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March 18, 1998 
                                             Volume 249
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                        Inside this Issue
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    Top Story                  Thoughts from the Fans
    Latest                     Final Thoughts from the 
Living Legend
    Trivia Question            Trivia Answer
    Time Line                  Credits
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                    FLAIR HAS THE CHOICE

ATLANTA--Ric Flair has the choice. Flair has been 
working with a day
to day contract with World Championship Wrestling 
according to many
insiders. If this is true, he is open to leave the WCW 
at any time.

Flair has been angered over his current status with the 
WCW. Flair,
who built the company, has been taking backseat to the 
likes of Hulk
Hogan, Randy Savage, Sting, Curt Hennig and, most 
recently, Bret Hart.

Many are questioning where Flair could go. Most likes 
Flair will stay
with the WCW, where he gained his reputation, but is 
possible that
Flair could take another option. That option is to 
enter the WWF.

Vince McMahon, World Wrestling Federation owner, and 
Ric Flair have
been closely linked in the past. Flair spent a year and 
a half with
the WWF in the early 1990s, and McMahon has remained 
friends with
Flair since Flair departed.

Many things can be drawn from this. If Flair leaves, 
Arn Anderson has
expressed that he will follow Flair. This leaves a 
question on Psycho
Sid. Arn Anderson and Psycho Sid have had seat 
following an incident a
few years back in which the two stabbed each other with 
a pair of
scissors. It is assumed that the two can not work 
together, and
Anderson's status will greatly influence Sid's status.

Many conclusions can be determined, but none can be 
confirmed. Time
and Flair can be the only judge.

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RAW HITS BIG. RAW had a special Tuesday night show, and 
they had a
monster rating for the show. Here is the breakdown:

  9-10 p.m. ET..................4.2
  10-11 p.m. ET.................4.6
  Average.......................4.4

JACKIE MIGHT BE HIS. Jacqueline is expected to be 
joining the WWF
soon. Her role is unknown but might center around Rocky 
Maivia and the
Nation of Domination.

I AM BALD, BUZZ. Steve Austin is said to be cutting a 
part for the ABC
hit, "Drew Carrey Show." It is unknown when the show 
will air.

IT TIME, IT TIME, IT TIME TO FLY OVER. Vader will be 
the only WWF
wrestler involved in the May All Japan show, according 
to reports. The
show was schedule to originally contain no WWF talent.

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RAVEN TAKES OUT PAGE. Raven and Diamond Dallas Page 
made an appearance
on MTV Live on Wednesday night to promote the new Stuck 
Mojo feature
featuring themselves. Raven ran out and attacked Page. 
Page was DDTed
on a stop sign.

LET ME THINK THIS ONE OUT. Dean Malenko is pondering 
his future is
wrestling. It is most likely that he will return, but 
it is also
possible that he could retire from the sport to spend 
time at his
wrestling school and his new child and family.

WE ARE OKAY. Eric Bischoff has publically stated that 
the deal between
the WCW and New Japan is fine. He stated that New Japan 
has offered to
fly him over for next month's New Japan Tokyo Dome 
show.

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                       ................
                       ...OTHER NEWS...
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WRESTLER's TALK. A & E, a cable station in the United 
States, will
feature a wrestling documentary of sorts starting at 8 
p.m. ET. The
show will feature interviews from the likes of Ric 
Flair, Steve
Austin, Hulk Hogan, Shawn Michaels, Vince McMahon, 
Randy Savage and
others.

FRANCINE HAS A PAGE. Francine, ECW's sensuous manager, 
has her own
official page on the web. Check it out at:

 
     <>http://forevertbozsguy.simplenet.com/francine/<>

SID WRESTLES. Psycho Sid returns to the ring this 
Saturday on
Thomaston, CT, for a North East Wrestling event. He 
will take on King
Kong Bundy in a main event. Jake Roberts will also be 
on the card. The
card will also feature a battle royal and a Lucha Libre 
match-up. This
show will benefit the Thomaston High School Boosters 
Club.

A few tickets remain, and the show is expected to sell 
out. The NEW
recommends calling to reserve your seats at (914) 
451-7620. Let them
know that the Living Legend Newsletter sent you. Also, 
check their web
page for full information:

          <>http://members.tripod.com/~NEWstaff/<>

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TRIVIA QUESTION OF THE DAY: Who managed Shawn Michaels 
at Wrestlemania
                            VIII?

Answer is near the bottom of the newsletter.

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  1850              1900                1950 
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THE TIMELINE...a look at the history of Pro-Wrestling 
and the Living
               Legend Newsletter

March 18, 1956...Rick Martel is born.
          1972...A tournament starts to determine the 
first Missouri
                 State heavyweight title.
          1976...Mike Quackenbush is born.
          1985...Ivan and Nikita Koloff beat Dusty 
Rhodes and Manny
                 Fernandez in Fayetteville, NC, to win 
the NWA tag
                 team titles.
          1995...2 Cold Scorpio (Flash Funk) beats Dean 
Malenko in
                 Philadelphia, PA, to win the ECW TV 
title.

Exact transcript of a story reported in the Living 
Legend Newsletter:

200 issues ago...Dated March 11, 1997. "Due to Syxx's 
injury, his
                 match with Ultimo Dragon for 
Uncensored has been
                 dropped. Ultimo Dragon will fight 
Psychosis which is
                 being dubbed International Masked 
Mayhem."

100 issues ago...Dated October 29, 1997. "Although he 
rejected the
                 offer on Nitro, look for Scotty Rigs 
to get another
                 offer from Raven's Stable on an 
upcoming Nitro. It is
                 unknown if he will accept or deny."

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   | HOUGHTS FROM FANS

    >>Tim<<
>>TPHILLIP@hii.com<<

  Okay, wrestling fans, it's time to utilize our 
technology to its
  fullest potential and start a campaign to try and put 
a stop to the
  screw job endings. I only watch Nitro, but I have 
heard that the WWF
  has pulled similar stunts that WCW has, so fans, 
let's get together
  and stop it. Tuesday night there was supposed to be a 
spectacular
  tag team match involving Sting, Lex Luger, Macho Man, 
and Hogan.
  After a breath-taking ring entrance by Sting, the 
match started, and
  then ended within just a few minutes because of 
interference by Ed
  Leslie. A WCW vs. NWO brawl ensued, and they went off 
the air before
  the action stopped. Every week it's the same damn 
thing on Nitro,
  and now it's time to fight back. Here are my 
suggestions:

  1. Sign campaign. Anyone out there going to a Nitro? 
Make a sign
     that says, "NO MORE SCREW JOB ENDINGS" or "STAY ON 
THE AIR 'TILL
     THE ACTION STOPS!" or "BISCHOFF FEARS LEGITIMATE 
MAIN EVENTS" or
     "QUIT TEASING THE HOME VIEWERS!" Once this 
campaign catches on,
     (and if Dilinger doesn't confiscate the signs), 
Bischoff just may
     choose to change his ways.

  2. "Screw job" chant. As soon as the so-called main 
event starts,
     everyone start chanting "Scrrrewwwww Jooooobbb!!" 
over and over
     again (just like the "airball" chant in 
basketball). Make it
     loud, persistent, and annoying as hell, so that 
Tony, Mike, and
     Bobby can't even concentrate on calling the match. 
That will tell
     Bischoff that we're no dummies and we know just 
what's coming.
     The embarrassment will cause him to think twice 
about giving us a
     screwjob ending every week.

  I'll be looking and listening!!

   >>Al<<
>>nimble@mnsi.net<<

  Well, Chris comes out here in the last newsletter and 
whines how
  Vince McMahon shouldn't make fun of WCW. I say, "WHY 
THE HELL NOT?"
  WCW sucks, and it should be McMahon's right to make 
fun of the old
  retirement home atmosphere WCW has created. I mean, I 
myself would
  love to see Degeneration X beat up a Hogan midget, or 
Goldust come
  out as Ric Flair. I swear I would die laughing. The 
only reason I
  tune into the WCW is for a good laugh and to view 
what kind of
  stupid stuff they do. Flair should retire. He should 
have retired
  10, no 20 years ago. As should all the rest of the 
old timers in
  WCW, and that goes for the old timers in WWF like the 
Rock 'n' Roll
  Express. But at least the WWF doesn't put their old 
guys in the main
  event and call it the best match ever.

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                   /\/\/\FINAL THOUGHTS/\/\/\

I am so excited, and I just can't hide it. I just got a 
letter from a
major television show asking to have my page, 
WRESTLINGMAN.COM,
featured on it. I have been contacted by a contact of 
the show, which
airs on CBS, and I have asked for more information. It 
isn't set to
air for a while, and they have yet to confirm that they 
will use me. I
will talk more about it on Friday. They are having a 
feature on
wrestling pages. If any other sites have been 
contacted, let me know.

I have double checked the e-mail address, and it did 
come from a legit
server. It seems all okay. Seems like a good thing for 
us.

In return, I will be greatly updating the page starting 
this weekend.
I doubt they will do anything till Monday or so. So, 
visit the page,
look for any mistakes, I will be updating the PPV page 
and maybe some
looks. I will be taking out links to some of the sites 
not up. I will
take out the merchandise site and so on.

They are informing me that the show is Canadian and US 
only. Sorry to
all of those outside of the area. I will spread all 
cool information
on to you.

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TRIVIA ANSWER: Sensational Sherri.

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