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Chairshots
7/30/01
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Finally, The Rock has come back to the WWF! That’s right kids, after taking several months off to shoot The Scorpion King, The Rock returns to WWF TV. It has been teased that he may join WCW/ECW (which I will now call The Alliance because everyone else does), but you’d have to be stupid if you believed that the WWF would put The Rock and Stone Cold on the same side. Clearly they will build towards a Rock vs. Austin main event at SummerSlam with the possibility of it being a three-way match with Kurt Angle. Speaking of Kurt, he will defend his newly won WCW Championship belt against Booker T tonight. WWF.com is also promising Rob Van Dam vs. Tajiri in a Hardcore Championship match (woo hoo!) and The Dudley Boyz vs. Undertaker & Kane in a Tables Match (been there, done that).
Tough Enough
Ok, so I got all caught up on my Tough Enough viewing on Saturday. God bless MTV for repeating shows ad nauseum. First was episode #5. Finally Darryl was eliminated. It wasn’t quite as satisfying seeing him leave since 3 others had quit before him, but make no mistake, he was the first one to be canned. Plus, the men in the cast got to humiliate Darryl by making him do push ups while saying “I’m your bitch.” I don’t know why I hated Darryl so much, but I’m happy to see him get his comeuppance and leave. Next was episode #6 in which we lost another cast member, Shadrick. If there is one problem with Tough Enough, it’s that the show isn’t long enough. Shadrick was nowhere to be seen in episodes 1-4. In episode 5 we see that Shadrick is worried about being cut and then in episode 6, he’s gone. A couple of weeks ago the female contestants all went out to lunch with Stephanie McMahon. Just as Stephanie is about to explain how she felt seeing her Dad kiss Trish Stratus in front of her wheel chair bound Mother, we cut away. If the show were longer, we would have time to explore in more depth the training and the behind the scenes aspects. That would make Tough Enough awesome. Anyway, Shadrick was booted and I can’t really say that I cared. Clearly everyone liked him, especially Jackie who broke down crying when she realized she would have to crush the dreams of a WWF hopeful. Next week we get to see Harvard Chris beat up Josh and find out a secret that Pauline has been keeping. That should be fun.
WCW Price
Some time ago, I reported that the WWFE paid just under 7 million for WCW. Pretty cheap price for a company that made 100 million dollars in one year and promised to make 200 million the next. Well, guess what? I was wrong. According to the WWFE financials report on Yahoo, filed July 27th, the WWF paid 2.5 million for WCW's name, library, and "intangible assets,” plus 1.8 million in fees for a grand total of 4.3 million. What a bargain!
Sucksxxens
I told you a month ago that Tammy “Sunny” Stych and Missy “Skank” Hyatt were opening their own porn website called WrestlingVixxxens. Well, it’s open and it pretty much sucks. I’ll save you the membership fee by telling you that it’s mostly low quality pictures of an “I’m off drugs and gaining weight” Tammy showing her wares on an amateurishly designed website. Go patrol alt.binaries.wrestling and save yourself the 10 bucks. There is an in depth review over here.
More on Eric Bischoff: Pimp
Fresh off his trial where he admitted to watching a stripper have sex with his wife comes the allegation from Missy Hyatt that DDP and Eric Bischoff used to swap wives. Diamond Dallas Page is of course married to Kimberly Page. No wonder Bischoff kept pushing DDP to the world title. Of course Missy runs her own porn site, so she could be full of it. Anyone out there have pictures I can print?
Speaking of Eric, his Calgary promotion Matrats, which is made up of young boys (get your mind out of the gutter), is changing it’s name. Next Generation Wrestling will put on its first PPV on October 28. The broadcast team of that show will be the former ECW team of Joey Styles and Don "Cyrus" Callis. Rumor is that Eric Bischoff will be available for wife swapping and Pokemon card trading after the show.
Hogan’s New Promotion
Hulk Hogan was putting together a new promotion to compete with Vince McMahon by the end of the year. Well, it’s dead. That’s all I know. Hulk, if you’re reading this, call me. We’ll do lunch.
MECW, Not Just a Cat Food Anymore
Just because Hulk Hogan’s new promotion is dead doesn’t mean that competition for the WWF is lost. A brand new group called MECW is starting up. So far they have named Curt Hennig their inaugural champ. They are also in negotiation with Buff Bagwell and former WWF and WCW booker Terry Taylor. MECW is still working to get a television deal. I’ll let you know more when it happens. They don't even have a website yet.
Don’t Call Him Sheiky
Last, but not least, 1Wrestling is reporting that WWF old timer, The Iron Sheik will be at Caroline's Comedy Club on Broadway in New York City performing stand-up tonight during its open mike night. You can probably skip it. I hear it’s all old jokes about Sergeant Slaughter walking into a bar...
Talk to you Wednesday.
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