June 03, 1991
- Slow news week I guess, since Dave spends over two full pages writing about why finishes in wrestling matter and the purpose of a good finish to a match and how WCW is dropping the ball on that. Which, yeah man, agreed but did it really require 20% of the entire issue this week?
- Herb Abrams' UWF PPV "Beach Brawl", scheduled for next week, isn't looking good. Most of the PPV distributors don't want to carry it because it's expected to be a disastrous buyrate. And so it was.
- WWF has fired Bruce Prichard, better known as Brother Love. No word yet on why. When the Brother Love character was retired earlier this year, Prichard already had one foot out the door. Rumor is he'll be showing up in WCW soon, either as a color commentator or manager (nope).
- Vince McMahon's WBF (World Bodybuilding Federation) has it's first show is scheduled for 2 weeks. Meanwhile, IFBB is firing shots. They held their own show, and the stage was set up like a graveyard. There were 13 tombstones, each bearing the name of one of WBF's bodybuilders. Then IFBB bodybuilders came out with sledgehammers and smashed the tombstones. Points for style I guess.
- Rick Rude will be debuting for All Japan next week.
- In New Japan, Tony Halme (later known in WWF as Ludvig Borga) was scheduled to feud with Big Van Vader, but instead, has cancelled all his appearances through September because he landed a movie role in Germany. New Japan isn't super thrilled about it.
- The WWF/SWS partnership is still leading to matches over there with WWF stars, including the "retired" Randy Savage working shows in Japan recently. Also, SWS wants to create 3 new championships due to the partnership: the WWF International Heavyweight, WWF World Junior Heavyweight, and WWF International Tag Team championships. Word is Vince has already approved the Junior Heavyweight title.
- Scotty The Body (Raven) suffered an injury in a match with Chris Candido at an indie show and is expected to be out 6-8 weeks. It's double bad news for Scotty, who has a regular job as a bouncer outside of wrestling and it's hard to be a bouncer with your arm in a sling.
- At the recent LPWA tapings, commentator Joe Pedicino (that guy again) called Medusa Miceli "loony." After the match, Medusa got wind of this and, in a total shoot, sprayed whipped cream all over Pedicino and screamed, "So I'm loony!?" at him. Ummm...yeah Medusa, lil' bit.
- Former AWA tag team champions Mike Enos and Wayne Bloom will be debuting in WWF soon as a tag team called the Bomber Brothers (close...)
- Sid Vicious will be at the next tapings, but only for meetings. Word is he may not be using the name Sid Vicious after all, but that's still up in the air.
- Still not certain, but pretty sure WWF will be off NBC when the new season starts and there's already talk of WWF working out deals for quarterly specials on either Fox or HBO (and turns out, upon googling, those last two 1992 SNME shows were indeed on Fox and not NBC).
- The Ultimate Warrior gay prostitute story in the Globe tabloid is picking up steam and has been picked up by other tabloids in Europe and Australia. The Australian headline was "Warrior an Ultimate gay boy!"
- Tito Santana will be starting up as The Matador soon.
- WWF contacted Harley Race to appear at the St. Louis Busch Stadium show, but he turned it down.
- Bobby Eaton is going to start a feud with Steve Austin. Also Dave adds, "Steve Austin has potential." Yeah, Dave, just a tad, I'd say.