WWE Confidential Recap (11.15.03)
Submitted by Peter Kostka on Sunday, November 16, 2003 at 3:41 AM EST
Ye Gods, it’s the middle of November already?
Quick and Dirty thoughts about last week: The segments about Hawk (including the “From the Vault” match were pretty well done, the rest was pretty blah.
This week: Scotty 2 Hotty talks about his hiatus, the Survivor Series: A History, Easy E. goes Outside the Ropes, and more.
Mean WHOO Gene welcomes us to yet another episode of Confidential. He hypes Survivor Series, specifically the RAW 10 man elimination tag, adding that we will see Austin and Bischoff in separate segments tonight. He then takes us to this week’s Cover Story.
Cover Story: The Return of the Worm
During a match in April of 2002, Scotty threw a punch with his left arm, and couldn’t feel anything on that side of his body afterwards. Scotty had been experiencing neck troubles at the time, but that forced him to finally take action. The surgery left him with 3 screws to keep his neck together, and a bunch of time to kill. He was nervous the morning of the surgery since he had never gone in for something as serious as fusion surgery. He was out of action for about a year and a half. He talked to Lita (who was recovering from her own surgery) about how he can deal with just sitting around. He spent a LOT of time at Disneyworld with his kids and wife, and really enjoyed being a father again. “I like to say that it was the worst year of my life professionally, but the best as a person and a father.” He couldn’t really watch wrestling, since he would see his friends throwing each other around and wonder if he would ever be able to do that again. When he returned, the two things he was most worried about were “Am I ready?” and “Do the fans even remember me?” Once he got into the match, he didn’t even think about that. This ordeal taught him to take care of his body and not take unnecessary risks, something the veterans told him when he started, but never believed. Now he gives the new guys that advice. The first Worm he gave since his return was an incredibly fun experience. All he wants is the fans to have fun, because he is.
Hey, Scotty is kind of a favorite of mine, so it’s nice to see him back and that he’s apparently learned something from this ordeal. 1/1
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Everything You Wanted To Know About The Survivor Series. Or Not.
This is pretty much a rehash of a segment they showed last year, with a few new things added.
The whole purpose for the Survivor Series was pretty much to get Hogan and Andre in the same ring again. Why they didn’t just have a one-on-one match, we’ll never know.
Debuts
1990 – Undertaker debuts as the mystery guy on Ted Dibiase’s team.
1996 – Rocky Maivia debuts at MSG. “That night, you knew he was a star”, says Bruce Pritchard. Uh huh.
1999 – Kurt Angle debuts. Once again, you knew he was a future star, says Bruce.
2002 – The first Elimination Chamber match where Shawn Michaels wins the World Title.
Bitter Endings
1997 – You Know What
Vehicular Disasters
1999 – Stone Cold gets run over. A year later, Rikishi steps forward as the driver, but HHH reveals himself as the mastermind.
2000 – Speaking of, Stone Cold returns the favor by murdering HHH, picking his car up with a forklift and dropping it on its roof. Naturally, HHH survives with nary a scratch. The car was displayed at the Briscoe Bros. auto shop for a while, and apparently was as popular as the White House.
Save these history lessons for special DVDs, guys. You could spend a lot more time covering more stuff. Why don’t they do that, anyway? 1/2
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WWE Rewind: Bischoff reminds Austin that he has to trust 5 guys to keep his job, going against his whole Don’t Trust Anybody philosophy.
Outside the Ropes: Eric Bischoff
Since this is a RAW guy, Lance Storm is your Quizmaster.
1) What do you think is your greatest accomplishment in wrestling?
I’d have to say taking the steps that created the Monday Night Wars.
2) What was the point when the name of the New World Order had to be changed to Not Working Out?
About a year and a half into it. Like all good things that you get too much of, it just got too old and tiring. We tried to freshen it up, but it has run its course. It’s kind of like too much fudge, or too many Canadians.
3) You once auditioned to be an announcer for the WWE. Based on that audition tape, would you have hired yourself?
No, I would have taken back the plane ticket to take me over there.
4) If someone told you 5 years ago that you would be the GM of RAW, would you be in Heaven, Hell, or Purgatory?
Heaven, because something big like WCW and the WWE merging to create such an opportunity for me.
5) What are the main reasons to watch RAW over football?
Better stories, hotter (and more) women, and these guys score more often.
6) All you seem to wear are blue jeans and black shirts. Do you think it’s time for a Queer Eye makeover?
That’s an interesting proposition, actually. A makeover has worked for me.
7) What number hair dye do you use?
Actually, some guy in Scottsdale, Arizona does it for me. It takes an hour for him to mix it all up. It’s powerful stuff.
8) If you could pick any two famous women to do HLA, who would they be?
Well, controversy makes for good ratings, so I’d pick Whoopi Goldberg and Katie Couric. Come on, that would really get people talking.
9) You wouldn’t pick Mae or Moolah?
No, we’ve seen enough of them for a while.
10) Do you think that if you never fired Austin from WCW, you would be friends now?
No, because what I did created one of the biggest opportunities he’s ever had. In fact, he should be sending me checks. I would do it again if I had to. But if your team wins, you will have fired him again. I guess that’s kind of a twisted sense of irony, isn’t it?
That was a pretty good segment, to tell the truth. And who would have thought LANCE STORM can do this better than Josh Matthews? 2/3
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From the Fault: Terri
Terri!? Uh, ok. Her pick is one of her “favorite matches”. It’s from the 1991 Royal Rumble (which fits in perfectly since the Survivor Series is 24 hours away……huh?)
The Rockers vs. The Orient Express (w/Mr. Fuji)
The Express work over Shawn to start and hit a team BAAAAAAACK body drop (haven’t broken that out in a while), but Marty comes in and dropkicks Kato (the masked one) and the Rockers get a double team slam on Tanaka (the one without a mask). The Express bails, but Marty and Shawn just dive out after them. CLIP to Shawn punching away on Tanaka, and then moonsaulting off him onto Kato (Roddy Piper almost orgasms after that). Double whip, but the Express does a do-se-do and take control, but the Rockers get it back with stereo atomic drops, dropkicks, and, after the Orients bail again, top rope dives. The crowd is just eating this stuff up. Another CLIP, and Shawn ducks a clothesline, sending the Orients into each other and Shawn makes the UBER hot tag to Marty, who is a HOUSE….EN…..FUEGO. Slams, dropkicks, and powerslams for all!!!! He and Kato fight over a backslide, and Tanaka kicks Marty into it for 2. He whips Marty and goes to the ropes, but Shawn trips him up and Marty gets a two count. The Rockers nail Kato with a double kick, and Shawn goes up while Marty preps to slam him onto Kato, but Tanaka comes in and kicks Shawn off the top, sending him “15 feet” (so says Roddy) and splatting on the floor. Kato slingshots Marty into a Tanaka chop, and goes for another but, in just a magnificent ending, Shawn comes in and doubles over Tanaka, which allows Marty to flip over him after Kato’s slingshot and into a sunset flip for the pin, the crowd going BONKERS.
That ending just RULES. The whole match is just something to behold. The fans were rocking and all four guys did stuff that you didn’t really see in the WWF at the time. Just awesome. 3/4
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Lillian and the NFL
On top of her ring announcing duties on RAW, Lillian Garcia also sings the Star Spangled Banner before each RAW and has done so at other sporting events. With that in mind, the NFL asked her to sing at the New York Giants/New York Jets game at the Meadowlands a few weeks ago. MICK~! is there, already having tickets to the game, and tells Lillian that she does the best version that he has ever heard. She seems genuinely appreciative at that compliment, even though the guy only has one and a half ears. Just saying. She does a run through in an empty stadium before the game and meets some players as they come out for warm-ups. Decked out in Jets colors, she steps up in front of 60,000+ fans (the biggest crowd she’s ever sung in front of) and belts out a pretty damn good rendition. It usually goes by so fast for her, but this time she looked around and took in the whole scene. She also sang God Bless America at the Miami Dolphins-New England Patriots game (I was there, it was just incredible. She also introduced the Dolphins players, and didn’t screw up once).
I know people jump on Lillian for her ring announcing, but let me tell you, the girl can SING. Plus, she’s pretty damn hot. 3.5/5
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WWE Unscripted: Stone Cold
We take a look at the photo shoot for Austin’s portion of the new WWE book. He first shows us a scar on the back of his head that came from a Vince chairshot at No Mercy in 2001. They took the photos at his house. Austin says he’s out of his element when it comes to taking still photos, it’s just too dull. They take some pictures of him in front of a big Texas flag, because Austin always wears his Texas heritage on his sleeve. They take photos of him in his bathroom shaving his head and then head outdoors, where they shoot him with a hunting rifle. That means, they take pictures of him while he is holding the rifle, they didn’t kill him. (Vince isn’t THAT vindictive. As far as I know anyway.) Austin loves deer hunting, having done it since he was 13. During his hiatus, he killed two deer.
There’s no truth to the rumor he put masks of Vince and HHH on them first. Just an extended commercial for the book. 4/6
Gene runs down the uppercard matches for Survivor Series, and wraps things up.
Next week: Nothing announced
That’s it for me this week, see you next time.
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