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Website// http://www.geocities.com/naidosnews Subscribe// naidoswrestlingnews-subscribe@yahoogroups.com Unsubscribe// naidoswrestlingnews-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com ====================================================================== Table of Contents//=================================================== naidO's daily note TOP HEADLINE RATINGS Latest news & notes from the WWF, WCW & the rest of pro-wrestling Review// Tazz & Al Snow promote Tough Enough Remember... Affiliates ====================================================================== naidO's daily note//================================================== Hello to you and to those just joining. Tell your friends about the BEST newsletter around to subscribe today. Enjoy this latest edition of nWN! -Click to read the RAW is WAR results: http://www.naidosworld.com/tvraw.html -Wow, number 400 is JUST around the corner and I JUST noticed that fact this very second. Instead of boring you with more hype at how strong this newsletter has been for well over a year, I'll just get myself a beer and smile :0) LOVE THE NEWSLETTER? PLEASE TELL A FRIEND TO JOIN! Thanks for reading. naidO// ====================================================================== TOP HEADLINE//======================================================== -Upon seeing an orthopedist Tuesday, Vampiro was diagnosed with a torn left knee ligament. Vampiro will be having a follow up examination on 7/28, at which point he will have a better indication of his future, short term and long, inside the ring as a performer as retirement was suggested by several close to him. Vampiro suffered the injury Friday night working the main event of EMLL's Arena Mexico event, his first EMLL main event since returning to the promotion. During a trios tag match, Dr. Wagner Jr. dropkicked Vampiro in the side of the knee instead of the front of it as planned, causing the tear. Source// 1Wrestling ====================================================================== RATINGS//============================================================= The 6/18 edition of Raw is War scored a 4.2 cable rating, with a 7.0 share. That is up from last week's 4.1. This week's broadcast did hours of 3.8 and 4.6. Unlike last week, the show actually hit a 5.0 quarter hour, doing so in the main event overrun. As has been the usual pattern, the show started off slowly. The opening quarter did just a 3.3 while quarter two did a 3.6. It seems clear that fans are skipping out of the "opening promo". That should be addressed by the WWF. The third and fourth quarters did a 4.1 and a 4.2, so if the opening quarters could have been in that area, the show would have done a 4.3 or a 4.4. The news of the overrun is good however. The quarters for hour two were: 4.6 (for the Page stalker angle), 4.6, 4.3 and 4.5. Again The overrun did a 5.0. Weekend Ratings: *Livewire did a 1.0 cable rating with 3.4 share, up from last week's 0.7 cable rating. *Superstars did a 1.0 cable rating with 3.1 share, up from last week's 0.6 cable rating. *Heat did a 1.0 cable rating with a 2.0 share, down from last week's 1.3. *The Heat replay did a 0.8 cable rating with a 1.7 share, up from last week's 0.7. The 6/14 edition of Smackdown did a series-low 3.2 broadcast rating. Source// 1Wrestling ====================================================================== News from the WWF//=================================================== -The WWF is coming out with a video totally dedicated to Lita, her career, how she got started, etc. It goes on sale next Tuesday. There's aposter of Lita on sale soon in the ShopZone. I suggest you buy it. Oh man.. http://www.wwfshopzone.com/product.asp?pf% 5Fid=88014&dept%5Fid=4 -Derek Jeter is celebrating his birthday at WWF-NY on June 27th. It will be on a Wednesday night when WWF-NY turns into a nightclub called The World! Source// 1wrestling, Dave Meltzer ====================================================================== News from WCW//======================================================= -WCW.com ha a special feature on DDP's RAW appearence on Monday -SLAM! Wrestling has interview Chris Kanyon. In it, he talks about returning to to wreslting and more. To read it, click http://www.canoe.ca/SlamWrestlingBiosK/kanyon_jun01-can.html -Tazz will be more involved than Al Snow this week in promoting Tough Enough. Snow will be busy helping train Shane McMahon for his match against Kurt Angle at King of the Ring on Sunday. Source// Dave Meltzer ====================================================================== News from the rest of pro-wrestling//================================= -Stampede Wrestling is running its most ambitious shows to date from 6/21 through 6/24 including 6/22 in Calgary with double main events of Bruce Hart vs. Michael Modest with the North American title vs. APW Universal title, plus Lance Storm vs. Christopher Daniels. -Tommy Maddox, the XFL's league MVP, will be given another shot by the Pittsburgh Steelers. He was originally drafted by the team as a first round draft choice by 1992, but he was a bust in four NFL seasons. Tommy will be competing with Kent Graham and Tee Martin for the backup quarterback spot behind Kordell Stewart, the team's current starting quarterback. Tommy turns 30 in September. Source// 1Wrestling ====================================================================== Review//============================================================== Tazz & Al Snow promote Tough Enough Tazz and Al Snow appeared on the "Opie and Anthony Show" in New York on 102.7 WNEW-FM this afternoon to hype "Tough Enough". - They talked about Tazz' victory over Hardcore Holly on Raw. Tazz said he "got my ass kicked, then I won." - They talked about Tazz' last appearance on the show, where a member of the show mouthed off about Tazz, thinking he had left, then was scared to death by Tazz. - Mick Foley called in, and said he had specifically been told to call in by the WWF to make life hell for Al Snow. Jokes were made about Foley putting Snow over on Heat, and Foley said he did it because he knew how few people were watching. Foley made jokes about how Snow is a big part of his next children's book. Foley said he was concentrating on Test now, because while Al will occasionally have a comeback to his insults, Test has no verbal offense. Discussion of Foley's book led into Al Snow describing occasions that the "family jewels" have fallen out of his tights, and other stories about wrestler's nether regions. Foley talked about how he has been approached to make movies with Al. Tazz joked with Foley about how Foley called in and kept talking about Al, and not him. Foley hung up. - Tazz and Al Snow ripped on the hosts for being in poor physical shape. They complained about being given water in cups, instead of bottled water. - The hosts talked about an episode of the Flintstones that was on Cartoon Network last night. This led to a discussion of when the voice of Fred Flintstone changed after the original voice died. - They did the plug for Tough Enough, which debuts this Thursday at 10pm on MTV. Tazz and Al talked about the party tonight at WWF NY for the show. Al said Tough Enough was not the kind of reality show where people just degrade themselves for a buck. - They stressed that the winners would become wrestlers for the WWF. - Tazz said Al comes off like a nice guy, but the only difference between the two in training is that Al smiles while beating up the contestants. - Tazz said part of the fun of the first episode is to see the people that didn't make it. - They took phone calls from fans, including one that ripped on the way Tazz tossed out the first pitch at a Mets game. Tazz agreed that his pitch was bad. most of the callers were giving Tazz a hard time, saying he wasn't tough. Al Snow ripped on one caller that claimed to be a bounty hunter, saying he actually worked at a 7-Eleven. - Tazz and Al Snow stayed in the studio while Opie and Anthony took a call from a woman who wrote a book called "The Good Girls Guide To Bad Girl Sex". Tazz and Snow pretended to be Opie and Anthony and talked to the author, who was clueless to it, while the real Opie and Anthony stayed quiet and fed them questions. Tazz snuck in plugs for Tough Enough while interviewing the author. Al played the serious interviewer, while Tazz asked totally off topic questions. Opie and Anthony then pretended to be Al and Tazz, and asked her some questions. (Got that?) - They went back to callers, with Tazz and fans ripping back and forth on each other. - Tazz threatened to stretch one of the people that writes for Opie and Anthony, Rick. Rick had been feeding Tazz lines for the interview, and Tazz refused to say some of them, so Rick insulted Tazz. Tazz browbeat him until he was worried, then told him he was just ribbing. - Tazz and Al Snow laughed at Opie for saying he was once choked out by Stevie Richards. - A male caller, claiming to be gay, came on to Al. - Another caller made fun of Tazz, so Al Snow ripped into him. - The hosts wanted Tazz to choke out someone, but he would only do it if they signed a release to not sue him or the WWF. - Tazz and Al plugged Tough Enough and the party again, then gave Opie and Anthony two tickets to King of the Ring at the Medowlands, then left the show. Source// Dave Higgins via 1Wrestling ====================================================================== Remember...=========================================================== -Remember that if you've missed any TV Shows, PPV's or more? Go to the following links to read the results. 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