World Wrestling Federation
HHH returned to action (02.01.99) against Kane no less, in a cage match, which he won courtesy of X-Pac. Didn't he lose on RAW an "I quit" match against Rocky? If he is really out, what would be his next stop WCW or ECW? I don't think the WWF would afford to lose him as a wrestler.

Mankind got the world champion again. It didn't surprise me. The WWF had to make the Super Bowl half time USA Network exiting. Unfortunately Mankind lost the title to Rocky (RAW, 02.16.99), courtesy of Paul Wight (known as the Giant in WCW).

Paul Wight is part of WWF now. He disappears from the spotlight for barely two weeks and reappeared in the WWF site. What is he going to do in the WWF? He was a WCW favorite, who was losing his momentum in the hands of Kevin Nash. His first appearance in WWF was at the Valentine's Day Massacre PPV as part of the McMahon Corporation. He will the special referee in Steve Austin's bout for the WWF title against Rocky.

I stated at some point that no one wants to be champion of the promotion he owns. Shane McMahon beat X-Pac with help from Chyna for the European Champion. He is going to WrestleMania XV to defend his title.

It would be a thrill if the Undertaker had a title shot. By the way what is the Undertaker doing lately? As I mentioned, the vampire persona some wrestlers have. The Brood joined forces with the Undertaker's cartoon-like show (02.01.99). This is really silly. The Undertaker should start beating people up, not making a fool of himself. The wrestlers in his Ministry of Darkness have changed names. A good example of this is Mable who is now called Viscera.

The Road Dogg was forced to surrender the belt (aired on 02.13.99) because of a knee injury as stated by the WWF. Sources indicate that the Road Dogg was fired of the WWF for questionable behavior, not his knee. A champion was decided in a bout at Valentine's Day Massacre between Al Snow and Bob Holy who of course won the Hardcore Championship (02.14.99).

What would be the next stop for the Road Dogg? He might go to WCW where his brothers, the Armstrongs, do a living. He might continue the hardcore act at ECW. No one knows yet, though.

Koch Records re-issued the Wrestling Album making it the fourth release with the label; the album was originally released by Sony in 1985. If the formula works, don't change it. That is exactly what the WWF is doing in music. The only silly part is that the album was recorded by wrestlers and staff who left WWF and now are either part of WCW or some smaller promotions. The smart part of it is that it features Jesse "the Body" Ventura who didn't sing on the album though. The WWF must want to cash a little more from him.

Beast Records just released Slammin' Wrestling. The album has opening themes of WWF and WCW. The album has "Stone Cold" Steve Austin and Goldberg together. This last collection is the only one with WCW music, aside from the Hulk Hogan CD.
 

World Championship Wrestling
A question for everyone, if Hogan is not forced to defend his belt, when would he? Even though Rick Flair is not one of the favorite wrestlers, I wish that he could beat Hogan silly. Anyone but Hogan should have that title. Besides no one would mind seeing Flair as the champion and the president of WCW. Where do we leave the confusing and misleading reality of Flair being the president of WCW? Eric Bishoff is still an active executive, according to the credits of the PPV events.

Rowdy Piper won the US Heavyweight Championship (02.08.99) from Bret Hart. Does anyone know many titles Piper has had? If I am not wrong, this is his first title ever.

Last month, I asked what WCW did to the tag champions. WCW TV programming has been exiting with this double elimination tournament thanks to Flair. To keep WCW/NWO on a nice balance, the Outsiders should should have won the tag team championship. Perhaps the British Bulldog and Jim "the Anvil" Neidhart could have done very well if they were active part of WCW on Nitro. By the way where are the British Bulldog and Jim Neidhart? The winners and new tag team champions are Barry Windham and Curt Hennig (02.21.99) defeating Dean Malenko and Chris Benoit in the last match of the tournament at Super Brawl.

Speaking of lost wrestlers where is the Ultimate Warrior or simply Warrior as he is called in WCW? His website has a link to a wrestling school under his name.

Speaking of more lost wrestlers, the Sandman is back. He left ECW for WCW when his contract expired late last year. Where has he been? Since his name means ECW, he might not be able to use it. What is he going to call himself? The only sure thing is that he brought his barbwire and this means that WCW has gone extreme, or at least partially.

Talking about extreme wrestling, WCW is just following what the WWF started. If extreme wrestling attracts people, jump on the bandwagon. Read the comments on the hardcore (extreme) title held by the Road Dogg until the Valentine's Day Massacre PPV.

Because TBS is watched in cable worldwide, WCW has become really a world promotion and not just a promotion with a catchy name, since its introduction of in the early 90's. Some promoters use the word world but are as local as public access channels.

What is wrong with TNT airing the re-run of Nitro one week at 3:00 and another week at 2:00 in the morning (its regular time)? Don't they know people like me sleep at that time? Please keep your schedule or tell us when to record it.
 

Extreme Championship Wrestling
As I mentioned, Taz is the new ECW champion. As a champion ECW calls him a miserable man. He delivered a previously recorded speech interview saying that any champion in the WWF was not good enough to get the belt away from him. Later in February in Detroit he issued a challenge to "any champion in WCW or the WWF" for the ECW World Championship (01.23.99 aired in early February of course). Such challenge can be respected by any wrestler and promotion. Perhaps WCW would not care. Perhaps the WWF would pay attention. Perhaps if any champion of either promotion would dare to fight Taz outside his promotion's standards, there could be something we as fans must see. I guess that any wrestler would be proud to say that he went to ECW and brought the belt back with him. If anyone in a suit can make this happen, please do so on free TV or a PPV so we can all watch it.

Still one of the favorite ECW wrestlers is Shane Douglas. He proved that he was a great champion when he had a return bout for the title on 01.16.99. Even though he lost the fight, he got an ovation from the audience at the ECW Arena after being applauded by Taz himself. Douglas later (02.12.99) retired from wrestling thanking Taz for a great last fight and giving his spot as the Franchise to Tommy Dreamer. In the middle of a somewhat emotional goodbye, he was interrupted and assaulted by Justin Credible and Lance Storm who even hit Francine on the face drawing blood out of her mouth with the bamboo stick that Justin stole months ago from the Sandman. ECW has gone too far, or at least some of its goons have. This or Belulah's broken neck should never have happened.

Late last month Sid became part of ECW. He came out of the retirement and perhaps he could stay in the promotion longer than usual. Sid could go for the world title against Taz. The introduction of Sid was very smart from ECW. It could give global recognition to ECW, from an east coast wrestling promotion with PPV access to international status.

I don't know how Sabu got the unrecognized FTW (Fuck The World) title from Taz. It must have happened during the five months that NYC had no ECW (08.98 to 01.99). Where is FTW from though? Is it a real promotion or simply a gimmick? Now ECW says that Sabu and Taz will go for the ECW title to unify (?) both belts.

Last month, I pointed out that the quality of ECW's Extreme Music is simply outstanding. Surprisingly sales have not been very good with the album yet. ECW can brag about the album being part of the BMG catalog, a major distributor. The album might not be distributed worldwide.
 

National Wrestling Alliance
The following was sent by MC Wrestling. On 02.13.99 at the Nashville Fairgrounds, TN, while Battling for Pole Position 1 Cory Williams and Chad Hawke went to a draw. Ace Steel with Cat Taylor defeated Adam Pierce. Rocking Randy defeated Adrian Lynch. Bad Street Boys defeated Destruction Crew. In the Cowbell on a Pole Match Bart Sawyer defeated Barnyard Briggs. In the Coalminers Glove on a Pole Match Colorado Kid defeated Chris Michaels by disqualification. In the Barbwire Boomerang on a Pole Tennessee Volunteerz defeated Faron Foxx and Ashley Hudson.

On 02.17.99 at the Georgia Belle Flea Market at 7:30 pm in a Texas Tornado Match (4 way dance) Billy Black and Joel Deaton defeated Rex King and Vic Violent by disqualification thanks to Lord Humongous.

In a 15 Fan Strap Match Hot & Heavy (Silky Boom Boom and Frenchy Riviera) defeated the Centerfolds who were left hog-tied up by the fans. In other matches Prodigy "TJ" Gray defeated Big Hurt with Dirty D. Pete Platinum defeated Shooter Johnny Blade. Colorado Kid defeated Tiger Johnson.

On 02.20.99 at the Nashville Fairgrounds, TN, Chad Hawke with Ernest T defeated Al Rose. Joey Matthews defeated Bill Dundee by disqualification because of interferance by Shane Eden. Also Christian York defeated Chris Michaels who was attacked by Eden, Hawke and Michaels, until Matthews made the save with a chair. Later Bart Sawyer with the Brown Brothers defeated Cory WilliaMs Brian Christopher and Spellbinder defeated Tennesse Volz, becoming NWA North American Tag Team Champions.

On 02.25.99 at the Georgia Belle Flea Market Prodigy "TJ" Gray and Vic Violent fought to a draw. Pete Platinum defeated Tiger Khan and Rex King on a Three Way Dance. Hot & Heavy defeated Samoan Deth Squad by disqualification when Faku and Spade hit Frenchy Riviera. Lord Humongous defeated Billy Black becoming the NWA Georgia Champion in a hockey mask match.
 

Gladiators Wrestling Alliance
Last month, I mentioned the GWA which meant Global Wrestling Alliance. There is another promotion named GWA which stands for Gladiators Wrestling Alliance, which hosts a site for the NWF or the National Wrestling Federation. Gary, the President of Vangar.com (dead site) which hosts the GWA and NWF sites, explained the coincidence of the names.

"About two years ago we were called the Global Wrestling Alliance but it was brought to our attention by ex-pro-wrestler Bill Hughes in Long Beach, CA that Global Wrestling Alliance by the original group that started that name so we changed to the current Gladiators Wrestling Alliance and [we] no longer have anything to do with the old name." (02.14.99 - thanks Gary)

APWF
The following was sent by APWF. On 02.19.99 at Punxsutawney, PA, Romeo Valentino defeated Adam Flash with Royce Profit. Later Major Agony defeated Bob Keller. The "Latin Dragon" Julio Sanchez defeated Cueball Carmichael with Royce Profit having to fight interference by Cecero and Profit. Fang defeated Jeff Pearce hitting a Juvi driver to the floor. "Sexy" Shane Shadows defeated G-Moe in a ladder match. Bad Bubba Brewer defeated Sheik Abdul Hussein, keeping the APWF heavyweight title. Black Cat defeated Bad Bubba Bubba for the APWF heavyweight title. Jimmy Cicero with Profit and Carmichael defeated Tom Brandi with Jade by disqualification. The Bushwackers defeated House of Kane (Mohammed Kane and Combat Kid with Spike Callan) for the tag team championship.
 

Other Promotions
Send me information of wrestling sites and promotions. If you know what AAA (Triple A) mean, let me know.

I haven't heard of some smaller promotions as RWA or IUWA or NWC for example. Through search engines I found some promotions that I never heard before and some specialized sites. See the links. Visit them and support the underdogs. If you have links that I should include, send them.
 

Other News - Backyard Wrestling
According to the news, kids have gone sort of crazy lately practicing what they call backyard brawls. Kids are allegedly wrestling in their backyards very extremely. I guess that the newscasters were trying to blame ECW for having gone more violent than other promotions. These kids on the news were beating the crap out of each other jumping from roof tops and slamming themselves into tables lit on fire. It is crazy doing this shit if one is not trained well. This is a great excuse to break one's neck and no one would care about it.

A good example is what happened to me when practicing some wrestling in high school around 1988 (not Greco-Roman though). When a friend of mine had me on a torture rack, I moved to free myself thinking that I would land on the feet. I landed on the side of my hip on a 30 to 45-inch thick concrete floor. I was on therapy for six weeks taking heavy medication. The doctor told me that I had developed an eczema and, if not treated right away, it could reappear in the brain killing me. the point is, if you are not trained on how to take falls, don't put yourself falling to or through anything. You are better off training at any wrestling school.