______________________________________________________________________ I do not offer subscriptions to a mailing list! I do not e-mail images! ______________________________________________________________________ - Okay, The WWF had Invasion on PPV this past Sunday, 07/22/2001; the entire PPV will no doubt be available for download on DALnet a few days later. Going in to the show, I have to admit that I couldn't understand the hype. "This PPV will make history." "This PPV will change the face of sports entertainment." "The WWF is putting everything on the line." The hyperbole has been incredible. I could understand the excitement over the show if they hadn't been giving away WWF vs. other promotion matches on TV for the past few TV shows, including subsets of the very matches that were scheduled for this PPV. Here they've been giving away the very thing that I think they are hyping as the lure of the PPV. And "everything on the line?" Well, if they had some sort of stipulation where WCW would win a TV slot if they won a majority of the matches, I could understand that. But the plan used to be to give WCW RAW as part of the divorce settlement, and now even that idea seems to have cooled. Nonetheless, I was hoping that a PPV of mostly fresh matches featuring non-WWF guys who want to prove something would end up being a great show. On the live Heat show, Chavo Guerrero beat Scotty Too Hotty in a decent match. Nothing special, but Chavo is so much fun to watch. Mick Foley revealed that he would referee the referees match and have another secret to unveil. The persistent rumour amidst constantly changing plans was that Mick would end up as the commissioner for the non-WWF side. But everybody has been rumoured to jump at some point, so don't hold your breath. The result of the evening has to be WCW/ECW winning most of the matches, cleanly I'd hope. We'll see. * Edge & Christian beat Mike Awesome & Lance Storm: Early on, Edge missed a dropkick and Christian missed a tope. On my scorecard, Storm & Awesome are two of the top guys on the invading side. Jim Ross went on about this night being so important, yadda, yadda, yadda. Why? It's not like the WWF had anything on the line. If they lose most of the matches, can't they just kick WCW/ECW guys off their TV? Why have they continued to let them appear? To hype the show, I guess, in anticipation of kicking ass. But why let them appear afterwards? I think the idea is that Vince is bowing to Linda's wishes, but surely Linda doesn't want her company to go out of business. The ECW presence on WWF TV never made any sense, let alone the wrestlers jumping without a moment's lip service to their WWF contracts. Anyhow, after Christian's flub, they had a long, effective heat segment on him. WWF ref Mike Ciota called things fairly. The commentary was extremely balanced. Despite wanting the WWF guys to win, the commentators worked hard to put over the invading side. Awesome tried for a top rope power bomb, but Christian backdropped him. Double hot tag. Storm bumped like a pinball, the first shot not even hitting him. Edge looked hot. Some reasonably intricate collisions led to Edge getting a two count after Christian reversed a small package. Some close two counts. All four in. Storm superkicked Edge when Christian moved out of the way. That should help heat up their split, if that ever happens. As Awesome went for an Awesome bomb, Christian speared him and Edge landed in a pinning position for the win. I can't help but feel a bit disappointed by the result (WWF goes over), but the match was good enough that with the right follow-up Storm & Awesome can get over as a team. It was the sort of match I expected in that regard, where the loser gets over because he works hard and the match is great, but I expected the loser to be the other side. Despite several flubs, I thought this was a good opener. See, I really want to enjoy this show. * Earl Hebner beat Nick Patrick: Mick Foley came out to referee the bout. Angle alert? Jim Ross gushed over Foley. I was expecting a bitter interview from Foley before it was all over, you know: he gave his all to the WWF and the farmed him out to pasture. Earl came out with the other WWF referees, whie Patrick had the WCW/ECW crew. Jim pushed that Earl is loyal to the WWF; yeah, but not his professed friends. This was junk, of course. "Earl is like a bulldog." "[Mick Foley] is one of the fairest guys I've ever met." Just end it. Please. Every minute of this is a minute taken away from the workers on the show. And it's not like this match drew any money. Mick sent the WCW refs to the back. Earl laid out Patrick with a KO punch for the pin. Patrick yelled at Foley, shoving him, so Foley nailed him and sockoed him. Horrible. * APA beat Chuck Palumbo & Sean O'Haire: The battle of the tag champions. Looking at the, ahem, talent, ahem, in the match, it says a lot about the value of the tag titles. No belts on the line in this match. Palumbo & O'Haire charged in to more generic music. Jim Ross mentioned that Palumbo & O'Haire beat Kevin Nash & DDP for the titles. The crowd didn't react at all to either team, which says a lot because this crowd wanted to be noisy. They tried to work hard, but none of them is any good. At least the WCW side can claim inexperience as a reason. Amateur-hour double teams. O'Haire used some sneaky tactics to nail Faarooq. I think this was supposed to be a heat segment on Faarooq, but that isn't the right label given the crowd silence. That must be a crappy feeling, to be the victim in a heat segment that draws no reaction. At least the hot tag drew a really small noise, so about twenty-three fans were interested. And that was the only prime-time thing about this match. All four guys in the ring. Palumbo nailed Faarooq with a superkick (in theory, anyhow), with Bradshaw nailing Palumbo with the clothesline for the pin. I see a pattern. In finishes and bad matches. * Billy Kidman beat X-Pac: Before the match, Paul Heyman told Kidman that they were at the point of no return. Kidman acted like it was no big deal. Jim Ross mentioned that X-Pac was fired by WCW via Fed-Ex. Not sure why: Vince, you own the company now. Kidman had new ring gear, spandex shorts and no shirt. They traded some cocky rides at the start. Okay, don't joke about that. Kidman is awesome; he's better than X-Pac once was a long time ago. Kidman nailed a rana and scored a two. Headscissors, but Kidman ended up taking a dump to the floor. X-Pac pulled a plancha out of his dusty bag of high flying maneuvers. The crowd was anti-X-Pac. Headlock. Oh boy, sleeper. The crowd was really into this. That's sarcasm. Kidman followed up with his own sleeper, but X-Pac backdrop suplexed out of it. X-Pac tried a somersault senton from the top, another rarity these days, missing. Kidman hit his powerbomb for a two count. Punches in the corner. Powerbomb by X-Pac with the ropes for a two. Kidman tried for something off the top, but X-Pac drove Kidman's head into the mat, with the commentators calling it an X-Factor. Two count. Bronco buster countered with a kick to the crotch. Shooting star for the first standing-O reaction to a move of the night. Except for the clean finish, there was very little to this match. Really disappointing. This match brought home a sad reality: there are no light heavyweight wrestlers in the WWF who can work at the level of Kidman and co. Sure, Taka Michinoku deserves mention, but he's been battered into nothingness over the years. Remember those great cruiserweight matches in WCW? It sure doesn't seem like we'll ever see anything like that in this angle. And I'm even talking about the amazing Ultimo Dragon, Rey Misterio Jr., and Psicosis stuff from way back. Wait, this angle is supposed to excite me, and here I am in deep melancholy. * Raven beat Steve Regal: Regal forearmed Raven all over the place. Raven tried a dropkick, but got caught and slingshotted over the top. Jim Ross said that Raven has a "near-genius IQ." Raven took control, including a Russian leg sweep into the barricade. This seems like a reasonable time to mention that the commentary seemed flat because Jim Ross didn't have somebody good to play off of. Raven kept working on Regal's ribs. They did a lame spot for Regal's rally, with Raven taking a punch to the gut and staying bent over far too long to allow for a running knee. Raven hit a bulldog for a two count. They did a couple of intricate two counts. Regal is a lot of fun to watch, but the meshing in this match was really poor. Crowd chanted boring when they should have been into it. Double knock down, with Raven falling outside the ring. Tazz ran in with the referee nowhere to be seen. Suplex. Raven hit a DDT for the pin. This was turning into a bad show by this point. * Kanyon & Shawn Stasiak & Hugh Morrus beat Big Slow & Billy Gunn & Albert And what do they trot out just as the show was starting to get that bad feeling? Oh, one can only dream about this sort of match. Anything with the Big Slow & Billy Gunn is guaranteed to be worth watching just to see how bad wrestling can be. A reader mentioned to me how much he likes my Big Slow put downs. After some introspection, I realized that I was inaccurate in one my jabs. I said that the Big Slow has one mode of operation: suck. While that's a fair description of Billy Gunn, I think we have to admit that Big Slow has another mode as well: suck more. I was going to work an allusion to a certain porno starlet known for a certain act into the previous two sentences, but I didn't want to risk diluting the core message of those sentences. God, I felt sorry for Kanyon in this match. Charles Robinson was the referee. Somebody has a sense of humour in making Gunn & Slow into a regular tag team. Since Jim Ross was detailing the reasons why everybody on the card left WCW to come to the WWF, I was waiting for him to explain that Stasiak was fired by the WWF for taping conversations in the WWF locker room. Jim Ross just said "Hugh Morrus tagging himself in." Huh? How often does somebody on the apron tag somebody other than himself in? Too many really cheesy names for moves in this match. It reminded me of the dying days of ECW when Joey Styles had all of those names for nonfinishers by Amish Roadkill. The WCW squad squeaked out a cheap win with a pin on Gunn. Afterwards, Slow laid out all of the WCW guys. All of that so they could leave this match with the familiar refrain: "Well, he's the Big Slow. He's the Big Bad Slow tonight. Yeah, he's the Big Slow. He sucks so much it's a fright." * Yoshihiro Tajiri beat Tazz: Hey, Tazz left the WWF for ECW but he still gets his WWF entrance music. Tajiri sure is great, and Tazz sure looks limited. Tazz hit one crazy suplex at the start, but otherwise tried for submissions that don't have any credibility with this crowd. I never bought into the Tazz mythos, so they didn't hold water with me either. Tajiri got pummelled on the floor. Tajiri managed to hit the tarantula for a few seconds, with Jim Ross saying that the move is illegal. Some kicks, but no three count. After a suplex, Tazz ate some mist, and Tajiri scored the win. The spin was that this result evened things up at four wins apiece, including the pre-PPV Heat match. A waste of Tajiri, who is actually another guy who might deliver a great match with Kidman. Man, what a sad show at this point. * Rob van Dam beat Jeff Hardy to win the WWF Hardcore Title: Before the match, RVD nailed Matt Hardy with a chair shot to the back. The crowd did not react to van Dam's entrance, since he's had absolutely no TV presence. RVD drew an ECW chant from the crowd. Good fast-paced exchanges at the start. No joke, the reaction that RVD drew from this crowd after such a long absence from the spotlight should mean that he is instantly worked into a strong position, although he has to be allowed to work a certain type of match...and who in the WWF will work those matches with him? Jeff sent RVD to the floor. RVD cut him off on the barricade. They went into the crowd. Van Dam draped Hardy on the barricade and hit a kick off the apron onto Hardy's back for a two. The crowd chanted about their venereal diseases. Van Dam took a sunset flip off the apron to the mats. Hardy pulled out a ladder. Well, you knew that this was going to be a garbagy and spotty match. Hardy climbed to the top of this super tall ladder. Van Dam ended up tipping over the ladder so Hardy fell into the aisle. RVD grabbed a chair, but Hardy disarmed him. Back shot. RVD nailed a spin kick out of nowhere onto the chair into Hardy's face with the commentators calling it a Vandaminator. Hardy tumbled into the tirnagular pit bordered by the two rampways to the ring. Van Dam pulled him out and scored a two count on the ramp. They walked back to the ring. The crowd was standing. Van Dam dropkicked the chair into Jeff's face. Who else in the WWF would be willing to take these spots? Yeah, not Austin, Rock, HHH, or Undertaker. Van Dam took an incredible DDT bump for a two count. German suplex for a two count. Jawbreaker, with Hardy going up to the top rope. Swanton bomb, missed. Froggie splash onto Hardy, who had the belt draped across him. Well, it was pretty garbagy and spot-filled, but it was also the sort of intense match that they need the WCW/ECW guys to have to get over. It played to van Dam's strengths of spot and garbage wrestling. He still needs to adjust stylistically, and I don't know if he can because he is so entrenched in that style, but if he does adjust he could be the person to give this angle some fire. Jim Ross: "I don't know how many stars you are going to give this match at home," but it was one of the best matches Ross has seen in recent times. I'd put it just under the four star mark, but I have trouble rating garbagy matches. It was certainly better by far than anything else on the show. * Lita & Trish Stratus beat Stacy Kiebler & Torrie Wilson in a bra & panties match: Earlier on, Torrie lamented that the viewers would not get to see her "gorgeous breasts." And Stacy said that they wouldn't get to see her great ass. Torrie has good natural presence when she talks; I think we'll be seeing her pushed through the roof. Mick Foley came out to be special referee again. Torrie wore spandex pants and a red tank top. Stacy wore black spandex pants and a red leather tank top. Jim Ross remarked that it would difficult to get the WCW wrestlers down to their panties. Trish wore blue bell-bottomed pants and a black tank top. Lita wore her tradional baggy pants and white a tank top. No, I'm not going to call this match. I'll just tell you the ending. Torrie did a dropkick, which was actually better than those dropkicks David Flair used to do. Neither WCW girl wanted to face Lita. Short call: everybody lost her top. Torrie & Stacy lost their bottoms. It was too long, as they actually tried to do too many moves. * Booker T & Diamond Dallas Page & the Dudleyz & Rhyno beat Steve Austin & Kurt Angle & Chris Jericho & Undertaker & Kane: They said that things were "all evened up" before this match. As the match started, there were close to 50 minutes left in the PPV window. They showed a detailed hype package before the match. "And the future of the WWF is very much at stake." How? I still don't know. There has been no explicit explanation of these rantings, which is why I can't get into the hype. By the time the ring entrances (including Shane, Paul E., Stephanie, and Vince) were over, 40 minutes were left in the PPV window. Jim Ross suggested that "balance of power" was "at stake" in this match, but no contract sipulation specified that, right? The wrestlers came in in alternating order, one from each team. Regarding Booker, Jim Ross said "He's no Ric Flair, he's no Sting." They brawled everywhere right from the get-go, with the WWF side seemingly dominating. They mentioned that Rhyno was "the last ECW champion." So why isn't he the ECW champion in this feud. I mean, why is Booker T referred to as the WCW champion, with title belt in hand, rather than "the last WCW champion." Austin picked on Rhyno in the ring as the other wrestlers finally got into corners. 35 minutes left in the window. Jericho & Booker T had some good sequences. They really kept Jericho strong. Next in was Angle. Booker T nailed Angle and then tagged in D-Von. Angle rallied and tagged in Kane. Dudleyz 3Ded Kane, leading to a ten second heat segment. Man, I hate Kane's character. Buh Buh got punished. Undertaker came in. The American lardass actually gave up a two count to Buh Buh off a clothesline. Undertaker threw a punch at DDP for good measure. Undertaker did the rope walk. "Vintage Undertaker." See, some things don't get better with age. Rhyno got tagged in and started pounding UT. DDP begged for the tag. He pounded on UT, who gave up a two count before rallying with punches. DDP somehow maintained control before tagging in Booker T. Unlike throughout the earlier part of the show, the commentators turned totally biased here, really criticizing the WWF/ECW side. They laughed about Booker T, joking that the move he made most famous is the deadly "spinneroonie." They criticized DDP because he tagged out when he was working over Undertaker, saying that DDP decided he can't beat him. The WWF squad started beating up Booker T. Jericho managed to thwart DDP's attempted interference, holding his own with both DDP and Booker. Finally, though, D-Von nailed Jericho from the outside. Hey, if they were going to attempt to draw heat on one of the WWF team members, which one would it have to be? Well, it was short-lived, with Jericho outsmarting both Dudleyz. Angle came in and suplexed both Dudleyz. Heat on Angle. Yeah, he's the only other choice for this role. Booker hit the axe kick and the spinneroonie. DDP came in to powerbomb Angle, but Austin made the save. That woke the crowd up. Austin's tag will be hot. Whassup on Angle, with Jericho stopping the pin. Angle tried to power his way to the corner. Tag to Austin, but the referee missed it. Diamond cutter, but Undertaker ran in with no tag. The ring filled. Rhyno gored Booker by mistake, not the first mistake he made in hitting Booker. Undertaker beat up DDP in the ring. Choke slam. WWF referee Mike Ciota left the ring to look after things. WCW referee Charles Robinson came in only to be laid out by Undertaker. Undertaker & DDP walked off into the crowd. Austin lay at ringside, selling his knee from some unseen (hopefully fake) injury. Dudleyz beat up Kane outside. An EMT looked after Austin. Dudleyz pulled out a table, setting it up on the barricade. Kane chokeslammed D-Von through the commentary table. Buh Buh & Rhyno nailed Kane with the monitor. They suplexed Kane through the Spanish commentary table. Jericho resurfaced, shouldering Rhyno through the table set on the barricade. Everybody was laid out. Jim Ross reminded us that Booker T & Kurt Angle, who apparently were laid out in the ring, were legal. Lots of laying down, rolling, and grimacing, with replays of table bumps. Buh Buh & Booker pummelled Angle in the ring. Angle went berzerk with suplexes, hitting the ankle lock on Booker, who rolled over and kicked Angle off into referee Ciota. Vince McMahon grabbed the WWF Title. Shane grabbed the WCW Title. Shane whacked Vince in the ring. Angle laid out Shane and Buh Buh. He put on the ankle lock. Booker T tapped, but no referee was around. A rejuvenated Austin pulled the referee into the ring. With Vince Russo booking, Austin nailed Angle, put Booker on top, and told the referee to count. The WCW/ECW side cheered while Austin swore. Austin held up the WWF Title before stomping Angle some more. "Are you telling me the WWF Title is now in the enemy's hands? Is that what we are seeing here?" I dunno. It sort of reminds me of the Russo era. Nonsensical turns and realignments coming at a pace that nobody can digest. I guess the WWF side can recruit Mikey Whippreck to go after Austin. My thoughts a day after the show are pretty much unchanged from my initial reaction. We know that Austin has a few nagging injuries so he couldn't work much in the PPV main event. It sure seems like the Austin jump was an impulsive decision, though. I suppose they are setting up for Austin vs. Rock at SummerSlam. From the moment that the WCW invasion began, it has appeared that they have had no patience at all. The WCW debut was rushed and totally botched, in every conceivable way: dancing Shane McMahon, run-ins in meaningless matches, Booker vs. Buff the Stiff, Arn Anderson as a commentator to give WCW a, ahem, fresh face, WCW being held off by the WWF B-Team, and, most importantly, I think, at every turn making WCW uncool. You know what I mean by that last point: the WCW guys always ran away from a challenge, and the commentators and wrestlers always buried the company. There is a school of thought that suggests that Paul Heyman may have helped these mistakes accumulate, perhaps only via his silence on the stupidity of so many decisions, in the end leading to the WWF looking for a way to recover from a crashing angle. And wouldn't you know that Paul Heyman ended up as the brains behind an ECW faction, led in name by a McMahon, with stronger positioning that the WCW group because of the familiarity the fans have with some of the wrestlers in the ECW group (Dudleyz, Tazz, etc.) and the tremendous promise of other lesser-knowns (van Dam, Storm, Awesome). And right when the ECW group entered the picture, Heyman's input was clearly there, as the invaders miraculously stopped their pattern of running from the WWF guys. Well, on that first show, the ECW guys didn't run. Looking at where we were before the Austin turn, the promotion had eaten up a good year or more worth of story lines in a few short weeks. With patience and care, the WCW invasion story line could easily have stretched through this year. The ECW birth to support WCW could have been the next twist in the story, occurring at a point when the WWF seemed to have conquered the WCW invaders. And the jump of Austin or some other big name WWF star should have veen held off until it looked the WWF had managed to weather the dual storm of WCW and ECW. Ignoring all of the nonsensical stuff they had to do to rush to this point, I just find myself so surprised that they've rushed to this point. It could be said that lack of patience is what killed WCW. ECW was killed by lack of money. The WWF has the resources and the fan support to have lasted long enough for things to be developed slowly, but they couldn't do it. It's somewhat ironic, since the professed desire is to have each group have one two hour TV show per week so that wrestlers aren't working so hard (and the injury count diminishes) and so that story lines can develop more slowly. It's funny that we have to rush like hell for weeks on end so that we can possibly finally slow down. The only real positives coming out of this PPV IMO were + Diamond Dallas Page releasing Debra from his trunk after Smackdown makes sense, + Ron van Dam looks like he'll get over, + Kurt Angle finally has a respectable character, and + Chris Jericho was booked with respect. On RAW the next night, they opened with the "WCW-ECW Alliance" leaders all taking a few minutes on the microphone. It was pretty sad to see Stephanie, Shane, and Paul Heyman all take time to hype their alliance while Steve Austin was the only wrestler on hand to represent the group. He's so much bigger than everybody else in the group that including them in the celebration on RAW didn't seem to be a reasonable idea. Austin tried to explain his turn. They couldn't explain why he stunned a million guys on Smackdown the week before. Yeah, part of the ruse, right? Austin & Angle started a story line. But the PPV will build to Austin vs. Rock. Hmmm, should we expect that Angle jumps as well, feeling overlooked by Vince? A few more words on digitized matches. Go to last week's update for more explanation, if you missed it. My fserve was pretty busy for the past few days. A total of 5-or-so gigabytes of matches and movies have been grabbed from me. Initially, I had some trouble because of my firewall, but it got resolved. My cable modem service dropped on the weekend for a while. I've bounced between being on DALnet and the undernet. I prefer the undernet because DALnet foists too many unsolicited ad chats at a user. There are few things more annoying than returning to my computer at some point during the day to find 30 or 40 advertisements. In any case, most of the time I'll be on one of those two networks in #wrestling-hk. I've run into a few technical issues while capturing matches. I've been capturing to MPEG-2 format and eventually converting that to a DivX AVI movie. The DivX codec is on my fserve and is required to view the matches. DivX, particularly the bootleg codec, is the defacto standard for high action movies, with loads of internet fora devoted to it. My problem while capturing one particular match is audio synching. The movie looks great, the sound sounds great, but they are out of sync. That's an undesirable result for a wrestling match, with crowd reactions and ref counts occuring at the wrong time in the video. Argh. Okay, so ATI suggests system power or hard drive fragmentation could be the problem. That's bullshit, given my system. Hmmm, after much consternation, I came across an explanation on Matrox's web site, explaining that many factors can cause sync problems. The bad news is that sometimes sync issues can't be resolved for a given video tape. Matrox makes the point that commercial tapes will all capture with no synch problems, but personally recorded tapes, particularly those which have been duplicated might not have strong signals on them. Hmmm, what strikes me as weird in that explanation is that my higher generation tapes have captured perfectly well, but my original tapes from Japan have caused me trouble. Anyhow, switching to other tapes reassured me that my equipment is fine, but I'm still coming to grips with how I'll capture things from my Japanese originals. (Yes, I tried other capture programs, but they all had this problem for the MPEG-2 format. I don't want to capture to a poorer quality format; I'd rather feed the DivX compression routine the highest quality input I can.) At some point, I'll add a page that lists matches I've captured and made available. For now, the list is still short, so I'm just going to include this small table in my updates. Date of Match Match Details Comments on Match Comments on Movie File Date Added 1992/08/15 AJW Manami Toyota vs. Toshiyo Yamada Regular tag partners and tag champions, Yamada & Toyota here faced each other in a hair vs. hair match for Toyota's IWA Title. This is a legendary match of the year. * * * * * Size: 146.159.616 Duration: 17:57 Video quality is very good. 2001/07/17 1992/06/05 AJW Manami Toyota & Mima Shimoda vs. Akira Hokuto & Etsuko Mita Four of the most amazing women wrestlers of the late 1980s and early-to-mid 1990s. Matches involving these women in any combination are always great. Hokuto is my personal favourite of all-time. * * * * 1/4 Size: 106,227,712 Duration: 12:45 Video quality is very good. 2001/07/17 1991/04/20 AJ Mitsuharu Misawa & Toshiaki Kawada & Kenta Kobashi vs. Jumbo Tsuruta & Akira Taue & Masa Fuchi Just one of the marathon six-man tags that defined All Japan in the late 1980s and early 1990s. This match never aired on TV, but this commercial version of the match shows us 48 minutes of a 51 minute battle. * * * * 3/4 Size: 447,152,128 Duration: 55:45 Video quality is very good. 2001/07/17 1986/08 AJW Bull Nakano & Condor Saito vs. Itsuki Yamasaki & Noriyo Tateno Yamasaki & Tateno were called the Jumping Bomb Angels; they visited the WWF for a run in North America. * * * * 1/2 Size: 164,038,656 Duration: 19:52 Video quality is decent, but a bit shaky. 2001/07/18 1981/12/12 AJ Bruiser Brody & Jimmy Snuka vs. Terry Funk & Dory Funk Jr. The annual All Japan tag tourney final, featuring the debut of Stan Hansen in the All Japan ring. A legendary match, which launched Stan Hansen's lengthy career in the promotion. * * * * 1/2 Size: 260,755,456 Duration: 30:00 Video quality is shaky, but it iis watchable in a small window. This file is really only for historians. 2001/07/25 Due to error on my part, the Yamada vs. Toyota match that I had on the fserve was incomplete. I had copied a test version into the fserve directory. I've cleaned that up. I also cleaned up the incorrect date in the AJ six man. In addition to the matches I've captured, I've got a few North American wrestling items on the fserve, at least for the moment. Many current theatrical movies are also up. __________________________________________________________________ If you have any feedback regarding my web pages, please send me e-mail. Don't forget to delete the leading "x" from my e-mail address; that "x" is my web spider spam guard. __________________________________________________________________