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The UIW out of Baltimore? Axl's promotion or some other Baltimore fed? Yeah, UIW, that's it.

Thanks for the info, John. What Danielson did is still impressive since it's 2008 and given the way that WWE works, is less likely than before, especially since none of the companies work together like WWF, NJPW, and UWA/LLI (plus CWF to a lesser extent, as it was friendly to the WWF and NJPW used Florida guys like Keirn and Dusty) all did in the late '70s-early '80s or WCW, NJPW, and CMLL did in the late '90s. Plus Danielson is a non-big name who won his dark match over a guy who's getting an majorly increased push.

V4 wasn't in WCW until November.

I should've remembered that one. Random fact: In one weekend in 1991, Cactus Jack appeared on 3 1st run shows: World Championship Wrestling, GWF Major League Wrestling, and...WIN out of Baltimore I think?

Off the top of my head: How many WWF vs WCW matches took place? I know of Rad Radford vs Chris Benoit from the Stu Hart birthday show in '95 and the famous Tazz ECW title win over Mike Awesome. Anything else? Spicolli-Benoit didn't get any attention at the time for some reason, as nobody seemed to realize how significant it was. How many cards had wrestlers from both WWF and WCW? The Pillman memorials, of course. Some USWA shows in '95 when they were working w/ the WWF while also serving as WCW's developmental group (off the top of my head, WCW sent Scott Studd, The Gambler, and Chris Kanyon there). Did anyone ever work WWF, WCW, and ECW within the span of a month? Pillman comes to mind but I think he had been gone from WCW for awhile when he had his accident. Public Enemy did it within 2 months in '95-'96. Maybe when they left the WWF during '99 and went back to ECW and then WCW? How close did Pillman get? Joey Matthews & Christian York cancelled their WCW gig and went straight from ECW to WWF developmental, right? How many wrestlers have physically attacked members of the media? Schultz, Vader...? Any answers or other random things that only we find interesting?

Posted elsewhere by srossi: Off the top of my head: I suppose someone may have worked for WWF, NJPW, and UWA/LLI when they were friendly in the early '80s, maybe Hogan, Andre, or Tiger Mask. Other than that, maybe someone worked WCW, NJPW, and CMLL within a month around '96-'98? Ultimo? Liger? Konnan? Maybe even Kaz Hayashi? Did Negro Casas work WWF, NJPW, and CMLL in the course of a month when he did Super Astros shows?

Didn't it turn out that Travis was completely insane and lied about everything?

Started reading it. There are some good stories but its greatest value may lay in the fact that it's an absolutely fascinating look into the mind of a WWE lifer. For example: After mentioning an injury in 1987 he goes off on how Rhyno is a pussy who couldn't have done anything dangerous enough to suffer a broken neck in WWE so he must've gotten it in ECW and Heyman got Vince to sign him to pay for surgery. Seriously. It's like an inadvertant companion piece to Ring of Hell.

Everone else (other than HHH) had to hold off scheduling their lives until after the show, and JR was was one of the few people whose drafting was actually hinted at strongly on TV, so he actually had more warning then most of the roster. It's a lousy way to treat your staff but Ross was treated better than the rest of them this time.

It's more because he's obviously not this emo and is a terribly grumpy human being with a fake "aww shucks" exterior.

Waaaah they're moving me to what may be the new A-show and didn't tell me, even though they didn't tell anyone else if they were being drafted either.

Todd Martin is an idiot. Smackdown is going to be the flagship show of MNTV when it moves in the fall, and fucking Triple H, the boss's son-in-law who had previously considered it the B-show, is also moving there. It's at worse an equal, and at best the new A-show.

The newest WON has on the record comments from Sandra Toffolini, Nancy's sister. Of note: - Her family believes the drugs were a bigger factor than the brain damage in Chris going insane. - Daniel was a year behind in school because Chris was paranoid about him getting harmed after a threatened kidnapping of a name wrestler friend's child and the murder of Iron Sheik's daughter. They eventually settled on a private school that he trusted. Daniel seemed to be of above average intelligence, was talkative around people he knew, and was only shy around strangers. No Fragile X. - The Toffolinis were "heartbroken" over the Hustler photos, but Sandra noted that Nancy was an adult and lived her life.

Scherer actually had a C-Band dish that he used to get the Mexican feeds of AAA, EMLL, & UWA from. Using 2 VCRs, he taped two originals: One for himself and one for Jeff Lynch (while originals, they were prone to satellite sparkly interference due to the signal before far off). Apparently there was a better quality source in Florida (farther south = closer signal to Mexico) but I dunno if any of his stuff is floating around.

Discovering lucha superfan Scherer in the old Sims newsletters scared me. He wrote like a different human being.

Arn Anderson did it before Benoit, as did the Great Muta.

Thanks to the SI online vault, here's Dave on the Zahorian trial:

Alternating between free Bryan & Dave on Monday night and free Bryan & Vinny on Tuesday night each week.

Yes and yes.

Jerry McDevitt emails Irv Muchnick & Muchnick's reply. And McDevitt replies.

Meanwhile, aww: http://www.wwe.com/inside/news/hornfathersdaycard/