Mid-Week Report

• Eric hailing from Ft. Myers, FL sends in the following killer e-mail:

  You know, with WCW's newfound love of ladder matches (Hall/Benoit, Benoit/Jarrett), as well as the inordinate amount of "impromptu" interviews, I wonder if they will change the name of Nitro to 'Shoots & Ladders'. Just a thought...

• Eddie W. hailing from Nashville, TN gives us the willies with:

  I had the weirdest dream last night...

  A wrestling announcer says, "And their opponents, the NEW Lenny and Lodi!!!"

  Out walk Meng and the Barbarian with blowpops.

  I woke up in a cold sweat...

• Ryan B. sends some additional info about Lenny Lane and the WCW World Cruiserweight Title:

  After reading the PWI explanation of Psychosis's Cruiserweight Title reign in your mid-week report, I remembered going over to WCW.com a month or so ago and actually reading in their title history section..."Psychosis was awarded the title when the West Hollywood Blondes angle was dropped." I was pretty surprised to see the company was actually acknowledging it on their official website, but that's just the beginning of the story...

  When I finished reading the aforementioned mid-week report, I figured I'd e-mail you the tidbit about WCW.com...but first I figured I'd better check to see if it was still there to keep from looking like a jackass if the site had changed things around. So, I log on to WCW.com and, lo and behold, not only has the mention of the angle drop been removed...but they now don't even recognize that Lenny won the belt in the first place! Now that's what you call a complete 180.

  (By the way, the URL for the title history is at http://www.wcw.com/1999/superstars/cruiserweight)

• Senator Penguin writes:

  Two things jumped into my mind tonight while watching the latest Nitro:

  1. When watching Madusa approach the ring during the Oklahoma v. Asya match, the first thing that popped into my mind was the 1983 film, "Porky's II: The Next Day". If you saw this, you would remember when the gang loaded up the ample bosom of Wendy Williams' cocktail dress with bottles of fake barf, so that she could publicly embarrass a government official at a fancy restaurant. As Wendy strolled into the restaurant, the bosom bounced up and down while making this hysterical "squick-squick-squick" sound. During Madusa's ring entrance, I SWEAR I could hear that same sound.
       
  2. Does Ron Popeel still sell that "Hair In A Can" on those late-night TV infomercials? If so, could someone be a mensch and send Buff Bagwell a case or two? During the five-minute "Point/Counterpoint" between Buff and DDP, the camera focused on Buff's bald spot for about four and a half minutes.

The funny thing is, that's not the part of the story that I find interesting. To me, the interesting part is that he refers to Jerry Flynn as "Jerry Flint". It's a shame, because you'd think Bret "Hitman" Clark would be more meticulous about getting names correctly.