There were also a bunch of jokes about Jericho and Christian experiencing "shrinkage." He went tanning, drove back to his mother's house, walked through the front door, and dropped dead of a heart attack. The first hour of the show was written around that match and a bunch of backstage skits featuring Booker T & Goldust which had to be scrapped. I enjoy learning too much. . Chyna is scheduled to return to NJPW next week, this time teaming with Masahiro Chono to face Tadao Yasuda and Kazunari Murakami. "Jan 30 Wrestling Observer Newsletter: Gigantic year-end awards issue, best and worst in all categories plus UFC on FX 1, death of Savannah . And that's as much as we're dwelling on this show. Tazz had a family emergency and had to pull out of the show at the last minute, leading WWE to put Ernest "The Cat" Miller in his place doing commentary. As for the IWGP title, Fujita is expected to vacate it and the fate of the belt will be decided in February. The gist is that basically all the heels will be aligned with Russo's SEX group (Sports Entertainment Xtreme) and all the babyfaces will be on the TNA side. Dave is already dreading watching this show. They also accused him of having involvement with some financial scandals in the UK and even tried to tie his Islamic charity to the 9/11 tragedies, accusing his charity of funneling money to Al-Qaeda. In 2000, Time Warner attempted to sell WCW for $600 million. By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising. The first half of the book talks a lot about his years growing up and working the Memphis territory, far more than one would expect from a WWE-produced book. Eddie Guerrero has had talks with XWF about coming in soon, but nothing has been finalized as of press time (never happens). PLAY QUIZ % % Score. The build-up, promotion, and video packages for this fight blew away anything WWE has done in years and exposed all their problems when it comes to an inability to make people care about matches. Edge vs. Big Show in the main event for the title felt like Edge being a sacrificial lamb in the Lesnar feud and exposed Edge as not quite being ready for main events. For those who have asked.yes, some day I do intend to come back and do 2003 and maybe beyond. Waltman had no-showed TNA's previous PPV at the last moment due to injury and TNA was upset, but decided to bring him back anyway because he was extremely apologetic and because, well, they need stars. By Garrett Gonzales Aug 20, 2022. When asked about the Katie Vick angle, she defended it, saying, "The worst thing would be if there was no reaction. First he talks about how Lawler is one of the last of his era. Also no sign of the Chyna/Sean Waltman challenging for the tag titles, despite the angle they did a couple weeks ago. But they also said that it likely wouldn't be enforced since it would be considered acting (yeah, when he returned to WWE in 2003, I think he spent most of that year using non-alcoholic beers for his gimmick. And some other MMA stuff. The backstage fallout from this resulted in Sean Waltman quitting the company. In WWE, Shamrock was considered a "bad promo" because he didn't cut promos like they wanted. This man is insane. The Complete Wrestling Observer Rewind 1991-2001 We open with a ton of details on Steve Austin walking out on WWE last week, and the story took a darker turn this week when Austin was accused of allegedly beating his wife Debra. By Dave Meltzer Jan 14, 2022. It was tentatively scheduled to take place on next week's Raw from Madison Square Garden, but no longer. He was best known for his years in Memphis, and was regarded as one of the most promising stars in the business in the late-80s. It's believed he tore it during the Jeff Hardy match on the 12/9 Raw but continued to work through it at house shows (this quad will finish tearing a few years later). It's pretty much just rehashing old news, so let's keep it moving Dave gives a long recap of the latest PRIDE show and man, this is shaping up to be a kinda slow issue to end the Rewinds on. Turns out he missed a few lies and wants to correct the record on a few more things. This is given to the wrestler who has displayed the best technical and mat wrestling skills. The Japan version was based around the retirement of Nobuhiko Takada, facing his former understudy Kiyoshi Tamura and was heavily built around their old 90s UWFI rivalry. As a result, the Fund is now going to court to try to stop sales of a WWF-branded video game that is due out this month, which is expected to be a big Christmas seller. The original plan was for Bob Sapp to work this show against Manabu Nakanishi, but that doesn't appear to be in the cards anymore. Anyway, Dave promises to have reviews of Hogan's and Piper's books in the next week or two. Superstar Billy Graham was hospitalized all of last week due to cirrhosis of the liver due to Hepatitis C. Dave notes that Graham needs a liver transplant (he gets one in 2002). By randyorko3589. Under the terms of the probation, he's also not allowed to drink alcohol for 1 year. Gift this or purchase videos individually. Dave says, considering the damages part of the lawsuit is still ongoing, that would have been monumentally stupid and luckily, it seems WWE agreed because they didn't do it. Romanian Railways (CFR) Interregional Calatori. All in all, 2001 was the year that changed the wrestling industry forever. He says guys like himself and Rock can go out there and call a match on the fly. BG James pretending to sound like J.R. on the microphone, Jarrett name dropping Shawn Michaels and Goldberg in his promos, and the usual insider comments that only a fraction of the fanbase understands. Yuji Nagata and Don Frye were also backstage (Dave notes Nagata has been training in Los Angeles for the Inoki show). Notes from Smackdown: the long build for Angle vs. Lesnar at Wrestlemania truly began, with Angle turning heel and aligning with Paul Heyman. However, the 2 later had a major falling out, resulting in Shinma publicly revealing Inoki's participation in the embezzlement scandal as well as even reporting Inoki for cheating on his taxes, which led to a lot of legal headaches for Inoki. He also said they would love to have Ken Shamrock back, but only if he's committed to WWE full time, which has always been the hold-up. $4.99 a month or $49.99 a year after 30-day free trial. He's read Piper's already and enjoyed it but hints that there's some inaccuracies. BRYAN DANIELSON (401) 2,646 [2006] BEST TECHNICAL WRESTLER: 1. Exactly what the future of World Championship Wrestling and Extreme Championship Wrestling will end up being is up in the air, and it has never been a more harrowing time to be a full-time pro wrestler in the United States. Cookie Notice Linda listed Triple H, along with Lesnar, Shawn Michaels, and Scott Steiner as their big four stars. There will likely be a tournament, but they aren't making any plans yet because they're waiting to see how Yuji Nagata does in his shoot fight at the New Year's Eve Inoki show (in other words, if he gets his ass beat, chances are they aren't going to put the IWGP title on him a month later). This time, since it was a spur of the moment decision, I didn't do that. . Needless to say, UFC officials weren't thrilled about that. Genichiro Tenryu's AJPW contract expires in 6 months and he's already making noises about leaving because he doesn't like the direction Keiji Muto is taking the company. I've mentioned several times that I didn't intend to come back and do 2002, at least not any time soon. 9.3M . NEXT WEDNESDAY: Mr. Wrestling" Tim Woods passes away, Roddy Piper autobiography review, Hiroshi Tanahashi gets stabbed, and more. See you down the road. He comes across like a sex addict who can't cope with getting older. Steve Austin pled no contest to domestic assault charges in San Antonio court this week. (In case Road Dogg's 2020 social media posts haven't shown exactly what kind of person he still is, here's the full quote he said about Lenny Lane: "This goes for all of you who are politically correct. Jim Valley discusses Bray Wyatt's potential return ahead of Extreme Rules. Wrestling Observer Hall of Fame season is when we discuss and debate the best careers in the history of pro wrestling to determine who makes the cut for entry into the most difficult wrestling Hall of Fame to be inducted into. Plays. Triple H's leg injury that he worked through at the PPV was diagnosed as a partial right quad tear and he'll be out of action a few more weeks. Mike Sempervive talks CM Punk potentially leaving AEW, NXT and ROH running shows on the same day, and more. It went 3 rounds of mostly ground and pound, with Ortiz making hamburger out of Shamrock's face. Christ, Vince McMahon has the sense of humor of a 12-year-old. Well then. Talked about how steroids were legal back when he used them (they weren't) and on and on and on. Legislaie. That being said, Shamrock was totally blown out in what Dave feels was a one-sided fight. Bryan & Mike recap WWE Raw, AEW talent staying put, and more. It was an emotional angle that packed the 3rd largest MMA crowd in history into the Tokyo Dome. When they asked Ortiz about a fight with Chuck Liddell, he responded that UFC better pay them more money for it, or they'll take that fight to Japan (presumably PRIDE, though he didn't explicitly say so). Language. As a result, it drew only 8,500 fans to a 12,000-seat arena, the smallest crowd PRIDE has drawn in several years. But Dave suspects he might just be telling the WWA side this in order to get them to up their offer for him. Otherwise, not much to this show. Bryan & Mike talk Bray Wyatt, Raw ratings and even football. Setting aside the sleaze factor . NJPW's upcoming Jan. 4th Tokyo Dome show looks to be terribly weak on paper. It's basically the ramblings of a heartbroken old man who's doing and saying all the wrong things to try to get this woman back. The doctor told him he had a partially torn bicep and to take a couple of weeks off to rest the injury and Nick followed the doctor's advice and did just that. Truly independent contractor style. Guerreros vs. Angle/Benoit was good but otherwise, this sounds like a dreadful show. So there we go. And Dave doesn't see that happening. Reportedly, he wants somewhere between $500K-$1 million to do a match and no word if anyone is going to pay it (apparently not, because he never did). The planned WWF brand split has once again been delayed. But that's a time honored tradition in wrestling. Another person at the bar jumped on him and the 2 of them managed to get Jamal down. Guerreros complained about an unsafe working environment, leading Dave to talk about the Shawn Michaels/Bret Hart backstage fight in 1997 that led to Shawn briefly claiming he was quitting because WWF was an unsafe work environment. Notes from Raw: the show was pre-taped since it was on Christmas Eve. WWE has a crew of writers whose job is to book enticing storylines and they can't come close to how UFC promoted this real-life story. Fear Factor host Joe Rogan, as UFC's resident color commentator, did a better job of building excitement than Tazz or Jerry Lawler have ever done. Roderick George Toombs (April 17, 1954 - July 31, 2015), better known as " Rowdy " Roddy Piper, was a Canadian professional wrestler, amateur wrestler, and actor. And then this pandemic just kept draaaaaaaaagging on. Wrestling Observer Live: AEW vs. NXT ratings, Karl Anderson, Twitter Mentions call in, more. Doing it this way would also mean they could avoid doing a draft, because if they do a draft, that means all the lower draft picks are automatically seen as jobbers. It was considered the trip from hell, and had nothing to do with the plane ride this time. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. They had a backstage segment where you could see Raw announcer JR in the background and Dave says this never would have happened a year ago, but quality control and attention to detail went out the window when WCW died. Lawler goes into great detail about the famous Andy Kaufman feud, with Lawler admitting publicly for the first time how much of it was planned, including the David Letterman angle. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. Instead, Hogan showed up and pretty much kissed Vince's ass in an attempt to get himself rehired by WWF, all while Connelly looked as though he had been bamboozled. Tito went to a double countout with Orndorff in 8:00 in a dull match due to Santana possibly being injured in the first round. After Randy Savage tried to challenge Hogan to a match for a children's hospital charity without consulting Hogan, Savage went ahead and donated $10,000 to the hospital anyway. Follow-up on the suspension of Jamal from 3 Minute Warning. They announced that the Rumble will feature 15 Raw and 15 Smackdown names and the winner ("Brock Lesnar," Dave says knowingly because, yeah, you didn't need inside sources to know which way that one was going) will get to challenge for their brand's title at WM. WWE lost over $1.6 million this past quarter, due mostly to the money they were forced to pay the William Morris Agency for a lawsuit they lost as well as losses from The World complex in Time Square. It was founded in 1996 by Dave Meltzer, editor of the newsletter, the Wrestling Observer Newsletter.Like many other wrestling halls of fame, such as the WWE, Impact, ROH and WCW halls of fame, the Wrestling Observer . With two traditional Survivor Series matches, and Ambulance Match, a Burie. Judge for yourself:). Jim Ross also did an interview saying he talks to Austin all the time and expects him back eventually. Bryan Danielson (253) 1838 [2004] MOST OUTSTANDING WRESTLER: 3. Hogan doesn't want to do jobs. Comedy Central is working on a pilot for a show called The Huge World of Wrestling which is basically expected to be old wrestling footage with studio commentary to make fun of it or something (this obviously never happened and WWE later bought the footage from Gagne, which leads me to believe Comedy Central didn't actually buy the library, they probably just leased rights to some footage that they never ended up using). If you're needing a fix, I highly suggest everyone go follow u/SaintRidley who has been doing an excellent job with his own version of the Rewinds covering the 1980s. type of angle. Classic. Instead, Konnan was brought in to face Joe in the main event. * 13. Paul Heyman cut a great promo about Lesnar. Go Orange. In particular, there's been issues with Jeff Hardy lately, which came to a head when he no-showed a house show in San Jose a couple weeks ago. Hogan talked about how wrestling is predetermined, but argued against it being choreographed. He and Inoki remained friends and they even worked together in 1989 when Shinma acted as Inoki's campaign manager for his successful Senate campaign. Symbolically, this was seen as the true death of UWFI, 6 years after it actually shut down and closed that incomplete chapter. ***The premier issue of The Wrestling Observer Newsletter!!! The show was in Miami and Rock came out wearing a Miami Hurricanes jersey (he played football for them in college) and he got a monstrous reaction for that. But I enjoy doing these too much to quit forever.
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