KB Answers Wrestling Questions

[Mustang Sally]

Bruno Sammartino disassociated himself with WWE because he doesn't like where Vince McMahon took the sport. Personally, I think that if wrestling hadn't evolved....i.e., if they still tried to run things the way they were done in Bruno's day, professional wrestling on a large scale wouldn't even exist today......it would be seen only in high school gyms and state armories.

Additionally, I think Bruno has deprived us of his presence. He could have been an esteemed elder statesman and ambassador for old-time wrestling.....and I'd bet Vince would have been happy to run a few programs through him. What a waste.

What do you think, K.B.?

 

[klunderbunker]

Is it true that the WWE was really close to being out of business in 97/98? Or is it a over the top statement.

I only started to watch in 99 and we know how popular it was then.

More late 96/early 97 they were in real trouble. Then the Border War got a lot of people's attention and they were saved by Starrcade 97. If Starrcade 97 goes off like it should, we'd be making a SuperBrawl LD for tomorrow night.

Bruno Sammartino disassociated himself with WWE because he doesn't like where Vince McMahon took the sport. Personally, I think that if wrestling hadn't evolved....i.e., if they still tried to run things the way they were done in Bruno's day, professional wrestling on a large scale wouldn't even exist today......it would be seen only in high school gyms and state armories.

Additionally, I think Bruno has deprived us of his presence. He could have been an esteemed elder statesman and ambassador for old-time wrestling.....and I'd bet Vince would have been happy to run a few programs through him. What a waste.

What do you think, K.B.?

Bruno is a very interesting case. He was ungodly popular in his day and still drew in the 80s as a nostalgia act, but he's stuck to his guns and I give him major credit for that. Wrestling would have survived, but cable killed Bruno's era, not Vince.

 

[JGlass]

When was the last time there was a heel vs. heel match of any sort at Wrestlemania? By this I mean it was a real match, singles, tag team, or multi-man, and there were no faces involved.

 

[klunderbunker]

You could argue last year with Orton vs. DiBiase vs. Rhodes. Orton was getting there but was still a tweener kind of. It's a stretch but you could say that was all heel.

 

[mrbrownstone]

Does a such thing as a good match between Taker and The Rock exist? If so could you point towards it and if not why do you think they were never able to put on good matches.

 

[Vincent Michaels]

Would ECW be around today in some capacity if they hadn't tried to take things too far with PPV and TV?

 

[klunderbunker]

Maybe. Hard to say though. It's possible.

 

[Raven]

quick name 4 gods of wrestling!

 

[klunderbunker]

Austin, McMahon, Hogan Flair

 

[The Crock]

Saw a thread asking about Hogan's greatest rival, who do you think it would be?

 

[FunKay the Inevitable]

Austin, McMahon, Hogan Flair

JBL?

 

[Vincent Michaels]

What contributed to the death of WCW more: the idiocy of the writers, the egos of the wrestlers, or both in an equal way?

 

[klunderbunker]

Saw a thread asking about Hogan's greatest rival, who do you think it would be?

Bobby Heenan.

JBL?

No.

 

[The Crock]

Bobby Heenan.

Heenan? Intriguing choice. I went with Andre myself.

 

[klunderbunker]

What contributed to the death of WCW more: the idiocy of the writers, the egos of the wrestlers, or both in an equal way?

Starrcade 97 more than anything. Probably more the egos of those choices but it's more the way they did business.

 

[klunderbunker]

Heenan? Intriguing choice. I went with Andre myself.

Watch the 80s. It's ALWAYS Hogan vs. a Heenan guy. Heenan ran Hogan into the ground on the mic for ten years. He's the main constant antagonist for Hogan.

 

[The Crock]

Oh, I know. Even during the Andre feud Heenan was the manager.

 

[FunKay the Inevitable]

No.

But it's all in the nickname.

 

[Little Jerry Lawler]

Most overrated and underrated Wrestlemania main event?

 

[FunKay the Inevitable]

Referee Scott Armstrong revealed on Twitter last night that he has been re-hired by WWE and will be at Raw tonight. Armstrong was released from WWE back in February 2010.

http://www.wrestlezone.com/news/art...r-released-from-fcw-ref-returns-to-wwe-124361

Not a question but an answer to something you asked in the LD last night.

 

[klunderbunker]

But it's all in the nickname.

No.

Most overrated and underrated Wrestlemania main event?

Overrated: I never got the appeal of Hogan vs. Slaughter but it's pretty revered.

Underrated: Austin vs. Michaels. Everyone just remembers the title change but the match was great too.

 

[The Crock]

With what you said about Heenan, since Hogan was the biggest face of the 80s and Heenan was his foil, wouldn't he be considered the biggest heel of the 80s?

 

[klunderbunker]

Yeah probably. He had Studd, Bundy, Andre, Orndorff, Rude, the Brainbusters, Haku and so on. All of them had Heenan out there with them and the majority of them went after Hogan at some point.

 

[The Crock]

Thanks for the thread idea.

 

[The Crock]

Thanks for the thread idea.

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