The Wresting Professor Weekly Quiz (December 17, 2007 - Starrcade)

Reported by Adam Martin of WrestleView.com
On Monday, December 17, 2007 at 2:49 PM EST

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Welcome to the Armpit wrestling quiz for the week of December 17, 2007. After a fantastic week of MMA fights on free TV this past week, we're back for our 3rd and final installment of our quiz on Starrcade. It all ended in 2000, as WCW went out of business a few months later. It was a sad ending, but even if WCW had been around these past 7 years, the Starrcade memories likely would not have been all that great.

Neither were the last Starrcades, and this quiz will show you why. Let's now begin, "Starrcades: The Memories - Part 3."

Last week's answers:

-Sting pinned Ric Flair in the finals of Starrcade '89.

-At Starrcade '90, Anderson and Windham faced off against Doom (Ron Simmons and Butch Reed). Doom was an excellent team that year.

-At Starrcade '91, that genius Dusty Rhodes paired Jushin Liger up with... Bill Kazmaier. For those who don't remember, Bill was legitimately one of the strongest men in the world. It was impressive and he seemed like a nice guy, but he was a bad wrestler and the antithesis of the type of wrestler Liger should've worked with. To show how clueless WCW was, they made Kazmaier a headliner and world title contender against Lex Luger. No wonder fans chanted "We Want Flair" all year.

-Battle Bowl '92 was won by the Great Muta. Muta made a huge impression in the NWA in 1989, as he was thrown right into the world title mix with Funk and Flair. He came back for a few shows in 1992, and surprisingly was given the big push at Starrcade '92.

-Sid Vicious didn't wrestle at Starrcade '93 because he was fired for his fight with Arn Anderson on the European tour. The Sid-Arn fight is the stuff of legend, and is probably the most brutal, scary backstage fight in wrestling history. Sid was seen as the instigator, and was fired. The result was Flair getting the title shot, and ended up being one of the most memorable moments in WCW history. We mistakenly said last week that this was the first Starrcade with Flair since 1988. Obviously that was an error, as Flair's last Starrcade was in 1990.

-At Starrcade '94, Kevin Sullivan wrestled Mr. T.

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. Ok, WCW used Jushin Liger a lot better at Starrcade '95 than at Starrcade '91. It's amazing what changing bookers can do. Starrcade '95 overall was peppered with New Japan stars like the aforementioned Liger, Masa Chono, Koji Kanemoto, Shinjiro Ohtani, and more. Whom did Liger wrestle that night?

2. One word to describe Starrcade '96 is "diverse." You had Mexican minis, New Japan stars, modern 90s American stars, and all headlined by 1980s legends Hogan and Piper. You even had women; the first WCW women's champion was crowned on this show, and it wasn't Madusa. Who was it?

3. Starrcade '97 was one of, if not the most, successful PPVs in WCW history. It was the culmination of a year-plus build for Sting vs. Hogan, not to mention a year in which WCW was the solid #1 wrestling promotion in the country. They could do no wrong at this point, but Sting-Hogan was a huge disappointment. Also on the show was Eric Bischoff vs. Larry Zbysko for control of WCW. Larry Z had become a huge cult favorite with fans for his role as commentator on Nitro, and despite being a veteran wrestler and AWA champion, this was the most notoriety he had enjoyed on a national basis in his entire career. Who refereed the Znysko-Bischoff match?

4. 1998 was the most profitable year WCW ever had, but around February or March of that year, it was apparent it was headed downhill and WWF was headed uphill. And that's how the year ended, with the WWF clearly on top and climbing every week. At Starrcade, Flair was jobbing to Bischoff and Goldberg was jobbing to Nash. Scott Hall got involved in the latter, and used what foreign object on Goldberg?

5. Starrcade '99 was the epitome of what was wrong with a Russo-booked WCW at that time. The company sank to new depths that year, for example, with a tag team called Creative Control: Gerald and Patrick. Haha, very funny for the 10,000 out of the 4 million or so people watching WCW who may have gotten that joke. Read the Death of WCW book for more examples of why Vince Russo is a complete idiot (but not as idiotic as the people who continue to employ him). Starrcade '99 is one event that Bret Hart would love to forget. Why?

6. Starrcade '00 was so horribly booked that I don't want to think about it or else I'll end up jumping out the 4th story window. The Starrcade legacy ended with a whimper, and was a distant cry from what it was in the '80s. There were a mind-numbing amount of valets on this show, which ensured that none of them got over. Of the following list, which valet was NOT on this show?

a) Leia Meow
b) Major Gunns
c) Midajah
d) Ms. Jones
e) Sherri Martel
f) Marie
g) Tygress
h) Daffney

Answers will be posted next week.

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