Eric Bischoff Says He Would Have Let DX Enter the Arena During Nitro Invasion If He Knew Beforehand…
The latest 83 Weeks featured a “best of” clip of Eric Bischoff recalling the events of the famous DX “invasion” of Nitro. The invasion saw DX ride a jeep (styled to look like a tank) to Nitro on April 27th, 1998 when Raw and Nitro took place just 19 miles apart. They rode right up to the loading dock of The Scope in Norfolk, Virginia and tried to get in, but the door was closed before they could.
Bischoff discussed claims by Vince Russo that they didn’t know if Bischoff was going to send people out to beat DX up or what else might happen. Highlights from the comments are below.
On whether he heard rumors about them showing up:
“I heard nothing about it. If I would have known about it, listen. My body of work in that period of time speaks for itself. Had I known that they were coming, I would have had the door open. I would have instructed doug Dillinger to instruct his security crew to make sure that they could make their way to the ring. Because that would have been amazingly good TV on my network. There’s no way I would have had ten guys — Russo’s so full of s**t. That’s just again, him making himself sound more dramatic, smarter, more creative. We had no idea they were coming. Had I known they were coming, I would have invited them into the ring. And we would have let the cards fall where they may. Because nothing would have happened! These guys wouldn’t have beat the s**t out of each other. They were all friends! The boys didn’t have a dog in the hunt. They could care less.”
On if he was concerned that DX coming in would have hurt the credibility of the WCW vs. WWE war:
“No, absolutely not! Why would I have cared? Would I have cared if the WWE, to try and get — you’ve got to remember, again, context is freaking king here. People, you can believe me, you can not believe me, you can think I’m trying to put myself over. But just for a fraction of a second, put yourself in my shoes. WWE a year and a half before that, two years before that, Vince McMahon’s M.O. was, ‘Never acknowledge the competition. Don’t put ’em over.’ Hell, he selling like a b***h! I would have loved to have him have his crew show up on my show. It would have been awesome! Talk about selling, my god! It would have been perfect.”
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Updated May 14th 2021, 3:03 PM
SOUTH AFRICA ARE planning for all matches of the British and Irish Lions tour to be played behind closed doors, but have not given up hope that some spectators will be present.
A revised schedule for the eight fixtures has been published, with the coronavirus pandemic forcing adjustments to be made to the original itinerary that reduce travel and create stable team bases.
All games will be staged in Gauteng or Cape Town and there is one change in opposition, with the Emirates Lions replacing the SA Invitational team in the tour opener on July 3.
And in a new development, SA Rugby has announced that the games, including the three-Test series against the Springboks, are being organised on the basis they will take place without fans present.
“We are hopeful that restrictions on attendance at sports events will be relaxed but, for the moment, we are planning for an event behind closed doors,” SA Rugby chief executive Jurie Roux said.
“If that requirement changes, then we’ll assess the options available and make the necessary decisions based on the restrictions in place.”
Ticket holders for the original schedule will receive a full refund while South African residents who have tickets will be given first refusal on buying seats for the new itinerary, if restrictions on attendance are lifted.
It confirms that British and Irish Lions fans will not be able to travel to South Africa as part of any tour packages.
The pre-tour warm-up Test against Japan at Murrayfield on June 26 will proceed as scheduled, but a decision on the size of the crowd will be made closer to the time.
“We’re delighted to be able to finally confirm the revised schedule after months of scenario planning and shifting circumstances,” Roux said.
“It has been a challenging process with dozens of variables to consider but we believe we have arrived at a schedule that minimises the risks associated with the pandemic.
“This is not the Lions series we imagined when we started our planning more than two and a half years ago but, in the circumstances, I think it is an exciting prospect.
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“After all the uncertainty it’s a relief to be able to put a stake in the ground and confirm what the series will look like. I’m sure most of us can’t now wait for kick off.
“The scenarios changed on a weekly basis, with options on three different continents workshopped and interrogated over the past few months to reach this point.
“Throughout we have had a single-minded goal to ensure the series went ahead. We’re now ready to deliver the series.”
Revised Lions schedule (all times Irish)Saturday 3 July: Emirates Lions v The British & Irish Lions (Emirates Airline Park, Johannesburg) KO 5pmWednesday 7 July: Cell C Sharks v The British & Irish Lions (Emirates Airline Park, Johannesburg) KO 5pmSaturday 10 July: Vodacom Bulls v The British & Irish Lions (Loftus Versfeld, Pretoria) KO 5pmWednesday 14 July: South Africa ‘A’ v The British & Irish Lions (Cape Town Stadium, Cape Town) 5pmSaturday 17 July: DHL Stormers v The British & Irish Lions (Cape Town Stadium, Cape Town) KO 5pmSaturday 24 July: Springboks v The British & Irish Lions (1st Test, Cape Town Stadium, Cape Town) 5pmSaturday 31 July: Springboks v The British & Irish Lions (2nd Test, FNB Stadium, Johannesburg) 5pmSaturday 7 Aug: Springboks v The British & Irish Lions (3rd Test, FNB Stadium, Johannesburg) 5pm
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Bernard Jackman, Garry Doyle and Gavan Casey discuss the interpros and, inspired by new Ospreys signing Jack Regan, the need for Irish rugby to expand its methods for producing talent.
Dustin Rhodes discussed mending his relationship with his father, the late Dusty Rhodes, on the latest Talk is Jericho. Dustin and his dad had an adversarial relationship for a while many years ago, which led to issues between Cody and Dustin. Dustin discussed how he patched things up and was glad he did so, along with Dusty helping him during a low point in his life when he was struggling with addiction. Highlights are below:
On resolving his issues with his dad: “It was a long, long time ago, and it should have never happened. I think Cody had a lot of resentment toward me for that, certainly. And it’s a hard thing to talk about, and to bring up. But first few years it wasn’t — we weren’t on the best of terms, but we got past that. And I think that’s important for any child, sibling, whatever you may be, you have one parent, one dad, one mother. You love them, you take care of them, you look past your differences. You get over it, and you stay as close as you can until they’re gone. But one day they’re gonna be gone. And just like everybody else, there’s no escaping death. And it’s a road, we’re all gonna be there at some point. But stay as close to your mother and your father as you possibly can, and work through differences. And we did. We worked through our differences, and we got really tight and really close. And we knew that boundary would never be crossed again, and we didn’t cross it. And I’m just glad I had many, many years of that left before he passed.”
On any advice he gave that stands out about the business: “It necessarily wasn’t about the business, it was just in life, you know? I went through a thing when him and I were having that difficult time. I went through drug and alcohol addiction that was pretty heavy. I almost died, I was just about as bad as you could possibly imagine. And I’d had enough, and I don’t know if that’s some kind of spiritual awakening or whatever, or rock bottom of a three-day bender. But it was like, I’d had enough and I called him in the middle of the night. And I said, ‘Man Pops, I want — I need to get help.’ And I’m squalling and I’m crying, drunk and f**ked up out of my mind. He gets me into the Wellness Program, and to rehab, and I went and eleven years later I’m clean and sober. But it’s like, every single day from that point I got out of rehab, he would call me. And he was like, ‘You need to keep working your program, Dus. Keep working your program, and keep steppin.’ ‘Keep steppin’ is a big thing for me that he said that really stuck out, that he said every single day to me. And I use it all the time now on social media, ‘Keep steppin.’”Click Here: soccer tracksuits
John Kavanagh, who is best known for being Conor McGregor’s MMA coach was recently interviewed by Ariel Helwani and spoke about how he thinks Becky Lynch would do if she were to transition into MMA.
According to Kavanagh, Becky could do extremely well if she were to make the jump. Here is what he said:
“If she were to say to me tomorrow, ‘You know what, I want to give MMA a go,’ give me a year and I’d have her fighting at a high level. No doubt. She has an engine and she’s tough as hell. We know what that is, what she does, but you get smacked around and take big hits. That’s a big part of this game, to have the mental toughness and physical toughness to do it. She’s very fit, she’s a great performer. We know she’s not going to freeze under the big lights. She would do very well.”
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John Cena is returning on television screens starting tonight…but it’s not for WWE!
The former 16-time champion is the new host of Nickelodeon’s Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader which starts tonight at 7PM ET.
Cena’s new gig was announced back in February with Nickelodeon chief Brian Robbins explaining how the network is trying to attract back the young viewership demographic and one of the moves they as a network are making is hiring John Cena to be the host of the popular game show.
Produced by Mark Burnett of Survivor, the show features a contestant who attempts to answer ten questions taken from elementary school textbooks, two from each grade level from first to fifth. During the game, contestants who are playing for the $1,000,000 prize can be helped by school kids in answering the questions.
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More name changes for NXT as the former Jonah Rock and Samuel Shaw (pictured above) will also be going by new ring monikers.
Rock will now be Bronson Reed while Shaw has changed his social media account to the name Dexter Lumis.
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BRYCE HEEM SCORED a hat-trick as a rampant Auckland Blues chalked up a 48-21, bonus-point victory in Super Rugby Trans-Tasman over the NSW Waratahs who slumped to a club record low in Auckland this morning.
The Blues have now posted 98 points from two matches in an impressive start to the competition while the Waratahs have conceded 86 and along the way extended their losing streak to 10 for the club’s worst run of losses in Super Rugby.It was by no means a perfect performance from the Blues but their aggressive running game and powerful outside backs proved decisive with Heem scoring three times, Rieko Ioane once and Heem also setting up a try to hardworking flanker Tom Robinson.
The Sydneysiders, champions in 2014, struggled with injuries, losing Izaia Perese before kick-off and seeing Max Douglas and Lalakai Foketi leave the field early as the Blues raced to a 15-0 lead.
Despite the setbacks they closed to within one point with two converted tries before discipline lapses and poor ball retention contributed to the Blues scoring again to lead 22-14 at the turn and then add 26 points in the second half.
Despite the high scoreline, following a 50-3 win over the Melbourne Rebels last week, Blues captain Robinson said his side still lacked consistency.
“We fell into that trap when we come out with a good start and then they fought back and we were into a dogfight,” he said.
“We can’t just come out here against these teams and think (consistency is going to happen).
“I don’t think we quite earned it until that second half so it’s a work on.”
Waratahs skipper Jake Gordon said lapses of concentration let his side down.
“It’s been the story of the year. We put ourselves in good positions, we had the Blues stretched at points and then errors around the breakdown, loose ball, and the Blues did a great job off turnovers,” he said.
After an early Otere Black penalty and tries to Heem and Robinson, Angus Bell and Jake Gordon replied for the Waratahs before Kurt Eklund scored from a lineout drive for the Blues to go into the second half with an eight-point lead.
The Waratahs had a chance to close the gap to one point early in the second half but lost the ball from an attacking five-metre scrum.
From that error, the Blues responded with Ioane’s try from turnover ball followed by a penalty try.
After David Porecki scored a third try for the Waratahs, Heem closed out the game with two further touchdowns for the Blues.
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Bernard Jackman, Murray Kinsella and Gavan Casey look back on two cracking weekend interpros, look forward to the Champions Cup final, and discuss the growth of the sport in non-rugby strongholds such as Tallaght which still needs more institutional support.
In a recent episode of Busted Open Radio, Stone Cold Steve Austin spoke about how he came up with his ‘What’ catchphrase, which is so popular it’s still used by fans today when a wrestler pauses during a promo. Here are highlights:
On the origin of ‘What’: “I did it as a, you know, I was running heel at the time and I left that message on Christian’s voicemail. Every time I’d say something, I would kinda say, ‘what?’. A long winded voicemail and I was like, man there’s something here. I just thought it was kind of a way to jab someone like, ‘Oh you’re supposed to be like the World’s Strongest Man…what?’ You know? Kinda disrespect. I’m jabbing you, right? And so I figured, hey man, as a heel, no one had done that. It was something different. So that’s the first way I was trying to use it. And then all of a sudden when I flipped back babyface and people started grabbing onto it, man it just turned into something where, you just had to put that pause in your cadence and they would come with that ‘what’ and it just kinda trained ’em to do it and they were feedin’ off of it. A big part of being in WWE or in the wrestling business is that crowd wants to participate whether they lovin’ you, hatin’ you, cheering you, booing you, or whatever. Just involved in the match or listen to a promo, they want to be engaged or involved. It was a chance for them to be involved and participate as a part of the show.”
On the fans still doing it today: “And they’re still participating and they’re saying, ‘Austin why in the hell did you invent that, I wish you wouldn’t have done it.’ I would have never thought in a million years…I wouldn’t have thought…way back in the day, that that would have the staying power or the legs that it has.”Click Here: cheap vans era shoes
In an interview with Texarkana Gazette, Braun Strowman spoke about his character in WWE, comparing it to The Incredible Hulk in terms of motivation and his temper. Here are highlights:
On his character: “Braun Strowman is basically the Incredible Hulk in real life. He means well and tries to do as well as possible but every now and again his temper gets the better of him and he just smashes everything in sight.”
On going to the gym to relax: “I spend a lot of time in the gym. It’s my happy place, per se, my iron church. I go there to unwind and, you know, the iron is always truthful to you. It will let you know when you’re having a good day. It will tell you when you’re having a bad day. It will never lie to you.”
On what he’s most proud of during his time with WWE: “The things we do with charity, the kids, giving back to the community. That is, without a doubt, the greatest thing to me about being a WWE Superstar. It’s about walking into a children’s hospital and everyone’s face lighting up. They’re able to get lost in the moment watching his character, and this motivates him on the tough days. Those smiles are what keeps me going.”Click Here: custom rapid prototyping