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NEMESIS SIGHTING
Archived from 8/4/99

Rudy Seizter here for your loving CS TRIBUNE.  You know, as the 'sniffer' in the business, I get all kinds of people coming to me with all kinds of gossip.  As you all know, I helped break the story about Nemesis and K-9 being brothers.  Well...I got a little more information lately:

(The camera shows Rudy Seitzer sitting in a room with the looks of an office about it, Rudy is digging through some papers but it looks as if he's waiting for somebody. His eyes keep going up to the door. Seitzer has bags under his eyes, it appears he had a good nights sleep in some time, he just keeps frantically looking over papers. He doesn't even hear the door open or the man approach.)

Man: Hello? Seitzer?

(Rudy jumps up in shock, but realizes who it is and seems pleased. he walks around the desk and greets the man, shakes his hand, then offers him a seat.)

Rudy: Mr. Anderson, I presume.

J.D. Armstrong: Armstrong actually.

Rudy: Sorry, thanks for coming down here. I know you have a busy schedule, patients and all.

J.D. Armstrong: Yes, why did you call me down here anyway?

Rudy: Yes, well you have one of our employees is your patients Neme....(stopping mid sentence and feeling a bit foolish)....er....Barry Aishton.

J.D. Armstrong: You realize I have to keep my client's condition confidentiality.

Rudy: Mr. Armstrong, I'm not asking for you to tell me what he's done, or to convict him, we already have his residence on file. I simply want to confirm some rumors floating around him.

J.D. Armstrong: I'll see what I can do.

Rudy: Thank you, well are the rumors true?

J.D. Armstrong: What rumors?

Rudy: Well, one of them states he commited suicide.

J.D. Armstrong: I can confirm to you that Mr. Aishton is alive and well.

Rudy: Is he still crazy?

J.D. Armstrong: No one is crazy Mr. Seitzer, that is a very harsh word to use, especially about one of your own employees.

Rudy: Well when he left here, he was talking to a chair, and the like.

J.D. Armstrong: My clients mental awareness is not at it's peak, but he is not clinically insane. And if this is how you approach an interview, I'm afraid I won't be staying much longer.

Rudy: Well how is he doing then?

J.D. Armstrong: I'm sorry I really must atend to Mr. Aishton and my other clients, and I'd rather help those in the Betty Ford Clinic then answer your pathetic questions in this little "organization" of yours, I bid you good day.

(At that J.D. stands up and leaves, leaving Rudy still very much in the dark.)

So there you have it folks...but fret not, Rudy's on the case.  And I always get the answers.

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FIVE YEARS OF LIVING EXTREME
Archived from 4/23/99

On February 18, 1999, "Total Elimination" Eli Flair took a hit that put him on the shelf. Now, while this is no great happening; after all, he's taken MANY hits over the course of the past five years, this one, for the second time in three years, led to the most feared action in the life of an athlete. Surgery.

His legacy of earning the nickname "King of EXTREME" started with his first IntraContinental Title reign in the CSWA, with a Barbed Wire Ladder Match against "Gentleman" Jim Williams, who had been portraying Hornet as the AntiChrist. If Williams could see him now...

But, I digress. Flair won the match in typical Flair fashion that we've all come to know and love, with a lot of blood and a good deal of pain dished out to his opponent. That was, at least for me, the most exciting thing about Eli Flair. While Hornet and GUNS and Alexander Karelin and Steven Flair and Mike Randalls and Mark Windham, and the list could go on forever, were fighting among themselves for the UNIFIED and EN World Titles, Eli Flair was out there, at nearly EVERY event, giving the fans what they wanted to see.

When they wanted to see him and his team take on the Rosenthal Family in DEATH GAMES, did it in typical Flair style, and out fought them to be the sole survivor.

When he proved all his critics wrong, and in the span of THREE DAYS at the Thanksgiving Weekend Spectacular '95, pinned TWO former Unified Champions, in Steven Flair and Mike Randalls, he did it in typical Flair style and simply out fought them.

When he proved, every event, nearly every night, that he was for real, and retired the IC belt after more then eight months of NOT ONE contender man enough to take it from him, he did it in typical Flair fashion, and beat ATTAXX in a BASEBRAWL match, the likes of which have seldom been seen since.

There were few constants in his career; the death of his wife and chronic knee problems spurred him to constantly change his look, and pushed him to keep reinventing himself to stay ahead of the status quo. He was considered 'Extreme' a good two years before it was considered "cool" to do so, and when the CSWA seemed to catch up to his style, he changed things up once again, finding new and interesting uses for Barbed Wire that most 'extreme' wrestlers would be afraid to go near.

Perhaps, the most talked about event in his career was at BATTLE OF THE BELTS XIV: Holy Smokes! as he went EXTREME to the point that fewer then a dozen men in HISTORY have ever gone, and that's against Mike Randalls in a WHEEL of DEATH match. He, along with Mr. Self-Destruct and the eight-foot tall Goliath, took it to Randalls and his partners, Craig Miles and JT Collins of FULL FORCE, until Alicia herself was strapped to the wheel.

Things looked to continue for Eli, until he went up against "King of the Slackers" Troy Windham for the Presidential Title. He took a severe beating in that match, both at the hands of Troy Windham, but The Frat, as well, which included Eli's former tag team partner, Bandit. Just like that, Eli disappeared.

It would be over a year before Eli was heard from again. A lot of people thought that the KING of EXTREME had finally been dethroned by the KING of the SLACKERS. I can speak for more then just myself when I say, thank God we were wrong.

But Eli took some hard shots since his return, fueled by the man that seemed to be able to match him, EXTREME for EXTREME... in "Good God" Kevin Powers. He kept one step ahead of Eli for months, holding onto that United States title, until ELVIS LIVES XI.

Eli won the US belt, but his knee was further aggrivated, and then again on multiple occasions by Hornet and his now FORMER manager, Poison Ivy. As of now we have no new information on Eli's condition, except for that he went under the knife on March 6, and the surgery lasted more then five hours.

Say what you will about Eli... He's a punk from the streets, he's been involved in fights with just about everyone... He's been fined more then anyone in the CSWA, even Mike Randalls, and he's got few friends in the business. But when he hobbled out of the arena in Lincoln after losing his title to Nemesis, there was an eerie silence throughout the building. For those few brief moments, before he exited the arena with Mark Vizzack, it seemed like everyone was waiting for something to come from Eli, that never came.

Eli Flair is convalescing in a hospital now. We don't know which hospital, and we don't know where. But Flair, who entered the CSWA in 1995 with a forged wrestling liscence, who overcame more then one setback on his way to being the LONGEST reigning CSWA Intracontinental Champion ever, has been uncharacteristically silent throughout this entire ordeal. He has not contacted CS Enterprises, he has not contacted the CSWA, he has barely threatened revenge, toward ANYBODY. Will he have something to say? And to who? Nemesis? Hornet? Poison Ivy? We don't know. We know he wants to come back to action, and you can bet, we'll be hearing from Eli Flair very soon.

UPDATED 4/23/99