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[Jay "The Brain" Mann [OFSU]]

I've found an interesting website called Wrestling Tidbits, which has old articles from Herb Kunze's Wrestling Tidbits newsletters. He usually fails at his predictions, but sometimes he hits a goldmine. It's just weird reading that the IWC hated Hogan even in 1990.
rspw.org/tidbits/

Some odd tidbits from the Tidbits:

- Apparently the Ultimate Warrior will undergo yet another appearance change: his hair will be dyed platinum.

- Latest rumour about the egg at Survivor Series has Mark Calaway coming out and working as the Eggman.

- It looks like Hulk Hogan's "Urban Commando" (in which he plays an inter-planetary superhero mercenary) will co-star Mean Mark Callas. Mean Mark, who left the NWA a short while ago, will be joining the WWF in the near future and, much as with Zeus, Mark's film feud with Hogan will be translated to the ring.

Also, he seems to have a hatred of the Junkyard Dog.

[gordon]

Very very interesting.

Thanks for posting! +1

[Jay "The Brain" Mann [OFSU]]

This one sounds like 100% unbridled bullcrap:

- Probably at SummerSlam, and certainly after the event, Virgil will start wearing a dress and make-up and calling himself Virgilina. I didn't make this one up. Honest.

[Burger Lad]

Great find - thanks!

[The UndyTaker]

Wow. Nice Find.

WrestleMania X rumor: "At a taping that airs post-WrestleMania, Lex Luger was filmed wearing the belt and was announced as new WWF champion, so it's expected he will come out as champ."

[Jimmy]

I love rspw tidbits, there's some awesome stuff buried in there.

[k5]

Dec 24, 2010 22:34:06 GMT -5 The UndyTaker said:

Wow. Nice Find.

WrestleMania X rumor: "At a taping that airs post-WrestleMania, Lex Luger was filmed wearing the belt and was announced as new WWF champion, so it's expected he will come out as champ."

haha, that's hilarious.

great find, i'm having fun digging around..

[hammer]

"Through the magic of video tape technology however, I can pour over the
match in a little more detail and perhaps see things that bothered me
which I may not have realized while watching it the first time. First
off, the match went for about 23 minutes; of that time, about 9 minutes
was actual wrestling time. That is the big problem with the match.
It was kind of eerie watching a match again and realizing that Hogan (!)
was carrying the match, working the spots. The Warrior was pitiful!
I swear that he missed every non-simple move he did. Not one clothesline
looked good - yet Hogan did a great job selling them. Whenever Warrior
got tired - about every 2 or 3 minutes - Hogan initiated a rest spot or
something to stall for time. There is no way that the Warrior will have
any reasonable length of title reign. Even Randy Savage will have
trouble making him look competent. But then, I'm a wrestling fan."

[Deleted]

It's interesting how Undertaker gets crap-talked as such a bad worker. How things change.

[slappy]

Dec 24, 2010 22:34:06 GMT -5 The UndyTaker said:

Wow. Nice Find.

WrestleMania X rumor: "At a taping that airs post-WrestleMania, Lex Luger was filmed wearing the belt and was announced as new WWF champion, so it's expected he will come out as champ."

He was supposed to win the title at X, but he blabbed to a reporter that he was going to win and they decided to punish him for it so Bret got the belt instead.