Boondocks Kernoodle

WWF @ Rochester, NY - War Memorial - August 19, 1991 WWF Superstars taping: 9/7/91 - The Bushwhackers defeated Duane Gill & Barry Hardy at 3:44 when Luke pinned Gill following the double gutbuster; during the bout, a pre-taped insert promo from the Beverly Brothers featured them announcing that the Genius was their new manager

HHH is really one to criticize someone for using banned substances. I wonder if the "wacky pills" comment sheds some light as to what exactly Jeff tested positive for back in March. LSD, perhaps? Ecstasy?

Wouldn't they have to pay withholding tax if the wrestlers were employees? The IRS would definitely be interested in that.

Yes, Mike Bell is the guy Saturn roughed up.

I don't see what's so bad about this. By standards of wrestling school stories it's pretty tame, but it's just an example of how the "asshole trainer" mentality can keep a potential superstar away from you. Not that I think Batista necessarily would have been a star in WCW. He probably wouldn't have been pushed any more than Ron Reis. But he was a guy with potential who was sent packing because Braun the Leprechaun had to show them who the REAL MAN was.

And steroid use

DAMMIT LOSS

Like suing an employee (sorry, contracted talent) for skipping an inconsequential TV taping to watch his son compete in an important wrestling tournament while letting other guys act like complete dickholes all the time simply because they came from the WWF. Those kinds of lawsuits are OK.

The funny thing is she posted that article last week under her own name and now her identity is a MYSTERYYYYYYYYYYY.

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22the+Beno...lient=firefox-a Looks like he's the only person ever to use that name!

oh jeez

I think the thing in 2000 where Luger was sent home was because he was supposed to do a run-in during a match and cause a DQ and he thought it made him look stupid. I could be totally wrong about that. Bischoff always claims that when Luger came back in '95, he offered Lex 1/5 of what he was making when he left. I believe Flair was making around $700,000, maybe a little more or a little less, when he left in '91 and there's no way Lex was making more than that. So should we really believe that Lex jumped from WWF to WCW for under $150,000 a year? (Actually, I think Meltzer once said that Luger was making around $400,000 around this time. At least he said that Pillman wanted "Luger money" in his renegotiation in 1996 and he believed that was what Lex was making.) I don't really see why Bischoff has to swear by this "one-fifth" line. If he just said, "I didn't like Lex, but he was a big star so we paid big money for him," would that hurt his reputation so much? It wasn't a dumb signing, and certainly there were a LOT of dumb expenditures during Bischoff's reign. Besides which, it doesn't sound like the sort of thing WWE would have coached him to say, because that goes against the whole "WWF wrestlers left for WCW because they were disloyal and only went for the money." I sure hope Luger didn't go to WCW for the money if he was being paid less than $150,000! But whatever, Lex left WWF without telling Vince so he's a bad person. Now his life is total shit but WWE still has to get their digs in via their expert panel of party-line stooges. Good for them.

Holy crap is that some awful ring gear for Regal. He was dressed like an 80's women's wrestler.

Didn't SMW do an angle where Chris and Tammy kidnapped Wright and wouldn't give him his medication?

I like Sex, Lies, and Headlocks, but maybe Mooneyham was the one who was responsible for its quality. Maybe he used Hogan as a source.

I was reading the Observer's four-part review of the Bischoff book and Dave says that Zane Bresloff was the one who came up with the idea of all WCW's non-traditional venue shows (Sturgis, Mall of America, Spring Break, Huntington Beach).

To be fair, he was also the only "WWF" wrestler booked as a heel (except Jericho, who didn't make a full turn until Survivor Series and Christian, who joined a few weeks after turning on Edge).

Didn't the "Last Ride" match at No Mercy '04 end with Heidenreich crashing a truck into Undertaker's hearse or something like that?

I'll never understand how Jim Cornette is a first-year Hall of Famer. Granted, I think half of all people ever employed in the wrestling industry got into the HOF the first year, but still...

Well, your posts was more along the lines of "why didn't he talk about the first marriage, as it could have provided more insight into his life?" Whereas I'm questioning why he essentially brags about how he's too nice to talk about Benoit's ex-wife and kids.

I don't know why you guys are giving Dave so much heat on this. He's not defending Benoit, he's just saying that the fact that he was so obsessed with being the best fake fighter shouldn't have been, or wasn't, a dead giveaway that he was a monster. You've been posting on wrestling boards for months talking about how all the wrestlers who said they were surprised at the murders were lying, and that everyone knew that Benoit was a psycho. Meltzer is saying, given his knowledge of the industry (which I'd think is greater than yours even though I know you like to brag about having friends in WWE), that this isn't the case. It may be a sad indictment of the wrestling industry that laughing at a crying referee and calling him a "gay bitch" and going crazy on a disrespectful colleague and forcing him out of the locker room isn't considered out of the ordinary, but I doubt most wrestlers saw it as anything special. So I don't think their surprise at Benoit's actions was anything less than genuine, even if maybe they should have seen some signs that he was off, although there's no way anyone should have known that he would kill his wife and child. Bix, I think your whole crusade against anyone who criticizes Ring of Hell just boils down to the fact that MRV is your e-buddy and that you helped him with the research. You aren't exactly an unbiased obseerver on this. I don't dispute any of the facts in the book, except maybe the story of Bischoff starting Nitro because of some prank fax, which I'm sure happened but everyone agrees that Nitro came about as a result of the meeting between Bischoff and Turner about Rupert Murdoch's satellite system. But don't you think that the overwhelmingly negative tone might make it appear that Randazzo has some sort of agenda? The way he tries to use a story of Scott Hall peeing on a dude's boots, probably an overly common wrestling rib, as proof that Hall and Nash are Legitimately Horrible People is just ridiculous. In the case of Pillman, I don't think it really matters that he exaggerated Pillman's steroid use, since he definitely did them at many points in his career, but I still think it was needless to portray Pillman as a massive steroid freak when he was only a moderate user, done for no other reason than to leave a greater emotional impat on the reader than he would have had he just told the truth, which itself wasn't very flattering. The fact that he admits to being rushed into finishing the book and not having time to properly fact-check sort of indicates that this isn't exactly the perfect wrestling book. I thought the book was well-written but I can understand those who don't. Why does Randazzo, in the middle of the book, go out of his way to congratulate himself for not talking about Benoit's first wife and oldest kids other than to get himself over as a great guy? Why does he include a joke quote from that Andrewbulous Spring Break dude other than to, well, I don't even know, to get the whole Kaiju/Crush Kill Crush community to go out and buy the book? Why is there just a general list of sources rather than footnotes or endnotes? It's a good book, but it's not perfect, even if Bix helped with the research. (As an aside, I can't wait for "Ring of Hell II" in which Dave Meltzer is referred to as "forty-something mullet-head whose markish obsession with fake fighters led him to spend his entire adult life writing about the art of men fake-punching each other in their underwear, and whose best friends in the business include legendary accused sexual harasser Ric Flair and deranged mark Bret Hart, who wrote a whole book chronicling a career of drug use and marital infidelity.")

I like how when David Crockett talks about "people with no talent," they show a clip of DDP.

No, that's it.

It's only 10 matches. The WWF MSG shows of the time seemed to have around 9 to 11 matches each.

I found the results at titlebelt.net, but no attendance figures 7/1/86 Philadelphia Cage Match Dusty Rhodes & Road Warrior Animal beat Ole & Arn Anderson NWA Champion Ric Flair beat Road Warrior Hawk dq Nikita Koloff beat Magnum TA Rock & Roll Express & Baby Doll beat Midnight Express & Jim Cornette Jimmy Valiant beat Baron Von Raschke Ron Garvin beat Tully Blanchard Indian Strap match Wahoo McDaniel beat Jim Garvin Bunkhouse match Manny Fernandez beat Shaska Whatley Black Bart beat Todd Champion The Barbarian beat Denny Brown I was just reading an Observer from last year (the post-Backlash '07 issue) and there's a retrospective on the Horsemen, and Dave mentions that the show drew just over 10,000 with a gate of over $200K.