• Former WWF Manager Reveals The Rock Once Stole A Wrestler’s Car Key
During a recent OneOnOne interview, Old School WWF Manager Harvey Wippleman talked about spending time with a young Dwayne Johnson (now known as The Rock) in Memphis back in the day.
The former Downtown Bruno also told a story of The Great One stealing the car keys of Memphis territory wrestler Bob Owens to go out for drinks.
Here’s what Wippleman had to say:
“So, one night Rocky Johnson came over to my place since he was in Nashville for whatever reasons. Instead of staying where he was staying, he wanted to stay with me and Dewey [The Rock] that night.
So, I said, ‘Okay, we are all ready to go drinking outside,’ and he was like, ‘You are definitely going. What do you mean you’re going out drinking? You’re going to stay right here,’ and he says, ‘I’m gonna take away your keys to make sure.’
So what happened was Bob Owens, another old-time wrestler. He sadly passed away. He came over that night to visit. Rocky and him got drunk, and they both went to sleep.
So Dewey stole Bob Owens’ keys and we drove downtown anyway. We returned at 4 o’clock in the morning, and there was Bob Owens and Rocky sitting on the little balcony in front of the hotel [sic]. I was like, ‘We are in deep trouble now!’”
Harvey Wippleman was a Manager on WWF TV from 1991 until 1995 and later became an official WWF Referee, as well as a Road Agent.
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• ON THIS DAY IN WCW HISTORY (December 20, 2000) – WCW Thunder
On this day in 2000, Ted Turner’s World Championship Wrestling aired an episode of their weekly TV show ‘WCW Thunder’ on TBS.
This episode was pre-taped at the Richmond Coliseum in Richmond, Virginia and featured matches & storyline segments on the road to the ‘WCW Sin 2001’ PPV.
The card of the show can be found here:
WCW Cruiserweight Title: Chavo Guerrero Jr. vs. Jamie Knoble
Tag Team Battle Royal
Konnan vs. Elix Skipper
Bam Bam Bigelow vs. Crowbar
Bill Goldberg vs. Norman Smiley
Shane Douglas & Kronik vs. Gen. Rection, Cpl. Cajun & Sgt. AWOL
WCW World Title: Scott Steiner (c) vs. Ernest Miller
