Wrestling Observer
Headlines for August 2002
Saturday, August 31st, 2002
- 04:09 pm Headline: WWE does strong UK business
- 02:50 pm Headline: First Saturday update: WOL returns, Goldberg in Japan, Rebellion, WWE advertising, Claims of Match of the Year, PR grudge match, Hogan special
- 02:48 pm Headline: Ben Miller on current wrestling scene and Shawn Michaels
- 02:46 pm Headline: Wrestling Observer Newsletter awards you won't be seeing
- 02:42 am Headline: The importance of keeping a WWF-owned WCW distinct -- F4W Flashback
- 01:07 am Headline: WWE house show results 8-30 Lincoln
Friday, August 30th, 2002
- 04:57 pm Headline: Smackdown rating
- 01:42 pm Headline: First Friday update: Goldberg returns against Kojima, Fireworks with Shamrock and Ortiz, Smackdown ratings, DiBiase, Sting & Road Warriors appear, ROH TV debuts this week and 60s British star returns
- 01:41 pm Headline: NWA Wildside TV report
- 01:38 pm Headline: Hall of Fame thoughts
- 01:35 pm Headline: Scott Williams on the Ring of Honor promotion
- 04:20 am Headline: Vince decides Austin vs. Jericho not enough -- F4W Flashback
Thursday, August 29th, 2002
- 10:13 pm Headline: Rock on being booed, do actions speak louder than words, Bios of the new Hall of Fame members, SummerSlam coverage, lawsuit coverage, details of the 9/2 Wrestling Observer, ordering info and specials
- 10:13 pm Feature: Rock on being booed, do actions speak louder than words, Bios of the new Hall of Fame members, SummerSlam coverage, lawsuit coverage, details of the 9/2 Wrestling Observer, ordering info and specials
- 09:11 pm Feature: WWE SMACKDOWN! REPORT
- 03:10 pm Headline: First Thursday update: Lots of Smackdown notes and thoughts, Confidential repeat, ROH, Brody, Tully, Funk and Gino headline Classic PPV, Lesar on Raw and more
- 03:08 pm Headline: WWE Classics TV report
- 08:03 am Interview: Alex Marvez interviews Chris "Tatanka" Chavis
- 04:46 am Headline: Huge SummerSlam review and backstage notes, why WWE will survive at least the decade, Austin divorce, TONS more: Figure Four Weekly #375 preview plus ordering info and special offer for new readers worldwide
- 04:46 am Feature: Huge SummerSlam review and backstage notes, why WWE will survive at least the decade, Austin divorce, TONS more: Figure Four Weekly #375 preview plus ordering info and special offer for new readers worldwide
Wednesday, August 28th, 2002
- 03:16 pm Headline: First Wednesday update: Dynamite crowd, TNA and NJ previews, notes for Smackdown and Velocity, Vince & Linda, Jesse, Shamrock-Ortiz angle and 2002
- 01:38 pm Headline: Pride Shockwave Dynamite spoilers from Tokyo
- 03:44 am Headline: EMLL, AAA, Raw and Smackdown for week of 5/29/01 -- F4W Flashback
Tuesday, August 27th, 2002
- 10:57 pm Headline: WWE Smackdown spoilers featuring major defection from Raw
- 10:06 pm Headline: WWE Velocity spoilers
- 07:10 pm Headline: Early Smackdown notes
- 02:15 pm Headline: First Tuesday update: Raw notes, lots happening tonight, final New Haven show and more from MSG
- 03:16 am Feature: WWE Raw report
Monday, August 26th, 2002
- 01:47 pm Headline: First Monday update: Rock after the show, RVD, New matches for Shockwave, Ventura on King, Bernardo-Goodridge on ESPN 2, and more
- 01:45 pm Headline: Galavision Lucha Libre TV report w/Felino vs. Warrior finals and Vampiro
- 01:40 pm Headline: WWE Byte This report
- 01:38 pm Headline: Dory Funk's BANG TV report
- 04:33 am Feature: TONS of SummerSlam feedback
- 04:33 am Headline: Foley on Michaels, WCW, his career, more -- F4W Flashback
Sunday, August 25th, 2002
- 07:20 pm Headline: Live Summer Slam coverage
- 01:35 pm Headline: First Sunday update: Tonight's PPV coverage, More Kane notes, CPW, NWA anniversary, Mould on WCW, movie premiere and more
- 01:33 pm Headline: Memphis Championship Wrestling TV report
- 12:45 pm Headline: WWE house show report 8-24 Albany
- 12:41 pm Headline: ROH report from Wakefield, MA
- 12:39 pm Headline: Gary Cappetta attends first WWFE house show in 18 years last night in Trenton
- 03:51 am Headline: Fujita destroys Takayama at PRIDE show -- F4W Flashback
Saturday, August 24th, 2002
- 11:55 pm Feature: WWE Velocity TV report
- 12:42 pm Headline: First Saturday update: SummerSlam coverage, Kane angle, NPR interview, Tohoku Jr., Raw cable rankings and more
- 12:39 pm Headline: Ben Miller looks at SummerSlam
- 12:38 pm Headline: NWA Wildside TV report
Friday, August 23rd, 2002
- 04:04 pm Headline: Smackdown final rating
- 02:14 pm Headline: First Friday update: Observer Live close to a deal, Smackdown ratings show more good news, AJ star comes to NY, Wrestling on Extra, PTI, Fact or Fiction and UK Bio channel and more
- 04:14 am Headline: WWF lawsuit to continue -- F4W Flashback
- 12:27 am Feature: Annual Hall of Fame preview, preview of huge shows coming in next two weeks, Smackdown revitalized; Details of the jumbo-sized Observer for next week and ways to get two free issues
- 12:27 am Headline: Annual Hall of Fame preview, preview of huge shows coming in next two weeks, Smackdown revitalized; Details of the jumbo-sized Observer for next week and ways to get two free issues
Thursday, August 22nd, 2002
- 11:54 pm Headline: WWE Wrestling Classics TV report
- 11:46 pm Feature: WWE Smackdown report
- 02:17 pm Headline: First Thursday update: Smackdown line-up, prominent wrestling family sues WWE, Angle on Stern, Complete Shockwave line-up, Injury changes TNA show, Lawler vs. Dusty and more
- 02:16 pm Headline: NWA TNA spoilers for next week
- 02:13 pm Headline: NWA TNA live show report
- 02:11 pm Headline: Scott Williams on SummerSlam
- 04:14 am Feature: Hottest promotional war in wrestling today, UFC and Ring of Honor review, much more -- Figure Four Weekly #374 preview plus ordering info and special offer for new readers worldwide
- 04:14 am Headline: Hottest promotional war in wrestling today, UFC and Ring of Honor review, much more -- Figure Four Weekly #374 preview plus ordering info and special offer for new readers worldwide
- 04:13 am Headline: Storm starts WCW invasion angle -- F4W Flashback
Wednesday, August 21st, 2002
- 10:27 pm Headline: NWA TNA live TV taping report
- 03:57 pm Headline: NWA TNA cancels live tapings for a few weeks
- 12:17 pm Headline: First Wednesday update: TNA line-up tonight, WWE earnings report, Raw, Shockwave and scary Tokyo Dome potential match
Tuesday, August 20th, 2002
- 11:15 pm Headline: WWE Smackdown spoilers
- 09:19 pm Headline: WWE Velocity spoilers
- 01:14 pm Headline: First Tuesday update: SummerSlam note and warm-up match, Bret Hart's first appearance, ROH show, Michinoku Pro team comes to U.S., Goldberg, Where are they now, 70s and 80s PPV and more
- 04:45 am Headline: Raw, Smackdown, AAA and EMLL TV for week of 5/22/01 -- F4W Flashback
- 02:01 am Feature: WWE Raw Report
Monday, August 19th, 2002
- 06:21 pm Headline: Tonight's Raw line-up
- 01:28 pm Headline: First Monday update: Rock on two shows tonight, Hall of Fame preview issue coming, benefit for Messiah, Bigelow, DiBiase coming to indie as Taiyo Kea to New York
- 01:26 pm Headline: Galavision Lucha Libre TV report
- 01:24 pm Headline: NWA Wildside TV report
Sunday, August 18th, 2002
- 10:26 pm Headline: WWE Byte This report
- 10:24 pm Feature: WWE Sunday Night Heat TV report
- 08:03 pm Headline: Memphis Championship Wrestling TV report
- 08:02 pm Headline: WWE house show results 8-18 Evansville
- 02:05 pm Headline: First Sunday update: More good news for WWE, wrestling legend returns, Heenan interview, more
- 01:04 pm Headline: Intreview highlights with Bagwell, Jim Mitchell and Donovan Morgan
- 01:00 am Headline: WWE house show report 8-17 Terre Haute
- 12:56 am Feature: WWE Velocity TV report
Saturday, August 17th, 2002
- 05:46 pm Headline: NWA TNA TV review
- 01:34 pm Headline: First Saturday update: Raw & S.S. notes, KOC feature, WWE/HWA combined tonight, Foley and more
Friday, August 16th, 2002
- 04:00 pm Headline: Smackdown rating generates good news
- 02:23 pm Headline: Friday news update: WWE shows, early Smackdown numbers, PPV tonight, KOC on Fox and celebrity boxing in PR
- 02:20 pm Headline: Wrestling Professor looks at Jericho's new CD
- 05:01 am Headline: Austin retains, Hunter loses at Judgment Day -- F4W Flashback
Thursday, August 15th, 2002
- 08:57 pm Feature: WWE SMACKDOWN! REPORT
- 04:24 pm Headline: First Thursday update: Drowning Pool singer dead, Smackdown preview, Stern on SummerSlam, UFC PPV tomorrow, more
- 02:36 pm Feature: WWE Classics TV report
- 02:32 pm Feature: Dory Funk's BANG! TV report
- 02:30 pm Headline: Scott Williams on Steve Austin's arrest
- 02:28 pm Headline: WWE Wrestling Classics TV report
- 04:13 am Feature: Goldberg returns to wrestling, Austin arrested, more cuts in WWE, much more: Preview of the new 12-page Figure Four Weekly (#373) plus ordering info and special offer for new readers
- 04:13 am Headline: Goldberg returns to wrestling, Austin arrested, more cuts in WWE, much more: Preview of the new 12-page Figure Four Weekly (#373) plus ordering info and special offer for new readers
- 03:54 am Headline: NWA TNA report live
- 12:48 am Feature: NWA TNA PPV report
Wednesday, August 14th, 2002
- 02:52 pm Headline: First Wednesday update: More on Austin arrest, additonal Smackdown notes, Raw and weekend ratings, much more
- 01:29 pm Feature: Message from Dave Meltzer
- 04:37 am Headline: Concerned WWF making changes -- F4W Flashback
- 01:59 am Headline: Smackdown tapings from Seattle
Tuesday, August 13th, 2002
- 08:11 pm Headline: Steve Austin arrested
- 05:16 pm Headline: Goldberg confirmed to appear at PRIDE Shockwave show, other matches announced
- 03:43 pm Headline: First Tuesday update: Goldberg to Japan, Observer notes, X-Pac status, more
- 02:18 pm Headline: Please read: Observer publication temporarily postponed
- 02:18 pm Feature: Please read: Observer publication temporarily postponed
- 04:25 am Headline: FINAL DAY for new and expired subscribers to get one month of the newly-expanded Figure Four Weekly for just five dollars!
- 04:25 am Feature: FINAL DAY for new and expired subscribers to get one month of the newly-expanded Figure Four Weekly for just five dollars!
- 03:43 am Headline: EMLL, AAA, Raw and Smackdown TV for week of May 21, 2001 -- F4W Flashback
- 01:49 am Headline: Non-Raw report from Seattle
- 01:15 am Headline: Dark matches and off TV notes from Raw
Monday, August 12th, 2002
- 11:46 pm Feature: Raw Report from Seattle
- 06:09 pm Feature: Goldberg update
- 06:09 pm Headline: Goldberg update
- 04:25 pm Headline: Quick Monday news update: Raw tonight, Chyna vs. Yuji Nagata (oh yes) and more
- 12:48 pm Headline: WWE Byte This Report
- 12:29 pm Headline: WWE house show report 8-11 Vancouver
- 11:58 am Headline: WWE house show report 8-10 Kamloops
- 11:55 am Headline: Galavision Lucha Libre report 8-10
- 04:02 am Feature: Figure Four Weekly expands to 12 pages; new AND expired subscribers, try one month for just five dollars!
- 04:02 am Headline: Figure Four Weekly expands to 12 pages; new AND expired subscribers, try one month for just five dollars!
- 03:17 am Headline: Mummy Returns review -- F4W Flashback
- 02:17 am Headline: WWE Kamloops house show report
- 01:59 am Headline: Vancouver WWE house show report
- 01:45 am Headline: Sunday update: Observer Live cancelled, G-1 Climax finals, Frank Shamrock injury, more
Sunday, August 11th, 2002
- 02:20 am Feature: WWE Velocity TV report
Saturday, August 10th, 2002
- 01:02 pm Headline: First Saturday news update: G-1 finals tomorrow, TNA line-up, New video games, SI with Dusty and tons of news from around the world
- 12:59 pm Headline: Will Parrish looks back one of the angles remembered well by all those who saw it
- 12:56 pm Headline: Championship Wrestling (Memphis) TV report
- 11:46 am Headline: WWE Global Warning tour from Melbourne, Australia
- 11:42 am Headline: WWE house show report 8-9 Kelowna, BC
Friday, August 9th, 2002
- 05:37 pm Feature: The sickest wrestling story in years on Messiah, the life of Don Owen and Portland Wrestling, and latest look at death of WCW; details and ordering info of Aug. 12 Wrestling Observer Newsletter
- 05:37 pm Headline: The sickest wrestling story in years on Messiah, the life of Don Owen and Portland Wrestling, and latest look at death of WCW; details and ordering info of Aug. 12 Wrestling Observer Newsletter
- 04:16 pm Headline: First Friday update: Smackdown thoughts, UFO results, TNA lawsuit update, more
- 04:09 pm Headline: Smackdown ratings
Thursday, August 8th, 2002
- 09:16 pm Feature: WWE SMACKDOWN! REPORT
- 07:40 pm Interview: Alex Marvez interviews Ricky "The Dragon" Steamboat
- 06:10 pm Headline: Don Owen detailed bio, Messiah gets thumb cut off, TNA lawsuit deepens, more: Figure Four Weekly #372 preview plus ordering info and special offer for new readers worldwide
- 06:10 pm Feature: Don Owen detailed bio, Messiah gets thumb cut off, TNA lawsuit deepens, more: Figure Four Weekly #372 preview plus ordering info and special offer for new readers worldwide
- 05:39 pm Headline: Nilton Fernandes funeral arrangements
- 05:27 pm Headline: G-1 Climax update
- 05:24 pm Headline: Scott Williams on WWE's newest venture
- 05:22 pm Headline: NWA TNA live show report
- 05:21 pm Headline: NWA Wildside TV report
- 05:19 pm Headline: WWE Wrestling Classics TV report
- 04:59 pm Headline: First Thursday update: Article on Nilton, WWE cuts more employees, big matches in Mexico, more
- 02:47 pm Feature: NWA TNA Feedback
- 02:17 am Headline: Nilton Fernandes passes away
- 02:14 am Headline: Ortiz on Fox & Friends
Wednesday, August 7th, 2002
Tuesday, August 6th, 2002
- 06:41 pm Headline: Raw ratings
- 01:47 pm Headline: First Tuesday update: Australian fans upset, Desperation Tyson talk, Flair vs. HHH, Raw edits, TNA news, New TV show knocks Raw down a peg
- 01:33 am Feature: WWE Raw Report
Monday, August 5th, 2002
- 11:21 pm Headline: Non-Raw Baltimore results
- 02:47 pm Headline: First Monday update, Smackdown thoughts, G-1, giving away results
- 02:42 pm Headline: William Parrish on the Smackdown resurgence
- 02:40 pm Headline: Galavision Lucha Libre report
- 02:38 pm Headline: WWE Byte This report
- 02:45 am Headline: WWF business falling as WCW debut approaches -- F4W Flashback
- 02:27 am Headline: WWE Smackdown spoilers from Richmond, VA
- 02:22 am Headline: WWE Raw house show report 8-4 Pittsburgh
- 02:20 am Feature: WWE Velocity TV report
- 02:18 am Feature: WWE Sunday Night Heat TV report
Sunday, August 4th, 2002
- 01:37 pm Headline: First Sunday update: Legendary promoter Owen passes away, more rewriting of history, Strangest story in years, Smackdown taping tonight and more
- 01:34 pm Headline: Dory Funk's BANG TV report
- 01:32 pm Headline: WWE house show report 8-3 Miami
- 01:30 pm Headline: Championship Wrestling (Memphis) TV report
- 01:28 pm Headline: What was the best G-1 Climax tournament
- 01:26 pm Headline: NWA TNA TV report
- 01:21 pm Headline: NWA Wildside TV report
Saturday, August 3rd, 2002
- 03:26 am Headline: XFL: 2001-2001 -- F4W Flashback
Friday, August 2nd, 2002
- 04:04 pm Headline: Smackdown rating
- 02:34 pm Headline: First Friday update: Early Smackdown, WWE to Australia, UFC TV debut, G-1, NOAH stars in U.S., Smackdown early number, TNA, Piper, Beyer and more
- 02:31 pm Headline: Scott Williams on ROH and NWA TNA
- 02:29 pm Headline: WWE Wrestling Classics TV report
- 04:22 am Headline: Raw and Smackdown from May 2001, the Big Man Illusion and more -- F4W Flashback
Thursday, August 1st, 2002
- 09:01 pm Feature: WWE SMACKDOWN! REPORT
- 08:32 pm Feature: Why several major mainstream media outlets are looking at wrestling right now, lawsuit notes, Barnett's suspension in detail, Preview of Aug. 5 Wrestling Observer Newsletter, ordering info and special offers for new subscribers
- 08:32 pm Headline: Why several major mainstream media outlets are looking at wrestling right now, lawsuit notes, Barnett's suspension in detail, Preview of Aug. 5 Wrestling Observer Newsletter, ordering info and special offers for new subscribers
- 04:58 pm Headline: NWA TNA in Canada/U.S. clearance
- 01:00 pm Headline: First Thursday update: Smackdown preview, Divas rating, Theme park open, Best selling books, Smackdown pre-emption, TNA to make announcements
- 12:56 pm Headline: NWA TNA live show report
- 04:46 am Feature: NWA TNA lawsuit, Barnett stripped of UFC Title, WWE politics, more: Figure Four Weekly #371 preview plus ordering info and special new package deal for first-time readers
- 04:46 am Headline: NWA TNA lawsuit, Barnett stripped of UFC Title, WWE politics, more: Figure Four Weekly #371 preview plus ordering info and special new package deal for first-time readers
- 04:44 am Feature: NWA TNA Feedback
