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THE BEST OF THE PEOPLE'S COLUMN & WRESTLING HISTORY

Hey, and welcome to the final People's Column of 1999. Yes, the regular edition of This Week in Wrestling History should be up now... but this is your look back at the People's Columnist's greatest hits (or lack there of). Enjoy!

And in case you are wondering... "I Get Letters Too" and "Raw vs Nitro" will appear this week, only it will be in tomorrow's one-day-late (we've got to end the millennium with a bang!) edition of This Week in Wrestling History.

THE BEST OF "I GET LETTERS TOO"

Y'all have written me some very interesting letters. Here's the best lines from YOUR letters. The People's Letters.

from TJ (PC #3) - "I don't know how many times I've watched him [Stone Cold] and thought either A: I wish somebody would beat me senseless, so maybe I would be amused by him or B: why doesn't he grow his hair back and be an asshole again?"

from Sri (PC #5) - "Hey, I really enjoyed your column and reliving the nostalgia in my head when Erik Watts was being pushed as the "Young Lion", the hottest rookie superstar in the sport. Wait, that sucked! Screw you for making me remember the dropkick of doom!"

from James Gowdey (PC #6) - "Chae pic on the side: Shameless way to get people to read more of the column (like Terri Runnels' Nipple - I loved that column), soemthing that boosts the column's overall status, or both?"

from Shawn Cotto (PC #8) - "Since you and Chae are having a torrid love affair and Kimberly's married, that leaves Frye for little old me, except for one little detail. I'm married too. Feh."

Don't forget people, this is the PEOPLE'S Column, which means this is your chance to get your opinions heard. E-mail me at the usual address and I'll post my mail weekly!

THE BEST OF "THIS WEEK IN ('90s) WRESTLING HISTORY"

This feature was so popular that it actually evolved into it's own little feature. Here's the best (in my opinion) in chronological order.

12.23 - It's Juvent... um, The Juice's birthday. May The Rock turneth a piece of birthday cake sideways and shine it up really nice for him.

11.20.90 - Clash of the Champions XIII from Jacksonville featured "Big Cat" Curtis Hughes minus glittery shirt but probably plus wrap-around sunglasses defeating Brad Armstrong of the No Limit Soldiers.

12.03.94 - "Macho Man" Randy Savage makes his WCW debut on a live "Saturday Night." Reread that... a live "Saturday Night." A debut on "Saturday Night." And I'm not talking about the Gambler debuting on "Saturday Night" either.

11.13.95 - Kensuke Sasaki wins the U.S. title from Sting in Tokyo, Japan. Reread that... the U.S. title in Japan. And Kensuke Sasaki isn't American. It's like Shawn Michaels or Mark Henry holding the European Title... oh, wait.

11.09.97 - Bret Hart says he was screwed (again... and he still says it everytime you stick a microphone in his face) as he loses the WWF title to Shawn Michaels at the Survivor Series. Also on the card, Steve Blackman makes his WWF wrestling debut (that was for you CRZ) and the Truth Commission defeats DOA in an elimination match. Wow, what great matches the WWF had at the time.

11.17.98 - Duane Gill won the WWF Lightheavyweight belt from Christian. Hey, he's celebrating a year as champ this week! What a lightheavyweight! Take THAT, Rey Rey!

THE BEST OF "RAW VS NITRO"

"Raw vs Nitro" has basically been where I said exactly what you would expect... my thoughts on Raw and Nitro. Why there isn't a Smackdown! vs Thunder I don't know... probably because I usually don't pay attention to Thunder. The only things worth watching on TBS are the Braves and Monkey-ed Movies (and I don't mean that "Chimp Channel" crap either). Anywho... I also came up with the stupid idea of renaming each show in the "Raw is _____/Nitro is _____" fashion. I have no life.

PC #4 - "Raw is DX" - "I don't want to know about Kane's bits and pieces, whether they are burnt or not."

PC #5 - "Nitro is Neve Campbell" - "If Nash really wants to try to make us laugh, he needs to come out as Oz and have Hall come out as the little wizard dude that Kevin Sullivan came out as."

PC #6 - "Raw is Cops" - "When Mankind's book came out, do you think Tony Schiavonie said 'Boy, that will put people in the bookstores?'

THE BEST OF THE MAIN STUFF

Yes, besides all of the side attractions, my column does have (a little) meat (no, not Shawn Stasiak). Here's your look back at the junk I've forced you to sit through, column by column.

PC #1 - In the first PC, I asked a whole bunch of questions hoping for answers (of course, I didn't get any). Among them... "When is Chae going to admit her love for me?"... "When is Spice going to admit her love for CRZ?" ... "What's with Konnan's fetish for vegetables?" ... "Will Vince Russo let his son watch Nitro?".

PC #2 - Basically, I did a little two paragraph thing on Jeff Jarrett returning to WCW. I said nothing of any importance.

PC #3 - I didn't even HAVE any meat in this column. DOH! (No, "Doh!" is not a vague reference... that's WAY too easy.)

PC #4 - I made up for the previous week's laziness (a reoccuring problem) with two pieces of meat. First, I had [slash]'s first review of "WWF The Music: Vol. 4." I said I didn't like D'Lo and HHH's music... and now I think they rock. Go figure. Meat #2 was a look back at PWI's past Rookie of the Year winners. The only line that cracked me up (which is sad when I start cracking myself up) was mentioning Tony Garea as co-winner of the award in '73 - "here's my shirt Tori... I don't want to see your breasts."

PC #5 - This week, I criticized Bret Hart for saying he's such a role model yet saying he would run over his own sister.

PC #6 - I decided to compare the title holders of '89 to '99. Basically, 1999 has two and three times as many title changes (SURPRISE!).

PC #7 - This would be the infamous unanswered questions column. Among them... "Does Kane still do Jerry Lawler's dentistry?" ... "What is shiznit?" ... "Does Lord Steven Regal still squeeze his own orange juice and chop his own wood?" ... "If Russo wants ratings, how come Gorgeous George isn't mud wrestling and Roddy Piper is?" ... "Who's area is DJ Ran in now?" ... "Did Sid's record for the millennium end or what?"

PC #8 - This would be the column where I took a leave of absence (see also: final exam cramming) and let you do the writing by posting your answers to the unanswered questions. You might know this column as "The People's Letters."

PC #9 - Hey, last week's column! I handed out Christmas presents 'cause I'm a nice guy. Among the gifts... for Chae - me ... for Goldberg - a harmonica for this happy, happy Hannukah ... for Ivory - a new scarf, preferably not purple ... for The Rock - IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT SANTA BRINGS HIM! ... for Rikishi Phatu - his own goggles ... for Chris Jericho - winning the world title on Raw is Jericho in the middle of the ring, followed by the referee raising his hand not once, but twice ... for Droz - a 150% recovery ... for CRZ - Spice, but only if I can get Chae (CRZ responded with a "Can DO, dude!"... sounds like a deal!)

And that's the meat. Here's the gravy.

THE BEST OF "THE PEOPLE'S HALL OF FAME"

Your total list of People's Hall of Famers includes...

Harold Finkel Nor-man Smi-LEY Mick Foley THEMONSTERMENG!!! Too Cool The Spanish Announce Table Jerry Lawler Xanta Klaus

And THAT is your final People's Column of the century (I won't get into the millennium argument). Have a safe Y2K. If you are smart, you'll be down in the bomb shelter when 12:00 hits! THE WORLD IS GONNA END BABY! THE SUN IS GOING TO QUIT SHINING! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

Until that moment, keep your head in the ground and your feet in the stars.

P.S. "Weekly World News" said the world was going to end... SO IT MUST BE TRUE!

Andy
Chae's #1 guy
[slash] wrestling

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