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Weekly Quiz

"Halloween Havoc - Part 1"

October 22, 2007

Welcome to the Armpit wrestling quiz for the week of October 22, 2007.  Halloween is near, which means it’s time to review wrestling’s October tradition (which has since disappeared), Halloween Havoc.

These days, Halloween comes and goes.  But from 1989 until the dying days of WCW, we had Halloween Havoc, and for the most part, it was lots of fun.  Tony Schiavone and Paul Heyman, among others, would get all dressed up, and watching the show was a nice break from the new school year that most of us were going through back then.  It’s amazing how things have changed, as back then it was something to really look forward to, even if some of the Havoc shows didn’t deliver.

This will be a two-part quiz, and we’ll ask a question about each year of Halloween Havoc from the very beginning all the way to the bitter end.  Let’s now begin, “Halloween Havoc, Part 1.”

Last week's answers:

-Austin left WWE in 2002 after being asked to lose to Brock Lesnar.  Just the fact that they wanted to do that match with no buildup at all shows how incredibly stupid the booking was back then.  Ok, it still is. 

-Rick Rude appeared on Nitro and Raw on the same night.

-That was Lex Luger who showed up on the very first episode of Nitro, shocking the television viewing audience.

-Brock Lesnar played some NFL games in the pre-season, but not in the regular season.  In fact, one memorable game was against our very own 49ers, on Vikings turf.  After Lesnar made a tackle in the 4^th quarter, the crowd roared and they showed clips of Lesnar doing the F5 on SmackDown.  If Lesnar signs with UFC (and I see a fight with Couture as the only way UFC can get Randy back), I don’t think we’ll be seeing WWE clips on Spike TV.

-Jim Herd was in charge of WCW in 1990 when Cornette left.  Back then, wrestling fans hated Herd with a passion that few have seen since.  Today in TNA, with Russo in charge, hardcore fans couldn’t care less.  They hate Russo being booker, and they know it’s bad for business, but they stopped caring a long time ago.  How Russo is TNA booker when you have Cornette and Heyman as free agents is one of life’s great mysteries.

Here are this week's questions.  Remember, the new rules are that you no longer need to submit your questions, and no winners will be declared.  We're just doing this for fun and to honor the forgotten world of wrestling history.

1.  Halloween Havoc ’89 saw a Thunderdome main event pitting Ric Flair and Sting against Terry Funk and the Great Muta.  In the match, Flair delivered an elbow to Funk’s throat that missed by a mile; a rare slip by the Nature Boy in the greatest year of his career.  Also in this match, Jim Ross made comparisons to Sting’s old tag team partner, who happened to be headlining over in WWF at the time.  Ross said Sting had accomplished far, far more than his ex partner ever did.  That was a dig at the competition, which back then was pretty rare for an announcer to do.  Whom was Ross referring to?

2.    1990 was a bad year for WCW, as the great feuds and matches of 1989 were long gone, and in their place were lame gimmicks and green wrestlers (the “Jim Herd era”).  In the main event of the Havoc show, Sid Vicious pinned Sting... or so it seemed.  The Sting was a fake.  In reality, who was this "Sting" that Sid pinned?

3.  Halloween Havoc ’91 featured wrestling’s most famous electrocution, as Abdullah the Butcher fried before our very eyes.  It was an abomination, but the undercard was decent.  Future legend “Stunning” Steve Austin was there, having a great match with whom?

4.    The less said about Havoc ’92, the better.  To this day, it remains one of the worst PPV’s of all time (the “Bill Watts era”), and if you’re ever having trouble falling asleep, pop in the Rude-Chono match, which was boring beyond belief.  The crowd was cold, too, at least to the product presented to them.  Two years later, the same crowd would be hot as a pistol for glorified indie shows.  What famous city was Havoc ’92 held in?

5.   Havoc ’93 was a little better, thanks to a near 5-star classic between Vader and Cactus Jack.  That match has been forgotten in Foley’s career (since so few saw it), which is a shame, because this match was too brutal for words.  When Vader had Jack on his back, on the rampway, and then fell straight backwards, the thud was sickening and I don’t know how Foley wasn’t squashed like a grape.  Imagine falling hard on the floor, on your back, with 400 pounds crashing on top of you.  What was the stipulation of that match?   

Answers will be posted next week.

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