-WCW Nitro is live from the Florida State Fair Grounds in Tampa, FL. Expect Ric Flair, The Four Horseman, Rey Mysterio Jr. and the newly crowed US Champion Roddy Piper to all be active in the show tonight. Final Nitro before Superbrawl so it will be big.
-Tuesday WCW is in Lakeland, FL at the Lakeland Center for a TV Taping.
-Thursday WCW is in Salt Lake City, UT at the E Center for Live Thursday Thunder on TBS. The crowd in attendance will get to see a main event dark match between Bill Goldberg and Bam Bam Bigelow.
-Friday at the Cow Palace in San Francisco, CA WCW will have an arena event that will feature Goldberg vs Bigelow, Sting vs Bret Hart and DDP vs Scott Steiner.
-And of course on Sunday WCW will be at the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum in Oakland, CA for Superbrawl IX with the main event being for the WCW World Title between Ric Flair and Hollywood Hogan.
-WWF is Live in Birmingham Alabama tonight for RAW and is doing a TV taping in Chattanooga TN Tuesday night.
-The rating for Thursday’s Thunder was 3.5.
-The rating for and unopposed Nitro was 5.7. The dog show on USA received a 3.5 rating.
-The Fabulous Ones Stan Lane (45) and Steve Kern (47) will reunite soon for a Music City Wrestling card March 13. Greg Valentine and Brian Christopher will soon make appearances in the promotion also.
-Iron Sheik, Bob Backlund and Greg Valentine were at the World Legion Wrestling TV taping in Springfield Missouri. At the taping Steve Sharp defeated Valentine and Sharp was presented the WLW title from Harley Race.
-Tito Santana and Brain Knobs were on an independent card in Washington state.
-At a Power Prow Wrestling card the other night Dr. Death Steve Williams announced he would wear a mask until he wins the WWF Championship. Tom Prichard defeated Shawn Stasiak Also in the event Michael PS Hayes and Brandon Baxter defeated Randy Hales and Jim Cornette after a DDT on Cornette by Hayes. Also WWF defeated PPW in an 8 man tag match "When Worlds Collide" This match featured Tom and Bruce Prichard, Giant Silva. and Dr. Death Steve Williams vs. Randy Hales, Shawn Stasiak, Vic Grimes and Baldo.
-ECW held three weekend shows in New York. Notes of interest form the shows. RVD def Lynn, Dreamer def Credible and Storm. Mutasfa made a return and turned on New Jack.. Sabu defeated Skull Von Krush. Shane Dougals teased retirment talk and a new Triple Threat was also teased between Douglas & Dreamer and Francine At Poughkeepsie, NY 2/13 Rob Van Dam and Sabu def. The Dudleys. And the Jackyl also appeared over the weekend.
-In the media this week. Time magazine ran an article on Goldberg and his involvement in animal rights. Entertainment Weekly quoted Mike Tenay on the impact Gorgeous George had on the wrestling world. MTV featured the Nitro girls this weekend. And don’t forget Goldberg will be on the Tonight Show Friday (2/19) night and Disco, Jimmy Hart, Kidman, Saturn, Buff Bagwell & Nitro Girls will be appearing on Jenny Jones Show also Friday.
-In the finals of the #1 contender tournament to declare a challenger for Keiji Mutoh's IWGP World Title strap, Kensuke Sasaki beat Satoshi Kojima. And when given the title shot Keiji Mutoh retained the IWGP World Title over Sasaki Sunday night. Scott Norton was also in action defeating Maso Sito in his retirement match.
-Vader will face Akira Taue March 6 to decide the vacant Triple Crown Championship. It will take place at the Nippon Budokan.
-The May 2 All Japan Tokyo Dome show will be a Giant Baba memorial event. Expected to be apart of the show: The Destroyer, the Funks, Abdullah the Butcher and Stan Hansen.
-Ultimo Dragon had a press conference concerning his future in the ring. A comeback doesn’t look good for Ultimo who is expected to have a third surgery to attempt to repair nerve damage in his right arm. His right arm has little use right now.
-WWF’s St. Valentine’s Massacre results Stone Cold Steve Austin def a bloody Vince
MacMahon with Paul Wight making his WWF debut to help Vince in the main event.
The Rock and Mankind match was a draw after neither man could respond to a ten
count. Mankind retains the WWF Title. Kane & Chyna def Triple H & X-Pac. Owen Hart
& Jeff Jarrett def Mark Henry & D-Lo Brown to retain the Tag Team Championship, Big
Bossman def Midean but was abducted by the Ministry of Darkness after the match.
Bob Holly got the Vacant Hardcore Championship belt with a win over Al Snow. And in
the opening match Goldust pinned Bludust.
WCW Hotline Report 2/25/99
Host: Chad Damiani
Report: Curt Creighton
-Some changes for Chad on the hotline. He will doing a Thunder recap on option #3 on Fridays now as well as his regular duties on Thursdays. Wishes Derek Gordon the best since he is option is getting bumped
-Hoping to get back into good favor with the higher powers Bret Hart agreed to do the job to Booker T
-Scott Hall’s foot was ran over after Superbrawl but Scott Hall vs Booker T is very likely for Uncensored.
-Eric Bischoff expressed his opinion about the WWF and his own company recently on a Cincinnati radio station. One thing Eric did say is that Scott Steiner has been banned from live TV broadcasts for his inappropriate language.
-Chad has not been able to confirm the rumor concerning Chirs Jericho getting offered a contract near $1 million. He knows that WCW is gearing up for an offer to Chris though.
-Chad is not a fan of Phil Mushlick and feels he has gained popularity because of his WWF bashing. But he did find some interesting stats concerning the WWF and Monday Night RAW. Chad gives off some stats that have been on the net covered by AP and MSNBC.
-Randy Savage will be on Mad About You and Hogan will be on Suddenly Susan. Ross Foreman will be working with Savage getting the Macho Man some coverage. Savage’s return should be huge.
-Brian Clark aka Wrath has been used on Mortal Kombat. He is getting some time off so he can be fierce again when he returns.
-Chad welcomes Rikki Rackman to the broadcast team. Looks like he will replace Gene at the Nitro parties. Funny hearing Gene talk about those parties backstage. Gene hated doing those parties and hated people touching his bald head.
-Torrie Wilson is getting paid per appearance after they figure what to do with the David Flair angle she will likely get offered a contract.
-Chad starts talking about an Adult Film Co. called Exteme Associates and how they plan on doing a big cross promotion with ECW. Expect that in the future.
-Go to WCW.com for the internet broadcast of Backstage Blast, hosted by Rick Rude and Chad Damiani from Chapel Hill, North Carolina March 1.
WCW Hotline Report 2/26/99
Host Mark Madden
Report: Curt Creighton
-Sad news as Madden reports the death of Rick Wilson aka the Renegade at age 33. He gives a brief history of the former WCW employee. Debuted March 1995 had a run as TV champ beating Arn Anderson but lost the strap to DDP. He was trained by Killer Kowalski. Madden gives his condolences to the family.
-Some debate or the name Torrie Wilson will use in WCW. Either Torrie or Samantha. She should be known as Torrie though since she was well known before WCW. She will be on Baywatch next month. Got to wonder how long she will be with David since he is not ready to become a wrestler. His TV time will go down but he sure hope Wilson’s will go up. She is getting paid on per night basis. WCW better tie her up to a long term deal. Madden wants to tie her up to some bed posts.
-Madden wants to shoot down an internet rumor. Chris Jericho has not been offered a $750,000 or 925,000 a year contract. WCW may be preparing for a huge offer like that but they haven’t yet. Main thing is Jericho wants out of mid-card status. Moving to the WWF might not be where it’s at. If Jericho can get the big bucks in WCW they would have to justify his contract by giving him a main event push sometime.
-Word is Hitman Hart: Wrestling With Shadows will become a feature motion picture.
-Speaking of Bret Hart expect the Hitman to gather a gang of wrestlers around him very soon possibly this Monday on Nitro.
-Great leadership move by Kevin Nash to lose to Rey Mysterio Jr. Maybe a rematch between those two at Uncensored. Nash wants to make the ring attitude more like Japan where anybody can beat anyone at any time. But he will stick with the America style of the backstage videos and pre-taped happenings.
-Madden saw Macho Mans backstage at Superbrawl his new ring outfit looked liked something Koko B. Ware would wear. His valet Gorgeous George looked great she could wear anything and look good....or nothing for that matter.
-Look for Ric Flair to pull something so he remains President of WCW longer maybe even on a permanent basis.
-WCW will be teaming up with MTV March 2nd in Cancun Mexico for Spring Break ‘99. They will feature a mini battle royal. WCW that will appear will be Chris Jericho, Perry Saturn, Rey Mysterio Jr., Chavo Guerrero Jr., Billy Kidman and Hugh Morris. Raven and Jimmy Hart will be doing some commentating.
-World Championship Wrestling Classics will be part of a new cable network announced on Wednesday by Turner Broadcasting. Turner South will debut in the fall as the first regional cable entertainment network, targeting six southeastern states
-After the bloody brawl between Hollywood Hogan and Ric Flair at Superbrawl, a First Blood match might be up next.
-The Disney company Buena Vista will promote and help out financially with ECW’s PPVs. They will share in the PPV profit increases. This is great for ECW.
-Hotline changes for Mark Madden. He will be on Tuesdays and Fridays now and if you forgot he is still the self proclaimed only real journalist in pro-wrestling.
