As we’ve been reporting, there have been a lot of issues behind the scenes in TNA in recent weeks. The company has been falling behind making payments to wrestlers, office workers and vendors and several top wrestlers and creative team members leaving.
According to the Wrestling Observer – even Hulk Hogan has been subject to late payments.
As you can imagine, morale in TNA has taken a big hit, with several TNA wrestlers reportedly sending out feelers to WWE officials, through their friends in WWE.
Regarding DOC’s release, there had been plans for him to turn babyface and feud with Mr. Anderson.
– Today marks as the fifteenth anniversary of the historic encounter between Goldberg and Hollywood Hogan, which saw Goldberg defeat the legendary wrestler for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship in front of more than 40,000 fans in the Georgia Dome. WWE is recognizing the anniversary of the match as its website has posted the bout in its entirety. WWE is calling it “the most important match in WCW Nitro history.”
On October 8, WWE will release a DVD and Blu-ray compilation of Goldberg’s biggest matches.
– Patrick Michael of Yahoo! Sports has published an article counting down the top ten brothers in the history of professional wrestling. Among those ranked are Harlem Heat, the Guerreros, the Von Erichs and the Steiner Brothers.
– According to WrestlingFigs.com, Mick Foley will appear at this Thursday’s Quad Cities River Bandits game taking place at Modern Woodmen Park 209 S. Gaines St. Davenport, Iowa. (Event Information)
– WWE.com has a new feature up looking at the “true” story of Hulk Hogan’s jump to WCW in 1993, featuring quotes from Ric Flair, Jimmy Hart, Kevin Sullivan and JJ Dillon.
– WWEShop.com is currently running several big sales, with upto 80% off on WrestleMania 29 and The Rock merchandise.
– JBL announced on Twitter that due to the Chicago Blackhawks NHL playoff game, this weekend’s JBL & Cole Show has been postponed. He added that details on a Philadelphia edition of the show are coming soon.
– TNA star Matt Morgan is opening up about his past drug abuse. In response to a fan who said they enjoyed his infamous Youtube video where he “shoots” on nerdy Internet wrestling fans, Morgan says he was not exactly in the best state of mind when the interview was shot:
@rickywrath truth be told I wasn't even taking about the fans. I was talking about the here today gone tmrw sites way back in '06-07.
– Hulk Hogan continues to tease an upcoming return to the ring. He tweeted the following about his new series training regimen, noting that he’s getting ready to transform his body for one “last time around the block”
Perfect timing to start serious training again,last time around the block for me so this is gonna be really intense,transformation time. HH
– Posting his first Twitter message since March 28 (and second of 2013), Sting posted this cryptic statement hours before his scheduled appearance on Impact Wrestling tonight: “Sunday I was left to fight alone… Message received!”
This is in reference to his loss to Bully Ray this past Sunday in a No Holds Barred Match for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship at Slammiversary, where no TNA wrestler attempted to combat substantial interference from Aces and Eights. Per match stipulation, Sting will never be allowed to have another shot at the TNA World Heavyweight Championship.
– This past Sunday at Slammiversary, Chris Sabin reigned supreme in the Ultimate X Match to once again become the X Division Champion. Following the bout, Hulk Hogan informed Sabin that like last year, the X Division Champion will receive a shot at the World Heavyweight Championship in the future. In this newly released video, Sabin reacting to his good fortune. (Watch)
– According to WrestlingFigs.com, Aces and Eights henchman D’Lo Brown will be appearing at this Saturday’s Legends of the Ring convention taking place at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Monroe, New Jersey (click here for event information).
TNA Star Hulk Hogan made headlines over the weekend after he suffered bad burns on his hand due to a radiator explosion on his boat – and then tweeted the gruesome pictures.
Hogan, who was taken to the emergency room of Tampa General Hospital following the incident, tweeted the following late Monday night:
I apologize for posting my burned hand photos,with all the feedback I now realize I really should take a moment before I make a decision. HH
As noted yesterday, WWE Superstar Rey Mysterio was trending on Twitter on Sunday night – not because of anything related WWE’s Extreme Rules pay-per-view, but after singer Miguel accidentally gave a flying legdrop to a female fan at the Billboard Music Awards.
– TNA Wrestling President Dixie Carter announced on Twitter that tonight’s episode of Impact Wrestling will kick off with Hulk Hogan revealing the opponent AJ Styles will face at Slammiversary.
“Right at 8pm tonight on @SpikeTV @HulkHogan will name @AJStylesOrg #Slammiversary opponent! Plus Hulk calls out @TherealAbyss!” she wrote.
– Tonight on Impact Wrestling, former Gut Check participants will battle in a tournament for a spot in the upcoming Bound For Glory Series. In the first match of the tourney, Jay Bradley will face Christian York. The official YouTube account of TNA Wrestling has released the following video previewing the contest.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmwmbSzHbVI
– ODB revealed on Twitter that she will be a special guest bartender tonight at The Squared Circle restaurant located at 2418 N. Ashland Chicago, Illinois.
She wrote, “gonna b at the @theSQDcircle tonite 7-9pm as your special guest bartender n @BrianStiffler will b there hopefully w out his stiffy cam #BAM.”
More information on the restaurant, which is owned by Tara, is available here.
– In response to Paul Heyman and Brock Lesnar making a surprise appearance at WWE Headquarters earlier today (and Lesnar destroying Triple H’s office) – Stephane McMahon tweeted the following on Monday afternoon:
– Hulk Hogan is still interested in wrestling again – with a match against Bully Ray at Bound For Glory being discussed in recent weeks.
Comment Below and tell us if you really want to see Hulk Hogan wrestle again …
– The April 26th TNA live event from Erie, Pennsylvania drew 950 fans. The April 25th Impact Wrestling tapings in Indiana, PA drew 3,300 fans.
– As we reported last week, TNA has hired former WWE Live Events employee Rafael Morfii. Morfii is seen as a big acquisition for TNA, since he was highly regarding for his work in WWE.
It was believed that Morfii was let go by because Triple H and Stephanie McMahon are looking to bring in more of “their own” people.
The ongoing saga of the Hulk Hogan sex tape took another turn on Monday, as the Gawker digital publishing company appeal the temporary injunction Hulk Hogan received ordering all video clips and written descriptions of the Hulk Hogan-Heather Clem sex tape to be taken offline.
Gawker argued that the description of the video clip could not be pulled due to freedom of speech and a judge sided with them over Hogan.
Hogan also filed a motion with the court, requesting that Gawker be be held in contempt for refusing the adhere to the court order and placing the footage on another website and linking to it at the same time it was removed from their own site. Hogan is arguing that linking to the footage falls under the behavior that Gawker was prohibited from doing.
TNA star Hulk Hogan finally scored a legal victory against Gawker.com this week, with a judge granting a temporary restraining order related to footage of his infamous sex tape.
Gawker.com will be forced to remove their excerpt of the sex tape that was released last year featuring Hogan and former friend Bubba The Love Sponge’s ex-wife, Heather Clem.
Hogan will now continue with his claim that Gawker violated his rights by posting the tape.
The judge ordered that the footage be pulled from all of the website’s affiliates and all copies of the video are to be turned over to Hogan.
The case was moved from Federal Court, where Hogan was not very successful, to State Court.
– WWE Hall of Famer Mick Foley answered fan questions on Twitter over the weekend while waiting to board a flight to the UK. Among the questions answered was on a potential last match, and who he would face:
Foley also answered questions @RealMickFoley about his favorite Undertaker match, having a “hug off” with Daniel Bryan’s beard on the line, and WWE’s new approach to signing talent to developmental.
– Check out the following video of Hulk Hogan and Superstar Billy Graham reuniting:
– Hulk Hogan spoke to NewsDay.com promoting “Hulk Hogan: Uncensored,” which takes place Friday at the Beacon Theatre stage in Manhattan. The event will offer fans the opportunity to pick the legendary grappler’s brain on highlights and controversy from his career.
The appearance will occur as TNA Wrestling presents an event nearby at NYCB Theatre at Westbury. WWE will also hold events in the area this weekend at Madison Square Garden and MetLife Stadium, which “begs the question of whether TNA and Hogan are making themselves look small by comparison.”
“Oh, my God, brother, that whole WWE is a monster,” Hogan responds, while also noting that TNA is still in its relative infancy compared to WWE. “That’s a whole other universe, a whole other entity.”
Since he is no longer an active wrestler, Hogan’s primary role with TNA is to draw attention to the promotion. The publication asked Hogan whether he will succeed as an executive, “or face the Michael Jordan curse of a legend who hasn’t transferred his playing field skills to the board room?”
“When the business is in your blood, I don’t know what to tell you — I’m not worried about what Michael Jordan did, or what Vince McMahon is,” Hogan said. “I just worry about my own thing, bro. So, I don’t know what their deal is, but I’m still having fun.”
– TNA’s “IMPACT WRESTLING LIVE” is coming to Tupelo, Mississippi, on Thursday, May 9 at the BancorpSouth Arena live at 7:00 pm. While in the city, Joseph Park decided to take in some of the sights.
– This month’s TNA LockDown pay-per-view drew approximately 17,000 pay-per-view buys, according to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter. This is around the same as last year’s show – which isn’t a great sign, considering TNA’s new quarterly PPV format and the show featuring the big payoff of Bully Ray joining Aces & Eights.
– Hulk Hogan spoke with TMZ.com at the LAX airport over the weekend and was asked about the transgender MMA fighter Fallon Fox. Fox was born a man, is now a woman and wants to fight women in the UFC.
Hogan said he would fight Fallon, even though he’s confused about to what sex Fox should be considered. Jimmy Hart, who was with Hogan, said they would do for the right price.
In a newly published interview with Fighting Spirit Magazine, TNA Wrestling Superstar Hulk Hogan claims that he had proposed to turn heel six years before he actually did in World Championship Wrestling, during the 1990 build-up to his all-babyface WWF Championship match against Ultimate Warrior at Wrestlemania VI.
“Vince and I were best friends, but when we talked about money, we were enemies,” said Hogan. “So I went [to WCW] with the red and yellow, beat Ric Flair, and Hulkamania took off again. Then, creatively, I turned into a bad guy, which I always wanted to do in the WWF, but nobody wanted me to. I always said, ‘I could be the best bad guy ever. Just let me do it’, but no-one wanted me to be a bad guy.
“At Warrior’s time, I really wanted to fuck him as a bad guy; I wanted to beat The Ultimate Warrior in Toronto, but as a heel. I just thought it would be intense, and I would be the best bad guy ever. I could have done it, and then said, ‘Forget the prayers and the vitamins, I did it for the money!’ But it’s just creative differences, and Vince knows what he’s doing, believe me. I just wanted to try something different in the WWF.”
When Hogan turned heel to form the New World Order with Scott Hall and Kevin Nash at Bash at the Beach on July 7, 1996, he was very hesitant on the career-altering maneuver. Former WCW boss Eric Bischoff stated in his 2006 autobiography, Controversy Creates Cash, that Hogan was initially dismissive toward his idea of leaving the red and yellow behind to become a villain. Then shortly after Hall and Nash became a force on WCW programming, Hogan, who had not spoken to Bischoff in months, proposed that he be the third man in the group. Up until the pay-per-view event at Daytona Beach, Bischoff was unsure if Hogan would follow-through on the idea, and had Sting agree to join the New World Order in case “The Hulkster” changed his mind at the last minute.
In a newly published interview with Fighting Spirit Magazine, TNA Wrestling Superstar Hulk Hogan discussed his strained relationship with the late “Macho Man” Randy Savage and desire to induct the legendary wrestler into the WWE Hall of Fame.
“I’ve heard all these urban legends about Randy doing something to piss Vince off,” said Hogan. “I’ve heard two or three different stories, and I don’t know if any of those are true, but he deserves to be in the Hall of Fame, and I would love to be the one that inducts him. I’ve got a speech for him ready to go. I just think it’s a must that he’s in the Hall of Fame; he was so influential in this business, especially in the WWF, and in my career.
“You know, he’s the only guy we could pass the belt to, and we wouldn’t lose money. You gave the belt to The Ultimate Warrior – I don’t want to drop a bunch of names – and right away the revenue went down. Give the belt to ‘Macho Man’, and things would stay the same, or get better.”
“For me, it would be cool to induct him. We had a rift for about 10 years, and then right before he passed away, I was getting an EKG, when I hear (mimicking Randy’s voice) ‘Yeah, what’s up, brother?’ And I looked over, and he was there, looking great. I said, ‘Hey Mach, how you doing?’ I shook his hand, and introduced him to my wife, Jennifer. He’s like, ‘Hello lovely lady, how ya doing?’ Jennifer said to him, ‘Oh, Mr. Macho, I’ve heard so much about you. You know, we’ve got three or four lawyers at the house today, so we’re gonna cook up. We’d love to have you over.’ But he just went, ‘I don’t dig lawyers, baby, maybe we could start out with a phone call?’
“I was on a show with Lanny (Poffo, Randy’s brother), Scott Steiner and Kevin Nash in Canada [around the time of Randy’s passing], and Lanny had told me that his mom was depressed because his dad had passed away, and would me and Randy come to see her? We were gonna have a barbecue at Randy’s house for his mom, and surprise her. But midweek, Randy passed away. It was tough because we just started talking after all that bullshit; I was excited to talk to him, he was excited to talk to me, and then he passed away. It was [expletive] up. He was a great human being, too. He had a good heart, man. He was a good person.”
– Tickets for Hulk Hogan’s upcoming “uncensored” show at New York City’s Beacon Theater over WrestleMania weekend are not selling well. According to Ticketmaster.com, only 25% of the tickets have been sold – with a “High Availability” of seats in the upper and lower levels of the theater.
– Miss Tessmacher was featured Thursday on Maxim.com.
– TNA Wrestling has released the following video promoting its annual Slammiversary pay-per-view event, which takes place this year on Sunday, June 2 in Boston, Massachusetts. Tickets go on-sale next Friday.
During a recent interview with Fighting Spirit Magazine, Hulk Hogan spoke about his legendary match against The Rock at WrestleMania X-8 back in 2002:
“Out of respect, I go down there (to Miami), and there’s me and The Rock and his dad Rocky Johnson, and Pat Patterson,” said Hogan. “The Rock starts telling me that we’re gonna lock up, and do this and do that, then start getting some heat on me, and so on. So he talked through the whole match, and I was listening. I respect him, and it kinda made sense, but I’d never done that before. Then they go, ‘Okay, let’s have the match here.’ I said, ‘Whoa! You’re talking about me taking bumps in this ring, with no people? I’ll get hurt, and if I fall wrong one time, then my career is over.’ I’ve got to have the energy of the crowd, so that when I go down, I go down to the mat hard. So instead, we just walked through the match.”
Hogan was depicted as the heel going into the match due to his affiliation with the New World Order, and because of his acrimonious departure from WWE years prior. The audience, however, didn’t care that Hogan was portrayed as a villain by WWE, instead cheering the wrestling icon and reigning a chorus of boos toward The Rock. Hogan says he had the match changed on the fly due to the crowd reaction.
“The whole issue I had was what if we got to Toronto, and this doesn’t work? So sure enough, when we go to Toronto, I give The Rock one big push, and the place explodes. Then I pushed him again, as we planned, and the place explodes again. [WWE] thought I was gonna get booed. Then I start chopping meat on him, and with every hit the place is going crazy. Then I did what was planned, blocking a punch, and as soon as he started hitting me came the boos.”
“I went down, and looked up and said, ‘You want me to fix this?’ And The Rock says, ‘Yeah, let’s fix it.’ I went, ‘OK, then listen to me.’ But it took him no time to get it right, because he is just so good in the ring. It took us three minutes to get it right, but if we’d done what we had practised, they’d have booed us out of the [expletive] building. I’m not saying I could do it in every instance, but The Rock is so good, we could do that. The Rock doesn’t usually talk about planning his matches, so somebody must have made him worry that I was too old and too slow, and that I wouldn’t be able to keep up with the work-rate. But once he got in the ring with me, he knew I had a feel for it, and we got it right. That’s what I wanted to do with ‘Stone Cold’, and Bret Hart, too.”
Hulk Hogan joined Busted Open with Dave Lagreca and Doug Mortman an hour before Lockdown began at the Alamadome. Here are highlights from the interview.
His knee and overall health:
“Thursday was a month, so a month and two and a half days for the old knee replacement, so I think I’m doing good. I saw some other wrestlers that had some knee replacements done and around the same time, I feel like Tarzan here all of a sudden, they said they weren’t even going to be able to walk around for eight or nine weeks, so I’m a little bit ahead of schedule.
“The weird thing is, now I got two new knees, two new hips; after eight back surgeries my back’s fixed, I think I should be getting a title shot pretty soon. The oldest Heavyweight Champion of the world.”
Brooke Getting More Involved in TNA:
“Damned if you do, damned if you don’t. It’s actually my worst nightmare coming true, but I’m not the one who’s in charge of her happiness and for some reason she seems to light up when she’s around this business. She’s really good on camera, like when we were doing Hogan Knows Best I used to say she’s the only one in the family that’s a real actor. So for her to be around the business and she’s got this built in following and she’s got a good instinct for the wrestling business. I’m to the point where she’s not 18 anymore and she’s in her early 20?s so she’s got to choose her direction. Life is all about choices. The one thing I worry about, I’ll watch Kurt Angle walk around in back, I’ll watch Jeff Hardy walk around in the back, and they’re kind of borderline of maybe going too far and I don’t want them to end up like me, that’s what I’m worried about with Brooke. I don’t want her to get into this business and blow her knees out or hurt her back. We have a masseuse that comes to the house like once a week, maybe once every two weeks, and he goes ‘O my gosh, your daughters got the same injuries you do.’ I’m going, ‘what do you mean?’ He goes, ‘well her backs got that same tweak in it and the knees got the same tweak.’ A lot of it’s genetic, but my biggest fear is her getting in this business, and you don’t have to wrestle 30 years like I did, you could wrestle 2 years or a year and a half or 5 years and get hurt, so that’s my biggest fear.”
Fans Buying into Brooke:
“It’s just so weird, because, you’ve got all these naysayers. I run social media now because Brooke and my son, Nick, have taught me how to do it, and you get on the social media and you get all these naysayers that say, ‘how come Hogan is still hanging out in wrestling?’ or ‘I want to be a writer for TNA, their creative sucks, give me a job’ and ‘why is he pushing his daughter in this business?’ and all of a sudden, nobody realizes it, all of a sudden there’ll be the Pope or Jesse Sorensen or there’ll be Hulk Hogan, you don’t know what everybody’s contract is, you don’t know if Sting can wrestle 200 days a year or twenty days a year. You don’t know what his contract says and there’s so many givens that these people don’t know, so I kind of have to back away from them because I realize I’m the biggest mark there is. I love this business, I watch all the shows, I watch our show and everybody else’s show just like a fan and I realize that these are all a bunch of marks, just like me, that don’t know the whole story. Then when I see ‘what are you still doing in wrestling?’ or ‘why is your daughter in it?’ Then I think about Lou Thesz who wrestled into his 70?s, I think about Vince McMahon who is a lot older than me, I think about Vince’s daughter Stephanie who’s part of the business, so you just have to take it with a grain of salt. It’s hard to separate the two. There are a lot of family members who are part of the business, second generation wrestlers, and they don’t have to be all men, they can be women, just like Von Erich’s daughter Lacy was in it. Vince’s daughter Stephanie wrestled. It’s just so weird how the social media fans will try to pick individual things apart.”
Fans Not Knowing What’s Really Going on Backstage & Bobby Roode’s Expiring:
“When you’re working for a company, sometimes you don’t focus on what your contract says. I was here last year, I was working at a PPV and my contract had run out. I didn’t know it. Dixie didn’t know it. We weren’t worried about it. We’re here because we love this business and all of a sudden I call my attorney and say, ‘Henry, is my contract up?’ He goes, ‘Yeah, it ran out ten days ago.’ I didn’t even know it. Dixie didn’t know. We weren’t worried about that; we were worried about putting on a good show. It’s just so weird that ‘O my god, Bobby Roode’s contract is over’, I looked at Twitter today, ‘Hogan you’re an idiot, afterthought, dumb@$$.’ All these things that are being said to me, I’ve got nothing to do with that. Here’s the deal; Bobby Roode, great talent. I’m sure he wants to be here or he wants to be anywhere and he can make his own deal, but we sure don’t want him going anywhere. We love him to death. I was hoping that he’d have the belt on the UK tour just so we’d have a TNA champion over there. It’s all weird how everybody tries to tear our business apart. We’re all here for the same reason, we love this business and if he doesn’t have a contract I bet Booby Roode would wrestle tonight without a contract until we get it straightened out. That’s how much he loves it.”
TNA’s new road schedule and leaving the Impact Zone:
“The truth is, all that stuff [about the Impact Zone] was incorrect if I said anything negatively because there were a lot of crowds that came in that weren’t wrestling crowds, they were just part of the park. But the weird thing is, all that stuff that was so bad or was a horrible thing, I mean, now that I actually look at it, it was actually a setup to move on to something better or a stepping stone to this company becoming great. That all happened for a reason. We weren’t ready to go out on the road a couple of years ago. So thank god for Universal. Now I look at it completely different than maybe what I said before.”
TNA Cutting Back To 4 PPV’s a year:
“I think we need to switch gears and yes I do like it. It’s just helter skelter. All of a sudden it’s like every company has a PPV every month and nothing meant nothing and I think we’re just trying to get back to the dance. Not like wrestling used to be, but like how wrestling should be and just make things mean something again. I think for us as a company, for us to keep gaining momentum and not really care about what anybody else does, but like I said, make this from a good little company to a great company. I think we’re regrouping in the right places. The TV is our star, the Spike network. A lot of our payoffs, to me, we were throwing the dart at the wrong target. We were worried about a PPV where we should be worried about the TV that’s supporting us and build up some major angles and then bang, have them on TV instead of the PPV. Now we can get these major angles on TV and have the bigger, bigger ones for these four PPVs, so I think we’re on track with it.”
Here’s Part 5 of our WrestleMania Retrospective series, looking back at past WrestleMania events as we march towards WrestleMania 29 on April 7th.
WrestleMania V (1989) Tagline: The Mega Powers Explode! Date: March 27, 1988 Venue: Trump Plaza, Atlantic City, NJ Attendance: 18,946 America The Beautiful: WWF Women’s Champion Rockin’ Robin
For the only time in WrestleMania History, WrestleMania IV and V were held at the same venue. Future WWE Hall Of Farmer Donald Trump stated in media outlets, that after the first WrestleMania was such a success, he had to have it again at Atlantic City. Although the event was promoted as being at the Trump Plaza, it was in fact held in the adjacent Boardwalk Hall.
The main feud heading into WrestleMania was between Hulk Hogan and Randy Savage, with the two battling over the WWF Championship.
Hogan and Savage first crossed paths on the October 3, 1987 edition of Saturday Night’s Main Event, Savage got a shot at The Honky Tonk Man’s Intercontinental Championship but was attacked by the Hart Foundation; Hogan came to Savage’s rescue, thus solidifying Savage’s face turn.
At WrestleMania IV in March 1988, Savage defeated Ted DiBiase in a tournament final to win the vacant WWF Championship with help from Hogan and Hogan soon after came into the ring to congratulate Savage. Soon after, the duo formed a tag team known as The Mega Powers. They feuded with many heel tag teams throughout the entire year and were a successful team.
Savage dropping his patented elbow on Hogan at WrestleMania V
Mega Powers ruled and dominated the WWF for several months. However, their domination and tag team began to breakup in early 1989 as tensions slowly began to build between the two.
This all began on the January 7, 1989 edition of Saturday Night’s Main Event, when Hogan was mercilessly beaten by The Twin Towers after his match with Akeem.
Savage came out and cleared the ring with a steel chair. Elizabeth took Hogan to the backstage which angered Savage. He thought that he was a third wheel and this was the beginning of the breakup of Mega Powers as Savage was angry that why his wife Miss Elizabeth was used by Hogan as his manager. He confronted her about the issue but she took Hogan to the backstage.
Problems increased further in the Royal Rumble match where Hogan accidentally eliminated Savage as he was trying to eliminate Bad News Brown.
On February 3 at The Main Event, Hogan and Savage faced The Twin Towers (Akeem and The Big Boss Man) in a tag team match that would set up the Mega Powers’ breakup. During a key point in the match, Savage was thrown out of the ring onto Elizabeth, knocking her unconscious. Hogan carried her to the back, leaving Savage to fend for himself in the ring against the much larger Akeem and Big Bossman;
Hogan eventually returned, but Savage slapped him in the face and took the belt in his hand and turned heel by abandoning Hogan.
Despite this, Hogan managed to pick up the win. After the match, Savage explained his frustrations to hogan and eventually attacked Hogan in the medical area of the arena.
Hogan would later challenge Savage to a match for the WWF Championship at WrestleMania, which Savage accepted.
The second main feud heading into WrestleMania was between Rick Rude and The Ultimate Warrior over the WWF Intercontinental Championship. Rude and Warrior were booked to face each other in a “Super Posedown” at Royal Rumble in January 1989. The winner had to be decided by a fan reaction, where Warrior won the posedown. After the posedown, a furious and angry Rude attacked Warrior. This led to a feud between the two and an Intercontinental title match at WrestleMania.
Rick Rude Vs The Ultimate Warrior
The second main feud heading into WrestleMania was between Rick Rude and The Ultimate Warrior over the WWF Intercontinental Championship. Rude and Warrior were booked to face each other in a “Super Posedown” at Royal Rumble in January 1989. The winner had to be decided by a fan reaction, where Warrior won the posedown. After the posedown, a furious and angry Rude attacked Warrior. This led to a feud between the two and an Intercontinental title match at WrestleMania.
During WrestleMania V, a Piper’s Pit segment featured a talk show “Loudmouth” Morton Downey, Jr. as a special guest. Before Roddy Piper could interview Morton, Brother Love came out dressed as Piper and impersonated him.
WrestleMania V Results
Piper extinguishes Morton Doweney Jr. At WrestleMania V
• The Twin Towers (Akeem and The Big Boss Man) (with Slick) defeated The Rockers (Shawn Michaels and Marty Jannetty)
• Brutus Beefcake and Ted DiBiase (with Virgil) fought to a double countout
• The Bushwhackers (Luke Williams and Butch Miller) defeated The Fabulous Rougeaus (Jacques and Raymond) (with Jimmy Hart)
• Mr. Perfect defeated The Blue Blazer
• WWF Tag Team Championship Match: Demolition (Ax and Smash) (c) defeated The Powers of Pain (The Warlord and The Barbarian) and Mr. Fuji
• Dino Bravo (with Frenchy Martin) defeated Ronnie Garvin
• The Brain Busters (Arn Anderson and Tully Blanchard) (with Bobby Heenan) defeated Strike Force (Rick Martel and Tito Santana)
• Jake Roberts defeated André the Giant (with Bobby Heenan) by disqualification w/ special guest referee Big John Studd
• The Hart Foundation (Bret Hart and Jim Neidhart) defeated The Honky Tonk Man and Greg Valentine (with Jimmy Hart)
• WWF Intercontinental Championship Match: Rick Rude (with Bobby Heenan) defeated The Ultimate Warrior (c)
• Jim Duggan and Bad News Brown fought to a double disqualification
• The Red Rooster defeated Bobby Heenan (with The Brooklyn Brawler)
• WWF Championship Match: Hulk Hogan defeated Randy Savage (c)
TMZ.com reports that Hulk Hogan among the celebrities whose bank account information and social security number have been hacked and posted online.
Other victims include United States First Lady Michelle Obama, Jay-Z, Beyonce, Kim Kardashian, Donald Trump, Ashton Kutcher, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden and Mel Gibson.
The FBI is now involved and has told the celebrities to contact their banks immediately. They have also released a statement saying that they’ve known about the hacks before they were made public on TMZ.com.
In the first episode of Wrestle Talk TV season two, Joel Ross, Patrick Lennon and Francesca Wood kick things off with a bang as they present “The Immortal” Hulk Hogan as the seasons first huge guest. The episode also features a hugely controversial interview segment from Bret “The Hitman” Hart, which has never been seen.
Plus there are appearances from Rob Van Dam, Jerry Lynn, James Storm, El Generico, Kaz and Daniels, Velvet Sky, Hernandez and Fergal Devitt, along with this weeks debate over “The Rock” being WWE Champion. There is also a run down of some of the biggest news stories this week and much more.
Here’s the video – the Hogan interview begins around the 12:35 mark:
