Welcome to a new website-exclusive PWTorch feature! I am PWTorch founder and editor, Wade Keller. I've been covering pro wrestling since 1987 when I started the Pro Wrestling Torch Newsletter while still in high school. Over 25 years later, PWTorch reaches more wrestling fans every week than any other independent brand. When we launched PWTorch.com in 1999, one of the features I enjoyed doing the most was "Ask PWTorch," a feature we had previously run in the Pro Wrestling Torch Newsletter in the previous dozen years. I haven't done it recently on the website, but did revive it in recent years in an audio format for PWTorch VIP members on my Keller Hotline a couple times a week. We reintroduced it to the website audience last month. We have posted it every mid-day since the beginning of May.

If you have a question you'd like me to respond to, send your question to askpwtorch@gmail.com. I, along with the Torch staff, will address you questions.

PWTorch reader Mario from Minneapolis, Minn. asks: I was skimming through the Hulk Hogan vs. Ultimate Warrior match from WrestleMania 6 and I was paying attention to the crowd and how both wrestlers had the crowd in the palm of their hands popping loudly making this big fight feel that you don't see with most matches and seem to happen rarely. I compare it to Rock vs. Hogan at WrestleMania 18 years later, Rock vs. John Cena I and Cena vs. C.M. Punk in Chicago in 2011. What are some of yours and the staff favorite matches that had that big fight feel?

PWTorch East Coast Cast & Livecast host Travis Bryant answers: Rock-Hogan I from WrestleMania 18 literally gave me at almost 22 years old goose bumps.

PWTorch columnist Sean Radican answers: I have several favorites. From the old ROH era, it didn't get better than the atmosphere for Samoa Joe vs. Kenta Kobashi. The crowd was buzzing before the match and reacted to every strike and big move both men hit each other with throughout the match. Moving forward to more recent matches, it's hard not to mention Samoa Joe vs. Kurt Angle at Lockdown 2008, which the crowd was buzzing for throughout the show leading up to their main event match. TNA built that match better than any of their matches in history I feel and made fans really anticipate those two colliding in a realistic fight inside the cage. In recent years, Triple H vs. Undertaker at WrestleMania 27 and 28 both had that big fight feel, especially the way they set the stage for the rematch at WrestleMania 28.

PWTorch columnist Greg Parks answers: You hit on a couple, most notably Rock vs. Hogan (although the build-up wasn't great, the crowd at the show is what gave it the big-fight feel). I think, from WCW, Sting vs. Hogan at Starrcade 1997 had a big fight feel as far as how the match was built. The actual match itself didn't live up to the billing, however. Even in TNA, Samoa Joe vs. Kurt Angle had the same big fight feel. Many of the Undertaker's recent Wrestlemania matches have had such a feel. The big fight feel has been absent in WWE for a lot of full-time wrestlers, thanks in part to the number of hours of TV WWE must fill each week, making it difficult for matches to feel as "special" anymore.

PWTorch reader Tommy asks: Was there any particular reason why Crockett treated the formerly prestigious NWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship as if it was something he inherited by default and had no intention of pushing? I know that Denny Brown was a talented athlete, and late in his career here in Florida, a credible heel, but in Mid-Atlantic, he and his challengers were all jobbers, or JTTS's at best, against anyone else over 230 lbs. They didn't necessarily have to live up to the reign of Danny Hodge, but give me a break!

PWTorch senior columnist Bruce Mitchell answers: At the time nobody in the U.S. was featuring junior heavyweights or a heavy wrestling based style because the feeling was fans would be bored by both, particularly in combination. The original Tiger Mask/ Dynamite Kid revolution wouldn't make it to the States for years to come.

PWTorch reader Paul D. asks: If Jack Swagger goes to jail for his speeding/DUI/marijuana arrest, what will WWE do with Zeb Colter? Will they write him off or will he get a new wrestler to manage? And if so, who do you see as a potential heel for him to manage? I see WWE bringing in a heel from NXT like Leo Kruger or doing what they did with Big E. Langston and introduce a face like Bo Dallas or Corey Graves to the main roster as a heel.

A: If something happens with Swagger, I'd like Colter to stick around if only because he has done a fantastic job in his role. The only problem is he's been almost TOO good, overshadowing Swagger. WWE has to find a way for Colter to keep up his gimmick without hogging the heat he's supposed to be getting for his client. If he's to keep the same character, there doesn't seem to be anyone on the current roster that you could pair with him, so in that regard, maybe it would be best to bring up someone from developmental. Then again, maybe Vince McMahon will have another trademark change of heart and decide he doesn't want managers anymore.


PWTorch reader Kelly S. writes: Hello. I remember Jimmy Hart's Glamour Girls and the Jumping Bomb Angels fueding over the WWE Women's Tag Team titles for a short time in the late 80's. Why did the WWE create those belts in the late 80's if they were going to eliminate them so quickly thereafter?

PWTorch columnist Pat McNeill replies: For one thing, WWE didn't create those belts. The NWA had a Women's World Tag Team Championship that can be traced back as far as 1952, and the titles were occasionally defended in the WWF, since the WWF was part of the National Wrestling Alliance. When the WWF split from the NWA in 1983, the McMahons immediately hired the NWA Women's Tag Team Champions, Velvet McIntyre & Princess Victoria, and installed them as the first WWF Women's Tag Team Champions. Much like today, WWF was fickle about booking women's wrestling, and abandoned the WWF Women's tag team titles in 1989.

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PWTorch VIP member Marc from New York asks: Hey Wade, assuming that C.M. Punk and Chris Jericho plan to have a full-fledged match, rather than an angle, would it make sense to have them be the main event tonight instead of Cena vs. Ryback? It would be no favor to Cena, or Ryback, to have to go on after the match that most fans in the building came to see. In normal circumstances having Cena and Ryback main event isn't really a problem, but with this being CM Punk's return to WWE, in his home arena, WWE may be fighting a losing battle trying to follow a potentially emotionally draining four-star match. Ninety-five percent of the time the face of the company and the WWE champ Cena should have the main event, but would this be the five percent of the time where it would benefit Cena to not main event? Nobody in WWE wants to see Cena vs. Ryback get the Goldberg vs. Lesnar treatment from WM20, where both guys got booed which besides silence is the worst reaction you can get. So would WWE put Cena and Ryback into this potentially detrimental situation? What are the odds of the crowd turning on the match in your opinion? And how much do certain crowds like in N.Y. or Chicago influence match order on a PPV? Thanks for reading and keep up the great work.

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