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Halloween Havoc 1992

Spin the wheel, make the deal. Famous words that 28 years later are making a return in professional wrestling along with the event...Halloween Havoc. This year, as we record this, an NXT Halloween Havoc event is planned.

But we’re talking about the original Spin The Wheel Make the Deal event. It’s WCW Halloween Havoc 1992! It happened on October 25, 1992 from the Philadelphia Civic Center before a reported attendance of 7,000. The event drew a reported 0.95 buyrate on PPV which was more than double what Beach Blast or Great American Bash did earlier in the year. The buyrate was unusually high considering what the numbers were before and after this show - which were about half. And a fun fact - this would be the highest PPV buyrate for a show from WCW until Bash at the Beach 1994, which was headlined by Hulk.

And while there was good news when the buyrate came in, there was not good news for most fans who watched this show. Over 84-percent gave it thumbs down - which is just great news if you’re doing a podcast :)

News:

Sagging Business...

More evidence of a decline in interest in wrestling came with last week's ratings...WWF had its lowest rated weekend in history. Prime Time did another 1.7 rating, tying its all-time non-holiday low. What made things worse was that this show by all rights should have done an artificially high rating coming off the Hart-Flair title change which should have increased interest at least for the weekend just out of mild curiosity, plus it was up against the weakest Monday Night Football game of the season. Because of the low ratings, expect to see the shows loaded up with "quality matches" as this past Monday had four "competitive" matches including Randy Savage vs. Shawn Michaels because ratings are now in the danger zone. All-American did set a record non-holiday low with a 1.5. On the WCW side, there were no record lows, but continued weak numbers with the Saturday night show headlined by Pillman & Austin vs. Rhodes & Armstrong doing a 1.9, while Main Event, with a Marcus Bagwell vs. Diamond Dallas Page headliner did a 1.5, its third lowest rating in history. Power Hour did a 1.6. Being that this is now October and viewing overall is way up from the summer yet the wrestling audience continues to drop makes this even more of a bad sign than it looks on the surface.

It was an especially painful time for the WWF but it wasn’t exactly rosey for WCW, either, right?

WCW President Bill Shaw called a meeting on 10/29 mainly to discuss the declining ratings. As has been pointed out numerous times, pro wrestling's primarily value to Superstation TBS since the beginning of time is it has been a program that can be produced cheaply, and deliver strong ratings. For years, the show as the highest rated program on cable television, and even in recent years was among the higher rated shows on the station. That is no longer the case, and ratings have fallen to the point where TBS can take a popular old-time 1960s comedy rerun or a strong movie from its shelf, with no cost, and deliver a larger audience than pro wrestling. With October ratings the lowest ever for both promotions, these November sweeps are the most important ever since that is what will determine advertising rates for the next several months. Expect both groups to load up on angles and match quality because if the ratings continue at this pace, it'll lead to yet another source of revenue being substantially down directly, and virtually all sources being hit indirectly.

Do you remember the Bill Shaw meeting following Halloween Havoc 92? What was or may have been said?

Rumors were in the sheets about the return of a big name to the WWF. Meltzer said no deal is made, but he was getting word it's better than 50-50 that Hulk Hogan will be back in early 1993.

At this time was there anyone who believed Hulk would end up working in WCW within two years?

A satellite television press conference with Jake Roberts took place to plug Havoc that made many television sports reports around the country. The funniest thing is that Roberts was talking very openly with no knowledge that it was going up on satellite like an hour before is was supposed to start and somebody found out and immediately put music over the voices, but it was audible at one point his complaining about the lack of medical coverage. Jake also used colorful language, joked about doing shrooms, and was, well, Jake…

We found the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tEWeC41zFc

Do you remember hearing about this snafu and was there any heat on anyone for it?

Jake Roberts was also on the Nashville Network on a talk show on 10/13 and pretty much was working to get over as a babyface.

Interesting times from Jake...

It was around this time that the Steiner brothers weren’t too happy with WCW...

Meltzer reported after a locker room incident on 10/5, Scott Steiner was removed from all house shows on the new bookings, including Halloween Havoc, just a few days after he had won the TV title from Rick Steamboat. Brother Rick of course, is out of action after tearing his pec in Japan. Rick isn't expected back until after both brothers' contracts expire in December. Scott was scheduled to appear on 10/14 and presumably drop the TV title in Dothan, AL, and then apparently would be given off with pay until the expiration of his contract. However, on 10/12, Steiner sent word to the office that he had suffered a deep thigh bruise in a 10/5 match against Steve Austin and had a doctor's recommendation that he stay out of the ring for three more weeks. The company almost assuredly wants him to do one last job, dropping the title, before no longer booking him. There is a lot of uncertainty as to whether or not Steiner will work the last shot and do the job or not.

We know he did not do the job and the belt was vacated on his way out.

Do you remember what caused the Steiners to be unhappy with Bill Watts? Do we know what the incident on 10/5 may have been?

Rumors over in the WWF were that we might get a new version of the Legion of Doom: Animal & Crush. But a report around this time said they won't be performing as Legion of Doom after all.

Meltzer said although neither will say so publicly, the split between Hawk and Animal is very much less than amicable. Both are mad at the other for not keeping the act together. Speaking of Hawk, he was backstage at the WCW show in St. Paul on Saturday night and looked huge, which I guess tells you one of the real reasons he's no longer in the WWF.

Hawk didn’t come to WCW until 1993 to work and then only for a short time.

Do you remember seeing him work backstage? And what did you think about the Road Warriors when they worked separately? Did it work?

The 10/19 Center Stage taping (air dates 10/24 and 10/31) was pretty much the Erik Watts show. In the first show, Paul E. Dangerously comes out with a masked man (Italian Stallion) called The Masked Intruder who I believe he said was going to take care of Rick Rude. So Intruder has his TV debut match against Watts, who, of course, beats him, and Paul E. goes nuts and slaps Intruder. Madusa comes out and they get into it and Madusa demands a meeting with Paul E. and Rude immediately. On the second show, Watts faced Bobby Eaton who was managed by both Michael Hayes and Dangerously this week (nothing like consistency), which ended up with Watts scoring the win by pinning Hayes when he interfered.

Looking back, it’s comical how hard Erik Watts was being forced on the audience. Did folks see it that way at the time, too?

Entertainment Tonight did a five minute puff feature on wrestlers outside the ring showing Hulk Hogan (acting), Johnny B. Badd (personal appearance), Slick (preaching), Jesse Ventura (as a mayor), Sting (riding a Harley) and Kendall Windham (running a video dating service). Meltzer said WCW PR guy Mike Weber must be tight with ET since they called Sting the most popular wrestler in America, which is something when Hogan was on the same piece.

That’s a pretty nice win for a WCW PR guy, though. Right?

The new entrance music for 11 different wrestlers will be released on a wrestling album called Slam Jam I by Jimmy Papa of Grand Theft Records in Texas (they did the Bad Street album with Michael Hayes a few years back). All the new entrance music will either debut at the PPV this weekend or at the 11/18 Clash and they'll be advertising the album in the wrestling magazines and perhaps release a video.

Most famously, this is the album that included the Man Called Sting theme. But it also introduced us to a lot of the themes we would hear throughout the 90s: Mr. Bang Bang (Cactus Jack’s theme, sometimes dubbed over his Cactus theme used in the late 90s in WWF on the Network); Simply Ravishing (Rick Rude); The Natural (Dustin Rhodes); Steinerized (The Steiner Brothers); And Johnny B. Badd, which we got to hear a lot in the coming years.

Any memories of this album? The lyrics are so bad!

A report from Meltzer said to show just how much WCW is being booked on the fly these days, the new WCW Magazine has several articles talking about Havoc. While Sting-Jake, Rude-Chono and Simmons-Barbarian were scheduled from the start, the original line-up had Gordy & Williams defending the tag titles against Steiners (Steiners were originally going to win the belts at Havoc), Steamboat defending the TV title against Austin and Cactus Jack vs. Rhodes in a falls count anywhere match.

Do you think a lot of the booking was done on the fly during this time?

Show Itself

HALLOWEEN HAVOC FINAL POLL RESULTS

• Thumbs up 50 (08.1%)
• Thumbs down 523 (84.2%)
• In the middle 48 (07.7%)

A. In the dark match, Erik Watts & Van Hammer beat Vinnie Vegas & Diamond Dallas Page in 12:00 when Watts pinned Page with an Oklahoma side roll. -*

Are you fucking kidding me? Erik Watts and Van Hammer beating Nash and DDP?

1. Tom Zenk & Shane Douglas & Johnny Gunn (Tom Brandi) beat Arn Anderson & Bobby Eaton & Michael Hayes in 11:02 when Gunn pinned Hayes with a Thesz press. This match had a good amount of heat, although the crowd was heavily cheering the heels. Many people mistakenly labeled the fans as "heel fans," but that's a misnomer because they didn't cheer the heel in any other match. Match varied from solid to kind of sloppy, depending on if Gunn or Hayes were in or not. Eaton did a great clip spot on Douglas to start some quick heat, and a kneedrop to Douglas' legit injured ankle (he hurt it six days earlier at a TV taping) along with a figure four. Well-paced opener and really the four guys who could work dominated the time, but there was nothing spectacular or out of the ordinary about the match. Gunn made the hot tag and they did a six-way before hitting the finish. Crowd booed the finish heavily. **½

This was like Raw after Wrestlemania fans went back in time and hijacked a 1992 show! But the heels worked the crowd into cheering louder and louder.

Did you like the match? Did you think the heels should have handled it differently? Because when Doot Doot Doot started strutting and asking the crowd if they agreed with his heel tactics, the crowd went crazy.

There was a weird moment on commentary worth bringing up. It might have been the most awkward moment of the show. Jesse Ventura says: “Shane Douglas looks like a right wing Republican.”

2. Rick Steamboat pinned Brian Pillman in 10:35 after a double reversal coming off a hot-looking sunset flip off the top rope by Steamboat. The action was very good, but it seemed they were just getting into it when they went to the finish. These guys could have used a little more time to do the PPV quality match that this looked to be on paper. Still, at this point, the show was pretty good. ***¼

What did you think of the match and would you have liked to see more?

Then came Bill Watts as the bearer of good news. After Missy Hyatt did her shtick of trying to find out who the referee the heels would pick for the Rude-Chono match with the segment ending with the idea put across that it would be a secret until match time, and the totally undramatic "Team Japan" picked Kensuke Sasaki to be the ref, Bill Watts came out for his "get himself over to the marks interview.” Watts announced Terry Gordy was suspended for a contract violation and would be out of the tag title match (Gordy actually quit the promotion that morning) and replaced by Steve Austin, and that "we just found out" it'll be Harley Race (as if the viewers were just told, which they did hint as Race walked by Missy as she was doing her shtick into Rude's dressing room) and Sasaki as the referees. Watts also said that there had been a court injunction and Rude wouldn't wrestle twice, but they are allowing Big Van Vader to wrestle Nikita Koloff and defend Rude's U.S. title for him. This was handled poorly because the storyline made no sense, and if in the storyline they were going to use this excuse, the heels should have at least the last two weekends before the show hinted of going to court to block it. It's like they wanted to advertise Rude working twice, wanted to have Vader destroy Koloff to make fans forget about him and to set up Vader and Rude feuding over the U.S. belt, but didn't have a clue as to how to logically get there so came up with an idea off the top of someone's head which must have required 20 seconds of thought.

Bill Watts always seemed like he had to make an appearance on shows during this time. Do you agree with Meltzer that it was to get himself over with the marks?

3. Ironically, Vader's destruction of Koloff was probably a better match than Rude would have had with Koloff, but it destroys title credibility when a champion can pick someone to defend the title for him. Vader, who gained about 25 pounds (to around 400) because of being idled by knee surgery, won with a power bomb in 11:53. **¾

Is it a bad idea to allow a champion to pick someone to defend the title for him?

4. Windham & Rhodes retained the NWA/WCW tag titles going to a 30:00 draw with Dr. Death Steve Williams and Stunning Steve Austin (Williams). It actually lasted 30:31. Jesse Ventura was really funny on commentary. The work was good but there was no crowd heat which made the match seem worse than it really was. Austin is technically and athletically very good but his weakness when it comes to charisma was apparent in such a long match. The match seemed to have no storyline, it was just a series of solid maneuvers going back-and-forth with no crowd reaction. The storyline going in of Windham and Rhodes having problems seemingly was dropped cold, although the announcers did acknowledge it. The fans not being educated to submissions makes it hard to do a technical wrestling match and go this long and have it get over. In addition, since Williams & Austin aren't a team, it was kind of pre-ordained that there wouldn't be a title change, which also made things drag in such a long match. Rhodes bled from a cut that was re-opened from an accident that took place earlier in the week. At about 28:00, they did a false finish with a ref bump by Randy Anderson. First Windham had Austin pinned, then Williams lariated Windham and Austin was pinning him and ref Nick Patrick counted to three and the bell rang. Anderson overruled Patrick and re-started the match and Rhodes schoolboyed Austin for Anderson counted two, but the bell rang anyway. They then brawled for a hot 90 seconds or so of near falls before time ran out. ***

So much talent in this match and so much of it at an early stage of breaking out. Did you see a lot of potential in Rhodes and Austin at this time? Did their tag team pairings here work?

Next was the Paul E. Dangerously/Madusa skit. Actually it started out with Harley Race and Van Vader doing an interview. Dangerously came out and thanked them for defending the title for Rude and said he'd give them half the payoff which, if they let him go on any longer, would have turned Race & Vader face because shouldn't they get the entire payoff. Well, Madusa came out and after a too brief build-up, was fired by Dangerously, basically called a bitch and a hooker, and Paul E. continued with the most heavy-handed put-downs on women imaginable. Madusa, who by this time was close to being the most over babyface in the building, kicked Paul in the head. Paul claimed his word was his contract and he could beat her with one hand tied behind his back (smells like an 11/18 match at the Clash because I don't want to put money on the odds of Dangerously lasting through Starrcade at this rate). They did a pull-apart brawl with Dangerously going nuts on the mic. Even though the previous match was technically good, it did put the crowd to sleep. This woke everyone up and could have been the turning point of the entire show as it drew tremendous heat. However, the turning point followed immediately.

Talk about this segment. Were the insults to Madusa a little too stiff or was that good heat?

Now, there’s a lot to get your opinion on next. It’s a big match. Meltzer called it the match that destroyed the show. And he had a lot more to say before the match even began.

“The match that destroyed the NWA title in the United States. The only thing positive to say is that it's a good thing this wasn't televised in Japan. I wonder if this was the first time in wrestling history where two wrestlers, in their first meeting ever, had a potential match of the year, and then in their first rematch, had a potential worst match of the year? Before the match, Gary Capetta introduced Seiji Sakaguchi as NWA President, Hiro Matsuda and Manobu Nakanishi as a member of the Japanese Olympic team from Barcelona. Ross at this point commented about how glad he was he didn't have to pronounce those names. Can you imagine that comment from another perspective? Let's say Bruce Baumgardner went to the next card at Sumo Hall, and the New Japan announcer and didn't even talk about who the guy is and blew it off with a remark like "Boy I'm sure glad I don't have to pronounce those American names."

Is that really a big deal? Seemed like a southerner’s self-deprecating sense of humor...

But Dave’s tirade continued...

“There was no reaction at all to the two referees, an angle that had been built up on television. Madusa, fired minutes earlier, came out with Rude anyway. After a coin flip, Race was chosen to referee in the ring, Sasaki outside the ring. So this was the most screwed up match imaginable. The supposed top heel in the United States comes to ringside with a just-turned babyface who had just been fired minutes earlier but is still there anyway after being fired, with no plausible explanation…”

Did the Madusa thing confuse you, too?

So before the match even begins, there’s a lot of hate on the segment from Meltzer. But things don’t get better when the bell rings...

5. Rude beat Chono via DQ in 22:33 so Chono retains the NWA title.

Meltzer wrote, “Rude wasn't a babyface here. Neither was Chono. The only babyface was Ric Flair, since the first 5:00 consisted of "We Want Flair" and "Whooo" chants that the announcers couldn't acknowledge. Chono was clearly way off because of his pinched nerve in his neck. Rude seemed disgusted. I'd guess part of it was because it became apparent he was over nowhere near the level that he probably thought he was, since nobody cared about anything that involved the match and instead used his match as a way to chant for a guy who left the promotion 16 months earlier. To make matters worse, Ross and Ventura blew the announcing here because they never explained and exclaimed when Chono put on his various submission holds, so it seemed like it was all dead time. And to make it even worse, early in the match when Chono put on a submission, Ventura made the comment about how Rude would never submit, and Ross, who I guess didn't want to disagree, agreed with him, which basically told the viewers that all the submissions were a waste of time because a guy like Rude would never submit. Once it's established that the "big stars" are never going to submit, you've killed the entire concept of submission holds, which is exactly what happened in this country about ten years ago which created the illusion that everything but high spots can be labeled as restholds and makes it much harder to work an effective and realistic match. Thus only gimmicks and high spots get over, neither of which are realistic, and then they complain because the heels don't have heat, and it's because the style doesn't allow anyone to take the product seriously. The crowd didn't understand the holds live, but the holds had never been put over previously on television, where fans are educated to the nuances, so why should they have? I guess wrestling fans are supposed to have ESP, since Rude and Chono knew what they were doing, everyone else should have figured it out without being told as well. This made the match seem even more like it was going nowhere. “

The “We Want Flair” chants were sort of like the early 90s version of “CM Punk” chants here. How tough is that as a producer? What can you do, if anything?

Meltzer went on to say...

“At 19:00, when they should have been building for a finish, a fight broke out which diverted everyone's attention from a supposed world title match. Both guys by this point must have figured it was hopeless, because as they worked to the finish, they were missing spots. Chono kicked Race in the face when Rude ducked. Race went out of the ring and Sasaki tried to help him up. Chono then threw Rude over the top rope and Rude landed on both Sasaki and Race knocking them both down. Rude got back in, hit the Rude Awakening, but there was no ref to count. Chono made a comeback, caught Rude in the STF, and Sasaki jumped in the ring and called for the bell to apparently signal Chono the winner via submission, although neither announcer acknowledged the word submission even existed in our language. Race overruled Sasaki and declared Rude the winner via DQ. Boy, that was a novel finish that nobody had ever seen before. Race than tried to attack Sasaki and Sasaki did a few slams on Race, who still took those picture perfect bumps, then dropkicked Rude out of the ring. Truly a disaster in every way. One of the worst world title matches ever on PPV.” -***

So let’s talk about this! Was it one of the worst title mathes ever on PPV? Did it deserve negative three stars? Tell us your thoughts…

Our next match is for the WCW title and it isn’t a main event most of us would probably fantasy book, just from a star-power sense. Ron Simmons had won the world title on August 2 at a house show. Simmons had been feuding with Cactus Jack for the first half of the year and his feud with Jack continued after the title win. Cactus brought in The Barbarian to challenge Simmons and in vignettes, was shown training Barbarian to be tougher than ever.

6. Ron Simmons pinned Barbarian in 12:41 with a powerslam to keep the WCW title.

Meltzer had this to say…

Simmons came out with an entourage of about two dozen people which only made him seem like a heel. There may be good reason behind pushing Simmons as one of the top babyfaces, but it's painfully obvious he's no world champion. Barbarian is even less of a #1 contender and only caused to expose what Simmons wasn't. The match and lack of crowd reaction for a world title match brought this point home. Simmons was working injured. Barbarian did a long cobra hold, and Jesse Ventura showed he didn't watch Atlanta wrestling on cable while living in Minnesota by not knowing the Mongolian Stomper and Mark Lewin's dreaded "Shinninomaki," which, incidentally, is actually named after a Tokyo train station." Anyway, Ross noted that this move causes unconsciousness. What he forget to say, is it only causes unconsciousness among the live audience, not to the wrestler in the hold. Work was sloppy and crowd was dead. There was a good near fall when Simmons kicked out of the diving head-butt. One of the worst world title matches ever on PPV. 1/4*

Next up was an interview with Bruno Sammartino, Erik Watts and Ron Simmons, with the idea that Watts would "get the rub" from standing alongside the wrestling legend and the current world champion. This got a lot of heat with a lot of people. This Erik Watts push is out of control.

Is this comedy at this point? Could Erik Watts have actually gotten over as a hyper-self-aware comedy gimmick?

Vlad the Superfan was wearing a WBF tank top when the show started, but the shirt mysteriously turned into a WCW crew shirt. Meltzer said it was good to see paranoia about clothing being worn by fans isn't limited to those at Titan Sports.

Can you explain your philosophy on a competitor’s shirt on your TV and why, if you would, have the fan change?

Did you ever order security to make fan’s take off a WWF shirt such as an Austin 3:16 shirt?

7. Sting pinned Jake Roberts in 10:34 of a Coal Miners Glove match in the spin the wheel make the deal.

Meltzer said...Jake is a tremendous personality. One of the best in the business. But he's suffered to many injuries to be able to work on top as a singles wrestler in a group where fans expect action. Jake has also killed Sting to the point he's risking being almost dead. I understand the number of fan letters Sting has gotten over the past two months has suddenly plummeted, and he got a very much un-Stinglike lack of a pop coming out. Sting worked on Roberts' left arm most of the way. After a missed Stinger splash, Roberts hit the DDT. Sting got up before Jake could climb the pole and got elbowed. Second time he got up he did a swing around the pole and climbed up to get the glove. At the same time, Cactus Jack ran out with the snake bag. Jake held the snake and Sting came down with the glove and Sting hit Roberts with the glove and Roberts pulled the snake to make it look like it was biting his cheek and was pinned. Pin got no pop at all because Roberts distracted everyone from it with the snake. Unfortunately, the snake actually did gnaw on Roberts cheek and he bled, which wasn't supposed to happen. I thought they were turning Roberts face, but that wasn't the idea. Roberts ran to the dressing room with a snake being held to his cheek while we heard all about the anti-venom backstage. The finish made a bad main event even worse. 1/4*

It looks like Jake is just crushing the snake when crawling out.

BEST MATCH POLL

• Brian Pillman vs. Rick Steamboat 176
• Rhodes & Windham vs. Austin & Williams 137
• Big Van Vader vs. Nikita Koloff 46
• Zenk & Douglas & Gunn vs. Anderson & Eaton & Hayes 22

WORST MATCH POLL

• Rick Rude vs. Masa Chono 168
• Ron Simmons vs. Barbarian 160
• Sting vs. Jake Roberts 116

Meltzer had this to say...

Halloween Havoc wasn't the worst PPV in history, although it was among the worst. The WWF has put on shows that were terrible from start to finish. Two of them were Wrestlemanias. This show was only terrible from the middle point of the show to the finish. The first half was good, particularly when it came to wrestling action, although the lack of direction and terrible main events made the feeling coming out of the show as being worse. Even on the worst WWF PPV show, when it was over you knew what direction the company was going in and there were ideas for new match-ups that would be upcoming. They usually worked to end the show on a positive note. WCW once put on a PPV card, the Great American Bash, in which the match-ups going in looked horrible on paper, were by and large even worse in reality, had the main event changed two weeks before, then confused the fans by turning both participants during the main event and the most over babyface at the show was a heel who had just been fired two weeks earlier. But as bad as that show was and as bad as things looked after the 1991 Great American Bash, WCW still had a larger television viewing audience, a stronger syndicated network, better overall talent and more potential for future interest. The Bash of '91 was worse than the Havoc of '92, but the company is coming out of the Havoc of '92 in its worst condition ever. During the 1991 Bash it was like watching a promotion take many steps down the road to oblivion. The second half of Havoc was the visual example of watching the fat lady sing for the promotion. People will be pointing fingers at each other all week trying to put the blame on someone else for how this turned out. But one thing is clear. Based on every imaginable criteria to judge, Bill Watts' reign thus far has been a failure. It's not just a bad PPV show. It's hardly just losing some name talent with more losses to come. It's not the morale problem. It's the lack of direction.

Give us your thoughts on Halloween Havoc 92?

Do you think this show was a big step toward what would be the end of the Watts regime and the beginning of the Bischoff years?

Questions

LatetotheNitroParty has a good one...We know Eric isn’t big on gimmick matches, but if he had to pick another match from spin the wheel, make the deal, to be the main event , what would he pick??

Ben says….Wrestling fans know all about you, Bill Watts and Jim Herd, but we don't often hear much about Kip Frey, who was either in charge of WCW around this time or just left. Can you tell us anything about Kip, personally or professionally? I've always been curious.

Macheww Spanks asks...Were you curious if you were able to turn this company into a profitable company if given the chance or were you thinking it's so far in the red it would take years? Was there anyone talent elsewhere that you thought could help turn WCW around from the spiral?

JBL CENA FAN says...Please explain Barbarian getting a title shot and then Steve Williams ? It's like the first Sting title win ... No legit stars ready to fight Ron Simmons . And the title goes right back to the person who lost it .

DustinWalterBuckley asks...What was the initial reaction Live! Backstage when the Snake bit Jake's face & do you remember anything about Vader Injuring Nikita K earlier that evening ?

Mr. Reslo II wants to know...Was the 'pick your own referee concept for Rude vs Chono just a way of protecting Chono by not having him lose clean, or did someone genuinely think it was an exciting concept for the match? 

Instagram: AWrestlingHistorian asks….Why didn't Rick Rude wrestle Nikita Koloff? Did he really not want to wrestle two matches in the same night or was that a Bill Watts call?

Dick Jones wants to know...Were there any long term plans for Jake Roberts? Why was being thrown over the top rope a DQ?

Jared asks...What were thoughts on Sting's brief poledance during his match?

Jeremy asks...Who had the better mullet? Paul Heyman or Joe Dirt? 

PenderJ asks..What was Jake the Snake like as a performer in WCW? We’re his personal issues showing through or was he able to still turn it on when needed. 

CoryAdams asks what was it like working with Paul Heyman in 1992 compared to later years in WWE. And what do you think about NXT bringing back the Halloween Havoc Concept. Halloween Havoc was one of my favorite events growing up.

Ray has an interesting theory...If not Harley Race, would Heyman been a better option for Vader? 

Arturo asks….Who came up with the Coal Miner's match for Sting vs Jake Roberts?

MickFoleysMissingTeeth wants to know...Of the three guys in the first match Gunn, Zenk and Douglas who missed their ceiling by the most IYO? All three had potential. 

Michael has a question for Conrad….Can Conrad do his Vader impression and cut a promo on Eric? 

The 5th Horsemen is curious if Spin the Wheel was legit here/ever and - if yes - what was reaction to the coal miners glove winning.

The Rosencoaster asks...Did it require more than your normal amount of caffeine to watch this shit show?