Newsgroups: rec.sport.pro-wrestling From: hekunze@jeeves.waterloo.edu (Herb Kunze) Subject: Wrestling TidBits - 01/30 Message-ID: <1992Jan30.145149.1271@watdragon.waterloo.edu> Sender: news@watdragon.waterloo.edu (USENET News System) Organization: University of Waterloo Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1992 14:51:49 GMT Lines: 104 - The WWF has a taped SNME on FOX on February 8th at 9pm EST. The matches for the show have already taken place at the WWF TV tapings in the last couple of days, but results are not yet handy. It looks like Vince is going to run with Hulk Hogan & Sid Justice vs. Ric Flair & Undertaker, Roddy Piper vs. Mountie, and Randy Savage vs. Jake Roberts for the show, although a different line-up is possible since these guys worked two nights of tapings in different matches. I don't expect that Sid will turn against Hogan in this match, since Sid is booked as a babyface until WrestleMania. - Jack Tunney is going to announce who the number one contender is for Ric Flair's title this coming weekend. A report here has the top five contenders in order being: Hulk Hogan, Sid Justice, Undertaker, Roddy Piper, and Randy Savage. Of course, this jibes with reports of WrestleMania poster ads advertising Hulk Hogan vs. Ric Flair. Will this be the leg-drop death of Ric Flair as many are predicting? Well, Hulk Hogan has booked several months off after WrestleMania and won't return to the WWF until SummerSlam. Will Vince try to run shows for the summer without any world title matches? Or will he send the Hulkamaniacs home unhappy? My money would be on Sid Justice doing his heel turn at this show because Hogan outranked him as a contender, either costing Hogan the title match and then injuring him, or just injuring him after his win. Then when Hogan returns at SummerSlam, against doctor's orders of course, Sid will win the title and then fall to the leg-drop at next year's WrestleMania. - Current Lex Luger rumours have him either jumping to the WBF for one year until he can wrestle in March, 1993, or opening up a gym and trying to get another business venture going. In the WBF scenario, Luger would crossover to wrestle as a heel after losing to all the WBF guys in his first competition. - I'm sure we're all happy to know that Dusty Rhodes is planning on making a return to the ring this spring. No word on the length of this return. - Larry Zbyszko is apparently suffering from some serious back pains, to the point where he is considering getting out of the business. - The tentative line-up for WCW's SuperBrawl PPV on February 29th has: - Sting winning the world title from Lex Luger - 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 - Dustin Rhodes & Barry Windham vs. Larry Zbyszko & Steve Austin - Ron Simmons & Big Josh vs. Van Vader & Mr. Hughes for the US tag belts. I'm no longer sure if the fourth match will take place as written or if this past weekend's WCW broadcast on WTBS made the match Jushin Riger vs. Richard Morton. Jesse Ventura will work with Jim Ross and Tony Schiavone to do commentary for the show, and is only in for the one show right now. Simmons & Josh just won the tag belts two weeks ago and seem to be a makeshift face team put together simply to pass the titles to another heel team, so I guess we'll see Vader & Hughes take the belts. - Speaking of the WCW broadcast this weekend, on that show in the past couple of weeks we haven't seen Arachniman, but we have seen Brad Armstrong. Looks like Marvel Comics flexed some corporate muscle. - As everybody has reported, WCW apparently reached a deal with Bret Hart for Bret to appear on the Clash of Champions live broadcast on January 21st with his WWF Intercontinental belt. This was of course meant to be a retaliatory blow against the WWF for using the NWA belt when Flair jumped. Bret thought that his contract was up, but, in fact, he can't give notice for another few months and had to back out of the deal when he realized this. Bret knew that he would be dropping the belt to the Mountie in Springfield so that the title could be passed to Roddy Piper. Bret has been promised the IC Title back at WrestleMania, but that seems kind of unlikely, unless he turns heel. In the mean time, WCW insists that Bret is going to come in later this year, and if he does in fact give notice to the WWF, I'm sure we'll know since his push will match that of the Berzerker. - Along with talk of Bret Hart coming in, there is still talk that Ted DiBiase may come in to WCW. Vince is definitely aligning Sherri Martel with Shawn Michaels, which, along with his less than one minute performance at the Royal Rumble, probably means that Ted is either being de-pushed because he gave notice or because his character will change. Along with some other WWF stars, WCW has also contacted Captain Lou Albano about coming in either as a manager or as a commentator. - I forgot to mention this the last couple of weeks, but Terry Funk fans will be interested in watching the awful show "Tequila & Bonetti" on CBS on Friday nights (9:00pm EST, I think it is). There have been two episodes thus far and Funk had bit parts in each of them. It's a cop show about a New York cop named Bonetti who accidentally shot and killed an unarmed kid and was shipped to Los Angeles to escape the bad press and recover. His partners are an ugly dog named Tequila, who actually talks to the camera in hip Black lingo, and a policewoman, whose husband was also a cop until he was killed. Anyhow, Terry plays a captain and gets a few lines in the precinct occasionally. In the pilot, he had several lines, and in the second episode he just appeared on camera. The show has the same producer as Magnum P.I., but somethign tells me that it won't have the same success. - Does anybody have an LPWA PPV listed for late in February (the 23rd, I think)? Herb...