Final Judgment Day card, Rhodes radio recap, and more
    Submitted by William Martinez on Friday, May 17, 2002 at 11:05 PM EST

  • Here is the final WWE Judgment Day card:

    WWE Unified Championship
    Hulk Hogan (champion) vs. The Undertaker

    Hell in a Cell
    Triple H vs. Chris Jericho

    Handicap Match
    Steve Austin vs. Ric Flair & The Big Show

    Hair vs. Hair
    Kurt Angle vs. Edge

    WWE Intercontinental Championship
    Eddie Guerrero (champion) vs. Rob Van Dam

    WWE Tag Team Championship
    Billy & Chuck (champions) vs. Rikishi & Mystery Partner

    WWE Women's Championship
    Trish Stratus (w/ Bubba Ray Dudley) (champion) vs. Stacy Keibler (w/ D-Von Dudley)

    The Hardy Boyz vs. Brock Lesnar & Paul Heyman




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    Tiffinny Sciliano sent in the following:

    The American Dream Dusty Rhodes and AJ Styles were guests this week on
    Chairshots radio which can be heard exclusively at http://www.chairshots.com
    all week long. Rod Siciliano is the host.

    Here are some highlights from Dusty`s interview:

    -Dusty on Terri`s claim that she assisted in Dustin's return to WWE:

    "BULLSHIT! And underline that, that's bullshit. He got himself in unbelievable shape, and he was still being paid by Time Warner, I mean this guy is running 5 or 6 miles a day. I was there with him during the summer. When he got out of the contract he went to work with Turnbuckle to help me get the company off it's feet. You know what I mean? We had a great time, me and him, working as a team. It was just great but I couldn't afford to pay him at his young age, he was 31 years old, my God, he's got ten years of a run left. He can work his ass off. The gimmick, Vince loved that gimmick, because Goldust was the first really way out there, unbelievable gimmick, when it first came on board, I'm not talking about later on, you know what I mean? When it first came out it shocked the world, shocked the nation. You gotta watch Raw, this is unreal shit. And he played that character unbelievably. So now he's toned it from so much sexuality back into more of a costume. And it's remarkable, the costume is there and he's more mature now and he can handle it now. The deal was, I was there, he just said 'Dad, what are we going to do?' Well I said, you just need to call him, just call Vinny, you need to call Vince. You need to call JR. You know what I mean? And he said 'Hey, I want to come back to work.' And that's the way it happened. It had nothing to do with Terri or me or anybody else. And he showed up in unbelievable shape and said, 'Hey here I am. Do what you want to do. I can go with anything.` He(Vince) wanted him to be Goldust again so there we are. I'm really proud of him."

    -On Sonny Onoo and other`s lawsuits against AOL/Time Warner:

    "HORSE SHIT! HORSE SHIT! How many guys have called me a white ass cracker, a fat redneck? Jesus Christ, I mean, get a job. That's what I have to say to the guys, go get a job. You can document from the past, where I grew up in an Afro American, Latin neighborhood, I have no prejudice at all. Guys who need to get something for nothing. All of them saying`I was black balled because I was black.` That is pure horse shit! Your ability is what gets you to the dance. I can't even comment on that. And Sonny was always good to me. We always talked, but that's just, give me a free ride. What they need to do is go get a job."

    -Why WCW was evetually sold to Vince McMahon:

    "Time Warner and America On Line, when they came in and they looked at it, they're in the business of turning numbers, selling movies and selling radio and selling all kinds of different stuff. So they, it wasn't a family owned busines and that was the thing from the start. All the territories, as you know, were mostly family owned and the biggest territory of all, the biggest company of all is family owned. And that's Vince McMahon. They go to bed with it, they wake up with it, they sleep with it. They are not corporate, they're not worried about, hey we've got five movies this week we've got to run at this time. And you know (Ted)Turner was pretty close to our family. He knew that wrestling brought him to the dance in the early '70's. And I was a part of that. So when it got out of his hands and into their hands and into corportate hands.And now they`re needing programming like crazy,you see the same movie like over and over. So that's why that happened. It's very simple.It`s very simple why that happened.And plus they had got themselves into the contractial deal where they were paying guys more than the Braves baseball players.Case in point,Goldberg payed millions a year to sit on his ass for two and a half years.That is ludicrous.I like him personally but the guy had a two year run and that was it.Period.You talk about fifteen minutes of fame and that`s what it was.They paid him for a four or five year deal,whatever it was.And personally he was a hell of a guy and I don`t begrudge him the money he was getting every two weeks.It was just unbelievable,so they were just throwing money away.And with Vince you earn your money a little bit more.

    On working with the XWF:

    "They XWF, as you know, or maybe you don't know, but as the fans know I was supposed to be on that Texas tour. And I went in there, flew into Austin and was driving to San Martins when I got the word. They had us come in anyways and I went on in and they assured me I was going to get my money in full and all the shows were canceled, the guy had run out on them, and the whole deal and whatever was going on, Jimmy Hart, me and Piper, the Nasty Boys and Konnan and the rest of the guys were all there and we all signed autographs and Johnny B Badd and his lovely wife and we all signed autographs, and they were lined up around the building. But we didn't run and Knobbs called me on Monday and said your check will be there over night tomorrow. And it was, I can say nothing but good things about him. I don't know what happened with the promotion or the promoter or whether they have a tv or what's going that way but I had to trust him and they did the right thing.

    On possibly working with Jerry Jarrett and the NWA TNA promotion: "I haven't spoken with Jerry Jarrett at all. Bill Behrens who is involved somehow with them, had talked about they wanted to have some legends appear on there deal and I'm not ready to be a legend yet. I'm not ready to go out there and raise my hand and have everyone say 'Oh, there's old Dusty, he was an NWA champion.` As long as Terry Funk is still active, I'm going to wait him out.

    Just a fantastic interview with the American Dream.Dusty held nothing back and was very forth right with his answers.Other topics dicussed were Vince McMahon,Sr.,Eric Bischoff,his Turnbuckle promtion,and the state of wrestling today.It`s an interview you certainly should check out.

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