Black Widow
04-16-2008, 05:32 PM
For legal reasons, the Eddie Guerrero as Black Tiger action figure will never be released by Jakks Pacific. My guess is that New Japan Pro Wrestling owns the rights and stopped the release. That's a real shame.
Devin Cutting sent word that famous wrestling venue The Cow Palace in San Francisco has been saved as the city compromised to maintain the building, but sell an adjourning parking lot instead. You can read more about it below.
Cow Palace won't be sold, after all
(04-15) 16:23 PDT Sacramento - -- The landmark Cow Palace got a new lease on life Tuesday when state Sen. Leland Yee, D-San Francisco, dropped efforts to put the aging arena in Daly City up for sale. Instead, he settled for a compromise plan that will allow only an adjoining parking lot to be sold.
The state Senate's Agriculture Committee, meeting in Sacramento, voted 4-1 to approve the revised measure.
The bill, SB1527, would allow the state to begin negotiating the sale of the 13-acre overflow parking lot along Geneva Avenue to Daly City, which wants to use the land as an anchor for a larger development that would include a supermarket, businesses and housing.
"The senator feels this is a good compromise," said Adam Keigwin, a spokesman for Yee. "It allows negotiations to take place."
Yee's original bill would have allowed the entire 68-acre Cow Palace site to be declared surplus, which could have spelled the end for the state-owned, 67-year-old arena. But opponents of the measure packed a committee hearing in Sacramento April 1, forcing Yee to pull the measure from the agenda and look at rewriting it.
"This is a dramatic step in the right direction," said Kevin Patterson, executive director of the Great Dickens Christmas Fair and a leading opponent of the bill. "This was a totally unnecessary bill, since the Cow Palace directors already were negotiating with Daly City over the parking lot."
Daly City leaders had complained that long-running discussions with the Cow Palace had gone nowhere because the facility's directors wanted too much for the parking lot. The city argued that Yee's bill was needed to let the city buy the land at a fair price.
The revised bill takes the Cow Palace directors out of the negotiations and calls for the state Department of Food and Agriculture, which oversees state fair facilities like the Cow Palace, to set a fair price for the parking lot and begin negotiating a sale to Daly City.
Yee has argued that the Cow Palace is a beaten-up, out-of-date relic of the past and that the land would be better used to improve the surrounding Bayshore and Visitacion Valley neighborhoods.
The revised bill "allows the Cow Palace to continue to operate, in hopes that the dilapidated structure can be rehabilitated, while also allowing Daly City to revitalize the Bayshore community," he said in a statement.
There are still plenty of concerns that will have to be dealt with before Yee's bill makes it to the governor's desk. While the money from the sale of the overflow parking lot will go to the state fair system, presumably for use in upgrading and refurbishing the Cow Palace, the facility's supporters still would prefer a long-term lease with Daly City.
A lease would provide the arena with a steady stream of revenue, rather than the one-time windfall from a sale made when California's real estate market is spiraling downward.
"When the bill goes to the (Senate) Governmental Operations Committee, we're hopeful we can convince them of the wisdom in leasing the state property instead of selling it outright," Patterson said.
State Sen. Abel Maldonado, R-Santa Maria, echoed those concerns when he voted against Yee's bill Tuesday, saying that this is not the right time to sell state property.
If approved by the Governmental Organization Committee, the bill still has to be passed by both the full Senate and the Assembly before it takes effect. No date has been set for the next hearing.
"This has made all of us realize how many thousands of people use the Cow Palace and want to see it revitalized," Patterson said. "It's an incredibly flexible facility that couldn't be built again."
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Brian sent the following.....I went to the Mets game last night and picked up the Mets Yearbook, and it says in the final years at Shea Stadium from The 1970s-June 25th 1976-Bruno Sammartino defeats Stan "The Lariat" Hansen for the WWF Title, and Andre the Giant beats Chuck Wepner in a "Wrestler vs. Boxer" match. And from the 1980s from Shea Stadium it says August 9th 1980-Bruno Sammartino defeats Larry Zbyszko in WWF Steel Cage match before 36,295. Just thought it was pretty interesting.
Former ECW and Ring of Honor star Tony Devito is in the process of setting up a wrestling school in the Newburgh, New York area. If you are serious about getting into the business and want to learn from someone who's had an interesting journeyman career that ranges from being a regular WWF enhancement talent to ECW to being trained under Dr. D David Schultz, Devito would a smart guy to look towards. Serious inquiries can be sent to tdevito72@aol.com.
Justin Copeland sent the following....Today at 9 PM, www.BCWAOnline.com will be conducting a live interview with WWE Hall of Famer Greg "The Hammer" Valentine. It will address various issues, including his entry into the "Battle for the Champion" Battle Royal at BCWA' Tri-Town Rumble on May 25th.
PWInsider.com
Devin Cutting sent word that famous wrestling venue The Cow Palace in San Francisco has been saved as the city compromised to maintain the building, but sell an adjourning parking lot instead. You can read more about it below.
Cow Palace won't be sold, after all
(04-15) 16:23 PDT Sacramento - -- The landmark Cow Palace got a new lease on life Tuesday when state Sen. Leland Yee, D-San Francisco, dropped efforts to put the aging arena in Daly City up for sale. Instead, he settled for a compromise plan that will allow only an adjoining parking lot to be sold.
The state Senate's Agriculture Committee, meeting in Sacramento, voted 4-1 to approve the revised measure.
The bill, SB1527, would allow the state to begin negotiating the sale of the 13-acre overflow parking lot along Geneva Avenue to Daly City, which wants to use the land as an anchor for a larger development that would include a supermarket, businesses and housing.
"The senator feels this is a good compromise," said Adam Keigwin, a spokesman for Yee. "It allows negotiations to take place."
Yee's original bill would have allowed the entire 68-acre Cow Palace site to be declared surplus, which could have spelled the end for the state-owned, 67-year-old arena. But opponents of the measure packed a committee hearing in Sacramento April 1, forcing Yee to pull the measure from the agenda and look at rewriting it.
"This is a dramatic step in the right direction," said Kevin Patterson, executive director of the Great Dickens Christmas Fair and a leading opponent of the bill. "This was a totally unnecessary bill, since the Cow Palace directors already were negotiating with Daly City over the parking lot."
Daly City leaders had complained that long-running discussions with the Cow Palace had gone nowhere because the facility's directors wanted too much for the parking lot. The city argued that Yee's bill was needed to let the city buy the land at a fair price.
The revised bill takes the Cow Palace directors out of the negotiations and calls for the state Department of Food and Agriculture, which oversees state fair facilities like the Cow Palace, to set a fair price for the parking lot and begin negotiating a sale to Daly City.
Yee has argued that the Cow Palace is a beaten-up, out-of-date relic of the past and that the land would be better used to improve the surrounding Bayshore and Visitacion Valley neighborhoods.
The revised bill "allows the Cow Palace to continue to operate, in hopes that the dilapidated structure can be rehabilitated, while also allowing Daly City to revitalize the Bayshore community," he said in a statement.
There are still plenty of concerns that will have to be dealt with before Yee's bill makes it to the governor's desk. While the money from the sale of the overflow parking lot will go to the state fair system, presumably for use in upgrading and refurbishing the Cow Palace, the facility's supporters still would prefer a long-term lease with Daly City.
A lease would provide the arena with a steady stream of revenue, rather than the one-time windfall from a sale made when California's real estate market is spiraling downward.
"When the bill goes to the (Senate) Governmental Operations Committee, we're hopeful we can convince them of the wisdom in leasing the state property instead of selling it outright," Patterson said.
State Sen. Abel Maldonado, R-Santa Maria, echoed those concerns when he voted against Yee's bill Tuesday, saying that this is not the right time to sell state property.
If approved by the Governmental Organization Committee, the bill still has to be passed by both the full Senate and the Assembly before it takes effect. No date has been set for the next hearing.
"This has made all of us realize how many thousands of people use the Cow Palace and want to see it revitalized," Patterson said. "It's an incredibly flexible facility that couldn't be built again."
sfgate.com
Brian sent the following.....I went to the Mets game last night and picked up the Mets Yearbook, and it says in the final years at Shea Stadium from The 1970s-June 25th 1976-Bruno Sammartino defeats Stan "The Lariat" Hansen for the WWF Title, and Andre the Giant beats Chuck Wepner in a "Wrestler vs. Boxer" match. And from the 1980s from Shea Stadium it says August 9th 1980-Bruno Sammartino defeats Larry Zbyszko in WWF Steel Cage match before 36,295. Just thought it was pretty interesting.
Former ECW and Ring of Honor star Tony Devito is in the process of setting up a wrestling school in the Newburgh, New York area. If you are serious about getting into the business and want to learn from someone who's had an interesting journeyman career that ranges from being a regular WWF enhancement talent to ECW to being trained under Dr. D David Schultz, Devito would a smart guy to look towards. Serious inquiries can be sent to tdevito72@aol.com.
Justin Copeland sent the following....Today at 9 PM, www.BCWAOnline.com will be conducting a live interview with WWE Hall of Famer Greg "The Hammer" Valentine. It will address various issues, including his entry into the "Battle for the Champion" Battle Royal at BCWA' Tri-Town Rumble on May 25th.
PWInsider.com