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The Ring Report TV Update 9/19/93 Vol. 1, No. 29
(Late but not forgotten!)
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HEY, I THOUGHT BILL WATTS WAS FROM OKLAHOMA!
On MONDAY NIGHT RAW this week THE QUEBECERS defeated THE STEINER BROTHERS for the WWF WORLD TAG TEAM TITLES under “QUEBEC RULES.” These rules included a ban of piledrivers, top rope moves, and throwing an opponent over the top rope, which were essentially the same rules the BILL WATTS imposed during his term as Executive Vice President of the WCW!
WRESTLING NEWS
In a shocker on MONDAY NIGHT RAW the WWF WORLD TAG TEAM TITLES changed hands as THE QUEBECERS, now managed by the evil JOHNNY POLO, upset THE STEINER BROTHERS when SCOTT STEINER attacked one of the Quebecers with Polo’s Hockey Stick in front of the referee.
Normally this would have resulted in the Steiners keeping the belts by DQ, unfortunately, this was a match wrestled under “QUEBEC RULES” in which things like piledrivers led to DQ’s and DQ’s led to the title changing hands.
After the match Polo and The Quebecers paraded around the ring in an interview, only to be goaded by VINCE MCMAHON to agree to a one on one match between SCOTT STEINER and PIERRE ROUGEAU next week to determine if the Steiners will get a title rematch the following week on RAW. Since the Steiners are already set to face the Quebecers for the titles in house shows for the next month or so expect Scott to win in that match.
In the world of WCW, DUSTIN RHODES was injured by THE HARLEM HEAT this week on WCW Saturday night. Rhodes had come down to the ring to save STING from an attack by both members of the Heat when the Heat went to work on him, severely beating him and injuring his shoulder with a backbreaker/knee off the top rope combination move. Later, in his match with RIC FLAIR vs. RICK RUDE & SID VICIOUS, Dustin’s shoulder and back were again injured by an over-powering attack by Vicious.
If Rhodes has reinjured his shoulder expect ROAD WARRIOR HAWK to replace him at the WAR GAMES tonight. The WCW can get away with this because they’ve aired promos for the FALL BRAWL event featuring THE SHOCKMASTER, ROAD WARRIOR ANIMAL, and ROAD WARRIOR HAWK as the fourth member of the team featuring STING, RHODES & DAVEY BOY SMITH.
IN WCW SHORT NEWS: THE WCW LEGENDS segment on THE POWER HOUR now features long looks at the history of current WCW feuds . . . RICKY STEAMBOAT tried to save a prelim on WCW Saturday Night from multiple piledrivers by PAUL ORNDORFF, only to end up injured in the ring when “LORD” STEVEN REGAL attacked . . . THE SHOCK MASTER has dropped his STORM TROOPER mask for a hard hat . . .
IN WWF SHORT NEWS: Two new feuds in the WWF feature SHAWN MICHAELS vs. THE 123 KID and DIESEL vs. CURT HENNIG; they were set up this week as Michaels and Diesel attacked the before his prelim match on WWF SUPERSTARS and Hennig made the save . . . DOINK threw a bucket of water on BOBBY HEENAN on MONDAY NIGHT RAW to confirm those rumors that he’s turning good . . . JOE FOWLER replaced GENE OCKERLAND on ALL AMERICAN WRESTLING today, he’ll also replace Ockerland in the WWF’S “FACE TO FACE” segments . . .
WWF MONDAY NIGHT RAW 9/13/93 by IAN WINOGRAD THE STEINERS vs. THE QUEBECERS WWF WORLD TITLE DEFENSE
The match is under Quebec rules and here they are: 1. Titles change hands on DQ. 2. Titles change hand on a Count Out. 3. Piledrivers are illegal 4. Jumping off the top rope is illegal. 5. Throwing an opponent over the top rope is illegal.
Rick and Jaques started off. Rick gave Jaques a flying slam and knocked Jaques over the rope. Jaques tagged Pierre and beat up Rick. So Rick tagged in Scott. Scott then gave Pierre an arm bar followed by a drop kick. Pierre jumped off the top rope (illegal move) and knocked Scott down then went for the cover. Scott gave Pierre a hip toss then tagged Rick. Rick came close to giving Jaques a pile driver but Scott stopped him. Scott gave Pierre a sharp shooter but Jaques came in and hit Scott over the head. At this point Johnny Polo came down and was announced as The Quebecers’ new manager. Rick punched Pierre from the top rope. Jaques and Pierre threw Scott to the ropes. Jaques slapped Scott. Pierre choked Scott with the tag rope. Pierre gives Scott a head lock. Scott kicked Jaques. Jaques tagged Pierre. Jaques slammed Pierre into Scott. Jaques gave Scott a Boston crab but Rick interfered and Scott tagged Rick. Jaques was about to hit Scott with the hockey stick but Scott takes it and you know the rest!
OTHER MATCHES: CURT HENNIG vs. Tony Devito; Perfect has no trouble in this one . . . RAZOR RAMON over THE EXECUTIONER . . . DOINK beat someone then threw water on Bobby Heenan . . .
NEXT WEEK: SCOTT STEINER vs. PIERRE ROUGEAU for the rights to a rematch for the titles!
WCW POWER HOUR 9/18/93
WHAT YOU MISSED: WHAT YOU MISSED: A look at DUSTIN RHODES defeating RICK RUDE for the WCW U.S. Title . . . JOHNNY B. BADD over BOBBY EATON . . . The WCW Flashback looked at CACTUS JACK vs. BIG VAN VADER . . . YOSHI QUAN made KEITH COLE submit . . . RICKY STEAMBOAT over DENNY BROWN . . . THE NASTY BOYS defeated two prelims . . . TEDDY LONG looked at SID VICIOUS again . . . and a replay of TWO COLD SCORPIO & MARCUS ALEXANDER BAGWELL with “VALID” VAN HAMMER losing to THE HARLEM HEAT & SID VICIOUS . . .
WWF MANIA 9/18/93
WHAT YOU MISSED: The running gag featured TODD PETTINGIL playing around without RANDY SAVAGE and SAVAGE trying to find the demented PAUL BEARER . . . TATANKA over DAMION DEMENTO . . . a replay of the “infamous” LUDVIG BORGA/LEX LUGER incident . . . a replay of THE STEINER BROTHERS losing the WWF WORLD TAG TEAM belts to THE QUEBECERS . . . DOINK over a prelim who looked like a young BOB BACKLUND, followed by a replay of DOINK dumping a bucket of water on BOBBY HEENAN . . . Savage interviewed PAUL BEARER . . .
WCW SATURDAY NIGHT 9/18/93
WHAT YOU MISSED: STING defeated KANE of HARLEM HEAT by DQ when KOLE interfered; DUSTIN RHODES came out to save him but the Harlem Heat injured him with a backbreaker/knee from the top rope combination move . . . a promo for THE WAR GAMES . . . PAUL ROMA & ARN ANDERSON over MIKE THOR & TODD ZANE . . . during the match THE SHOCKMASTER was spotted in the audience . . . BANG! BANG! A preview for CACTUS JACK’s life story, no, um, sorry. It was another preview for the latest replay of “HELTER SKELTER” . . . a FALL BRAWL control center . . . an interview with “LORD” STEVEN REGAL & SIR WILLIAM . . . PAUL ORNDORFF over DAVE HART then the former TV champ decided to give Hart multiple piledrivers, RICKY STEAMBOAT ran in to save things, then Steven Regal him Orndorff take out Steamboat . . . the match pitting SID VICIOUS & RICK RUDE vs. DUSTIN RHODES & RIC FLAIR turned into a preview of FALL BRAWL as Harlem Heat hit the ring followed closely by STING. Things ended with THE SHOCKMASTER falling over the guardrail outside the ring and scaring off the bad guys . . .
WCW WORLD WIDE WRESTLING 9/19/93
WHAT YOU MISSED: YOSHI QUAN over FRANK LANCASTER followed by an interview in which CACTUS JACK challenged Quan & HARLEY RACE over the wall of monitors . . . a FALL BRAWL control center . . . THE HOLLYWOOD BLONDES over FRANKIE ROSE & JIMMY ROGERS . . . THE NASTY BOYS did an interview . . . CHARLIE NORRIS defeated BILL PAYNE to a huge response from the DISNEY MGM crowd . . . CHRIS BENOIT & PAUL ORNDORFF vs. STING & DUSTIN RHODES ended when Sting set Benoit up with a STINGER SPLASH followed by a Rhodes BULLDOG to get the win . . .
WWF SUPERSTARS OF WRESTLING 7/25/93
WHAT YOU MISSED: JERRY LAWLER left the commentator’s area when it was announced that BRET HART was coming to the ring to face BLAKE BEVERLY . . . Hart made Beverly submit with THE SHARPSHOOTER and Lawler came back after Hart went to the dressing room . . . WELL DONE defeated RUSS GREENBURG & MARK THOMAS . . . RAZOR over a prelim . . . PJ WALKER fell to LUDVIG BORGA . . . CURT HENNIG pinned BARRY HOROWITZ . . . DAN DUBIEL lost to SHAWN MICHAELS . . . an announcement that the latest edition of WWF WRESTLING SPOTLIGHT magazine features an in-depth article on JIMMY HART . . . Michaels stopped to harass a kid in the audience when THE 123 KID came down for his match; DIESEL and Michaels promptly attacked him, only to be driven off by CURT HENNIG . . . BONNIE BLACKSTONE interviewed Michaels, only to have Diesel take over and challenge Hennig . . . THE SMOKING GUNS defeated two prelims . . . NEXT WEEK: a special interview with YOKOZUNA . . .
WWF ALL AMERICAN WRESTLING 7/25/93
WHAT YOU MISSED: BOBBY HEENAN alone again at first proclaiming that he was going to rename the show “THE BOBBY HEENAN SHOW,” luckily he was joined by new co-host JOE FOWLER before I put the replay of fast forward . . . THE SMOKING GUNS vs. THE HEAVENLY BODIES started with JIM CORNETTE in the ring and ended with Cornette in the ring, knocking out one of the Guns with his tennis racket for the win . . . a partial replay of THE STEINERS vs. THE QUEBECERS for the WWF World Tag Titles from RAW . . . another segment with LUDVIG BORGA attacking America . . . BORGA over PJ WALKER . . . JERRY LAWLER interviewed JACK TUNNEY in THE KING’S COURT, funny my ELVIS DETECTOR for WINDOWS went off TWICE during this segment so I guess he IS “The King” . . . LAWLER verbally attacked DOINK during this time then Tunney announced that he would not hold BRET HART responsible for anything he would do to Lawler . . . BRET HART defeated BLAKE BEVERLY . . . THE HEAD SHRINKERS over two prelims . . . a replay of SHAWN MICHAELS attacking THE 123 KID . . . and, finally, a replay of DOINK dumping a bucket of water on BOBBY HEENAN from MONDAY NIGHT RAW . . .
NOTES FROM THE MAD DOG
Really brief notes from the Mad Dog this week as frantically typing this to get it out before MIDNIGHT (I hate working weekends!). This, of course, would mean actually watching this week’s 6 hours of wrestling in a two hour time span. Can I do it without losing any details? Only my stylist will know the truth!
A big welcome back to the infamous IAN WINOGRAD, our pre-teen MONDAY NIGHT RAW reporter! He’s been away at a thing called “camp” all summer, but I know the truth — DA ALIENS TOOK HIM! They needed him to teach ELVIS what was HIP in earth culture these days . . . YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST!
THIS JUST IN! FALL BRAWL 9/19/93 by PATTERN99
WHAT YOU MISSED: MICHAEL BUFFER was tonight’s guest ring announcer . . . STEVE REGAL defeated RICKY STEAMBOAT for the WCW WORLD TV TITLE when SIR WILLIAM hit STEAMBOAT with his umbrella and REGAL used a belly to back suplex followed by a bridge to get the pin . . . CHARLIE NORRIS over BIG SKY after NORRIS hit SKY with a boot kick to the face . . . PAUL ORNDORFF & the EQUALIZER lost to TOO COLD SCORPIO and MARCUS BAGWELL with TOO COLD splashing EQUALIZER to score the pin . . . ICE TRAIN over SHANGHAI PIERCE with a powerslam (no sign of THUNDERBOLT PATTERSON) . . . MISSY HYATT arrived as manager of the NASTY BOYS who captured the TAG-TEAM belts from the HORSEMEN. JERRY SAGS came off the top rope with an elbow drop on PAUL ROMA while the ref.’s back was turned to get the pin . . . CACTUS JACK defeated YOSHI QUAN with a modified DDT. After the win JACK suplexed HARLEY RACE into the ring and reclaimed his bag . . . RICK RUDE is the new WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION (no mention of NWA) after beating RIC FLAIR in what was in my opinion a CLASSIC. FLAIR was escorted by FIFI to the ring. FLAIR had RUDE in the figure four but the ref., distracted by FIFI, didn’t see RUDE pull brass knuckles from his tights and nail Flair with them. RUDE then rolled over on FLAIR for the three count . . . WAR GAMES: ORDER OF ENTRY 1. DUSTIN RHODES & BIG VAN VADER 2. KANE of HARLEM HEAT 3. STING 4. SID VICIOUS 5. BRITISH BULLDOG 6. COLE of HARLEM HEAT 7. SHOCKMASTER ROAD WARRIOR ANIMAL appeared as captain of the STING/BULLDOG team . . . DUSTIN RHODES barged in the ring first against his team’s wishes. DUSTIN was the only one to get busted open (bleed). WINNER: ANIMALS team after COLE submitted in a bear hug applied by the SHOCK MASTER as the SHOCK MASTER took control when he entered . . .
OTHER NOTES: MISSY HYATT had quite a response do to her outfit (what little outfit there was). JESSE VENTURA asked who had painted her clothes on. LOL! At first TONY didn’t know who the woman coming down the isle was and JESSE said, “It’s MISSY! I can tell by the chest!” LOL! There was a sign referring to MEAN GENE and JESSE said, “He’s coming” HALLOWEEN HAVOC is scheduled in NEW ORLEANS with a spin the wheel match being CACTUS JACK vs. VADER. In my opinion the event was better than expected and while not spectacular it was very fun!
HAVE A GREAT WEEK!
MADDOGJMF
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