November 04, 1991
- One of the biggest dream matches in wrestling history finally took place as the most popular wrestler of all time, Hulk Hogan faced the greatest wrestler of all time, Ric Flair at several house shows this week. For the most part, the matches were good but not great and the finish on most nights was Flair hitting Hogan with a foreign object and getting the pin and seemingly winning the WWF title, only for the referee to reverse the decision after finding the weapon. Also, I get a strange joy out of watching Meltzer's predictions turn out to be wrong. He talks about how Hogan vs. Flair is the start of perhaps both men's final runs in the business. And then he talks about how Flair is in WWF now to finish out his career (which is kinda true, considering that's where he is now....but in the meantime, he went back to WCW, then back to WWE, then to TNA, then back to WWE again).
- The angle shown at Halloween Havoc where the Enforcers slammed a car door on Barry Windham's hand was a cover story because Windham landed wrong the other night and broke his wrist in 4 places and is expected to be out for 6-months to a year.
- Ron Simmons' wrist is also injured and he had it in a cast up until he worked the Havoc main event, without pain pills or protection for his wrist, which made him sort of a folk hero in the locker room for his toughness. He's expected to be out for a few more weeks.
- On the WWF injury side, Sid Justice had surgery on his torn bicep tendon and is expected to be out until February or March. Savage, still in storyline "forced retirement" will be taking Sid's place at house shows, wrestling under the name Mr. Madness because in kayfabe, that somehow allows him to get around his retirement. There have been rumors that Sid was scheduled to win the WWF title at the upcoming Tuesday In Texas PPV, but that was never the plan.
- The planned Tyson vs. Holyfield boxing match was in danger of conflicting with the Royal Rumble date and WWF was looking at possibly moving the PPV, but now Mike Tyson is injured and the chances of the fight happening anytime soon are slim.
- Paul E. Dangerously made a surprise return to WCW at Halloween Havoc and was revealed as the manager of Madusa and the newly signed Rick Rude. It was still touch-and-go hours before the show and Jim Cornette was initially offered the job of coming in as Rude's manager and turned it down. Pretty much everyone in the WCW offices acknowledged that suspending Heyman was a mistake given that there was no proof that he ever did anything wrong and that even if he had, it wasn't something worth suspending him for. So WCW swallowed their pride and did the right thing and brought him back at the PPV.
- A big steroid story that will appear in the Miami Herald lists Ultimate Warrior, Randy Savage and Jake Roberts as people who also received steroid shipments from Dr. Zahorian. The story also notes that Tom Zenk was arrested last month and is facing 7 felony charges for possessing steroids. It also includes quotes from Eddie Gilbert who admits getting steroids from Zahorian several years ago but that he got off them because Missy Hyatt (his wife at the time) didn't like him taking them. Despite making a bunch of noise about it in the media, WWF has still made zero steps towards actually testing for steroids.
- Superstar Billy Graham filed paperwork noting his intention to sue WWF, Dr. Zahorian, and seven drug companies that manufactured steroids, but he has yet to actually file the lawsuit.
- Halloween Havoc finally happened. The Chamber of Horrors match was a mess that looked like someone on LSD came up with it. The electric chair switch kept falling into the "ON" position (which is kind of a famous story). At the end of the match, Abdullah (who was "electrocuted") was supposed to do a stretcher job. Instead, he just got out of the chair and started beating up the face-painted ghoul doctors. On another Halloween Havoc note, Dave says that "if anyone has the potential to be the next Ric Flair, it's Steve Austin."
- Dave mentions that Canadian Vampire Casanova is one of the most popular babyfaces in all of Mexico. We now know him as Lucha Underground juggalo announcer Vampiro.
- The Sheik and his nephew, who worked as Sabu in Memphis, are forming a tag team in FMW.
- Kevin Von Erich promoted a show last month in Texas with himself in the main event, defending the World Class title (though the company no longer exists). The show drew 50 people. Oh how the mighty fall.
- Playgirl Magazine recently published wrestling photos of Tito Santana, Hulk Hogan, Kerry Von Erich and a few others. Nothing they posed for, just in-ring action photos. No way any WWF wrestler would willingly pose for Playgirl, right....?
- After WCW got some good publicity for inviting Minnesota Twins player Kent Hrbek to come wrestle, WCW attempted to capitalize on the publicity by having Dusty Rhodes appear on the pre-game show for the World Series last week. But instead, Tim McCarver invited his friend Randy Savage to appear on the show instead. Poor WCW...
- Dave corrects his Marvel/DC mix-up over Spiderman from last week. Good.
- During a Mike Graham match on TV, Jim Ross made comments such as "You wouldn't believe the big guys who don't want any part of Mike Graham. You wouldn't believe some of the big names he's backed down," which is an obvious shot at Sid Justice and the incident in a bar a couple weeks ago.
- WCW has been using fake crowd noise on TV because crowds are still chanting "We Want Flair" at many events, requiring WCW to edit the crowd noise in over it.