I’ve talked on this channel before about wrestlers that were synonymous with one promotion being plugged into another and the results being not what the fans had hoped. For every Rob Van Dam who thrived in his new setting post ECW, there’s a Sandman, who described the experience of working for WWE as Soul Sucking. While Sandman managed to last a little over a year, even getting inexplicably drafted to Raw, another ECW act that didn’t fair too well on Monday Nights lasted just two months. That act is the Public Enemy, one of the highlights of the early days of ECW, who didn’t quite thrive elsewhere.
In this video, We’ll look at the Public Enemy’s run in WWE in 1999. We’ll look at their path to get there, what happened and how it all went wrong.
I’m going to be skipping over the details of their ECW and WCW runs, as this video is far too long as it is. For this video I wanted to focus on their time in WWF, and I found a few matches early on that you might not know about, and there are timestamps downstairs if you want to skip to that.
Making Enemies
Ted Petty made his name as the Flyboy, but he was actually older than you might think. His in-ring career began in 1978 when he was twenty-five, making him forty years old when he started with ECW. Having been trained by Afa of the Wild Samoans, Petty began his career as the masked Cheetah Kid. He would wrestle using the Tiger Mask inspired gimmick for New Japan Pro Wrestling, and Herb Abrhams’ UWF among others. In 1990 he would have a brief run in WCW as Colonel DeKlerk, teaming with Sergeant Krueger, also known as Ray Apollo, one of the men to play Doink the Clown. Krueger and DeKlerk competed on television, and even appeared on a Clash of the Champions special and that year’s Starrcade as part of the Pat O’Connor International tag team tournament, but Petty would be gone from WCW by the end of the year following a disastrous match where the Steiners didn’t exactly get along in the ring with Apollo or Petty.
As the Cheetah Kid, Petty would wrestle a couple of enhancement matches for WWE in early 1993 against Johnny Rotten, soon to be his new tag team partner. One such match occurred on January 11th 1993 at the Manhattan Center in New York, as a dark match before the first ever episode on Monday Night Raw.
Michael Durham, later known as Johnny Rotten, then Johnny Grunge, was twelve years younger than his tag team partner, and would enter wrestling nearly a decade later. He would do a fair bit of enhancement work for WWE in 1990 using his real name, and would also wrestle for the UWF as Equalizer Zap, but as best I can tell, not at the same time as the Cheetah Kid. According to Johnny Grunge’s obituary in the Wrestling Observer, he and Rocco Rock met Paul Heyman in 1993, when Heyman was booking a tour in the Philippines that both wrestled on.
On September 18th 1993, Paul Heyman first took over as booker of ECW. On that same night the Public Enemy would make their debut. The team can be thought of as Paul’s first project, as he put the team together, and the gimmick was his creation. “The idea was to have two white hoodies who were extremely violent. He gave them an interview tag line, “We are the first generation of American children more afraid of living than dying.” This line was apparently inspired by a Newsweek article that Paul had read, “about the cultural changes taking place in America, and about the problems for young men in places like South Central in Los Angeles and Washington Heights in New York.” In the 2006 book called the Rise and Fall of ECW, Paul is quoted as saying that they weren’t named Public Enemy after the rap group, but The Public Enemy, after the 1931 James Cagney film. I believe this is commonly known as a “legal distinction”.
It’s no overstatement to say that the Public Enemy were one of the most important acts in ECW’s early years. When Rocco Rock passed away in 2002, his obituary in the Wrestling Observer said that “they were the face of the promotion during the period it started being put on the map with regular sellouts of the ECW Arena and popularizing the three-way dance concept.” When the company dropped Eastern from it’s name and went Extreme, the catalyst was Shane Douglas’ infamous promo where he threw down the NWA World title, but The Public Enemy were part of an equally iconic visual. On the August 30th 1994 episode of Hardcore TV, the same episode where Douglas’ promo aired, the broadcast would end with Rock and Grunge vandalizing the ECW logo banner, crossing out the word ‘Eastern’ and spray painting ‘Extreme’ on it. This banner would stay on the programme as a visual representation that you weren’t watching the old NWA Eastern Championship Wrestling anymore.
WWE tryout
On November 19th 1995, at Survivor Series no less, The Public Enemy would compete in a dark match against the then tag team champions, the Smoking Guns. This was essentially a tryout match, in front of a pay per view crowd, against a top tag team. “Called Public Enemy (they wouldn’t have used that handle had the match been televised), it was described to us as an unimpressive almost-squash like warm-up match. They got a great reaction by the ECW fans at the show, but most of the fans didn’t react to them nor know who they were.” While some might think that this was a tryout of sorts, Dave Meltzer seems to have thought differently. He says “it was a one-shot deal and not a sign they’d made the decision to go to WWF. From what we’re told, they are strongly leaning toward WCW and that the final decision should be made this week.”
As alluded to earlier, it’s highly unlikely that in New Generation WWF they would have been able to keep their name and gimmick, and they certainly wouldn’t have been putting anyone through tables, so if they were going to keep this in a bigger promotion, WCW might have been the way to go. The two would debut on the January 15th episode of Nitro, defeating the American Males. They would briefly hold the tag team titles once later in the year, and stay around until August ‘98, last losing to the Dancing Fools, Disco Inferno and Alex Wright.
Having not been seen on WCW events in months, The Public Enemy would be quietly released from the company. So quietly that it wouldn’t be reported until November. “Public Enemy and Ultimo Dragon have been dropped from the roster. PE has contacted ECW about returning and it wouldn’t be surprising if they went back for the short-run against the Dudleys, but long run is questionable.” The Pro Wrestling Torch also notes in November that their contracts were due to expire in January. If they hadn’t been used since August and this was reported in November, it very much seems like the writing was on the wall for them. A couple of weeks later it would seem that ECW was teasing an altercation between ECW’s first and current top tag teams. On the November 21st Hardcore TV, the Dudley’s fifth ECW tag title reign which had begun on November 6th had broken the previous record held by Grunge and Rocco. By the time the Public Enemy would return in January, Bubba and D-Von would no longer be champions having lost to Rob Van Dam and Sabu, but the Observer still noted that “Public Enemy themselves are hoping more to be picked up by WWF, and anything is possible, but since WWF already has the Oddities, I can’t see it.” That comparison doesn’t sound the most flattering, and it is probably a sign of what’s to come. Incidentally, the Oddities would break up following a beatdown by the Ministry on February 28th, meaning that they and Public Enemy overlapped by about a week. Mystic Dave might have had a point there.
ECW Return
On January 16th ‘99, Public Enemy would return to ECW at House Party. It took so long for them to arrive because they had disagreed on money as Dave reported in December. Leading up to House Party, Bubba Ray Dudley had laid out a challenge on ECW TV. Them vs Public Enemy feels like a meeting of two era’s of the company in a way. House Party wasn’t supposed to be a one off, “although it isn’t decided which shows or for how long, as nothing is locked.”
With the heavily teased return of the Public Enemy, as well as the ECW arena debut of Sid, who had made his first appearance for the company a week earlier at Guilty as Charged, the ECW arena was said to be fully sold out with seventeen hundred fans there. The show was heavily delayed, as “Sid missed his flight and didn’t arrive at the airport until close to 11 p.m.” Another way they stalled the show was by teasing that Public Enemy weren’t showing up. To begin the show, their music would play, only for Danny Doring and Roadkill to come out instead. Later in the night the Dudleys had a segment in the ring where they told the crowd that Grunge and Rock weren’t coming. As Sid was so late to the building, he ended up having the last match of the night against Skull Von Krush, and after that the Dudleys would return to the ring to goad the fans even more.
Bubba and D-Von returned dressed as Rocco and Grunge to swerve the fans. Eventually, ‘Here Comes the HotStepper” would play, and the Public Enemy would run out. When this aired on the January 30th Hardcore TV, we would see a brief glimpse of them taking on the Dudleys, then the show would end. On the House Party ‘99 home video release, a former rival of Public Enemy who was now feuding with the Dudleys, New Jack would bring a can full of weapons and even the odds. There wasn’t a match as such, more of a wild brawl that Public Enemy came out on top of. To end the night, Johnny Grunge tells the crowd that it’s good to be home, and professes the team's love for ECW. According to the following Observer, “Public Enemy will be doing some dates including Detroit this week and almost surely wrestling Dudleys, but they won’t be regulars at this point.”
As we got into February, it still seemed like Grunge and Rock were sticking around for a while longer. They appeared on the Detroit event on January 23rd, and had another fight with the Dudleys which would air on February 6th, sort of. Only small parts of this fight would air, and the reason for this might have been revealed in the Observer, as the report Dave published claims that the crowd weren’t into the segment, and it all went to pot when Johnny Grunge no-sold the 3D, a highly protected move at the time. Dave also notes that all according to plan, Public Enemy were set to appear at Living Dangerously in March, but that would end up not happening.
A note from the Pro Wrestling Torch might explain a bit why the Public Enemy didn’t stay all too long in their second run, as Wade Keller that they had been disappointed with the reaction they received at House Party. “Although they got a good pop for their Jan 16 return to ECW, when they went into the crowd to dance, only about one-third of the fans waved their arms with them. A lot of fans who attend ECW Arena aren’t the same who were there over two years ago last time TPE headlined. Those who remain from that era may not forgive TPE for becoming a comedy jobber team in WCW.“ Wade also added that Heyman’s main goal for them at this point was to use them to help build the Dudley’s more, and they likely knew this.
A week later, it would be reported in the Observer that Public Enemy might be WWE bound after all. “The WWF has offered them a contract to start at television imminently. They had originally looked for work from the WWF when their WCW deal expired, but were turned down, but Terry Taylor came up with an idea for them and they were then offered a contract last week.” Remember that last part for later about an idea being had for them when we get to what they actually did in WWE. The Torch offered more information on them going to WWE, saying “They were backstage at Raw on Monday and on Tuesday were in Stamford, Conn. to sign the actual contract – a downside guarantee said to be in the $125,000 to $175,000 range.” The next week it was reported that they had in fact signed, with a quite interesting tidbit about their name. “Paul Heyman actually owns the rights to the name Public Enemy for pro wrestling purposes (I know that nobody believed that one, but the WWF checked it out and it turned out to be true) but allowed WCW to use the name.”
Wade Keller notes that they left ECW on bad terms, as Paul Heyman had hoped they would stay at least until Living Dangerously for a match with the Dudleys where you would guess that the Dudley’s would win. “Heyman had a heated conversation with Johnny Grunge the day before the show when Grunge informed him they didn’t plan to show up. Heyman supposedly said he wouldn’t forget them “walking out on him”” For weeks afterwards, the Dudleys would continue to bury the Public Enemy, which obviously was going to lead nowhere.
Attitude Adjustment
The Public Enemy would make their televised WWE debut at a Raw Taping on February 16th ‘99. During their time as Superstars, they would wrestle just seven matches on television, and we’re going through all of them here. In match number one which aired on February 22nd ‘99, Rocco and Grunge would make their unannounced entrances, and wrestle Edge and Gangrel of the Brood. Before the bell even rings the Brood go on the attack. Not a single tag happens in the entire bout, with referee Mike Choida at one point reaching a five count and just deciding not to DQ anyone. Public Enemy hit some good looking double team moves until Christian runs in, giving Public Enemy the DQ win. Before the segment can end, Grunge and Rocco are the victims of a Brood bloodbath, and the crowd are barely alive for any of it. Dave Meltzer was a little less kind to this than I’m being. “Didn’t take long for PE to look bad. They don’t take bumps, Grunge has put on even more weight, and both looked real slow. They got no reaction.” In the Torch, despite an equally negative review, Wade speculated if a match between the Public Enemy and the Brood was being planned for Wrestlemania fifthteen, and honestly there was probably less chance of that than the Dudleys match happening.
In their next match which would air on February 28th, Public Enemy would defeat a team on the rise in the Hardy Boyz. While Matt and Jeff weren’t much of anything at the start of ‘99, they would be well on their way to becoming huge stars by the end of the year. Very early in the match the Brood would stand on the stage watching. Mid match, Public Enemy would put Matt through a table with a move I don’t think anybody would want to have to take, as the weight of both Rocco and Grunge crashed onto him, then they would pin Matt, and the Brood would attack afterwards. The whole match would again last two minutes, quite long for the attitude era, and at least this one ended with by pinfall.
The next night on the March 1st Raw, Public Enemy didn’t wrestle but it was becoming clear where they stood against the Brood. The team came out to the Broods music dressed up as them, which seemed to be a pretty common trope in the 90’s. Public Enemy would take the microphone, and tell us that they aren’t afraid, and as if that were their cue, the lights would go out in the arena. When they came back on, Rocco Rock had disappeared. Later in the night we find out what happened to Rocco. While the cameraman was running back into the building following a wild brawl outside, we very briefly see Rocco strung up, covered in blood, while Johnny Grunge yells into the void for help. After taking two beatdowns already and having just told us they weren’t scared this didn’t help their image much. Their Public image, never mind.
Next, Public Enemy would have their most infamous match in WWE. On the March 7th Sunday Night Heat episode, they would face the Acolytes. To make things worse, this match would actually take place in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, right in ECW country, on the same night that Kurt Angle would make an appearance while he was still in training. The brief match resembles an absolute mauling, with Bradshaw and Farooq not letting Public Enemy get anything in. Bradshaw even breaks a chair outside the ring on Johnny Grunge’s back, as Farooq drops the stairs on Rocco. After Bradshaw puts Gunge through a table and swings the now broken chair a few more times, the referee finally calls for the bell. Kevin Kelly and Tom Prichard on commentary try to explain that the Undertaker had ordered the Acolytes to do this on the behalf of the Brood, and they question if we’ll ever see the Public Enemy again.
On a 2019 episode of Something to Wrestle, Bruce Prichard explains that right before the four men were due to walk through the curtain, the Public Enemy refused to go through a table, which was the planned finish of the match. Given how tied to putting others through tables the Public Enemy were, I found this explanation a little odd, but Bruce doubles down by claiming that they could dish it out but couldn’t take it. When challenged by Conrad, Bruce even condones what the Acolytes did, saying that Rocco and Grunge weren’t cooperating, and implying that a mauling is what they deserved for it.
For what it’s worth, the PWTorch gave a similar version of events at the time. “Public Enemy disputed the planned finish of them doing a job against The Acolytes at the Mar. 2 Raw taping. To send PE, who are new to the WWF, a message about such protests, Bradshaw and Faarooq wrestled an overly stiff match and didn’t give PE any offense at all (Bradshaw was especially upset, and he’s the wrong guy to be on the wrong side of). When PE returned to the back after the match, Rocco tried to save face by saying the match was easy.” In March 2024, JBL would note on Twitter that he never actually found out why Public Enemy refused to do the finish, or what their idea was. By the looks of it when you watch this match, he didn’t take all that much time to ask.
In August 2021, Bradshaw on his podcast with Gerald Brisco discussed the match with it’s referee, Jim Korderas. JBL’s side of things, and remember this is Bradshaw talking, is that Public Enemy refused the finish right as their music was playing and they went through the curtain, so when he and Farooq followed, they weren’t sure what was to follow, but assumed it would be a fight. One final note from this match comes from an issue of the Torch weeks later, as it is noted that a former ECW colleague of the Public Enemy objected to what the Acolytes had done. “Mick Foley spoke out in the locker room against the Acolytes retaliation. He considered it unprofessional.” It’s very bold of Mick to speak against such behaviour and have no receipt come back to him, ah. To be clear I have no idea if this is related, and Mankind defeats the Acolytes quite a lot in that year.
On the following week's episode of Heat on March 14th, Michael Cole attempted to interview the Public Enemy. He tells them that it seems like none of the other wrestlers want them in WWE, and just as Rocco begins to address this, the Brood attack again, leading to a pull-apart brawl. Here begins the new story for the team, where wrestlers, and later officials would openly show disgust towards them. The problem is, it doesn't feel like just a storyline. “People are already talking of the hiring of Public Enemy as being a mistake. Johnny Grunge, in particular, just looks totally out of his league in the WWF. If you watch the Heat match against the Acolytes, both guys, Bradshaw in particular, was stiffing them left and right on spots. Some of the stuff Bradshaw was throwing was really brutal. Apparently this was meant as a message and was condoned by those in charge” Remember earlier when I told you that Terry Taylor had got them hired with an idea in mind, I imagine this wasn’t it.
Fourth on the list is the team’s second and last match on Raw, and they would lose a tag team championship match against Owen Hart and Jeff Jarrett in a couple of minutes. This match is notable for two things, firstly the reveal before it of hell Jim Ross’ own personal announce table in front of Michael Cole and Jerry Lawler. This is a subject for a whole other time, but a quite funny idea, executed far better than the Cole Mine years later. Secondly, the end of the match comes when Jeff Jarrett right in front of referee Mike Chioda decks Johnny Grunge with a guitar. Mike turns around, literally looking the other way, and turns back to count the pin. Michael Cole even makes the point that it should have been a DQ, and Lawler responds that it looks like the referees don’t want Public Enemy in the company any more than the wrestlers do. It seems that art may have been imitating life here as Dave elaborates, “The angle that nobody wants them in WWF stems from the idea that many believe signing them was a bad idea to begin with, and it has nothing to do with where they came from and everything to do with the fact they stand out like a sore thumb in their matches.”
If you were under any illusion as to where the Public Enemy stood in WWE, on March 28th on the Sunday Night Heat that took place before Wrestlemania fifthteen they were entered into a battle royal to determine who would challenge for the tag team titles on the main show. As soon as the match begins, everyone else in the ring teams up to throw Public Enemy out first, with the makeshift team of D’Lo Brown and Test getting the match later on. This would be the closest the Public Enemy would ever get to a match on Wrestlemania, and again they were buried in Philadelphia where they first got popular in ECW.
Rock and Grunge’s final two matches for WWE would take place on Shotgun Saturday Night, a clear sign that things aren’t going too well. On April 3rd, they would lose a four team bout along with DOA members Skull and 8-Ball, more famously known as the Harris Brothers, and the Hardys, to the winners Brian Christopher and Scott Taylor, known at this time as Too Much. At over six minutes, this would be the longest match they would ever have for the company, but only technically. Throughout the match no other team would let them tag in, with Too Much openly mocking them in the ring. The end comes when Public Enemy finally do get in the ring, and are piled on by all the other wrestlers. Because Scott Taylor is the one at the bottom of the pile, which is to say he pinned them first, Too Much are declared the winners.
FInally, Public Enemy would have their last match for the company on April 10th ‘99, losing to the Hardys. This is very much the closest thing Public Enemy have in WWE to a regular tag team match that is given some time. I say almost, because the end comes when the Public Enemy decide to put Jeff through a table, leading to a DQ win for the Hardys. Johnny Grunge seems almost annoyed at this, perhaps thinking that they might not get DQ’d, which seemed strange at first, but in their first match they had put Matt through a table and weren't disqualified then. The rules, it seems, applied to them more than they had before. Kevin Kelly and Terry Taylor on commentary note that the Public Enemy seem to be taking a stand against being singled out by the locker room. I wonder how that would go?
A couple of days later on April 12th at a TV taping in Grand Rapids Michigan, Grunge and Rocco were informed that they had been released from WWE. They wouldn’t be alone though as several others would be too, though the full list wasn’t known yet. In the April 26th Observer far more information was published, including a full list of names who were let go. Among those let go were Gillberg who was the light heavyweight champion at the time, and was still recognised as such when he was brought back a few months later, the Blue Meanie, George Steele and Golga who had nothing to do since the Oddities had been split up, Steve Williams, Skull and 8-Ball of the DOA, Bart Gunn who had last been seen at Wrestlemania, the Legion of Doom, Sniper of the Truth Commission, and Fatu, who would be brought back later in the year and become Rikishi. Of those names, only two had appeared on Wrestlemania a couple of weeks earlier, that being Bart who lost the Brawl for All match, and the Blue Meanie who accompanied Goldust to the ring. A few more competed in the battle royal on Heat, but as Dave notes, “many of the names on the list are not a surprise.” While in recent years we see a post-Wrestlemania culling of wrestlers regularly, this can’t have been as common back then judging from the reactions of Meltzer and Keller, who note how well the company was doing in the late 90’s. Dave claims that WWE was in “its strongest financial condition in history” to that point, giving the idea that these cuts were made because of creative decisions and not financial ones.
In his write up at the time of the Public Enemy’s release, Dave calls the team “basically a failure from day one,” but points to the Acolytes match as the straw that broke the camel’s back. “At that point, when it became pretty clear they weren’t getting over and their work wasn’t up to par and the word got out they had no future, they were actually given a short-term gimmick of being the wrestlers that nobody in the company even wanted around.” Having watched their entire WWE run, I’d be willing to argue that this assessment is a bit harsh. They weren’t ever introduced to the audience properly, walking out onto Raw and into a feud with the Brood. The Public Enemy would get beaten down and made to look less than by the Brood on a weekly basis who were also part of a much bigger storyline at the same time in the Ministry of Darkness versus Vince McMahon’s corporation. Their matches weren’t very long and had no real structure to them, with their debut especially just being a series of double team moves until the DQ finish. I think it’s more fair to say, that they weren’t ever really given a fair shot to begin with, or a chance to connect with the fans. They were here today, broke a few tables and chairs, and gone not long after.
In June 1999, WWF Magazine would actually profile the Public Enemy in their ‘Rookies to Legends’ page. The piece is very thorough in covering the teams time in ECW as well as even WCW. What it doesn’t mention though, is that Grunge and Rocco were already in talks to rejoin WCW by the time the issue came out. Granted the magazine was likely written a fair bit ahead of time, but that’s still something that probably should have been proofread. By August, the Public Enemy would be back in WCW, but they were gone again within a few weeks. The team would remain active on the indies, working international tours in Puerto Rico and Australia in 2000, and more in the US until a couple of weeks before Rocco Rock’s death in September 2002 at age forty-nine.
You might be wondering what Rocco Rock or Johnny Grunge had to say about their time in WWE, well it was a real struggle to find any comments from either of them, as shoot interviews nor talking about what was going on inside wrestling weren't as commonplace as they are today. I did find this odd bloke though, who attempts to interview people beyond the grave. Just don’t look at his sub count. I don’t know about you, but I can’t imagine watching an English fella on YouTube who looks to be sitting in his bedroom. I’m not even talking about him by the way, thank you.
In June 2005, on the weekend of Hardcore Homecoming and One Night Stand, tributes were made to Rocco along with other fallen ECW alumni. On the Shane Douglas promoted show on June 10th 2005 Johnny Grunge, Pitbull Gary Wolfe and Tammy Lynn Sytch would take part in an in-ring segment to pay tribute to Rocco, Wolf’s partner Anthony Durante, and the recently passed Chris Candido. Meanwhile on the WWE produced event on June 12th, he was shown as part of an ‘in memoriam’ video package. That’s not the only tribute to him though, as since 2002, a tournament first promoted by Ian Rotten in 2000 began bearing his name. The Ted Petty Invitational tournament has to date run thirteen times, and in the early years had a reputation for highlighting some of the best young indie talent before they got signed to bigger things. Many, many future world champions appeared in a Ted Petty Tournament, with the 2004 iteration being commonly thought of as the standout year.
In 2006, Johnny Grunge would also pass away at the age of forty, the same age Rocco was when the two debuted in ECW. To this day, banners hang from the ceiling of the building formerly known as the ECW arena, paying tribute to The Public Enemy. These banners hang permanently, and are representative of the Hardcore Hall of Fame, which was first established after Rocco’s death.
Ending
At the start of this video, I mentioned that the Public Enemy thrived in ECW, but didn’t seem to anywhere else. A lot of people give the credit for this to Paul Heyman, for his booking philosophy of accentuating people’s positives and hiding their negatives. Dave Meltzer writing in 2000 puts it this way, “Public Enemy was the most important act for probably a year in a building company and the subject of a bidding war from WWF and WCW when they wanted to move on. This is all living proof that a good booker and some team players can make not just fans, but nearly everyone in the industry, think people with little inherent ability are big stars.” He means this negatively, making it clear in their years post ECW that he wasn’t a fan, but you can also see the positive side there, that for a few years they came across as stars to an entire audience, even if they couldn’t achieve that elsewhere as I hope I’ve shown in this video, not necessarily by their own fault.
There are several things that people sometimes point to as the mistake that the Public Enemy made. Choosing WCW over WWF in ‘95, burning their bridge with ECW in ‘99, or the situation with the Acolytes. Either way it’s hard not to feel like the two were hard done by. Rocco passed away in 2002 from a genetic heart condition and Grunge in 2006. It would have felt special to have seen them get some kind of vindication at One Night Stand, or Hardcore Homecoming, or even in TNA or Ring Of Honor in the years that followed. Anything but Hardcore Justice though, we could all do without as Johnathan Nu-Metal and Rocco Stone appearing in the Impact Zone, although maybe we could have gotten that Team 3D match.
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PWTorch Feb 20th 99 More on ECW exit https://vip.pwtorch.com/2019/02/24/vip-1999-back-issue-pro-wrestling-torch-536-february-20-1999-cover-story-looking-at-vince-mcmahons-first-official-match-ever-in-main-event-of-st-valentines-day-massacre-ppv-dateli/
WON Mar 1st Raw debut https://members.f4wonline.com/wrestling-observer-newsletter/march-1-1999-wrestling-observer-newsletter-wcw-ratings-cause-panic/
PWTorch Feb 27th Wrestlemania XV speculation https://vip.pwtorch.com/2019/03/02/vip-1999-back-issue-pro-wrestling-torch-537-february-27-1999-cover-story-titled-wrestling-is-booming-wrestlers-pay-is-not-coverage-of-wcw-superbrawl-99-ppv-headlined-by-flair/
PWTorch March 5th Acolytes match https://vip.pwtorch.com/2019/03/03/vip-1999-back-issue-pro-wrestling-torch-538-march-6-1999-cover-story-on-inside-editions-feature-on-wwf-marketing-raunch-to-kids-cover-sidebar-on-bischoff-attempting-to-distance-himse/
Stories with Brisco and Bradshaw August 27th 2021 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H214aCH6tRc
Something to Wrestle #153 May 3rd 2019 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJKKS_U80vA
PWTorch April 17th Mick Foley speaks up https://vip.pwtorch.com/2019/04/13/vip-1999-back-issue-pro-wrestling-torch-544-april-17-1999-cover-story-on-firing-of-davey-boy-smith-while-he-was-hospitalized-coverage-of-wcws-spring-stampede-ppv-including-dallas-pag/
WON Mar 15 PE a mistake https://members.f4wonline.com/wrestling-observer-newsletter/march-15-1999-wrestling-observer-newsletter-wwf-wins-monday-night/
WON Mar 22 Review of Owen and Jeff match and nobody wanting PE around https://members.f4wonline.com/wrestling-observer-newsletter/march-22-1999-wrestling-observer-newsletter-wcw-uncensored-review/
WON April 19th Given notice of release https://members.f4wonline.com/wrestling-observer-newsletter/april-19-1999-wrestling-observer-newsletter-davey-boy-smith/
WON April 26th 99 more info on releases https://members.f4wonline.com/wrestling-observer-newsletter/april-26-1999-wrestling-observer-newsletter-davy-boy-smith-recovering/
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