Mid-Week Report

By Bill

Andre The Giant as Bigfoot on The Six Million Dollar Man

Trivia Question: How many times was the Crockett Cup Tag Team Tournament held? Who was the only man to make it to the finals twice and never win?
The mailbag:
- Chris K. writes:
  I read your Thunder report and saw your question about Ray Traylor. Well, he is overseeing a construction site just behind my townhouse in Dallas, Georgia. One morning when I was getting ready for work, I looked out my back window and saw a man who looked just like Ray Traylor. So, my wife stuck her head out the door and asked him if he was that famous wrestler Ray Traylor. He said "Yes, sometimes."
  Just thought you would like to know.
- Regarding two week's ago Thunder, Grimace writes:
  During the Norman Smiley (God of Jobbers) / Alex "Armadillo Pants" Wright match, I believe it was Tony Sidewalkslamschiavonne who said that "The crowd here is loving this scientific matchup," and literally (proper usage of literally) two seconds later, some moron in the crowd chants "Boring".
  No one reads a crowd like Tony.
What a difference a week makes. Seeing as {Pro} is definitely canceled, and Aldo has way too much time on his hands on Thursdays (no joke), I am going to let Aldo do all the Thursday reports for awhile. As for me, having a little more free time means I might actually post the 37 Brushes With Greatness I've got in my inbox one of these days. I will check in with my mid-week report, so for those of you who check here every day, you might actually see something on Thursday mornings for a change.
I saw on the Web that a lot of people who went to see Nitro live were disappointed. And, as I watched the end of the show, the boos were obvious. Shoot, I know I was really disappointed at the last Nitro I went to, although the Thunder back in March was pretty cool. Caveat emptor, I guess, although I can't remember ever having a "bad" time at a non-televised house show. I dunno, maybe great TV precludes a great arena show.
I can tell from my e-mail that a lot of people don't like the Scott Hall drunk angle. I know almost nothing about the wrestling "business", but one thing I learned from Arn Anderson's autobiography is that many of the truly memorable "angles" of the past were, in fact, based on real-life.
For example, the whole "Real Nature Boy" angle with Buddy Landel. Buddy, did, in fact, idolize Ric Flair in real life. Same thing with Ole Anderson getting kicked out of the Horsemen. That wasn't just something made up for TV, he no-showed two shows in a row and was kicked out. What you saw play out on TV was what was, in effect, going on in real-life. Everyone makes the assumption that the events are not "real".
So, the Scott Hall drunk angle is nothing out of the ordinary, really. Would they have done it ten years ago? Probably not. But, then again, ten years ago no one would have heard of his supposed drinking problem, either.
I'm going to resist the urge to write ten paragraphs on how much this whole thing with Warrior and Hogan really sucks. However, as ridiculous as the "Warrior in the mirror" thing was, it gets even worse when you consider that supposedly only Hogan could see it. Then how did we see it? No matter how much you suspend your disbelief, the brunt of the bit is logically that Bischoff is the only person who couldn't see it. Awful, truly awful.

Trivia Answer:
Question 1: Three. 1986 (Road Warriors), 1987 (Dusty Rhodes & Nikita Koloff), 1988 (Sting & Lex Luger).
Question 2: Tully Blanchard, in 1987 with Lex Luger and in 1988 with Arn Anderson. Luger made it to the finals twice, and won it the second time.

Mid-Week Report

By Bill

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