On Monday, October 3, 2005 at 12:46 AM EST Welcome to this week’s edition of the Armpit wrestling quiz. With all the lawsuits currently going on in wrestling, I thought this would be a good week for a quiz on, you guessed it, "Lawsuits."
I am writing this before the Monday and Saturday night wrestling programming, but this will be posted after it airs. Needless to say, this is a very interesting time in wrestling, and in fact this entire year has been very newsworthy. Between these wars, the Hardy/Edge angle, the return of ECW, and the rise of UFC, there has never been a dull moment.
Last week's winner:
Catherine Piroli. Catherine wants to plug www.smarkingout.com. I’d also like to crown her as the very first female winner in the history of this quiz!
Last week's answers: (Click here for last week's questions.)
Answer #1
-False. Nitro did NOT go head-to-head with Raw in its first week, as Raw was pre-empted. Speaking of which, if Spike can take advantage of Raw's pre-emptions on USA for tennis and dog shows, TNA stands to benefit majorly.
Answer #2
-On Nitro's second episode, head-to-head with Raw, they in fact beat Raw in the ratings.
Answer #3
-Rick Bogner and Glen Jacobs were brought in to play the "fake" Diesel and Razor Ramon. What a disaster that was.
Answer #4
-Hogan turned heel at Bash of the Beach '96.
Answer #5
-That was WWF diva Sunny in those Billionaire Ted skits.
Answer #6
-Bret signed a deal with WWF for 20 years. And he barely lasted 2 of them.
Answer #7
-Austin's "match" against Vince McMahon was the Raw show which finally led to Raw beating Nitro.
Answer #8
-The NBA stars who wrestled on that WCW PPV were Dennis Rodman and Karl Malone.
Answer #9
-Eddy Guerrero was the Radical who was injured legit when the Radicalz jumped to WWF. He did a frog splash and badly messed up his elbow. Even back then, WWF was screwing up guys' pushes because they did not take advantage of those four guys. Some things never change.
Answer #10
-Hogan feuded with WCW mid-carder Billy Kidman. If I were Kidman, I'd lose weight, get my Flock look back, and join TNA's X division.
Additional Answer
-Some interesting replies you guys had to your favorite Monday night memory. All across the board, too. The only thing that was evident to me was just how many people became wrestling fans more due to the Austin era than the nWo era. It seems all those WCW fans from the early to mid 90s are gone, which is too bad because my personal favorite memories are all from the rise of WCW and Nitro. 1997 in particular was a hot year for WCW, because there was something for everyone, lots of star power, and kick-ass matches on the undercard. But it was obvious from everyone's answers that most, but not all, of your favorite memories had to do with Austin and WWE.
Here are this week's questions. Please email your answers to Quiz@ArmpitWrestling.com. The first person to get all the correct answers to me will be declared the winner and have his/her name listed next week along with anything he/she wants to plug. Remember, once you win, you cannot win again for 3 more weeks.
Question #1
When Ric Flair was fired by WCW, he took the big gold belt with him to the WWF. Oops. It didn't take long before WCW took legal action, and they were successful. First, WWF blurred out the image of the WCW belt on their broadcasts. After WCW got the belt back, WWF still blurred the belt. Say what, Prof? Yes, WWF then used a DIFFERENT belt and pretended it was the WCW belt, which no one at home knew because it was still blurred out. In fact, which belt did Flair use as his "WCW" belt that would get blurred out?
Question #2
There is a reason WWF is called WWE today: Vince McMahon is a stubborn, hard-headed control freak who likes to live by his own rules. And that's why he has to pay his production crew overtime to edit out all those old logos. Boy, Vince showed them, huh? The initials "WWF" belong to someone /* today. In fact, what does WWF stand for today? Hint: It's not World Wrestling Federation (duh).
Question #3
Brock Lesnar currently has a lawsuit out against WWE. What hurts his case, however, is that he appeared for which foreign promotion last year?
Question #4
Let's play Word Association. The word is Lewmar. Ever hear of them? They were a company involved in the Owen Hart death lawsuit. What was their role?
Question #5
Missy Hyatt filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against WCW after she was fired in 1993/1994. Laugh all you want, but I don't think any of us would doubt Missy was legitimately harassed by many in the company. Why was Missy fired from WCW in the first place?
Question #6
Speaking of sexual harassment, one former WWE performer filed a lawsuit against the company for that very reason. No one believed her, though. For one, she appeared to be after whatever money WWE might give her to quietly settle the suit. While most would term her a Chyna rip-off, the truth was that she was well known on the Northeastern bodybuilding scene years before there was ever a Chyna, and made quite a name for herself on national radio. What muscular woman filed, and lost, this sexual harassment lawsuit against WWE a couple of years ago?
Question #7
Sonny Ono, along with a bunch of WCW guys you've never heard of, filed and won a big case against Time Warner after WCW went belly up. Word on the street is they got lucky (and very rich) and benefited from Time Warner wanting to avoid a public relations nightmare. While they all got rich, scores of other WCW guys who also never got pushes ended up with zilch. Is that fair? No. Is life fair? No. What did Sonny Ono and his buddies sue Time Warner for?
Question #8
This wouldn't be a quiz on lawsuits without mentioning the infamous Vince McMahon steroid trial of 1994. True or False: In the indictments against McMahon, the government wanted to seize WWE's corporate headquarters (called "Titan Towers" at the time).
Question #9
Jesse Ventura woke up the sleeping giant when he sued WWE many years ago over royalties he never received. Did Jesse win or lose this case?
Question #10
Here's a very recent and very easy question to round out the quiz. WWE would've had a major case on their hands had Blue Meanie decided to sue them over the JBL incident at ECW One Night Stand. What did WWE do to appease Meanie, and thus prevent future legal action?
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