Hunter's Torn Quad

Hall and Nash stiffed him at World War 3 I thought is was a houseshow, where Nash got a bat and attacked them cause they stiffed Scott Hall? It was a house show in Shreveport LA. And Nash suposedly confronted them with the bat, but nothing actually happeneed beyond words being exchanged.

A contract dispute of sorts, I think, as in his shoot he talks about being injured and WWF not paying for it or something like that. He also kept pitching fits over having to do jobs. On a Raw not long after WM XIII, he did a clean job to Undertaker, and he basically had to be threatened with being fired before he would agree to it.

The head writer for most of 2000 was a guy called Chris Kreski. He was the guy who planned things out on boards, and actually had flow charts setting out who was feuding with who, who could team with who without it not making sense, etc. The "This Is Your Life, Rock" segment got a high rating purely due to the 'car crash' effect.

Saggs got upset when Hall hit him with a chair during a match, but used the edge of the chair instead of the flat back. Saggs responded by hitting Hall with some stiff punches, that required some dental work for Hall. This all went down in the ring. He had a brain aneurysm around mid-2000, I think. It pretty much spelled the end of his WCW career, as he never returned, as he couldn't take any blows to his head. He's recovered now, and I think he still wrestles. In all, the DoD had these members: The Master, Kevin Sullivan, Shark, Zodiac, Konnan, The Barbarian, Loch Ness, Meng, The Yeti, Vader, Hugh Morrus, The Leprechaun, Maxx Muscle, Jimmy Hart, Big Bubba Rogers, Kamala, One Man Gang and The Giant

I've seen him wrestle once, in a 1974 match against Mil Mascaras as The Destroyer in All Japan. He's damn good on the mat, and carried Mascaras very well. The match is shockingly good, but it has a lame finish, which is typical of Mascaras's matches when he isn't winnning, where The Destroyer accidentally headbutted Mascaras in the groin off a leapfrog spot.

As a follow up to this, in the the Observer that reviewed BATB, Meltzer said that Hogan only agreed to the turn 11 days before the show.

Victory was either faking an injury, or had a legit injury (for a short period of time), and he and Corino simply played it up beautifully. He legit broke his leg at N2R 1998 during a tag match.

For the record, the match in question saw Psychosis and Juventud Guerrera beating Damien and Halloween, and the finish was Damien being sat atop Psychosis's shoulders, and Juvented hitting Damien with a frankensteiner.

Straight from the Observer newsletter.

Blitzkrieg. He could have been really something special, as he was a tremendous high flyer. Sadly, WCW killed his passion, and he went from a MOTY Candidate with Juventud Guerrera in the opener of Spring Stampede 1999, to being out of work by the end of the year.

Credit goes to 1pop-up.con's bastard stepchild. That should fully answer your questions. Looks like a pretty strong Indy card so far.

Didn't they get on Fox with Saturday Night Shotgun, or something? I was younger so the memory is all hazy, but I do recall SNS being on Channel 38 (Which is Fox now, if it wasn't then), but I do know it came on at midnight. Yeah, they got Shotgun Saturday Night...but was that on Fox? I can't even remember. I remember Taker tombstoning HHH on an escalator though. And that weird shit with Sunny. EVERYBODY remembers that damn escalator tombstone. It was pretty much the only memorable thing about the show... the only others might be Sunny and the Sisters of Love. And Marlena 'flashing' The Sultan.

Konnan was Max Moon once or twice, but quickly left the WWF over a disagreement with Vince.

And here lies one of the major problems WCW had. They hyped that show as being this wild affair...and then fire people for actually trying to live up to the hype. Heaven forbid two people who "hate each other" would actually show it on camera. There was some speculation that it was a set-up to get them fired, because WCW wanted to get rid of some of the bigger money contracts, one of which was Rhodes'. WCW had a no blading policy at the time, and despite the fact they were told to blade by the agent, Eric Bischoff's reasoning was that they should have known better, and not done it.

I think it was down to their lack of charisma and personality, which made it really hard for them to connect with the crowd. Also, they were physically broken down by then, and really couldn't let loose, as it were, and win the crowd over that way. They really needed a mouthpiece too, as neither was any good on the mic.

They began planning Flair's return before he even lost the match. As for why they did it, with Hogan having played superman in their previous matches, and not even losing at the Clash where he had an excuse after getting attacked, WCW realised that Hogan v Flair on PPV III had no juice, so they threw in the retirement stipulation to try and raise interest. Even then, they were so scared that nobody would believe Hogan was going to lose, that they tried to add intrigue by teasing that Mr T, who I think was the guest ref or something, might turn on Hogan.

I think that was Harlem Heat 2000, which consisted of Stevie Ray and TAFKA Ahmed Johnson. Johnson, aka Big T, was brought in by the guy who was Clarence Mason in the WWF. They lasted a few months, and did nothing of note, bar taking up air time, and, in Johson's case, a lot of space.

He got it because he wanted it. Hogan pretty much did whatever he wanted to. The angle was Beefcake turned out to be the masked man who had attacked Hogan at the Clash in August, and was unmasked at HH in October. HHH was with WCW from early 1994 until January 1995. Mero left WCW because of an argument with Eric Bischoff over an appearance and over his angle with Kimberly Page.

Both. In the angle, the 'original plan' was for Hogan to destroy Jarrett, but Scott Steiner would interfere for the DQ. Later on, Booker T would face Jarrett and win the World Title. However, Hogan, 'played his creative control card', and demanded he beat Jarrett for the World Title. As part of the original angle, Russo would 'double cross' Hogan and have Jarrett lay down. Hogan would then walk out, and come back a few months down the line to feud with the then World Champion, in a Title v Title program. Russo, though, double crossed Hogan for real, with his speech, and Hogan never came back.

Rhodes, and Blacktop Bully, were fired right after Uncensored 1995, for blading in their King Of The Road match. The agent in charge of the match, Mike Graham, who had okayed the blading, was fired too. Savage debuted on a live WCWSN doing a promo about Hogan, saying he was either going to shake his hand or punch him out. He left because he got into a fight with Paul Orndorff, and he and Eric Bischoff couldn't agree on a punishment, plus there were other forces who didn't want Vader in. Bret was the first choice for being the "third man", but it never really came close to happening. Then it was going to be Luger, but that was felt to be too obvious, so they went with Hogan.

The favorite periods from my favorite promotions. NWA: 1985-1989 WCW: October 1996-November 1998 ECW: 1994-1996 New Japan: 1991-1996 All Japan: 1990-1996 OVW: 2002-present ROH: 2002-present SMW: 1992-1995

All of the usual news places confirmed it at least by yesterday.

I remember the RVD v Chris Jericho KotR 2002 match, simply because it's the one that caused Jericho to throw a temper tantrum at internet fans for not giving it five stars.

If Holly was going to get fired for this, he'd have been fired long ago. Whlie it might not make sense to us, I'd wager Holly's job is safe.

Credit - The Torch site I'm not surprised Holly was surprised and upset, considering management have done fuck all when he's pulled this kind of thing before.