I have a trivia question you might be interested in. I recently saw that New Turner Classic "Paradise Alley" on TBS recently. I believe it was Sylvester Stallone's first movie after "Rocky." Anyhow, Terry Funk plays a wrestler (what a surprise) in the movie and probably gives the best performance, since all the other major players loaded up on ham.
There's a scene set at a Christmas Eve party in a sleazy bar, complete with Tom Waits (?!?) croaking out "Merry Christmas, Sucker." Terry Funk gets a Christmas present and is very happy. What, knee replacements? No, a nice new set of upper false teeth!
In other Turner related stuff, I saw Andy Kindler, the Artist formerly Known as Jamison, hosting a "Dinner & A Movie" type of deal between commercial breaks called "Road Trip". He's as annoying as ever.
In response to Joey D.'s letter, I heard on some wrestling board that the reason the Misfits In Action has two Majors is because originally, Major Stash was to be called Private Stash, but he didn't like the original name.
Apparently, he thought the rank of Private was too low. Oh and by the way, what exactly is the elite military group known as the Misfits actually fighting? If it's goofy storylines and angles, it sure isn't working.
About the candidates for Eric Bischoff's announcement, specifically "A new time slot for WCW Wednesday Thunder: 3:00 - 5:00 a.m."
You know, that might seem like a big joke to you who are used to watching wrestling on prime time, but as a Swedish wrestling fan, that's almost exactly what happened here.
Our only wrestling show of the week, which was a one-hour-show, a mix of Worldwide, Saturday Night and Nitro, was moved into a time slot around 2:00 or 3:00 a.m. every Friday night. (This of course resulted in bad ratings and soon after it was taken off the air which left us completely without a wrestling show.)
So I think I speak for many of my countrymen (at least those who are into wrestling) when I say that we would kill for having Thunder on at 3:00 - 5:00 a.m. ;-)
You pointed out in the Mid-Week Report that WCW.com no longer recognizes the lineage of the TV Title. HOWEVER, it is still on the site. Because WCW.com officials, for whatever reason, did not get rid of the page, it can still be viewed at...http://www.wcw.com/2000/superstars/tvAccording to them, there is "No Current Champion". If you really dig around in the "Superstars" section, you can find some interesting stuff, including the profiles for Benoit, Malenko, Saturn, and Guerrero, as well as an old profile of former WCW Cruiserweight Blitzkrieg. It's sort of like a trip through WCW.com's attic. I just thought it would be worth pointing out.
Back in the old AWA days where I cut my teeth as a fan, we had the World Tag Team Champs: "Handsome" Harley Race and "Pretty Boy" Larry Hennig.
That was in the pre-Larry "The Axe" Hennig era. When Race left the AWA for greener pastures, he was replaced as Hennig's partner with "Luscious" Lars Anderson. It's amazing what you'll swallow as an 8-year-old mark.
I have noticed that no one seems to be able to make sense out of Pops, regarding his name not being "funny". We can assume his last name is also Rection. Maybe Pops' middle initial is "E". So that would mean that Pops' full name is Pops E. Rection. As in, pops an erection?
Of course this would only be funny in Russo's world, but it was just a thought.
During The Demon vs. Vampiro match last night, my brother came downstairs to talk to me just as Vamp was climbing the little scaffolding-like thing. Showing how naive I remain as to the state of WCW, I turned to my brother and said,"Shut up, this is going to be cool".Of course, instead we saw a flying axehandle, which apparently was grounds for DQ or something, because the bell rang.
To quote Easy E, the man behind the sucking, BITE ME!
Ahhh...to hell with it!