Reported by Adam Martin of WrestleView.com
On Monday, December 10, 2007 at 3:33 PM EST

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Welcome to the Armpit wrestling quiz for the week of December 10, 2007. I hope you all enjoyed the trip down memory lane last week as we re-visited Starrcades from the 80s. There's more where that came from this week, and while the 80s glory days are over, there were still quite a few good Starrcade moments that followed. Let's talk about them now, in "Starrcades: The Memories - Part 2."

Last week's answers:

-The special guest referee at Starrcade '83 was Gene Kiniski.

-The match at Starrcade '84 was stopped when Dusty was bleeding too much.

-The legendary Tully Blanchard vs. Magnum TA match in 1985 was an "I Quit" match. In a trivia note, Magnum ended up marrying Tully's ex-wife, and the two are still married to this day.

-The late Big Bubba Rogers (aka Big Bossman, The Boss, The Guardian Angel, etc) was supposed to catch Jim Cornette at Starrcade '86 from his scaffold fall. "Supposed to" is the key phrase. Speaking of Bubba, despite being a rookie, he had a **** match with Ron Garvin on the same show, proving that he was going to be a major star in the business for many years to come, which of course he was. In fact, it was better than Flair's match with Garvin at Starrcade a year later.

-Dusty and his brilliant booking destroyed the NWA's drawing power in Chicago after a sub par showing at Starrcade '87. The "Dusty finish" happened when hometown boys (or so they were billed) the Road Warriors faced Arn Anderson and Tully Blanchard. Talk about deflating a crowd, but that's Dusty's booking for ya. No wonder the company was out of business a year later.

-The first PPV under Turner ownership, Starrcade '88, was a tremendous show. In a US title match, Barry Windham faced recent WWF headliner Bam Bam Bigelow.

Here are this week's questions. Remember, the new rules are that you no longer need to submit your questions, and no winners will be declared. We're just doing this for fun and to honor the forgotten world of wrestling history.

1. 1989 will go down in history as perhaps everyone's favorite year to be a wrestling fan, and the NWA was a major part of that. After a string of hot shows and legendary matches, the year ended with Starrcade '89: Future Shock. It got mixed reviews, but for the hardcore NWA fan, it was a dream show. For example, it featured the Steiners against the Road Warriors, and all other types of intriguing matches as part of the Iron Man tournament. In the finals, Sting won the tournament when he pinned whom?

2. For the NWA, 1990 was not 1989 by any stretch of the imagination. Now called WCW, it was under Jim Herd's leadership, and that caused bad morale for wrestlers and fans. The Black Scorpion angle "peaked" at Starrcade '90, when a masked, short-haired Ric Flair had a forgettable match with Sting. One undercard match stole the show, thankfully. My friends just loved this match, although today it would look tame. Arn Anderson and Barry Windham dressed up in street clothes to have an old fashioned Street Fight match against whom?

3. Three years after Norfolk was red hot for Starrcade '88, WCW returned to the city in 1991. Even though WCW business was in the doldrums back then, a decent crowd turned up. Due to the Christmas holidays, the buyrate was up as well. Unfortunately, the show wasn't good, and it's no coincidence that Dusty was back booking. It was the debut of the Battle Bowl concept, where wrestlers would face off in tag team matches and draw names out of a hat to determine their partners and opponents. The winners would then have a battle royal, with the survivor being declared the winner. The running joke was that the booking was so bad that better match-ups would've taken place if it really was random. No sh*t. The show was famous for featuring Jushin Liger, the best wrestler in the world at the time. In Dusty's infinite wisdom, he paired Liger up with whom?

4. Starrcade '92, at the Omni in Atlanta, got bad reviews but I enjoyed it. It took place under the Bill Watts regime and featured an awesome ****+ Sting-Vader match, to conclude something called a King of Cable tournament. Barry Windham was in top form that night, showing flashes of his 1988 workrate. They tried the Battle Bowl again (when WCW failed with an idea, they made sure to do it again, sort of like modern day WWE) But the night belonged to a different wrestler. Who won the Battle Bowl crown that night?

5. Starrcade '93 was the first Starrcade since '88 to feature the Nature Boy, who returned to WCW in February of 1993. Under Eric Bischoff's direction, the entire year was abysmal for WCW, both from a critical and financial standpoint. Nevertheless, Flair pulled off one of the best performances of his career as he battled Vader in an excellent, ultra-stiff match in his hometown of Charlotte, NC. A very emotional match that the Raw two weeks ago in Charlotte couldn't touch. The show began at Flair's home, showing his family on camera, and ended with a bloody Flair in tears, holding his new WCW title. It symbolized so much politically and was a great moment. The thing is, Flair was not even planned to do this show. Vader was supposed to wrestle Sid Vicious, but plans changed. Why didn't Sid wrestle on this show?

6. Starrcade '94 was the first Starrcade under the heavy influence of Hulk Hogan. With Hogan around, that meant the once great matches of the '80s would now be replaced with Jim Duggan, the Honkytonk Man, and Ed "Brutus Beefcake" Leslie. Hogan headlined against Leslie that night (known as The Butcher) in an embarrassing match that wasn't quite Flair vs. Race. Horseman favorite Arn Anderson was jobbing to Johnny B Badd, and oh yeah, HHH jobbed to Alex Wright. Heh. And I'm not lying. As for Kevin Sullivan, he wrestled another Hogan pal, known for his celebrity status. Whom did Kevin wrestle?

Answers will be posted next week.

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