KB Answers Wrestling Questions

[Lee]

Which Slaughter matches would you recommend. I still can't work out if he's under or over appreciated by the modern fan.

 

[klunderbunker]

What exactly is meant when people talk about a wrestler's "workrate?" Also, could you please provide an example of a wrestler that has a good workrate and a wrestler that has a bad workrate? I constantly infer conflicting definitions of this term from people.

Most of the time it's the amount of action you see in a match. A guy that uses a lot of rest holds and doesn't move a lot has a bad workrate whereas a guy constantly moving and doing things has a good one. The problem with workrate is it ignores psychology. Undertaker for example wrestled VERY slowly, but it wouldn't have made sense for him to go faster.

An example of bad would be Dusty Rhodes in the 80s and an example of good would be Randy Savage.

Which Slaughter matches would you recommend. I still can't work out if he's under or over appreciated by the modern fan.

The Boot Camp match with Iron Sheik and the Alley Fight with Pat Patterson.

 

[Hollywood Naitch]

Good but once he cut his hair he was done.

I'm surprised by this. Why do you think this was? Does a wrestler's hair really have that much effect on their career? As Jericho's or Christian's career didn't suffer after cutting their long hair.

Test always struck me as a guy the office WANTED to make a star, the amount of titles he won is surprising, but the fans just never took to him and gave him the support to push him to the next level. Thoughts?

 

[klunderbunker]

I'm surprised by this. Why do you think this was? Does a wrestler's hair really have that much effect on their career? As Jericho's or Christian's career didn't suffer after cutting their long hair.

Test always struck me as a guy the office WANTED to make a star, the amount of titles he won is surprising, but the fans just never took to him and gave him the support to push him to the next level. Thoughts?

Test had three things going for him in 2000: his top rope elbow, his on screen romance with Stephanie, and his look. The long hair, the sunglasses, the cool tattoo and the height worked really well. When he cut his hair he was just a stupid looking guy in trunks who sounded like an idiot. The mystique was gone.

 

[The Fabulous Rougeau's]

Been on an iron man match kick ever since I picked up Trips new dvd and rewatched his match with Rock. Now when I think iron man match 4 instantly come to mind with Shawn/Bret, Rock/HHH, Angle/Brock and Cena/Orton. Going through your ratings I see that you gave Shawn/Bret and Angle/Brock both B's, Cena/Orton a B+ and Rock/HHH an A.

If you were to rank these four matches against one another, would you stick to these grades and rank them according to the grade, or would the event play a role in ranking them whereas Shawn/Bret getting a B at Mania is better than Orton/Cena getting a B+ at a monthly ppv?

 

[#MrScissorsKick]

Why were there so many title changes in WCW post 1995?

 

[klunderbunker]

Been on an iron man match kick ever since I picked up Trips new dvd and rewatched his match with Rock. Now when I think iron man match 4 instantly come to mind with Shawn/Bret, Rock/HHH, Angle/Brock and Cena/Orton. Going through your ratings I see that you gave Shawn/Bret and Angle/Brock both B's, Cena/Orton a B+ and Rock/HHH an A.

If you were to rank these four matches against one another, would you stick to these grades and rank them according to the grade, or would the event play a role in ranking them whereas Shawn/Bret getting a B at Mania is better than Orton/Cena getting a B+ at a monthly ppv?

The event likely would play a role. I'd still take Rock vs. HHH over all of them any day though. Yeah Shawn vs. Bret is held to a higher standard due to where it's being held.

Also if you want a good Iron Man match, check out Steamboat vs. Rude from Beach Blast 92. It's only 30 minutes but has more action than Bret vs. Shawn. That's a great show if you have the time to watch it.

Why were there so many title changes in WCW post 1995?

More television and title matches draw ratings.

 

[Joe's Gonna Kill You]

Do you think there is anyway to distinguish regular heat and go away heat from a crowd?

 

[klunderbunker]

There is, but go away heat is still heat.

 

[Alex]

What defines a spot monkey??

And can you give some examples of spot monkeys and high flyers who aren't

 

[klunderbunker]

In theory it's a guy who does spot after spot with nothing bridging them.

Jeff Hardy, Rey Mysterio.

 

[Bdubbs]

Why did Hogan face Rock instead of Austin at WM 18? It seemed as a whole, WWE was burying Austin's character during this time. Did Austin do something to piss Vince off? The Lesnar/Austin "took his ball and went home incident" was still a few weeks away if I remember correctly.

 

[klunderbunker]

In theory it was because Austin refused the match, knowing that he would get booed out of the building in an old WWF town like Toronto agianst Hogan.

 

[#MrScissorsKick]

Outside of Kayfable, which wrestlers actually have grudges against each other?

Hogan - Warrior I think right?

 

[klunderbunker]

Yeah to an extent.

Shane Douglas and Scott Hall hate each other over a match from 1995.

 

[It's...Baylariat!]

Why do most wrestling fans hate Cena?

 

[klunderbunker]

Because most wrestling fans can't accept that wrestling isn't booked for them.

 

[#MrScissorsKick]

What do you know about the original screwjob that happened between Bruno Sammartino and Buddy Rogers in 1962?

 

[klunderbunker]

It wasn't much of a screwjob.

 

[kingconor]

Could Austin and Hogan not just have wrestled at Mania 19 instead?

What are Batista's best matches and programmes?

 

[klunderbunker]

Nah. Austin had to put over Rock at Wrestlemania once. Rock needed that.

Undertaker.

 

[Mr. Book This Section]

Book a Paige v. AJ Lee feud with the match happening at Wrestlemania 30

 

[klunderbunker]

I don't do fantasy booking.

 

[scomvp316]

OK KB I am not going to be argumentative
Some of the ideas I had pitched to you in the past have come from some fans and others are from me
I respect your opinion even if you don't respect mine thats just the type of person I am
I ask you questions just to get another perspective I don't have the mindset that I know everything

My question to you if WWE is thinking of merging the two World Titles especially if Cena beats ADR what type of match would you like to see at WM because thats probably the event they would do a merger
My idea is possibly Punk vs Cena if Lesnar is going against Taker or it could be Lesnar vs Punk to finally wrap the Heyman story

 

[klunderbunker]

I don't think they're going to merge them there. It feels too soon. Maybe at 31 but 30 feels like Cena vs. Taker in a huge showdown.