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Chairshots
7/6/01
Monday Night Preview WWF.com has the following preview of tonight's Raw:
Albert vs. The Undertaker for the Intercontinental Title.
- Molly Holly (with Spike) vs. Crash Holly (with Jackie)
- Scotty 2 Hotty vs. Tajiri
- X-Pac vs. Christian for the Light Heavyweight Title.
- Test vs. Rhyno, the winner will face Mike Awesome for the Hardcore Title at Invasion.
- WCW matches will take place.
Personally I'm curious to see what Vince McMahon has up his sleeve. Why the change of heart and the evil grin on Smackdown when he decided to let WCW matches air on WWF TV? Oh, who am I kidding? I want to see more Torrie Wilson and Stacy Keibler! I'm such a Russo-bag. Steve Austin and Kurt Angle are both still nursing injuries sustained at the King of the Ring, and are not expected to see any in-ring action on either Raw or Smackdown. Austin was booked to wrestle Tazz on Raw stemming from the angle done at the end of Smackdown. Instead, Tazz will be at WWFNY hosting Raw, and will elongate the angle until next week.
Tough Enough Rating Tough Enough on MTV scored a 2.2 cable rating last Thursday. That's up 4.8% from last week's 2.1 rating. The WWF is very happy with numbers within the numbers as the show was up 103% in the male 12 to 17 demographic, scoring a 6.1 to last week's 3. Females 12 to 17 were up 77.8%, doing a 3.2 to last week's 1.8. Tough Enough was once again the highest rated show on cable Thursday night. People just love to hear about Josh masturbating.
XFL Tidbit The XFL is gone, but we can still make fun of them. This interesting tidbit turned up last Friday. Did you know that Vince McMahon was so furious at Honda for pulling out of its advertising agreement that he wanted to blow up a Honda Accord during an XFL halftime show? NBC Sports President Dick Ebersol, however, put the kibosh on the idea. On a related note, isn't kibosh a funny word?
Live Smackdown Dates The first live dates for Smackdown have been announced and they are: August 16th in Salt Lake City, UT with the show starting @ 5:30 PM. The second LIVE SMACKDOWN will be held in Denver, CO. on August 23rd, show starts @ 5:30 PM And the third LIVE Smackdown show to be held in Detroit, MI. Show to start @ 7:45 PM. This is the type of news I have to report to you today. Isn't my life sad?
Headline What better way to end a weak news day than with a sobbing McMahon? David Sahadi, the WWF promotions director and the man responsible for the incredible commercials and vignettes the WWF uses in its Pay-per-views and television shows, recently received a gold medal (it's an Olympic sport?) for funniest promo by a program distributor at the Promax & BDA ceremony for the WWF "Attitude" commercial from last year where a beauty pageant turned into a brawl. The article in the Evansville Courier & Press tells the story of one of Sahadi's commercials (the moving Wrestlemania spot featuring legends Gorilla Monsoon, Freddie Blassie, Ernie Ladd Pat Patterson, and Killer Kowalski) and the emotional impact it had on Vince McMahon. Upon seeing the spot for the first time, McMahon actually had to leave the room, and was in tears afterwards.
Vince McMahon is like a Father to me….Excuse me….I have something in my eye.
Discuss this and more in the Fanboy forums.
Chair Shots by Michael Goodson (Updated 6-29-01, 2:48 PM PST)Oh thank you, glorious news Gods!
Chair Shots by Michael Goodson (Updated 6-25-01, 4:44 PM PST)Pay per view my ass! AT&T wouldn't take my money.
Chair Shots by Michael Goodson (Updated 6-22-01, 5:19 PM PST)Naked chicks totally reek of awesomeness.
Chair Shots by Michael Goodson (Updated 6-20-01, 3:27 PM PST)Koko B Ware was not the stalker. Damn.
Chair Shots by Michael Goodson (Updated 6-18-01, 2:11 PM PST)It still has that Monday morning freshness.
Chair Shots by Michael Goodson (Updated 6-15-01, 6:36 PM PST)The Grand opening and yet it's my second column.
Chair Shots by Michael Goodson (Updated 6-13-01, 6:36 PM PST)If the XFL is gone, what will we make fun of?
