From here, Dave recaps the entire history of Wrestlemania. Of course, in kayfabe, Andre The Giant was billed at 7'4 (he wasn't) so even though Big Show is legitimately slightly taller than Andre was, they can't admit that without breaking the Andre mystique. But Bischoff convinced him to do it to be a team player and he eventually went along with it, though he wasn't happy. 7 months later, JWA was dead. The bill still has to pass the state senate and the governor (who has come out in support of it) before it becomes law. AEW has reportedly begun filming for a new reality television series for Warner Bros. But within a few months of his departure, it became clear just which Vince deserved the credit for WWF's success. Around the same time, a newspaper article ran with Maeda talking about having a friend in the Yakuza, which seems like a pretty thinly-veiled threat. Randy Savage pinned Ivan Putski using the ropes in 3:00. A week ago, David Flair was Vince Russo's psychopath sidekick hitting people with a crowbar. And on and on and on. Several WCW front office employees have made inquiries about transferring to new departments within the Time Warner family because there's concern that WCW may get sold or shut down and they don't want to be out of a job if it happens. Welcome back! WATCH: Jun Akiyama vs. Takao Omori - AJPW 2000. Just a heads up, there will be no Rewind posts for the rest of this week. It's a single elimination tournament, which means Akiyama has been eliminated. The Voices of Wrestling Podcast Network features a number of thoughtful, in-depth and passionate pro wrestling, sports and pop culture podcasts. Ratings news, Monday stuff is still the same. Many of the foreign wrestlers are closer to Mrs. Baba since, well, she writes the checks and the money's never late. Dave says there's rumors that it might be a work but he doesn't seem to think so. Dave is skeptical of this to say the least (turns out it was sort of true. There was also a lot in the article about how doctors are seeing more children with those kinds of injuries due to mimicking what they see on TV. Goldberg was quoted in an AP news story criticizing the direction of WCW. Anyway, Hall is expected to return in a few weeks (nah). That position used to belong to Linda McMahon but she has been given the new title of CEO while Vince remains Chairman of the Board. Ozaki ended up pressing charges against Maeda for the attack. Dave thinks he has a ton of potential. This week, with Russo not around, his whole gimmick changed to smooth talking ladies man and they had him making out with Miss Hancock. Heyman called an audible and sent Mikey Whipwreck out to tell the crowd to leave, which led to Raven making an unplanned run-in to give him a DDT, which is about all he could physically do. And on and on. 3. Mrs. Baba claimed in her press conference that Misawa had not worked hard as company president over the last year and that he had been planning to leave for a long time (the last part is true, more on that in a moment). Notes from WCW Nitro: the show opened with Horace Hogan challenging Goldberg because he was standing up for Hulk Hogan, who was injured. Foley was quoted as saying, "I was much more successful and, going over my taxes now, obviously a lot more profitable being more of a comedy character in 1999 than I ever was being the King of Hardcore. But the company continued free-falling under Sullivan. And guess what? It was founded in 1996 by Dave Meltzer, editor of the newsletter, the Wrestling Observer Newsletter.Like many other wrestling halls of fame, such as the WWE, Impact, ROH and WCW halls of fame, the Wrestling Observer . Dave thought it may be a plant, but the cameras cut away real quick and it wasn't acknowledged so it may have been real. Sting is out for the next month for.reasons, I guess. Variety ran a big story about some marketing changes that WCW is making. Publicly, Nippon TV isn't saying anything but it's believed that they are likely going to side with Misawa also, so AJPW's days on television may be numbered. But Russo was determined to turn him heel immediately because "omg swerves are awesome!" More talk about the future of WCW also. Cookie Notice Anyway, TokyoPop.com still exists. As a result, WCW has now fallen behind ECW in both PPV buyrates and live show attendance and TV ratings have continued to plummet. And Kimberly wasn't well liked because she'd gained a reputation of having a big head with people saying she was turning into the next Sable. The situation with AJPW's foreign wrestlers is uncertain. WCW head Brad Siegel called both Bischoff and Russo in for a meeting regarding the 6/7 Nitro rating because everyone was hyping that show up and it was expected to do a bigger rating than it did, but it pretty much flopped and Siegel wanted answers. This week's ratings fun: on Raw, the Crash Holly vs. Gerald Brisco match did double the rating of Nitro's Nash/Goldberg main event, which was Goldberg's first match since turning heel the night before. Bobcat looks like every other blonde valet (she's most famous for being the Godfather's ho that won the hardcore title). Exactly what the future of World Championship Wrestling and Extreme Championship Wrestling will end up being is up in the air, and it has never been a more harrowing time to be a full-time pro wrestler in the United States. Bill Busch informed Siegel that he would quit if Bischoff was brought back, and he made good on his word and walked out when he was told. October 23, 2000 Wrestling Observer Newsletter: The fates of WCW and ECW Dave Meltzer Nov 6, 2017 It's come down to the finish line in the story of how the wrestling industry is going to shake down. Ultimately, he did and he caned Raven to send everyone home happy, but he was upset about it and he had words with Heyman and Raven immediately after backstage. Oh yeah, speaking of.ECW is pretty jolly well fucked up right now too. New Jack and Tommy Dreamer will be appearing together in a small role in the CBS TV drama Early Edition. A lot of the WWF wrestlers are using new entrance music right now to promote the new WWF Aggression CD. I meanhe's not wrong. There's a lot of heat between the wrestlers also, with CMLL feeling like AAA makes a mockery of Lucha Libre by doing hardcore matches and using celebrities and other American-style things while AAA wrestlers argue that CMLL stars are old and out of touch and stuck in the past. Heyman wants to run the show in a new market because the first-time crowds are usually the best. It confirmed that virtually the entire company has decided to leave Motoko Baba. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. Jun Akiyama, who was expected to easily make it to the finals of the tournament, ended up losing to Takao Omori in a 7 second match in the very first round. "We are farther away form the kids and closer to pornography. Then shortly after, Jack Victory and Sandman got into a fight that left Sandman bleeding from a cut above the eye. He speculates that this means Steve Williams will probably end up in the finals against either Misawa, Kawada, Kobashi, or maaaaybe Vader (Williams didn't make the finals either. On Nitro this week, the announcers played it up big, labeling Russo as the man who turned WWF around and Bischoff as the one who turned WCW around several years ago and literally calling them the geniuses responsible for the current pro wrestling boom. But the crowd was expecting to be sent home happy and didn't leave and kept chanting for Sandman (who was helped out of the ring, selling an injury) and Raven (who was at the show but didn't work due to illness). But she looks good and is a better actor than most of the people cutting promos and thus she was given a lot of TV time. No word on why exactly this was decided, but Dave talks about a crazy looking DDT from the top rope that Dean Malenko did to Scotty 2 Hotty at Backlash that scared a lot of people backstage. Publicly, WCW has stated that Russo is just taking a few days off due to a concussion but lots of sources in WCW have confirmed that he quit. If you run into assholes all day, you're the asshole." In a real grappling session, Lesnar would eat Inoki for breakfast (I can't find this picture anywhere so I'm gonna need one of you internet sleuths to come through for me on this). Elix Skipper was in a serious car accident and will be out for a few weeks. Dave says the show was a huge let-down. New hires to take over various marketing jobs, new marketing strategies and promotions that the company is planning to run, etc. Last year during negotiations, USA had offered to increase the payment to $80,000 per episode in 2001, $85,000 in 2002 and $90,000 in 2003 as well as offering increases in payments for the other three weekly shows on USA but Vince McMahon turned them down. "It may take some people a while to forgive me, but not as long as it would take me to forgive myself if I didn't do this. Speaking of Kobashi, he blew his knee out last week and doctors have told him he needs surgery. The news has boosted WWF stock up to $17.31 per share (as I write this, WWF just announced the new FOX deal for Smackdown, which boosted the stock up to damn near $60 per share)(10/24 update: currently $80.64). From reports, apparently Maeda lost his temper for some reason and punched Ozaki and threw him into a table. They would go on to release probably hundreds of shoot videos in the future but they were still a new novelty at this point. Heyman has also had discussions with Fox but they haven't gone anywhere. Bad sponsor news for WCW also. Motoko Baba held her own press conference announcing that several foreign stars (Stan Hansen Steve Williams, Johnny Ace, Too Cold Scorpio, and others) will be on the next tour so it seems the foreigners are sticking with her. For anyone interested, I highly recommend signing up for the actual site at f4wonline and checking out the full archives. They wanted to name him God or Lord but the Turner standards and practices people shot that down and he still has no name (this ends up going nowhere but yes, it was indeed going to be Daniels before it got forgotten). Though for what it's worth, Dave says Big Show will probably become the tallest wrestler to ever headline a Wrestlemania, so hey, that's something! Most of the things that are listed as being banned in CZW and JAPW happen regularly in the main promotions too. This is basically taking statistical data from Sept. 1995 through May of 2000 (basically the entirety of the Monday Night Wars) and crunching the numbers to see who moves the needle on PPV, which is where the big money is, to determine who the real draws are. And no real storyline progression, just tons of hype about what the future for WCW holds under Bischoff and Russo. It would be unthinkable, but welcome to WCW in 2000. Literally 24 hours earlier, Raw sold out a different arena in the same city for Raw with over 12,500 paid fans. Many sources close to the situation seem to peg the WWF deal as being far more likely since at press time it appeared the Bischoff group had taken itself out of the running. Plus, Kawada and Misawa have never really gotten along, which is another reason he chose to stay with AJPW. And the biggest thing is that "extreme" shows must carry medical insurance on all the wrestlers and have 2 doctors and an ambulance on site at all times. It also saw Booker T drop the GI Bro gimmick and go back to Booker T, which was a relief to everyone in the company who hated what Russo was doing with Booker. Speaking of TNN and ECW, the back and forth war continued on this week's episode of ECW on TNN. Rounding out the top 5 are Hogan, Triple H, and Mick Foley. He also talked about how much wrestlers work hurt or push themselves too hard while still recovering or go back to wrestling too soon. Russo vs. Steiner was said to be especially upset with her being canned. He said he wants to be done with wrestling completely and only recently made an appearance at an indie show because he had already committed to it, even though he didn't want to do it. A public funeral was held for Jumbo Tsuruta in Japan, drawing an estimated 5,000 people. The previous night, when Steiner found out she wouldn't take a bump in an angle with him, he reportedly called her a nasty name and she overheard it and demanded an apology. DDP and Flair are on the shelf with injuries. One is called Urban Wrestling Federation and is gonna be based on hip-hop and target Spanish audiences and they're bringing in Koko B Ware to build it around. Notes from Nitro: it was the spring break show, so the crowd at least seemed to be having fun which is a break from normal WCW shows. By January (his last month in power), average attendance was down to 3,593. It was a 17,000 seat arena but since this was an experiment, they only put 2,000 of the tickets online for sale and they sold out within an hour, so needless to say it was a success and they'll probably start doing that more often. Most news reports seem to suggest WWF is likely going to win this one. and our Word is Rodman will work several shows and will be making 7-figures. Shawn Michaels is said to be itching to get back on television in the WWF, but right now, they have no interest. Realistically, it's probably going to be the most money that I've ever made. Giants Stadium in New York and Soldier Field in Chicago have officially been named as 2 of the home fields for upcoming XFL teams. It's believed Misawa may have a non-compete clause in his previous contract that hasn't run out yet. They were lying to pad their list and that plays a big part in the later lawsuit). - So things are getting mighty crowded on TBS, in what would turn out to be a giant turning point for the wrestling industry. But by this point, Sandman was already in the showers and thought he was done for the night and he legitimately didn't want to come back out. NCAA heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar signed a WWF developmental deal this week and will start in OVW this summer. 4. The PTC claims more than 30 advertisers have pulled out of Smackdown due to their efforts, which is misleading because some (like Wrigleys) pulled out of all wrestling advertising long before the PTC started their campaign (that claim comes back to bite the PTC later in court. The New Jersey state assembly passed a bill to regulate "extreme wrestling." Vampiro beat Sting in an inferno match, with "Sting" (a stunt double) being set on fire and knocked off the top of the video screen and Dave hated this. 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