Newsgroups: rec.sport.pro-wrestling From: hekunze@jeeves.uwaterloo.ca (Herb Kunze) Subject: Wrestling TidBits - 04/29 Message-ID: Sender: news@watdragon.uwaterloo.ca (USENET News System) Organization: University of Waterloo Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1993 20:46:17 GMT Lines: 112 - No word here on the legitmacy or not of Cactus Jack's injury. Maybe those at the taping are better judges of it, but it seems like from what aired on TV that this was all part of an angle. Jack's taken worse bumps before and never missed a show, so I'd like to believe that this was just a very realistic angle - and if that's all it was, then it was extremely well done judging from the reaction on the net. Talk continues that somehow Sting and Cactus Jack will form an alliance to help Sting win the WCW Title back. Clearly, that has to be saved until after Slamboree, where Davey Boy Smith challenges Vader. I'd suspect that we're in for medical reports on Jack and an investigation of who took his pouch from ringside for the next little while. Could you imagine this leading to Jack being Sting's corner man in a wheelchair? - If the "Computer Contenders Challenge" thing in WCW is any sign, Kensuke Sasaki is on his way back to WCW, at least for one match. Word has him sticking around a bit, which seems strange since he and Hawk are the IWGP tag champions. Maybe Hawk will come along? WCW is also supposedly bringing in Jim Neidhart, the Blackhearts, and Billy Jack Haynes. - WCW Slamboree takes place on PPV on 05/23/93. Advertised as the night of the legends of wrestling, this is the PPV that will unveil WCW's Hall of Fame. Slated to appear: Ivan Koloff, Verne Gagne, Greg Gagne, Johnny Valentine, Dusty Rhodes, Magnum TA, Mike Graham, Ole Anderson, Moolah, Blackjack Mulligan, Wahoo McDaniel, Red Bastien, Mr. Wrestling II, Dory Funk Jr., Don Muraco, Lou Thesz, Harley Race, John Tolos, Dick Murdoch, Ox Baker, Jimmy Snuka, Jim Brunzell, Thunderbolt Patterson, Da Crusher, Baron von Raschke, Tully Blanchard, Nick Bockwinkel, The Sheik, The Assassin #1, Joe Blanchard. Junkyard Dog and Dick Slater will re-join WCW and may well debut as part of the "legends" get-together. There will be an old-timers match of some sort. There will also be footage shown from the recent 26th annual Cauliflower Alley old-timers banquet. Flair has hinted in recent interviews that the Four Horsemen will be re-formed. Tully Blanchard signed on with WCW and will debut at this PPV. He will re-form his tag team with Anderson at some point down the road. No definite word on who the fourth horseman will be, although both Ole Anderson's name and Sid Vicious' name are being bandied about, but word now is that Sid won't debut until June. Tentative (partial) line-up for Slamboree: - Van Vader vs. Davey Boy Smith for the WCW Title - Arn Anderon vs. Barry Windham for the NWA Title - Pillman & Austin vs. Scorpio & Bagwell (for the tag titles?) - The WWF has the "King of the Ring" PPV on June 13th. The card will feature an 8-man tournament to determine who the King of the Ring in the WWF is (no idea if there's a prize other than the label or if the label will stick around and maybe be defended). In upcoming weeks on the WWF syndies, we'll see some qualifying matches for the tourney. This weekend we'll see Doink vs. Curt Hennig. Also on the card: - Hulk Hogan vs. Yokozuna for the WWF Title, with Mr. Fuji not present at ringside - WCW has a Clash of Champions scheduled for 06/15/93. Ric Flair will supposedly step back in the ring on this show. - WCW has this year's Beach Blast PPV on 07/11/93 from Gulfport, MS. - The WWF has SummerSlam in 08/93 with a tentative main event of Hulk Hogan vs. Bret Hart for the WWF Title. - E-mail TidBits: If your site has a slow feed or you don't read news frequently enough and you want to get this posting as e-mail every week, send me e-mail saying so. - After reading Curtis' post about the "Neo-Geo" wrestling game at the local arcade, I went and checked it out. Turns out that the "Neo-Geo" box has fours games in it: "Baseball Stars," "Magician Land," "3 Count Bout," and a golf game. You can pick which game you play after inserting your money. The "3 Count Bout" game is the wrestling-related game. The instructions on the machine busted me up. Something like "move towards opponent and press A button -> power attack", "move joystick left and right and hit A+B buttons -> malevolent move", etc. Of course, after reading this and putting in my quarter, I found out that for the most part those instructions are completely useless. I got squashed. When nobody is playing, the game does a demo. This explains things far better: "press A button to punch", "press B button to kick". After that there were other combinations that showed how to do interesting submission moves and power moves including a powerbomb (which was named correctly by the game). Some guy played the game. He picked the American wrestler: Terry Rogers, sort of a Hulk Hogan meets the Patriot clone. The first match is a normal wrestling match. The guy playing was pretty good; he managed to do lots of neat power moves and ended up doing a somersault splash onto his opponent, followed by the STF for the submission. The second match is the street fight against a chain-wielding opponent. There are all kinds of objects lying around to be used. The guy got squashed by the computer. I played again. I picked "The Red Dragon" as my wrestler, the Grat Muta clone that Curtis mentioned. Several quarters later, I'd figured out how to do the following moves: leg lariat, handspring elbow, moonsault, bodyslam, belly-to-belly suplex, jumping spin kicks, normal punches and kicks, the surfboard type move that the Jr. Heavies in Japan do (which the game identified as the "Romero Chin Lock"), a senton (a backward splash onto your prone opponent) and I even spit green mist at one opponent, though I have no idea how. When you throw your opponent out of the ring, you can do pretty neat dives onto him - I managed to do an out of the ring moonsault onto one guy. I can handily beat the first opponent ("The Gandhara" from India) and the second opponent ("Leo Bradlay," the chain-wielding madman) now. The third opponent is "The Red Dragon," who wears blue since I'm the same character. I've beaten him a few times. The next match is seemingly impossible to win; it's an electrified-rope street fight. The ring has a baseball bat wrapped with barbed-wire in it. The opponent is "Buster Bigbomb" (I think that was the name) and he's pretty brutal. I knocked him down a few times, but I always accidentally hit the ropes and get a shock, after which he gets the upper hand. It's amazing how much like Muta this "Red Dragon" character is. Herb...