From: hekunze@water.waterloo.edu (Herb Kunze)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.pro-wrestling
Subject: Wrestling TidBits   -   11/08
Message-ID: <1990Nov8.232600.25569@water.waterloo.edu>
Date: 8 Nov 90 23:26:00 GMT
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Organization: University of Waterloo
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Posted: Fri Nov  9 00:26:00 1990


 - Jake Roberts will start working matches with an eye-patch in the near
   future.

 - Yes indeed, Stan Lane and Jim Cornette quit the NWA on the weekend,
   leaving behind Bobby Eaton, who will stay on with the company a while
   longer.  The Midnight Express' last match together will take place
   tomorrow night in Philly when they work against Terry Funk & Cactus
   Jack.

 - The NWA is looking to bring in legitimate Soviet wrestlers in the very
   near future, probably for the Starrcade tag team tournament I mentioned
   before.

 - Antonio Inoki, who along with a Japanese delegation convinced Iraq to
   release it's Japanese prisoners, is planning to put on a top-flight show
   in Baghdad at the end of the month.

 - Jimmy Snuka is going to start feuding with the Warlord.

 - It looks like they're experimenting with Ted DiBiase in the WWF.
   At a recent Greensboro card, he was pinned by Dusty Rhodes and then
   took out his frustations on Virgil, who ended up choking the Million
   Dollar Man with his towel.

 - It looks like the Saturday Night's Main Event on November 24 will have
   the Rockers winning the belts from the Hart Foundation and Ted DiBiase
   vs. the Ultimate Warrior (maybe they'll air an altercation with Virgil).

 - It looks like the NWA may start producing a special program for it's
   Canadian viewers.  Who knows, maybe we'll even get special programs &
   angles.

 - I had the privilege of catching a fair bit of (year-old) Japanese
   wrestling over the past week.  My roommates were amazed by Jushin Riger
   in particular and all of the women, especially Nagoya Chigusa.  I must
   say it's going to be difficult to sit down and watch the american
   products this weekend.

 - Finally, please take note of my other posting today announcing the
   "official" categories for the Usenet Year-End Pro-Wrestling Achievement
   Awards.  I received many notes saying that my proposed list of awards
   was great, do I've left it alone, but for one addition: "Best Jobber".
   I want to encourage everyone to send me their votes, so that this
   survey is worthwhile.  Thanks.

                                                        Herb...