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Time To Play The GAAAAAAME! Mwaahahahaah! Ian Hunter here, walking on to the fruity colorful rainbow of Skittles lights that looks '90s rave set to the sounds of Motorhead. So while I spit water at the audience and take forever getting to the ring, feel free to use this time to your advantage. You can balance your checkbook, remember where you parked your car, buy a bad slogan-ridden t-shirt, or ponder over the choices you made in your life. Like why you spent $75 bucks to watch me take up valuable promo and match time by walking to the ring. And while we're still waiting for that entrance to end, let's get back onto the Hitchhike to WrestleMania. But first we need to glance back over the photos we've already taken for our shoebox of memories and answer last week's questions.

1: B. Kamala was his opponent, but was taken out due to stomach poisoning. That's what you get for eating shrimp in the desert.

2: E. Sorry for the name being cut off, but most everyone knew who I was talking about. Corporal Kirschner was advertised to be a part of the battle, and was even featured in promos on Raw and Smackdown, but eventually ended up having an argument with Vince McMahon over his pay and was subsequently removed from the match and replaced with another American hero... Sgt. Slaughter.

3: B. The two were to have a cage match. Someone wrote in and said it was to be Hell In A Cell, but there's no way that's possible because the cell hadn't even been put on paper at this time yet.

4: B. Batista was supposed to be at WrestleMania, but an injury forced him out of the title and Angle took his place. What is it with the World Title and injuries? Maybe it should have been retired instead of the Cruiserweight belt.

5: E. Lord Alfred Hayes was due to be on commentary, but came down with a cold and was unable to carry through with the event. He later appeared as a fill-in commentator for "backstage" events on the home video release, but those were filmed later with wrestlers a week after the event.


This week we had no winners. Most everyone came close with just four right, but close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades. It's a whole new week and we're back on the road. Answer the questions and email your answers to TorchTrivia@gmail.com. We’ll post the names of those who got ALL FIVE correct. Good luck to you all!

Ricky "The Dragon" Steamboat [artist Joseph Borzotta]

1. Leaving Indiana in a 2001 Aztek, we fittingly make out way to the Pontiac Silverdome, home of WrestleMania III. What can I possibly say about this event that will do it justice? Roddy Piper vs. Adrian Adonis, Ricky Steamboat vs. Randy Savage, and Hogan vs. Andre. For those who were able to be there, truly nothing compares. Among the celebrities who attended the event were Bob Uecker, Mary Hart, Aretha Franklin and Alice Cooper. Cooper accompanied Jake "The Snake" Roberts to the ring in his battle with The Honky Tonk Man. Aside from the interviews given on talk shows and the small interview at the event done with "Mean" Gene Okerlund, Cooper never really talked about his time at the event until many years later when he appeared on VH1's "I Love The '80s". Which of these was an actual quote from Cooper on the event?

A: Boy, I wish I could tell you what it was like, but I was drunk half the night.
B: I wanted to bite a bat head off and feed it to the snake, but I was told it was "too carny."
C: Picture 8,000 women with blue hair screaming "kill him!"
D: I couldn't believe I was the second choice behind Ozzie.
E: I cried a little when Aretha sang.

2. From here we take a trip north in an old Ford Pinto and skip past WrestleMania 23… because that one just sucked and you know it. Why isn't it the new worst one ever?! Instead we’re going north over the Canadian border and onto the Skydome, the sight of WrestleMania VI. Now while this is an important event, most of the card had throwaway matches with little to no meaning behind them. This was mostly credited in part to the idea that all the company was focused on was getting Ultimate Warrior over with the fans as world champion, leaving very little planning behind the rest of the card. The few matches that had a storyline behind them going in were Piper vs. Bad News Brown, Roberts vs. DiBiase, and The Bossman vs. Akeem. All of the matches below were added to the card in the final week before the event, but which of these matches was thrown onto the card the day-of the event?

A. Earthquake vs. Hercules
B. The Barbarian vs. Tito Santana
C. The Hart Foundation vs. The Bolsheviks
D. Jim Duggan vs. Dino Bravo
E. Rick Rude vs. Jimmy Snuka

3. Next one is a write-in. Sticking around at the arena, fast forward twelve years to WrestleMania X8. The Rock and Hollywood Hogan doing battle with an audience firmly behind Hogan, the Hardcore Championship changing twelve times, Undertaker continuing his streak over Ric Flair, and Triple H made his triumphant (and predictable) return to the top as champion over Chris Jericho. Now if you're any kind of hardcore wrestling fan, you've already heard the stories of Edge and Christian being at WrestleMania VI and reliving the dream years later in the same arena. But there was another name who not only was a participant in WrestleMania VI, but was also a wrestler in WrestleMania X8. Who was this person?

4. Hitching a ride in rusted Dauphine, we make our way southeast and back across the border to the old FleetCenter in Boston, and the home of WrestleMania XIV. This was the one that officially broke the bottle on the ship that was the Attitude era. Shamrock vs. The Rock, Triple H vs. Owen Hart, The Dumpster Match, Undertaker vs. Kane (Round 1 of 50 it seems now, huh?), and of course Steve Austin vs. Shawn Michaels. One of the most overlooked but exciting matches of the evening was the Tag Team Battle Royal at the start of the evening, which ended in the returning Road War-, I mean L.O.D. 2000 winning a shot at the tag titles at the next PPV. Our question to you, how many teams did the members of L.O.D. eliminate?

A. 7
B. 5
C. 3
D. 1
E. 0

5. From here we travel southwest in an old De Lorean and go back a whole three years to Hartford, Connecticut. Straight to the Hartford Civic Center (now the awful XL Center) and the home of what fans consider the second worst in the series… WrestleMania XI. King Kong Bundy vs. Undertaker, Razor Ramon vs. Jeff Jarrett, Bret Hart vs. Bob Backlund, and a few others that aren’t worth mentioning. One of the big reasons it’s considered one of the worst is that the already questionable main event title match between Michaels and Kevin "Diesel" Nash was bumped to second behind Bam Bam Bigelow vs. football star Lawrence Taylor. Low PPV buys and bad reviews tanked the event, and having Jenny McCarthy as a valet for Michaels didn’t help. To further solidify how bad this PPV was, the WWF tried desperately to make more money off of it by packaging the last two matches of the card onto a one-hour special that aired later on prime time network. What network was the show aired on?

A. ABC
B. FOX
C. CBS
D. NBC
E. WB

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