December 09, 1991
- By the time you read this, the Tuesday In Texas PPV will have taken place (yeah Dave, like, 25 years ago, jeez). Dave expects somehow that the title will be declared vacant and a new champion crowned at Rumble.
- 1992 will see more big shows. WCW has 8 PPVs scheduled, plus 4 Clash of the Champions shows, which comes out to roughly one big show per month. WWF will also be adding possibly a 6th PPV, with a couple of them perhaps being smaller events like Tuesday In Texas, with lower expenses and a cheaper price tag. In the end, this will lead to lower buyrates and probably hurt house show business, but should increase revenue for both companies.
- Survivor Series is in the books. Dave thinks it sucked and says Gorilla Monsoon on commentary was arguably the worst performance by a television announcer on a big show this year. If not for WCW's Great American Bash earlier in the year, Dave says it would be the worst show of 1991.
- Hulk Hogan was legitimately injured when Undertaker tombstoned him and went to the hospital for a neck injury after the match but it looks like he'll be okay.
- WATCH: Hulk Hogan vs. Undertaker at Survivor Series '91
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- Thanksgiving week has traditionally been the biggest night of the year in the wrestling industry, with arenas selling out all over the country. But this year, not the case. In fact, attendance is down overall (the war, the economy, higher ticket prices, both companies producing bad shows, take your pick). Hogan/Flair is still doing decent-but-somewhat-disappointing house show business and WCW's good crowds now would have been considering embarrassing only a year ago.
- Dave runs down the list of year end awards again and will reveal the winners sometime early next year.
- The upcoming Hogan vs. Tenryu match in Japan at the WWF/SWS show will be interesting. It makes sense for Tenryu to win for several reasons. It'll help him get over to beat Hogan and SWS needs him to be over since he's their top drawing star and he's the one who has to stay and draw crowds every month. And it sets up a rematch after Hogan regains the title, for Hogan to return to Japan and defend the WWF belt against someone who has beaten him. All in all, it just makes no sense for Tenryu to lose. Because of all this, Dave predicts Hogan will win. Cheeky.
- The lawsuit over Tommy Rich injuring referee Tommy Young that was mentioned last week has gotten a ton of press coverage, mostly because of the admission that something was part of a "script" and the media is having a field day talking about how this proves how fake wrestling is. Anyway, both Entertainment Tonight and The Wall Street Journal are working on stories about the case. Speaking of, here's the injury, where Tommy Rich throws the referee into the ropes and the ref doesn't get back up.
- WATCH: Tommy Rich injures referee Tommy Young
- LPWA is still limping along after getting some last minute funding and taped a show in Jackson, TN last week. That was nearly the last gasp of that promotion.
- Still no details on the Harley Race firing from WCW. Some people have said he's gone, others are said he'll only be used on TV. Luger is definitely staying (Dave says Luger is under contract for a loooooong time, which is funny since he ended up being gone from WCW for real about 3 months later). Speaking of Luger, it's virtually a lock that he will be facing Sting at SuperBrawl in February.
- WCW has announced that a portion of the proceeds from the upcoming Starrcade PPV will be going to a children's charity called Starlight Foundation. What's really happening is they raised the price of the PPV from $19.95 to $19.99 and the extra 4 cents per order will be going to the charity. I decided to do the math. A quick google shows that the show did about 155,000 buys, which equals to a little over $6000 for the charity. I mean, hey, not bad.
- Ultimate Warrior's 90 day suspension should have ended this weekend, but there's no change. Word is that he's not coming back. Dave doubts Warrior is going to WCW because there's no way WCW can afford to pay him the million per year he wants just to work weekends, which is what led to him leaving WWF in the first place.
- There was some sort of incident between Ric Flair and Brian Knobbs after a show at MSG this weekend, but Dave doesn't know the details yet but he doesn't think it was an actual fight.