Gordi Whitelaw has been with Inside Pulse since day 1, writing first in the wrestling section and now as a major part of Inside Fights. Does he have the intestional fortitude to withstand the heat of the Hot Seat? Let’s find out.
1) We always start with geometry – In a 30°-60°-90° triangle the sides are in what ratio?
Gordi: The “30-60-90 triangle” is half of an equilateral triangle. That makes the shortest side equal to 1/2 of the hypotenuse, and the 3rd side should be the square root of the sum of the two sides… so a 30-60-90 triangle has sides in the ratio of 1: 2: square root of 3. I totally cheated to get that, though, and it still took me a little over a minute to figure it out.
While the judges frown upon cheating, the fact that you were honest and upfront (and correct) very admirable. 1 out of 1
2) You began at Inside Pulse Wrestling and now have moved primarily to Inside Fights, our MMA and Boxing zone. Do you think your journey as a fan mirrors many real-life wrestling/MMA fans – discuss why or why not.
Gordi: I’d assume that it has, but only to a certain extent. A recent issue of WON reported that ” . ..a recent survey in Canada determined that Canadian sports bars and restaurants are more and more dropping WWE PPV events and instead airing UFC events. This shift is simply due to the fact that the bars are pulling in more people and money for UFC events than WWE events.” I’d guess that many former WWE fans like myself who grew sick and tired of the constant xenophobia, homophobia, misogyny, failed attempts at humour, exploitation of dead wrestlers, and other garbage might have moved on to the UFC… In fact, though, most of my friends who have always liked wrestling are still watching WWE and many of my friends who watch UFC have never been fans of pro wrestling. Do we know if David Ditch watches PRIDE FC?
A very thorough answer, completed with works cited and quotes. Excellent 2 out of 2
3) It’s been icy cold in the Hot Seat Headquarters in Manhattan New York. Rank these wintery weapons in order of peak effectiveness, starting with most effective: a) Snowball b) Ice ball c) Icicles d) Snow catapult e) Ice spears
Gordi: Ice always trumps snow (as a weapon), and ‘small and easily concealed’ beats out ‘large and unwieldy’ in my opinion, so:
1) Ice Ball
2) Icicle
3) Ice Spear
4) Snowball
5) Snow Catapult
An interesting take on an interesting question. The Ice Ball is indeed a powerful weapon, but the top weapon needs to be the Snow Catapult, which could also be filled with Ice Balls for a shower of Ice Balls. Good try though. 2 out of 3
4) If you could pick one dream MMA matchup involving any fighter in any promotion in the world, what are your top two choices?
Great question! I actually think about this all the time. Right this moment my choices would be: 1) UFC Welterweight Champion Georges St. Pierre vs. SHOOTO 167-pound Champion and rising PRIDE FC star Shinya Aoki, and 2) UFC and Cage Rage Middleweight Champion Anderson Silva vs. K-1 HERO*S 187-pound Champion Yoshihiro Akiyama. The great thing is, a lot of dream matches end up happening in MMA, so we might even see these one day. We’re only a couple of steps away from seeing Cro Cop face Captain America for the UFC Heavyweight Title. That would make my Top 25 Dream Matches list, too.
The judges feel like you did a great job of canvassing the whole MMA landscape and coming up with true dream matches. Excellent job. 3 out of 4
5) In 50 words or less, book the finish of the already announce Wrestlemania 23 double main event of Undertaker vs. Battista and John Cena vs. Shawn Michaels.
Gordi: Undertaker Tombstones Batista and pins him clean in the middle of the ring. Then, he gives him a Last Ride on the ramp. Batista falls through a hole in the floor and is never seen again. Undertaker announces his retirement.
Cena and HBK follow that up by announcing that they are in love, and that they therefore refuse to fight one another. Bryan Danielson and Takeshi Morishima face off against Samoa Joe and KENTA in a surprise replacement Main Event. They go all out for nearly an hour, before Joe taps to the Cattle Mutilation. Two thirds of the people watching call their cable companies to demand a refund.
Not too bad, but unfortunately more than double the allotted words and thus disqualified. 3 out of 5
Gordi got more than half of the questions correct and is currently poised as the 2007 Hot Seat champion. Of course we have a lot more 2007 to go and a lot more hot seats, so stay tuned to this space every Friday. Next week we’ll have one of the Popcorn Junkies, Scott “Kubryk” Sawitz on the Hot Seat.
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2007 Hot Seat Results
Friday February 2 – Shawn M Smith – 1 out of 5
Friday February 16 – Gordi Whitelaw – 3 out of 5
