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nah man but this one is Wade Keller's Torch Newsletter from March 25th 2000
Headline story:
- Wade calls Barry Blaustein and Beyond the Mat "a mark and The Movie lacks central Theme." but overall likes the documentary. He felt it was too contrived and didn't have a critical eye for his "subjects" often enough. He brings up the Koko B Ware part and the Roland Alexander part but didn't bash Terry Funk like he did those two. He also thought they didn't focus a lot on the Droz injury and didn't even mention the Owen death once according to Wade's review.
Co Headline:
- Mick Foley is going to return at Wrestlemania after "retiring" at No way out losing to HHH in Hell in a Cell. Wade doesn't seem to know what to think but predicts that WWF will get a higher buyrate now that Foley is there.
WWF Newswire:
- The WWF is going to leave USA and move to TNN thanks to Chris-Craft selling it's 50% of UPN to Viacom. Rumor has it that USA might be intrested in ECW now that WWF is leaving.
- Despite putting the planned Wrestlemania Main event(Show vs HHH vs Rock) on Raw, the rating only dropped 0.1 from last week. The final rating was a 6.2 with a 7.3 overrun rating.
- Beyond the Mat had a overall figure of $950,000 from 298 runs over the weekend. A box office source said it was "decent" and the Screen Average was $3,188.
- The March 18th SNL with the Rock was the highest rated SNL of the season. It got a 8.2 Rating with about 20 million viewers as the Estimate.
WWF Notebook:
- Out of everyone in MCW(Memphis Championship Wrestling), It looks like K Krush(Ron Killings) was going to be the most likely to be called up. They like his Musical background and look. WWF wasn't going to call up anyone from MCW before 6 months to prove itself but that might change. Reckless Youth might be called up for the Light Heavyweight Division.(My note:Whatever happened with that anyways?) Jerry Lawler isn't very intrested in MCW except for his segments with the Kat. Tom Pritchard attends every taping as an agent. He doesn't have any control but gives advice to the leaders.
- HHH and Chyna have ended there Off screen romance. The breakup has been in the works for months and lead to the breakup on screen.
- HHH is getting a lot of praise as a Heel because he's not acting like the "cool heel" throwing out one liners for babyface pops.
- For Last week's Ross Report on WWF.com, Jim Ross said that he like Paul E's fire in ECW and on WCW he said "What does it tell you when Sunday Night Heat is beating Nitro in the ratings?"
- Terri Runnels told Cody Monk of the Dallas Morning News that she wanted to do the Bump off the top rope on Raw. She said she trusted Buh Buh and was stiff the next day but knows he was too.
- Raw was the top rated show in the UK with 390,000 Viewrs compared to Thunder's 160,000 and Nitro's 140,000.
On the Road:
-March 18th in Cedar Falls Iowa drew 10,780 paid making about $313,870($78632 in Merch.) The card was headlined by Kane beating X Pac. Also on the card was Edge beat Prince Albert, Crash beat Christian, Dudleys beat the Hardy's, Rikishi beat Bossman, Jacqueline beat Lita, Too Cool beat Headbangers, Angle beat Benoit and Jericho when Angle pinned Jericho after a belt shot.
-March 19th in Moline Ill had the same card with Tazz beating Gangrel being the new match. They drew 9,497 paid for $260,318(68,771 Merch)
WCW Newswire:
-Brad Siegel wants to make changes to the WCW Front Office. Wade questions who he would replace them with? Jerry Jarrett interviewed for a position underneath Bill Busch. Rumor has it that Siegel was going to name him as WCW VP and reassign Busch. Jarrett shot down that rumor. Bischoff was rumored for a meeting but Bill Goldberg stopped that.
-Bill Goldberg is unhappy with WCW's Creative direction but likes Bill Busch. He doesn't want to work under Bischoff and hates that his return has been pushed back to May. He was scheduled to come back for the April PPV.
-Bill Busch almost resigned as WCW VP but Goldberg's visit on Tuesday put a new spark under him. Changes were rumored after the estimate for Uncesnored were under 100,000 buys. Busch might stick around for a couple months.
-There is a power stuggle between Hulk HOgan and Bill Goldberg. Head booker Kevin Sullivan is Siding with Hulk Hogan. A lot of people think WCW won't survive unless Hogan is out.
WCW Notebook:
- Main matches for Spring Stampede are Sid vs Hogan for the WCW title and Flair/Luger vs Sting/Vampiro.
- Ernest Miller is upset at Busch that he didn't give him the raise Bischoff promised him. Busch said he won't give anyone a raise. Miller brought this up because Perry Saturn got a raise after Busch was hired.
- Stevie Ray had his contract cut 2/3 several months ago.
- Bret Hart is saying his Career is over thanks to the concussion he got in a match with Bill Goldberg
- Bill Busch was not at the PPV because he was dealing with Goldberg. JJ Dillion was trying to keep things calm while Gary Juster was going crazy backstage.
- WCW wanted to Run Goldberg vs Steiner but Busch doesn't trust Steiner after steiner undermined his authority. Busch wanted to suspend Steiner but Siegel override him.
- Scott Hall is supposed to return any week now
ECW Notebook:
- ECW's 900 number updated the fans on the condition of New Jack after his fall. ECW was debating about running a Corino/Jack match that was taped before the PPV to air after the PPV.
- Lance Storm is not very popular among the wrestlers according to a source. They say he's a kiss up and a know it all. Friends say it's his dry personality.
- TNN's Friday night lineup has dropped 35% in the ratings and ECW has dropped 20% this past week. That is blamed on the St. Patrick's day weekend.
- Simon Diamond pulled some muscles in his back. It's blamed on a series of bumps over the past couple weeks. New Jack got Surgery and is out for four weeks.
- Tommy Dreamer was backstage at raw because he was taping a episode of Early Edition.
ECW on the road:
- March 17th in Worcester Mass 1,600 paid:
- The Prodigy Tom Marquez beat Chilly Willy, Little Guido beat Kid Kash, Raven beat Mikey Whipwreck. CW Anders and Beautiful Billie Whiles beat Doring/Roadkill, Balls Mahoney beat Vic Grimes, Credible/Storm beat Nova/Chetti to retain the tag titles, Mike Awesome beat Angel, Tajiri beat Tommy Dreamer, Super Crazy beat Rhino.
March 18th Salem N.H 2350 paid sellout
- Chetti/Nova beat Whipwreck Prodigy, Guido beat Kash, Doring/Roadkill/Dusty beat Anderson/Willes/Watts, Crazy beat Tajiri for the Tv title, Rhino beat Balls, Dreamer beat Grimes, Impact Players beat Raven/Awesome for the tag titles.
ECW on TNN from Asbury Park NJ
- Impact Players beat Chettie/Nova
- Sandman beat Angel
- Corino beat New Jack in 6:00
- Awesome beat Tanaka in 2:00
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