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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 Latest news & notes from the WWF, WCW & the rest of pro-wrestling Comment// Vile Thoughts 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 for the SMACKDOWN results: http://www.naidosworld.com/tvsmackdown.html -I think Shane McMahon's got street fight-itis. He got his ass handed to him by Kurt Angle and not alluvasudden every one of his matches have to be street fights. Kind of fitting that the Rock's first match on TV will be a street fight. Why? God knows. Enjoy this latest edition. And to those that have just joined, I know I've said it already, but THANKS FOR JOINING! Membership has never been higher than today and for that I thank you! Tell a friend! ;-) LOVE THE NEWSLETTER? PLEASE TELL A FRIEND TO JOIN! Thanks for reading. naidO// ====================================================================== TOP HEADLINE//======================================================== -WWFE realigns weekend programming WWFE will debut a two-hour magazine-format show on Saturday nights on TNN starting August 25. The new show will air from 10 p.m. - midnight and will replace WWFE's two weekend morning shows on TNN, "LiveWire" on Saturdays and "Superstars" on Sundays in the United States. "LiveWire" and "Superstars" will continue to be produced for international markets. "The Saturday night slot affords us the opportunity to more precisely target our most avid fans -- our core demographic of 18-to-34 year olds," said WWFE President and COO Stuart Snyder. It also gives WWFE additional diversity in program format, he added, noting that the company will now have a magazine- style format to complement its live event-based programs ("Raw Is War" on TNN, "SmackDown!" on UPN), live programs ("Sunday Night Heat" on MTV) and reality-based programming ("WWF Tough Enough" on MTV). WWFE will announce the name and host (or hosts) of the new Saturday night show soon. "LiveWire" began airing in September 1996 and "Superstars" debuted in September 1986. With the changes, WWFE will still have nine hours of original domestic programming each week. Source// WWF.com ====================================================================== News from the WWF//=================================================== -Dave Scherer is reporting that it is almost a lock that SummerSlam will feature a double main event of Austin vs. Angle, and The Rock vs. Booker T. -According to the WWF newsletter, this year's SummerSlam theme song will be Drowning Pool's "Bodies". -Kurt Angle will be the special guest today on WWF.com's Byte This! webcast. The show can be heard Friday's from 4-5pm ET. -Dianna Moody, wife of William Moody (aka Paul Bearer), had successful breast cancer surgery on Thursday afternoon. In his latest column, Bearer gives us a full update and once again reminds women of the importance annual mammograms. To read it, click http://www.wwf.com/news/commentary/berarer/1072315 -The WWF has opened a new website at WWFGreetings.com. You can send your friend an eCard with their favorite WWF stars, wait, superstars on it. Check it out at http://www.wwfgreetings.com/ -According to Nielsen Media Research, Smackdown got a 5.1 overnight rating and an 8 share of the marketplace. The final rating should be out later today. Source// WWF.com, 1Wrestling, Dave Meltzer ====================================================================== News from WCW-ECW//=================================================== -DDP has updated his commentary at his website, you can read it by clicking http://ddpbang.com/news/weeksemail.html -There is currently an article in the Philadelphia Daily News that talks about where the other WCW wrestlers are, the ECW trademark situation, and more. To read it, click http://dailynews.philly.com/content/daily_news/2001/08/02/features/MAD D02F.htm Source// The Law ====================================================================== News from the rest of pro-wrestling//================================= -SLAM! Wrestling recently sat down with Dustin Rhodes. He talks about joining his father's promotion (Turnbuckle), WCW, the WWF and more. To read it, click http://www.canoe.ca/SlamWrestlingBiosR/rhodes_dustin_01aug-can.html -During a USA Today chat yesterday, Michael Clarke Duncan, who stars in the Scorpion King with the Rock, was asked if he would ever consider joining the WWF and working a feud with Rock. Duncan, in case you have not seen him, is a massive man. His reply was, "I have thought about it, but only in a way to get people to come out and see Scorpion King, which is coming out April 19, 2002. You have to be well-trained and prepared for all the jumps and falls and everything. It is very intense. I will do something with Rock. We'll see, but it will be entertaining." Source// SLAM!, 1Wrestling ====================================================================== Comment//============================================================= Vile Thoughts - by The Vile Just thought I would answer some comments by readers and friends alike on what I think about what we've been seeing on WWF TV.... First off, some of you have wondered why I call the WCW Champion "Booker Q." Well, you deserve an answer. When Booker was in WCW, he was a top talent, a good worker, and a good personality. He was also very highly thought of by the WWF. Hence the problem: Booker knew this, and upon getting his new WWF contract, became fat, lazy, and stupid. This guy is really trying to make me forget how much I hate Loser 3:16. Hence the "Q". Booker T. was a tremendous talent. Booker is not. Therefore, he deserves a new letter; a useless letter. A letter that fits his new lazy personality. Yes, he is the WCW Champion. All that means is he is the best of the garbage wrestlers. All the decent "WCW" wrestlers defected to ECW. The only guys left with even half a scrap of talent are O'Hare and Palumbo. Best move of the week: Rock taking Booker Q's ass, and burying it with the move he stole from the Great One. How did that taste, jackass? Maybe if we can get you to leave, you can go back to your original job of annoying us in those "7 Up" commercials. I am going to steal one gimmick from Jim Rome. He has a special Hall of Fame for athletes who consistently underperform. It is a very select group, and not just anyone can get in. With all due respect to the "T" family, Booker, YOU ARE A PIECE OF CRAP!! As for Loser 3:16, I have to admit it. It was awesome seeing Debbie do to him what I have been wanting to do for the better part of two months. We're tired of the paranoia; we're tired of the hugs; we're tired of the "I want respect crap." Either give us the bad ass Austin or send him away!! We finally got to see the Rock come back this week, and of course we knew he was WWF. It would have been nice to see him draw it out a bit, and have both factions fawning over him. Maybe he could have even gotten one of those famous Loser 3:16 hugs. That is, until Rock drops him. I am now sure, without a doubt, that Nick Patrick is the worst actor I've ever seen. This guy makes 'Dangerous' Danny Davis look like Ric Flair. Maybe someone can answer this question for me: When are we going to see WCW titles regularly defended? Every match is for a WWF title, except for the two Booker/Angle matches. Do the WCW tag titles even mean anything anymore? Memo to Chris Kanyon: YOU ARE AN IDIOT!! Your gimmick is stupid. It's almost as bad as when you were impersonating DDP in WCW. And please drop the "Invasion MVP" gimmick. Everyone with at least one working brain cell knows that Kurt Angle was the MVP. He had to make losers like Booker Q, Loser 3:16, and Dirtbag Doofus Page look good. Now that takes talent. And speaking of talent, who told Lance Storm that he could steal Sam Jerry's nickname of the Olympic Zero? Sure, I've used it before, but credit must be given to the wise man that invented it: Sam Jerry. Speaking of Angle, great segment with him on Tough Enough this week. Here's a question a friend posed to me: Why can't the show be an hour long? With all the other sewage MTV has to show during the half-hour, we don't get much of the show. Memo to WWF: Get some new announcers. Paul Heyman just doesn't cut it. You have got to do either one of two things: (1) Work things out with Lawler. Since he and Stacy are no longer together, he may be more amiable to coming back. (2) Call a meeting with Joey Styles, and settle your dispute. Then we could have Styles and Gertner-the quintissential announcing duo. 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