From: hekunze@watmsg.uwaterloo.ca (Herb Kunze)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.pro-wrestling
Subject: Wrestling Tidbits   -   05/24
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Date: 24 May 90 19:55:00 GMT
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 - Since last week, I've heard - in accordance with some off-line comments
   from Wade Bills - that Bronto will be a caveman type character, who'll
   probably carry a club to the ring with him.
     Also as Wade mentioned, Ole Anderson will be the single booker for the
   NWA.  It seems that he'll slowly work himself out of the Horsemen's
   manager's position, but will stay on the commentary team on WWW.

 - As mentioned earlier in this week in the group, the Road Warriors seem
   to be WWF bound in the very near future.  There is talk that Capital
   Combat was their last PPV appearance in the NWA and that they probably
   won't last through the summer.  It's kind of funny since with Ole in
   as the booker, they may have received a massive push - Ole was booking
   during the period when the Legion of Doom was a really feared quantity.

 - Peggy Lee Leather beat Bambi for the US women's crown at Colonial Beach,
   Va. a short while ago.

 - Rumours have Junkfood Dog back in the NWA to take a run at Ric Flair.
   I guess when you make everyone a horseman and kill one of your two big
   faces while the other is still 'injured,' you're pushed to extremes.
   I was kinda hoping that the Steiners would split up and get a singles
   push.

 - This weekend - as if we couldn't guess - there'll be a confrontation on
   Brother Love's set when advertised guests Hulk Hogan and Earthquake
   butt heads.  Seems that Hogan gets squashed (probably does a stretcher
   job) to set up his summer sabbatical from the ring.  I guess this also
   implies that the Earthquake may get boosted to a title contender,
   although the Rude-Warrior program is meant to carry the summer.

 - With the apparent re-entry of Doug Furnas into the NWA, is there any
   mention of his tag partner from the Japanese rings, Dan Kroffat,
   joining the organization.  This guy is one of the greatest wrestlers
   and workers I've ever seen - he deserves a spot in the North American
   national spotlight.  With Owen Hart and Larry Cameron already coming
   in, I don't know if I (or Jim Herd) can handle any more quality arrivals.

 - Dusty Rhodes is back from his foot injury.  Yeah ;-(

 - Apparantly Rick Rude will shortly be claiming that "Rude-A-Mania" is
   running rampant in the WWF.  This sets the stage for either of two
   scenarios:
      1) Rude fails to beat the Warrior throughout the summer, turns face
         (due to an error by Heenan?), and feuds Mr. Perfect perhaps with
         a Hulk Hogan endorsement to further face-ify him.
      2) Since the Warrior's ability to carry the organization seems to be
         questionable, Rude takes the World strap away from him to help
         heat up the summer in the WWF.  This sets up the battle of the
         century as Rude-A-Mania takes on Hulkamania when Hulk Hogan
         returns after the summer.

                                                         Herb...

As always, comments, criticisms, and questions are encouraged and appreciated.
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