KB Answers Wrestling Questions

[klunderbunker]

If, by some strange chance or quirk of fate, Spud goes over ECIII, would your head explode a la Scanners?

Nah as Spud has gotten way over. I wouldn't like it though.

Do you think Rhino is back permanently with WWE? It was a shock to read he returned on NXT.

What do you think his role will be, will we see him on the main roster?

Probably back with NXT but not the main roster. He'll be around there to make others look good and have some hard hitting matches but not much more.

 

[A11oftheLights]

How well do you think they will avoid making Rhyno a jobber while still keeping him relevant?

 

[klunderbunker]

Have him Gore jobbers, like the old days.

 

[A11oftheLights]

Have him Gore jobbers, like the old days.

But after so many weeks everyone knows what the go is and loses interest, so how many programs will Rhyno actually work?

 

[klunderbunker]

Not too many. Just a handful at most.

 

[FunKay the Inevitable]

Thoughts on Teddy Long?

How good was Gary Hart?

Was it ever acknowledged when he returned to WWF as Sycho Sid to bodyguard Shawn Michaels that this was the same guy who stood toe-to-toe with Hogan in the main event of WrestleMania?

 

[klunderbunker]

Jack of all trades and one of those guys that clearly just loved being around wrestling.

Boring but incredibly talented. I need to read his book, but due to the printing being very limited it runs about a grand.

Not that I remember.

 

[FunKay the Inevitable]

Watching some of Muta's stuff: thoughts on him in general?

Any reccomendations concerning him?

Was he a missed oppertunity in the States? JR said there was discussion about putting the NWA World title on him circa his 89' run and turning him into a big babyface but it was decided that he should remain a heel.

He seemed like a decent fit for WWF/E to me (perhaps hindsight playing a role here) did Vince ever make a play for him and do you think he would've fit in there to some degree (I'm not talking heavyweight champion but tag and IC contender potentially?)?

 

[klunderbunker]

Best moonsault I've ever seen and a phenom in the late 80s.

Any match with Sting.

Definitely fit better in the NWA. The WWF would have turned him into a gimmick guy and nothing would have worked.

 

[Bockwinkel's Class]

Have you heard this Jim Cornette interview:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8fEFDl7y4Q

and if you have, thoughts on it?

 

[klunderbunker]

I haven't.

 

[Bockwinkel's Class]

I haven't.

He comes close to having a coronary again lol.

 

[klunderbunker]

Well that goes without saying.

 

[Bockwinkel's Class]

Well that goes without saying.

Few things in this world are more entertaining than Jim Cornette on the verge of an infarction.

 

[Alex]

So what made you sour on Joey Ryan?

I thought he was cool from a character standpoint and he was decent in the ring. Admittedly the shit TNA gave him to do made it hard to care

 

[klunderbunker]

Just got annoying with the same schtick over and over.

 

[A11oftheLights]

Why am I meant to respect Cornette? He sounds like an entitled prick who is delusional, the way he carried on in that above interview about ROH when I havent heard a single good thing about the man when he was in the company

 

[klunderbunker]

Oh he's completely delusional. Just listen to him tell some old school stories though and you'll get his appeal.

 

[Uncle Sam]

(Because I'm lazy) could you give me as many excellent Razor Ramon/Scott Hall matches as you'd care to name, which I could find on the WWE Network?

 

[klunderbunker]

Wrestlemania X
Summerslam 1995
Royal Rumble 1993
Uncensored 1998
Any Jarrett match as they had good chemistry. Royal RUmble 1995 perhaps.

 

[Mustang Sally]

In regard to Blackjack Mulligan, everything I read about him says he retired in 1988, yet I can swear seeing him in WWE in the mid to late 90's. He was way too old (mid 50's) and fat to be performing, but I distinctly recall a series of vignettes with him doing a "Marlboro Man" routine; they had him riding a horse on the open range and talking to us about toughness.

I recall only a couple of matches, against jobbers, and then......he was gone, and nothing more was mentioned about him until his HOF induction in '06.

Am I crazy? I remember the vignettes and it couldn't have been as early as the 80's when he worked as one of the "Machines" (god help us); he was still in wrestling shape back then and that wasn't in the period I'm talking about.

Any info?

 

[klunderbunker]

In regard to Blackjack Mulligan, everything I read about him says he retired in 1988, yet I can swear seeing him in WWE in the mid to late 90's. He was way too old (mid 50's) and fat to be performing, but I distinctly recall a series of vignettes with him doing a "Marlboro Man" routine; they had him riding a horse on the open range and talking to us about toughness.

I recall only a couple of matches, against jobbers, and then......he was gone, and nothing more was mentioned about him until his HOF induction in '06.

Am I crazy? I remember the vignettes and it couldn't have been as early as the 80's when he worked as one of the "Machines" (god help us); he was still in wrestling shape back then and that wasn't in the period I'm talking about.

Any info?

You're thinking of the New Blackjacks, as played by Barry Windham (Mulligan's son) and Bradshaw (Mulligan's partner Lanza's nephew). They were around for a bit in 1997 and even appeared at Wrestlemania XIII.

 

[A11oftheLights]

Where would Jack Swagger be on the card if he hadnt got caught for drugs?

 

[klunderbunker]

Not much higher. At the end of the day, boring is boring.

 

[A11oftheLights]

I dont know, had Rusev already had the US title and Swagger had beaten him for it back at Summerslam I think he wouldve been pretty over