CHRISTOPHER . . . JERRY LAWLER
came out to complain about BILL DUNDEE losing the belt to RAZOR
RAMON . . . CRUSHER BONES and CHRIS KANYON, managed by DIAMOND MIKE,
lost to PG-13 . . . DOWNTOWN BRUNO (AKA HARVEY WHIPPLEMAN), came out
and said he would take over for Corey; Dave said thanks but no
thanks . . . a recorded clip of Corey telling us GORGEOUS GEORGE III
would be teaming with MABLE . . . back in the studio, Dave called out
GG III to tell us who his mystery partner would be; surprise, it is
Mable . . . GG III and Mable squashed two jobbers . . . Bruno came
back out and insulted Corey . . . MISS TEXAS video . . . Texas came
out, so did Bruno, and Bruno and Texas insulted each other . . .
recorded comments from Tommy Rich at a lake; basically he said he
should get the match against Razor, and that he was the only one
with the fire left in his heart . . . Lawler beat JACK HAMMER easily
. . . JIMMY HARRIS, now just JIMMY the Security Guy, came out to
make sure things were safe for Brian Lee; Lee came out and beat TD
STEELE . . . Bruno came out, called out Texas, then called out his
wife, Karen, who he claimed he met in Scotland while over there with
the WWF; Bruno held Texas while Karen slapped and kicked her . . .
Brian Christopher came out and beat the HUMAN TORCH . . .
STATE OF WRESTLING BY Rob AKA Laret@aol.com
Well the big news this week is that Sabu no-showed the ECW
3-Way show. The fans weren't too happy (massive understatement), and
began a chant that was repeated over and over all night long.
Personally I think Sabu is probably the best wrestler around right
now (in N. America anyway), but I still would have chanted along
with everybody else. The reason is that Sabu double-booked himself
and didn't tell anybody at ECW that he was going to do the Japanese
show instead. Another thing that annoyed me was then Sabu commented
that ECW wouldn't last much longer. This is just plain dumb, he has
absolutely no right to annoyed with the fans because it was his
fault for double booking himself. Oh well I wish I had something
more positive to move onto but . . . . . . . . . . . . .
A newsmagazine show (can't remember which one but its on ABC),
is preparing a piece on steroid usage in wrestling and the deaths
that result from it. Now I'm not going to stand here and defend any
wrestlers who use steroids but I will be shocked if the piece is
even slightly objective or fair. They will no doubt concentrate on
the deaths and give the impression to the general public that
steroids are still running through the veins of every wrestler
today. Maybe I'm wrong and the show will devote time to what is
going on now (which isn't perfect but is still much better than ten
years ago), rather than what happened years ago.
Sid is now officially in the $$$ corporation. This Sid/Shawn
Michaels/Diesel angle just keeps getting more and more complicated.
I hope this is leading somewhere incredible (like a triangle match),
rather than just fizzling out. The WWF looks like it is devoted to
allowing its wrestlers to compete in the independents. Apart from
trying to form a friendly relationship with the independents this
may also be because they have a large amount of name talent that
they can't give air time to. The WWF has got more talent into the
ring and they still have some wrestlers yet to make there debut.
Unlike the continual downsizing of . . .
WCW. They once again dragged out the "international" board
members to vote on Flair. To the shocking surprise of everybody
(insert sarcasm here), he was reinstated. Now he will battle in the
US Tournament. It is just amazing how stupid WCW is. Last week they
had Austin job for Sting for crying out loud. Would it be possible
for them to waste talent any more than they are now???? I honestly
think that they are intentionally trying to self-destruct.
Well that's it for this week. Seeya!
COUNTING THE RING LIGHTS by MIKE TESTA
I had a very long week, so I will keep this short. It now looks
like Shawn Michaels will be going face for sure. I was thinking they
might have Michaels vs. Diesel at In Your House, with Sid
interfering for Michaels, exposing a set up. But now Sid will win
the title, followed by Shawn taking it at KOTR . . . I like Michael
"Dok Hendrix" Hayes on Superstars, but what's with his name? Does
this mean Lawler is gone, or is he just on RAW from now on? . . .
What was the deal with Jerry Jarrett being ripped on during the JJ
match on Zone? I take it he has signed with WCW.