Martin passes away, Angle/Hogan on ESPN, Guido/Funk radio recap Submitted by William Martinez on Thursday, December 27, 2001 at 11:38 AM EST
In a somewhat wrestling-related news item, Harvey Martin, a former Dallas Cowboy who competed in the infamous NFL/WWF battle royal at Wrestlemania 2 passed away on Christmas Eve after fighting pancreatic cancer for over a year. Martin also did some announcing for the GWF. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family and friends at this time.
I was just watching SportsCenter and on Thursday's Unscripted with Chris Connelly they will be doing a "Best of 2001" that will include Kurt Angle's appearence. That will be shown at 5:00 EST on ESPN2.
From WBCN.com: 12/26/01 - WBCN and the Home of WWF Smackdown, UPN 38 want to send you to see the WWF live at the Springfield Civic Center (01/05/02). We have a party bus heading out to Springfield to see the superstars of the WWF with WBCN's Cali at the helm.
To win you have to catch WWF Smackdown this week from 8-10 pm, then be listening all day Friday to WBCN. When you hear Cali's WWF Question of the Day be the correct caller with the answer and you'll win a pair of tickets and bus passes to see the WWF live.
Jimmy Reject sent in the following:
On my site Random Wrestling we just interviewed Ted Dibiase.
He talks about RVD working stiff, Steve Austin swearing at Booker T in front of Crucifixes, The Million Dollar belt, Being ashamed for having worked an angle he considers racist, Scott Steiner on steroids and why Kurt Angle is his type of wrestler.
- Welcome to my review of Chairshots the radio show starring Brent Fusaro and Rod Siciliano. The show airs on 88.1 FM WBLQ in Westerly, Rhode Island on Thursday nights from 6-7:30 PM. This is only a review of the show; the whole show can be heard on www.chairshots.com with use of Real Player. This week's guests are Former WWF SuperStar - Flying Fred Curry, Former ECW SuperStar - Little Guido and Former WCW and WWF SuperStar - Kwee-Wee----Alan Funk.
Flying Fred Curry
- Flying Fred said that he was looking forward to being at the Coastline Championship Wrestling show in Westerly, RI on December 31st.
- Curry said he remembers wrestling for the WWF in Providence, RI against George Steele and the fans in RI are great.
- Flying Fred said he wrestled in the Japan, Mexico, Texas and Hawaii territories.
- Curry said they used to call you and ask you to come wrestle in their territories.
- Flying Fred said he is looking forward to the card of CCW featuring Chris Hamrick (ECW) and the Power Twins.
- Curry said he works out six days a week and he has wrestled recently against some of the talent that will be at the show. The guys he has wrestled are The Hippie Freak Nic Richards and Kurt Adonis.
- Flying Fred said he expects that Chris Hamrick will beat Nic Richards in the Main Event because he has the experience of wrestling in ECW.
- Curry said there are a lot of differences between the way he wrestles and the way he wrestles. Curry said his dad was more of a mat wrestler and a good heel, while he was a high flying type wrestler and a good baby face.
- Flying Fred said he considers his dad (Wild Bill Curry) the greatest villain of his time.
- Curry said when his son (The Rocket Fred Curry Jr.) broke his arm; he got aggravated with him. Curry also said that his son can't be discouraged and when he tries to discourage him it only makes him try harder.
- Flying Fred said his son is discouraged that he can't wrestle at the show on December 31st for CCW and he would give up wrestling at Madison Square Garden to wrestle in Westerly.
- Curry said that he is going to step it up a notch for that show.
- Flying Fred thanks Rod and Brent for having him on and then signs off.Little Guido
- Guido said he was at a hospital signing autographs for the Toys for Tots program.
- Guido said he would be wrestling for Assault Championship Wrestling against Dylan Kage, who he battled to a time limit draw against last time and who he has a lot of respect for.
- Guido said he is wrestling about two shows a weekend, but it is kind of slow right now.
- Guido said he is in contact with the XWF and he is working for Lodi down in the Carolinas against Nova and he works a little bit for the WWA.
- Guido said he enjoyed doing work for Acclaim on their new video game Legends of Wrestling 2.
- Guido said he expects a lot of guys who are not in the WWF to quit the wrestling business this year and move into other things in their life. Guido said he has been in contact with some other business ventures, but is not ready to quit wrestling yet.
- Guido talked a little bit about Mickey Whipwreck.
- Guido said he was honored to be the last man to wrestle Mickey Whipwreck.
- Guido said he is looking for someone to put up a web site for him.
- Guido said he loves seeing the boys from the old ECW.
- Guido thanks Rod and Brent for having him on and then signs off.
Kwee-Wee ---- Alan Funk
- Alan said a lot of the guys down in HWA took the death of Russ Haas pretty hard.
- Funk said he left HWA on Friday and he's glad he wasn't there when Russ died because he was already stressed out enough and he didn't want to have to deal with that on top of everything else.
- Alan said Russ was a great guy and he had just exchanged phone numbers with him so they could keep in touch.
- Funk said he wasn't real comfortable with the WWF situation. Funk said that he was just starting to get a push in WCW then they got bought out by the WWF and were off TV for six months after having been on for two years.
- Alan said he had high expectations when the WWF bought his contract, but was pretty disappointed that the WWF called him and told him he had two weeks to move to Cincinnati. He had to sell his house and had no time to talk to his wife about it and she was pretty angry.
- Funk said that the Kwee-Wee character was given to him by Vince Russo and Terry Taylor. It was supposed to be an eccentric guy. Funk said that they told him not to go too far with the character because they didn't want people to think he was gay or bashing gay people, which is why they gave him three different women to come to the ring with.
- Alan said that he had the opportunity to be on TV so he was going to do whatever they wanted him to do.
- Funk said that the locker room in WCW was great. He said that the young guys were treated very fairly and Kevin Nash was great to them.
- Alan said that the rumors that he left HWA after he was let go and everybody else stayed were false.
- Funk said that Tom Pritchard, Johnny Ace and Les Thatcher informed him that the WWF didn't have a spot for him right now and that he was going to be let go. Funk also said that they only had positive things to say about him, which was a plus.
- Alan said Tom Pritchard is trying to help him get his job back.
- Funk said that it makes him feel good that no one thinks he should've been cut.
- Alan said that he talked to Jimmy Hart the day he got cut and Jimmy told him that the XWF wasn't hiring until February.
- Funk said you could book him through www.extremebookings.com.
- Alan said that when he was growing up he was a huge Hulk Hogan fan and that led to him growing his hair long and growing a mustache and becoming the Funkster down in the HWA. Alan said it got over huge down there.
- Funk said when he does Indy shows he will probably wrestle as Kwee-Wee because that's what people remember from TV.
- Alan thanks Rod and Brent for having him on and then signs off.
- Check Out Coastline Championship Wrestling on December 31st at the Armory in Westerly, Rhode Island. (Hi-Flying Chris Hamrick(formerly of ECW) vs. The Hippie Freak Nic Richards in the Main Event) This will be part of First Night in Rhode Island, please come out and support the first show for Coastline Championship Wrestling.
- Rod and Brent wrap up another great show and then sign off.
- You can join the show by calling in from 6:00 to 7:30pm. The phone number is 401-322-9091.
- GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!!
- For www.chairshots.com this is Dirty Doug Bloom signing off.
