KB Answers Wrestling Questions

[Bockwinkel's Class]

Because this is WWE and we must praise Ric Flair, no matter how overrated he is.

It could be worse: We could be forced to praise Hogan no matter how overrated HE is

 

[klunderbunker]

It's nowhere near as bad as Flair.

 

[Bockwinkel's Class]

It's nowhere near as bad as Flair.

Only because they're on a Flair kick right now. At some point their worm will turn and they'll be back to force-feeding everyone Hogan at vomit inducing levels.....rinse and repeat.

 

[klunderbunker]

But at least Hogan means something in WWE history and doesn't tell Mick Foley that he overstayed his welcome.

 

[Bockwinkel's Class]

But at least Hogan means something in WWE history and doesn't tell Mick Foley that he overstayed his welcome.

Foley has historically been overhyped too. And WWE history is of no more (and no less) important to me than, say, the AWA history. For better or worse the WWE has become the steward of ALL wrestling history not just it's own sectarian portion of it.

 

[klunderbunker]

True, but Hogan means far more to wrestling than Flair by about ten million miles.

 

[Dan Severn's Moustache]

If you take Hogan out of wrestling, the wrestling boom never would have happened. If you take Flair out, we wouldn't have lost anything at all of that magnitude. It's really that simple.

 

[Bockwinkel's Class]

True, but Hogan means far more to wrestling than Flair by about ten million miles.

Far more to 10 year olds.....but there's more to wrestling than just what Junior has been marketing to kids since 1985 (with a break for the Attitude era). There's a reason Hogan never really got over in WCW until his heel turn: The NWA/WCW had always been marketed to and presented for adults and their fans weren't exactly thrilled to see Junior's cartoon stuff being pushed.

 

[klunderbunker]

Far more to 10 year olds.....but there's more to wrestling than just what Junior has been marketing to kids since 1985 (with a break for the Attitude era). There's a reason Hogan never really got over in WCW until his heel turn: The NWA/WCW had always been marketed to and presented for adults and their fans weren't exactly thrilled to see Junior's cartoon stuff being pushed.

Hogan was insanely over in WCW. Bash at the BEach 1994 made money hand over fist. It didn't last forever but make no mistake about it: Hogan was a big deal in WCW.

 

[Bockwinkel's Class]

Hogan was insanely over in WCW. Bash at the BEach 1994 made money hand over fist. It didn't last forever but make no mistake about it: Hogan was a big deal in WCW.

Bash at the Beach made money over the Hogan-Flair showdown ie the "fantasy" matchup everyone wanted to see in the '80s. What happened when they took that fantasy showdown with Flair out of the equation? Buyrates dropped by 40%.

 

[klunderbunker]

I'd advise you to look at what the numbers were doing in 1992/1993. Hogan dragged the company out of bog. His numbers may have gone down after that, but they were still up significantly.

 

[Bockwinkel's Class]

I'd advise you to look at what the numbers were doing in 1992/1993. Hogan dragged the company out of bog. His numbers may have gone down after that, but they were still up significantly.

'92 and '93 was when Bill Watts and Rhodes/Anderson were putting out crap ("Lost in Cleveland" anyone?): They really had no where to go but up at that point.

 

[klunderbunker]

But it took Hogan to get them there.

 

[Bockwinkel's Class]

But it took Hogan to get them there.

Did it? Or was it Flair returning in the last quarter of '93? Or more to point, was it Scott Hall jumping the rail on Nitro that got them there? I'm inclined to believe it's the latter.

 

[klunderbunker]

Flair helped but it didn't bring them up that high. Flair really didn't mean much for a lot of the boom.

Hall was a big deal but without Hogan there it never hits that high of a level.q

 

[#MrScissorsKick]

Mickie James or Beth Phoenix?

Who's better?

 

[klunderbunker]

Mickie.

 

[#MrScissorsKick]

When will these Ascension guys from NXT be called up?

 

[klunderbunker]

Probably by Summerslam.

 

[#MrScissorsKick]

How are Pay per View payouts handled?

I mean is it like, ok you're on the pre-show so you get "X" amount of dollars and you're in the main event so you get "Y" amount of dollars? If you get what I mean.

 

[klunderbunker]

The payouts are usually a flat rate (obviously depending on your level on the card. By that I mean individual level. If for some reason Cena was fighting Titus O'Neil, Cena would of course make far more because of his star power), but the real money is in the royalties from DVD sales. It's why people care so much about about getting on Wrestlemania. It sells so many copies that it brings in a healthy check for months. I know Robbie McCallister was supposed to get $5000 for Wrestlemania one year and he was just in a battle royal.

 

[.]

Uso's vs Rowan & Harper stole the show at last months PPV and now they are having a 2/3 falls match that could potentially be MOTY.

Who should win and who will win?

 

[klunderbunker]

Wyatts and Wyatts.

 

[Lee]

Has hell frozen over?

http://www.wwe.com/superstars/jeff-jarrett

 

[klunderbunker]

Nah. Just that Austin isn't working there anymore.