So I was flicking through some site with a whole bunch of Wrestling Observer quotes, and some are pretty laugh out loud material. Most of them are in relation to WCW and WWE though there are some TNA ones. Here are some of the best that should be shared:
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"Jim Duggan came out next and made some remarks about Sting and then Sting came out and gave him the reverse DDT and was supposed to leave Duggan laying. At least that's how the commentators were selling it, the only problem was that Duggan got right back up and was marching around the ring as they said it."
- Dave Meltzer, Wrestling Observer (January 20, 1997)
"Eddie Guerrero double count out Syxx in a 2:00 ladder match. I've got a feeling watching a ladder match go to a double count out in that short a time on TV will make me spent $27.95 to see them have a rematch."
- Dave Meltzer, Wrestling Observer (January 20, 1997)
"There was a comedy spot early when Bubba came out and did the Baron Von Raschke walk while holding up the claw and the James Gang ran off in fear." - (WON 2006-06-19)
"The idea was to spoof beauty contests but it was so lame the crowd began chanting for Debra McMichael."
- Dave Meltzer, Wrestling Observer (February 3, 1997)
"Miss NWO finally ended with the sight of Bischoff French kissing an overweight mid 50s woman to no cheers, even fewer laughs, and a lot of gagging around the country. By this time the show was as much fun to watch as three hours of somebody masturbating. In fact, I'm not sure that isn't what we were watching."
- Dave Meltzer, Wrestling Observer (February 3, 1997)
"Benoit threw Konnan over the top for the DQ. Jacquelyn was supposed to pull a chair from under the ring but some WCW idiot had grabbed the chair and was sitting in it and she, on live TV, started looking for a chair and looking for a chair and what a disaster that turned out to be."
- Dave Meltzer, Wrestling Observer (February 10, 1997)
"Ice Train pinned Maxx in the dark match. Report was that it was about as good as you'd expect."
- Dave Meltzer, Wrestling Observer (March 24, 1997)
"KENTA pinned Aries in 20:48 with the Go to Sleep in another excellent match. There was a dueling, "Let's go KENTA, Let's go Aries" chant that went on for five minutes. Then others in the crowd started a "Shut the fuck up" chant. Maybe we should post on the doors at ROH shows the rules for fan behavior so people who are sad it's not 1985 don't have to complain about how fans who enjoy the matches react." - (WON 2006-07-03)
"The NWO did an interview. They pretended to be stoned. They pretend very well."
- Dave Meltzer, Wrestling Observer (March 24, 1997)
"None of the announcers recognized the elimination and it wasn't until Michael Buffer announced it (it's really scary when he's the quickest on the draw) that any of them realized the top rope rule."
- Dave Meltzer, Wrestling Observer (March 24, 1997)
"Heyman did commentary and claimed Mysterio and Eddy Guerrero both got their starts in ECW. Well, they got their start in ECW in ECW." - (WON 2006-06-19)
"Finlay used the shilleleigh and then followed with the emerald frosien for the pin. Thankfully Heyman didn't try to say that move was invented in ECW." - (WON 2006-06-19)
"Dusty {Rhodes} was really horrid here because he thought Ciclope was Parka because of the horns on his costume (of course it's Psicosis, not Parka who is the one with the horns)."
- Dave Meltzer, Wrestling Observer (March 31, 1997)
14. "Kurt had left for a several hour flight to Orlando that in TNA time took one commercial break." - (WON 2007-12-03)
15. "When MVP delivered the high kick, JBL, in his only dated reference on the show, made reference to Frank Brody instead of Bruiser Brody, I guess to make sure even older fans had no idea what he was talking about." - (WON 2007-12-03)
16. "Don't expect to se a War Games match in WWE. Well, since it's been almost seven years since thet bought the Intellectual Property rights to that name and haven't used it, I guess that should be obvious. HHH had tried to sell it to Vince, but Vince saw it as a WCW idea and thus wouldn't do it. A recent WWE special magazine talking about history of PPV, wrote about the War Games, calling it "The most confusing match concept," (they haven't paid attention to TNA's recent stips like the reverse Battle Royal, or King of the Mountain) and buried the concept." - (WON 2007-12-03)
17. "[Chris] Harris was a full-fledged heel. The one nice thing is they don't bother with such archaic ideas of turning someone heel with an angle and an opponent. Instead, Harris just complains all the time about things that are valid, thus that makes him a heel." - (WON 2007-12-10)
18. About TNA: "Hell, they think because Vince does a big buy rate every year for the Rumble, that if they do 30 of them on TV each year they'll draw ratings with them." - (WON 2007-12-17)
19. CM Punk vs. Mark Henry: "Awful, awful, awful. I'd say V interfered for the DQ but V just got in the ring and stood there doing nothing and it was a DQ. I guess for blocking out the sun or something." - (WON 2007-12-17)
20. "First, Hall did her singing and plugged her record. There really is a record that WWE has produced of Hall badly singing Christmas songs. Hey, people bought pet rocks for Christmas when I was a kid!" - (WON 2007-12-24)
21. "Edge brought out the Major Brothers, who said that wasn't their real name. They lied about their name. Where are Al Snow and John Laurinaitis to tell them that the one thing that is not allowed in wrestling is dishonest people. The least they could do is make them eat worms for pretending to be something they aren't." - (WON 2007-12-24)
"{Luna Vachon} talked about taking the womens belt from Madusa. Of course Madusa doesn't hold that belt. Akira Hokuto does, but with the communication withing this company, I don't blame her for the mistake."
- Dave Meltzer, Wrestling Observer (April 21, 1997)
"Larry Zbyszko didn't know who Roger Clemens was but did bring up Bronko Nagurski as a name everyone should have heard of."
- Dave Meltzer, Wrestling Observer (August 4, 1997)
"Melina was screaming in a ear-piercing manner. JR said this would wake up a seeing eye dog. Lawler didn't quite get that. Neither did I, but he kind of explained it was like a dog whistle. Except, it was piercing our ears and a dog whistle, people aren't supposed to hear." - (WON 2006-07-03)
"{Bischoff} claimed WWF would be out of business in six months."
- Dave Meltzer, Wrestling Observer (October 27, 1997) Backstage meeting with the wrestlers.
"{Bischoff} also said something to the effect that there are only three wrestlers in the room that have ever put asses in the seats and they were Hogan, Piper and Savage and said he was willing to to debate anyone if they disagreed with that assessment."
- Dave Meltzer, Wrestling Observer (October 27, 1997) Backstage meeting with the wrestlers.
25. About the Major Brothers new names: "I'm just saying since these guys are no longer insignificant giys nobody was supposed to care about, one of them needs to wear on his trunks, "I'm Zach", and the other can wear, "Im not Zach", so we know who is who." - (WON 2007-12-24)
26. "Joey couldn't understand why Chavo was here, and why he was attacking Punk. Way to bury your own champion when the announcer can't even figure out why anyone would want to work a program with him." - (WON 2007-12-24)
27. About The Major Brothers: "Anyway, Vince told creative to come up with new names for them. So, being that he doesn't want to lie to the fans, they created two different fake names to replace the original two fake names." - (WON 2008-01-07)
28. "Throughout the show was a best of three segments drinking contest with Eric Young vs. James Storm, called DSC (Drinking Championship Series). This was filmed the night before, to explain Jeremy Borash being there. I thought we already established over Christmas that Eric Young lived adjacent to the Impact Zone." - (WON 2008-01-14)
29. "Abyss brought out a barbed wire chair. You know, since they are trying to make next month's barbed wire match into a big deal, they used barbeb wire a few weeks ago on TV on a Christmas [show] and used it here." - (WON 2008-01-14)
"Nobody has any idea why they brought a live tiger from the zoo to accompany Steiner to the ring on Nitro. Backstage, when he was trying to get a photo with the tiger, the tiger nearly took a chuck out of Rey Mysterio's eye" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: October 10, 2000.
"DDP came out wearing an expensive shirt and doing gestures exactly like The Rock, talking about Flair liking to spank it, whack it and jack it" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: September 1, 1999.
"Madusa came out in a bikini. The implants looked ridiculous but this is a business of excess. She came out with Nitro cologne. It was the weirdest thing as Heenan was getting over just how horrible smelling the cologne is. It is a WCW product and they were pushing how bad it smelled. Madusa started screaming it was bullshit and threw the cologne on Heenan, who reacted like it smelled like cow manure. In fact, they actually used the word manure to describe the smell of the cologne. This was weird to say the least" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: November 1, 1999.
"Oklahoma then threw BBQ sauce in Madusa's eyes to set up Madusa vs. Oklahama in a feud over the cruiserweight title" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: January 10, 2000.
36. "Apparently management has come to the conclusion that Hoyt can't dance." - (WON 2006-12-18)
37. "Backstage, Cryme Tyme was conning the Highlanders out of all their money on rigged card games. Haas came out and said they are perpetuating ethnic stereotypes. For those keeping score, that´s because they got some bad pub and a few complaints about Cryme Tyme, so they use the heels to parody people who are complaining, since evidently they also are bad people." - (WON 2006-12-18)
38. "They were trying a new method to get guys to like Cena, saying he grew up liking guys like Chief Jay Strongbow, Lou Albano, Superstar Graham and others who were actually on top before Cena was even born." - (WON 2006-12-18)
"Bagwell and Kanyon, who at this point had turned on eachother twice, where scheduled to face Flair and Crowbar. Bigelow attacked Kanyon, suplexing him on the entrance ramp and threw him off the stage through a table. This bump was far more dangerous than similar WWF bumps where they have all these pads set up covered in a blanket around the table when they go off the ramp, but the stunt was nill as the cameras missed the shot" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: January 10, 2000
"It wasn't Bret Hart driving the monster truck nor was Sid in the car that was being run over, although both were the original plan. Hart was told what part of the car to drive over and where Sid would be in the car so as to not drive over him. Hart refused saying he wasn't an experienced stunt driver. There was no problem with his decision and he was apologized to for being asked" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: January 10, 2000.
"JBL complained that it took him years of wrestling all over the world, and going to Mexico to wrestle Mil Mascaras, a 78-year-old man in a mask, before he made it to the big leagues, and now they have a guy in a dress [Vito] facing a guy on a scooter (Simon Dean). He also asked them to change camera angles then they showed Vito's ass in a thong because "I have stock in this company." Luckily they digitized almost the entire match as someone at UPN didn't get the memo from WWE management that the moore bare asses of guys that air on television, the better it is for business. Or maybe, it's not better for business, but it makes Vince laugh, which is far more important these days." - (WON 2006-07-10)
106. "The finish was a move that wasn't exacxtly the doomsday device, but close enough. JBL said he hadn't seen that move used since the 90's. I can't believe thay let that one go, being that Animal & Heidenreich last year used it as their finisher in every match they won." - (WON 2006-07-10)
107. "The only thing that made Fertig a vampire was he had "V" on his tights." - (WON 2006-07-10)
"If you thought Starrcade was bad in English, it was worse in German. The German crew was in Washington DC live. The regular commentators were joined by comedian Tom Gerhardt, who was popular in Germany ten years ago because he used to go on stage dressed as a giant penis and pretend to ejaculate on the audience. He was doing heel commentary to get himself over, calling Disco Inferno gay, talking about Madusa having nice tits, and stood when Benoit made the open challenge to anyone and challenged him. This was all done to build a match where Gerhardt will wrestle Berlyn in Oberhausan, Germany on the WCW house show. German wrestler Ulf Hermann, upon hearing this news, issued a grandstand challenge." - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: January 10, 2000.
"Kevin Nash missed the weekend house shows where he was scheduled to headline against Vicious claiming a concussion suffered allegedly when he was hit with the rubber crowbar by Arn Anderson" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: January 17, 2000
"Kevin Nash then came out with a black girl, I guess to show that he is cool." - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter
"The Match (Kevin Nash vs. Sid) was in slow motion. Jarrett came in, but Sid got the guitar from him, clocked Nash with it and then laid on his back. The announcers were talking about how Sid was outsmarting everyone by pretending he was the one who got hit with the guitar. There were peices of the broken guitar surrounding Nash's body, including in his hair and a big peice on his chest, while there was no debris anywhere close to Sid" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: January 31, 2000.
About Genesis 2006: "Fans started chanting "You tapped out" at Joe. Joe said that on this day, Angle was the better man, but that he wanted a rematch and wanted to shake his hand. Angle blew him off and left, and went to the heel entrance. Joe then vowed that they would have to do things the hard way. In other words, they would have to explain the booking of this show." - (WON 2006-11-27)
"A funny story is that on the board for the tapings when they wrote down the finish for Bobby Roode vs. Eric Young, the description was Roode slips on a turkey leg and Young goes over. It was a figure of speech, slips on a turkey leg being used for the more popular slips on a banana peel, which basically means there is a miscue by the heel causing the face to slip over. Because the booking is so wacky, and people actually believed they were going to have someone put a turkey leg out there for Roode to slip on and lose." - (WON 2006-11-27)
"Angle told Sabin that he was a great wrestler but that he didn't stand out. Angle later made the suggestion, and apparently was serious, that Sabin do a gimmick where he would be like Pig Pen in the old "Peanuts" comic strip and have food and dirt all over him. Let's just say a lot of people excited about Angle having creative input after hearing that were shaking their heads." - (WON 2006-11-27)
"Naturals beat Team 3-D in a tables match in 3:29. They used a 3-D on Ray and then both Naturals put Devon through a table. They announced it was the first time Team 3-D had ever lost a tables match and then cut away and never discussed it again." - (WON 2006-11-27)
"In Philadelphia, apparently the hydraulics didn't work and The Demon was stuck in his coffin for about three minutes before they could get him out" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: February 21, 2000.
"Big T defeated Booker T in a match for (the rights to) the letter 'T'. This was ungodly bad. Actually the former Ahmed Johnson in his now pregnant state actually 'carried' Booker T to maybe the worst match of his career. The lights went out, seemingly forever, teasing that Midnight was coming, with her music. Of course, she's not even in the company anymore." - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: February 28, 2000.
"Chavo came out and said he refused to come out of retirement for a match with Henry. Henry kept ripping on his family, and said that if Eddie was there, he would spit in Eddie's face. And people wonder why wrestling is considered so low class these days?" - (WON 2006-07-03)
"The crowd didn't care about this program and the stretcher aspect of the match was preposterous. Daffney did a hurricanrana and her blue wig flew off in the process. At one point they put David (Flair) on a stretcher and he was halfway to the back. He got off the stretcher, totally revived, and didn't sell it like he'd even been beaten. Finally they taped David to the stretcher and had to sell that David couldn't get off with this athletic tape that wasn't even holding. The bell rang for no reason. Crowbar got carried off in a stretcher with that ridiculous tape. The funny thing is that the stretchers had restrainers that could have locked the guys in that would have at least looked better than that silly athletic tape. Then they put Daffney in a wheelchair and taped her up. Her being taped was the silliest of the three in that the tape didn't hold but she still had to sell it." - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: February 28, 2000.
"Funk attacked Rhodes after the match, knocking him out with a loaded chicken" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: March 20, 2000.
"Douglas pinned him (Funk) and grabbed the belt. Mike Awesome beat Wall in a tables match. Awesome and Douglas started beating on Wall but DDP came out of the back of the ambulance and threw Awesome in the back and the ambulance took off. Then they went to a cutaway with Russo holding a casket with a bunch of New Blood members as pall bearers, including Douglas without a hair out of place and Awesome, in his regular clothes." - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: March 29, 2000
"Kane pinned Benjamin in 2:43 with a choke slam to become the No. 1 contender for the IC title. Lawler & Ross were even making fun of every week having Benjamin in a No. 1 contenders match for the title, saying it may seem like Ground Hog Day." - (WON 2006-08-14)
"Khali is getting over so well as a monster that people were laughing at him. By the way, the reason Undertaker didn't go on the European tour is because they are trying to sell the idea he was hurt by the devastating Khali chop and has still not recovered. I recognized people don't know this. I guess it's like a double secret injury angle." - (WON 2006-05-01)
100. "The James Gang ripped on the Rock. Well, Billy Gunn is probably still smarting from that Rock interview where God told Billy Gunn that he sucked." - (WON 2006-07-31)
"Madden was at this point told to get over about how WCW doesn't do schmazz finishes and cheap DQ's. Except for Wall vs. Awesome up to that point, there had been nothing but schmazz finishes" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: March 29, 2000
"Jarrett introduced Russo as the guy who turned the WWF around and called him Vince McMahon's best kept secret. Russo came out to the Road Warriors music. He talked about getting screwed by the good ol' boys while a great percentage of both the live and TV audience had no clue what he was talking about. Bischoff came out to tease a confrontation, but they hugged. They announced that all of the titles were vacated. When Sid was teasing he was going to hit Bischoff, Bischoff made a comment about Sid not having scissors. Bischoff was so clearly stunned that the crowd didn't react to the scissors line that he must have thought that they didn't hear it the first time, so he said it again, also to no reaction." - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: April 17, 2000.
"With things changing it seems like every hour, the last word after TV was no long-term plans are being formulated for either the Hardys or MNM. Vince had changed his mind a few times, which is why Joey Styles on the ECW broadcast talked about it being the last time they would be together, and then they were in the Raw main event the next day." - (WON 2006-12-11)
"They (DDP and Mike Awesome) were having a good match when Mark Madden said in the new WCW they were going to have winners and losers and the refs aren't going to be calling DQ's. Literally seconds later, Billy Silverman called the DQ." - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: April 17, 2000
"Crowbar & Leroux & Moore beat Candido & Guerrera & Artist in 6:30. The Guerrera team kept having the match won, but a partner would break up the pin and cost his own team the match. This actually happened time after time. The announcers clearly weren't clued in, because nobody said a word nor were telling the story of the match. Sometimes when a partner made the save it was presented as if it was a member of the opposing team. Finally they came up with the explanation that the wrestlers are trying so hard to impress Russo and Bischoff that they are trying to make sure their team doesn't win. Crowbar pinned Candido after a gordbuster that was set up by Artist costing his team the match" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: April 24, 2000
"Meng speared a life sized poster of Goldberg. Meng used the poster to block Knobbs spraying him with a fire extinguisher. Meng then threw Knobbs off a 30-foot balcony" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: April 24, 2000
"Sting and Vampiro fought in a graveyard. Vampiro broke a tombstone over Sting's head and he fell into a grave. Offically, because Sting may have died, this match was ruled a no contest" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: May 08, 2000.
"Christian came out doing a promo on all of his opponents in the King of the Mountain match. He teased being a heel, and the fans were certanly ready for the turn. Sting came out and it was wierd. Sting tried to act like he's already been NWA champion and doesn't have any interest in winning it again, and his only role is to take Jeff Jarrett out because Jarrett is the biggest threat to TNA's future. Christian said how the worst thing for the company right now would be for him to lose. Christian said if the opportunity arose, he thought Sting would try and win the title. Sting said he was only there to take out Jarrett. It was perplexing. You had the most popular guy in the match telling people that he has no interest in winning the match, and that winning the title, which should be the ultimate goal, doesn't interest him." - (WON 2006-06-26)
"The big finish was totally screwed up. The idea was that Jarrett and Page were to climb the scaffolding. Arquette would climb the scaffolding, hit Jarrett with the guitar, who would take the bump through the gimmicked part of the stage that they would fall through. When leaving the ring, by accident, Asya stepped on the set and fell through, so everyone could see that it was gimmicked. Arquette than ran out and apparently wasn't given directions as to what to avoid, and fell into the gimmicked part of the stage. So Jarrett and Page improvised up there with Page deciding to save the show and take the bump into what was already evident as the gimmicked hole in the stage. No idea at press time how this will be edited" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: May 08, 2000.
"When they made the stip where Flair got five minutes with Russo, Russo didn't sell it, and then said 'this is where I'm supposed to play chicken shit heel' to zero pop" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: May 08, 2000
"Russo and David were at Flair's home in Charlotte. (Russo) said that Reid was the favorite one and that David had to sleep in the garage and swim in a shark infested creek. Russo was jumping up and down on Flair's bed. " - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: May 22, 2000
"Madusa vs. Liz were supposed to have a cage match but Luger came out dressed as a cage repair man and saved Liz. Russo came out and hit Luger with a low blow, but he was wearing a cup so he no sold it and rubbed the cup in Russo's mouth. The security maced Luger. Palumbo attacked Luger with that 60's comic book twister deal. Awesome attacked Nash. Nash called him Eddie Money, who was a rock star probably when Nash was in college, and challenged him to an ambulance match. Scott Steiner went outside for a street fight with Tank and Rick. The Goldberg monster truck made the save. Nash nearly killed Awesome with the greatest power bomb in the sport. Just before Awesome faced sure paralysis, DDP made the save to help Nash do the move before he dropped the guy on his head. The (ambulance) match ended with Awesome never put in the ambulance." - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: May 22, 2000
"During the commerical, they soaked the ropes with gasoline. Sting came out, then Vampiro came out and called him Steve, and said they would have an inferno match on the PPV. Sting said that's nuts and he isn't going to do it. At this point the ropes were supposed to set on fire but they didn't. The fans started laughing and booing," - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: May 22, 2000
"Vito worked as a heel even though he's been a face on TV. His winning move was lifting up his dress, sticking Funaki's face in his crotch and basically humping until Funaki tapped out. That's a hell of a show for a product surviving at the live events on young kids who come to see Mysterio." - (WON 2006-06-26)
"Sen She means "Warrior" in Japanese. "Warrior" in wrestling language means clinically insane." - (WON 2006-05-01)
"In the Kip James ridiculous fashion award for the week, he had this circular cut pineapple head bleached blond 42-year-old pig-tails on the right side of the head (yes, one pig-tail on the side, not pony tail, not two pig-tails) and the pig-tail had been put through a curling iron. At least he couldn't find ridiculous looking shorts to wear since he wasn't wrestling." - (WON 2006-05-01)
"BG claimed they sold out MSG 47 times in a row while the Dudleys were playing at a Bingo Hall. BG thinks he's Superstar Graham and it's 1999." - (WON 2006-05-01)
"Tank Abbot has been asked by management to take singing lessons" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: September 11, 2000
"Russo wanted to be dragged behind the (monster) truck through the desert by Goldberg but the higher ups nixed the angle. Russo was very upset about this" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: September 11, 2000
"They did a segment claiming Russo had suffered a blood clot to the brain and needed emergency brain surgery" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: September 11, 2000
"Some notes from 9/12 in Roanoke for the Thunder tapings. Hayabusa was there but was only going to be put on World Wide against The Frog." - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: September 11, 2000
"The Thrillers went back to the Power Plant. They all attacked Mike Graham. That was funny because Graham leg dives Sanders and put him in a figure four, and when there are six guys ready to jump you, the best thing to do is run, and the worst thing to do is to take one guy to the ground and let the other five stomp the hell out of you. They attacked Orndorff, who in every camera shot posed titled so his good arm, which he clearly had pumped up before taping, was right in front of the camera" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: September 18, 2000
"Kash & Noble were put together as a cruiserweight tag team wearing dog collars and chains, and barking like mini Rick Steiners. At least they'll have decent matches." - (WON 2006-05-22)
"In a segment said to be hilarious live, (Elix) Skipper was talking trash and challenging Goldberg. Goldberg came out behind Skipper. Skipper keeps turning and Goldberg keeps adjusting his position so Skipper can't see him. All of this is on the big screen, which Skipper is looking right at, and can see Goldberg behind him, but because they didn't consider this when making the angle, he had to pretend" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: October 23, 2000
8. "Christian threw a Margarita in Joe's face and hit him ten times with a coconut. They actually had Joe bring up the Snuka/Piper and the coconut earlier in the segment just to make sure we all knew ahead of time they were going to copy the idea." - (WON 2007-10-24)
9. "On Saturday, when the wrestlers were wanting their money, they were told the promoter (Chris Salisbury aka Chris Cramer) first said his wife would bring the cash. First the word was his wife got a speeding ticket, then she was stuck in traffic, causing Bubba Ray Dudley to ask if her last name is Heyman." - (WON 2007-11-06)
10. About Kurt Angle's DUI: "He said when he passed the Brethalyzer, the police were mad and then wanted to take him for a blood test. [...] He said he wasn't taking steroids or painkillers, but was taking medication, pain blockers, for his neck, and he didn't think it would be good for that to come out (so he said it in an interview to make sure it would come out.)" - (WON 2007-11-06)
11. "The return of DX for "One Night Only" was Vince's way to appease Bonnie Hammer, who wants more of the TV stars she's familiar with (1998-2001 peak period, interesting the period Michaels was gone but the DX act was huge) to return to television because she thinks it'll bring back the viewers from that time period. Well, if a shake-up ever happens at NBC Universal, she'll fit in great on the TNA booking committe." - (WON 2007-11-12)
12. "Black Reign attacked Abyss and they brawled to the back. Why that wasn't a DQ is because... maybe they were using secret extreme rules." - (WON 2007-11-19)
"CNN ran a special on Goldberg on 10/22. They showed Vince Russo and the booking team talking about a Nitro where Bill Goldberg would get revenge on Scott Steiner. Russo had an idea that Steiner would be in the dressing room bleaching his mustache and Goldberg would pour Clorox down Steiner's throat. Ed Ferrara noted that you don't bleach a mustache with Clorox. He then said they could use bleach instead."- The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: October 30, 2000
"Buff Bagwell did an interview before the PPV with Alex Marvez. Regarding his attempt over the summer to go to the WWF, he said that on the New Blood Rising PPV, Kanyon was supposed to beat him and take Judy Bagwell as his valet. He said it was Russo's idea, (and) that nobody but Russo liked the idea. He said he asked Kanyon 'Are you sure you want my mother as your f---in valet?'." - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: November 06, 2000
"Ray wasn't thrilled with Madden calling Jindrak & O'Haire the 'White Harlem Heat'." - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: November 06, 2000
"DDP asked Sanders to deliver the line in a promo saying DDP may be 45, but he looks 35 and wrestles like he's 25. The line wasn't delivered, because it makes no sense for a heel to say that. However, it has been repeated backstage as a source of comedy." - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: December 25, 2000
"The 12/18 Nitro was supposed to practically be built around Rick Steiner as the surprise guy, but he wasn't there because they forgot to tell him" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: January 01, 2001
"Kaz Hayashi & Yun Yang beat Jamie Knoble & Evan Karagias in 9:21 in the show stealer. You know it had to be WCW with the graphic reading Jamie Karagias and Evan Knoble as they came to the ring" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: January 22, 2001
"Chavo Jr. & Animal beat Misterio Jr. & Kidman. Schiavone was waiting all day for the line talking about Misterio Jr. wrestling in Mexico, and then said, Mexico is bordered to the south by Guatemala, not Nicaragua, as everybody knows. For the other three million viewers who don't have any idea why he said this, it's because 11 years ago, there was this guy who did a wrestling newsletter named Steve Beverly who had the ear of a guy at TBS named Jeff Carr. Carr made the call that WCW Saturday Night should only have one host, and it was Ross. Schiavone was so mad he went to the WWF for several years. He's hated Beverly ever since. Anyway, last week on 'Who Wants to be a Millionaire', a contestant was asked what country bordered Mexico to the south and called Beverly for a lifeline and Beverly said Nicaragua and his friend hesitated, but went with Beverly's pick, and was wrong." - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: February 05, 2001
Schiavone in his silly statement of the week after Misterio Jr. did some flying move and then spun around, compared him with Bugsy McGraw, who for those who weren't around in that era, was just about the worst wrestler in captivity. It would be the equivalent of Jim Ross comparing Kurt Angle to Tiger Chung Lee" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: February 12, 2001
"Cage won clean and everyone expected that he'd won the NWA title, since it was advertised as an NWA title match. Only when it was over were fans told it was a non-title match. Fans were chanting "bullshit" and "refund" which is usually the way you want to send people home. [...] As fans were chanting "refund", one of the promoters asked why and as told it was advertised as TNA Night of Champions and didn't feel like a TNA show. He claimed it was never advertised as that and to take it up with Ticketmaster, which advertised it as "TNA Wrestling: Night of Champions." The marquee outside the Tsongas Center read, "TNA Wrestling: Night of Champions." It was adertised during WWE programming as a TNA event." - (WON 2006-06-17)
45. "Brother Ray was on an Orlando station promoting his spa's grand opening and said with a donation to the Greyhound adoption charities, he'd personally give anyone a facial. I just can't imagine that one, nor really, do I want to." - (WON 2006-06-17)
46. "Nash, when talking about a body bag, joked it was something that hadn't been seen in wrestling in about two weeks. Nothing like making fun of your own product." - (WON 2006-06-17)
47. "Joe should have dressed differently for the run-in. He looked like he just got off the beach." - (WON 2006-06-17)
"In a TV commercial in the Nashville market for the 2/18 PPV, the voiceover really says 'expect a night of run-ins'." - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: February 12, 2001
"They showed a limo pulling up to the arena and the announcers referenced a limo pulling into the arena. Then they cut to a shot inside the limo of Stasiak and Kanyon and in the conversation they talked about arriving at the hospital" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: March 12, 2001
"The main event on the show, believe it or not, was Flair kissing a donkey" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: March 26, 2001
"Ace (had) an exchange with Luger. Luger compared himself to a Ferrari and said that if you keep hitting a Ferrari with a sledge hammer, pretty soon it's worthless. Ace's reaction was something to the effect of having no idea what it meant" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: March 26, 2001
"There was a ton of heat on Luger and Giant for the deal they pulled at the 1/5 tapings in Gainesville, GA. Giant came out in his jeans, not even getting dressed, for his main event with Luger. They got in the ring and Giant just lied down and both laughed." - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: January 18, 1999
Poor Tony Schiavone had announced earlier in the show that Kidman and Misterio Jr had won the coin flip and would start. Then, when Guerrera's music was second, he said that Guerrera must have won the coin flip and he and Kidman would start. And then Misterio started with Kidman. The fans started chanting "USA". Schiavone then explained, and I'm not making this up, how the rules of the match make no sense and there is no logic in ever tagging out under these rules. When Rey and Kidman wanted to tag out, Psicosis and Guerrera acted like they didn't want to get in the ring. Since nothing made any sense, they just had a great match" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: January 25 1999
"Hart did this Mexican spot where he faked getting a low blow and started selling his groin. Schiavone said Piper kicked him low. Heenan, who knew the spot, said he didn't think so. Schiavone, when he figured out what the angle was, said only an idiot like Heenan would say that he kicked him in the groin when he didn't." - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: February 15, 1999
"There was some heat on Hogan calling the camera man a 'jiggly, jiggly, jew' on Nitro, but eveidently not enough for the segment not to have been replayed on every show during the week" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: February 15, 1999
"Raven & Saturn did an interview where they talked about being friends in high school and both liked Beulah McGillicuddy. Saturn said, 'That was Tommy'." - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: April 12, 1999
"WCW took out a huge ad in USA Today with the new logo which read "Looks like something a bird left on the hood of my car", and never mentioned wrestling once" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: April 12, 1999
"WCW ordered a ton of new business card, stationary etc. with the new logo and the address on all the cards spelled 'Altanta'." - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: April 12, 1999
"They showed Hogan going in for knee surgery. Hogan was walking into the hospital, not selling it" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: May 03, 1999
"WCW is coming out with Goldberg, Hogan, Savage and Sting Air Fresheners. And Nash. The company that is marketing them wanted the first four. WCW begged them to include Nash." - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: May 10, 1999
57. "Hardy beat Nitro via DQ in the IC title match in 12:18. [...] Ross noted this was the first time the two had ever faced each other. Well, it was the first time in about 20 hours they had." - (WON 2006-09-18)
"Goldberg was on QVC and when asked abut what he's doing in the future, he said he really doesn't know because they don't tell him anything" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: May 10, 1999
"Even though Young lost the drinking contest on PPV, he is still the drinking champion. Nobody told us it was a non-title drinking match on PPV. However, at the next PPV the drinking championship belt is at stake - in a wrestling match." - (WON 2008-01-28)
51. "James Storm came out with Jackie Moore and gave Young the eye of the storm (whirly bird) and went to steal the drinking championship belt. Between briefcases and belts being stolen every week, they may as well drop everything and just send people certificates to keep in their safety deposit boxes. Next year we're adding an awards category for Thief of the Year." (WON 2008-01-28)
52. "[Beth] Phoenix was told some time back to drop weight because while very pretty, she was thick from her wrestling and powerlifting background. The idea was to get her to where she could wear a bikini in front of a wrestling audience. So she did it. Last week, when she got the word she was being brought in, she was asked to gain 15 pounds because it would fit better with her new gimmick." - (WON 2006-05-16)
53. "On "Hogan Knows Best" this weekend, when Hogan was going through his wrestling injuries, he mentioned that Undertaker dropped him on his head in 1974. Yes, he said 1974." - (WON 2006-11-06)
"[Ric Flair] was apparently frustrated because the Foley line about imaginary tough guys that Flair had wrestled, which was done for Flair to bring up people like Brody and Hansen, saw Brian Gewirtz react negatively because he had no idea what Flair was talking about. Flair should have instead recited catch phrases from 70s or 80s sitcoms and they'd all think it was a great promo." - (WON 2006-07-24)
"They traded hard garbage can shots. Tony Schiavone in his infinite retardedness killed those by saying that they sounded great but really don't hurt. After Schiavone explained how the garbage can shots don't hurt, Bigelow went out and killed Hak dead with a wicked shot. Schiavone then (again) said it made a great noise , but didn't hurt as bad as it sounded" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: April 12, 1999
"In an employees meeting the week before the Vegas show, Bischoff told everyone that because of the new set, graphics, open and music, Nitro would do a 7.0" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: April 19, 1999
"Flair did an interview saying the elbow off the top was now banned. J.J. Dillion agreed with him. I guess they forgot the announcement made last week that the elbow off the top was banned. When Savage wrestled later in the show, guess what his finishing move was? Since the move was banned twice now in two weeks, the ref didn't DQ Savage and instead counted the pin" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter
"Hogan came back and suggested doing an old vs. new angle, largely because he wants to shoot on the new guys for never drawing money"- The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: June 7, 1999
"La Parka & Silver King beat Damien & Ciclope. This was a total complete disaster. Tony Schiavone and Bobby Heenan laughed their way through the match, saying over and over in the most demeaning tone that this was a 'Mexican Hardcore Match'." - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: June 14, 1999
"Steiner undid the protective mats around ringside. He then piledrove Sting on a protective mat." - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: June 14, 1999
"Nash sold very little considering it was a 16-on-1 beating" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: June 28, 1999
Nash is trying to make himself the rebel outlaw with the belt, which is pretty hard when you're the booker saying WCW doesn't want you with the belt" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: June 28, 1999
"When Sting said 'I've got two words for you' and the crowd responded 'Suck it' in New Orleans, he thought the cameras were off. Boy did that come off as a lame finish to the TV show" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: June 28, 1999
"Also on the show is Disco Inferno vs. Ernest Miller with the loser not being able to dance anymore. The plan is that Miller would win but that Disco would still dance anyway and they'd just ignore the stipulation" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: July 12, 1999
"The fans booed Hogan a lot. Sing asked the fans if he should team with Hogan. They booed heavily. Sting, listening to the advice of the fans, then agreed to team with Hogan" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: August 02, 1999
"On a radio show this week, the host brought up that the Nitro main event lost to the Raw main event by a full four ratings points. Hogan's response was that it was Benoit, Malenko, Saturn and Douglas that brought the rating down and he had to make up for lost ground" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: August 02, 1999
"For the record, the quarter with Benoit, Malenko, Saturn and Douglas drew a 3.3 quarter. The final quarter (Hogan vs. Sid) did a 2.9" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: August 02, 1999
"Chris Jericho's final WCW match was 7/21 in Peoria, IL in a tag match teaming with Eddie against Kidman and Mysterio. Before the match, Jericho said that if he got pinned he'd leave WCW. Misterio than said everyone already knew it was his last night in WCW. (After the match) all four hugged in the ring. There were fans in near tears, as was Jericho. Kidman started a Jericho chant. Jericho said that he was overwhelmed by the response, but he still thinks that Peoria sucks" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: August 02, 1999
"Sid powerbombed La Parka on a bag of popcorn" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: August 23, 1999
Make sense out of this. (Bagwell vs. Norton) Miller came out with his red shoe. Onoo hit Bagwell with a briefcase but Bagwell kicked out of the pin. Miller jumped in the ring and Norton clotheslined him. The ref then ruled that Bagwell won via DQ, I guess because Norton clotheslined a guy not in the match who was already in the ring" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: August 16, 1999
"Sting beat Nash with the scorpion deathlock after ref Johnny Boone was beaten up and Scott Dickinson heard a submission. Nash's lips never moved and he didn't tap. Maybe he's a ventriloquist" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: August 16, 1999
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