Ask 411 Wrestling 08.12.09: King Kong Bundy, Famous 411 Readers and Randy Orton's Douchbaggery!

Posted by Mathew Sforcina on 08.12.2009

Who was meant to be in Hogan's corner? Could George Steele have won it all? Why didn't Al Snow win the ECW title? How many Cells have their been? What were the plans for Shawn in 04? All this, and WWE DVDs get discussed! Plus, the Best. Ad. EVER!

Hello all, and welcome back to your regularly scheduled Ask 411 Wrestling column. Big ups, or whatever the correct term is, for Ryan stepping in at somewhat short notice and doing last week's column.

I won't bore/nauseate you, dear reader, with the specifics, but suffice to say I was in no state to do a column last week, although it cleared up fairly quickly, so don't feel too badly for me.

Let's see, anything else for me to cover?

Noooooope.

Bannery Goodness Time!

Backtalking

Will not be seen this week since I wasn't here last week and I don't like talking badly/apologizing for other people. Sorry Ron.

Your Turn, Smart Guy…

So, the question from last week was…

Who am I? A World Champion in multiple companies, I'm a much loved Pro Wrestler who's tended to stick to one alignment for most of my career. I've been involved in many famous moments in the sport, some involving different companies, some involving chair shots and some involving blindness. I have had, as of this point, 15 different WWE title reigns. I've been involved with multiple women on air, although I'm married to one of them in real life. Some have tried to lure me to the dark side, others beat me into submission, and yet others just want me to hurt for what I did as a child. And I'm the only man to hold a certain title in two companies. Who am I?

The Answer? Click Here For It.

This week's question:

What show am I? I am a North American PPV event, somewhat famous. The brand name I was an edition of no longer exists as a PPV. I featured a title change, and a title retention, despite two more singles champions and a set of tag team champions having matches that were not for those belts. Someone won two matches by Submission in the same night, while the title change was by a non-usual means of victory (even before you take into account the outside interference). You saw ‘two' companies wrestling (the hosts and a tag team from another), an inanimate object wrestling, and Chyna being a part of two straight matches without having a match herself. A show with a Match Of The Year in it, I am… What?

Questions, Questions, Who's Got The Questions?

Let's see if I remember how to do this.

First cab off the ranks to get driven recklessly by Zeus (Yes, I am enjoying my new Die Hard Collection, thank you), is Anthler.

Hey Sforcina, still loving the column.
Just have a couple PURO questions for you.
1. Has Mitsuharu Misawa (RIP) ever fought Keiji Mutoh/Great Muta in a singles match? I recall there being a tag match, but never a singles match.

See, I can answer these sorts of questions too. I just know my limits.

The tag match you mention was Mitsuharu Misawa teaming with Yoshinari Ogawa to take on Keiji Mutoh and Taiyo Kea on 10th of July 2004.





As for a singles match, none ever took place. Basically, they both knew how much attention and expectations such a dream match would have, and they knew that by the time it was possible for them to fight, in 2004, they were too broken down to do the match justice. Had they been up to it, the tag match would have been a single's match, and Mutoh would almost certainly had put Misawa over.

2. The Shining Wizard seems to be a widely used move in both Puro and American Indy promotions as both finishers and specialty moves, but i do not think i have ever seen it utilized in the WWF or TNA. Has anyone used a 'proper' shining wizard (opponent on one knee, performer steps up on the knee and delivers their own knee to the opponent's head) in either of these two promotions? (not counting Greg Helms (not a real shining wizard) or MVP(shining kenka kick))

Well, if you're going to DQ Helms, then no, no-one has. Although it's certainly common enough in the Video Games.

3. if the answer to 2. is no, then is the Shining Wizard 'banned' in the WWE universe? and for what reasons?

If you can answer those, that'd be awesome. Ask411 RULES!

It's not on ‘the list', since ‘the list' is fairly small. In actually ‘the list' is more a concept than an actual list.

Basically any move that has potential to severely screw up someone's neck and/or back is banned unless the person who wants to use it can prove they can do it safely. Hence, no move is straight out flat out never ever banned, just that if you want to use it, you have to prove you can do it well on command. Hence overly complicated moves off the top rope are nominally banned unless the guy proves he can do it well after requesting permission. Pandas Evan Bourne asked to be allowed to do the SSP, and proved to the higher ups he could do it as will. Paul London just went out and did it.

So, theoretically, you could see someone using Burning Hammers and Cop Killas if they could prove they could do them safely. Hence the Shining Wizard is probably one of the moves that whoever wanted to use it would need to prove themselves with. I mean, it's a fairly risky thing, a full bore straight up knee as it is. And WWE won't even let anyone sit down in bendy holds due to the bad backs of lots of people (and yet they let them use Spinebusters all the time…)

So the short answer is ‘Kinda'.

Of course he's here again. Manu!

what music did Dusty and Sapphire come out to the ring to at WM 6?

Because on the randy savage dvd, its some generic crap, and not Dusty's themesong, "Common Man". I was looking forward to that little piece of wrestlecrap! and I would assume WWE owned the rights to that song, so its not like all the other instances where they replaced music because they didn't want to pay for it.

Actually, that was the actual music they played. They did not use the Common Man music. They actually used that dancey music, I assume that it was meant to be Sapphire's theme music, since unlike Savage's music, Common Man was a little too specific to Dusty, what with it's lyrics. But hey, This Video was posted a few months before the DVD set came out. Although I will agree that Fink's introduction does sound dubbed. But nope, that's what they came out to.

Another familiar name, Rob S asks two questions, one I can't answer with certainty, the other I can.

I was wondering if you knew who the highest paid wrestler at any given point was? Guys like Hogan, Rock and Stone Cold come to mind, but for example was there ever a wrestler making like $10 million a year in salary or more during a few year stretch? Also, I was wondering, typically, what top guys in WWE, mid card guys and lower guys made roughly. Is it in the millions? hundred thousands? I know wrestlers probably don't make anywhere near what baseball/football/basketball players make, but I was just wondering.

Obviously I can't tell you specifics. There was a list of 2004-2006 which was never officially denied or confirmed for obvious reasons, but the numbers did seem legit.

Roughly, the main event guys earn from a bit under a million to almost 2 million dollars, depending on who they are and, more importantly, how much merch they move. Mid cards might match 200-400 thousand, and the lower guys/divas might pull $100K.

But the pay scale is hardly a smooth line. Your salary (if the WWE has it's way) is mostly dependant on your PPV appearances and your merch sales. So someone like Matt Hardy will draw more money then say Jack Swagger simply because Matt gets a cut of all the Hardy Boys merchandise, and Jeff Hardy would get a HUGE payday from all his merch. And if you get onto Wrestlemania in a high profile match, you might double your pay in a single night, or at the very least get a very nice bonus (Bobby Lashley for example got, by his own admission, $250K for his match against Umaga, which he felt he should have gotten more for).

$10 Million a year? Not for any extended period of time. Austin and Rock might have hit something near that at their absolute peak, and Hogan may have cracked that (Wrestlemania V, by some reports, had him get a payoff of several million). During the peak of his feud with Orndorff, for example, he was getting $10,000 a night for the matches. But I honestly doubt that anyone not named McMahon can claim they got anything close to $10,000,000 for one year, let alone for an extended period of time.

I was wondering how many different models of Hell In a Cell have there been? Do they like rebuild it every couple years, or is it generally the original one from 1997 but modified over the years? Also, where would the WWE store such a thing when it's not being used? Also, are the statistics about the Cell that the WWE gives accurate, or is it greatly exaggerated like sometimes ladders and steel cages are?

There have been two Cells, in terms of the build and model (three if you REALLY want to get picky). The first one, built for HBK vs. The Undertaker at Badd Blood, lasted from 97 through to 2005, Taker beating Orton at Armageddon being it's last appearance. At the next HITC match, DX vs. The McMahons & Big Show, the second Cell made it's debut.

If you wish to get picky, then you can argue that there was a ‘significant' design change at, I believe, No Way Out 2000 when they added in gaps in the Cell wall to allow for climbing the walls. (The exact change is hard to pin down. It was probably done prior to the 6 Man Cell, and it was definitely done by the time they did HHH/Jericho. But the exact match that saw the introduction is impossible to pin down.)

The specifics of the cell given (The current one being 20 feet tall and 5+ tons, the old one 16 and 2+) is almost certainly correct, in that there is no evidence to the contrary. The heights are certainly true, you can tell.

And the cell folds down neatly into panels, which are stored in the WWE warehouses, almost certainly in Connecticut. After all, the thing is made up on panels so it's not that hard to store.

Before we move on, quick point: Wouldn't the new Cell make a perfect container for a Wargames match?

Mike has a simple question.

Hey, I just was wondering if you could give a bit of a career history on
King Kong Bundy. I know what he did at the first three Wrestlemanias, and
then that he came back as part of the Million Dollar Corporation, but where
the heck did he come from before Wrestlemania, and what was he doing between
Wrestlemanias and before he came back in the '90s? He has to be the
Wrestlemania main eventer that I know the least about.

With pleasure Mike.

King Kong Bundy began his career as a face, "Big Daddy Bundy" in World Class, long before this would imply he would be accompanied by young girls miles underwater. No, he began as a friendly, happy go lucky country bumpkin type, with overalls and a rope belt, with a full head of hair. But after he got into a dispute with the Von Erichs, he became King Kong Bundy, putting on the infamous black trunks and soon getting his familr haircut after losing his hair to the Von Erichs.

Bundy held the WCCW's top belt, but after a while (and perhaps the single biggest dick move ever done by a promoter just to put himself over), Bundy left WCCW. He wrestled in the AWA, and the NWA, mostly as a heel (although Jake Roberts brought him into Georgia as a face in a brilliant angle). He then toured Mid South, were Bill Watts chalked up another winner (of several, to give the man his due), and gave him the "Count to 5" gimmick.

Eventually, while he was touring the States and Japan, he met Hulk Hogan, who encouraged him to call Vince. Soon after, he debuted in the WWF, managed by Jimmy Hart. He teamed with Big John Studd, soon joined the Heenan Family, main evented WM2, then had some short feuds with Jake Roberts, Kamala and so on. He left the WWF in 88, spending the last few months in 87 putting over Bam Bam Bigelow.

Studd then tried for Hollywood, getting a few bit parts but not really achieving much beyond a recurring role on ‘Married… With Children'. He popped up in ECW in late 1993, and was then rehired by the WWF to join the Million Dollar Corporation. After this shortish stint, he moved into the indys, opening a training school, trying his hand at Stand Up, and basically now lives the life most 80's Wrestling Stars have if they aren't dead or were superstars.

Clyde asks about a technically.

Hey, long time reader, occasional poster, all that fine stuff...

If, in Wrestlemania IV, George Steele never entered the ring, how was he considered out of the Battle Royal? Couldnt he, as I believe it was Jesse said, come back in at the end, and be considered the winner?

Is there any mention anywhere of him not entering the ring AND not winning because of such?

Maybe. This came up from last week's feedback, actually, the lack of consistency. Certainly people have come in at the last second to win Battle Royals (Ted DiBiase at the Raw 15th Anniversary for example), so had Steele come back in and tossed Hart and/or Brown, he could have won. However, WWF held several battle royals in the weeks leading up to Wrestlemania, and in at least one of them, Steele did the same thing, he never got in the ring and walked off.

So you're left with the catch all fix it, "Referee's Discretion". It was never addressed, but it's easy to state that since he did it before, the referee's decreed that when he walked off, he was forfeiting his entry. After all, it wasn't like he was a slimy despicable heel trying to win, he was insane.

Weak, yes, but it's the best we got.

Steve wants to know who didn't turn up.

These two questions come from interviews by wrestlers hyping Wrestlemania III, during the February 1987 Wrestling Challenge (courtesy of the Name on the Marquee article):

The Can-Am Connection will face Muraco & Orton, and the Can-Ams may have "a possible surprise guest" in their corner. Didn't happen. Hey, rumor experts, who was it gonna be?

Hulk Hogan will have "a possible surprise guest" in his corner when he faces Andre the Giant. Didn't happen. Who was it?

Thanks for any insight.

Wrestlemania III seems to have lots of celebs pull out. Samantha Fox pulled out/broke down negotiations over being the woman to present the crown of the Race/JYD match as well.

The only name I found floated to be the guy who was meant to be in Hogan's corner is Brian Bosworth, who at the time was the highest paid rookie/player in the NFL, having been the first draft pick and the hot young thing in the sport, albeit a controversial guy. He got drafted, then sued the NFL to be allowed to use his College number, a lawsuit he lost.

Certainly he seems like the kind of guy Vince would love, and he was involved with the XFL, so it's logical, but I got no idea why, if it was meant to be him, it fell through.

And to be in the corner for Zenk and Martel? Got nothing, which probably what McMahon had as well. Wrestlemania III was shaping up to be a huge event, and McMahon probably had them say that on the off chance he found a spare celeb he could give them.

Sounds silly, but it's probably what happened…

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From self-publicy to publicity for the site, thanks to Rob

So hey man, it's been awhile but I got one for ya. With all this Mick Foley acknowledging the website business lately (or whenever this gets posted) it got me wondering, how many known wrestlers check out this site? I know I've heard Matt Hardy and (The Biggest CHUD in all of Pro Wrestling) Matt Morgan read the site, but is there any others that are known, I'm just curious thanks!

We don't know, given that for the most part big name guys don't tend to advertise when and where they go online for fear of being swamped (although the really cool ones like Colt Cabana, once found, set up AIM names to chat with fans).

Confirmed, 100% legit known Big Name Pro Wrestlers (since guys like me don't count in this question) who have at one point read 411 are:

Mick Foley: We know this because he (mis)named us, since he disliked the negativity from the Commentators.

Matt Hardy: After the infamous Split in 04, 411 needed writers, fast. This resulted in several good, solid hires, and a couple of less so hires, one of which was the rather stupidly named ‘Asteroid Boy'. Not that that's a bad name, but for a columnist…

Regardless, thanks to him putting up a controversial but in retrospect dead on opinion column equating Lita with a Credit Card, we found out that Matt Hardy read/s 411.

Traci Brooks: The seemingly soon-to-be Playboy Cover Girl contacted the site, I believe, and ended up getting interviewed by Steve Cook out of it.

D'Lo Brown: In his recent interview with the site, he mentioned stuff we had done, so he reads us.

And we do have some people who claimed they were legit when they contacted various peoples, people like Sherri Martel, Tank Toland and so on. But those 4 are the big names we know for sure.

Did I leave out anyone?

Dale crosses the border, between this and the opinion section.

I just got done watching the Viva La Raza DVD that came out a while ago, and the WCW announcing killed me. I never watched WCW when it was running, so this DVD is some of my limited experience with the company. Their announcing is just ridiculous. If a match was ten minutes long they spent about thirty seconds calling the action, and the rest of the time was talking about the nWo, or hyping themselves in a way that sounds like calling a match but isn't (like when they'd talk about fast pace intense matches instead of just calling the one that was going on). Did they really think this was a smart move?

Well, I don't know the announcers' opinion, but I know Eric Bischoff loved it. He was the guy in their ear after all. Which is a shame, because Fat Tony was actually a pretty damm good PBP guy, but once Eric got in his ear, he was gone.

You have to remember with announcers, that their boss is always in their ear. So they commentated in that style because they were told to. Bischoff seemed to think that the action would speak for itself, you had to hype the angles. So pretty similar to Vince's current opinions.

I've liked some of the DVD's that have come out recently, but why hasn't Jericho gotten one? Edge's was great and all, but he's been there a decade and Jericho has wrestled what, almost two decades?

Jericho took a break for a bit, which pushed his back, and then you have to deal with the fact that a solid chunk of his career you have to gloss over due to the fact that he was wrestling Benoit.

He did have one soon after his debut, but yes, it's long overdue. But it will be done, eventually. The fanbase is there, and there's still a lot to choose from, even after deleting all the Benoit stuff. And his name was on the list that was floated a while back. So maybe once he turns face again, it'll come out, and it will rock.

But only if they include all the WCW promos against Goldberg and Malenko.

John From Ireland has a question about Al Snow in ECW.

Love the column and its useful information, for years I've heard that Al Snow at Wrestlepalooza 1998 was supposed to win the ECW championship, but was called up to the WWE roster the day before. Firstly, is this true? Secondly, if he was supposed to win the championship, why did the 'E not let him get the belt for at least a short reign rather than calling him back right at the moment of (what in retrospect) would have (arguably) have been his career highlight?

Well, the time frame does fit, in that Snow's ECW title match was at the start of May, and by the end of May he was back in the WWF. And I found a couple of sources that said he was recalled back up just prior to that point. However, he did wrestle on a few shows after Wrestlepalooza, and none of the sources are reliable, so it's sketchy.

As for why they'd do such a thing, there's two possibilities.

One, WWF would have been quite happy for him to win the belt and then drop it to Bam Bam or someone, but Paul Heyman switched the booking around, not wanting to put the belt on a guy who was about to leave.

Two, WWF didn't want him as champ for the same reason that they called him back up: He was over. They only sent him to ECW because he asked and asked, and they had nothing for him. He was a jobber to them, and thus eventually they let him go to ECW so that they didn't have to pay him, and they waited to see if he somehow catched on. And he did, so they brought him back. And while the WWF had a cosy relationship with ECW, they still at times hire people not to help their own product but to hurt the other guy, like with Gail. So they brought him back to just make sure Heyman didn't get TOO popular…

Wrestling Weirdo asks about guys touching… Well, you read it.

Sup man, Wrestling Weirdo here, got a weird question for ya. How common is it for wrestlers to inadvertently touch each others junk in a match? I was wondering while watching the Cena/Big Show match from Trump Raw, when Big Show scooped up Cena for a slam and it looked like Cena might have accidentally placed his hand on Little-Big Show. I'm pretty sure every WWE wrestler that ever wrestled The Ultimate Warrior were probably "groped" during Warrior's overhead press slam. Also, do wrestlers wear cups when they wrestle?

No, Wrestlers do not wear cups unless it's part of the storyline, if they are managers, wimps, or wrestling Chyna. Although I suppose in some medical conditions you might find one wearing one just to be safe.

And as a guy who uses bodyslams, fall aways, and other such moves, it happens. You rarely get a grip on the other guy's junk, given the properties of lyrca and lots of layers and such, but certainly it's hard to avoid ‘touching' it while you wrestle. You don't really think about it, you just do it. Excessive touching will raise eyebrows, but for the most part you just get on with the match and ignore it. It's not like you'll catch the gay or anything.

neverAcquiesce, another familiar name, asks about hair.

Bret Hart mentions in his book the Scott Hall had his ponytail chopped off as payback for a rib. Is there any video evidence to support this, cos I don't recall Razor Ramon showing up with suddenly with drastically shorter hair.

Having not read the book (BOO, HISS!), I can't rightly say, since I have no time frame to work on. Anyone out there remember seeing his hair change shape?

Although, to be fair, it probably wasn't a full blown lop off all in one go deal. It might well have just been half of it gone.

JAY has 2 questions for me. And he's really excited about them.

1. DURING HBK VS. AUSTIN AT KOTR '97, A MENTALLY CHALLENGED BOY JUMPED THE RAIL TO HELP HBK (I THINK). NOW I KNOW THAT IF IT'S ON TV, THEN 99.9% OF THE TIME IT'S A WORK. DO YOU THINK THIS FALLS INTO THE .01 PERCENTILE OF IT BEING LEGIT?

This was indeed legit, and he did not so much jump as fall. He was excited, being front row at a WWF event and all. He was a Special Olympian, and he ended up getting too into the show and fell over the rail, and was then led to the back where he took up a job with 's Writing Staff.

2. WHY DID THEY NOT INCLUDE A "LIFE STORY" ON THE SAVAGE DVD? THE DVD'S THAT I ENJOY THE MOST HAVE THE STORY AND THE MATCHES (JAKE ROBERTS, WARRIOR, PILLMAN, ETC.)

Because that would require people to talk about Savage, and that is not something Vince wants to do. The DVD set he put out made money off Savage with the least amount of attention he had to bring to it. Whatever the hell the grudge is, it runs deep.

Next up, David has some questions.

I love your column. You are, hands down, the best part of 411. I read it while waiting for the ridiculous load screens of Smackdown vs. Raw to finish loading.

I have two questions for you that I have thought about a lot:

1.) I have heard people tell very general stories of Randy Orton with backstage problems early in his WWE career and throwing tantrums and such, including certain pranks he would pull and something about defecating in a Divas' gym bag or something or other bad things related to Divas. I feel like people already know these stories but I must have missed the boat because I just wasn't paying close attention to Orton early in his career. What kind of things did he do to get such legitimate backstage heat earlier in his career? And what changed? Was he disciplined?

Well, basically Randy was a guy who tended to rub people the wrong way to begin with, he was brash and cocky. Given that he was in his early 20's and was on the fast track to the top that's somewhat understandable.

He's had incidents where he's supposedly trashed hotel rooms and general other acts of anger, but his treatment of women was somewhat distasteful.

Apparently, (while he's never actually come out and said this, it's fairly accepted), during his run as IC champ/in Evolution, Randy had somewhat… ‘old fashioned' views towards the WWE Divas. He viewed them as sex objects, referred to them using a word beginning with C that I'm not going to say here, and generally acting like they were there for him to screw.

Now, given that most of the women on Raw at the time were Diva Search contestants, you could say that he had a point.



Although I find any such treatment totally disgusting, for the record. I'm just reporting the facts.

The "shit in Diva's bag" was the high point of this douchebaggery, as Rochelle Loewen, a prime target of Randy's "Hazing"/"Discrimination"/"Douchebaggery" got her bag and belongings defaced with a mixture of baby oil and self tanning lotion, not shit. Despite some people disputing this claim, both Rochelle (who was one of a few Diva Search contestants who quit due, they claimed, because of this sort of behaviour) and Randy said this happened.

Randy was fined several times over this treatment, but he tended to just ignore such things.

This all came to a head when he was caught enjoying 4:20 at Kansas City at a Smackdown taping. He was caught, and then suspended for 60 days without pay, and ordered to attend an anger management course in Atlanta. And it seems to have worked, in that since then he hasn't been in the dirtsheets with attacks or flip outs much, even when he had some justification, such as when Kennedy dropped him on his ehad.

Although his trashing of the hotel room in Europe was after this point. So the ‘old' Randy is still there…

2.) I was reading one of Scott Keith's reviews of Summerslam 2002 and he talked about HBK going over HHH and how they wouldn't help either guy since Michaels' career was already over and he was still in terrible shape and would never be able to wrestle full-time again. Having missed out on this era, what was the story behind HBK's return, and what was expected of him in the summer of 2002? Was it just supposed to be a one-time deal? Was no one expecting him to continue his career wrestling after that PPV? Did he convince Vince he could keep wrestling, or was it the other way around?

Thanks a bunch! Your column gives me joy.

Yes, at the time, it was thought to be a one shot deal.

Shawn had been out of wrestling for 4 years, after having retired due to a bad back. Although 4 years was a long time, it was still a little sketchy that he'd be able to perform like the old Shawn. But during his time running the Academy, he had bumped and he felt he might be able to have one more match. So he pitched it to HHH, since Hunter was the guy he trusted more than anyone else, he agreed, and they were off and running.

They brought Shawn back as part of the nWo, then when that fizzled then changed it up a little, but the whole angle was leading to Summerslam, where Shawn fought Hunter, and won but then got beat down.

Now, the original plan was that Shawn would have this match, then he'd be booked to enter the Elimination Chamber, but on the night he'd get injured by HHH, then Edge would jump ship to Raw mid PPV, enter in his place and win the World Title. Shawn would then MAYBE return at Wrestlemania but probably would just ride back off into the sunset. However, at the show, Shawn was still up and moving and feeling good, so they changed plans, and gave Shawn the win (despite him not having any proper tights).

They then used him sparingly, as they weren't sure when the other shoe would drop. They had him fight RVD, then drop the title back to Hunter. Then they had him go up against Jericho at Wrestlemania, give him one last WM match, and then he could retire.

But after his match with Jericho at Wrestlemania, at that point, Shawn felt that God had cured his back, and he was able to come back full time. And so far, it's worked out pretty well, overall.

My Damm Opinion

Dale is back.

If things keep up could this summer be the return of the SmackDown Six? CM Punk, Jeff Hardy, Chris Jericho, Edge, and Rey Mysterio seem to put on amazing matches anytime they step into the ring. Elevate John Morrison and it's a solid six that are capable of putting on at least a 3 star match weekly, and it already has two vets in Edge and Rey.

Well, Jeff's leaving. But apart from that… I guess, although I somewhat resent this general idea.

Look, I'm the first to admit that the Smackdown Six rocked the house that rocked the party, given that it was 6 guys who could wrestle being told "You have 45 minutes. Go and wrestle" on a regular basis. But constantly looking for a new 6 is a bit silly. It's entirely possible that it'll be 5, or 8 guys. It'll happen, just don't fixate on the number, ok guys?

From numbers to something less solid, Brian has a question.

What's happening Sforcina?

Got a question about Pat Patterson. I'm looking for an educated opinion as much as anything.

I've heard many wrestling legends refer to Pat Patterson as the best "finish" guy in the history of the business (with due respect to Eddie Graham). I've seen him on many a legends roundtable on 24/7, which he only tips us to his iceberg of knowledge and aside from his amazing career as an active wrestler, he has been deeply involved in everything Vince McMahon has produced over the last 30 years.

Besides that, he's openly gay in a business that has a high Neanderthal quotient. Why on earth has he not been tabbed by WWE to write his memoirs. I tend to think it would be the most fascinating book WWE ever released (even if they whitewash it to make VKM out to be an angel) What's your take on the possibility that WWE would ever publish a book of such deep interest to hardcore fans and the potential for mainstream/crossover appeal?

I think, out of loyalty to Pat, WWE would publish the book. I'm just not sure Patterson would write it. I don't have anything concrete, but I get the feeling, from the scuttlebutt, that Patterson is a very nice guy, so he wouldn't write a tell all, dirt dishing book.

I dunno, I'd for one want to read it, but I don't get the vibe that he's write it. But I hope I'm wrong.

But it's not WWE's choice, only Pat can write it.

Although, dear readers, whose Memoirs would you most like to read? Answer below, if you like. Catch you next week.