Newsgroups: rec.sport.pro-wrestling
From: hekunze@jeeves.waterloo.edu (Herb Kunze)
Subject: Wrestling TidBits   -   01/23
Message-ID: <1992Jan23.195631.22209@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
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Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1992 19:56:31 GMT
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 - The tentative line-up for WCW's SuperBrawl PPV on February 29th
   has:  - Sting winning the world title from Lex Luger in Luger's
             last North American appearance until March, 1993.
         - Ricky Steamboat vs. Rick Rude for the US Title
         - Steiners vs. Bobby Eaton & Arn Anderson for the Tag Titles
         - Jushin Riger vs. Brian Pillman for the Lightheavyweight Title
   If these matches don't change, this could be the best PPV of the
   year (or more).  Now, if they add Abdullah vs. Cactus Jack...

 - We can thank Kip Frey for bringing Jesse Ventura into WCW.  This was
   his first contractual move since taking over for Jim Herd.  It's hard
   to believe we've finally Herd enough ;-).  Herd is viewed as being
   responsible for all the troubles that WCW has had in keeping talent
   and getting new talent.  Between the hope that Frey is giving us
   and the hope that Jim Crockett has given us (by getting Steamboat
   and Rude to come in), things are looking better for WCW.   There are
   reports that Herd's resigning from his job was the result of a power
   struggle between him and Dusty Rhodes over the direction that the
   company should go.

 - There's talk that Ted DiBiase has been talked to by WCW.  Ted's
   booking for the Royal Rumble showed the signs of someone who was
   leaving the company.  In addition, Sherri Martel has expressed
   an interest in Shawn Michaels at a recent TV taping.  Something
   is definitely up with Ted.

 - Ric Flair made his first successful title defence on Monday in
   Montreal against Hogan, with Hogan winning the match by count-out.
   On Tuesday, Ric Flair successfully defended his belt against Roddy
   Piper.

 - John W. Price will be sad to learn that the Japanese women's promotion
   named after him, JWP, has closed up shop.

 - Chris Chavis should debut this week on the WWF syndies.  Soultaker's
   new WWF gimmick seems to have gotten the green light, so Papa Shango
   will debut in a few weeks.  Art Barr (aka The Juicer) had a WWF
   try-out.

 - Don't forget that the WWF has a SNME on FOX on February 8th at 9pm EST.

 - I've had several people offer to tape future matches of the Lightning
   Kid for me, but only one person has some old Kid matches lying around.
   So I'll ask again for anybody with any old Kid matches on tape that
   they would want to trade copies of to e-mail me.

 - Finally, as evidence by Tuesday's CoC, I don't think I have the time
   to run any booking prediction tourney cards this term.  I have some
   ideas for a more involved tourney in the future, and to encourage
   participation, I was thinking of offering a prize to the winner
   (maybe a Japanese video ;-)).  We'll see next term.
                                                               Herb...