Post by Pennyroyal_Tea (admin) on May 23, 2005 10:16:59 GMT -5
Somewhere in this lot..
The follow press release is absolutely legitimate. WEW, Women’s Extreme Wrestling, is running what they claim is their fourteenth PPV (and or TV taping, the press release is rather vague). The show takes place on May 14th at the Electric Factory in Philadelphia, PA and will air on PPV "in July". The two top names appear to be Stephanie Bellars (the former Gorgeous George in WCW who now, due to trademark issues, is being referred to as The Gorgeous One George) and Francine. No Missy? Get a load of this description, the utmost in professionalism: "WEW, Women’s Extreme Wrestling, announces the fourteenth PPV taping of its all girl, all hitting, all kicking, all punching, table smashing blood bath featuring rough tough nasty girls from wEw plus the hottest butts in the business!! Taking on all comers. Featured matches will include a WORLD TITLE MATCH FOR THE UNDISPUTED WEW CHAMPIONSHIP. Additional matches to include a Bra and Panty match, Hair vs. Hair match, an old school Hard Core Wrestling Match?? (what’s this) plus much much more PLUS, PLUS, PLUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THE P.W.O., WEW World Champion Tai ‘Killer’ Weed, ‘The Exotic Latin Goddess ‘Isis’, ‘The Hot Ass Nurses’, T&A, Pryme Tyme Amy Lee, PWO." Yeah, they list PWO twice, once with periods between initials and once without. Maybe the one with the periods is the babyface because she/they follow the proper rules of grammar. Who would not want to see a team called "The Hot Ass Nurses"? And I can only imagine what PWO stands for... Some ROH news and notes. Xavier is out six months with a shoulder injury; June 12th in Dayton has Second City Saints vs. Prophecy vs. Briscoes vs. a mystery team in an elimination match where every fall will have a different stipulation... Down South Championship Wrestling actually announced on their website that Steve Austin was heading in. They didn’t mention a date, only that it would happen "soon". I never knew Austin was so amped to do US indy dates... This is interesting. Court Bauer of Major League Wrestling is back, this time with a new executive producer for his next venture: TEDDY HART~! H2 Pro-Wrestling (not sure what that means) debuts June 26th at the Roxy in Boston, MA, and their first press release claims the names signed for the first event include Hart, the Havana Pitbulls, Jack Evans, Jill Love, and Los Maximos... From Dan Lovranski of the LAW radio show (and also his band, the Bruiser Brodies): "I went to the premiere last night of the wrestling documentary ‘Lipstick & Dynamite, Piss & Vinegar: The First Ladies of Wrestling.’ The director Ruth Leitman was there along with Penny Banner, Ida May Martinez and Ella Waldek. Overall the documentary is good with the ladies being interviewed separately and interweaving the history of women’s wrestling together from their memories. At times the women talk like the matches were shoots but the director presents it in such a way as that you easily question what they say. They contradict and grumble about each other. They tell the story of Billy Wolfe and how he dominated the women as well as how Moolah dominated them later on. They touched on today’s product but they are just like the men, with the ‘its entertainment, not wrestling’ outlook. Yet they showed the whole Moolah/Cindi Lauper storyline, the very beginnings of sports entertainment. They claimed that the male promoters would bring them into town when attendance was down and the numbers would go back up. They also brought up something that would be useful today. They would train for awhile and learn the basics and then get a match. If they didn’t cut it, they went back to train some more. Vince McMahon came off looking like a god, thanks to Moolah and Mae Young (whose outrageous WWF stints were shown as courageous). All the women came off as bonafide characters, often more colourful than their male counterparts. Martinez is now the Yodeling Grandma and has put out a CD (She also did a number the night before at the Horseshoe Tavern show celebrating the film). Waldek is kinda like a female Dick The Bruiser and Gladys Gillem is like something out of a twisted John Waters movie, swearing up a blue streak and running down everyone. She tells a story about meeting Mae Young, who walked up to Gillem and said ‘Hello Fuckface, who the hell are you?’ Much of the vintage footage used can be seen on the Something Weird DVD ‘Wrestling Women USA.’ They also intertwined lots of old clips of the girls on shows like What’s My Line and To Tell The Truth. For wrestling fans that know the score and can see past the bull, its a fun film because all the women are very colourful characters. It premieres in New York next week and Moolah and Mae Young will be at that screening. I recommend checking it out"... Buff Bagwell has an appearance at the Sirens Gentleman’s Club on May 5th as host of a Women’s Championship Pudding Wrestling event... Notes from a Larry Zbyzsko interview on Between the Ropes radio. He talked about his tendency to stall for time before matches, and he said according to agent Grizzly Smith, the longest he ever stalled beforehand was sixteen minutes. I would have expected more from Larry, like at least twenty or twenty-five. He said the point was that it didn’t matter if people complained about his stalling, he got reactions that many other guys did not get. He said the Living Legend deal was still in litigation with WWE. He said he had a common law trademark on it and had told WWE this, and their response was that they were going to keep using the term anyway. He said Bruno Sammartino first suggested he use it, because people were calling Bruno a Living Legend despite the fact that it was not his style, and Larry said it was a perfect fit for himself as a heel. He claimed one of Bruno’s problems with Vince was that he was promised a share of the WWF when Vince Sr. died, but never got it... Lodi did an interesting little interview on Get in the Ring radio last week. He’s been out for nineteen months after undergoing neck surgery. He said this was the same surgery that Benoit and Edge had undergone, and that he’d had another surgery previously in 1994. Perhaps sometimes God sends us messages. He said his family and friends were calling him crazy to return, but he said he hated every second of life when he was recovering and couldn’t wrestle. Oh boy. He said his insurance didn’t transfer when he moved from Georgia to North Carolina, so he was in the hospital with a broken neck without insurance and ended up with a bill in excess of $100,000. I’d have just had them take my head off. He said he kept putting off an MRI to go wrestle, and when he finally got it done, the doctor told him he wasn’t even allowed to leave the office, because one bad fall and he’d never walk again. He didn’t have the best things to say about TNA these days, which isn’t the smartest idea when you’re trying to break back into the business and WWE hasn’t come calling. He talked about some of the funny signs he used to hold up in WCW, and said some of the best ideas came from, of all people, Dean Malenko. He said he went into rehab in 2000, and after the surgery was just taking a few pain pills here or there. He said if his doctor had known of his previous drug history, he wouldn’t have prescribed him anything. He talked about the drug policy in WCW, which was basically that you got tested if you were an undercard guy but not if you were a top guy. He said one day he was told he had to take a drug test, and he told the doctor that he’d just started taking steroids and therefore his results would probably be off the charts. However, right around that period he started getting a push as one half of the West Hollywood Blondes, and the results of his test somehow never came back and it was never mentioned again. He said he was never big into pain pills, and in fact one day he took a single pill and ended up falling asleep in a tanning bed after the place had closed. He said Raven had to go in there and drag him out, then made fun of him for getting zonked off one pill... DDP’s first match back will take place on May 15th in Concho, OK at the Lucky Star Casino for Dusty Rhodes’ Action Zone 1 promotion. No word yet on an opponent... Kevin Nash will be working the May 21st Big Time Wrestling show in Newark, CA against Aaron Aguilera.
Credit: liveaudiowrestling.com
The follow press release is absolutely legitimate. WEW, Women’s Extreme Wrestling, is running what they claim is their fourteenth PPV (and or TV taping, the press release is rather vague). The show takes place on May 14th at the Electric Factory in Philadelphia, PA and will air on PPV "in July". The two top names appear to be Stephanie Bellars (the former Gorgeous George in WCW who now, due to trademark issues, is being referred to as The Gorgeous One George) and Francine. No Missy? Get a load of this description, the utmost in professionalism: "WEW, Women’s Extreme Wrestling, announces the fourteenth PPV taping of its all girl, all hitting, all kicking, all punching, table smashing blood bath featuring rough tough nasty girls from wEw plus the hottest butts in the business!! Taking on all comers. Featured matches will include a WORLD TITLE MATCH FOR THE UNDISPUTED WEW CHAMPIONSHIP. Additional matches to include a Bra and Panty match, Hair vs. Hair match, an old school Hard Core Wrestling Match?? (what’s this) plus much much more PLUS, PLUS, PLUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THE P.W.O., WEW World Champion Tai ‘Killer’ Weed, ‘The Exotic Latin Goddess ‘Isis’, ‘The Hot Ass Nurses’, T&A, Pryme Tyme Amy Lee, PWO." Yeah, they list PWO twice, once with periods between initials and once without. Maybe the one with the periods is the babyface because she/they follow the proper rules of grammar. Who would not want to see a team called "The Hot Ass Nurses"? And I can only imagine what PWO stands for... Some ROH news and notes. Xavier is out six months with a shoulder injury; June 12th in Dayton has Second City Saints vs. Prophecy vs. Briscoes vs. a mystery team in an elimination match where every fall will have a different stipulation... Down South Championship Wrestling actually announced on their website that Steve Austin was heading in. They didn’t mention a date, only that it would happen "soon". I never knew Austin was so amped to do US indy dates... This is interesting. Court Bauer of Major League Wrestling is back, this time with a new executive producer for his next venture: TEDDY HART~! H2 Pro-Wrestling (not sure what that means) debuts June 26th at the Roxy in Boston, MA, and their first press release claims the names signed for the first event include Hart, the Havana Pitbulls, Jack Evans, Jill Love, and Los Maximos... From Dan Lovranski of the LAW radio show (and also his band, the Bruiser Brodies): "I went to the premiere last night of the wrestling documentary ‘Lipstick & Dynamite, Piss & Vinegar: The First Ladies of Wrestling.’ The director Ruth Leitman was there along with Penny Banner, Ida May Martinez and Ella Waldek. Overall the documentary is good with the ladies being interviewed separately and interweaving the history of women’s wrestling together from their memories. At times the women talk like the matches were shoots but the director presents it in such a way as that you easily question what they say. They contradict and grumble about each other. They tell the story of Billy Wolfe and how he dominated the women as well as how Moolah dominated them later on. They touched on today’s product but they are just like the men, with the ‘its entertainment, not wrestling’ outlook. Yet they showed the whole Moolah/Cindi Lauper storyline, the very beginnings of sports entertainment. They claimed that the male promoters would bring them into town when attendance was down and the numbers would go back up. They also brought up something that would be useful today. They would train for awhile and learn the basics and then get a match. If they didn’t cut it, they went back to train some more. Vince McMahon came off looking like a god, thanks to Moolah and Mae Young (whose outrageous WWF stints were shown as courageous). All the women came off as bonafide characters, often more colourful than their male counterparts. Martinez is now the Yodeling Grandma and has put out a CD (She also did a number the night before at the Horseshoe Tavern show celebrating the film). Waldek is kinda like a female Dick The Bruiser and Gladys Gillem is like something out of a twisted John Waters movie, swearing up a blue streak and running down everyone. She tells a story about meeting Mae Young, who walked up to Gillem and said ‘Hello Fuckface, who the hell are you?’ Much of the vintage footage used can be seen on the Something Weird DVD ‘Wrestling Women USA.’ They also intertwined lots of old clips of the girls on shows like What’s My Line and To Tell The Truth. For wrestling fans that know the score and can see past the bull, its a fun film because all the women are very colourful characters. It premieres in New York next week and Moolah and Mae Young will be at that screening. I recommend checking it out"... Buff Bagwell has an appearance at the Sirens Gentleman’s Club on May 5th as host of a Women’s Championship Pudding Wrestling event... Notes from a Larry Zbyzsko interview on Between the Ropes radio. He talked about his tendency to stall for time before matches, and he said according to agent Grizzly Smith, the longest he ever stalled beforehand was sixteen minutes. I would have expected more from Larry, like at least twenty or twenty-five. He said the point was that it didn’t matter if people complained about his stalling, he got reactions that many other guys did not get. He said the Living Legend deal was still in litigation with WWE. He said he had a common law trademark on it and had told WWE this, and their response was that they were going to keep using the term anyway. He said Bruno Sammartino first suggested he use it, because people were calling Bruno a Living Legend despite the fact that it was not his style, and Larry said it was a perfect fit for himself as a heel. He claimed one of Bruno’s problems with Vince was that he was promised a share of the WWF when Vince Sr. died, but never got it... Lodi did an interesting little interview on Get in the Ring radio last week. He’s been out for nineteen months after undergoing neck surgery. He said this was the same surgery that Benoit and Edge had undergone, and that he’d had another surgery previously in 1994. Perhaps sometimes God sends us messages. He said his family and friends were calling him crazy to return, but he said he hated every second of life when he was recovering and couldn’t wrestle. Oh boy. He said his insurance didn’t transfer when he moved from Georgia to North Carolina, so he was in the hospital with a broken neck without insurance and ended up with a bill in excess of $100,000. I’d have just had them take my head off. He said he kept putting off an MRI to go wrestle, and when he finally got it done, the doctor told him he wasn’t even allowed to leave the office, because one bad fall and he’d never walk again. He didn’t have the best things to say about TNA these days, which isn’t the smartest idea when you’re trying to break back into the business and WWE hasn’t come calling. He talked about some of the funny signs he used to hold up in WCW, and said some of the best ideas came from, of all people, Dean Malenko. He said he went into rehab in 2000, and after the surgery was just taking a few pain pills here or there. He said if his doctor had known of his previous drug history, he wouldn’t have prescribed him anything. He talked about the drug policy in WCW, which was basically that you got tested if you were an undercard guy but not if you were a top guy. He said one day he was told he had to take a drug test, and he told the doctor that he’d just started taking steroids and therefore his results would probably be off the charts. However, right around that period he started getting a push as one half of the West Hollywood Blondes, and the results of his test somehow never came back and it was never mentioned again. He said he was never big into pain pills, and in fact one day he took a single pill and ended up falling asleep in a tanning bed after the place had closed. He said Raven had to go in there and drag him out, then made fun of him for getting zonked off one pill... DDP’s first match back will take place on May 15th in Concho, OK at the Lucky Star Casino for Dusty Rhodes’ Action Zone 1 promotion. No word yet on an opponent... Kevin Nash will be working the May 21st Big Time Wrestling show in Newark, CA against Aaron Aguilera.
Credit: liveaudiowrestling.com