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Number of people at Manchester in March 2000 to see Sting, Goldberg and Nash no-show and Marmalukes-Harris Boys main event: 16,000.Number of shows WCW did drawing 16,000 after this date: None.Number of people at Manchester for follow-up show six months later: 6,000.Number of people at any WCW shows one year later: None.

Shit I never knew that, and btw what Kennedy's finisher called?

Kennedy himself calls it the Lambaeu Leap which is the actual name for that move.

He should call it the Kennedy Assassination (copyright my housemate).

They have the tape libraries and all trademarks and other assets for WCW (including Jim Crockett Promotions and Georgia Championship Wrestling) and ECW.They have the tape libraries only from Smoky Mountain and AWA.

The Flair-Savage title change was taped for and aired on Prime Time. They actually had such a bad match at first that Vince sent word to go to a double-countout. They then came out again later to do the match again, this time with the title change.Though Flair lost the loser-leaves match on Raw, he stayed with the company for a couple of weeks to do a European tour where he was on with Bret Hart every night. These matches were in the 30-35 minute range and RULED.

Superstars opened that week with Gene Okerlund announcing that Bret had won the title and bringing him out for an interview. I remember being genuinely shocked when he said "Ladies and gentlemen, the NEW WWF Champion..." and Bret's music played.

I nearly pooed my pants when Okerlund started talking because I thought he was about to say "The Ultimate Warrior". When Hart's music played I was in major shock.

If you don't get a reply here to that one, try the forums at 1stopwrestling.co.uk, which has a forum dedicated to training.

Q2. Is Max Crabtree (The WOS ring announcer) still in the land of the living?

Wasn't the ring announcer Brian and not Max Crabtree?

No - Brian Crabtree was a referee.

Brian was the ring announcer, though he did referee as well. Max was the promoter.

I'm 99% sure Max Crabtree is still alive as somebody who went to the wrestling reunion was talking about how, although Crabtree doesn't go to the formal gatherings, he is still in touch with people.

So I was watching Smackdown and thinking that Eddie Guerrero deserves a freakin' Emmy or something, and I got to wondering:Has any pro-wrestling TV show or commerical release ever won a mainstream industry award, either for the show itself or for an individual performance (more likely to be an editor or producer than a wrestler, I expect)?

I don't remember the details, but I think the 1999 WWF Superbowl advert "Get it?" (the one set in Titan Towers where the wrestlers were acting normal but the office workers were doing wrestling stuff) won an advertising award.Also, Wrestling With Shadows won a shedload of independent film awards.

And PWF (Pennsylvania).

Two completely separate plane crashes. One killed Bobby Shane, with Austin Idol surviving. I think it was in Florida. The other is the more famous one in the Carolinas which ended Valentine's career, injured Flair and killed the pilot.

To clarify, you only have to get one person on the other team to submit (or the team captain can surrender on behalf of the team, as happened when Pillman was KOed in 1991). Also, the finish can only come once everyone is in the cage (this period is called 'The Match Beyond').

I've edited my post above to show 3:15 or 3:40 for WrestleMania VI. If somebody has an original tape (the broadcast, not the home video), can they check and confirm which is right.

I'm sure you're not meant to answer your own questions on here, but it's one that's come up a few times.On some of the later pay-per-views, I've simply listed the time slot, but as with most shows, they finished 10-15 minutes before the hour.[bold]How long did each WrestleMania last?[/bold]1: 2hrs 30mins (shown live on closed circuit), cut to 2 hours on home video.2: 3hrs (1 hour from each location), cut to 2 hours on home video. As a trivia note, the order of the show varied:East Coast: 8pm New York hour live, 9pm Chicago hour live, 10pm LA hour liveMid-West: 7pm: NY live, 8pm Chicago live, 9pm LA liveMountains: (I think) 8pm LA live, 9pm NY delayed, 10pm LA delayedWest Coast: 7pm LA live, 8pm NY delayed, 9pm Chicago delayed3: Approximately 3 hours. (Not certain, but the video runs 3 hours and has no matches cut. There are some interviews missing, but also some bonus footage, so the live show will have gone 3 hours or slightly over)4: 3hrs 28 mins (uncut on video, but two tape set)5: 3hrs 32 mins (uncut on video)6: Approx 3hrs 15 mins OR 3hrs 40mins, including interval before main event (cut to 3 hours on video, some matches edited)7: Approx 3hrs 30 (Sky broadcast ran 3hrs 20 but edited out a skit and an interval) (cut to 3hours on video, some matches edited)8-15: 3hrs including interval (uncut on video)16: Approx 3hrs 20 (plus 37 minutes post-game show)17-19: 4 hrs20: 4 hrs 30 mins21: 4hrs

Couple of footnotes to previous answers:I don't think Hogan's WCW deal ever had a flat-rate per year. However, he was on 25% of any PPV income above the level of when he entered (which obviously added up to a fortune during the boom), a straight 25% of any house show he worked, $50,000 for each TV appearance, and a favourable system of merchandise royalties.Something like 'the Game' is such a generic phrase that you could only trademark it for a specific use (in this case, pro wrestling).

Do you guys trust BARB ratings here in the UK? (especially for wwe on skysports)They said 70,000 for RAW on Wednesday 6th June yet only like a few weeks ago it was a massive 160,000 odd.And with a 5000 selection rating panel it doesnt sound that right as it seems too small a number to represent the UK.My next Question is,How are ratings done in the US?

The bigger the channel, the more accurate the ratings. 5000 is statistically easily enough to get generally accurate figures for a channel like Sky Sports. Bear in mind that most election opinion polls are done with 1000-2000 people, and the exit polls with 15,000 gave an almost exactly accurate forecast. The 70,000-160,000 variation is quite big, but even shows like Coronation Street (where you'd expect the audience to be consistent) can often vary by a good 30% over a few episodes. The only difference is that Granada don't then look at the quarter-hour ratings and cancel Ken Barlow's storyline.Ratings in the US are done in a very similar way, but with more boxes because there are more people (it's in roughly the same proportion to the UK). The only difference is that UK ratings are always listed as a straight number of people, while US figures are listed as a percentage of people with access to the channel concerned. (So, for example, a 5.0 on NBC is more people than a 5.0 on MTV.)There's also something called sweeps week, which takes place four times a year (February, May, August and October) where a much larger group of people fill in a diary of the programmes they watch. The figures from this used to be the main way of calculating advertising rates, which is why wrestling companies (in the days when most TV matches were star vs jobber) would put on big matches on the TV shows those weeks.

Also, Smackdown is on a network (UPN is similar to ITV, being made up of regional stations), so it has to go off the air at a precise fixed time, whereas Raw is on a single cable channel which allows it about six to eight minutes leeway. Running a live show under such restrictions would be much more difficult.

It was broadcast on the USA network (cable TV). It's generally assumed the contract between the companies didn't give WWF rights to sell it on tape. It's possible WWF agreed to this to persuade USA to give them a very specific timeslot (opposite the second NWA PPV).

ECW not made it to Nashville Airport yet?ZING. ;-)

If they are recreating ECW, chances are there'll be no seating arrangement inside the building, and your ticket will be for a non-existant location.

Many people will argue that they were given the names Ax and Smash, though I remain convinced that they were not given individual names until Barry "Krusher Krushchev" Darsow replaced Culley, and Mr Fuji was instated as their manager...

I saw a real old Demolition match on Classics years ago, and I'm quite sure they were called Demolition 1 and 2 initially, like Doom and the Pitbulls and others.

Huzzah! Everyone I've ever argued this with claims they were given the names Ax and Smash more-or-less straight away, but I'm sure that Culley was never called Smash, and that they weren't given the names until Darsow came on board.Incidentally, Brian Adams wasn't called Crush when he first debuted, going by the (very imaginative) name BA when he started filling in for Ax on the house show circuit in Spring 1990...

Just checked the Observer with the report on the debut of Eadie and Culley in the role, and they are listed as Ax (well, Axe actually) and Smash. If I get the chance, I'll dig out the tape sometime to check.On the TNA front, you can get a spoiler-free list of matches at:http://www.outcastvideo.pwp.blueyonder.co....eo/nwa_tna1.htmAnd regarding Graham Cawthon's site, I must admit I once (while, not coincidentally, talking on IM to Sickboy), mistakenly attempted to visit www.thehistoryofweewee.com

Has Chris Nowinski been released by the WWE, and if so what is he doing now-a-days?He was a great talent, and would have made an excellent IC Champion.

I believe he suffered a serious concusion that he has never got over - much like Bret Hart.

Last I heard, he was doing a lot of research into the subject and becoming an academic expert on the link between sports (particularly American football) and concussions.

www.thehistoryofwwe.com

1.) Please remind me of the reason Sid Justice didn't appear at the event?

I'm not sure if Sid was injured or it was all an elaborate plan to get Savage back on TV.

I vaguely remember Sid was genuinely injured and was being replaced on house shows by 'Mr Madness'.Who definitely wasn't the yet-to-be-reinstated Savage under a mask. Oh no.

Anyone have any news on the next FSW show?

also do they have a fan forum now i cant access the old one i spose its cause its now fwa manchester not fsw

They're now at fwamanchester.com