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Post by fg on May 14, 2020 17:25:30 GMT -5
I always heard about this. But, what magazine did they call Randy Savage champion before WM4? Was it the March 1988 edition? Who was on the cover?
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Post by James Fabiano on May 14, 2020 21:49:24 GMT -5
I know it was in the context of a feature on Elizabeth, I want to say about her workout?
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Post by The Thread Barbi on May 15, 2020 0:57:10 GMT -5
I always took things like that as the writer being lazy, forgetting facts, or not knowing what's going on and the editor doing a poor job of sense checking articles.
For example, in 1998 versions of the magazine Steve Austin was described as the 1995 King of the Ring winner, which is factually wrong.
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Post by GuyOfOwnage on May 15, 2020 2:20:40 GMT -5
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Post by johnnyk9 on May 15, 2020 7:33:12 GMT -5
Everybody makes mistakes
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Post by cjh on May 15, 2020 8:05:19 GMT -5
A couple of classic mistakes in the magazine came in the "Pin 'Em Down" column where wrestlers answered fan questions.
- One letter started "Dear Verdue." Based on the response to the question, "Verdue" was Vader.
- A question for Steve Austin had a response saying Austin would open up a can of "whoopie-ass."
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Post by Dean-o on May 15, 2020 8:24:51 GMT -5
Something that always stuck out to me was the results feature of WrestleMania XI. They wrote that Owen won with the Sharpshooter, when in fact he teased going for it, but just went for the easy pin.
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Post by cjh on May 15, 2020 8:35:13 GMT -5
Something that always stuck out to me was the results feature of WrestleMania XI. They wrote that Owen won with the Sharpshooter, when in fact he teased going for it, but just went for the easy pin. The write up for Royal Rumble 1996 had a similar issue. The writer made it sound like Shawn Michaels and Diesel had an epic battle when they were the final two. In reality, Diesel eliminated Kama, then got eliminated by Shawn about three seconds later. |
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Post by jason1980s on May 15, 2020 10:57:07 GMT -5
- One letter started "Dear Verdue." Based on the response to the question, "Verdue" was Vader. I remember that one well. For a while I was trying to figure out who this mysterious Verdue was and after a while think I came to the conclusion it was Vader. It was around the time he was still pretty new to WWF. I think with business being so poor at the time they hired whoever they could for the magazine. I'm guessing with all going on (WCW taking charge) Vince McMahon wasn't putting too much attention into the magazine. Previous years were much better, IMO, with very few mistakes despite the Macho Man title win showing up earlier. I thought the magazine cover was for June 1988 with Macho holding up a title belt with the photo being taken at an earlier date, perhaps when he faced Hulk and like Piper with both belts held up the HW title for when a picture was being taken. |
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Post by James Fabiano on May 15, 2020 11:55:16 GMT -5
A couple of classic mistakes in the magazine came in the "Pin 'Em Down" column where wrestlers answered fan questions. - One letter started "Dear Verdue." Based on the response to the question, "Verdue" was Vader. - A question for Steve Austin had a response saying Austin would open up a can of "whoopie-ass." Nothing is as bad as Vince Russo, when he had a newsletter for his radio show, saying Razor oozed "ma-cheese-ma" |
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Post by James Fabiano on Jul 9, 2020 15:36:01 GMT -5
I know it was in the context of a feature on Elizabeth, I want to say about her workout? Just back to confirm....I picked up the issue in question at a retro store. It's the issue that covers The Main Event. Hogan is on the cover, and the article was a Private Eye special on Liz's daily life outside the ring. No implication that her and Savage lived together. |
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Post by fg on Jul 9, 2020 16:35:05 GMT -5
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Post by thecrusherwi on Jul 9, 2020 19:54:50 GMT -5
Wow that’s kind of expensive unless the magazine prices are going up. I bought lots of 10 issues from 1987-91 for like $50 just a couple years ago. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 9, 2020 20:34:25 GMT -5
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Post by willywonka666 on Jul 9, 2020 20:53:27 GMT -5
A question for Steve Austin had a response saying Austin would open up a can of "whoopie-ass." That's much funnier to me than it probably should be. |
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Post by Brandon Walsh is Insane. on Jul 10, 2020 1:20:39 GMT -5
I remember buying the first issue of WWF Raw magazine at WrestleMania 12... and In the Informer article by Vinnie Ru, they were talking about the backstage happenings of WrestleMania and the fall out. But like, I was at the show! There’s no way Russo had the spaldingz to get that news printed so quickly!
Kayfabe died for me that day.
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