WCW and Crockett Promotions

[Prime Time]

I've also heard that story that Watts was reimbursed for any money he saved WCW,

I recently heard Jim Ross.... not dismiss this, exactly, but sound very sceptical about it. The gist was something along the lines of he and Bill talked about everything back then, and he never heard anything about this. I remembered we'd spoken about it in the past, but always a chance, then, that this is something that someone has invented after the fact.


Anyway, did you ever get to Miss Atlanta Lively?!

[mizfan]

False rumors in the wrestling world? Say it ain't so!

My god yes, I got to Miss Atlanta Lively... truly one of the strangest and most absurd angles I've seen in all of wrestling! And they never even explained or acknowledged why it happened. A month later Ron was challenging Flair for the world title. My head was spinning through that run, you can be sure.

[Prime Time]

I'm struggling to remember what the official explanation was. I think it was something where it was supposed to be someone Valiant knew 'from the streets' ("I've looked in bars, I've looked in cars" etc. etc.), but that instead of that it was obviously just Garvin. So hints of Midnight Rider about it? Though I think my favourite detail was always that although it screams Dusty, the actual driving force behind it was.... Ron Garvin himself.

[Benjamin Button]

That tag match at Starrcade is a guilty pleasure of mine. I think it still fits the effect of the rest of the show but it’s out there.

Funny thing is Barbarian really thought it was a woman and was inquiring about Ronnie.

[mizfan]

I'm struggling to remember what the official explanation was. I think it was something where it was supposed to be someone Valiant knew 'from the streets' ("I've looked in bars, I've looked in cars" etc. etc.), but that instead of that it was obviously just Garvin. So hints of Midnight Rider about it? Though I think my favourite detail was always that although it screams Dusty, the actual driving force behind it was.... Ron Garvin himself.

They definitely just said she was one of Valiant's "Street People". I guess better than the insanely buxom woman they had running around a few times? I truly couldn't tell if it was a "wink wink" situation and we were meant to know it was a guy or what. I did read a Garvin interview where he said he would just go out like that some times and get hit on. Good for him for living his own way, haha.

Do y'all know about this Cornette/Dusty feud with the James Boys angle? I'm in the thick of it and it's tremendous stuff. I did not expect to see Babydoll knock Bobby Eaton on his ass his a right hook but god damn what a fun segment, and Cornette's reaction was magic.

[Benjamin Button]

Yeah, Dusty and Magnum, the James Boys. I think there’s a segment where they tie Jim Cornette to a truck but I never saw that part.

[mizfan]

I'm now very much hoping to run across it, haha. The segment where Cornette hits Babydoll with the racket was brilliant, and definitely something WWF may have borrowed from with Savage and Liz. Babydoll and Dusty work astonishingly well together, I really didn't think they would mesh.