Slobberknocker Central Monday Night Recap #269 January 8th, 2001 The Opening Word: I skipped Thunder last week. I'm almost amazed at my lack of interest in WCW. This isn't just a temporary thing, I fear. Thinking about it, I doubt I'd be all that disappointed if the promotion vanished altogether. Any sadness I might have felt for WCW has come and gone long ago. The only thing I'd feel bad about would be the total lack of competition for the WWF. The WWF needs a rival to stay strong. WCW seems far beyond the point where an idea or storyline or wrestler can turn the company around. Remember that "Seinfeld" episode where he has his car parked by an attendant with B.O.? The guy's smell stayed in the car, but also attached itself to everyone who rode in the car. That's what WCW is like now. The stink of failure is in everything, and no matter what or who you bring into the company, that stink is going to attach itself to them. Any new angle, storyline or wrestler will be dead the moment we see that WCW logo, hear Tony Schiavone's voice, and see any of the company's existing wrestlers involved in it. The only solution is to start over from scratch. An entirely new look, new announcers, new wrestlers and new characters and gimmicks for those wrestlers kept around. That's the only way, I think, that WCW can be brought back. The Monday night ratings last week told an interesting story for TNT. The movie that preempted Nitro, I think it was "Grease", did nearly the same rating as Nitro does. Now, imagine you're a network, and on one hand you have this wrestling show that does a certain rating but costs millions a year, and on the other hand you have all these movies that can draw almost the same ratings, and cost no additional money because they're already a part of the Turner film library. From a programming standpoint it makes no sense to keep airing the wrestling show. From a larger business standpoint WCW's existence can be justified, but only if the company can be profitable. That's why the company is for sale, and the rumors are building that within the next week or so the sale will be finalized and announced. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- WCW Monday Nitro: Live/Taped: Live. Length: Two Hours. Location: St. Paul, Minnesota. Hosted By: Tony Schiavone, Scott Hudson & Disqo Inferno. HOUR ONE: - A highlights package from Thunder opens the show. If you didn't see it this clip could hardly be informative, as it's just a jumble of images of things that happened without giving much idea what the storylines are. - CEO Ric Flair is out, flanked by security guards. He says "whoo!" a lot, gets a cheap pop by mentioning the Vikings, then starts in on tonight's business. Flair wonders where Mike Sanders got his powers as commissioner, and orders a rematch between Sanders and the Cat at Sin this Sunday. He starts to talk about Jeff Jarrett, at which point Jarrett comes out. Flair's trying to stir up trouble between Jarrett and WCW Champ Scott Steiner, but Jarrett says he's just looking out for Steiner's best interests. Steiner comes out, himself wondering where Jarrett's head is in all of this. Jarrett assures him he's on Steiner's side. Because of Sid reinvolving himself in things last week, Flair is making the main event at the PPV a four-way between Steiner, Jarrett, Sid and the mystery man--who Steiner keeps calling "the mystery partner" through all this. (I don't know if it's just the storyline or if Steiner is really confused, but he keeps talking like the main event at the PPV is a tag match.) Goldberg and the Sarge arrive. Goldberg shakes up a random bystander, asking where Kronik is. - Mike Sanders looks foolish talking to himself. Oh wait, there are other people in the room: the Harris Brothers, one of whom is letting his hair grow out. Is giving them each distinctive looks the first step to splitting them apart and having them feud? Sanders books Ron Harris in a match tonight against the Cat. - Shane Douglas accosts Flair, asking him if he's crazy for putting Sid in the PPV main event. So Flair books Douglas against Sid tonight. - CHAVO GUERRERO, JR. vs. SHANNON MOORE (w/ Shane Helms) Is that Eddie Guerrero's old music? Chavo says he's a fighting champion, changing this from non-title to a title match. The catch is that Chavo is supposed to defend the belt against Helms at the PPV, and if Moore wins the belt here then the PPV match will be a rematch of this one, thus screwing Helms out of his shot at the title. Seems to me it would just be Helms vs. Moore for the belt in that case, but what do I know. Decent match, which Chavo wins with a brainbuster. Unless Helms is a lot better than Moore, the PPV match should go just like this, right, with Chavo winning easily? Chavo continues to beat on Shannon, prompting Sugar Shane to make the save. - Kwee-Wee and Paisley are watching ... what, commercials? Themselves? Mike Sanders attacks them for no reason, with Big Vito randomly happening by and making the save. This whole thing seems to have been taped for no other reason them random backstage camera placement, and that's pretty much the result--random violence. Any reasonable person has to assume there are also dozens of other fights going on backstage at any given time that *aren't* being taped. (Sadly that's not far from the truth.) - Lex Luger & Buff Bagwell are seen talking to Ric Flair, the camera being too far away to pick up what's being said. Luger & Bagwell are heels. Flair is a face. Luger & Flair are friends. Flair & Bagwell have no love for each other. Why don't Luger & Bagwell go to the heel commissioner Sanders if they need something? When is WCW going to start MAKING SENSE? - THE CAT (w/ Miss Jones) vs. RON HARRIS (w/ Don Harris) What the hell ... Ron shaved his head?! Hudson even points it out. Some fans at ringside hold up a "WWF SUCKS" sign about the size of a Honda Civic. Double stomp to start as the Cat says the wrong thing to the Harris Boys. Don is ushered out of the ring, and the Cat launches into his cartoon offense on Ron. Don then comes back in and the two lay the Cat out with an H-Bomb. Pin. During the match Disqo Inferno defended this stuff with the Cat as being "good booking", pretty much revealing his whole purpose in being tapped to replace the recently-fired Mark Madden. (Disqo's part of the WCW booking committee.) - Mean Gene interviews the Cat, who breaks into his James Brown dance. - A lingering audible countdown leads to General Rection talking to Sid, asking him to leave him a piece of Shane Douglas for him at the PPV. - Jarrett and Steiner discuss their troubles. - Mean Gene interviews Sanders and the Natural Born Thrillerz. Saying he was attacked by "Kiwi" and Big Vito, Sanders has booked "Kiwi" & Vito in a "Minnesota Massacre" match against Randomly Selected Opponents. This is repeated several times, each time Sanders mispronouncing Kwee-Wee's name, as well as making it clear that the Thrillerz are the Randomly Selected Opponents. Randomly Selected Opponents. Randomly Selected Opponents. Randomly Selected Opponents. - CHRIST, another skit: Luger & Bagwell inform Kronik that Flair has booked them to face Goldberg & the Sarge. - LANCE STORM (w/ Team Canada) vs. BILLY KIDMAN (w/ the Filthy Animals) On a recent Thunder Mike Awesome turned Canadian, which has become synonymous with turning heel. So Awesome improved in going from a terrible gimmick to a lame gimmick, but dropped a notch, going from a feud with Bam Bam Bigelow to a feud with "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan. Storm announces a "Canadian Penalty Box Match" between Team Canada and the Filthy Animals at Sin. I guess it's an elimination match, with guys being eliminated when they break the rules. Or something. A good match here, marred a bit near the end by outside interference from Awesome, Major Gunns, Tygress, and everyone else hanging out at ringside. Kidman puts Storm down for the count with the Kid Krusher. HOUR TWO: - SHANE DOUGLAS vs. SID Sid's wearing pants now, which is often a sign that a guy is off the Juice and doesn't like how his legs look. Sid goes into some Hulk Hogan mannerisms and the camera, laughably, or perhaps sadly, cuts away for an extended crowd shot. Douglas gets in a bit of offense, but the match is mostly Sid tossing him around like a jobber. A powerbomb seals the deal. Steiner & Jarrett then attack Sid, dumping him over the rail into the crowd. - Flair tells Mean Gene that "Hacksaw" Duggan will be the special referee in the "Canadian Penalty Box Match" at the PPV. Duggan steps it to let rip a "hi-yo!" - Terry Funk comes out to say he's the King of Hardcore. He made ECW. He wants real competition, like Goldberg and Steiner, instead of the chumps WCW keeps feeding him. Crowbar, insulted, comes out to run down Funk. Why are he and Daffney carrying wooden chairs? Ah, so when the Monster Meng comes out they can ineffectually break them against his head and fist. Didn't Dusty Rhodes do this same thing to Meng six years ago? Meng leaves all three laying and departs with Funk's Hardcore Title belt. Jimmy Hart DJ challenge, which Bob Ryder defends as being a good thing, saying at least he's trying to get publicity for his company. Yeah, I'm sure those few dozen people he convinces in every city to come to the show and be handed free tickets to paper the crowd is really helping the company. Here's a question: does the free publicity Hart gets for WCW offset the negative bush-league persona his presence inflicts upon WCW's overall image? - A lonely cameraman films the door to the commissioner's office. Cut to another cameraman inside. Pan over to a jacket hanging on a rack. The cameraman reaches inside and pulls forth an envelope, then with the second of his three hands slides ANOTHER envelope in its place. Okay, so it's supposed to be Ric Flair doing all this, but the cameraman is so close to him it's like we're seeing this through Flair's eyes. Need I mention that this is like a bad episode of "Columbo" or something? - KRONIK vs. GOLDBERG/THE SARGE Last week on Thunder Luger & Bagwell broke the Sarge's arm. Goldberg was unable to prevent it because Kronik had locked him in a crate outside the arena. Something similar happens here, with Luger & Bagwell again attacking Sarge, Goldberg preoccupied in the ring with beating Bryan Clarke with the spear and Jackhammer. When Goldberg finally comes out to help he's laid out with the Sarge's cast. I'm assuming this will all lead to the Sarge turning on Goldberg, because Goldberg's never there when he needs him. (Never mind the fact that the Sarge shouldn't even be here anyway, since his job is as head instructor of the Power Plant.) Bagwell also hits Brian Adams, which I'm sure will lead to a match between those two teams. - Sanders comes out with the envelope with the names of the participants for the "Minnesota Massacre" match. Announcer David Penzer starts reading off the names, and of course Sanders is first, followed by Chuck Palumbo and Sean O'Haire. Things then take a twist, though, as *their* opponents are revealed to be Diamond Dallas Page and Kevin Nash. So not only was Sanders not watching the show and missed seeing his envelope being switched, he was stupid enough to not just say these are the opponents for Kwee-Wee & Big Vito. And he's the commissioner, right? Can't he just throw out this match? Flair swapped the envelope on the sly, so it's not like this is an official decision that overrules Sanders. Anyway, the "match" starts, and at first DDP and Nash dominate, then Nash lays on the mat for a few minutes and lets the other guys stomp him. A huge "HALL = RATINGS" sign is prominently at ringside, with the crowd breaking into a "WE WANT HALL!" chant. Shawn Stasiak & Mark Jindrak run out, only to be intercepted by Kwee-Wee, Big Vito & Paisley--all of whom are supposed to be barred from ringside. DDP gives Palumbo a Diamond Cutter, followed by Nash powerbombing O'Haire. Since they're the Last Men Standing, even though the Thrillerz had already been standing for the last two minutes, and the referee doesn't bother with the ten count he's supposed to do (I guess), the match is ended and the Insiders quickly declared the winners of the first (and hopefully last) "Minnesota Massacre". Nice ... a match where no one has to do a job of any kind to lose. - Scott Steiner comes out with Midajah--says he's not wrestling Jarrett tonight. Jarrett's still in the back, on his way to the ring. - You know why Jeff Jarrett has such a lame character? Because nearly every time he speaks, no matter how little he has to say, he has to figure out a way to shoehorn some variation of his "slapnuts" catchphrase into it. Here he calls Flair "slapnutz" and "Jurassic Slap-ass". Flair comes out and says if the two don't fight, he's stripping Steiner of the title. Some decent action here, but at about the five minute mark Sid comes out. Why? Does it matter if the title changes hands here? Doesn't this mean Sid hates Jarrett more than he does Steiner. The Mystery Man waddles out too, so the ref throws the match out. Yes ... waddles. The crowd reaction indicates they know/think they know it's Rick Steiner. Whoever He Is no-sells a Jarrett attack. Steiner & Jarrett are cleared from the ring, and the show quickly fades out. - This Wednesday: Nothing announced. - Next week: Nothing announced. Comments: Lotsa hype for Sin this Sunday. Maybe not good hype, but lots of it nonetheless. Here's the card for Sin: * Scott Steiner vs. Jeff Jarrett vs. Sid vs. Mystery Opponent for the World Heavyweight Title. * Goldberg & the Sarge vs. Lex Luger & Buff Bagwell. If either Goldberg or the Sarge is pinned Goldberg is gone from WCW. * Shane Douglas vs. General Rection. United States Title Match. * Team Canada vs. the Filthy Animals. "Canadian Penalty Box Match". * Chavo Guerrero, Jr. vs. Shane Helms for the Cruiserweight Title. * Mike Sanders vs. the Cat. Winner is WCW Commissioner. * Terry Funk vs. Crowbar vs. Meng for the Hardcore Title. Who are the WCW Tag Team Champions? No, seriously, I can't remember. I'd rate Disqo's performance as commentator at about the adequate level, which, as I noted with Madden, isn't good enough for what this company needs. Hudson too is barely adequate, saying very little tonight, not yet over being held in check by the loudmouth Madden. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- WWF RAW is WAR: Live/Taped: Live. Length: Two Hours+. Location: San Jose, California. Hosted By: Jim Ross & Jerry "The King" Lawler. WWF RAW: - Highlights package, which sets up tonight's Steve Austin vs. Kurt Angle main event. Compare this to the one on Nitro and decide which was easier to follow. - Vince McMahon makes his way to the ring. McMahon says the fans should respect authority. The Rock too needs a lesson in respect, and will get it tonight in a handicap match against Rikishi & Kane. To be fair, though, the Rock will get two partners--two WWF referees. On to Steve Austin, he says he counted the pinfall for Austin over Kane and the Undertaker last Thursday as a sign that he's put things between the two behind him. He says in 2001 people need leadership, and that he's going to provide an example for that. If he and Steve Austin can get along then why can't the Republicans and Democrats get along, as well as there being peace in the Middle East. Out comes Steve Austin, who basically says there's no way he'll ever trust Vince McMahon, who he calls a jackass. Kurt Angle appears, saying Austin is an example of that lack of leadership McMahon spoke of. Angle slips in a major jab at Austin, saying he was as Olympic medalist in 1996 when Austin was having Strap Matches against Savio Vega. *Zing!* Austin flips him off and asks the crowd if they'd like to see him kick Angle's ass. "Hell Yeah!" Austin then turns to crack open a beer, and Angle waffles him from behind with the title belt. - CHRIS JERICHO/THE HARDY BOYZ (w/ Lita) vs. THE RADICALZ (w/ Terri) Short but hot match. Malenko, who had his knee scoped last week, stands on the apron but never tags in. Jericho gets a surprise pin on Benoit with a backslide. Lita then pulls Malenko off the apron. He stumbles over to the barricade, grabs a vendor's tray, and dumps goop all over Lita (either mustard or nacho cheese--not sure which). Stephanie McMahon-Helmsley has the WWF referees assembled backstage. She asks for volunteers to team with the Rock. Jack Doan says they're not WWF superstars. Teddy Long says it's not in his contract to wrestle. Stephanie tells him he's under contract to the World WRESTLING Federation ... and she now has her two volunteers. D'oh! - The XFL San Francisco Demons cheerleaders are at ringside. Weren't the Demons supposed to be in San Jose, but moved because there was a better facility to play in in San Francisco? Do you think the crowd would have cheered for them as loudly if more fans realized that? - During the break Lita sent Matt & Jeff off so she could shower. The cameraman then decides to stick around, which is fortunate, because he spots Dean Malenko slipping into the dressing room after the Hardyz have left. - Kevin Kelly interviews the Rock, who says the usual. One of these days Kelly is going to snap and start wailing on the Rock. "Who's the hermaphrodite now, huh?!" Funny blooper during the interview: the door to the Rock's dressing room in the background opens, and out walks Pat Patterson! He sees the camera and quickly backs out of the shot. In reality it makes sense, but in storyline terms ... what the hell was Patterson doing in the Rock's dressing room? Everyone wisely ignores it and goes on without missing a beat. - The cameraman in the dressing room pans across Lita's soiled clothes, then onto a black curtain, through which we can see the (mostly) nude Lita showering. Pan over to Malenko, peeking through the same curtain. (Since the cameraman showed Lita before Malenko I'd have to label him the bigger pervert.) Malenko pulls the curtain aside, the camera pans up a bit (sharp-eyed viewers will note she's wearing a thong, even though we saw a thong already with her clothes), Lita covers up her goods and begins chewing out Malenko. Dean is then attacked by the Hardyz. They flip over a table, lay Dean's (bad) leg under the folded table leg and then whack it with a chair. Officials flood the dressing room and begin calling for a doctor for Malenko. Funny segment, albeit highly contrived. - Another taped Chyna interview, which I'm completely ignoring this week. - Billy Gunn, for the thousandth time, vows revenge on Chyna's behalf, in an interview conducted by Jonathan Coachman. - BILLY GUNN vs. VAL VENIS This was hyped as a Steel Cage Match on Heat, but for some reason was changed to a Lumberjack Match, said lumberjacks being: Too Cool, K-Kwik, the Acolytes, Essa Rios, Lo Down & Tiger Ali-Singh, and the rest of Right To Censor. This is more like "Beat Up On The RTC" match, as Venis seems to be the only one getting pounded on by the lumberjacks (not by his own team, naturally). Ivory is then tossed into the ring by the Acolytes, and she provides a distraction crawling out the other side. Gunn hits Venis with his new finisher and gets the pin. Gunn is then attacked by the RTC, who are themselves attacked by several lumberjacks, then everyone starts fighting, providing what I'm sure will be the first of many Royal Rumble teasers. Edge & Christian tell Kurt Angle they have something special planned for the Dudley Boyz tonight. - Kane comes across Doan & Long, who plead with Kane not to hurt them. He does so anyway. - THE ROCK/TEDDY LONG/JACK DOAN vs. RIKISHI/KANE Referee Tim White orders Teddy Long to start. Long is quickly squashed into the corner and given the stinkface by Rikishi. Long then crawls under Rikishi's legs and tags the Rock in. From there the match is basically a long heat segment on the Rock, save for a bit in the middle where the Rock gets Rikishi down, then distracts the referee, allowing Doan & Long to come in and stomp on Rikishi (big crowd pop). The Rock then sets up the People's Elbow, but Kane catches him and delivers the chokeslam. He then retrieves a steel chair. Doan, being a referee, tries to take the chair away, as does match referee White. Kane shoves down White, drawing a DQ. Doan is chokeslammed. Long, also a referee, comes in to check on Doan, and gets dumped from the ring. That leaves the Rock alone and about to be destroyed, when in comes the Undertaker for the save. WWF WAR ZONE: Stephanie whines to Vince about the Undertaker's meddling. Vince books a four-way match on SmackDown! between the Undertaker, Rock, Kane & Rikishi, with the prize being the #30 spot in the Royal Rumble, assuring that the Undertaker & Rock will have to come to blows. - RAVEN vs. STEVE BLACKMAN I don't mind Raven's entrance music, but the little black bird on the front of his plunder-filled shopping cart is pretty lame. The usual stuff here. Hardcore Holly comes out with his own referee and inserts himself into the match. So Raven pins him. These hardcore rules are ridiculous. Raven escapes in in a waiting car. I'm not sure if the driver of the car is supposed to be another mystery or not. Edge & Christian tell their "surprise" (off-camera) to come out when cued. - Kaientai is at WWF New York. "INDEED!" - Edge & Christian introduce their surprise for the Dudleyz: Mother Faye & LeVon--the Dudley Parentz. "Mother Faye" is a dumpy white woman, while "LeVon" is an older black guy. Baby pictures are shown of Buh-Buh Ray & D-Von on the Titan-Tron, with their heads superimposed on the bodies. LeVon is asked if D-Von was an ugly baby. "Testify!" Mother Faye is asked if Buh-Buh was hard on the uterus to deliver. "Whazzup!" (Or something approximating that.) The Dudleyz then come out, give LeVon the 3-D, give Mother Faye the headbutt to the groin, and Buh-Buh then puts her through a table. Kinda lame, but the crowd was WAY into it. Vince sends Stephanie to get him a cup of coffee, then begins preparing for a certain visitor. - A clip is shown of the Rock at the Consumer Electronics Show hyping Microsoft's new XBox video game system (of which "RAW is WAR" is one of their first games). Amazing to see one of the world's richest men (Bill Gates) on a WWF show. - Vince asks someone what's taking them so long? In comes Stephanie, who wants to know what he means when he knew she was making his coffee. Suddenly there's a flushing sound offscreen, and there's Trish Stratus. Vince quickly says Trish just stopped by to use the bathroom. Stephanie says that's good, so Vince won't mind if she books Trish in a handicap match tonight with Albert against Test. - Fans are taped at WWF New York offering their opinions on who will win the Austin/Angle match. - Vince is roaming the halls looking for someone. - New XFL ad featuring Dick Butkus. - Go to WWF.com or MTV.com for details about a contest the WWF is running called "Tough Enough". I hear it's basically another "Real World" or "Survivor" type show, which will air on MTV this summer, where the WWF will pick a number of regular people to go through wrestling training. The winner will get a WWF developmental deal. - ALBERT/TRISH STRATUS vs. TEST A very battered-looking William Regal comes to the ring and distracts Test, allowing Albert to hit a powerbomb and get the win. Backstage Stephanie accuses Vince of sending Regal out to save Trish. - Replay of the video package which opened the show. - Another video shows Kurt Angle's climb to the top, winning the European Title, Intercontinental Title, King of the Ring, and finally the WWF Championship. After it ends Austin, watching on a monitor backstage, begins heading to the ring. - "STONE COLD" STEVE AUSTIN vs. KURT ANGLE Austin controls to start. Angle fights back with a gutwrench suplex. The two then trade different suplexes. The action spills to the floor. Angle is dumped into the crowd. Here comes William Regal, carrying a pipe. Austin cuts him off, smashes him into the announce table, and hits him with a chair. Angle is dumped into the crowd again, Austin this time following with a flying clothesline off the barricade! Ohmygod. Angle is posted, then sent back into the ring. Austin gets a couple two counts. He then goes up on the turnbuckles. Angle catches Austin coming off and delivers a belly-to-belly suplex. More offense from Angle, including ANOTHER suplex. Angle's looking great here. Even more suplexes, Angle unable to secure the three count. I've lost track of the number of suplex bumps Austin has taken here. Angle switches to an Olympic Slam, but Austin is ready for that and fights free with a kneeshot. Both men are down and being counted. Back to their feet, Austin starts laying in boots and fists. Climbing the corner, Austin delivers the flying fistdrop. Now he's waiting for Angle to get up. Stunner--no, Angle catches it! Angle with an Olympic Slam--but no, Austin gets out of it. Another Stunner, but Angle again blocks it. Into the ropes, Austin ducks a clothesline. Kick! STUNNER! Austin covers ... one ... two .. thr--THE REF IS PULLED OUT OF THE RING! It's Triple H! Damn. Holy god that was a good match, though. Triple H makes sure Austin sees him before he wallops Earl Hebner, which officially ends our match. Too bad Angle couldn't sneak up here and get the pin. Austin stares down Triple H. Ross is going ballistic on the mic, calling Triple H a "son-of-a-bitch" over and over. Triple H backs up the ramp. Austin turns, takes a look at Angle, tosses him out of the ring, and invites Triple H to come back down. Triple H slowly advances. Ross is saying stuff like "do it, you bastard, be a man!" Triple H sizes Austin up, then charges! The crowd goes absolutely berzerk. Blows are traded. Austin gets the better of him and knocks him to the floor. Into the announcers they go. Somewhere Triple H comes up with the pipe Regal had brought out earlier, and nails Austin with it. Austin comes up bleeding. More pipe shots follow. Triple H dumps Austin on the announce table. Ross: "You son-of-a-BITCH!" Triple H whips his shirt off and poses over the unconscious Austin. - This Thursday: Undertaker vs. the Rock vs. Kane vs. Rikishi. - Next week: Nothing announced. Comments: That rocked. I'm a little disappointed that the match itself didn't have a finish, but it was a great match, and the postmatch brawl was intense, so overall the good outweighed the bad and worked for me. I really though, going into the show, that Austin was going to win the belt. That had me worried, as I didn't think now was quite the right time for Angle to lose the belt. That should be saved for PPV. Overall I thought the show was mostly good, with that stretch between the Rock match and the main event being boring. That overrun was about five minutes longer than usual. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Bottom Line: Sorry this is so late this week, but I had the choice of writing this and playing guys with my little nephew. He had Wolverine, Greedo and a G.I. Joe guy, and I had my deluxe Lightspeed Rescue Megazord. Now, I grant you that Wolverine's adamantium claws could pierce my Zord's armor, but There's no way Greedo's blaster or that other guy's samurai sword should be able to make a dent. Alas, I still can't get my nephews to embrace the concept of "selling". ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Slobberknocker Central" and "Monday Night Recap" are copyright 2001 by John Petrie, and all opinions expressed therein are his own, and not those of "USLink". Check the "Slobberknocker Central" main page for info on how to receive the "Recap" free via E-Mail every week. Volume One, Number 269 of the "Monday Night Recap", January 8th, 2001.