March 18, 1991
- It's the end of an era as the final weekly wrestling card takes place at the Mid South Coliseum in Memphis tonight. It was one of the few buildings in the U.S. still holding weekly shows and routinely drawing crowds of 1,000 or more, every Monday night (this ended up being temporary and wrestling returned the Coliseum a few months later)
- (Reddit side note: I'm from Memphis. My dad took me to several of the latter-day Coliseum shows when I was a little kid in the late-80s/early-90s. I still vividly remember being in the front row when Jerry Lawler threw a fireball at a guy named Leatherface. Years later, I was there in 2003 when Moondog Spot died in the ring. They still held the occasional wrestling show in that building all the way up to 2006 when it finally closed for good. Now, in 2016, there's a debate on what to do with the place, since it's just sitting there vacant. Some people want to see it demolished, but there's a big push to save it and turn it into a museum or even a location for a wrestling Hall of Fame (they've even offered it to WWE as a location for their HOF but WWE wasn't interested). As of now, the building is just standing there abandoned. I drive past it every now and then. Looks sad.)
- Rosanne Barr and Tom Arnold have also pulled out of Wrestlemania, no reason given.
- Word has come out that Sensational Sherri will be joining up with Ted Dibiase after WM7, which pretty much gives away the ending of the Macho Man/Warrior retirement match, but everyone already knows Macho Man is losing anyway.
- Herb Abrams' company the UWF is bouncing checks to wrestlers and Honky Tonk Man is making a stink of it, contacting the state athletic commission about it. Abrams is claiming he can't pay him due to ongoing legal issues with WWF (TL;DR - Vince is suing the shit out of him). However, the athletic commission refuses to allow UWF's next show to take place until he pays the people who's checks bounced.
- Pegasus Kid (Chris Benoit) won the WWF Lightheavyweight Championship, which is apparently being defended in Mexico's UWA promotion for some reason but still carries the WWF name and lineage. Well then. So there's you some trivia: Chris Benoit's first WWF title win technically happened in 1991.
- Speaking of Mexico, the main event of a recent show there saw Fuerza Guerrera vs. Gallo Tapado in a mask vs. mask match. Tapado came to the ring with a live chicken (sorta the way Koko B. Ware comes to the ring with a bird). At one point, Guerrera grabbed the chicken and started FUCKING HITTING TAPADO WITH IT!! He beat the man with a live chicken. Meltzer reports that the chicken kept trying to fly away but Guerrera just kept pulling it back and kept hitting Tapado with it. Holy shit.
- An episode of Quantum Leap will be airing in a couple of months, with Terry Funk playing a role.
- Former Stampede wrestler (and tag team partner to both Owen Hart and Chris Benoit) Ben Bassarab recently plead guilty to aggravated assault in relation to a case where he and two other men beat a man senseless for accidentally flushing $30,000 worth of cocaine down the toilet when he mistook a cable repair man for a police raid.
- Buddy Landel has been fired from WCW for blowing snot on a hotel employee. He was already on thin ice anyway and this was the last straw.
- Arn Anderson is out of action with a torn groin.
- Missy Hyatt and Jason Hervey are not engaged, regardless of what the tabloids may be reporting.
- WCW is creating a masked character named Black Blood. The role may end up being played by Kevin Nash, who is currently one half of the Master Blasters tag team or by Billy Jack Haynes (it ended up being Haynes).
- Also, WCW is negotiating with Burt Reynolds to come in and do something with Ron Simmons at the upcoming May PPV. Reynolds is reportedly a WCW fan because of Simmons, who was a star football player at FSU, where Reynolds also attended.
- A Media Watch survey in New Zealand found that WWF wrestling was the most violent show on television. Due to the pressure from this and the country cracking down on TV violence, WWF had their show canceled in New Zealand. The show wasn't doing great ratings anyway.
- The Veterans of Foreign Wars in Scranton, PA announced plans to picket last month's WWF show in the area due to the Sgt. Slaughter angle. In response, WWF pulled Slaughter from the show.