KrisZ Posted February 20, 2017 Report Share Posted February 20, 2017 Kris & David are guestless this week to discuss the week that was February 15-21, 1998. We talk about the tragic death of Louie Spicolli and how the wrestling industry handled it for the good or bad. We also talk about a big week in the WWF with No Way Out of Texas on PPV and Shawn Michaels’ serious back issues. We then cover All-Japan talking to ECW & WWF, Don Frye catching fire in New Japan, Paco Alonso & Victor Quinones burying the hatchet, ECW & NWA New Jersey having more issues, IWA Mid-South’s Eddie Gilbert Memorial Show, and Hulk Hogan’s lust for power makes WCW revolve around him even more. This is a loaded show so listen now!!! Timestamps: 0:00:00 Louie Spicolli 0:52:55 WWF 2:04:23 Japan: AJPW, NJPW, Fuyuki Army, Tarzan Goto, AJW, Arsion, Gaea, & LLPW 2:48:34 Classic Commercial break 2:50:51 Housekeeping & The Amazon Game 3:14:32 Latin America: AAA, EMLL, Monterrey, Promo Azteca, & WWC 3:33:11 ECW & NWA New Jersey 3:52:05 U.S. Indies: ECWA, IPWA, IWA Mid-South, Music City Wrestling, Jerry Lawler, APW, & Portland 4:26:33 WCW To support the show and get access to exclusive rewards like special members-only monthly themed shows, go to our Patreon page at https://patreon.com/BetweenTheSheets and become an ongoing Patron. Becoming a Between the Sheets Patron will also get you exclusive access to not only the monthly themed episode of Between the Sheets, but also access to our new mailbag segment, a Patron-only chat room on Slack, and anything else we do outside of the main shows! You can also support the show by shopping with our Amazon referral link at https://tinyURL.com/BTSAmazon — Nothing extra comes out of your wallet, but Amazon gives us a kickback for referring you to them. To subscribe, you can find us on iTunes, Google Play, and just about every other podcast app’s directory, or you can also paste http;//feeds.FeedBurner.com/BTSheets into your favorite podcast app using whatever “add feed manually” option it has. http://placetobenation.com/between-the-sheets-83-february-15-21-1998/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Chief Posted February 21, 2017 Report Share Posted February 21, 2017 Tekno Team 2000 actually came back to WWF TV briefly in 1996 with a "NEW ATTITUDE." But I don't remember Erik's name popping up in any of the usual developmental spots in between that and WCW. Cagematch doesn't list any matches at all in that period. Great Louie Spicolli tribute. Louie as a Chris Farley character would have been a lot of fun. Now I wanna hear you guys do a 1997-1998 Shotgun Saturday Night show... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigBadMick Posted February 23, 2017 Report Share Posted February 23, 2017 Listening to the Wwf and WCW sections here reminded me of the poor use of talent in Wcw and the poor talent in Wwf around this time. I always thought the Radicals/Booker/Raven defecting g ould have evened things up nicely around the time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZThomas Posted March 1, 2017 Report Share Posted March 1, 2017 That Dr did more damage than Zohorian, hearing the stories on him made my gut wrench. I was 10 when Specolli died and I thought it was a work because of how WCW handled his death. I wasnt aware of his work in ECW or WWF because I started watching wrestling literally a weeks after his last tv appearance in WWF. He was only weeks into his WCW run and the way he was booked it made since than he'd fake his death to get out of the match but my older brother looked at me and was told me that he was really dead. I had no clue he was only 27. He was the Gino Hernandez or the 90's? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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