===================================================================== ===================================================================== ____ ___ ____ ___ ____ / /\/ /\/ /\ / \ / /\ __ ___ / / / / / / / / \ / / / / \/ \ / / / / / / / / \/ / / / \ / \/ / / / / / / / / /\ /\ / / / / / / /\ / / / / / / / / /\ \/ / / / / /\ / / / / / / / / / /\ / / / / / \ / / /____/ /___/ / /___/ / \_____/ / /___/ / /__/ / \____\/\___\/ \___\/ \____\/ \___\/ \__\/ n a i d O ' s W r e s t l i n g N e w s Edition// 573 Date// December 22, 2001 Motto// "Continuing to get the news so you don't have to." 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 The latest new from the WWF & the rest of pro-wrestling Article// Hogan on Unscripted Comment// Linda's 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! SPOILER: http://www.naidosworld.com/tvsmackdown.html -Bossman?! All these guys sitting at home that could've been elevated in a single blow and they bring back the old rickety Boss Man!? Give me a fricken' break! Things haven't changed a bit if Boss Man can come back and be put in a spot like that. Good grief! LOVE THE NEWSLETTER? PLEASE TELL A FRIEND TO JOIN! Thanks for reading. naidO// ***All links in this newsletter can be viewed by being clicked (html capable email readers only) or cut and pasted into your browser. ===================================================================== -American Red Cross relief Information To make a blood donation, call (800) GIVE-LIFE or contact your local blood service organization. To help the victims of this and other disasters with a financial contribution, call (800) HELP-NOW. You can also mail donations -- designating "Disaster Relief Fund" on the memo line of the check -- to the American Red Cross, PO Box 37243, Washington DC 20013. ===================================================================== TOP HEADLINE//======================================================= -According to The Associated Press, Ted Turner recently signed his new contract to become a Vice Chairman of AOL/Time Warner. Turner is expected to be put back in charge of programming at both the TNT and TBS networks. Turner was stripped of such duties early this year and it is believed that that set in motion the demise of the old World Championship Wrestling as it's shows Nitro and Thunderwere cancelled shortly after Turner's departure from power. Turner takes over on January 1st and his old job as AOL/TW spokesperson ends on the 31st of this month. To read a story on his return by the New York Post, click http://www.nypost.com/business/36427.htm To read the AP article, click http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20011221/bs/aol_time_warner_turner_1. html Source// the Associated Press ===================================================================== News from the WWF -- WWF.com//======================================= -According to Neilsen's Media Research, SmackDown! last night received a 4.8 overnight rating. -Speaking of Neilsen's, here's their rankings for the top 10 programs on basic cable networks for the week of Dec. 10-16. Each ratings point represents 1,055,000 households. Day and start time (EST) are in parentheses. 1. NFL Football: Pittsburgh vs. Baltimore, ESPN, 7.4, 7.82 mil homes 2. WWF Entertainment, TNN, 4.0, 4.24 mil homes 3. WWF Entertainment, TNN, 3.4, 3.61 mil homes 4. NFL Prime Time, ESPN, 3.4, 3.57 mil homes 5. NFL SportsCenter, ESPN, 3.3, 3.45 mil homes 6. SpongeBob SquarePants , Nickelodeon, 2.5, 2.67 mil homes 7. Movie: "Pretender", TNT, 2.5, 2.66 mil homes 8. SpongeBob SquarePants, Nickelodeon, 2.4, 2.54 mil homes 9. SpongeBob SquarePants, Nickelodeon, 2.4, 2.5 mil homes 10.SpongeBob SquarePants, Nickelodeon, 2.3, 2.46 mil homes -The Pro Wrestling Torch reports that Charlie Haas is scheduled to return to the ring on January 6. -Apparently, Jaime knoble's "stinger" was a work by the HWA. -Many "insiders" indicate that the Hardy's have been desimated by the Undertaker recently due to being in the bad books of management in the WWF. it's been reported that Jeff has become lethargic due to the WWF schedule and his arriving late to tapings and so forth are proof of that. You may have also noticed that the Hardy breakup seemed totally scraped after this week of TV. Most think that all everyone needs at right now is the well deserved time off that everyone's getting until the new year. -The men and women who were recently cut from the developmental roster from the HWA worked their last date last night for the company according to the Pro Wrestling Torch. All other personnel are now off for the holidays and return to work on January 6th. Non- WWF personnel will be at the HWA-training center for more training. Sources// -UltimoWrestling @ http://www.ultimowrestling.com -Dave Meltzer @ http://www.WrestlingObserver.com -Yahoo! News @ http://news.yahoo.com ===================================================================== News from the rest of pro-wrestling//================================ -The WWF dropped from #4 to #10 as the most searched "term" on Lyco's search engine. Here's the list that sadly does not include your favorite newsletter. oh well, better luck next year! The Top 10 items of the year 2001 (last year's rank in parentheses) 1. Dragonball (2) 2. Britney Spears (1) 3. Napster (8) 4. Tattoos (7) 5. Osama bin Laden (-) 6. IRS (23) 7. Pokemon (3) 8. World Trade Center (-) 9. Nostradamus (-) 10. WWF (4) Sources// -Lycos @ http://www.lycos.com ===================================================================== Comment//============================================================ Hogan on Unscripted Here are some notes from Hulk "Hollywood" Hogan's interview yesterday on ESPN's "Unscripted": *Hogan put over HHH, Steve Austin and The Rock, which is a smart political move because all throughout the interview he was basically kissing the WWF's ass and even indicated that his son wanted him to return to the WWF. *He said that he wasn't mad at Vince for anything, and he basically kissed some more ass. He said Vince has made wrestling what it is today and that everyone should thank him for it. *He said if he was offered to come back to the WWF, he would only do it if he got a shot at Vince in the ring. *He put over the tough schedule of wrestling and that if you have an injury, you have to work through it. He mentioned HHH having the will to continue after receiving an injury of that nature, and he once again put him over by calling HHH one of his favorites. *He said that Bill Goldberg was a great guy but there is no reason for him to come back to wrestling now because of his AOL-Time Warner contract. He said if he had to pick anyone that he would want as his tag team partner, it would be him. *He said that ever since September 11th, he has received many offers to star in action good-guy films. Dear God no... *He said his greatest match ever was against Andre The Giant at WrestleMania 3. Ultimowrestling.com ===================================================================== Comment//============================================================ Linda's Thoughts Smackdown reeked of awesomness. Oh wait that saying is kind of in the past. So let me say Smackdown was so much better than Raw. The crowd had some life in them, and at least we saw some much better and longer matches. And a lot less of Vince. The show opened with Booker getting a WWF contract from Ric Flair. Flair is so much better when he's face a nice calm face. And Flair was extremely calm giving Booker this contract that Ric and Vince made up for him. Booker saw the salary and couldn't resist. See I would think The Book would want a lawyer to look at that contract, but Book signed it and thought he was getting paid exactly what he deserved. During this, Flair tells Booker that Vince wanted to get this contract made up, Flair acts as if he really isn't happy about it, but he'll go along with it because of Vince. After Booker signs, Ric leaves and with his back turned on Booker Flair has a big smile on his face. So you know there's something up with the contract. The first match was Angle vs. Edge for the IC title. Angle again had no mic work or any backstage skits, he just wrestled and you never saw him again. I don't get that, but I did like the match, however I found the crowd pretty quiet. I thought both guys put themselves out there, I guess I expected a better crowd reaction then what I heard. Angle played dirty and Edge won by a DQ. Then Angle started beating on Edge and doing the ankle lock on him. At least Angle still has that, WWF has taken the Ankle Lock away from him. Seriously my opinion is maybe if Angle and Edge had done some mic work it might have gotten the crowd more pumped up and interested in this match. I would imagine due to Regal's nose surgery this Edge/Angle feud will be short lived. Maybe that's why nothing was really made of it. Booker is shown in the parking lot gloating waiting for Vince. Vince arrives and Booker hugs him and thanks him for the contract. Of course Vinny doesn't know what the hell is going on. Enter Flair, he comes out and tells Vince that the Book is now a part of WWF and Booker will be wrestling Steve Austin. Booker and Vince look a little distressed, and to top it off Ric tells them that the match will be a First Blood Match. Oh the fans seem to love that. Back inside Rock comes out and cuts a promo on my man TEST. He makes fun of Test's teeth and imitates Test talking to Santa. Maybe not the funniest thing Rock has done, but I would say it was still good. He then says he'll take on Test as long as he gets a rematch with Y2J, a healthy dose of that big easy pie, and he whips Test candy ass. The crowd loved this and in fact Rock got a great ovation when he came out. New Orleans seems to be Rock Country. Back to Rocky, then he sings the twelve days of Christmas with his own words pertaining to what he will do to Test. But first it's Lance Storm vs. Rikishi. An ok match with interferance by none other than Test. It's not bad enough he's wrestling Rock, but he has to come out and help Storm. I guess with Shane gone they need someone to come out and get on your nerves a lot. Anyway Storm wins thanks to Test and no one gets the stink face that I can live with. Booker is in the back and he asks Kane how to survive a First Blood Match? Kane replies don't bleed. What a funny guy, oh wait I think he was serious. Anyway my question to Kane would have been how do you feel about your brother turning and joining Vince's side? Funny know one has asked him that yet. Matt took on Taker for the Hard-Core title, and unlike Jeff, Matt got a few good moves in, of course not enough to beat that American Bad Ass. After Taker got done with him, Matt couldn't even walk out on his own. That's because after being beaten with a chair and then taking a chair off the throat Matt was immediately rushed to one of WWF's fantasy hospitals. On the way into the ambulance Taker grabbed the already damaged throat and asked Matt if that bitch ( Lita) was worth it? Ok is Matt back with Jeff and Lita? I have no idea, I'm hoping WWF realized breaking them up was not a good thing, but really I just don't know. Jericho came out and did a nice little promo saying he's better than Austin, Rock and Flair. He also made fun of RVD which brought him out. RVD was ready with mic in the hand, but Jericho cut in and told Van Dam he blew it he could have won on Monday night. This caused RVD to forget about talking. He rushed the ring and went after Y2J. I noticed Mr. Cool wasn't so cool tonight. RVD was hot, yeah cute, but I mean hot like angry and gave it to Jericho. He ended by doing the 5 star frog splash perfectly onto Jericho's body. Again great fan reaction during this whole thing. Ok William Regal comes on the screen from his home and starts threatening Edge. Regal's nose is all swollen, and his eyes all bruised. He talks about having surgery because of Edge and how his holidays are ruined and tells Edge that when he gets his hands on him he will turn Edge into a bloody vegetable. He then says Edge is playing with the devil and the devil always wins. Regal guaranteed he would take the IC belt from him. I have to say this is getting good, a nice build up with a lot of hatred from Regal I hope this continues because maybe when these two meet again it will be so much better than their match at Vengeance. Now it's the match that I have been waiting for since Monday night, Rock vs. Mr. Immunity Test. I read the spoilers like usual and the one who wrote them to one site said this was a good match. Ok you know how I feel about Test so I swear I kept an open mind. I'm not saying it was a terrible match, but I found it very slow and Test continually walked around threatening the ref. So for me it was action then long pauses. I wasn't impressed with Mr. Mic or disappointed the match I guess is what I expected. By the way even with Lance Storm interfering Rock won. Does that mean Test and Rock are done? One can only hope. Although I could take another Rock win over Test, that's cool with me. Ok after the match Y2J is really really MAD. He runs in and blames Flair for RVD coming out. Flair says he had nothing to do with that, and tells Chris he will be defending his title against none other than the Big Show. Jericho vs. Big Show again kind of what I expected. Show dominated throughout and Jericho looked like a little brat next to him. Jericho won without the help of Vince or Booker just with the help of one of his title belts. I guess the goal here is to let Jericho win anyway he can and then brag about how he can do it on his own without any help. After watching him tonight I still like him being a heel but as of now he's not the tough guy that I would like, but maybe in time that will change, like when Hunter comes back and those two begin what I hope will be a hell of a feud. But I'm getting off the subject, now to the main event. Austin vs. Booker First Blood Match. A very good match lots of action or should I say a lot of non-stop action. I liked what I saw between both men in fact I enjoyed this much better than I thought. Now for the big shocker, of course we have to have a run in and who do you think the person is? No not Test, Not Vince, but the Big Boss Man, now dressed up in a suit. My question is WHERE THE HELL HAS HE BEEN AND WHY HAVE HIM INVOLVED IN THE MAIN EVENT? Wow talk about not making sense. Am I supposed to get ready for an Austin/Bossman main event match? So much to look forward too. Ok Bossman hits Austin with the belt he bleeds he loses Booker wins. Austin leaves and there's Vince on the screen doing a Dr. Evil imitation. We get a close up of a very weird Vince laughing, laughing and laughing. I'll tell my husband oh God he's over acting again, and my husband tells me no it's perfect it shows just how crazy McMahon is. Well I still call it overacting. Anyway a fun show to watch, and no promo's with Vince makes for a hell of a show. They're taping Raw tonight and Smackdown Saturday night, so I have all the spoilers I could possibly want. I have no idea what to expect on Raw, although I guess Rock vs. Jericho might be the main event. But RVD is not out of the picture as far as Y2J goes, maybe that will happen for next week's Smackdown. I know one thing there's a chance BossMan will be there could I ask for anything more? ===================================================================== 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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