Q 01/05

Which future UFC Heavyweight Champion is the cover athlete of WWE SmackDown! Here Comes the Pain?

A) Brock Lesnar

B) Eddie Guerrero

C) Randy Orton

D) Triple H

Answer · why

A) Brock Lesnar

Brock Lesnar leads the box art, and a 2003 WWE DVD about his career carries the same Here Comes the Pain title. He is the game's second-highest rated ...

Q 02/05

Which Here Comes the Pain Raw star had already played the lead in the 2002 film The Scorpion King?

A) Val Venis

B) The Rock

C) Rhyno

D) Christian

Answer · why

B) The Rock

The Rock is rated 87, with only two Raw wrestlers scored higher. The Scorpion King, a spin-off from The Mummy Returns, gave him his first leading role...

Q 03/05

Which Here Comes the Pain star lost at WrestleMania XIX and did not wrestle again for 19 years?

A) Triple H

B) Bubba Ray Dudley

C) Steve Austin

D) Christian

Answer · why

C) Steve Austin

Steve Austin is rated 85 on the Raw roster, in a game released seven months after knee and neck injuries forced him out of the ring.

Q 04/05

Which rapper character from the SmackDown brand joined the game series for the first time in Here Comes the Pain?

A) Sean O'Haire

B) Charlie Haas

C) Shelton Benjamin

D) John Cena

Answer · why

D) John Cena

John Cena wore jerseys, backwards hats and a padlock chain as the Doctor of Thuganomics. All four of these wrestlers were new to the series, and he is...

Q 05/05

Which Here Comes the Pain newcomer later played Drax in Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy films?

A) Rodney Mack

B) Batista

C) A-Train

D) Sean O'Haire

Answer · why

B) Batista

Batista joins the Raw roster rated just 72, having entered the Evolution stable that January. He first played Drax the Destroyer in 2014.