Admist all the speculation of a possible Stone Cold Steve Austin return at Fully Loaded and the WWF's advertisements for the PPV being (fully) loaded with Stone Cold Steve Austin references and images, the WWF released this message earlier today, in fear that their viewers will purchase Fully Loaded only in hopes of seeing the Rattlesnake: "Stone Cold will NOT be at Fully Loaded. Contrary to Internet speculation, Stone Cold Steve Austin will NOT be appearing at July's Pay-Per-View, Fully Loaded. Although there will be a number of unbelievable matches at Fully Loaded - Triple H vs. Chris Jericho and Kurt Angle vs. The Undertaker just to name a few - the World Wrestling Federation does not want to see its fans purchase Fully Loaded under the impression that the Rattlesnake will be there."
The Kat, Chris Jericho, Kurt Angle, and Rikishi will be on the cover of the August 26-September 1 edition of TV Guide. The photoshoot will take place this Sunday in New York for the four seperate collector's covers. The issue of TV Guide will also feature an interview with Vince and Shane McMahon.
Several people sent word that WWF.com has finally added a Tazz section to their Superstars section. (Whoooo) You can check it out HERE.
The WWF held its weekly Smackdown! and Sunday Night Heat tapings last night in Oakland, CA. If you can't wait for this Thursday, the full results of the show are available HERE. Below are the matches you can expect for this Thursday's Smackdown:
- Rikishi & Too Cool vs. Val Venis & T&A;
- Promo: Triple H
- Hardy Boyz vs. Road Dogg & X-Pac
- Dean Malenko vs. Al Snow
- Eddy G. & Chyna vs. Chris Benoit
- Promo: The Rock
- Faarooq vs. Christian
- Kurt Angle vs. Kane
- Steve Blackman vs. Crash Holly - Hardcore Title
- Triple H vs. The Undertaker
There has been much talk going around about Rob Van Dam debuting an unbelievable new move at this Sunday's ECW Heatwave PPV. The move will apparently be called the "Van Terminator," and according to Dave Meltzer, will be a springboard dropkick from one side of the ring to the other, which reportedly looks amazing when done by Van Dam. ECWwrestling.com is pushing the move as "the single most spectacular, most devestating maneuver" in wrestling.
It was announced on WCW's audio show, "WCW Live" last night that Eric Bischoff would be taking some time off from WCW so that he doesn't interfere in Vince Russo's style of booking. Interesting, and we hope to have more on this story as it develops.
It was announced recently that Buff Bagwell's trial date for the reported punching of a WCW production worker last May that had him suspended from WCW for one month, will take place on August 18. An article on the trial in The State Journal-Register is available HERE.
The man who was such a huge part of TPWW last year, the always cool DOWNTOWN DAVE conducted an excellent interview today with WCW Heavyweight champion Booker T at WrestleLine.com. Booker discussed how the other wrestlers backstage reacted towards his winning of the WCW title, his thoughts on Hulk Hogan, the Hogan/Russo situation, the WCW racial lawsuit, a potential match with Goldberg, and much more. The interview is available in audio HERE. I highly recommend checking it out. It's a great listen.
Ralphus had a tooth knocked out during his match on Nitro involving himself, Norman Smiley and Big Vito for the Hardcore Title. How many teeth does he have left now? Good ol' Ralphus.
Here are the matches you can expect for tonight's WCW Thunder:
- Tank Abbott & 3Count vs. Great Muta & Jung Dragons
- The Demon vs. Major Stash
- Lance Storm & Kidman vs. Jindrak & O'Haire
- Big Vito vs. David Flair - Hardcore Title
- The Perfect Event vs. Corporal Cajun & General Rection
- Shane Douglas & Torrie vs. Crowbar & Daffney
- Lance Storm vs. Kidman
- Mike Awesome vs. Rick Steiner
- Jeff Jarrett vs. Positively Kanyon
The Wolfpac theme was played several times during last night's MLB Allstar game while players stepped up to the plate. (JETER = MVP)
Goldberg, Kevin Nash, and Jeff Jarrett recently apparently "threatened" an Australian TV show host after he made a few jokes. Big thanks to Tim Jackson & Andrew Cosgriff for sending this in: "Goldberg, Kevin Nash, and Jeff Jarrett were interviewed by sattelite for the Footy Show in Australia by two hosts, Sam Newman and Eddy McGuire. Eddy took a crack at Goldberg about being the greatest Jewish athlete ever and then Sam made comments about steriods shrinking you know what... Goldberg was rather pissed off, which wasn't planned. He made some comments that had to be censored and he also made the fact clear that he was not happy with Sam or Eddy and promised to get them when WCW come over to Australia in October. Sam finished with a joke, saying that they could all take him on in any match they wanted. Nash and Jarrett laughed because Sam is a 56 year old man, but after Eddy's comments, Goldberg sat there looking really angry. The show will air this Thursday."
Tickets for WCW Nitro in Melbourne, Australia on October 13 go on sale on Friday, July 21st, available from Ticketeck. Thanks to Tim Jackson & Andrew Cosgriff for also sending along that tidbit.
Former WWF wrestlers Yokozuna, Tatanka, and several others recently appeared at a Middle Eastern wrestling show. Thanks to Infernodude85 from Manama, Bahrain for sending this in: "I am writing you this message to inform you of an event that surprised me to say the least. I was watching cable T.V. last night and saw on a channel that I have (Arab radio and t.v. sports) in the middle east an event in Saudi Arabia in the city of Jeddah:The show featured EX-WWF champions Yokozuna and Tatanka in the event that is 5 days starting from Monday. Yokozuna is still fat and weighs 606 lbs. The event also featured IWA wrestlers and the Middle heavyweight champion of the World Catch Federation in Europe, Frenchman Terry Mudeau. Also it was announced that the Indian Native Tiger Ali Khan(not Tiger Ali Singh) who was born in the US and is wrestling in a very small federation will be debuting next month in ECW wrestling, (maybe in a house show). Personally I don't know why Yokozuna is not wanted in the WWF, he is a great champion and is still the master of ther Banzai Drop. Yes he is much slower than Rikishi but is still a heck of a athlete. Tatanka also is a so fit and is in a good shape, and wrestler Scorpio is also in the 5-day event. On Friday the main event of the 5-day event will be a Title match of what I think is the IWA or whatever federation Tatanka is champion in, anyway Tatanka will play againtst Yokozuna in a title match of some federation's title."
That wraps it up for today's report. Edge X has added another great edition of Guess the Theme, and also had an update of Guess the Wrestler yesterday. That's all for today. Until next time, enjoy Thunder... hopefully.
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