WCW:

* Road Warrior Hawk was at the sold-out June 7 Center Stage tapings. He beat
Manny Fernandez, then he and Sting beat Harlem Heat, then Tony interviewed
him and Sting. Hawk is much smaller than in his roid warrior days, but is
still impressively large. He also won a match against some jobber.

* At the same tapings, there is an impressive DCO match between J B Badd and
D D Page. The high spot is JBB jumping from the mat to the top rope, then
cross-body-blocking Page and Max Muscle on the floor. Tony then interviewed
DDP, Max, and the Doll about what DDP did to Dave Sullivan at the Great
American Bash.

* If that wasn't bad enough, Sting was filmed for matches to be aired after
the Bash at the Beach wearing the US title, and the Nasty Boys were filmed
with the World tag team titles.

* Ron Reese (the 7'2" pupil of Big John Studd) has joined the WCW training
school. Wasn't he supposed to join the WWF last year? In any case, he's a
better worker than the other tall guy WCW's planning to bring in for Hogan
to demolish (Paul Wight?) but doesn't have the muscular definition.

* Eric Bischoff got the go-ahead from Ted Turner to add a weekly two-hour
WCW show on TNT every Monday to compete with MNRaw. They should have the
debut in the first part of August if they can assemble a team and get
everything ready by then. The event will be held in a somewhat large arena
and will be live every week or two. To appeal to as great an audience as
possible, they may show some non-live New Japan matches and some older
WCW/NWA matches from the archives.

* Tony S announced that Bockwinkel will make a big announcement about Vader
and Hulk next Sunday at the live Main Event.

* Marcus Alexander Bagwell had to have is cosmetic calf implants removed
when they became infected. He went with the implants in a continuing effort
to de-roid. He is on crutches and is out of the ring indefinitely. Good
thing he has two more years on his contract.

* Harlem Heat Stevie Ray is wearing a black t-shirt under his wrestling
outfit to hid the scars/stitches/whatever from a recent motorcycle accident.
Don't he and Booger^H^H^Hker T already have hideous Sabu-like scars all over
their backs from barbed-wire-type matches?

* 8/17/95: live Clash of Champions from Daytona Beach, Florida.

* It didn't take my childhood idol Gordon Solie long to land another job
(see last week's Hack Notes). A Florida syndicator plans to use The Dean of
Wrestling to do voice-overs for some Japanese matches that are being
marketed for US television.

The Hulkster and Randy Savage will be in Bloomington, Minnesota this coming
weekend for the opening of the first of HH's PastaMania wresteraunts. If
anyone plans to go, drop me some email.

WWF:

* Waltman is enjoying his vacation and will be back in the WWF in July.
Local RSPW and PWA regular Peterson has reported that he appears to be
unhurt while attending PWA matches here in Minneapolis.

* Benoit left the arena immediately after his WWF tryout (some sources claim
he was feeling some of the ill-effects related to quitting steroid use
cold-turkey) so he didn't get feedback on the match (McMahon was very
pleased, as I mentioned last week). Benoit may not be as gung-ho about the
WWF since he's learned that he wouldn't be able to continue the New Japan
tours (which was the impression he received before the tryout). In any case,
he plans to honor his recently signed appearance for ECW this Saturday (June
17). At the time of his WWF tryout, he did not have any pending obligations
with ECW. No WWF contract has been signed as of yet.

* Dustin has alsonot signed the contract that the WWF has presented to him.
All sources say that he *will* sign, but they haven't worked out a gimmick
yet (i.e. same story as the last three weeks). All the gimmicks that are
currently being considered have Dustin as heel.

* J P LaFitte is legit blind in one eye.

* The plans for Roadie when he's back in wrestling condition are to have him
feud with Jarrett, when JJ gets jealous, being the lesser wrestler and the
lesser singer of the two.

ECW: 

* Shane Douglas was backstage at the latest WWF television tapings in
Pensylvania. Sources say he is legit unhappy with the current direction of
ECW (which I personally am not convinced isn't just a work). He plans to
give up teaching and wants to go to medical school in 14 months.

* I spent the last couple of weeks watching the latest 12 or so shows of ECW
that I recorded but never found time to watch. I must say that I'm
impressed. Sabu is as great as I remember him from his matchup in
Minneapolis a couple years back. Mikey Whipwreck and Public Enemy can do a
lot of the high-risk moves to fill the void left by Sabu. Cactus Jack's
interviews are better than ever! Woman is as hot as ever. Great audience
participation. Shane's interviewing skills are up 50% from when he was in
WCW (up to about Lex Luger's level, whom Shane seems to be trying to
immitate) and his mat skills are up 25% from the same timie period (also,
coincidentally, up to about Lex Luger's level).

MISC:

* One of my boyhood idols, Terry Gordy (one-third of the reason to watch old
Freebird matches and the only reason to watch old MVC matches) was scheduled
to start with SMW at the June 12 television tapings. Any netters attend?

* Dennis Coraluzzo has established a working agreement with the IWA out of
Japan according to Wade. I hope all goes well, since I have him to thank for
NWA/PWA GrandSlam I. :-)


The usual disclaimer: I don't have the time to read an unmoderated newsgroup
anymore, so some of this info may already be old.

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