Nwa-tna

Ph3n0m

I have just read the report from NWA-TNA, and I have to say what occured between Roddy Piper and Russo was just sickening.

If you are wondering what was said during the "shoot", check the url below


http://www.wrestlingheadlines.com/news/2002_/articles/1039077961.php

Can you post it up here . I want to read , cant go to the site as i am restricted in work .

Ph3n0m

ok here it is

We hit the usual intro....but bagpipes begins to play over the loudspeaker. It’s pretty funny to see the dancing girls try to dance to it. The music just plays and plays...so they finally cut back to Don West and Mike Tenay and Don’s tie-less this week.

RODDY PIPER~! finally makes his way down to the ring in his usual garb, along with some guy with him, dressed in the same Hot Rod type shirt, leather jacket and jeans, to a nice pop. After plugging his website in the first sentence, he wants to address the Russo situation. He talks about how Russo was born as a “hump of thing”, which then grew to a 300 pound “hump of thing”, tried to make it as a wrestler but failed, so he became a writer. Although I doubt he was ever close to 300 pounds, I’ve heard of Russo trying to make it as a wrestler before...but don’t know much about it. Drop me a line if you do. Roddy claims that Russo has no talent, unlike the guys in the back and he’s here to answer his challenge from last week where Vince asked for someone to stop him. He shows us a page of his book from when Piper was a young child (plugging his book in the process, of course) and talks about how his dream to make it as a wrestler came true. Piper goes all controversial by saying that Russo is NOT the Anti-Christ of pro wrestling, as he claimed last week, but the Bin Laden of it. He then crosses the line, in my opinion, by bringing up Owen Hart’s death and insinuating that Russo was responsible. He calls Owen his cousin (probably confusing half of the audience that didn’t know Piper is Canadian and not Scottish) and the crowd is just SILENT. After he finishes his point about Owen, there’s a “Piper” chant. Piper then takes his jacket off to reveal a black armband and a shirt containing the names of 10 men that died in professional wrestling. With the help of my VCR (seeing as how it’s VERY hard to read the names), the names are: Art Barr, Rick Rude, Brian Pillman, Rick McGraw, Adrian Adonis, Andre (The Giant), Owen (Hart), Kerry Von Erich, Bruiser Brody, Junk Yard Dog. The only person I’m not familiar with is Rick McGraw, so if someone out there could enlighten me, I’d appreciate it. He claims that Russo will kill pro wrestling for everyone unless “your idea of a good time is having a 325lb Samoan in a thong sitting on your face”. Ouch. “NOT FOR ME! You don’t have that kind of money! You little puke...”

He calls Russo out....and he sneaks in behind Piper in the ring. Piper turns around and Russo backs himself into one of the corners. “Russo sucks” chant by the crowd as Piper looks at him and says “You’re not a pimple on my ass”. He gets right in Russo’s FACE, holding the microphone...looks at him dead in the eyes and says “Did you kill Owen Hart?”. See....that is so uncalled for. He talks about how he killed WCW and asks Russo to answer it...but he won’t give Russo the mic. The Rowdy One smacks Russo upside the head as he’s all up in his FACE as he says he’ll hold the mic and try and be a gentleman, but Vince wants the mic or he’s not talkin’. Piper walks away, saying that Russo used to call himself, Flair and Hogan dinosaurs. “You’re not a pimple on Hogan’s ass man”. THAT gets a pop. Piper claims that instead of making an entertaining wrestling program with wrestlers, he took “entertainers” and made soft pornography. “I agree with you on ONE THING....My time is over. But you’re the dinosaur now”. The Harris Brothers come into the ring to remove Russo from the building again, as Piper taunts Russo while he tries to snatch the mic from him. He plugs a Shoot Interview that he’s doing Friday night on PPV (?) before he leaves the ring and Russo is removed. I haven’t heard anything about it...however, if you’re a fan of shoot interviews, on TSM, Brandon Truitt conducts some of the best Shoot Interview Reviews anywhere on the ‘net. He raises the arm of the kid he’s with (who I suspect may be his son) and heads to the back.


...... the later on

Chris Harris heads over to the ring for his scheduled match with Brian Lee but before Brian Lee can be announced, Russo gets into the ring and grabs the mic. He looks at Harris and tells him that he’s only there to help him...so let him say his peace.

He’s not going to trash talk Piper for fear of being sued for defamation of character....(I don’t get it...shouldn’t he able to sue Piper for HIS comments?) He then tells Piper that if he’s going to use Owen’s name to sell his book, he’s going to go STRAIGHT TO HELL. I agree with that one...but he didn’t use it in respect to the book. Note: In the process of reviewing this event, I read a press release stating that Piper’s comments were a shoot, so Russo’s response towards him about suing for defamation of character made some sense. “The NWA does not give a **** about you people”. He talks about how the NWA are old men who don’t know what the people want. “Russo sucks” chant by the people. Vince then looks at ring announcer Jeremy Borash and threatens him for trying to the get the people riled up. Borash usually helps incites chants to get some crowd heat, btw. Borash flips Russo off, which is funny considering the former on-air relationship they had in WCW.

He says he knows what the people want. According to Russo they want violence, blood, vulgar language, smut, nudity, sex! Sounds like XPW to me. He says that today is the birth of Sports Entertaining Extreme...or S-E-X for those slow people out there. Every week, he comes and sees signs that read “Athena”, “Hire Athena”, etc. For those of you unaware of who Athena is, she’s a ring valet who sits at ringside to take things to the back, like wrestlers apparel, yet is NEVER shown on TV. Fans try to get her attention every week with these signs. “I am going to give you people Athena!” She comes into the ring as the crowd chants “Athena”. Now that the camera is actually focused on her...she’s kinda cute and has got a great body. Russo asks her how it must feel to see all of these people asking for her...yet she never gets any TV time. She turns to look at the crowd...revealing an ass even BETTER than Belladonna! She goes to speak...but Russo cuts her off. “Show your tits” chant by the crowd. Russo tells her than TNA means ‘tits and ass’ and demands that she show em! Athena refuses....and Russo says that it’s because she’s got none (BULL****, the girl’s almost a C cup from my view). “Is it because I’ve seen bigger tits on Dusty Rhodes?” That gets a pop! He calls her an “ugly wench bitch” and gets slapped for it to a pop. He grabs her and yells at her, calling her a whore while backing her into the corner. “Kick his ass” chant by the crowd as Athena yells at Russo, but does nothing. The Harris Brothers come in and Athena takes Russo down! They’re separated by the Harris...and it looks like Don is coppin’ a feel. LOUD “Let her go” chant by the crowd. Russo: “Are you kidding me or what? I will stick this broads foot so far up her ass, she’ll sneeze her shoe out”. He then turns his attention to the Harris Brothers, claiming that they’ve become nothing more than office help. Russo tells Ron to speak his mind on what he’s been telling him over the past few weeks over the phone.


it wont make a lot of sense until u read the report in full, but thsoe two segments are the main cause of contraversy

Phelim 3:16

Yeah it sickened me too. But what do you expect from Russo. It may have been one of the lowest points wrestling has sen in the past few years. A bit off topic, but has anyone read Martha hart`s new book about Owen? i am two thirds through it and man it is tough reading. Such a sad thing to see someone like Owen being killed by the most ridiculous stunt, especially when you realise the complete disregard that Mcmahon and the WWF showed to the safety of its employees and the callousness of Vince`s reaction after Owen`s death. It really does make you wonder why you watch wrestling at all.



Phelim

Neil3030

Tis a bit confusing to say the least. What channel is it on? Maybe a few episodes will clear things up..

bombidol

TNA isnt available anywhere except the US, if you want to keep up to speed i suggest getting tapes of the shows off www.simania.co.uk