The Piledriver Report 6.20.07: The 2nd Ultimate Wrestling Survey

Posted by Ronny Sarnecky on 06.20.2007

The Piledriver Report needs your help. This week, I am once again looking for the fan’s voice. I want to know what you think. This week, I am providing a wrestling survey to try and gauge your interest in the sports entertainment industry. In the summer of 2005, I presented the first Ultimate Wrestling Survey. Two years later, I bring to you the 2nd Ultimate Wrestling Survey.

The Piledriver Report needs your help. This week, I am once again looking for the fan's voice. I want to know what you think. This week, I am providing a wrestling survey to try and gauge your interest in the sports entertainment industry. In the summer of 2005, I presented the first Ultimate Wrestling Survey. Two years later, I bring to you the 2nd Ultimate Wrestling Survey. The completed questionnaire is due on July 1st, 2007.


The 2nd Ultimate Wrestling Survey

About Yourself
1. How long have you been watching wrestling?
2. What is your age?
3. How often do you visit the 411 website (one a day, more then once a day, once a week, once a month)?
4. Do you have access to WWE 24/7?
5. When your cable company provides WWE 24/7, would you subscribe to it?
6. Do you collect wrestling figures?
7. Do you go see movies with The Rock because he was once a wrestler?
8. Did you go see movies produced by WWE Films because they featured WWE wrestlers?
9. Do you read wrestling newsletters, such as the Wrestling Observer or Pro Wrestling Torch?
10. Do you read wrestling biography books?


What Do You Watch
11. Do you watch Japanese wrestling?
12. Do you watch shoot fighting, such as UFC?
13. Do you purchase tapes of old ECW shows?
14. Do you buy wrestling DVDs?
15. Do you watch the Ultimate Fighter?
16. Did you watch Tough Enough when it used to be on M-TV?
17. Do you watch independent wrestling?
18. If so, what is your favorite independent wrestling promotion?
19. Who is your favorite indy worker?
20. Would you like to see a WCW reunion show?


Current Favorites
21. What is your favorite wrestling federation/brand?
22. Who is your favorite current wrestler?
23. What is your favorite wrestling TV show?
24. Who is your current favorite tag team?
25. Who is your current favorite manager?
26. Who is your current favorite announcer?
27. Who is the best worker in wrestling?
28. Who is the best high flyer?
29. Who is the best technical wrestler?
30. Who is the best brawler?
31. Who is the best sports entertainer at cutting promos?
32. Who is the best cruiserweight?
33. What is your favorite current storyline/angle?
34. Who is most deserving of a huge push?

Current Least Favorites
35. What is your least favorite wrestling federation?
36. Who is your least favorite current wrestler?
37. What is your least favorite wrestling TV show?
38. Who is your least current favorite tag team?
39. Who is your least current favorite manager?
40. Who is your least current favorite announcer?
41. Who is the worst worker in wrestling?
42. Who is the worst high flyer?
43. Who is the worst technical wrestler?
44. Who is the worst brawler?
45. Who is the worst sports entertainer at cutting promos?
46. Who is the worst cruiserweight?
47. What is your least favorite current storyline/angle?
48. Who is least deserving of a huge push?

Pay Per Views
49. What is the most you would pay for a wrestling pay per view ticket?
50. How many wrestling pay per views do you purchase each year?
51. Are there too many wrestling pay per views?
52. What pay per view do you look forward to seeing each year?
53. What pay per view would you like to see being brought back (example: Starrcade)?
54. What is your favorite pay per view of all time (example: WrestleMania, Halloween Havoc)?
55. What was the greatest pay per view event of all-time (example: WrestleMania XVII, Bash at the Beach 96, ECW: One Night Stand 2005)?
56. What was the worst pay per view event of all-time (example: WrestleMania 13, King of the Ring 1995)?
57. How many pay per views should be run by the WWE each year?
58. Do you like that the WWE changed from brand pay per views to tri-brand pay per views on each show?

WrestleMania
59. What was the best WrestleMania event?
60. What was your favorite WrestleMania event?
61. What was the best WrestleMania match ever?
62. What was your favorite WrestleMania match ever?
63. Who participated in the best gimmick match ever at a WrestleMania?
64. What wrestler would you think of as being the face of WrestleMania?
65. What was you favorite WrestleMania moment?
66. What performer that has never worked a WrestleMania would you like to see on the show?


Extreme Championship Wrestling
67. Should ECW be eliminated as a weekly brand?
68. Who was your favorite ECW wrestler of all-time?
69. Who is your favorite WWECW wrestler?
70. Who was the greatest ECW champion?
71. What wrestler would you think of as being the face of the old ECW?
72. Who was the greatest ECW Tag Team?
73. What was your favorite ECW (pre-third brand) moment?
74. What was your favorite ECW (pre-third brand) feud?
75. Who had the best theme music in ECW (pre-third brand)?
76. What was the better pay per view show, One Night Stand I or II or December 2 Dismember?
77. Should the WWE bring back Paul Heyman to run ECW without McMahon interference?
78. Would the new ECW be successful if Paul Heyman was able to run the brand HIS way?
79. What type of match do you like better, the WWE's "Triple Threat" match or ECW's "Three Way Dance?"
80. Would you like to see Paul Heyman run another wrestling organization after his current WWE contract runs out?
81. Who should be the new face of WWECW?
82. Should the WWE bring back the ECW TV title?
83. Should the WWE bring back the ECW Tag Team titles?

Women in Wrestling
84. Who is the hottest woman currently in wrestling?
85. Who is the all-time hottest woman in wrestling?
86. Who is the best female performer in wrestling?
87. Who is the all-time best female performer in wrestling (wrestler/manager/announcer/Diva)?
88. Do you want to see another Diva contest?
89. Would you rather see a women's wrestling match or a T&A segment?

NWA:TNA
90. Should Samoa Joe be the TNA World Champion?
91. Should TNA get rid of Vince Russo?
92. Who is your favorite TNA wrestler?
93. Do you think TNA has killed the X-Division as a serious division?
94. What TNA wrestler would you like to see in the WWE?
95. What WWE wrestler would you like to see in TNA?
96. Should Kurt Angle fight in an MMA contest?
97. Do you want to see TNA go head-to-head against RAW?
98. Has the booking in TNA turned Kurt Angle from a major acquistion into just another wrestler?
99. Should America's Most Wanted be reformed as a tag team?
100. Who is the face of TNA?
101. Should Spike-TV give TNA an extra hour of television?
102. Do you like the "LockDown" concept of a card featuring all cage matches?
103. Who would you like to see pushed as a main event level wrestler that currently is stuck in the mid-cards?
104. Who is the mid-season MVP of TNA so far this year?
105. What is the TNA's Match of the Year so far this year?

WWE Hall of Fame
106. Would you like to see the WWE construct a wrestling hall of fame building similar to the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY?
107. Should Randy Savage be inducted into the WWE's Hall of Fame?
108. Should Bruno Sammartino be inducted into the WWE's Hall of Fame even if he refuses to be inducted?
109. Do you like the WWE's Hall of Fame ceremonies?
110. Do you think the WWE should go back to the "classical affair" way that they presented the HofF ceremony before Mania XX, or should they present it as more of a wrestling event like they did this year?

DVDs
111. What is your favorite wrestling DVD?
112. Would you buy past Madison Square Garden cards if offered on DVD?
113. Would you buy ECW Arena cards on DVD if the WWE offered it with bonus extras featuring former ECW wrestlers?
114. Would you purchase WWF/E Year or Decade in Review box sets, where they would offer all major angles and matches from that year/decade (Example: A box set from 1994 would include build up of the Rock-n-Wrestling Connection, the Wendi Ritcher/Fabulous Moohla match, as well as feuds like Piper/Snuka and Slaughter/Iron Sheik)?
115. Would you buy a "Complete History of the WWF/E World Title" box set?
116. Would you buy a "Complete History of the WCW/NWA World Title" box set?
117. Would you buy a "Complete History of the ECW World Title" box set?
118. Which do you prefer, wrestling biography DVDs that include matches, or DVDs that just contain classic matches.
119. Would you like to see the WWE release DVD of old pay per view events, including WCW and ECW shows?
120. Would you like to see a "History of the WWF/E," that is similar to "The Rise and Fall of ECW" DVD?
121. Would you like to see a "History of the WCW/NWA," that is similar to "The Rise and Fall of ECW" DVD?

WWE
122. Do you like the WWE brand split?
123. Should Triple H "work Tuesdays" and become a SmackDown performer?
124. What wrestler would make you tune into SmackDown each week if he switched from RAW?
125. What wrestler on both rosters would have the greatest career boost by switching shows?
126. Would you like to see a revival of tag team wrestling in the WWE?
127. Would you like to see the WWE seriously push the cruiserweight division?
128. Would you like to see the WWE bring back the Hardcore title?
129. Do you think the WWE will get rid of the John Cena "spinning" WWE World title belt within the next year?
130. Do you like John Cena?
131. Which wrestler that recently switched brands following the draft will have the greatest career boost due to the switch?
132. Which wrestler that recently switched brands following the draft will have the worst career boost due to the switch?
133. Do you like Edge being moved to SmackDown?
134. Would you like to see a Four Horsemen reunion in the WWE?
135. Who would you like to see in the main event of WrestleMania 24?
136. Would you like to see Paul Heyman as an on-air talent?
137. Should the WWE bring back Brock Lesnar?
138. Do you like it when the WWE has wrestlers switch brands without giving any reason?
139. Should the WWE bring back Joey Mercury, and reform the team MNM?
140. Will the WWE resign Rob Van Dam at the last minute, or is he leaving the company?
141. Would you like to see Hulk Hogan back on WWE television?
142. Despite Vince McMahon and Hulk Hogan's differences, should Vince still have signed Hogan to wrestle at this past WrestleMania?
143. Would you like to see The Rock on WWE television more often?
144. Who do you see as the future World Champions?
145. Would you like to see long or shorter title reigns?
146. What wrestler would you like to see be given more mic time?
147. Will Bret Hart be seen more often on WWE-TV?
148. Who "killed" Mr. McMahon?
149. How long will it be before Mr.McMahon "returns from the dead?"
150. Should SmackDown be televised live?
151. Should the WWE use more celebrities on the show like they did with K-Fed and Donald Trump?
152. Are you excited that the cast from "Jackass" will be participating at SummerSlam?
153. Do you currently watch only RAW?
154. Do you currently watch only SmackDown?
155. Do you watch both shows?
156. Do you like the more "sports oriented" or the more "soap opera" style WWE?
157. What wrestler currently not in the WWE would you like to see the WWE sign?
158. Who is the face of the WWE?
159. What wrestler is the future of the WWE?
160. After Vince McMahon decides to call it quits, who should run the WWE, Stephanie/Triple H or Shane?
161. Should Matt and Jeff Hardy become a permanent tag team or should they be singles wrestlers?
162. Of all the WWE wrestlers currently on the injured list, which wrestler are you looking the most forward to seeing wrestle again?
163. Did you like the way the WWE presented the draft this year, as opposed to previous years when a GM made picks for each brand?
164. Should Ric Flair be given one final run with the World title?
165. With Mr. McMahon "dead," who would you like to see named the new GM of RAW?
166. Who would you like to see pushed as a main event level wrestler that currently is stuck in the mid-cards (or in ECW, as that's like being in the mid-cards)?
167. Who is the mid-season MVP of the WWE so far this year?
168. What is the WWE's Match of the Year so far this year?
169. Would you like Eric Bischoff to return as a full-time character?
170. What non-TNA wrestler would you like to see enter the WWE?
171. Is the UFC the WWE's main competition?
172. Should the WWE continue with having their wrestler read scripts or should they allow their wrestlers to cut their own promos?
173. When Triple H and Shawn Michaels return from injury, should the WWE reunite DX or should one of these men turn on the other to start a feud?
174. Will the ECW brand still be in existence a year from now?
175. Will the WWE ever bring back Randy Savage, either as talent, or as a "legend?"