Alan Wojcik sent out the following:

“New Jack is always an entertaining storyteller and he doesn’t let the viewer down.”

1998 was a cool time to be a wrestling fan. WWE was in the middle of the “Attitude Era” while WCW was building up some guy named Bill Goldberg and the New World Order was splitting in two. Meanwhile ECW was still running and was gaining steam off successful PPV events the previous year. Who better to walk with KAYFABE COMMENTARIES Sean Oliver through Extreme Championship Wrestling’s TIMELINE of 1998 than NEW JACK!

Here are the major areas covered in the near two hour interview:

Expanding out to the Midwest & Mid-South markets, the reformation of the Triple Threat (Candido, Douglas & Bigelow), Bigelow and Taz falling through the ring in Asbury Park, RVD begins his 23 month long reign as World TV champion, RVD & Sabu win the ECW Tag Team titles, the heat garnered by the Dudley Boys that could lead to riots, the legal continuation of the Mass Transit incident, the building of the Justin Credible character, Taz being arrested for indecent exposure, TV issues in NYC, the release of an ECW Music soundtrack, ECW stars working for FMW in Japan, Heyman signing stars to talent contracts and much more.

Also mentioned were the debuts of Nicole Bass, Masato Tanaka, Jenna Jameson (as a backstage interviewer), Jamie Dundee (one shot), Jack Victory, Tommy Rogers (one shot), Steve Corino, Tajiri, Del Norte, Dawn Marie (as Tammy Lynn Bytch), One Man Gang (one shot) & Jake “the Snake” Roberts (one shot). Plus the exits of Al Snow & Head (to WWE), Sandman (to WCW), Blue Meanie (to WWE), Mikey Whipwreck & Chastity (to WCW) and the death of Louie Spiccoli.

New Jack is always an entertaining storyteller and he doesn’t let the viewer down in the continuation of this Timeline series. He is very sincere in his view of Spiccoli’s death, his own drug abuse during his ECW tenure and the beginning of the ECW expansion that would eventually help cause its death.

Next on the www.KayfabeCommentaries.com lineup is Timeline History of WWE 1981 with Rick Martel (October 14) & YouShoot with Teddy Long (November 4). Plus a new series with Jim Cornette entitled Back to the Territories and Timeline of WWE 2008 with Curt Hawkins. Since 2001 Alan Wojcik has covered the wrestling business and nationally based promotions for major websites, in addition to doing book and DVD reviews. Follow him through www.facebook.com/KayfabeWrestlingRadio and through Twitter @MyNameisWojcik.