From: hekunze@watmath.waterloo.edu (Herb Kunze)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.pro-wrestling
Subject: Wrestling TidBits   -   10/17
Message-ID: <1991Oct17.194103.12266@watmath.waterloo.edu>
Date: 17 Oct 91 19:41:03 GMT
Organization: University of Waterloo
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 - Ron Garvin is back in the hospital in Nebraska, following some
   at home recuperation after his car accident.  He's slated for
   surgery tomorrow.

 - Steve DiSalvo is recovering quite well from his heart attack.

 - Did everybody else notice that during the Halloween Havoc report
   segments on the WCW shows, when they show the contract signing
   for the main event between Ron Simmons and Lex Luger, they've
   deleted Luger saying that Simmons could be his chauffeur?  This
   remark makes it through on the syndies, but not on TBS.  I guess
   somebody decided that the racial overtones were in poor taste.

 - An interesting remark comes from Thomas Jipping of Coalitions
   for America regarding the Clarence Thomas hearings in the US.
   In reference to the left, Jipping says "Their tactics were of
   the calibre of world championship wrestling, the Persian Gulf
   war, and Hurricane Hugo combined."  Does he know Dusty Rhodes
   and Jim Herd personally?

 - As reported by Charlie Gavinelli, Paul E. Dangerously was suspended
   with pay for leaking word of a title-vs.-title match between Lex
   Luger and Jerry Lawler to his friend Eddie Gilbert.  Jim Ross
   will do commentary alone on the shows that Paul used to work.

 - The WWF's PPV on December 3rd will only run two hours.  Something
   will take place at Survivor Series to warrant this show.

 - Madusa Micelli worked the last set of WCW tapings.  It seems that
   Jim Ross wasn't lying.  She is in as a wrestler along with some
   other women like Leilani Kai and Judy Martin, so I guess WCW is
   going to add yet another title to their organization.

 - As we've all guessed, Dusty Rhodes will be Ron Simmon's "manager"
   at Halloween Havoc.  Furthermore, Mr. Hughes won't be there, so
   we'll have only Dusty and Harley Race on the outside of the ring,
   and knowing Dusty, eventually on the inside of the ring.

 - Sting renewed his contract with WCW.

 - The WWF's tour of England is going very well.  Every show is
   a sellout and reports were that Wembley sold out in under an hour.
   Roddy Piper and Davey Boy Smith are headlining the WWF tour, for
   obvious reasons.
     London's Royal Albert Hall held the first Grand Sumo tournament
   ever outside of Japan.  Akebono beat the Killer Whale on this
   show.  When the big guys got their butts out of the building, it
   was time for the WWF to start the tour.
     Key results from the first couple of shows had Ric Flair beating
   Tito Santana in RAH and Kerry von Erich in Wembley.

 - Looks like Paul Orndorff has dodged the offers of the WWF and will
   sign with WCW again in the near future.

 - Big Van Vader starts with WCW again in November.  There's talk that
   he'll work Halloween Havoc if Scott Steiner can't work the show.

 - I can't wait for those Lex Luger vs. Bill Kazmaier matches before
   the end of the year.  ;-)  They've all but told us that Ron Simmons
   won't win the title.  Jim Ross has been hinting at Lex Luger vs.
   Rick Steiner and Luger vs. Kaz as future programs.  Of course,
   Lex Luger's contract is up at the end of November and the WWF
   is putting out the feelers to him, so anything is possible.

 - Lots of talk that Rick Rude will be coming into WCW finally.  He's
   expected to be the mystery Phantom at Halloween Havoc.

 - We have a local talk show taped in Toronto called "Shirley," hosted
   by Shirley Solomon.  Earlier this week she had female boxers and
   wrestlers as her guest.  To be exact she had one pro and one amateur
   from each sport.  The focus was on whether women should participate
   in brutal sports.  The female pro-wresting guest was Yukon Erica,
   who says that her manager (not named) knew Yukon Eric - hence, her
   name.  Anyhow, Shirley asked the women if by fighting other women
   on TV and in arenas, they gave a message that women fight each
   other so it's okay to hit women.  Basically, is their sport
   responsible for any increase in violence against women?  Erica
   (whose real name was on the screen, but I didn't bother to write
   it down) commented that in Japan, women's pro-wrestling is revered
   and incredibly popular, yet there is nobody there blaming any social
   ills on the sport.  Shirley was nonplussed.  A reported from Ottawa
   came on the show and called pro-wrestling a sham and a farce, and
   Erica offered to teach him the ropes.  It was all pretty silly, but
   Erica never gave in that the sport was booked.  She did complain
   that no North American promoters were using women as athletes these
   days.

                                                             Herb...