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MAGEE'S MAYHEM
New Jack will not be on The Jersey All Pro Wrestling show at The ECW Arena
on Saturday, February 3rd!
XPW out of California is also running on February 3rd, And has offered New
Jack 4 times what JAP is offered him. Jack went with the highest bidder
which is XPW.
I have never lied to our fans, And I never will! That is what happen,
There is no reason to make up stories or wait to the last minute to inform
everyone. If fans who purchased tickets want a refund email
Both events will still go on as planned!
New Jack will be At The Charity Hall, Friday Night February 2nd to battle
JAP NJ State Champion Skinhead Ivan. After the show Jack will depart for CA
from Newark Airport!
The Sandman will be on both events.
Sorry for the inconvenience!
Fat Frank, Jersey All Pro Wrestling
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CZW - DELAWARE INVASION! 1/20/01
CZW invaded Delaware last night with a new attitude. The show was phenomenal
from top to bottom. Some new talent involved and some nice surprises.
The opening match was a three way between Jon Dahmer, Ruckus and Jeff
Rocker. Some good wrestling from all involved with the standout being
Ruckus. This young guy has some great acrobatic skills for a larger guy: at
one point doing a Space Flying Tiger Drop onto Dahmer and Rocker on the
floor below. The finish saw Rocker winning with a fisherman's buster thru
the table on Dahmer.
Match two saw Rocking Rebel take on Nick Berk. Decent match saw Rebel and
Berk with a lot of give and take. Rebel did an absolutely hilarious Hogan
imitation. The finish saw rebel attempt to throw a fireball at Berk, Berk
deflected it back at Rebel and then went for the pin. Bell rang: a time
limit draw.
Berk asked for 54 more minutes, rebel attacked him at which point Ruckus ran
in for the save to avenge some earlier remarks made about him by Rebel.
The next match was scheduled to be Lobo & Johnny Kashmere against Nick Gage
& Trent Acid. Zandig came to the ring and basically said he was the owner
and things were going to be done his way now. He announced that Trent was
the best Jr. Heavyweight Champion CZW ever had and so Trent would not be
wrestling Tag Team matches anymore.
He then fired Dewey as Trent's manager. Next he told Lobo and Gage that they
were now tag team partners and Kashmere would face them alone. He then
finally broke down and gave Kashmere a partner: THE BARR!!! The actual match
saw Kashmere taking most of the beating since THE BARR basically refused to
tag in several times and then finally walked out leaving Kashmere on his
own.
Lobo and Nick set Kashmere up and Nick delivered a brainbuster thru a table
to Kashmere to take the
victory. At this point Robbie Merino came to the ring and told Johnny to
come back with him and reform the Kashmerinos and all of Kashmere's tortures
would end. Johnny refused.
Next up saw Trent Acid led to the ring by Zandig. Zandig once again stressed
that it was his company and screw what the fan's want. He'll run it his way.
Trent then took on three opponents in a handicap match: The Brisco Brothers
and Fast Eddie Valentine. Trent withstood the challenge of all three winning
the match with an Acid Bomb off the top turnbuckle on Valentine.
Zandig then called Ric Blade to the ring. He proceeded to down blade saying
he was a gymnast not a wrestler. He the told Blade he didn't have an
opponent for Blade since Zandig forgot to book Mondo's flight. Justice Pain
then came to the ring and told Zandig that Zandig might own the company but
it was guys like Blade and Lobo who built it. Pain told Blade that him and
Blade may not see eye to eye but he respected Blade for all he did for the
company and the guys in it. He then announced that he had done a little
booking on his own and had found Blade a suitable opponent. Out to the ring
to an incredible pop came Super Crazy.
Words fail me to describe this match. Shame on those who missed it. Anyone
who was there and saw this match and did not appreciate it doesn't deserve
to call himself a wrestling fan. A wild finish saw the match declared a
no-contest when Mondo who had been lurking in the back all along interfered.
This in turn set up a three-way dance for February 10th at Champs in New
Jersey.
The next match saw Wifebeater regain his title from Nate Hatred. This was a
typical Wifebeater - Hatred brawl thru the crowd. The match saw Wifebeater
take two drops onto a tabletop full of barbed wire and the finish saw
Wifebeater chokepowerbomb Hatred into the barbed wire for the pin.
The final match of the evening saw Tajiri and Justice Pain go at it for the
CZW Heavyweight Championship. Both Tajiri and Pain moved like greased
lightening and Pain was keeping up with Tajiri. Tajiri scored several near
pinfalls. At several points in the match, Wifebeater interfered and in fact
Wifebeater actually chokepowerbombed Tajiri to allow Pain to score the
pinfall. At this point, Tajiri got back to his feet and took out both Pain
and Wifebeater. Zandig sent a table into the ring. Pain was placed on the
table and Tajiri did the double stomp off the turnbuckle into Pain's
midsection sending him thru the table. zandig announced a rematch between
the two for the 10th at Champs.
Overall an excellent card that proved the ability of the CZW guys to hold
their own without having to resort to the bloodbath style.
This is The Bloodhound saying: Keep on Howlin' and I'll see everyone on the
10th at Champs.
Please credit The Bloodhound when using these results
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AS I SEE IT
Bob Magee
Pro Wrestling: Between the Sheets
PWBTS 2000
This column... a review on Vince McMahon's interview by Eyada.com sports
journalist Kevin Cook in the February 2001 Playboy, which went on sale
January 8th.
What comes across in this interview is a fascinating look at the real-life
Vince McMahon, the one only his family (if even they) know.
"...What's real and what's fake? McMahon knows the difference. And of all
the things he is -- WWF kingpin, actor-brawler playing the evil Mr. McMahon
in his own shows, XFL creator, proud father, horny husband, Forbes 400 media
mogul -- he is foremost a fighter. His ring exploits may be a soap opera on
steroids, but go up against him in a boardroom or a back alley and you're in
for a beating."...
McMahon doesn't spare anyone, especially himself....in a few places where he
could have easily done so. The interview goes over McMahon's opinion on
everything from the new XFL to his stepfather to childhood sexual abuse to
marital infidelity to his controversial decision to continue the PPV after
the infamous Owen Hart accident.
McMahon states that he feels (as is shown all over his advertising for the
XFL) that the NFL has become too corporate and goes along with those who
feel it's become the "No Fun League". McMahon also makes clear that what
viewers will see is a sporting event, and only the production will have the
trademark WWFE touch, with no pre-determined results.
He even suggests that football will be easier to produce by saying that
"...it's going to be easier to produce than World Wrestling Federation
entertainment, where we start with a blank page and have to write
characterizations and verbiage."
No kayfabing here, folks. This interview makes no bones that McMahon
produces entertainment and solely entertainment for anyone who still
questioned that fact.
The three most controversial passages refer to portions of his life that may
have shaped who he is today... and have nothing to do with the bright lights
of prime-time television.
In segments already alluded to in the mainstream and wrestling media,
McMahon refers to physical abuse from his stepfather, Leo Lupton, who hit
the young Vince McMahon with a lug wrench. McMahon himself reacts in an
understandable yet still surprising way:
"It's unfortunate that he died before I could kill him," McMahon says
of Lupton. "I would have enjoyed that."
McMahon also refers to childhood sexual abuse in his past:
"PLAYBOY: You fought your stepfather when he hit your mother.
MCMAHON: Absolutely. First time I remember, I was six years old. The
slightest provocation would set him off. But I lived through it.
PLAYBOY: That's an awful way to learn how a man behaves.
MCMAHON: I learned how not to be. One thing I loathe is a man who will
strike a woman. There's never an excuse for that.
PLAYBOY: Eventually, you escaped from your stepfather.
MCMAHON: By the time I was 14 I was on my own. I was pretty much a man then.
Physically, at least. In other ways I'm still becoming a man.
PLAYBOY: Was the abuse all physical, or was there sexual abuse, too?
MCMAHON: That's not anything I would like to embellish. Just because it was
weird.
PLAYBOY: Did it come from the same man?
MCMAHON: No. It wasn't...it wasn't from the male.
PLAYBOY: It's well known that you're estranged from your mother. Have we
found the reason?
MCMAHON (nods): Without saying that. I'd say that's pretty close."
The reference is to McMahon's mother Vickie.
McMahon discusses his real-life marital affairs and cheating on Linda
McMahon prior to the last six years, and indicates that he's been faithful
since realizing how much emotional damage he did with his infidelity. He
provides some interesting insights on how he feels men should be responsible
for the marital and emotional happiness of their partner. Given the nature
of this column and standards that most employ, you'll have to read these
remarks in Playboy itself.
Some of these comments shed a rather interesting light on statements made by
Linda McMahon in Broadcasting Cable.com regarding the skit that began the
ongoing angle involving a "divorce" from "Mister McMahon" and his
"infidelity" with Trish Stratus.
" 'Maybe I shouldn’t tell you this,' she says. 'If I were doing that
performance with an actor or a stranger, I would have burst out laughing. He
was so over the top; I had to look to the side of him.'"
Even in the world of wrestling with its bending and warping of the lines of
reality and fantasy, it's amazing that a woman who went through real-life
infidelity and its emotional trauma could look at such an angle in such a
way.
The story then goes into Vince McMahon as a teenager who "majored in
badass", including running moonshine and joining with locals in bar fights
with Marines.
Then McMahon goes into the brief time he spent with his non-custodial
father, Vince McMahon Sr. and his first meetings with wrestler and legendary
character Dr. Jerry Graham.
McMahon went through military school (and was court-martialed for a
particular episode with the Commandant's dog and Ex-Lax), but finally went
to East Carolina University, where he met wife Linda.
Vince's father didn't want him in the business, and kept telling him get a
secure government with a pension. After working sales jobs and even working
construction, McMahon finally convinced his father to let him run the
Bangor, MN territory where a promoter had been skimming money from Vince Sr.
McMahon had found his calling. Over time, the younger McMahon felt that
wrestling would have to go national from its territorial roots in the
expansion we all know about of the mid-1980s.
McMahon then goes over a story told him by Jim Ross of promoters conspiring
in a meeting held in Memphis in a plot to kill McMahon:
"MCMAHON: Ninety percent of the promoters flew to Memphis for a big
meeting. So one day, Jim is sitting [in the men's room] when a few of the
older guys come in, and say 'How're we gonna stop this kid?' Meaning me.
They're plotting to do me in. Of course, Jim doesn't want them to know he's
there, because he heard them.
PLAYBOY: They were talking about killing you?
MCMAHON: (nodding his head) They were going to take me out."
McMahon also discusses the wars with Ted Turner, claiming that he had a
"fraternal, we're brothers" relationship with some of his workers that was
overcome by Turner paying "up to 10 times what we were paying them". He says
with satisfaction that the WWF can create stars, whereas WCW has had to buy
them; and that the effects have shown this to be true.
He's asked about possibly buying WCW (the interview actually took place
before McMahon's attempts to buy WCW were publicly disclosed) and answers
Cook craftily that he "possibly" might be interested in buying WCW.
McMahon does acknowledge that RAW is WAR may have gone too far at times,
bringing up the infamous "Mae Young birthing" angle. But he also goes into
his feelings about Senator Joseph Lieberman and Phil Mushnick; stating that
Lieberman is at the "top three of his enemies list", referring to Lieberman
as a religious hypocrite:
MCMAHON: "...He actually thinks he's closer to God, or he's a
hypocritical politician using God to garner votes. Then I hear that they're
going to give Hollywood X number of days to respond - that's scary..."
Then there are the battles with Mushnick. McMahon ridicules Mushnick and
repeats his offers to have Mushnick interview him (which haven't been taken
up on). McMahon compares WWF programming to The Sopranos and <u<Sex
and The City, and suggests that overall its tame by comparison.
McMahon doesn't skip over the controversial issue of his continuance of the
No Way Out PPV after the death of Owen Hart. McMahon still states that he
thinks that he made the right decision, and that Hart would have wanted it
that way. He speaks with fondness of Hart and gives examples of the
legendary Hart ribs, even on himself.
There are two questionable issues within the interview, though. First is the
refusal to allow advertising of Beyond The Mat on WWF programming,
and McMahon's view of the conduct of his performers.
McMahon states that he views his refusal to allow Beyond The Mat to
advertise as a "business decision", and claims the movie showed the
"underbelly of the wrestling business in the early-Eighties"; as well as
showing the oft-mentioned segment showing Colette Foley and their children
reacting hysterically to the sight of Mick Foley getting 10 unprotected
chairshots to the head.
McMahon does admit that he "strong-armed the studio", offering to buy in to
the movie, then threatening the studio that he could keep advertising for
Beyond The Mat off of his shows since he controls advertising on WWF
programming (a fact which is true). However, it should also be noted that
the interview doesn't mention or question the fact that McMahon went so far
as to strongarm stations and networks airing his programming to refuse
advertising for the movie, not just his own shows.
To make such claims at the same time that he is criticizing the PTC for
advocating censorship of his own programming is questionable at best.
McMahon also tries to claim in the interview that the image of the everyday
wrestler had changed from when:
"In the early Eighties and certainly before then, it was viewed as a
six-pack and a [oral sex]" to a view of today's wrestler as being
"more sophisticated...on the Internet, or playing video games...he does
not go to the bar. So few of our performers even drink, much less do drugs
and other things that were once run of the mill. So to see Mick and his kids
and his wife in that movie was a real downer."
First, there's no connection between what occurred on that PPV and the
other.
Second, if Vince McMahon really believes that all of his workers fit this
image, he should start paying attention to what is really going on in his
locker room, or in the hotel bar after shows. While there may not be the
all-out bar atmosphere of the past, it's more because of WWF travel
schedules. Not to mention the fact that ring rats haven't gone away at all,
a question I'd think the interviewer ought to have pursued in a magazine
such as Playboy.
If the reference to "no drug use" was puffery for the sake of an interview,
he should have used more sense than to say something so at odds with
all-too-real examples to the contrary in his own company, ranging from the
tragic in Brian Pillman to the disturbing in Brian (Road Dogg) James.
Overall, this was a fascinating (though on occasion flawed) look at Vince
McMahon, the person. I'd urge readers to get ahold of the full interview
from Playboy for themselves.
Until next time....