From: hekunze@watmath.waterloo.edu (Herb Kunze)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.pro-wrestling
Subject: Wrestling TidBits   -   10/21
Message-ID: <1991Nov22.003917.6513@watmath.waterloo.edu>
Date: 22 Nov 91 00:39:17 GMT
Organization: University of Waterloo
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 - Maimoumi defeated Akebono at the Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament in Japan
   yesterday.  Akebono is a mammoth 436 pounder, while Maimoumi is a
   svelte 209 pounds.

 - To recap recent deaths of wrestling greats, Dick The Bruiser died
   two Sundays ago, Gene Anderson died a coupld of weeks ago, Wally
   Dusek died three weeks ago, and El Gran Davis died last Sunday,
   having just refereed a match in Mexico.  He was Mexico's most
   famous referee.

 - The National Wrestling Alliance (headed by Jim Herd) and the WWF
   reached an agreement last Thursday that the WWF would not allow
   Ric Flair to appear on it's broadcasts with the NWA title belt
   in his possession.  The motion was granted in a North Carolina
   court, forcing the WWF to notify all stations that carry it's
   shows to somehow edit their broadcasts to remove any appearances
   of the NWA title belt.  This would explain the choppiness with
   which this was done.  As many people reported on the net, some
   segments with Flair showed the belt, and others did not.  Just
   an oversight by the local TV editor.  Future broadcasts should
   have the editing done by the WWF before they send out the shows.
   I believe that WCW has paid Flair $50000 for the title belt, and
   actually own the physical belt again.

 - Marcus Alexander Bagwell made an appearance on the Clash of Champions
   on Tuesday, just mentioning that he's a young up-and-comer ready to
   start with WCW.  He worked as the Handsome Stranger previously,
   and has worked a few try-out matches with WCW, getting over
   resonably well.  The only other time on Tuesday "wasted" on
   introducing new talent was the segment of clips of Jushin "Thunder"
   Riger.  I hope that nobody thought that this time was a waste.
   Riger will be coming in for a short tour in late December, mostly
   to work with Brian Pillman (and presumably Arachniman) for the
   WCW Lightheavyweight title.  He'll probably make an appearance at
   the WCW PPV on December 29th to mark his arrival in the group,
   and start working with them at the next taping.

 - Injury report: Barry Windham will be out until February 1992,
   Sid Justice won't be back until WrestleMania, Rons Simmons should
   be back in December.

 - Isn't the idea for the Starrcade PPV on December 29th just grand?
   I mean, here they are asking people to pay $20 to see a show on
   which nobody knows a single match-up.  Jeez, at least they could
   build one hot angle to a climax for that show, like Lex Luger vs.
   somebody, and have one concrete match to push.

 - As reported on the net already, Ted DiBiase regained the Million
   Dollar belt from Virgil at the WWF TV taping in Utica.  The Repo Man
   interfered in the match while Sherri Martel distracted the referee.
   The marriages coming out of this will be Repo Man & Virgil, and
   Ted DiBiase & El Matador (presumably set up later).

 - The Survivor Series has fallen apart a bit, hasn't it?  And picturing
   Vince McMahon as a major control freak, he's probably very unnerved.
   Ricky Steamboat's place in the SS will be taken by El Matador, Jim
   Neidhart's place will be taken by Sgt. Slaughter, Sid Justice's place
   will be probably be taken by Randy Savage, either under a hood or not,
   and who knows who will take Big Bully Busich's place.
     I will *not* be running a booking predicition for the Survivor
   Series, because I don't know how to handle the variety involved in
   the tag matches, and I don't want to run a prediction for just the
   Hogan vs. Undertaker match.

 - Lots of talk about the WWF changing the PPV in early December.
   Although I had originally listed the match line-up as follows:
     - Hulk Hogan vs. The Undertaker for the WWF Title
     - Bret Hart vs. Skinner for the IC Title
     - Ric Flair vs. Roddy Piper
     - Ted DiBiase & IRS vs. Virgil & Big Bossman;
   it is now rumoured that Vince will be having a Ric Flair vs. Hulk
   Hogan match on this PPV.  Maybe he's finally decided what his plans
   are, having lost Sid, and having presumably been negotiating with
   Randy Savage.  It's still a mystery to me.

                                                          Herb...