Mid-Week Report

By Bill

Hey...who stole my Fritos?!

Trivia Question: Who was the first ever two-time WWF Intercontinental Champion? (answer at the end of the report)
The mailbag:
- Michael C. writes:
  I found myself watching WCW's Bash at the Beach '95 the other day (what was I smoking??). It was back in '95 when WCW was riding Hogan's wave of success, and Dave Sullivan beat DDP in an arm-wrestling contest to win a date with the Diamond Doll (Kimberly).
  Well, on the date, Disco Inferno dressed in a rabbit suit (the Easter Bunny???) came up to Dave and the Doll and read a poem from DDP. I'm glad that wasn't his wrestling gimmick. Well, it could've been worse. They could've made him a disco-dancin' foo--oh, they already did that.
  The shock value of seeing Disco Inferno dressed in a rabbit suit made the money I wasted on that tape ALMOST worth it.
  ALMOST.
- With a subject of "What a difference six years makes", Jeremy "El Hijo De La Parka" H. writes:
  I was just glancing through the PPV results in the PWI Almanac, and a very interesting note for the 1992 Halloween Havoc caught my eye:
  IN A MATCH NOT SHOWN ON THE PAY PER VIEW TELECAST: Erik Watts and Van Hammer defeated "Diamond" Dallas Page and Vinnie Vegas when Watts pinned Page at 12:00 with an Oklahoma side roll.
  Do you think if DDP and Vinnie had been booking back then things might have gone a bit differently?
- Chad M. sends the following arena report from Nitro:
  Well I don't remember it all because it was a rush seeing my first Nitro. But we were sitting down and my dad told me there was some wrestlers next to a Hummer.
  I go look and it's Macho Man, Sid, The Macho Girls, and Dusty Rhodes comes up. They looked like they were in the same place Nash ran the Hummer out of. I couldn't see who was driving the Hummer! I think it was Dusty because he was driving this cart around. His butt was hurting I think. Well, we shouted at them. a lot. Bunch of redneck stuff. Then they started putting up this curtain so we chanted "Assholes". They smiled. We laughed and left. It's strange because later on the curtain wasn't there and people would talk about wrestlers being there.
  The show was pretty weird. Penzer would do the countdown then after one it seemed like a couple minutes until the cameras came back on.
  I have to admit. DJ Ran was cool. He played some good music and keep the energy going. There was HUGE chants of "Goldberg" all nite long. The chant about Lenny Lane wasn't homosexual. It was "faggot", haha. It was funny. Everyone was quiet when that clipped played. No one said a word. Some guy tried to get in the ring to kick the Cat's ass, but security dragged him away and they hauled him all the way to the back.
  After the show, Sting said "We got two words for you". Well I think it went black for you. There was a faint crowd yell of "Suck It". Then Sting and Luger stood in the ring for the longest time not doing anything. Sting started talking to someone outside the ring that worked for WCW. I think something was supposed to happen and it didn't. Luger shrugged it off and walked off. Sting as the crowd if we wanted to hear Luger speak. We chanted "Luger", but he walked out. Sting shouted for Luger to come back, but he didn't. We booed and he said "That was real weak, Lex". After that, moron Sting slowly walked off. The ending was for shit. No dark matches. I loved the show, but the ending matters to me, it makes the night complete.
  Kanyon ruled! Well I didn't care for Master P. He ain't from here as for as I am concerned. Lash is my favorite from here. Bye!
Thanks for all your responses on David Schultz's wrestling career after the Stossel incident. I forwarded your responses on to Scott Keith, keeper of that great pro wrestling FAQ, and he said he will update the Schultz info.
Well, this may or may not sound strange coming from me, but I thought it was really cool that Dusty Rhodes was back on WCWSN. Maybe I'm too nostalgic, but I really enjoy watching the Muthaship.
Whoa, look out for that hook!
Unfortunately, JWAM can no longer do the updates to his part of my tributes page. So, once again, I'm in the market for someone to help out.
Knowledge of basic HTML is required. Basically, people will e-mail you with requests, and you'll update your working copies, and send me updated versions every two of three weeks or so.
It's probably more of a commitment than you think, as there are a number of requests every week. Also, every month or two, you should go through the links looking for dead ones and removing them.
E-mail me if you are interested.
I saw on one of the sheets that the WWF seems to have let the cat out of the bag on the King of the Ring.
The WWF pre-released ads for the video, with a picture of someone on the videotape box cover with text that says something to the effect of "See [name deleted] come out on top of a group of eight men to become King of the Ring." The site even had a JPG of the box cover.
Whoops.
Assuming this is not all an elaborate work, the WWF made the same mistake some ten years ago. Shortly before Wrestlemania IV, an issue of WWF Magazine came out and referred to "World Heavyweight Champion Randy Savage". Of course, back then there was no Internet to broadcast the mistake to the entire world. So, you only knew if you caught the mistake on your own.
A number of you have asked how Chan & Charlie are doing. They're doing well, and I just heard from Chan the other day. Interestingly enough, Chan sent me the following tidbit from the AP wire way back in 1985: Professional wrestler Arn Anderson had his hands full with the Raging Bull Sunday night, but it was an excitable fan who struck the hardest blow. Anderson, one half of the National Wrestling Alliance's heavyweight world tag team champion 'Minnesota Wrecking Crew', was wrestling in Charlotte Coliseum when an opponent known as the Raging Bull got an unauthorized assist from a spectator. The man leaped from his seat and smacked the 230-pound Anderson across the back with a walking cane, police said. James Eugene McInnis, 24, a carpenter, was charged with assault and was released on $100 bail.
I see that the Master P segment on Nitro scored a 2.4 in the ratings.
Hard to believe that wrestling fans would switch to RAW instead of watching a birthday party for some kid they've never heard of.
Seriously, that birthday party segment totally killed the crowd. The crowd was so freakin' silent that I could actually hear my neighbors' remote controls switching their TVs from TNT to USA.
In case you thought it might have been better at the arena than it was at home, Jules from New Orleans gives us a first-hand report from the arena:
I was at the Nitro on 6/21. It BLEW!!!!!! Master P was in his home town and Kitty B. Badd got a bigger pop from the audience. When P came out I knew it was gonna suck. I thought I was bought tickets to Nitro not a rap concert.
I don't dislike rap but I would like to see some GOOD wrestling for my money. Everything was a screwjob!!!! Most of the fans were disappointed and I'm just really getting tired of the BULLS***T!!!!!! I was even thinking about asking them to turn on RAW on one of the jumbotrons when it was Silkk's party!!!!!
Xavier Doom has a request for the Hall of Shame on his Slayground. He's looking for video (or a picture) of the WCW tag team the Desperadoes for the WCW Hall of Shame.
In case you don't remember, the Desperadoes were around briefly in 1991. Dutch Mantel, Black Bart and Deadeye Dick. Three guys playing goofballs who were looking for Stan Hansen. It was sad. Apparently, Hansen wanted no part of the angle, and hasn't been seen in the big two since.
If you can help with this one, it would be appreciated. Getting a pic may be tough. He's willing to trade tapes, pay for a tape, etc. Please let Xavier know if you can help out.
I'm about as politically incorrect as they come, but I don't know about this gay angle with Lenny Lane and Lodi.
Now, keep in mind that well over ten years ago, Turner networks banned the word "foreign" (and hence the term "international object" was invented). Now, if they were that politically correct ten years ago, imagine what they are like now. I think that the Mr. Turner, Ms. Fonda and/or their inner circle will make this angle disappear so fast that it will make your head spin.
By the way, anyone besides me pick up on the fact that all parts of the principals' names start with a Lambda? If they actually call themselves "The Lambda Alliance", I may just shut this page down and swear off watching wrestling ever again.
This is totally non-wrestling-related, but pretty freaky. As you've probably noticed from previous mid-week reports, I'm a big fan on TV Land. Well, my to my chagrin this past week, as a tie-in to the new Austin Powers movie, they held a "spy marathon". They replaced their regular line-up with a bunch of old spy shows.
Anyway, while I'm doing other stuff on Sunday night, The Man From U.N.C.L.E. is on. First, I see Captain Kirk (William Shatner). Then I see Colonel Klink (Werner Klemperer). Then, if things weren't weird enough, Spock (Leonard Nimoy) comes walking in and points a gun at Kirk. Freaky.
And to top it all off, the wind-up is that Captain Kirk outsmarts Colonel Klink. Hah!
You may have noticed the new tagline under the DDT Digest logo on the main page. After almost three years on-line, I figured it was time for us to have a tagline such that new visitors who wander in can find out right away what we're all about.
I'll try to put a new one up every week or so. Actually, if we can pull it off, Wade and I are working on a way to have a random one come up every time you go to the main page. I've got about ten more or so queued up, but I'm very open to suggestions. If you have any suggestions for a fun, one-line tagline for DDT Digest, please pass them along.
I'm on vacation next week, so the next time you'll hear from me is in two weeks. Have a good one, and be careful on the Fourth of July.
There's a new poll on the main page. (Came up with this one myself.)
Trivia Answer: Pedro Morales

Mid-Week Report

By Bill

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