On Monday, September 11, 2006 at 11:59 AM EST Welcome to the final Armpit quiz... at least until I retire in 30 years and have nothing to do. It has been a blast, but between a sky-high mortgage and increasing demands on the job, there aren't enough hours in the day to maintain this quiz. Well, unless we never slept, but then we'd end up looking like Paul Heyman.
In honor of this being our retirement from the world of quizzes, this week's theme is "Wrestlers' Retirements."
Sorry for missing the last couple weeks of quizzes. Here's the winner from last time: Will Kremmel, plugging www.311.com.
And the answers from last time:
-Stone Mountain, GA is synonymous with Jake Roberts.
-Louisville's Favorite Slugger is Jim Cornette.
-Ted DiBiase kept his seasonal residences in various parts of the country.
-The Road Warriors were billed from Chicago.
-Andre the Giant was billed from Gernoble.
-Brutus Beefcake was billed from San Francisco. By the way, for you folks not from California who want to visit the Golden State one day: don't visit San Francisco. It's cold, ugly, disgusting, dirty, gloomy, cloudy, and riddled with filth. You're much better off in LA, San Diego, or San Jose.
-Randy Savage was billed from Sarasota, FL.
-Sting and Hogan were once billed from Venice Beach, CA. If you want to have some fun, go to a bar near a beach and observe the crowd. There's nothing funnier than leathery, wrinkled sun worshippers in their early 40s who think they're still 25. I'd make a comparison to Hogan or DDP, but I said early 40s. Hogan hasn't seen 40 since 1940.
-Sid Vicious was from wherever he damn well pleased. Wrestling was a lot more fun before UFC came along and rendered all these wrestlers' threats useless because now everyone knows a guy like Sid would get whooped by even a beginning MMA fighter.
-Tommy Rogers and Bobby Fulton, the Fantastics, were from the City of Angels. If wrestlers today recorded their ring intro into their music like the Fantastics, we wouldn't have a need for Lillian Garcia or Tony Chimmel. Well, we don't have a need for them now, except Vince thinks Howard Finkel is too old to be on TV.
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.
Question #1
1. Ric Flair once lost a retirement match to Hulk Hogan, believe it or not. At the time, in 1994, I honestly got sad because I believed I'd never see Ric wrestle again. Here we are in 2006, and Flair is rolling in thumbtacks and wrestling seemingly every day. After Flair lost the Hogan match, Sherri Martel was stripped to almost nothing and Brutus Beefcake turned on Hogan. What PPV event did this happen on?
Question #2
2. Randy Savage will never be the best wrestler in the world, but he's the only human on Earth who got not one, but two ****+ matches out of the Ultimate Warrior. That, my friends, takes major talent and damn near magical powers. The second match was a classic at SummerSlam '92 that was shamefully overshadowed by the Bret-Bulldog classic at Wembley Stadium. The first match was the show-stealer at WrestleMania 7, where Savage lost a retirement match to Mr. Hellwig. Even though Savage lost, he turned babyface after the match. How?
Question #3
3. Mick Foley had his retirement match in 2000... until he came back a few months later at WrestleMania. In that 2000 "retirement" match, Foley lost to whom?
Question #4
4. Roddy Piper won his retirement match at WrestleMania III in an entertaining, emotional undercard match. After he won, Piper was congratulated in the ring by a fan, who was then taken down and beaten by security, Detroit style. Whom did Piper defeat in that match?
Question #5
5. Arn Anderson made his retirement official in a tearful, awesome interview on Nitro in 1997. As "cousin" Ric fought back tears, Arn surrendered his spot in the 4 Horsemen to whom?
Question #6
6. Guaranteed future wrestling star Magnum TA was sidelined and forced to retire after a bad motorcycle wreck. Magnum would've had a run with the NWA title if he had stayed healthy, so it was a bitter pill to swallow, but he took it amazingly well. Magnum was kept visible for years as a co-host of what Sunday WCW TV show with Tony Schiavone?
Question #7
7. This former AWA champ trained hard for a comeback and finally came out of retirement in 1997/1998 to wrestle for the red-hot WCW. Sadly, he was injured very shortly thereafter and hasn't wrestled since. Strangely, we also haven't heard from his old tag team partner either, Tom Zenk, in quite awhile. Name the wrestler we're talking about.
Question #8
8. This former ECW champ has had more retirement matches than anyone in history, to the point it has become a joke. His first retirement was in 1981 in Japan, yet he has wrestled extensively ever since, including this year at ECW One Night Stand. Name this Texan legend.
Question #9
9. Which of the following borderline retirees did NOT appear on a TNA TV show this year?
Kevin Nash
Buff Bagwell
Lex Luger
Sting
Disco Inferno
Rick Steiner
Question #10
10. This man is semi-retired. He originally quit full-time, but has been lured back to indies and, most notably, ROH. He heads a wrestling school now, and is known for having perhaps wrestling's most impressive non-steroid physique. Name this clean-cut wrestler.
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Please email your answers to Quiz@ArmpitWrestling.com. Results will be posted next week. Thanks to everyone for playing.
The Wrestling Professor
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