More Various News: WWE Classics Update, Backlash and Lockdown Presale Codes, Japanese Wrestling Ends on NTV, More
Posted by Larry Csonka on 02.25.2009
Tons of news to kick off the morning!
- The presale code for the WWE Backslash presale, which takes place today, is "BACKLASH". The PPV takes place on April 26th from Providence, Rhode Island.
- The presale code for the TNA Lockdown presale, which takes place either Thursday or Friday, is "ICON". The PPV takes place on April 19th from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- Here is the latest WWE Classics on Demand Update: The Big Ones: WCW Bash At The Beach 2000
* WCW Cruiserweight champ Lt. Loco (Chavo Guerrero) vs. Juventud Guerrera.
* WCW Hardcore champ Big Vito vs. Norman Smiley & Ralphus
*Daffney vs. Miss Hancock - Wedding Gown Match
* WCW World Tag Team champions Shawn Stasiak & Chuck Palumbo vs. Kronik
* Booker T vs. Kanyon
* WCW United States champ Scott Steiner vs. Mike Awesome
* Vampiro vs. KISS Demon - Graveyard Match
* Shane Douglas vs. Buff Bagwell
* WCW World champ Jeff Jarrett vs. Hulk Hogan
* The Vince Russo speech that launched a Hogan lawsuit
* Goldberg vs. Kevin Nash
* Booker T vs. Jeff Jarrett to determine a new WCW World champion
Pick your Big One: Superbrawl 3
* WCW World champion Vader vs. Sting - Strap Match
* NWA champion The Great Muta vs. Barry Windham
* WCW United States champ Dustin Rhodes vs. Maxx Payne
* SMW Tag Team champions The Heavenly Bodies vs. The Rock N' Roll Express
* Cactus Jack vs. Paul Orndorff - Falls Count Anywhere
* Hollywood Blondes vs. Buff Bagwell & Erik Watts
* Davey Boy Smith's WCW debut vs. Bill Irwin
TV Classics:
* Extreme Championship Wrestling 8.27.96
* Prime Time Wrestling 1.18.88: Matches from WWF event in Paris, France [Pwinsider.com]
- In the latest edition of Fightsport Magazine, Mick Foley is interviewed about The Wrestler, MMA, his injuries and more. The only negative of the article is that they refer to "TNA" as "T & A". [Pwinsider.com]
- The documentary, Operation Filmmaker, which features an Iraqi film student who finds an ally in Dwayne Johnson as he films Doom, was released this week. Here is the synopsis:
In the wake of "Operation Iraqi Freedom," American actor Liev Schreiber had an idealistic notion: to rescue an Iraqi film student from the rubble of his country and bring him to the West to intern on a Hollywood movie (Everything Is Illuminated). It promised to be a heartwarming tale, a small victory out of the troubled mission of the U.S. war in Iraq. But as in the war itself, "good" intentions yielded unintended consequences, and even this operation doesn't go according to plan. Director Nina Davenport becomes personally involved in Schreiber's charitable effort, and soon finds herself embroiled in a complex moral quagmire and all-consuming power struggle between filmmaker and subject. Operation Filmmaker is an engaging, sometimes comical political parable, taking the viewer on a riveting ride from Baghdad to Hollywood."
- The Mainichi Daily News had the following on the end of Japanese wrestling on the Nippon Television Network:
Bell rings on long-running pro wrestling TV show
A long-running professional wrestling TV show that started in 1954 will end, its broadcaster said.
Nippon Television Network (NTV) announced that it will stop broadcasting "Pro Wrestling Noah" at the end of March.
The wrestling program started in February 1954, the year after the network started broadcasting, and played an important role in the spread of television in Japan. Viewer ratings peaked at 64 percent in 1963 for a match between famous local wrestler Rikidozan and the Destroyer from America, according to Video Research.
However, the show's viewer ratings dropped to around 2 percent after its airtime was moved to late at night in the spring of 1990 due to its declining popularity.
NTV plans to continue to broadcast the show on its cable television channel "Nittele G+.
