From: hekunze@water.waterloo.edu (Herb Kunze)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.pro-wrestling
Subject: Wrestling Tidbits   -   06/21
Message-ID: <1990Jun21.211209.28935@water.waterloo.edu>
Date: 21 Jun 90 21:12:09 GMT
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Posted: Thu Jun 21 22:12:09 1990


 - Here's the line-up I'm hearing for the July 7 Great American Bash in the
   Baltimore Arena: (Of course, with the NWA no line-up is etched in stone.)
     - Ric Flair vs. Sting for the NWA title
     - Doom vs. R'N'R Express for the NWA tag titles
     - Lex Luger vs. Mean Mark for the US title
     - Midnight Express vs. Southern Boys for the US tag titles
     - El Gigante, Paul Orndorff, & Junk Food Dog
         vs. The Horsemen (Arn Anderson, Sid Vicious, & Barry Windham)
     - Big Van Vader vs. Tom Zenk
     - Steiners vs. Freebirds
     - Doug Furnas vs. Dutch Mantell
     - Tommy Rich vs. Bam Bam Bigelow
     - Brian Pillman vs. Buddy Landell
     - Mike Rotundo vs. Harley Race

 - If y'all remember, just before the WWF went national in 83-84, Vince raided
   the AWA for talent, most noticeably the Hulkster.  In recent months, Vince
   has repeated this tactic, stealing Akio Sato, Pat Tanaka, & Paul Diamond.
   Now, word has it that Vince has his sights set on John Nord & Scott Norton.
   Several years ago, Nord was a wild man being compared to the great Bruiser
   Brody, while recently his career has gone terribly downhill.  Norton is
   the current arm wrestling champion of the world, and with some more training
   could do quite well (at least in the WWF).

 - Rumours have Terry Taylor leaving the WWF for the NWA shortly.  This was
   also rumoured a while back, but although Terry was not being used by the
   WWF, he was still under contract, so the NWA purposely avoided negotiations
   with him.  This prompted Terry to stay on with the WWF.

 - The Legion of Doom make their debut in the WWF this week.

 - Brian Adams (?) is Demolition's new partner.  He will fight has B.A., which
   stands for Bad Attitude.  He has apparently already made appearances at
   house shows featuring Demolition vs. Hart Foundation, interfering on
   behalf of Demolition who win with a screw job or get disqualified.
   Perhaps Vince is going to make the Warriors faces after all.  ..

 - The NWA returns to Southern Ontario for the first time in at least 5-7 years
   next week.  Reading the ad for the matches in a Toronto newspaper gave me
   some idea of what's wrong with the NWA.  There were no less than a dozen
   errors in the small advertisement.  This includes things like spelling
   errors (World Tag champions Doonl ?) and more serious errors (World
   Champion Lex Luger, with the Horsemen in his corner vs. US champion Ric
   Flair !)  Argh!!!

                                                      Herb...

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