The Ring Report TV Update, Vol. 4, Issue #45, Feb. 15, 1999 pt. 1
("Massive Catch-Up Issue." )

WWF ST. VALENTINE'S DAY MASSACRE 2/14/99
WHAT YOU MISSED: GOLDUST vs. BLUEDUST: Goldust has no trouble with Bluedust. He puts Bluedust on the ropes for the shatter dreams. He delivers . . . a flashback to Heat with VINCE MCMAHON, SHAWN MICHAELS & STEVE AUSTIN in the ring . . . AL SNOW vs. BOB HOLLY -- winner gets the WWF HARDCORE BELT: the battle goes outside the building. The fight out to the Mississippi river. They battle in the water. Holly pins Snow after restraining Snow in a chain link fence on the ground outside the arena . . . earlier in the day THE UNDERTAKER and THE MINISTRY OF DARKNESS perform a ceremony . . . THE BIG BOSSMAN vs. MIDEON: Bossman gets the win. The lights go out. THE UNDERTAKER & THE MINISTRY take off Bossman . . . comments from IVORY, D'LO BROWN & MARK HENRY . . . D'LO BROWN & MARK HENRY vs. OWEN HART & JEFF JARRETT -- WWF WORLD TAG TEAM TITLES: Ivory stops Debra from interfering. D'Lo goes out to stop them. Owen Hart his Henry with a guitar shot on the knee. Jarrett slaps on the figure four and Henry submits . . . a look at ROCKY MIAVIA attacking MANKIND on HEAT . . . KEN SHAMROCK vs. VAL VENIS -- WWF I-C TITLE w/special ref. BILLY GUNN: towards the end of the match RYAN SHAMROCK hits brother Ken after Ken yells at her for interfering. Ken shoves Billy Gunn. Gunn hits Shamrock. Shamrock goes back into the ring and Venis rolls him up for the quick count. Venis is the new Champion. Gunn fights off Shamrock then returns to the ring to destroy Venis . . . CHYNA & KANE vs. HUNTER HEARST HELMSLY & X-PAC: Towards the end. Ref. bump. SHANE MCMAHON attacks X-PAC. X-Pac chases Shane. Hunter takes out Kane then goes to work on Chyna. He gets Chyna up for the pedigree but Kane stops him and chokeslams him. Kane puts Chyna on Hunter, the ref. runs back in, 1-2-3- it's over . . . ROCKY MIAVIA vs. MANKIND -- WWF WORLD TITLE LAST MAN STANDING MATCH: towards the end of the match Rocky stops to sing on the microphone. Mankind hits with the mandible claw but the ref. was bumped as he hit it (hmm, sounds like EVERY OTHER MATCH TONIGHT). Mankind revives the ref. and starts the count but Rocky gets up. Rock DDTs Mankind. Both men get up by 6. Mankind DDTs Rocky on a steel chair. Rock is up at 9. MR. SOCKO comes out. Mankind hits with it. Rock counters with a crotch shot. Mr. Socko hits again and Rocky counters with a Rock Bottom. Both men up by the 9 count. They both pick up chairs and clobber each other. Neither man makes the 10 count so both are counted out. The match is ruled a draw and both men are stretchered out . . . STEVE AUSTIN vs. VINCE MCMAHON -- STEEL CAGE MATCH: for a steel cage match lots of time is spent OUTSIDE of the cage. McMahon takes a Foley bump off the cage and through the Spanish announcing table. Paramedics come out. The put a neckbrace on him without looking at him and stretcher him. McMahon refuses to be taken out. Austin refuses to take the win since the match never started. He says McMahon isn't going to lose that easy. He asks if McMahon is still breathing. Austin climbs over the cage and the EMTS try to take McMahon out. Austin shoves off everyone and takes the stretcher back to the ring. He attacks McMahon with the stretcher. He puts McMahon in the ring. Austin walks to the open door and goes out. He looks back and McMahon flips him off. Austin goes back in. McMahon attacks Austin below the belt. McMahon climbs up the cage. Austin stops him and dumps him back in. A minute later Austin climbs up the cage but hesitates. McMahon is bleeding. Austin throws McMahon back in to the steel cage. Austin climbs up the cage again. He gets near the floor and McMahon flips double flips him off. Austin climbs back in. McMahon climbs up the side of the cage. Austin stops him and kicks him down to the mat. Austin hits McMahon with a stone cold stunner. The ring opens up and PAUL "THE GIANT" WIGHT comes up from under the ring. Wight throws Austin into the cage wall. It rips off and Austin falls to the floor to win the match . . .

The Ring Report TV Update, Vol. 4, Issue #45, Feb. 15, 1999 pt. 2
("Massive Catch-Up Issue." )

WCW THUNDER 1/28/99
WHAT YOU MISSED: PSYCHOSIS fell to HUGH MORRIS . . . SILVER KING fell to CHRIS JERICHO . . . a look at the situation between RIC FLAIR and ERIC BISCHOFF . . . SUPER CALO fell to FIT FINLEY . . . MIKE ENOS & BOBBY DUNCUM JR. vs. WRATH & VAN HAMMER -- round 1 of the WCW WORLD TAG TEAM TOURNY: they cut to the back with THE DISCO INFERNO standing over an unconscious VAN HAMMER. KEVIN NASH & SCOTT HALL come out. They dismiss Enos & Duncum. Enos & Duncum attack them. Nash does the one foot pin on Duncum . . . THE DISCO INFERNO over HECTOR GARZA JR. . . . a look at the NWO expelling CURT HENNIG and other events from NITRO . . . BAM BAM BIGELOW over KAZ HAYOSHI . . . KEVIN NASH & SCOTT HALL vs. KONNAN & REY MISTERIO JR.: Disco comes to the ring with them. The NWO comes in and attacks Konnan & Misterio. They force Konnan to watch as they whip and spray paint Misterio . . .

The Ring Report TV Update, Vol. 4, Issue #46, Feb. 22, 1999
("It's hard to be a minion of evil with your pants falling off." -- JLIB_HTML_CLOAKING )

Specials WWF SUNDAY NIGHT HEAT 2/21/99
WHAT YOU MISSED: VINCE MCMAHON comes out with KANE. McMahon says he's read THE UNDERTAKER'S message from Monday night and that the Undertaker doesn't want to go there. He says in response to the threat the Undertaker will have to face Kane in an inferno match on RAW . . . TERRY TAYLOR is doing color commentary . . . CHYNA makes SHANE MCMAHON run up and down stairs . . . MANKIND enters the building . . . TOO MUCH & DOA over THE ODDITIES . . . BILLY GUNN making out with RYAN SHAMROCK . . . KEN SHAMROCK vs. THE GODFATHER: Ryan Shamrock comes out with Billy Gunn and Ken goes crazy. The match is thrown out . . . GILLBERG vs. SHANE MCMAHON -- WWF EUROPEAN TITLE: McMahon hits Gillberg with the European title belt behind the ref.'s back to get a quick win. Gillberg spears CHYNA but bounces out. Chyna pedigrees Gillberg. X-PAC'S music starts up and he comes out. X-Pac challenges McMahon to a match at WRESTLEMANIA. Chyna says no and that X-Pac has to defeat her first to get the shot. The match is made for RAW . . . a look at SABLE on REGIS & KATHI LEE and her edition of PLAYBOY . . . AL SNOW vs. D'LO BROWN: DEBRA comes into the ring and distracts the ref. while OWEN HART & JEFF JARRETT destroy D'Lo outside the ring. Snow hits D'Lo with HEAD and gets the win . . . MANKIND comes out. He talks about his future plans. He says he thought of going to WCW but he's "not quite old enough yet" to go there. He says that the main event of Wrestlemania needs 2 referees. He says he is asking COMMISSIONER MICHAELS to let him be the #2 guest referee and for the fans to sign his petition . . . THE UNDERTAKER arrives at the arena . . . VISCERA vs. THE BIG BOSSMAN: THE CORPORATION attacks Viscera. THE MINISTRY OF DARKNESS comes out and flames surround the ring. The Undertaker says that if he burns in hell, McMahon will go with him . . .

The Ring Report TV Update, Vol. 4, Issue #47, March 8, 1999
("Jim Kettner is god." -- nearly everyone at the ECWA Super 8." )

WWF SUNDAY NIGHT HEAT 3/7/99
WHAT YOU MISSED: a look at MANKIND vs. THE UNDERTAKER on RAW . . . it's announced that since The Undertaker lost the RAW match by countout, Mankind will be the second special ref. for the main event of WRESTLEMANIA . . . ROCKY MIAVIA comes out. The Rock says that he doesn't care who the ref. will be for the main event of Wrestlemania. He bad mouths PAUL WIGHT . . . PAUL WIGHT arrives. Someone approaches him and says what the Rock just did. He says he's going to go talk to the Rock . . . PUBLIC ENEMY vs. THE ACOLYTES: The match is thrown out as the Acolytes destroy PE and make me wonder why PE agreed to come to the WWF . . . Wight looks for The Rock . . . the little guy who approached Wight approaches The Rock and tells him that Wight is angry and looking for him . . . JESSE JAMES vs. JEFF JARRETT: Jarrett attacks Road Dog during his opening lines. OWEN HART tries to interfere and THE BLUE BLAZER knocks him off the top rope then attacks Jarrett behind the ref.'s back. The masked man unmasks to reveal D'LO BROWN . . . backstage KEN SHAMROCK attacks GOLDUST on one side of the split screen, while VAL VENIS & BILLY GUNN yell at each other on the other side . . . a look at SABLE'S playboy autograph signing in New York . . . The Rock in the back yelling at people looking for Paul Wight. He even looks in the lady's bathroom . . . VAL VENIS & BILLY GUNN vs. KEN SHAMROCK & GOLDUST: all four guys will be in a four corners match for the IC title at WRESTLEMANIA. Goldust has to be assisted out by THE BLUE MEANIE. Goldust and Shamrock brawl before the match. RYAN SHAMROCK comes to ringside. Goldust gets the quick win over Venis with a superplex. Goldust, the Meanie and Ryan Shamrock run off. Venis and Gunn brawl after the match . . . comments from SHANE MCMAHON'S preppie friends . . . comments from Billy Gunn. Val Venis attacks him. Ken Shamrock attacks Venis. Goldust attacks Shamrock. It's a huge backstage brawl . . . TIGER ALI SINGH comes out. He offers anyone $500 to blow their nose on the American flag. He asks former Olympic wrestling gold medalist CURT ANGLE to try it. Angle gets in the ring. Angle won't do it. Tiger tries $2000. Angle refuses. Tiger tries $5000. Angle says he'll do it. Angle goes to blow his nose and doesn't do it. He takes the Indian flag and blows his nose on it. Singh attacks him. Angle won't go down and chases Singh out of the ring . . . AL SNOW vs. THE BIG BOSSMAN: Bossman gets an easy win. The Acolytes enter the ring and go after the Bossman . . . STEVE AUSTIN is in the back . . . PAUL WIGHT comes to the ring. Wight says he was hired by VINCE MCMAHON to protect the WWF WORLD TITLE from STEVE AUSTIN. He wants The Rock. The Rock comes out. The Rock says that no one calls out the Rock and lives to tell about it. The Rock calls him names. Steve Austin's music starts up. The Rock orders Wight to go up the ring ramp to meet Austin. Wight does so and waits for someone to come out of the dressing room. Austin runs out of the crowd and stone cold stunners the Rock . . .