Newsgroups: rec.sport.pro-wrestling From: hekunze@jeeves.uwaterloo.ca (Herb Kunze) Subject: Wrestling TidBits - 08/27 Message-ID: Sender: news@watdragon.uwaterloo.ca (USENET News System) Organization: University of Waterloo Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 00:30:10 GMT Lines: 192 - The WWF has it's SummerSlam PPV scheduled for August 31st (to be taped at Wembley Stadium in London, England, on August 29th). The line-up is as follows: - Randy Savage vs. Ultimate Warrior for the WWF Title - Bret Hart vs. Davey Boy Smith for the IC Title - Undertaker vs. Kamala - Shawn Michaels vs. Rick Martel - Money Inc. vs. Legion of Doom - Beverly Brothers vs. Natural Disasters - Tatanka vs. Berzerker - Crush vs. Repo-Man - Nailz vs. Virgil - Jim Duggan & The Sheepwhackers vs. The Mountie & The Nasty Boys - Papa Shango vs. Tito Santana - Rumours persist that Hulk Hogan and/or Roddy Piper will make an appearance at SummerSlam on Saturday. There is also talk that Randy Savage wants to stay on in the WWF after SummerSlam...as champion. - WCW has a Clash of Champions scheduled for September 2nd on WTBS. The line-up is: - Ron Simmons vs. Cactus Jack for the WCW Title - Sting & Nikita Koloff & Steiners vs. Jake Roberts & Rick Rude & Van Vader & Super Invader in an elimination tag match - Highlights from the NWA Singles tourney - Ricky Steamboat vs. Steve Austin for the TV Title - Brad Armstrong vs. Brian Pillman for the Lightheavyweight Title - Van Hammer vs. Diamond Dallas Page - Barry Windham & Dustin Rhodes vs. Barbarian & Dan Spivey - Greg Valentine & Dick Slater with Larry Zbyszko vs. Arn Anderson & Bobby Eaton, with Paul E. Dangerously suspended above the ring in a cage - Johnny B. Badd vs. Scotty Flamingo - Fan vote on the "no-off-the-top-rope-rule" Rumour has Bret Hart jumping to WCW immediately after losing the IC Title to Davey Boy Smith and making an appearance at the Clash. Rumours also abound that Ted DiBiase will get squashed big-time at SummerSlam before he also jumps to WCW. - Jesse Ventura was on "Entertainment Tonight" tonight. They mostly discussed his dedication to his job as mayor of Brooklyn Park. Of course, it's only a story because of Jesse's colourful pro-wrestling past. They showed him talking to a kid who said that he thought "it" was all fake, and Jesse said something to the effect of "how do you fake a body-slam?" They also showed him doing commentary for WCW and mentioned how he's still involved with the sport, but I don't think they actually gave WCW a plug. Jesse also said his heart lies in becoming a serious heel actor, like a 250 pound Robert DeNiro. Keep dreaming. - Videotape: I'm on the final batch of people (actually, the last 20+ people). If anybody else is interested in the video or wonders what I'm talking about let me know. You won't have to wait through a queue anymore. - Videotapes! The 24 pound parcel of 36 videotapes arrived on Monday afternoon. As I said before, there were five Calgary Stampede tapes and the remaining 31 were mostly Japanese. The Japanese stuff runs from 1980 through to 1989. I'm going through things slowly. I've seen a few interesting things and will post more details on them later. For now, though, I thought I'd post something that's from the 1989 Observer Yearbook. In that book, Jeff Bowdren selected the Observer's top 100 matches of the 80s. The first 80 matches are present in chronological order and the remaining 20 are presented in order of match ranking. I hope this brings some memories on for some of you. I pulled it out in order to see if any stellar matches I happen to watch on the videos are "critically acclaimed". 04/81 - Wayne Ferris & Kevin Sullivan vs. Bill Dundee & Dream Machine 04/21/81 - Pat Patterson vs. Sgt. Slaughter 12/12/81 - Bruiser Brody & Jimmy Snuka vs. Dory & Terry Funk 09/02/82 - Satoru Sayama vs. Dynamite Kid 12/13/82 - Stan Hansen & Bruiser Brody vs. Terry & Dory Funk 03/12/83 - Ricky Steamboat & Jay Youngblood vs. Don Kernodle & Sgt. Slaughter 06/83 - Jerry Lawler vs. Jim Dundee 04/03/83 - Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Riki Choshu 07/04/83 - Freebirds vs. von Erichs 08/31/83 - Dory & Terry Funk vs. Stan Hansen & Terry Gordy 12/08/83 - Riki Choshu & Animal Hamaguchi & Yoshiaki Yatsu vs. Akira Maeda & Tatsumi Fujinami & Kengo Kimura 04/19/84 - Nobuhiko Takada vs. Toshiaki Yatsu 05/14/84 - Eddie Gilbert & Tommy Rich vs. Koko Ware & Norvell Austin 06/16/84 - Sgt. Slaughter vs. Iron Sheik 07/04/84 - Freebirds vs. von Erichs 07/05/84 - Dynamite Kid vs. Cobra 07/23/84 - Satoru Sayama & Nobuhiko Takada vs. Akira Maeda & Yoshiaki Fujiwara 08/02/84 - Cobra vs. Kuniaki Kobayashi 11/22/84 - Terry Gordy vs. Killer Khan 11/27/84 - Ricky Steamboat vs. Tully Blanchard 12/05/84 - Satoru Sayama vs. Yoshiaki Fujiwara 12/08/84 - Tiger Mask vs. Pirata Morgan 05/85 - Chigusa Nagayo vs. Lioness Asuka 01/04/85 - Ric Flair vs. Bruiser Brody 01/25/85 - Ric Flair vs. Kerry von Erich 06/01/85 - Ric Flair vs. Terry Taylor 09/16/85 - Antonio Inoki vs. Bruiser Brody 10/27/85 - Ric Flair vs. Butch Reed 11/11/85 - Jim Duggan vs. Buzz Sawyer 11/26/85 - Magnum T.A. vs. Tully Blanchard 12/31/85 - Ted DiBiase vs. Dick Murdoch 04/86 - Midnight Express vs. R'N'R Express 10/86 - Bull Nakano & Condor Saito vs. Dump Matsumoto & Yasuko Ishiguro 03/20/86 - Lioness Asuka & Chigusa Nagayo vs. Jumping Bomb Angels 04/07/86 - Fantastics vs. Sheepherders 07/31/86 - Riki Choshu vs. Killer Khan 08/31/86 - Midnight Rockers vs. Buddy Rose & Doug Somers 09/06/86 - Owen Hart & Ben Bassarab vs. Viet Cong Express 10/06/86 - Lioness Asuka & Chigusa Nagayo vs. Bull Nakano & Condor Saito 10/09/86 - Akira Maeda vs. Don Nakaya Neilsen 11/07/86 - Chigusa Nagayo vs. Dump Matsumoto 11/21/86 - Nick Bockwinkel vs. Curt Hennig 11/24/86 - Nobuhiko Takada & Shiro Koshinaka vs. Tatsumi Fujinami & Keiji Muto 12/02/86 - Riki Choshu & Yoshiaki Yatsu vs. Jumbo Tsuruta & Genichiro Tenryu 01/04/87 - Lioness Asuka & Chigusa Nagayo vs. Yumi Ogura & Kazue Nagahori 02/05/87 - Nobuhiko Takada vs. Shiro Koshinaka 03/20/87 - Akira Maeda & Nobuhiko Takada vs. Keiji Muto & Shiro Koshinaka 03/29/87 - Ricky Steamboat vs. Randy Savage 04/27/87 - Antonio Inoki vs. Masa Saito 05/25/87 - Akira Maeda & Nobuhiko Takada vs. Kazuo Yamazaki & Toshiaki Fujiwara 06/01/87 - Terry Taylor & Eddie Gilbert vs. Sting & Shane Douglas 07/04/87 - Ric Flair & Tully Blanchard & Lex Luger & Arn Anderson & J.J.Dillon vs. Dusty Rhodes & Nikita Koloff & Road Warriors & Paul Ellering 07/18/87 - Negro Casas vs. El Hijo Del Santo 09/01/87 - Akira Maeda & Nobuhiko Takada vs. Kazuo Yamazaki & Toshiaki Fujiwara 12/05/87 - Chigusa Nagayo & Yumiko Hotta & Mika Suzuki & Yachiyo Hirata & Mika Takahashi & ? vs. Lioness Asuka & Mika Komatsu & Kazue Nagahori & Mitsuko Nishiwaki & Etsuko Mita & Sachiko Makamura 12/11/87 - Stan Hansen & Terry Gordy vs. Genichiro Tenryu & Ashura Hara 02/04/88 - Nobuhiko Takada vs. Hiro Hase 02/05/88 - Hiro Hase vs. Keiichi Yamada 03/09/88 - Jumbo Tsuruta vs. Tiger Mask 03/27/88 - Ric Flair vs. Sting 03/27/88 - Midnight Express vs. Fantastics 04/26/88 - Midnight Express vs. Fantastics 06/10/88 - Owen Hart vs. Keiichi Yamada 06/24/88 - Owen Hart vs. Shiro Koshinaka 07/19/88 - Foot Loose vs. Shinichi Nakano & Shinji Takano 07/22/88 - Ted DiBiase vs. Randy Savage 07/31/88 - Yoshiaki Fujiwara vs. Don Nakaya Neilsen 08/08/88 - Antonio Inoki vs. Tatsumi Fujinami 08/28/88 - Genichiro Tenryu & Ashura Hara vs. Yoshiaki Yatsu & Jumbo Tsuruta 09/20/88 - Foot Loose vs. Shinichi Nakano & Shinji Takano 10/28/88 - Jumbo Tsuruta vs. Genichiro Tenryu 12/26/88 - Ric Flair vs. Lex Luger 02/16/89 - Tully Blanchard & Arn Anderson vs. Rockers 03/18/89 - Ric Flair vs. Ricky Steamboat 06/05/89 - Jumbo Tsuruta vs. Genichiro Tenryu 07/13/89 - Jushin Riger vs. Naoki Sano 07/22/89 - Ricky Steamboat v. Lex Luger 07/23/89 - Ric Flair vs. Terry Funk 09/20/89 - Jushin Riger vs. Naoki Sano Top 20: 07/01/84 - Antonio Inoki & Tatsumi Fujinami & Cobra vs. Dynamite Kid & Davey Boy Smith & David Shultz 81 - Eddie Gilbert & Ricky Morton vs. Masa Fuchi & Atsushi Onita 12/16/88 - Stan Hansen & Terry Gordy vs. Genichiro Tenryu & Toshiaki Kawada 03/22/85 - Ted DiBiase vs. Jim Duggan 06/21/85 - Tiger Mask (Misawa) vs. Kuniaki Kobayashi 01/20/87 - Ric Flair vs. Barry Windham 11/15/89 - Ric Flair vs. Terry Funk 03/24/86 - Bill Dundee & Buddy Landel vs. Jerry Lawler & Dutch Mantell 04/02/89 - Ric Flair vs. Ricky Steamboat 08/05/82 - Dynamite Kid vs. Tiger Mask 08/19/87 - Riki Choshu & Tatsumi Fujinami & Akira Maeda & Kengo Kimura & Super Strong Machine vs. Antonio Inoki & Seiji Sakaguchi & Keiji Muto & Kantaro Hoshino & Yoshiaki Fujiwara 06/12/86 - Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Akira Maeda 02/26/87 - Chigusa Nagayo vs. Lioness Asuka 02/14/86 - Ric Flair vs. Barry Windham 01/28/86 - Riki Choshu & Yoshiaki Yatsu vs. Jumbo Tsuruta & Genichiro Tenryu 12/25/82 - Ric Flair vs. Kerry von Erich 02/20/89 - Ric Flair vs. Ricky Steamboat 08/22/85 - Lioness Asuka vs. Jaguar Yokota 04/23/83 - Dynamite Kid vs. Tiger Mask 05/07/89 - Ric Flair vs. Ricky Steamboat Herb...