September 23, 2001, Rants

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Unforgiven is going on as I type this, here are my predictions for this PPV...IWA Mid South ran their Sept. 22 show last night, here are some quick results. Rollin Hard d. Richard X, Paul E. Smooth d. American Kickboxer, Mitch Ryder d. Mark Wolf, Tracy Smothers d. Hy Zaya, in the IWA Light Heavyweight championship match Terik The Great (c) d. Smooth, In the Heavyweight championship match Trent Baker d. Cash Flo, and in the fans bring their own weapons barbed wire match main event Corporal Robinson d. Alister Fear...CZW also ran a show on the 22nd. This card included Chris Cash d. Ian Knoxx and GQ in a three way, Jeff Rocker d. Towel Boy, Softcore Connection d. Quiet Storm and Barr Camm, Ruckus (c) d. Hurricane Kidd to retain his Big Japan Jr. Heavyweight championship, John Dahmer, Jay Briscoe, and Eddie Valentine d. Justice Pain, and The Backseat Boys, and in the main event, Wifebeater d. Nate Hatred in a 200 light tubes form of the deathmatch...New Japan Pro Wrestling has announced the rest of their lineup for this year. Here are the dates and venues.
11-16 Kanazawa; Ishikawa Prefectural Building #1
11-17 Toyama; Takaoka City Gym
11-18 Nagano; Exercise Park Gym
11-23 Tokyo; Korakuen Hall
11-24 Kanagawa; Fujisawa City Akiba Cultural Gym
11-30 Kyoto; City Gym
12-2 Nagoya; Aiichi Prefectural Gym
12-7 Hiroshima; Sun Plaza
12-8 Fukushima City; Prefectural Gym
12-11 Osaka; Prefectural Gym

Kurt Angle, the WWF's olympic gold medalist will be appearing on the October 4th edition of "Live With Regis and Kathie Lee"...Jersey All Pro Wrestling raised over $3000 during it's benefit show in Bayonne, NJ. Here are the results. Moondog Wenzel d. Judas Young, Kory K d. Slayer, Bill Reil and Kid America d. Marc Reil and Dave Grecco, Deranged d. Ghost Shadow, Crazy Ivan and Rockin' Rebel d. Laithon and Magic, Blue Meanie d. Don Montoya, Kid Kruel d. Ron Zombie, Flash Wheeler and Ryan Wing d. Dr. Heresy and Frankie Armadillo, The Hit Squad successfully retained their tag team championships by defeating Elax and JT Jobber, New Jersey champion Dixie d. Rick Silver, Chris Hamrick d. Supreme Lee Great, Homicide retained his Heavyweight title against Insane Dragon, and finally, Crowbar d. Low Ki by disqualification...Bushwhacker Butch or as his family and friends know him as Butch Miller was hospitalized during the weekend and is said to be in intensive care. The rumored reason is that he has an infected neck injury...Lita will be feature in another WWF Magazine photoshoot...Road Dogg has had heat earlier in the year about no-showing, add a little more fire to that one, as he decided not to partake in a Monroeville, PA card that he was booked on...MECW's financial backer is allegedly a fraud. The Securities and Exchange Commission has accused Garry Stroud of creating several false businesses to get people to invest money. MECW unfortunately is owned by one of these companies (Diamond Global Trust)...Vince Russo will be booking the WWA Australia Tour in Sydney. Here is the card, that will be taped for PPV and possible U.S. airing. Psicosis vs. Juventud Guerrera in a ladder match, Konnan vs. Road Dogg in a dog collar match, Gangrel (as Vampire Warrior due to copyright issues) vs. Luna Vachon, Ken Shamrock vs. a former WCW champion, Buff Bagwell performing in a battle royal, and get this, Disco Inferno vs. A boxing Kangaroo. Bret Hart is rumored to be the commissioner...XPW ran their TV show out of Los Angeles on Saturday night. They showed one match, being Kaos d. D in the TV Title Semi finals. The big news to come out of the show though, is that they announced that their next event will have Supreme vs. Vic Grimes in an exploding ring deathmatch...The Undertaker's DVD "This Is My Yard" will be debuting in the middle of November...Grandmaster Sexay is supposedly on this weekend's WWF travel itinerary, could that mean that he'll be showing up on Unforgiven or Raw?...WWF has apparently canceled their planned layoffs when the rumor was circulated around the internet...WWF has launched it's No Mercy website, to view it, click No Mercy...