On Tuesday, February 21, 2006 at 7:15 PM EST Welcome to this week's edition of the Armpit wrestling quiz. I'm not sure how much this really means in 2006, but congratulations to Christian on his recent NWA title win. It's usually exciting to see younger stars get their first world title wins, and that's what this week's quiz is about: "First (Sort of) World Title Wins."
Much lower response to last week's quiz, which indicates it was a little harder.
Last week's winner:
Steve Knight, plugging www.striker3d.org.
Last week's answers: (Click here) for last week's questions.
-That was Atsuhi Onita who wanted to "avenge the death" of Bruiser Brody. Lots of you missed that one, which is my fault for assuming all of you have been reading newsletters for 15 years like I have.
-Of the names listed, Crash Holly did not have a graphic posted on WWE TV right after his death.
-Ed Ferrara was Oklahoma. All hail Jim Cornette for spitting in Ed's eye over that one.
-Kerry's 1984 NWA title win was dedicated to his brother, David.
-Hassan, aka Mark Copani, was Italian.
-True, General Adnan is of legit Iraqi origin.
-Joel Gertner made that remark about JFK Jr. If you recall, Gertner is the guy whose driving skills were such that he started up his car in the parking lot and... drove right over a cement block/lamp post. According to witnesses, Big Dick Dudley had to lift the car with his bare hands in order to dislodge it. This was before Gertner had a prominent role in ECW, and that visual is hilarious.
-Katie Vick was associated with Kane. That’s as generic an answer as I accepted.
-Batista's wife recently suffered from cancer. So far, WWE has not exploited this.
-A surprising number of you said you would refuse an angle that would exploit Eddie's death. It was about 50/50. Something tells me the people who would refuse it are people who have not yet had the burden of supporting a family or huge mortgage payments. The solution to this dilemma is... get an education so that you can have options later in life that will pay you well.
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. That's our Dr. Keith Rule.
Question #1
We'll start with an easy one for you TNA viewers. Before Christian Cage, the most recent TNA champion not named Jeff Jarrett was who?
Question #2
In his recent interview on Impact, Sting said one of his greatest moments was winning the WCW title from Ric Flair in 1990. The match was good and the pop was truly deafening. But his 2nd WCW title reign was hardly as memorable. The year was 1992. Whom did Sting defeat to win his 2nd WCW world title?
Question #3
Let's stick with 1992, one of my favorite years because of how incredibly interesting things were behind the scenes in wrestling. Bill Watts is out and about these days, and 1992 was the year he really tarnished his legacy with the overall bad TV he produced with WCW. Except for one TV taping. In the summer of 1992, Jake Roberts debuted in a heated angle to begin a feud with Sting. Also at this taping, a new WCW champion was crowned. Who was it?
Question #4
In May of 1984, Ric Flair lost his NWA title to a beefcake who could've been one of the true wrestling greats if he had gotten his act together. Who beat Flair for the title that month?
Question #5
SmackDown is generally horrible these days, but in mid-2002, it was the best show on TV. That's because Paul Heyman was head writer at the time, and he accomplished several things. #1, he debuted Rey Mysterio as a headliner, presenting him on equal footing with the other main eventers. #2, he linked Edge with Hulk Hogan, which Edge badly needed at the time during his babyface run. #3, he got over Brock Lesnar as a huge monster. Had Heyman not been writing the TV, Lesnar likely would've floundered the way Matt Morgan, Nathan Jones, and all the other giants did. Lesnar won his first world title in WWE by defeating whom?
Question #6
True or False: Hulk Hogan held the AWA world title at one point in his career.
Question #7
Chris Benoit spent nearly 15 years busting his rear, trying to achieve his dream of winning the world title. He finally did it, and then walked out of the promotion moments later. Why did Chris Benoit leave WCW after winning the world title?
Question #8
The Undertaker is very unpopular among the hardcore wrestling fan base. He's stale, overpushed, and refuses to sell for mostly everyone. He won his first world title all the way back in 1991, a year after he had debuted and made a very lasting impression by those who were watching. Undertaker's first WWF title win was against whom?
Question #9
I can't do a quiz like this without mentioning Eddie Guerrero. Tell me whom he defeated to win his first WWE world title.
Question #10
This is a freebie. Tell me who you'd like to see win the TNA title this year. If you really wanted it to be Christian, then that's ok to say that, even though he already has the title. But if there's anyone /*, who would you like it to be? I'm talking about the heavyweight TNA championship, not the X division.
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12. In case you win, please tell us how you'd like to list your name and plug. Due to time constraints, you will not be notified if you win, and instead will have to wait until next week when the winning name is posted. If you're playing just for fun and don't care about winning, you don't have to answer this question.
Please email your answers to Quiz@ArmpitWrestling.com. Results will be posted next week. Thanks to everyone for playing.
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