Want more wrestling news, rumors, and results? Be sure to visit PWInsider.com and PWInsiderXtra.com.
First, I want to thank Mauro Ranallo and John Pollock for inviting me onto Fight Network Radio this afternoon in Canada to talk the WWE Draft and Vince McMahon's latest attempts to do himself in on camera. I also want to thank Brian Fritz for inviting me onto his Between the Ropes radio show when he remembers to do so - Just kidding, Fritz. Onto the Nuts and Bolts of the wrestling world!
The Waterloo, Iowa Wrestling Museum & Institution will still hold their induction ceremony this weekend with Bret Hart, Roddy Piper, Abe Jacobs, Masa Saito, Leo Nomellini, Ray Gunkel, and Penny Banner all being honored. Piper, Hart and Saito will be in attendance. Harley Race's WLW will be presenting a live card as part of the festivies. For complete details, visit http://www.wrestlingmuseum.org/. The Museum was left really damaged by the Mid-West flood last week and they are seeking help and donations to get the building back in order. It's really sad to hear of the lost memorabilia, but that's nothing compared to so many who lost their homes and jobs. Please keep them in your thoughts.
Meanwhile, The Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame in Amsterdam, NY will be holding a fundraising dinner on 9/20 at the Regency House Hotel in Pompton Plains, NJ. There's no word on announced talent that will be attending yet (it's several months away, people!) but there will likely be a number of legends involved and appearing. For more information, visit www.PWHF.org. The Hall is open every Saturday and Sunday to the public.
The Ultimate Warrior will make his first in-ring wrestling appearance since his short run in WCW tomorrow for the NWE in Spain, wrestling former WWE U.S. champ Orlando Jordan. Warrior's PR people have done a great job building to his return online with videos and such. The latest idea to drive interest in the Internet PPV they are doing for the show is to run an angle where an Anti-Warrior movement is out to disrupt the show and prevent Warrior from appearing, but of course, our fair hero will hear nothing of it. I know a lot of people are legitimately looking forward to Warrior's return, for a lot of various reasons, so it should be one of the bigger stories of Wednesday.
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson wrote a short foreword for Bruno "Harvey Whippleman" Lauer's autobiography Wrestling With the Truth, which can now be ordered from www.1wrestlinglegends.com.
Gorgeous George: The Outrageous Bad-Boy Wrestler Who Created American Pop Culture by John Capouya is set for a September release from Harper Books.
A synopsis for the book reads:
Who was Gorgeous George? And what made him tick? Very few people knew him as George Wagner from the outskirts of Houston - the oldest of three brothers from a desperately poor family whose job was to care for their mother Bessie, a bedridden invalid. After Bessie's death, George couldn't wait to get away and make his living in the ring, against the advice of his father, who'd said he'd soon would return beaten and broke.
In an era when two-fisted Hollywood stars like Clark Gable, Gary Cooper and John Wayne ruled the silver screen, a red-blooded American male didn't strut around in chiffon and lace unless he wanted to get his lights punched out.
Where did the character of Gorgeous George come from? What is it that created this very original, uniquely American character - the he-man with female qualities? How did George and Betty, careening around the country in a beat up jalopy from one low-rent wrestling venue to another, invent and improvise until the Gorgeous George character was perfect?
And what is it that made George so popular that his influence on performers echoes down to this day - not just in the outrageous world of professional wrestling but throughout American popular culture? From Classy Fred Blassie, Jesse "The Body" Ventura (with his feather boa), and Hulk Hogan as his wrestling descendants, performers as iconic as Muhammed Ali, James Brown, Bob Dylan, and John Waters have claimed Gorgeous George among their greatest influences.
Another Gorgeous George, as in the WCW version that managed Randy Savage appeared at the Fanslam convention over the weekend using the moniker George Frankenstein. When she had her falling out with Savage, he held onto the ownership of the "Gorgeous George" ring name, which he had initially purchased as a vehicle for his brother, Lanny Poffo, in WCW, a gimmick that never materialized. She also appeared for women's promotion WSU in New Jersey.
Maryland Championship Wrestling's annual Shane Shamrock Memorial Cup will be a two day tournament the weekend of 7/17 and 7/18 in Dundalk, Maryland with Balls Mahoney, Crowbar, Danny Doring, Ruckus, Bill Alfonso, Joey Matthews (Mercury), Christian York and more scheduled to appear. There will also be a Q&A Session with The Iron Sheik as part of the weekend festivities. MCW looks to be focusing this as the biggest show of their calendar year.
Steve Corino's 3KWrestling will run a Sunday matinee this weekend at the Gold's Gym in Limerick, PA with Ricky Landell, King Kahlua, and Ricky Reyes, among others appearing. Tickets are $5 and, oh yeah, bring your own chair. Seriously. Email ProWrestling3k@yahoo.com for details.
Jim Kettner's ECWA returns to Newark, DE on 7/26. The promotion, which is one of my favorite indy groups of all time when it comes to atmosphere and the laying out of old school storylines, is currently running a deal where Freak Nasty has been attacked and injured. Scott Wright (a heel) has implicated Sean Royal (no, not the New Breed guy) in the attack and he's been unjustly suspended. What happens next? Stay tuned for more at www.ecwaprowrestling.com.
CZW champion Nick Gage vs. Drake Younger will headline the 7/12 Philadelphia, PA return to the former ECW Arena for Combat Zone Wrestling.
For detailed press releases and information on many of the events mentioned in Nuts & Bolts, visit www.PWInsiderXTRA.com daily. That's all the Nuts & Bolts for now.
Come across something interesting you'd like to see included here? Mike Johnson can be reached at Mike@PWInsider.com.
If you enjoy PWInsider.com you can check out the AD-FREE PWInsider Elite section, which features exclusive audio updates, news, our critically acclaimed podcasts, interviews and more by clicking here!
| Jai club | Tiranga Game | Dg club | Jai Game | Yaar win | 6 Club | Bdg Play | 55 club | vn168 | 92lottery | vn168 | 92lottery | Jai club | Yearwin | Pinoy365 |
Bang On Casino
