Friday, November 7, 2008, 08:09 PM EST
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Hello friends and Fan Nation members. Welcome to the Under The Mat Trivia Game (week of 11/10/08-11/16/08). Sorry for the hiaedus, but was dealing with health probs, then believe it or not, the same day I got back on here, my router died. My broadband provider is Verizon and It's the 2'nd time in 3 months that it died. It took EXACTLY a week for them to replace it and get me back up, this time. Still have probs with some parts of this site causing my Internet Explorer to shut down. Not sure if it's related. But anyway, congratulations again to the last AND CURRENT UTM Champion, in fact 2 time Womens UTM Champion, Stephanie You can visit her profile and check out her Womens UTM Championship Belt : http://fans.wwe.com/irish_temper
Fan Nation! Are You READDDYYY!!!!! Then Let's Get Ready To Rumbbbllleee!!!!!
1) After parting ways with the NWA, when WWE was still the WWWF, who is the ONLY (Then Current) NWA World Champion, to ever wrestle in WWF(WWE) and ALLOWED to be billed as the NWA World Champion and also allowed to wear AND use the NWA World Title, WHILE in WWF(WWE) ?
2) Degeneration X is no longer a FULL TIME FUNCTIONAL GROUP. What is the only current FUNCTIONING Degeneration group? (Clue : It was started by an original DX member.)
3) Former WWE star of the 80's and early 90's, the Repo Man, was a former 3 time WWF Tag Team Champion, before becoming Repo Man, when he became a replacement in WHAT well known tag team?
4) This is a 2 part question. Stone Cold Steve Austin, before coming to WWF(WWE), was a former WCW and NWA (Joint) World Tag Team Champion with WHO, as his partner? What was the name of the tag team?
5) Another Austin question. After being fired from WCW, before coming to WWE as the Ringmaster, Austin showed up in ECW and wrestled for the ECW Title, but lost to WHO?
As always, DO NOT leave answers in a COMMENT, as others can see them. Instead, come by and MESSAGE ME at : http://fans.wwe.com/netureboy The winner will be the 1st to respond with ALL the correct answers and WILL BE ANNOUNCED on here on Monday, around the start of Raw. Good luck to all who play! By the way, Main Event Mafia 4 Life!!!
Tuesday, October 28, 2008, 12:38 AM EST
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Hello everyone. Sorry I'm late again, just woke up. Still haven't gotten used to my new meds yet. So without any further ado, your New Under The Mat Champion and now, a 2 time UTM Womens Champion, is ♫♪♫♪ Stephanie ♫♪♫♪! You can visit her page and congratulate her yourselves, at http://fans.wwe.com/determinationpaysoff Here are the questions and answers she was 1st to respond with :
1) What Spanish BORN WWE Superstar is a former NCAA basketball all-star and was a junior high school substitute English teacher before becoming a pro wrestler? -Kane (Glen Jacobs)
2) What do the initials CM in CM Punk actually stand for? It was the name of a tag team he was in, when he started in wrestling. -Chick Magnet
3) HBK, Shawn Michaels< was trained by what legendary luchadore? -Jose Lothario
4) At WCW's Starcade 89, the Road Warriors(LOD) won the Iron Team Tournament, but WHO won the Iron Man Tournament? -Sting
5) What wrestler invented the move known as the moonsault? -FIRST wrestler to use it in USA was Leaping Lanny Poffo, but was invented in Japan by the Great Muta (Keiji Mutoh)
Thanks to all of you who played and thanks for your continued support. If any of you'd like to talk, I should be on regular again, tomorrow. By the way, Main Event Mafia 4 Life!!!
Friday, October 24, 2008, 09:52 PM EST
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Hello friends and Fan Nation members. Welcome to the Under The Mat Trivia Game (week of 10/27/08-11/02/08). Sorry I'm late, had trouble remembering password due to new meds I'm taking makes me a little forgetful. Congratulations, once again, to your current Under The Mat Champion :
Fan Nation! Are You READDDYYY!!!!! Then Let's Get Ready To Rumbbbllleee!!!!!
1) What Spanish BORN WWE Superstar is a former NCAA basketball all-star and was a junior high school substitute English teacher before becoming a pro wrestler?
2) What do the initials CM in CM Punk actually stand for? It was the name of a tag team he was in, when he started in wrestling.
3) HBK, Shawn Michaels< was trained by what legendary luchadore?
4) At WCW's Starcade 89, the Road Warriors(LOD) won the Iron Team Tournament, but WHO won the Iron Man Tournament?
5) What wrestler invented the move known as the moonsault?
As always, DO NOT leave answers in a COMMENT, as others can see them. Instead, come by and MESSAGE ME at http://fans.wwe.com/netureboy The winner will be the 1st to respond with ALL the correct answers and WILL BE ANNOUNCED on here on Monday, around the start of Raw. Good luck to all who play! By the way, Main Event Mafia 4 Life!!!
Hello everyone and Welcome to My Opinion on Kane. This is a request from my friend kat at http://fans.wwe.com/ktty I first became aware of Kane(Glen Jacobs) in 1993 from a very brief stint in WCW as Bruier Mastino. As of then, he had only been in the biz about a year. I thought he was raw and unrefined, but with his shear size and build, he had a bright future. After WCW he went to Jerry Jarrett's USWA, where he wrestled as Doomsday and The Christmas Creature. Soon after, he went to Smoky Mountain Wrestling as Unabomb. SMW, at the time, was getting a push from WWF(WWE) as some of their stars were featured on WWF(WWE) programs and some of their titles were actually defended on WWF(WWE) shows and ppv's. In SMW, Unabomb formed a tag team, The Dynamic Duo, with another future WWF(WWE) star, Al Snow, and eventually won the SMW Tag Team Championships. Meanwhile, his skill level was getting better and better, and he caught the eyes of the WWF(WWE) creative team.
WWE first brought Jacobs in as Dr Isaac Yankem DDS. A demented dentist brought in by Jerry Lawler, to help in a feud with Bret Hart. This was a poor gimmick, that soon died out and was scrapped. A short time later, after the WWF(WWE) departures of Kevin Nash and Scott Hall, who had played the TRADEMARKED characters of Deisel and Razor Ramon, Jacobs was brought back in, in an even worse and shorter lived gimmick, as the "Fake Outsiders" Deisel. The Fake Outsiders(Deisel and Ramon) actually won the PWI Worst Gimmick of the Year Award for 1996. By the 2nd failed WWF(WWE) gimmick, most wrestlers careers would be dead. They've killed so many carrers with failed gimicks. More times than none, it's not the actual abilities of the wrestler that are no good, just the gimmicks.
Finally though, the creative team hit 1 out of the park, with the character of Kane. He was brought in as the kayfabe masked brother of the Undertaker. Contrary what WWE has said, they are of NO RELATION. I thought Kane would be great. A big man with true ability. With the storyline and his size, I thought he would be a monster heel and a dominant force. But as usual, even to today, the creative team really dropped the ball on the Kane character and has STILL never picked that ball back up yet. The monster heel that could've been so dominant for so long was allowed to be so dominant by creative, that his ONLY WWF(WWE) World Heavyweight Championship reign lasted all of 1 day. What a great gimmick and outstanding performer WWE turned into such a huge dissapointment. Don't get me wrong, I love Kane, I just hate that his character was never used to it's full potential.
Now he's locked in yet another dead end feud, this time with Mysterio. Again, don't get me wrong, I've always liked Mysterio since he 1st started wrestling here in the states, but we all know that if wrestling WAS real, Rey wouldn't last 3 minutes with Kane. I understand that since Rey is the only hispanic wrestler in the company, since Dos Caras redecided against sighning with WWE, WWE has to put him over to quiet more equal rights and racism allegations. It's just a shame that Kane has to be the 1 USED for this. Especially when Rey even hanging with Kane, let alone, beating Kane, DOES NOT LOOK EVEN REMOTELY REAL. If WWE wants to put over hispanics, there are so many more with size, that could fit the bill. Kane truly deserves to be a dominant world champ and I'd love to see that. But I guess, since creative really doesn't seem to have a clue, we'll have to continue settling for the huge dissapointment known as Kane. As always, that's my opinion. What's yours?
