KB Answers Wrestling Questions

[klunderbunker]

Face

 

[FunKay the Inevitable]

Were you aware of Kurt Angle's neck problems coming into WrestleMania XIX, and if so, were you a little worried for him being in the ring with a freak of nature like Lesnar?

 

[klunderbunker]

I'm not sure if I was or not. I remember reading about it but I'm not sure if it was before or after.

 

[Muffin Top Merkley]

How would WCW have changed if Sting was revealed as the third man rather than Hogan?

 

[klunderbunker]

It would have been big but not huge

 

[Hologram]

Do you ever get the urge to do the Wrestlerock Rumble?

 

[klunderbunker]

Not particularly

 

[ThUnDeRpHoEnIx]

Greatest Submission move of all time?

and

Which submission recieves the biggest pop?(can be from any time period)

 

[.]

Allegedly in the ministry "higher power" angle, Ted Dibiase was discussed but Jake Roberts was supposed to be revealed as the higher power but due to his terrible drunk appearance at that legends of wrestling event it was decided to be Vince(Which made no sense). How do you think the angle would've played out with Jake as a cult like leader for the ministry. My favourite mic work from Jake was when he was the disturbed man stalking Randy Savage and Miss Elizabeth.

 

[Paralyzer Z]

Worst crowd of all time?

 

[klunderbunker]

I'll go with Flair's Figure Four. It's just awesome and has won so many championships. For biggest pop, Benoit making HHH tap in the Garden is way up there.

Considering the Higher Power was revealed as Vince about 4 months before Heroes of Wrestling, I have some issues with that story.

Nothing pops into my head. Mania in Houston this past year maybe?

 

[Mighty NorCal]

Is it just me, or was the crowd at WM 5 fucking ASLEEP the whole show?

 

[.]

It wasn't the heroes of wrestling event. It was another one about 6 months prior.

 

[klunderbunker]

Yeah they were Norcal. They were businessmen, not wrestling fans. Also the show was REALLY long and other than Hogan vs. Savage and a surprisingly good Rude vs. Warrior match, there's nothing a casual fan is going to care about at all.

The only legends show where Jake caused an incident was Heroes, at least that I've heard of.

 

[Mighty NorCal]

That was a weird Mania. My 8 year old mind remembered it much more fondly than the show I watched last night

 

[FunKay the Inevitable]

Jake Roberts' biggest days in the pro wrestling world were in the 80's but his biggest contribution is his loss to Steve Austin at King of the Ring 1996. Agree or disagree?

 

[klunderbunker]

Not at all. Roberts brought the idea of getting inside someone's head into wrestling. The idea that he could hit the DDT just like that has brought that style of a finisher to the forefront. Now you have guys like Orton that can hit the RKO at any given second or DDP with the Cutter. That wasn't how it worked before Jake. That and inventing the DDT would be the biggest contributions.

 

[Awesome_Miz]

what do you think of R-Truth and The Miz as a tag team.

 

[klunderbunker]

It's not like they've got anything else to do so why not?

 

[MrHashasheen]

In the mid-to-late 1980s, the MSW began to expand nationally.[1] In 1985, Ted Turner invited Watts to air his Mid-South Wrestling program on SuperStation TBS as an alternative to the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) programming that ran on Saturday nights. Turner was angered with Vince McMahon and the WWF because McMahon reportedly promised Turner a studio-produced program, but he instead presented a two hours of highlights from other WWF programming (See: Black Saturday (1984)). (Eventually, the WWF would have in-studio squash matches on the show on an infrequent basis.) MSW quickly became the highest-rated program on TBS, and Watts positioned himself to take over the two-hour Saturday block occupied by the WWF. His luck ran out when former Georgia promoter Jim Barnett helped broker a deal that allowed NWA promoter Jim Crockett, Jr. to buy the slot from McMahon and become the exclusive wrestling promotion for TBS. The deal, however, forced the elimination of the Mid-South Wrestling program from the TBS schedule. Watts made one more attempt at going national the following year under the auspices of the Universal Wrestling Federation.

If MSW and Watts had bought the block, do you think they could have gone national and become a third contender versus JCP and the WWF?

 

[klunderbunker]

Given how bad the 92 WCW Watts time was, I doubt it.

 

[Awesome_Miz]

Do you still think Triple H vs Undertaker will happen

 

[klunderbunker]

I doubt it but it's not impossible.

 

[MrHashasheen]

Given how bad the 92 WCW Watts time was, I doubt it.

I don't think that's quite fair. 92 Watts was burnt-out booking wise, and dealing with a completely different situation than he was in 88. Not to mention the TBS deal was instrumental for JCP's mad annexation spree of the NWA.

 

[klunderbunker]

Yeah but it was still bad. His general idea of booking was terribly boring and he pushed all the wrong guys while also getting rid of stuff off the top. His love of really old school and "legit" style is horribly boring for TV and he simply did not care, which shows a lot in his time on top of a major company.