Random PPV Facts

[The Crock]

I don't blame you. Just awful matches.

Awful matches? Hey now, The Kat could work.

 

[The Brain]

Hey you can't just go in order until you get it right. WM1 is wrong thanks to David Sammartino among a few others.

 

[JGlass]

Wrestlemania 9?

 

[The Brain]

Not WM9 thanks to Giant Gonzalez

 

[Joe's Gonna Kill You]

14?

 

[The Brain]

I guess this is harder than I thought. I guess I shouldn't expect everyone to be as big a mania geek as I am.

 

[The Brain]

Not 14. It was the only mania that featured The Rock n Roll Express among others.

 

[The Brain]

Process of elimination is going to give the answer away soon.

 

[JGlass]

Ahh stupid Giant Gonzalez, I was worried about him. I was banking on him being in the gimmick battle royal that one year.

 

[The Holy One]

Wrestlemania 12

 

[The Brain]

WM12 is the correct answer. It took longer than I thought but I will deliver the rep I promised.

 

[The Holy One]

It was either b/w 9 or 12 for me but once you said it was wrong. I went with 12.

 

[JGlass]

Ahhh shit, I didn't realize Savio Vega was in Wrestlemania 13.

 

[The Brain]

Savio was in WM14 too. He was the first one eliminated from the battle royal that opened the show so he was easy to miss.

 

[The Holy One]

It's a good thing that Skip and Zip won the titles before Mania.

 

[The Brain]

Yeah I was wondering if that would throw someone off. Technically it wasn't part of the actual mania card.

 

[The Holy One]

I'm suprised Sunny (or the tag titles for that matter) wasn't enough for them to get on the card.

 

[The Brain]

They were pressed for time because of the iron man match. There were only six matches on the card. Mania wasn't four hours back then.

 

[The Holy One]

Well that makes sense b/c the Iron Man match is taking up 1/3 of the show. I'm suprised that Piper was actually a part of the company in 96. He must've left right after the event or somewhere close to it.

 

[The Brain]

He left right after. He was interm president while Gorilla Monsoon was recovering from an attack by Vader. Gorilla returned at mania. Rumor has it Razor Ramon was Goldust's original opponent but he was suspended before mania so Piper filled in.

 

[The Holy One]

He went from a Backlot Brawl match against Goldust at Mania to the main event against Hogan at Starrcade in the same year.

 

[The Brain]

I was disappointed when Piper showed up in WCW. I was always a WWE guy. It was bad enough seeing Hogan, Savage, Nash, Hall, Dibiase, among others over there. I always thought Piper was the one guy who would be WWE for life.

I'll try to come up with some more random facts and trivia soon.

 

[The Brain]

Ok I have a hard one. You have to be a true geek like me to get this one. There have been eleven wrestlers who have had at least a ten mania gap between mania matches. Can you name them all? Definite rep to the first to complete the list. I hope I’m right on this. I did it from memory without looking up anything. Yes I’m that big of a geek that I could do it from memory. Good luck. I won't hold my breath.

By the way it’s a ten mania gap, not a ten year gap. For example, Ric Flair would not be on the list. He was in WM8 and did not appear again until WM18. That’s ten years apart but there are only nine manias in that period.

 

[The Brain]

I already caught a mistake. Make that twelve instead of eleven. I'm not expecting many to actually try this.

 

[Mr. Artistic guy]

Not a clue on that trivia, just out of curiosity does anyone know if kane has the most consecutive royal rumble appearances now?