On Monday, April 7, 2008 at 1:46 AM EST Welcome to the Armpit wrestling quiz for the week of April 7, 2008. Yeah, I know we screwed up on last week’s quiz, saying the Hart-Michaels match happened in 1997 (it was really 1996). #1, I was half asleep when I wrote last week’s quiz. #2, people make mistakes.
What a week, huh? It started with a hot Frank Shamrock vs. Cung Le fight out here in San Jose, followed by a very entertaining WWE Hall of Fame ceremony. Sunday was WrestleMania, which I thought was very good, and of course Monday was the greatest 20 minutes in this planet’s history with the Ric Flair farewell. If that weren’t enough, we had an excellent UFC Fight Night and an action packed debut episode of Ultimate Fighter 7. It was a great week to have my DVR and HD cable installed, let me tell you.
Still, Ric Flair will be back. Trust me on that.
Let us know finish with "WrestleMania - Part 4."
Answers from last week:
-Disregard this question. I meant to ask who refereed the Hart-Austin match (Ken Shamrock), but my mind wandered and I asked who refereed the Hart-Michaels match, which no one should be expected to know.
-At WM14, Chyna was handcuffed to Sgt. Slaughter.
-The judges for the Butterbean-Gunn match were Gorilla Monsoon, Chuck Wepner, and Kevin Rooney.
-The San Diego Chicken appeared at WM16 to celebrate with Rikishi, but Kane wasn’t keen on that based on his experience with the Chicken at WM15. When going after the Chicken, Pete Rose blindsided Kane. In the end, of course, Kane and Rikishi laid Rose out.
-The referee of Shane vs. Vince at WM17 was Mick Foley.
-Austin wrestled Scott Hall at WM18. By the way, I caught a glimpse of Hall on a recent AWA show from 1986 (I told you I upgraded my cable), and all I can say is wow.
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. Despite walking into WrestleMania 19 with a severely injured neck, Kurt Angle wrestled a hard match with numerous scary bumps… on his neck. Still, the big news of that match wasn’t Kurt’s poor neck, but Brock’s. Brock knocked himself silly by messing up what maneuver?
2. After gutting through his injury from the year before, Brock Lesnar entered WrestleMania 20 to thunderous boos from the crowd that saw him as selling out by quitting the company. They felt the same way about Goldberg, his opponent. Who refereed this crowd-displeasing match?
3. WrestleMania 21 was quite newsworthy, including perhaps the greatest match I’ve ever seen, Kurt Angle vs. Shawn Michaels. I’ve seen almost every 5-star match there has been, including all the Flair classics, and I don’t know that I’ve ever seen a match as well executed as that one. To me it was perfect, but for some reason that match has become forgotten over the years. Also on the show was Piper’s Pit, but his guest, Steve Austin, received a noticeably lukewarm response. Perhaps the crowd was tired after exploding moments earlier when what wrestler made a surprise run-in?
4. WrestleMania 22 didn’t have the deep line-up most WrestleMania’s do, but the main event was definitely a marquee one: HHH vs. John Cena. Why is HHH’s ring entrance from that match so memorable?
5. What a difference a year makes. After being honored at WrestleMania 24 for the legend he is, Ric Flair surely must have felt different than he did at WrestleMania 23. What was Flair’s role at WM23?
Answers will be posted next week.
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