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From: hekunze@jeeves.uwaterloo.ca (Herb Kunze)
Subject: Wrestling TidBits   -   08/19   (repost?)
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Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1993 14:04:23 GMT
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{ Somebody just sent me e-mail asking about last week's tidbits.
  I can't find a record that I even posted it!  Sorry for the
  lateness and for what is mostly old news now, but here it is.
  And I wondered why nobody was talking about a rumour in here.
  There will still be a new post on Thursday - this one was
  prepared for last week.                                      }

 - WCW Clash of Champions XXIV will be rebroadcast on 08/27/93.

 - I've read one report from an admittedly unreliable source that
   Rick Rude showed up with both the NWA & WCW World titles at a
   very recent WCW taping.

 - Brian Pillman will reportedly be out for three weeks with his
   ankle injury.

 - The WWF has SummerSlam on 08/30/93.  Match line-up:
     - Yokozuna vs. Lex Luger for the WWF Title
     - Jerry Lawler vs. Bret Hart to decide the King of the WWF
     - Shawn Michaels vs. Curt Hennig for the IC Title
     - Steiners vs. Heavenly Bodies for the Tag Titles
     - Undertaker vs. Giant Gonzales in an "R.I.P. match"
     - 1-2-3 Kid vs. I.R.S.
     - Razor Ramon vs. Ted DiBiase
     - Headshrinkers & Bam Bam Bigelow vs. Tatanka & Smoking Gunns
     - Ludvig Borga vs. Marty Janetty
     - Adam Bomb vs. Tito Santana (dark match)
   Only the Undertaker knows the rules of an "R.I.P. match."
   No more word on last week's rumour that Jerry Lawler was history
   with the WWF.  Maybe he's out after SummerSlam as part of the
   WWF housecleaning.

 - WCW will bring in Chris Cruise to do the WCW Magazine segments
   and Terry Taylor as a commentator.

 - New Japan has "Wrestle Dinner" scheduled on 08/29/93 at the Tokyo
   Prince Hotel.  The four match line-up will see:
     - Satoshi Kojima vs. Shinjiro Otani
     - Manabnu Nakanishi vs. Yuji Nagata
     - Jushin Riger & Keiji Muto vs. El Samurai & Hiro Hase
     - Masa Chono & Shinya Hashimoto vs. Akira Nogami & Takayuki Iizuka
   After the matches, several New Japan wrestlers and All Japan Women
   wrestlers Manami Toyota & Takako Inoue will model the latest wedding
   fashions.  Sometimes amidst all this fun, dinner will be served.
   Tickets are $286 or $429 US.

 - WCW has the Fall Brawl PPV on 09/19/93.  Tentative matches include:
     - Ric Flair vs. Rick Rude for the NWA Title
    *- Sid Vicious & Van Vader & Harlem Heat
        vs. Dustin Rhodes & Davey Boy Smith & Sting & Shockmaster
        in a Wargames match

 - UWFi from Japan will run a shoot-style PPV which will air in North
   America on 10/05/93.

 - WCW has Halloween Havoc on PPV on 10/24/93 (tentative date).  Tentative
   line-up includes:
     - Big Van Vader vs. Cactus Jack in a "Spin the Wheel, Make The Deal"
        match
     - Nasty Boys vs. Ric Flair & Paul Roma for the Tag Titles
     - Sting vs. Sid Vicious
   Cactus Jack doesn't return to TV until 09/04/93.

 - WCW has the Lethal Lottery on PPV on 11/21/93 and Starrcade just after
   Christmas.

 - The WWF has Survivor Series on PPV on 11/25/93 in Boston.

 - WCW will supposedly run a Clash live from Wembley Stadium in London,
   England, on 11/25/93 starting at 8:00pm London time.  This means that
   the show will air here on WTBS at 3:00 pm on Thanksgiving.

 - 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.

 - Videos: Yesterday, before the Clash, Curtis and I watched a little bit
   of stuff on tape, nothing particularly great though.  The highlight was
   an old Kevin von Erich vs. Kabuki match which we fast-forwarded over.
   Kevin did a post-match interview and King Kong Bundy came out and beat
   him up.  The interesting thing was that Bundy was nowhere near as thick
   as he was in his WWF heyday amd he had a nice full head of curly black
   hair.
     I won't be making any more arrangements to trade or sell tapes
   before I go to Edmonton at the beginning of September.  When I return
   in the new year, I'll make things available again, I think.
     For info on tape discussions, send e-mail with a body consisting
   solely of the word "help" to Majordomo@cc.gatech.edu.  That id handles
   subscription and unsubscription requests among other administrivia.
   The list id is rspwtape@cc.gatech.edu.  Mail sent to this id will be
   sent to all current subscribers.

                                                           Herb...