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``BATTLE DOME'' Warriors Shock ``Monday Nitro''; Live Broadcast Interrupted by Five Warriors Issuing Challenge to WCW.


Entertainment and Sports Editors

CHICAGO--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--Nov. 7, 2000

In retaliation for last weekend's disruption of a "BATTLE DOME" taping in Los Angeles by WCW WCW World Championship Wrestling
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 wrestlers, five Warriors from the hit syndicated sports entertainment series took on the wrestlers of the WCW on their home turf during last night's live broadcast of "Monday Nitro" on cable's TNT TNT: see trinitrotoluene.
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During a break between matches, the WCW's Diamond Dallas Page This article or section needs copy editing for grammar, style, cohesion, tone and/or spelling.
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 was in the ring speaking to the Chicago crowd when a group of men began heckling the wrestler. Page realized the noise came from a contingent of "BATTLE DOME" Warriors and screamed insults at them. The Warriors, who included T-Money, Cuda, Mike O'Dell, D.O.A. and Bubba King, rushed toward the ring. Wrestlers Rick Steiner, The Cat and Buff Bagwell came to the aid of Page, but it took some time before order was restored by WCW security.

This is an eruption of a long smoldering smol·der also smoul·der  
intr.v. smol·dered, smol·der·ing, smol·ders
1. To burn with little smoke and no flame.

2.
 feud between the "BATTLE DOME" Warriors and the WCW wrestlers. The Warriors have long resented the theatrics the·at·rics  
n.
1. (used with a sing. verb) The art of the theater.

2. (used with a pl. verb) Theatrical effects or mannerisms; histrionics.
 and scripted nature of pro wrestling. "This is just the beginning," snarled snarl 1  
v. snarled, snarl·ing, snarls

v.intr.
1. To growl viciously while baring the teeth.

2. To speak angrily or threateningly.

v.tr.
 "BATTLE DOME's" T-Money while being escorted from the arena.

Now in its second successful season, "BATTLE DOME" is a one-hour, syndicated, sports entertainment television show that features the excitement of compelling athletic competition as real-life Challengers take on super-athletic Warriors. Produced and distributed by Columbia TriStar Television Columbia TriStar Television, Inc. was the third name of the television studio Screen Gems, adopted with the Columbia-TriStar merger of 1991 and last used in 2002.

Columbia TriStar Television was launched in 1994 as a joint venture between Columbia Pictures Television and
 Distribution, each episode pits amateur athletes against super-human muscle machines in a series of physically demanding games.

Columbia TriStar Television Distribution is a Sony Pictures Entertainment company. Sony Pictures' global operations encompasses motion picture production and distribution, television programming and syndication, home video acquisition and distribution, operation of studio facilities, development of new entertainment technologies and distribution of filmed entertainment in 67 countries. Sony Pictures Entertainment can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.spe.sony.com.
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