Trivia / The JWL

• In Memoriam: Started with "Mr. Perfect" Curt Hennig on Episode 9 and, sadly, many times since.
• Real Song Theme Tune:
  • Ric Flair used Also sprach Zarathustra, of course.
  • Arn Anderson and Dean Malenko used Metallica's "The Four Horsemen."
  • Tommy Dreamer used Alice in Chains' "Man in the Box."
  • The Sandman used Metallica's "Enter Sandman."
  • Balls Mahoney used AC/DC's "Big Balls."
  • Mike Awesome used Scorpions' "The Zoo."
  • New Jack used Dr. Dre and Ice Cube's "Natural Born Killaz."
  • Spike Dudley used AC/DC's "Highway To Hell."
  • Mikey Whipwreck used Butthole Surfers' "Pepper."
  • 2 Cold Scorpio used Kool & the Gang's "Jungle Boogie"
  • Jazz used Trina's "The Baddest Chick"
  • "The Heavy Metal Maniac" Riot used Rob Zombie's "Dragula."
  • "The Total Athlete" Roxy Powers used Destiny's Child's "Independent Woman Pt. 1"
  • Jungle Grrrl used Guns N' Roses' "Welcome to the Jungle"
  • Paradise used Sade's "Paradise."
  • Boom Boom the Volcano used Jimmy Buffett's "Volcano."
  • Caliente used Ricky Martin's "Livin' La Vida Loca"
  • The Disciplinarian used Van Halen's "Hot For Teacher"
  • Beckie the Farmer's Daughter used Tom Petty's "American Girl"
  • "The Real Deal" Selina Majors used Queen's "We Will Rock You."
  • "The Anarchist" Shannon Moore used Anthrax's "Caught in a Mosh."
  • Perry Saturn used Marilyn Manson's "The Beautiful People."
  • Crowbar used Nine Inch Nails' "Head Like A Hole."
  • Poison used Alice Cooper's "Poison".
  • Ice Cold used Foreigner's "Cold As Ice."
  • Jacklyn Hyde used Metallica's "Welcome Home (Sanitarium)."
  • Steve Blackman used Ice-T's "Lethal Weapon."
  • Al Snow used The Prodigy's "Breathe."
  • Little Guido Maritato used N-Trance's "Stayin' Alive Remix"
  • Norman Smiley's used The Notorious B.I.G.'s "Hypnotize."
  • The Undertaker used Kid Rock's "American Bad Ass."
  • The World's Greatest Tag Team used Drowning Pool's "Bodies."
  • 911 used The Edgar Winter Group's "Frankenstein."
  • Taz used KISS' "War Machine."
  • The All-Stars (Barry Horowitz and The Brooklyn Brawler) used Chumbawamba's "Tubthumpin'."
  • Victoria used t.A.T.u.'s "All The Things She Said."
  • Rob Van Dam used Pantera's "Walk."
  • Raven used The Offspring's "Come Out and Play (Keep 'Em Separated)".
  • Dennis Knight used John Carpenter's "Theme from Halloween".
  • Psicosis used Metallica's "Battery."
  • Super Crazy used The Doors' "Roadhouse Blues."
  • Amber O'Neal used Gwen Stefani's "Hollaback Girl."
• Serendipity Writes the Plot: David "Gangrel" Heath and Gertrude "Luna" Vachon divorced in Real Life in 2006, while both were on the roster. Then it came out that Heath had found a new side gig, directing porn films for something called the NPO, the New Porn Order. This provided the excuse to release Heath. Vachon subsequently retired, and died in 2010.
• What Could Have Been:
  • The teams The Island Boys (Kimo [Rosey], Ekmo [Jamal/Umaga] and Mana)^note Mana, real name Nikora Mana Tuhakaraina, is actually Maori and The Untouchables (Deuce 'n Domino and Cherry) never appeared on JWL TV due to WWE releasing Deuce, Domino and Cherry and the three subsequently falling off of the radar, Mana retiring and Ekmo's passing.
  • Episode 54 was originally intended to feature Kane defeating Ric Flair, with a main event of JWL World Heavyweight Champion Chris Benoit defeating Stevie Richards. Kane would have attacked Benoit after the match to set up a feud that would have culminated in Kane winning the title. The Benoit tragedy cancelled those plans.
  • Lex Luger was going to be the flagship for Dusty's Dream Team prior to Elizabeth's death.
  • "Stone Cold" Steve Austin was going to be a Heel as a member of the Royals, until he was arrested for beating up Debra.
  • The intended blowoff for the Ric Flair vs. Shane Douglas feud would have been an FMW-style No Rope Barbed Wire Exploding Cage Death Match. This was abandoned due to the realization that neither guy would really be in the kind of shape needed to do this match and that there likely isn't much of a demand for this kind of match anymore.
  • Victoria debuting on Episode 54 by coming out of the crowd and hitting Trish Stratus with a chair drew such a negative reaction on WrestlingClassics.com that the feud was abandoned and Trish was retired from the roster.
  • The only remaining ideas were Samoa Joe defeating Johnny Nitro in the final of the tournament to fill the vacant JWL World Heavyweight Title, and The Dangerous Alliance^note (The World's Greatest Tag Team/911/Bobby Lashley/Samoa Joe, w/Paul E. Dangerously) defeating Dusty's Dream Team ^note (The Nasty Boys/The One Man Gang/Cody Rhodes/Ted DiBiase Jr, w/Dusty Rhodes in War Games. The author had no idea where he was supposed to go from there.