Welcome to The Armpit wrestling quiz for the week of October 10, 2016.
I was fortunate enough to have attended No Mercy, Raw, and SmackDown live in person this past week, and they were all a lot of fun. No Mercy in particular was a really good show because the crowd was blazing hot for the 3-way, and somehow topped themselves for Miz vs Ziggler. If you ever get the chance to attend a PPV or TV taping live, please do so because it’s always a good time.
This week we’re making a change to the quiz, as all answers will be multiple choice. This should make it somewhat easier for younger fans who may not have been following pro wrestling in the ‘80s and ‘90s, which many of our questions are based on.
Also, we’re working on putting together a prize for future winners, and that will be announced once it’s complete.
Last week saw a stellar main event between Charlotte and Sasha Banks on Raw, and we hope the success of the match will lead to more women’s main events on both Raw and SmackDown. In honor of that memorable match, the theme of this week’s quiz is “Women’s Wrestling – Part 1.”
(For purposes of this quiz, we’ll consider the modern women’s division in America to have started with the Fabulous Moolah/Wendi Richter era. Of course it really began decades before that, but we’ll focus on everything from 1984 on.)
Congrats to last week’s winner: Bill Jacobs.
Last week’s answers:
1) In 1987, the NWA purchased Bill Watts’s UWF (Mid-South Wrestling).
2) At Starrcade ’88, Ric Flair faced Lex Luger in what was a ****1/2 match.
3) Eric Bischoff was able to get Fusient Media Ventures to purchase WCW in 2001, although the deal fell apart before the WWF stepped in and snatched up WCW for dirt cheap.
4) Shane McMahon wanted the WWF to buy UFC. This was before the Fertittas stepped in.
5) NBC co-owned the XFL with the WWF, sharing in the huge financial losses suffered before the idea was scrapped. To think of what the WWF could’ve used that money for instead is mind boggling, including all those hefty WCW contracts for wrestlers they didn’t hire who could’ve really moved the needle.
This week’s questions:
Please email your answers to [email protected]. We will randomly generate a number to determine the winner. For example, if the number is 25 and you’re the 25th person to email us with correct answers, you win. We’ll announce your name here next week, along with anything you’d like to promote (assuming it’s not X-rated or illegal). It could be your name, blog, Twitter handle, or anything else you’d like us to mention.
Answers will be posted next week. Have fun and good luck.
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