______________________________________________________________________ __ __ __ __ _ ____ | | | | | \ | | | |/ _ \ | | | | | \ | | | / \ | | |/\| | | \| | | | | | | | | |\ | | | | | | /\ | | | \ | |__| |_| |__/ \__| |__| \__| [ n a i d O ' s - W r e s t l i n g - N e w s ] Edition 229 December 27, 2000 "I get the news, so you don't have to." ______________________________________________________________________ [Official newsletter & complement to:] http://www.naidOsWorld.com To subscribe: naidoswrestlingnews-subscribe@egroups.com To unsubscribe: naidoswrestlingnews-unsubscribe@egroups.com ______________________________________________________________________ [Table of contents] **Note from naidO **TOP NEWS STORY **Latest news from the WWF, WCW & ECW **[Article] WWF throws in the towel on Las Vegas casino **Parting chair shot ______________________________________________________________________ [Note from naidO] Hello to those just joining. Tell your friends about the BEST up and coming newsletter around to subscribe today! **Click for the RAW results: http://www.naidosworld.com/tvraw.html - Well, new years is merely 5 days away. Have you thought of new years resolutions yet? One I have already is to eat right and at least make an attempt to work out on my schedule. People are getting bad health reports from their doctors and I don't want to be the next victim. Make yours today! And no, watching less wrestling is NOT one of them ;-) **Until tomorrow, enjoy this latest edition of nWN! - naidO nWN Founder - http://www.geocities.com/naidosnews ______________________________________________________________________ [TOP NEWS STORY] **McMahon wrestles with his past Vince McMahon bellows and snarls like the brawlers who've made him a fortune. But the World Wrestling Federation honcho has apparently been hiding a secret pain: childhood sexual abuse. McMahon makes the allegation in the February issue of Playboy, where he hints that his mother, Vickie, may have been involved. The "sports" titan delves into the subject while recalling how his step- father, Leo Lupton, would attack him when he tried to defend his mom from a beating. "It's unfortunate that he died before I could kill him," McMahon says of Lupton. "I would have enjoyed that." Veteran sports journalist Kevin Cook asks McMahon in the Q&A if he was sexually abused by "the same man." "No. It wasn't ... it wasn't from the male," says McMahon, who adds: "That's not anything I would like to embellish. Just because it was weird." To continue the article, click below: http://www.nydailynews.com/today/News_and_Views/Daily_Dish/a-93727.asp ______________________________________________________________________ [News from the WWF] **Official Smackdown! preview from the WWF: The final SmackDown! of the year 2000 airs this Thursday at 8/7 CT on UPN, and it promises to be a show to remember! Rikishi is back, as seen on Monday's RAW, when he brutally attacked the Undertaker and The Rock at the end of the show. There's no doubt that the Taker and the People's Champion are fuming about the attack. Will their rage carry over to SmackDown!? Knowing The Rock and the Undertaker, they will probably be out for revenge this Thursday! Several matches have already been signed for this Thursday. Both Hardy Boyz will compete for singles championships -- Matt challenges Chris Benoit for the Intercontinental Championship, while Jeff takes on Raven for the Hardcore Championship. Also, Faarooq, Bradshaw and Jacqueline team up to take on Ivory, Bull Buchanan and the Goodfather of the Right to Censor in six-person tag team action, and T&A takes on Too Cool! Plus, rumor has it that Stephanie McMahon-Helmsley will have a huge impact on Thursday's episode of SmackDown! Kurt Angle, Stone Cold Steve Austin, Chris Jericho, Edge & Christian will all be in the house this Thursday at 8/7 CT on UPN for SmackDown! **Tori will be hosting this Thursday's Smackdown party at WWF NY. **Livewire did a 1.1 rating with a 2.9 share, which is exactly the same as last week's show. The show did quarters of 0.9, 1.1, 1.1 and 1.1. **Superstars also did a 1.0 rating, with a 2.9 share, down from last week's 1.1 rating. The show did quarters of 0.9, 1.0, 1.0 and 1.1. **Heat did a 1.4 rating with a 3.5 share on Christmas Eve. That is down from last week's 1.8, but the share was much higher than last week's 2.8. So, that means that while less people watched Heat, a much higher percentage of people who were actually watching TV at the time watched Heat. The show did quarter hours of 1.1, 1.4, 1.5, 1.7. (Cred: wwf.com, ultimowrestling) _______________ [News from WCW] **DDP had this to say in his newsletter email about the Scott Steiner incident: "There has been a lot of talk about me and Scott Steiner on the Internet lately. All I have to say about it is that Scott and I sat down and talked this all out and as far as we are both concerned it is all fixed...which is a nice way to end the year. " **Here is an updated card for the 1/14 WCW Sin pay-per-view from the Conseco Center in Indianapolis, Indiana: - Scott Steiner vs. Jeff Jarrett vs. ? - Goldberg and Dewayne Bruce vs. Totally Buff - Chavo Guerrero Jr. vs. Shane Helms - Cruiserweight Title Match - The InSiders vs. The Natural Born Thrillers - Tag Team Title Match - Terry Funk vs. Crowbar **Lance Storm has done his latest column at www.stormwrestling.com. It's part two of his "Greatest Mark Moments" column, and a good read! (Cred: DDP newsletter, The Law, 1Wrestling) _______________ [News from ECW] **Paul Heyman denied there was extra security at the ECW Arena show or that it had anything to do with New Jack. He said that New Jack left the promotion, but it wasn't on negative terms and called the story "a total crock." **Steve Corino & Julio Dinero are scheduled to compete at the January 19th Atlantic Terror Championship Wrestling event in Martinsburg, West Virginia. **Nova will be evaluated on January 5 as to see if he needs surgery to correct his broken eardrum. **ECW has apparently no further interest in using Scott Hall whatsoever. **www.ElektraECW.com has been given a huge update with TONS of Elektra photos. 100+ new photos are now online ready to be seen. (Cred: 1wrestling) __________________ [In other news...] **nothing at this time (Cred: ) ______________________________________________________________________ [Article] WWF throws in the towel on Las Vegas casino LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - First it delivered a knockout blow to actress Debbie Reynolds, and now a little hotel/casino near the Las Vegas Strip has the World Wrestling Federation diving out of the ring as well. The WWF, a unit of World Wrestling Federation Entertainment Inc., said Tuesday it will sell its WWF Hotel and Casino for $11.2 million - - about $2 million more than it paid for the resort in 1998 with grand plans to build a wrestling-themed establishment on the site. The WWF picked up the 193-room resort -- formerly known as the Debbie Reynolds Hotel and Casino -- at a bankruptcy auction after Reynolds failed to make the place profitable. A year after announcing plans for a $100 million wrestling-themed resort on the site, however, the WWF has also thrown in the towel, said Judd Everhart, spokesman for the Stamford, Conn.-based WWF. "After we bought it, we realized it just wouldn't meet our expectations of being able to provide our brand of entertainment on the right scale," he said. "So we decided to sell it. We have no immediate plans to purchase other property in Las Vegas, but I couldn't rule that out." The WWF said it expects to report a gain of about $1 million on the sale. 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