KB Answers Wrestling Questions

[klunderbunker]

Do you think we'll see some sort of multi man battle royale for a title shot at the next PPV be the pre show match at Summerslam? I figured there's a lot of guys not on the card that probably should be and this night be an easy way to get them on there.


Also, just to let you know on your site the article about the 5 man harcore justice tag match title says postpines instead of postponed. It didn't bother me just wanted to let you know.

Nah I doubt it.

Is the Raw World Title holder, no matter WWE or WHC, always the company's main attraction?

Did/does Big Show have a fan base? I don't see people popping for him, why is he so decorated?

Yes.

Not really. Because he's big and talented.

Do you think Eva Marie will do a non-scripted incident like a wardrobe malfunction just to garner some attention for whatever Hollywood aspirations she might have seeing shes been in a few indy movies

Perhaps but she'll be fired.

 

[MrHashasheen]

Hey, I'm a Big Show fan!

 

[Wolf Pac]

Best HHH theme by Motorhead; The Game, Line In The Sand or King Of Kings?

Best diva entrance theme that isn't All Things She Said by Tatu?

Best diva finisher?

 

[klunderbunker]

Game

Time to Rock and Roll

Litasault

 

[savage29]

Is Cena/Bryan gonna look like Backlash 2000?

 

[klunderbunker]

I wouldn't be complaining if it was.

 

[savage29]

So you would be alright with it being overbooked?

I think it should be a straight up one on one match.

 

[klunderbunker]

It should be.

 

[scomvp316]

I was thinking with SSlam being WWE's second biggest PPV do you think it should be outside CA has plenty of stadiums to choose from AZ has a few as well and I would include NV were the Wolfpack play home football games which is outside of Vegas with plenty of hotels and restaurants for a college town

 

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Would you have any sort of issue with the Uso's winning the Tag titles only to lose them to the Wyatt family a month later?

 

[klunderbunker]

I was thinking with SSlam being WWE's second biggest PPV do you think it should be outside CA has plenty of stadiums to choose from AZ has a few as well and I would include NV were the Wolfpack play home football games which is outside of Vegas with plenty of hotels and restaurants for a college town

That could work.

Would you have any sort of issue with the Uso's winning the Tag titles only to lose them to the Wyatt family a month later?

None.

 

[Alex]

When exactly did the Cena hate start. I vaguely remember him being universally cheered when he joined Raw in 2005 but being booed around the start of 2006.

 

[klunderbunker]

It was around late 2005 when he got ore serious.

 

[Pay Per Ghost]

Why did WWE move to TNN in 2000?

 

[klunderbunker]

The USA contract ran out and TNN offered the best deal.

 

[Pay Per Ghost]

I wanna know more so I'll ask more questions:

USA has always touted Raw as premier programming, why did they not offer a new contract?

When did they go back to USA?

Why didn't any Network pick up WCW? As in when Bschoff brought in the conglomerate, why couldn't they just find another network willing to broadcast Nitro? Was wrestling that outdated in 2001?

 

[klunderbunker]

I seem to remember Vince wanting to buy part of USA and that was the deal breaker.

USA offered better money to get them back.

Hardly. USA was willing to take WWE back, so obviously there was a market for it. Here's the secret that fans simply don't want to admit: WCW was dead and was such a financial sink hole that no one was willing to give them the chance. It wasn't Jamie Kellner, it wasn't some corporate doing, it was WCW being horrible in 1999 and 2000 that brought it down.

 

[Pay Per Ghost]

How much were they in the hole? I have heard some unbelievable numbers.

So, and I have known this for a while, WCW, was just bad investment. It was the anti-thesis of wrestling prosperity. But still, you would think, that some big wig out there would take the reigns and get their shit together.


For the life of me, WCW was born from Turner, there must have been another sugar daddy out there. Turner was a fan and a loyal fan at that. Plus he had a clash of egoes with Vince. All this played nicely to Bischoff's hand which gave him a bottomless pit of cash. WCW in the 90s had a revolving door of hochos trying to run the ship. And all of them failed on different levels.

So was the case really of investors (who had little knowledge of the product) having heard the stories and known about WCW's books that kept them at bay from really pushing through for a TV deal?

 

[klunderbunker]

For over a year they lost a million bucks a week.

Not really. WCW was VERY profitable in 1996-1998. Then the bottom fell out because of the mismanagement of the on screen product. 1999 really was that bad.

Not so much that. More along the lines of they owed so much money and had no business left. Back in 1997 they were bringing in a fortune to pay for those expenses. At that point yes, a lot of people would buy into the company. In 2001 though, no one was watching the show, no one was going to the shows and no one was buying the PPVs. They were such a damaged brand that there was nothing left at that point.

 

[Pay Per Ghost]

But didn't they still have sellouts or close to sellouts at Nitro week in week out in 2000?

I know the PPV Buyrates were always shambolic. Ratings were damn one sided at the turn of the millenium and Raw had pulled ahead and were staying there. But still, it just feels like this is an issue of a huge, huge, HUGE debt that the company owed, and no investor was willing to pay all of it.

 

[Fire Marshall Bill]

I remember watching back then. I was big on WCW back in the mid 90's. The first PPV I ever saw was 1996 Bash at the Beach. I had been watching every free televised second of the NWO since they'd debuted. But yeah, by 98/99, when I'd stopped watching to go off to college, it felt like every match was ending in some kind of NWO interference. It was monotonous. I literally barely remember anything else because it all felt the same.

 

[klunderbunker]

At MUCH smaller venues than they were in before.

It's much more than that. It's how bad the show was. There were no new stars, guys like the Radicalz, Jericho and Giant had all bailed and it was the sme old guys on top forever and ever.

 

[Pay Per Ghost]

Stale programming to boot, ye I see. It just still feels like something could've been done. I know this is a Hail Mary but if Bischoff and Harvey's group had bought the company and got maybe a USA deal, that would've been interesting?

Yes obviously there would've been shakeups, but Bischoff (when not being thrown around by Hogan and Nash) had some good ideas. or atleast he copied good ideas. His education in wrestling wasn't unimpressive.

 

[klunderbunker]

It wasn't bad but at the end of the day, WWF was going to win because Vince was flat out better than Bischoff and had more talent. Bischoff basically had a big checkbook and a few stolen ideas. That's it.

 

[Pay Per Ghost]

Ye, I wouldn't have really mind if they peacefully co-existed with WCW being where TNA is at the moment. Although, with the roster and the influence you could say it still has that WCW genome.

Here's a fun one, On SD last week, Christian Vs ADR right? And the fans start chanting "USA USA". This tickled my funny bone for obvious reasons but got me thinking. Either the USA chants are now a part of ADR's heel schtick or that ADR is finally becoming a good heel so much so that the fans don't even realize how stupid it is to chant that when the other guy in there is Canadian.

ADR gettin better at being heel? You have to admit ditching Ricardo was the right thing to do.