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Destor
04-14-2008, 07:31 PM
I culled these from recaps from another site. These are all summaries/quotes from Wrestling Observers from 20 years ago - the feds and dates kind of bounce around, but everything is from Jan-Mar of that year, so leading up to Mania IV and the first Clash. Most are funny, some are interesting.

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--Dusty Rhodes did a horrible interview where he told viewers if they didn't watch the Clash, he would remember and that on Christmas, he would come down their chimney and beat up their kids.

--The past week's World Wide Wrestling aired two sets of commentary at the same time overlapping each other, so the show was all jibberish.

--An AWA album will be coming out soon, featuring Greg Gagne, Baron Von Raschke, Wahoo McDaniel, Jerry Blackwell, Tommy Rich, Dick Slater, Jerry Lawler, Jeff Jarrett, the Midnight Rockers and Tom Zenk. The album is being recorded in Atlanta.

--Something happened recently at a house show where a wrestler (Dave didn't say who) who wasn't supposed to be able to speak English was stalling outside the ring for most of a match. A fan shouted, "Get in the ring you lazy bum" and the wrestler responded, "What do you think this is, the NWA?"

--Clarification from last week: "The line Road Warrior Hawk has been spouting off isn't Neo Nazi Zoom Dweebies, but 'Neo Maxi Zoom Dweebies."

--The Cuban Assassin showed up for the Wichita, KS, TV tapings. Bad News Brown saw him and started chasing him around with a chair. Something apparently happened a few months prior in Calgary where both wrestlers (and their wives) had some type of fight.

--They shot an angle at the Las Vegas tapings with Baron Von Raschke and Sheik Adnan El-Kaissey. "Boy, they'll pack them in for those grudge matches."

--"I'm told the recent AWA cards have drawn between 42 and 300 fans."

--"Is the world ready for this? A Von Erich comic book? Creative Ink of Tyler, Texas is scheduled to come out in March with 'The Saga of the Von Erich Warriors'. The storyline (why am I wasting space on this?) is that Kevin, Kerry and Fritz are taken from Earth to a planet called Namoria to save the planet from the attackers from an evil planet called Nefarian."

[You think I'm kidding? Think again!]

--Detroit Demolition has joined Robert Fuller, Jimmy Golden and Dutch Mantell in the Stud Stable, which Dave calls a poor man's Four Horsemen.

--"Also new to the area is prelim heel Scotty the Body, a name I've heard before from some independent but I can't recall where. He's getting no push whatsoever and from what I hear, doesn't deserve one."

--John Tenta is being talked about as the most improved wrestler of 1988, and is said to throw the best dropkick in wrestling.

--On a local promo for Southern Championship Wrestling, Paul E. Dangerously was doing an interview with Randy Rose. Paul E. said he didn't care how much money it cost him, he was going to do away with Tommy Rich. Randy Rose then pulled out his wallet and threw a bunch of $1 bills in the air. Paul E. said, "Randy, I see you've cashed Verne's check."

--POWW is scheduled to run 20 dates in March. They have a few workers, but mostly wannabe models and actresses. The pay is good, but most of them don't even know what basic terms like "spot" mean.

--Ken Osmond (Eddie Haskell on Leave It To Beaver) will be at the Clash of the Champions special on TBS. "I know he's not exactly Vanna White, and unfortunately it makes Crockett's show look like a cheap imitation.

--They [JCP] had to cancel a show for 2/23 in Asbury Park because they had sold less than 100 tickets the day before the show.

--Awesome! JEFF LYNCH has a letter on the letters page talking about how he just purchased his first VCR and is interested in watching a lot of Japanese wrestling.

--Legends of WCCW has started airing on ESPN, and is basically chronicling Kevin and Kerry in the pre-Freebird era. They also have a trivia contest where for some reason, the answer to practically every question is either the Von Erichs or Ken Mantell.

--Olympia from GLOW is coming in to feud with Madusa Miceli. "I guess Verne was looking over to see if he can bring someone in who looks better and can wrestle worse than Miceli. Well, if it gives him something to keep himself busy."

--The Von Erichs were on The 700 Club, "alternating occasional truth with a few major lies and minor fibs."

--Someone in the WWF told Dave the JYD/Reed match taped for Wrestling Challenge was a worst match of the year candidate.

--On the live satellite feed of the Royal Rumble, you could hear Vince McMahon yelling "Stop looking like a fucking stone and show some interest in the matches" at Howard Finkel. Vince also didn't know the names of the Jumping Bomb Angels. He asked for someone to tell him the names, and then said, "Wow, I butchered the shit out of those names."

--"Did you catch the balding blonde haired jobber named Randy Hogan who got destroyed on TBS this weekend? Kind of childish."

--Shane Douglas has returned. He is using the sleeperhold as a finisher and getting a mild push. Tony Schiavone calls him the 1986 Rookie of the Year, while Jim Ross calls him the 1987 Rookie of the Year.

--The last [World Class]Houston show only drew 42 fans, not 80 fans as previously reported.

--Bam Bam Bigelow didn't have arthroscopic surgery. He's postponing until after Wrestlemania, when the WWF will take a one-month break. Speaking of Bigelow, a drug possession charge in Freehold, NJ, was dismissed when the evidence was ruled inadmissible because it was illegally obtained. The officers found a small bag of marijuana under the seat of his car and he was charged with a misdemeanor, but it was ruled the officers did not have probable cause to conduct the search. Bigelow waved to the officer, and the overzealous officer responded by pulling him over for no reason. Even though a misdemeanor, if convicted, this would have been bad for him, because he is on three years probation from a 1986 conviction after pleading guilty to threatening to kill a prostitute. Had he been convicted, he would have served a five-year prison sentence.

--The Get Well Matilda write-in is the WWF's way of building up a mailing list for its merchandise catalog

--"Coliseum Video is coming out with a Best of George Steel tape and also WWF's Most Embarrassing Moments. Are you sure that isn't the same tape?"

--Nikita Koloff went to a 20:00 draw with Bobby Eaton to retain the NWA TV title (at Bunkhouse Stampede): "To say Nikita did nothing would be giving him more of a compliment than he deserves." Eaton took a few great bumps, but mostly held onto the hammerlock until the last 30 seconds or so when they had a slugfest. Stan Lane showed up after the match and they doubleteamed Nikita for a few seconds. Calls the match a candidate for worst match of the year, at -**.

--The Hood is Jeff Gaylord

--Crowds were chanting "Just Say No" at the Iron Sheik at New York independent shows.

--When Kerry and Kevin Von Erich returned from their tour of Japan, they said they won the Asian tag titles, which they didn't. They also said they won the tournament they were part of, which they didn't

--Manny Fernandez screwed up a promo on live television on 12/14 by swearing repeatedly on the air.

--12/28 in Birmingham, AL, had a one-night tournament for a mink coat

--King Kong Bundy is leaving on sabattical while Orndorff has given notice. Orndorff plans to open a chain on bowling allies in the South. Ironically, his right arm is so weak that he can't even lift a bowling ball.

--They screwed up announcing Dusty won the 1/1 Bunkhouse by announcing it on their 12/31 TV

--[Meltzer] Says he's getting lots of complaints about the cameramen doing too many shots of women in the audience. "Showing the girls is okay but after 40 or 50 shots, and in the middle of high spots during the match, it serves no purpose. It's one thing if it's the valets, but not the girls in the audience."

--"I know you've been waiting all week for the good news. Fritz is alive. Yes, folks, it was touch-and-go for 48 hours, but the head of pro wrestling's immoral majority survived a heart attack, stroke, emphyzema and whatever other maladies sick minds could come up with," said Dave Meltzer. It was announced on the weekend Ft. Worth TV that Fritz didn't suffer a heart attack as was originally feared, although there was "partial paralysis". One of the local TV stations covered the angle as news. The phrase heart attack was never actually used by Marc Lowrance. Lowrance went on the air with two interruptions of the previously taped show, and stated that Fritz was in critical condition and they were worried he wouldn't make it through the night. "It's a pretty hardcore angle to be sure, but one made a lot worse since they were playing off the sympathy from the deaths of David and Mike, although no lack of taste or decency from this promotion will ever surprise me."

--Inoki did a clean pinfall job for a newcomer named "Big Ben Bader" on 12/27 at the Tokyo Dome in 2:49.

-- Hercules and the "Anabolic Warrior" are scheduled to feud. "The could have fun with stipulations here," Dave added.

--Jim Cornette is managing Dick Murdoch. Dave says Murdoch has been great on interviews and squashes. Cornette had an early candidate for line of the year when he told David Crockett he was the reason nepotism should be a capital offense. Dave has decided David Crockett should always be on TBS, because he is the source of so many laughs. He said to just keep him far away from play-by-play, which would cease to be funny in a hurry.

--Manny Fernandez turned babyface on the 1/9 TV. He did a huge patriotic interview about serving in Vietnam, despite that he would have still been in high school at the time the war ended.

-- Shawn Michaels is apparently an awesome heel [in Memphis], but the problem is that it is not an act.

-- Dusty did a promo on the Saturday TBS show with Bill Apter where he went crazy and started making vague bashes toward the WWF for stealing Bubba [Rogers] and copying the Bunkhouse Stampede. He was said to be very upset.

-- The lawsuit regarding Ricky Steamboat "attacking" a fan during the throat injury angle with Randy Savage has been settled. In legal papers, Patricia Thurston of the Broome Volunteer Emergency Squad stated that she was seriously hurt when Steamboat "violently struck" her. The squad was standing by on authorization from the WWF and was only to be called if someone was seriously hurt. Apparently, David Furgoli, an employee of the WWF, informed the squad that Steamboat was "seriously injured" after they shot the angle and the incident happened when they went to help Steamboat. The lawsuit stated that Steamboat struck her so hard that she had injuries to her chest, ribs, sternum and back. The WWF was also sued because Bruno Sammartino said "Incompetency on the part of those paramedics, there, don't you agree," on commentary during the angle. The squad's position was that the wrestling world was broadcasting to their audience that they were unfit to do their jobs. They also claimed that the WWF violated New York state Civil Rights Law by televising Thurston. They demanded $400,000 in damages, plus $750,000 more in punitive damages. The claim was settled out of court, and neither side will reveal the amount of the settlement. Dave says when he looked back at the tape, he didn't see anything, and was told it was actually Jesse Ventura who made the comment about the paramedics, not Bruno.

--Dave just raves and raves about the finish to the Hogan/Andre match on NBC, saying that he hopes whoever came up with that finish got a nice bonus in their paycheck. He's so impressed because he says it's like they thought of everything -- they found a way to get the belt off of Hogan to do a job, Andre wasn't hurt, Wrestlemania was set up, and the nature of the angle was so shocking that it didn't set off a fan riot, which was at one point a concern about taking the belt off of Hogan.

-- In the Bay area, radio stations were reporting the title change up to a week before it even happened. The San Jose Mercury ran a story about it the day before. This was out because the WWF had already sent advertising agencies information on Wrestlemania IV, with the slogan "Hogan tries to regain his title." Dave is shocked, but no one in the WWF was even concerned about it, because all the publicity in giving away the finish, and people anticipating a title change, only helped the ratings and buzz for the show. He says that's a clear difference between the WWF and NWA, as Dusty would have gone crazy about a finish leaking like that.

--- The final [AWA] card at the Minneapolis Auditorium happened on 02/04 before a low turnout of 1,700 fans. They were hyping it as Nostalgia Night, and the WWF countered by running "Mad Dog Vachon Night" in the same market the following week, and even ended up bringing in old AWA stars for their show like The Crusher, Nick Bockwinkel and Blackjack Lanza. Verne had Red Bastien, Killer Kowalski, Carl Eller (never wrestled, but was a member of the Minnesota Vikings Purple People Eaters front four in the early 70s), Butch Levy, Leo Nomellini, Hard Boiled Haggerty, Dick the Bruiser (who wrestled), Billy Robinson and perennial jobber Kenny "Sodbuster" Jay, who actually got the biggest pop. Verne Gagne and Stanley Blackburn were in attendance as well. Dave says Zenk/Robinson stood out in the wrong way, because Zenk is the only potential contender they have for Hennig, and a 50-year old guy took him to a 20-minute draw. He also controlled the entire match, which was in slow motion and Zenk had no opportunity to do anything to get himself over. The AWA now doesn't have a venue lined out for the Twin Cities.

--Nord the Barbarian quit. He's hugely over in the AWA because of his car commercials, but Verne never wanted to push him because he didn't think he could last.

--Scott Hall is gone, and no one knows where he is. [Insert your own joke.]

--There's a major war going on with other Georgia independents. On a recent Deep South Wrestling show, they made fun of Joe Pedicino and Bonnie Blackstone. They did a skit with a guy in an easy chair pretending to be Pedicino, but getting stuck in his chair and needing help to get out. Blackstone was parodied as a total bimbo. Southern countered by showing a clip of The Invader vs The Assassin, with Pedicino saying, "This is the Puerto Rican Assassin because there is nobody named The Assassin in the United States that can wrestle," a dig at Jody Hamilton, the group's headliner.

--Chavo Guerrero is now working in catering and is said to be retired.

Xero
04-14-2008, 07:38 PM
"--Scott Hall is gone, and no one knows where he is. [Insert your own joke.]"

lol

Loose Cannon
04-14-2008, 07:39 PM
--The last [World Class]Houston show only drew 42 fans, not 80 fans as previously reported.

ROFL

lol @ the Hall comment also

Ninti the Mad
04-14-2008, 07:46 PM
-- Shawn Michaels is apparently an awesome heel [in Memphis], but the problem is that it is not an act.

lol

Mooияakeя™
04-14-2008, 07:49 PM
-- Shawn Michaels is apparently an awesome heel [in Memphis], but the problem is that it is not an act.

lol. This one tickled me.

i'm sure some of them are BS, or added by a dude thinkin he was "kleva".

Mooияakeя™
04-14-2008, 07:49 PM
ARGH! - I WAS READING THESE AND IN THAT TIME U REPLIED TO NINTI!

lol. - so didn't tickle me alone.

McLegend
04-14-2008, 08:04 PM
--Dusty Rhodes did a horrible interview where he told viewers if they didn't watch the Clash, he would remember and that on Christmas, he would come down their chimney and beat up their kids.

That's gold.

TerranRich
04-14-2008, 08:07 PM
--POWW is scheduled to run 20 dates in March. They have a few workers, but mostly wannabe models and actresses. The pay is good, but most of them don't even know what basic terms like "spot" mean.

Wow, 20 years later we have WWE and the Divas...

-- Shawn Michaels is apparently an awesome heel [in Memphis], but the problem is that it is not an act.

Too true, way before its time.

--Scott Hall is gone, and no one knows where he is. [Insert your own joke.]

Was that part in parentheses there already, or did you add that in? Because that's funny no matter how you look at it.

Vietnamese Crippler
04-14-2008, 08:19 PM
-- In the Bay area, radio stations were reporting the title change up to a week before it even happened. The San Jose Mercury ran a story about it the day before. This was out because the WWF had already sent advertising agencies information on Wrestlemania IV, with the slogan "Hogan tries to regain his title." Dave is shocked, but no one in the WWF was even concerned about it, because all the publicity in giving away the finish, and people anticipating a title change, only helped the ratings and buzz for the show. He says that's a clear difference between the WWF and NWA, as Dusty would have gone crazy about a finish leaking like that.


Um, lol?

Xero
04-14-2008, 08:20 PM
LOL, wow. How times have changed.

NeanderCarl
04-14-2008, 09:03 PM
Where you find this?

Vastardikai
04-15-2008, 12:23 AM
--Inoki did a clean pinfall job for a newcomer named "Big Ben Bader" on 12/27 at the Tokyo Dome in 2:49.

You know what would rule? If this "Big Ben Bader" guy had a helmet. Make it kind of look like an elephant Helmet with Ram Horns. Best of all, get this. It could shoot steam out of the back of it! I bet that'd get over like a motherfucker!

:shifty:

--The Get Well Matilda write-in is the WWF's way of building up a mailing list for its merchandise catalog

Anybody who wrote a "Get Well Soon" letter to a dog gets whatever they deserve.

Destor
04-15-2008, 12:29 AM
Where you find this?http://prowrestlingonly.com/

Gertner
04-15-2008, 01:38 AM
lol scotty the body comment. scotty the body would go on to become former wcw tag champ and flock member scotty riggs

Xerzes
04-15-2008, 02:22 AM
lol scotty the body comment. scotty the body would go on to become former wcw tag champ and flock member scotty riggs

http://www.scottlevy.com/scrap8.jpg

The Mackem
04-15-2008, 02:28 AM
LOL @ Shane Douglas rookie confusion.

The Mackem
04-15-2008, 02:28 AM
BTW is Scotty Riggs the guys who played 'Fake' Sting? The name sounds familliar.

Vastardikai
04-15-2008, 02:37 AM
BTW is Scotty Riggs the guys who played 'Fake' Sting? The name sounds familliar.

He was one half of the American Males: a thoroughly homo-erotic team with the worst theme song ever.

If their theme was java code, it would look like this (I may be bastardizing java, and for that I'm sorry):

String Gay = "American Males"
int i = 1.

Do {
print Gay
i++
}
while (i < 0)

Bad Company
04-15-2008, 05:50 AM
I thought Scotty the Body was Raven?

ddpBANG
04-15-2008, 06:54 AM
Scotty the Body WAS Raven

ddpBANG
04-15-2008, 06:56 AM
http://img180.imageshack.us/img180/9933/52sh4.jpg

Jura
04-15-2008, 08:50 AM
Now he's Scotty the Fatty.

NeanderCarl
04-15-2008, 07:27 PM
Found this from 1990....

TOP NEWS STORIES for the week of: November 13, 1990.

The Rockers have lost the tag team titles, but they didn't lose them in the ring. The Rockers defeated the tag team champions The Hart Foundation on a taping for a Saturday Night's Main Event set to air the 24th of November. Demolition Ax (Bill Eadie) and Demolition Smash (Barry Darsow) have apparently quit the World Wrestling Federation due to frustrations over being asked to play second fiddle to the Legion of Doom and wear masks. There is no word on the status of Demolition Crush, but Ax and Smash plan to take their act to Japan. This leaves the tag team roster incredibly thin, so Jim Neidhart has been offered a new contract and will stick around the World Wrestling Federation for a while. The early word is that the Hart Foundation vs. Rockers match at Saturday Night's Main Event will be edited so that The Rockers win the bout, but not the titles.

Saturday Night's Main Event airs on November 23rd at 10pm. Matches on the card include Mr. Perfect vs. The Big Bossman, Ted Dibiase vs. The Ultimate Warrior and The Hart Foundation vs. The Rockers.

[B]The latest rumor in regards to the Survivor Series egg is that Mark Callaway will be inside and come out to reveal himself as a character named The Eggman. Callaway is in line for a mega push and according to current plans will be paired with Hulk Hogan for an extended fued sometime in the very near future. Callaway was signed recently from World Championship Wrestling, where he wrestled his last major match for the company July 7th losing to Lex Luger at The Great American Bash.


Ric Flair and Buddy Landell will square off soon over the rights to use the name "Nature Boy".

The lineup for Survivor Series 1990 from the Hartford Civic Center is looking like:

The Ultimate Warriors (Kerry Von Erich, Legion of Doom and Ultimate Warrior) vs. The Perfect Team (Curt Hennig, Demolition Ax, Smash and Crush)

The Million Dollar Team (Ted Dibiase, Mystery Partner, Honky Tonk Man & Greg Valentine) vs. The Dream Team (Dusty Rhodes, Koko B. Ware & The Hart Foundation)

The Visionaries (Rick Martel, Warlord, Paul Roma, Hercules) vs. The Vipers (Jake Roberts, The Rockers, Jimmy Snuka)

The Hulkamaniacs (Hulk Hogan, Jim Duggan, Tugboat & The Big Bossman) vs. The Natural Disasters (Earthquake, Dino Bravo, Haku & The Barbarian)

The Alliance (Tito Santana, The Bushwackers, Nikolai Volkoff) vs. The Mercenaries (Sgt. Slaughter, Boris Zukhov & The Orient Express)

Ric Flair and Butch Reed headline WCW's Clash of the Champions Thanksgiving Thunder from the Jacksonville Coliseum on November 20th.

Since Jim Cornette and Stan Lane quit the NWA, Bobby Eaton has been working hard at becoming a successful single. Eaton was said to have a match with Sting airing this Saturday night with super heat.

NeanderCarl
04-15-2008, 07:29 PM
Who will end The Egg Man's 16-0 Undefeated streak at WrestleMania???

Volchok
04-15-2008, 07:45 PM
lol Egg Man... wtf?

KingofOldSchool
04-15-2008, 07:49 PM
Would that make Kane, Hard Boiled?

NeanderCarl
04-15-2008, 08:12 PM
Egg Man Inc.

Xero
04-15-2008, 11:14 PM
You think if he were the Egg Man that by now they'd be putting out Easter Egg painting sets with hats?

The Mackem
04-16-2008, 06:15 AM
Remember that damn egg though? What a bloody anti-climax that was!

Nowhere Man
04-16-2008, 06:23 AM
EGG MAN WALKING

The Mackem
04-16-2008, 06:36 AM
I will rest in pieces

He'd be scared to go to the top rope :(

Nowhere Man
04-16-2008, 06:38 AM
He's not already?

(though that rope-walk thing could have a cool new name: Walking On Eggshells!)

NeanderCarl
04-16-2008, 04:33 PM
I'd love to have been in the McMahon office when Vince called Callaway in to reveal his big gimmick.

"The Egg Man? What is this, some kind of yolk?"

The Mackem
04-16-2008, 04:44 PM
LOL Class Act Carl

The Mackem
04-16-2008, 04:44 PM
I'd rep you but I'm maxed out apparently :lol:

Destor
04-16-2008, 06:39 PM
did it for you

Porcupine
04-16-2008, 06:48 PM
Brilliance! The ministry could be The Omelet and the song "Rollin" would become a 100% fit for The Eggman as he rolls down the ramp.

Vastardikai
04-16-2008, 08:21 PM
His Last Ride could have been called "The Great Fall." He could be lead by all the King's Horses and all the King's Men.

I'm reaching...

Nowhere Man
04-17-2008, 12:34 AM
He could always tag with Glen "The Walrus" Jacobs. Koo-koo-ka-choo.

Indifferent Clox
04-17-2008, 12:36 AM
He could always tag with Glen "The Walrus" Jacobs. Koo-koo-ka-choo.

You fucking beat me to it.

NeanderCarl
04-17-2008, 04:24 PM
There could be some great catchphrases.

"This is one egg that cannot be beaten!"
"I'm a real bad egg!"
"No egg-scuses, the better man won"

Paul Bearer would have been named Benedict instead, no doubt, and he could have adopted the Stinkface as his finisher and called it "Egg On His Face".

RaginRonic
04-18-2008, 01:55 AM
I'd rather take this down a different road and say that the whole 'Egg Man' thing could have been foreshadowing of the then-unknown alternate name of the Sonic the Hedgehog character Dr. Ivo Robotnik over in Japan...Dr. Eggman. LOL

So we could have been exposed to a Sonic-style storyline instead, which might have made me a little weirded out. :P

The Mackem
04-18-2008, 01:58 AM
He does have ginger hair