From: hekunze@jeeves.uwaterloo.ca (Herb Kunze)
Subject: Wrestling TidBits   -   10/05
Date: 1995/10/06
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{ Slim picking this week.  With my PC in the shop, I had to whip this
  up quickly in the office.  Apologies in advance.                    }

 - You know you've been watching too much wrestling when you
   take your PC in for an upgrade and when the service guy tells
   you the upgrade will require a switch to a super mini box, you
   wonder if all Mexican midgets are super minis or if that's
   only the Mascara Sagrada types or only the Jerrito Estrada
   types or where is Gary Will or Dave Fields when you need them
   anyhow?

 - WCW is apparently quite serious about pushing the promotional
   feud with New Japan later in the year and New Japan will also
   run matches as part of this makeshift feud.  WCW is looking to
   bring in some key New Japan wrestlers to work their TV tapings,
   including Disney.

 - The RAW vs. Nitro ratings war thus far looks like this (Draw
   your own conclusions):

                   WCW Nitro                  WWF RAW
              Rating  Share  Live       Rating  Share  Live
   09/04/95     2.9      ?     Y            -      -     -
   09/11/95     2.5    3.8     Y          2.2    3.2     N
   09/18/95     2.4    3.4     Y          2.5    3.4     N
   09/25/95     1.9    2.8     Y          2.7    3.8     Y

 - The WWF has In Your House on 10/22/95.  The tentative line-up has:
    - Diesel vs. British Bulldog for the WWF Title
    - Shawn Michaels vs. Dean Douglas for the IC Title
    - Smoking Gunns vs. Owen Hart & Yokozuna
    - Undertaker vs. Waylon Mercy
    - Razor Ramon vs. Sid
    - Hakushi vs. Skip

 - WCW has Halloween Havoc on 10/29/95.  The tentative line-up has:
    - Hulk Hogan vs. The Giant (in monster truck and wrestling matches)
    - Brian Pillman & Arn Anderson vs. Ric Flair & Sting
    - Randy Savage vs. Kamala
    - Lex Luger vs. Meng
    - Diamond Dallas Page vs. Johnny B. Badd
    - Hawk vs. Kurasawa
    - Sabu vs. Jerry Lynn

 - The WWF has Survivor Series on 11/19/95.  The promotion would
   apparently like to have an 8-woman tag match on the show, with
   Alundra Blayze and Bertha Faye on opposing sides.  Talk is that
   they will look to All Japan Women to supply the other six
   competitors.

 - WCW has a PPV on 11/26/95.  This show will apparently feature the
   return of Doom, Ron Simmons & Butch Reed.  Tentative line-up has:
    - Bull Nakano & Mariko Yoshida vs. Akira Hokuto & Mima Shimoda
   The women will work a re-match the next night on Nitro.

 - WCW has Starrcade on PPV in late December, with talk being that
   the show will feature WCW stars vs. New Japan stars in a series
   of matches where the winning promotion scores points for wins
   to determine which rules.  Tentative line-up includes:
     - Chris Benoit vs. Jushin Liger

 - Booking Prediction Tourney: Okay, okay, so the results still
   haven't been posted.  But I haven't had a PC for a few days now.
   I'll get to it as soon as I get my PC back.

 - WWW: My home page is at http://barrow.uwaterloo.ca/~hekunze.  The
   wrestling portion includes this post, tape lists, awards history,
   and other things.  It looks like the page is averaging about 700
   accesses per week.

 - Videos: I have posted something about the availability of videos.
   If you missed it, I'll send it to you in e-mail upon request.
   The VideoMarinepiad III home video is now available.

                                                         Herb...