______________________________________________________________________ I do not offer subscriptions to a mailing list! I do not e-mail images! ______________________________________________________________________ - The WWF held the King of the Ring this past Sunday, 98/06/28. Going into the show, Undertaker had a broken ankle and Steve Austin had a staphylococcus infection in his elbow that had left him dehydrated and hospitalized the preceding week. Worse yet, King of the Ring tournament favourite Ken Shamrock was just returning from his ankle surgery, and Rocky Maivia was just returning from knee surgery. On RAW the week before the show, they had announced that the main event match, Austin vs. Kane for the WWF Title, would be a "First Blood" match, and, prior to the PPV, referee Earl Hebner announced that somebody would have to bleed significantly in order for him to stop the match. The direction of the promotion seems clear. With Austin suffering a bundle of injuries (knee injury for a long time, neck injury since last year, and now the elbow problem), there's no way he can work the style of match that got him over in the Bret Hart feud. On recent shows, he's garbaged it up to mask his current hardships. In addition to the "First Blood" stipulation in the main event, Kane should he lose would set himself on fire, essentially guaranteeing the title change in a stipulation match where Austin could lose the belt without being pinned. The "lighting himself on fire" stipulation, although never enacted, signalled that the WWF has decided to go even further down the garbage wrestling route. Indeed, the current issue of the WWF RAW Magazine features images of Cactus Jack & Terry Funk from the IWA King of Death Matches tournament. The King of the Ring built to two garbage wrestling matches, one memorable for a career insane performance by Mankind (Mick Foley), and the other memorable because of a title change and the initiation of the Steve Austin vs. Undertaker program that should lead to a main event match at SummerSlam in August. But the actual wrestling on the show revealed the same problems that have been with the promotion for all of 1998. Run-down: * Headbangers & Taka Michinoku beat Kaientai: This was a late addition to the show. Presumably, this was to be the hot, fast opener, but it was only an okay match. They need to split Kaientai and put one of the trio with Taka (Shoichi Funaki would be the best choice) to have an undercard tag match against the other two. Every American they've dumped into the matches has brought the whole thing down. Taka pinned Funaki with the Michinoku Driver. Match ran 10 minutes with intros, hardly long enough to be anything particularly worthwhile. * Vince McMahon & his Musketeers did an interview that came across as a way to kill some time. Nearly 10 minutes passed. Pat Patterson patted Sable on the butt and Jim Ross cracked a joke about that being foreign territory for Patterson. * Ken Shamrock beat Jeff Jarrett in a King of the Ring semi-final match: Match was terribly bland, as Jarrett's stock continues to plummet. Thankfully, with intros, they were only given 9 minutes. The finish saw Shamrock hit an excellent rana and then get the ankle lock. I should mention somewhere that the usually crisp WWF camera work was way off this night, with a lot of missed moves in the early matches in particular. The problem cleared up as the night went on, but, at the start, they even went to a 900-line promo too late and Val Venis said one or two closing words while the cameras filmed him getting up and leaving; poor Jim Ross had to mumble an explanation for the clumsiness of the spot. * Rocky Maivia beat Dan Severn in a King of the Ring semi-final match: Severn is completely misused and whatever value there was to building towards Severn vs. Shamrock and using UFC footage to hype it is almost lost. Jim Ross annoyed me to no end by talking about how Severn injured D-Lo's "pectorial" muscle throughout the match. Another boring, bland match. D-Lo interfered for the finish, wearing a bullet proof vest to protect his "pectorial" injury, and hitting a beautiful frog splash to set up the pin. With intros, 9 minutes. * Brian Christoper & Scott Taylor beat Al Snow & Head: The stipulation was that if Snow won, he'd get to meet with Vince McMahon. If he lost, he had to leave the WWF. Of course, on TV, they kept making the point that he doesn't work for the WWF when he appeared with Head in the crowd or at ringside, having security take him off or having him run off, so the second stipulation makes no sense. Jerry Lawler refereed. There were a few ECW shirt-wearing fans in the crowd with styrofoam heads, but as a gimmick on the national stage, the Head thing just stinks. Lawler openly favoured Too Much. There were a few okay exchanges sprinkled through the match, but it was crap over all. Later on, Jim Ross even suggested that the match set the industry back 20 years. Finish saw Brian try to attach a "Head & Shoulders" shampoo bottle to head, but the bottle crumpled as he kept trying. Amidst all of this, he went for a pin on the head and the bottle, while Snow stupidly lay on top of Taylor. Brian pinned Head. Ugh. Afterwards, Snow argued with Head about the loss. Dougle Ugh. Because of the finish and the stupidity and the total unfunniness of everything (since that seemed to be what they were going for), this probably deserves a negative star rating. With intros, 15 minutes. * X-Pac beat Owen Hart: The show at this point desperately needed a good match; this bout was obviously supposed to deliver that. It was okay but too short to be anything of note, going only 12 minutes with intros. Jim Ross admitted that X-Pac had "ring rust," while Lawler suggested that he saw none. Finish saw Mark Henry come out and lay out X-Pac, as they start the push of DX vs. NOD, perhaps to climax at Survivor Series. Owen put on the Sharpshooter, while Vader came out to attack Henry. The ref was less interested in the match he was there to officiate, instead opting to talk to the two guys brawling at ringside. During this distration, Chyna came in and DDTed Owen and, when the ref turned around, X-Pac got the pin. Ross pointed out that Chyna is no ordinary woman and that she weighs 200 pounds, in an attempt to take the sting off the loss for Owen. I hope that this was a generic NOD vs. DX thing rather than the beginning of anything between X-Pac & Henry. * Road Dog & Billy Gunn beat Midnight Express: The second late addition to the show. The Midnight Express are funny to watch because they just don't do anything particularly well together. The New Age Outlaws have a cool entrance, but they are the same boring, mediocre wrestlers they always were once the bell rings. Jim Cornette took a crotch shot from Chyna. With intros, 15 minutes. * Ken Shamrock beat Rocky Maivia to become the King of the Ring 1998: Hunter Hearst Helmsley came out for commentary and really added some stupidity to the match, at one point suggesting he was bisexual and then saying, "Did I really mean to say that?" or something like that. He also said his middle name was "sportsmanship"; I thought it was "Hearst." No matter how much Jim Ross and even Jerry Lawler tell me that these guys are magnificent or that I should take my hat off to them, I still see through it to Maivia's unimproved mediocrity and Shamrock's general goodness, with awesome charisma but loads of inexperience. The Maivia vs. Helmsley matches have been good indicators of Maivia's lack of growth in-ring. Just like the DX crew, Maivia delivers an interview well (however scripted) and has developed some personality with the arched eyebrow shtick. Unfortunately, part of his job is to wrestle. They purposely keep the matches short now because they saw the lack of reaction, or even the negative reaction, that the new crop of "stars" can generate if they are out their too long doing stuff that the fans really aren't interested in. At the house shows, the general rule is not to go over ten minutes. In this case, the intros ran 4:10 and the match ran about 14 or 15 minutes. Don't let that fool you, though: the opening pair of exchanges lasted 4:10 as well, with half of that time seeing Rocky stroll around ringside raising his eyebrows. As you might expect, there was some sloppiness in the match, particularly near the end. Midway, Rocky dropped Shamrock on the guard rail; well, that's what he intended to do, but Shamrock's head was several inches away from the rail, with camera catching it clearly and the commentators ignoring it. Shamrock sold his ankle when he hit the ground, either really hurting it or knowing that the rail contact was nonexistent. They worked off a headlock for the middle part of the match, but didn't stay in the headlock all that long (1:30-or-so total). The booking was very simple, in that wrestler A would hit a move, then another, go for a pin, B would kick out, and they'd rest. The most complicated stuff was a duck under a punch attempt followed by a german suplex or Shamrock countering Rocky's float-through DDT with a suplex. The strangest thing is that during our holiday Wednesday (Canada Day), I managed to check what people thought about this match and I was shocked to read raves. It wasn't bad at all, but it hardly merits anything more than * * * , if that. It compares really poorly to the Chris Benoit vs. Booker T match from WCW's Bash PPV. Closer to the WWF home, it compared poorly to the follow-up match on RAW the next night. * Undertaker beat Mankind in a hell in the cell cage match: A truly insane and career-risking performance by Mankind, Mick Foley. Undertaker obviously had no business being in the ring and basically did nothing. Foley took a dive off the top of the extra-high cage, landing back-first on the Spanish commentators' table. The camera missed the spot the first time, but they had it on replay from three different angles, which tells you how well-planned the match was. Everybody came out to check on Foley, including Terry Funk. The commentators suggested that the match was over. A lot of time passed as the doctors came out, the cage went up a bit to make room for a stretcher (with Undertaker still standing on top of the cage, obviously not coming down because he had to minimize his movement), and Foley was taken away. Presumably, they spoke to him about whether he thought he could continue the match, and, being insane, he did. This time, he climbed back up to the top of the cage. Earlier on, it was clear that one patch of the cage was loosely fastened. Undertaker carefully walked on the metal framework of the cage rather than on the mesh. Foley took a choke slam, pretty much doing everything himself, through the mesh and into the ring, the second insane bump of the "match." Everybody ran into the cage to check on Foley again. Undertaker lowered himself into the cage, the only risk of the night for him, as he had to drop a couple of feet to stand in the ring, and hobbled noticeably because of it. Terry took a choke slam that looked weak because Undertaker could not support his weight. Undertaker did a plancha, hitting the cage, in a spot that looked stupid. But even here, he could avoid landing on his bad ankle. Foley eventually filled the ring with thumb tacks and took two bumps into them before the tombstone finish. With intros, 28 minutes (lots of dead time early on, in particular). This was a tremendously memorable spectacle because of the stunt man insanity of Foley, but it's impossible to rate as a wrestling match. In close to a half-hour, there were two or three moves. I've seen a few people call Foley "courageous" because of this performance. Yeah, with Austin & Undertaker both unable to do much, the WWF needed somebody to "make" the PPV and Foley definitely did that. * Kane beat Steve Austin to win the WWF Title: After watching RAW from last week (caught the one-hour replay on Sunday just before the PPV), it was clear that the stage was set for a title change. Again, there wasn't much of a match here. This time, the brawling was nowhere close to what Austin & Dude Love delivered, because Kane really sucks. Jim Ross tried to remind us that Kane moves well for a three-hundred pound guy, but he still wrestles really poorly. I'd like to see him move right on out of the WWF, since he moves so darn well. To distract from the lack of wrestling, they had the cage come down and go back up and come back down. The suggestion was that a McMahon stooge was trying to help Kane at every turn. The finish saw Undertaker come in and chair Austin. Austin bladed a gusher to lose because of the "First Blood" stipulation. Before UT's run in, in a stupid moment, they had Mankind run in to try to help Kane. Of course, the idea was to make people believe that Undertaker was coming out to equalize things. But using Mankind after his earlier destruction took away from the earlier performance, making it seem like it was no big deal, since he could come out and swing a chair 10 minutes later. With intros, 18 minutes. Overall, an okay show, particularly when one considers the situation the company was in coming into the event. On an absolute scale, it wasn't a particularly good show, but it did have that tremendously memorable performance by Mick Foley. It seems to me that people online have become carried away with the show because of the blood and stunt man stuff. One can understand why the WWF is doing this sort of thing (diminished roster...less talent required to do this sort of thing...makes their product different from WCW's product), but it can't be a long-term direction because of the TV & PPV carriers balking at the violence. Those that like this sort of spectacle should enjoy it while they can. Those that like the WWF as a promotion should hope that they move away from this sort of thing because it does threaten the promotion's long-term success. RAW RAW on 06/29/98 was a good TV show, with one great match and one memorable match. To open the show, Vince McMahon came out to present the WWF belt to a worthy role model, Kane. Steve Austin came out and eventually baited Kane into agreeing to a title match this evening, clearly a title change. Undertaker came out later to explain that he screwed Austin because he didn't want his brother to light himself on fire. Of course, it just sets up Austin's next program. First match saw Darren Drosdov lose to the debuting Steven Regal. Sable came out to introduce Regal with some fanfare, but the match turned into a split screen affair with Jim Ross & Jerry Lawler in turn questioning sable about her deal with Vince McMahon and praising her looks. Here the WWF wants to make the point that a mid-level great worker from WCW could be pushed in the WWF and Regal debuts poorly. He didn't look much lighter than at the end of his WCW stay and, darn it, he didn't get to deliver an interview. There's still time to fix this. In a horrible idea that Jim Ross claimed would revolutionize the industry, the WWF debuted a "BrawlforAll" tournament, with no brackets ever announced. The style was a mix of boxing and wrestling, with a stupid point system and three one-minute rounds. Suffice to say that this did not get over in the least and that the commentators embarrassingly praised the idea. The first match saw Steve Blackman beat Marc Mero amid loud "We want Flair" chants. The second bout, even worse, saw Justin Bradshaw beat Mark Cantebury (formerly Henry O. Godwinn), with the crowd chanting "boring!" Jerry Lawler actually said, "It's a good idea to take somebody out of their element" in response to Jim Ross' description of the stupid tournament. Throughout, the commentators link "boxing skill" with hitting punches and "wrestling skill" with taking somebody down. Really, really bad. Val Venis beat Dick Togo. Sigh. In the great match of the night, Ken Shamrock beat Owen Hart & Hunter Hearst Helmsley in a triangle match that was probably Helmsley's best match ever because Owen really held things together. The match was much better than the KotR tournament final the night before. Owen, in particular, did a lot of complicated spots, including numerous reversals to "patented" spots. The crowd was not into anything except Austin, with a small chant of "We want Flair" audible. They did a lot of exciting near finishes, with the third guy breaking things up each time. Maivia came out and KOed HHH with the IC Title -- did I mention that DX & NOD are going to feud -- and Shamrock got the pin on him while Owen was laid out after a guard rail bump. Really, really good. They ran a "Triple Threat" triangle match because the plan is to build the Steve Austin vs. Undertaker program into an Austin vs. Undertaker vs. Kane triangular feud. The Legion of Doom introduced Paul Ellering, building him up to be their dad, best friend, and advisor. Obviously, he had to turn on them after that. DOA came out and, bingo, Ellering introduces them as his new team. The LOD is left laying and the commentators say that we've never seen that before. Strange...I thought that this was the same angle that the LOD keeps re-running. Finally, Steve Austin beat Kane to regain the WWF Title, hitting a stunner out of nowhere. A nothing match, to be sure, but Austin is the only attraction in the promotion right now. Undertaker came out to ringside and entered the ring after the match. Austin ended up hitting a stunner on him as well. Austin left the arena, and over his shoulder in the ring we saw Undertaker & Kane both standing. Methinks big brother will have to be given the title. Nitro I caught the Monday Nitro rebroadcast on Friday night last week. I won't detail the show, but the Chris Benoit vs. Bret Hart match was great. This week, on 06/29/98, Monday Nitro was another bad show. Isn't it just amazing how WCW can drop the ball so many weeks in a row just as the WWF is turning out good TV shows? The wrestling in the opening hour featured a bad Kanyon vs. Horace match and a bad Giant vs. Judo Suwa & Sumo Fuji handicap match. Ugh. Sting & Lex Luger beat Davey Boy Smith & Jim Neidhart in what I guess was a "star power" match; it wasn't anything to get excited about. Sting pinned Savey Boy Smith with the scropion death drop. In the only good match on the show, Ultimo Dragon COR Dean Malenko when Chris Jericho lured Malenko out of the ring. They screwed up a moonsault into a dragon sleeper spot. Match was to determine who would get a title shot on Thunder. Steve McMichael & Chris Benoit beat Harlem Heat when Bret Hart whacked Booker T with a chair to set up a match between them, strangely giving Benoit the win. In the weak main event, Bill Goldberg beat Glacier for the fourth time. Horrible show from a wrestling quality standpoint and I am actually becoming grateful that TSN only carries a two-hour edited version of the show. Not to be outdone for bad ideas, WCW unveiled something to rival the WWF's BrawlforAll: Eric Bischoff's NWO "late night" talk show. He had Scott Steiner on as his first guest; the show had an elaborate set and a band. What a waste of time and money. First Eric wastes Randy Savage's injury angle to put heat on himself instead of a wrestler and then he does something like this. It's almost like he wants his empire to crumble. Thunder Thunder on 07/02/98 was a lackluster show that quickly turned into an extended commercial for the 07/06/98 Monday Nitro. The show opened with Chris Jericho rolling a bogus Rey Misterio Jr. onto himself to lose a non-title match and make Rey the number one contender. The commentators said that Jericho would still be meeting Dean Malenko at the Bash at the Beach PPV on 07/12/98, but, even before this weird bit, there was talk that Jericho would face Misterio Jr., so something may still happen. Stevie Ray beat Doc Dean. Boy, in case anybody had any doubt, we know for sure which member of the team carried Harlem Heat (hint: it wasn't Stevie). Chavo Guerrero Jr. came out with a wooden horse called Pepe (you know, the kid's toy horsie, with a stuffed head on a broom stick). Chavo tried to talk to Stevie about their problems with their brothers. Public Enemy faced Davey Boy Smith & Jim Neidhart. Before the match, PEs had a dance contest against Disco Inferno & Alex Wright. Ugh. The match was horrible. Public Enemy is the worst team of this (and seemingly any other) year. Truthfully, I fell into a coma and missed the ending. The commercial that is Thunder started, as JJ Dillon came out to officially announce that Hulk Hogan would defend the WCW Title on the 07/06/98 Nitro against Bill Goldberg. With 35000 tickets already sold to the Georgia Dome show, this will be a big Monday for Nitro. You've got to expect that they'll win the ratings again and that, sigh, Hogan will try to take full credit for the victory. Unless they make more permanent changes, instead of hot-shotting their way to a hot match-up, the single victory may be the extent of their return streak. Thinking about how they'll book this match will depress any rational person. Obviously, they want to use Nitro to pump up the buy rate for Bash at the Beach. Originally, Hogan volunteered to job to Goldberg in a dark match, but things have become bigger than that. Is passing the title to Golberg going to help the PPV six days later? I'm betting that there will be a lot of pressure to have Giant (and Hennig) screw Goldberg out of a title win on Nitro to build anticipation for the PPV match. In a way, that's a good thing, since they blew Goldberg's 100th victory and nobody even bothers to count any more. Saturn pinned Kidman. Brian Adams beat Bobby Blaze. Booker T beat Fit Finley in a good match; unfortunately, the commentators were too busy talking about the Bash and the upcoming Nitro. After the match, Stevie Ray acted miffed that Booker T was challenging Bret at the Bash at the Beach. Gee, might they do the brother vs. brother screw job at that show? In a totally silly angle, Chavo Guerrero Jr. came out with a large cardboard box labelled "ACME Eddy Trap" and used a stick with a string tied to it to set up a trap. Complete with a burrito as the bait and a few "Be very, very quiet. I'm hunting Eddie." lines, this was a silly cartoon. Eddie came out. He pulled the string. The camera left the ring and zoomed in on Chavo. Chavo popped up and saw that the box was lying on the mat now. When he lifted it up, Eddie wasn't inside. Eddie attacked him, including a brutal brainbuster on the concrete floor. Chavo acted like he was dead while Eddie smacked his face with the burrito. Eddie cut a small bit of hair off of Chavo. Could they be going to a hair vs. hair match? Kanyon lost to Konnan when Raven interfered and DDTed him. Afterwards, the Flock was destroying Kanyon. Konnan hesitated before deciding to save Kanyon. It was actually a horrible attempt at a save. Poor Konnan went up against Horace after laying out Kidman. Horace and Konnan mixed like oil and water. Absolutely pathetic. Lex Luger came in to save Konnan. Lex Luger beat Giant by DQ when the NWO Hollywood members ran in. The Flock also came in, with the commentators wondering why. Well, maybe it was because they wanted another piece of Konnan and Luger, who they had tussled with five minutes earlier. I dunno, I'm just guessing. - WCW has Bash at the Beach on 07/12/98. Tentative line-up has: * Hulk Hogan & Dennis Rodman vs. Diamond Dallas Page & Karl Malone * Bill Goldberg & Kevin Greene vs. Giant & Curt Hennig * Chris Jericho vs. Dean Malenko for the Cruiserweight Title * Bret Hart vs. Booker T for the TV Title * Raven vs. Saturn I just don't get the fascination with matches involving non-wrestlers. - The WWF has In Your House on 07/26/98. - Bret Hart had some comments in the local paper: "Bret Hart vs. Hulk Hogan is too big a match to not happen. Bret Hart vs. Sting is a huge match for those people who have followed both organizations over the years. I can look at different wrestlers in the WCW -- Chris Benoit, Booker T, Diamond Dallas Page -- they are all fresh characters that I never have stepped in the ring with. That's what makes it so interesting for me. Looking back at the WWF, Bret Hart vs. the Undertaker. I love the guy but how many more times could I wrestle him? I wrestled Steve Austin, my brother Owen, and Shawn Michaels, every name that they have. In the WCW, there are 15 or 20 guys here that I have never faced before. It's a treasure chest of talent I can stack myself against." - New Japan is going to add Junior Heavyweight Tag Titles to their mix. - RAW beat Nitro on 06/29 with a 5.2 rating versus a 4.1 rating. The detailed ratings are a click away. I still haven't managed to update them; but, hey, I've updated the PPV figures. - PPV buy rates, revenue (in millions), and match statistics for the WWF, WCW, and ECW are presented in the following 1998 summary sheet: Show Data Match Rating Data Date Show Buy Rate Gross Mean Median Peak % >= * * * * WWF 98/05/31 IYH Over The Edge 0.65 (preliminary) $2.90 1.06 1/2* * * * * 1/2* Steve Austin vs. Dude Love 13% (1 of 8) 98/04/19 IYH Unforgiven 0.85 $3.78 1.75 * * * * * Steve Austin vs. Dude Love 14% (1 of 7) 98/03/29 WrestleMania 2.2 (WWF figure?) $9.52 1.81 * 1/2 * * * 1/4 Austin vs. Michaels, Cactus & Funk vs. NAO 0% (0 of 8) 98/02/15 IYH No Way Out 0.45 $1.67 1.43 * 1/2 * * * 1/2 HHH & NAO & Vega vs. Austin & Owen & Cactus & Funk 0% (0 of 7) 98/01/18 Royal Rumble 0.97 (1.03 claimed) $3.62 2.38 * * 1/2 * * * 1/2 Rumble, Max Mini & Nova & Mosaic vs. Battalion & Torio & Tarantula 0% (0 of 6) Last 6 months 0.92 $3.83 1.5 1.46 3.63 4.5% (2 of 44) 1998 Average 1.02 $4.3 1.65 1.70 3.75 5.6% (2 of 36) WCW 98/05/17 Slamboree 0.72 $3.20 1.92 * * 1/2 * * * 1/4 Chris Benoit vs. Fit Finley, Chris Jericho vs. Dean Malenko, Eddie Guerrero vs. Ultimo Dragon 0% (0 of 9) 98/04/19 Spring Stampede 0.72 $3.20 2.4 * * 1/2 * * * * Ultimo Dragon vs. Chavo Guerrero Jr., DDP vs. Raven 20% (2 of 10) 98/03/15 Uncensored 1.1 $4.12 1.69 * * 1/2 * * * 3/4 Chris Benoit vs. DDP vs. Raven 0% (0 of 9) 98/02/22 SuperBrawl 1.1 (preliminary) $4.12 1.68 * 1/4 * * * 3/4 Juventud Guerrera vs. Chris Jericho 0% (0 of 10) 98/01/25 Souled Out 1.02 $3.81 1.92 * * * * * Chavo & Calo & Lizmark vs. Juventud & Parka & Dandy 11.1% (1 of 9) Last 6 Months 1.04 $4.01 1.77 1.71 3.58 5.5% (3 of 55) 1998 Average 0.93 $3.69 1.93 1.95 3.75 6.4% (3 of 47) ECW 98/05/03 WrestlePalooza 0.24 $0.45 0.64 1/2* * * Mikey Whippreck vs. Justin Credible 0% (0 of 7) 98/03/01 Living Dangerously 0.23 $0.42 1.56 * * * * * 1/2* Dudleys vs. Spike & New Jack vs. Rotten & Mahoney 0% (0 of 8) Last 6 Months 0.24 $0.44 1.13 1.25 2.63 0% (0 of 15) 1998 Average 0.24 $0.44 1.13 1.25 2.63 0% (0 of 15) Longer-term data is available. Next week, I'll add an update to this page. A table of wrestlers who have delivered quality matches is also online. - WCW has Road Wild on 08/08/98. - The WWF has SummerSlam on 08/30/98. Jerry Springer is expected to be involved in the show. - WCW has Fall Brawl on 09/13/98. - The WWF has In Your House on 09/27/98. - The WWF has In Your House on 10/18/98. - WCW has Halloween Havoc on 10/25/98. - The WWF has Survivor Series on 11/15/98. - WCW has World War III on 11/22/98. - The WWF has In Your House on 12/13/98. - WCW has Starrcade on 12/27/98. - 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. ______________________________________________________________________ Pictures of the Week Three new pictures in honour of the insane stunt man of the week. Go to the Pics page to see the full selection, with thumbnails or without. 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