Tony Schiavontay
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Post by Tony Schiavontay on Aug 16, 2015 23:38:16 GMT -5
No way is this true. On the SNME DVD from a few years ago, there's a tag match with both on opposite teams with the announcers really hammering home that "If Hogan and Flair are ready to kill each other in this tag, what will their singles match at Wrestlemania will be like?" They had clearly announced it at some point.
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Post by OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 on Aug 17, 2015 0:18:16 GMT -5
I know he says it was never promised, but stuff like Flair costing Hogan the title versus Undertaker would at the least heavily imply it was considered at some point. If you go way back, even before he debuted when Bobby Heenan introduced the WCW gold belt, he said that Hogan couldn't compare with Ric Flair and that he was the real champion, Flair hadn't even debuted and it was implied that he was gonna challenge Hogan In my opinion Ric was saving face when he mentioned that Hogan wanted to leave to so Thunder in Paradise, he didn't wanted to admit that the house show matches he had with Hulk didn't drew that much money. I don't blame Ric, in 91 I don't think many wwf fans knew even what WCW was, unlike Hogan coming in to challenge him in 94, where the tv precence of both companies was way bigger.
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Post by Futureraven: Beelzebruv on Aug 17, 2015 1:42:43 GMT -5
Slightly off topic, but looking back, it's weird how Vince has such a history of resisting anything from outside his company, yet Flair and Sid were in the co-main events of Mania after being in WCW a year prior. That's only really been a thing since WCW closed, before that people were given chances. Lex Luger was signed and was going to be the centrepiece of the WBF, then feuded with Perfect, was set up to feud with Bret, but turned face to become the new Hogan. Big Show showed up beating up Austin. The Radicalz were an almost Shield level group at the start.
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Post by chazraps on Aug 17, 2015 1:55:45 GMT -5
I always heard the "Wasn't a draw" wasn't the case, but rather it was Flair and Hogan's chemistry being off for whatever reason, namely the clash of styles as well as Flair's severe inner-ear problems being at their worst when Hogan-Flair was run.
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Post by auph10imitated on Aug 17, 2015 5:02:12 GMT -5
I loved Savage vs Flair from Mania 8, its one of my favourite ever how can he say that wasnt a good match? I think it worked out much better - in all honestly I wasnt really that interested in Hogan vs Flair anyways, I wanted Savage (biased, yes) to be chosen at the press conference, was pissed when he wasnt, although logicically he wouldnt have since he had no beef with Flair, then was pleasnatly suprised when it got changed and produced one of my fav storylines ever, its awesome how much heat and build they had for two guys who didnt even touch each other or go head to head in the build up of the PPV, they di it all on promos and storyline. It was done to perfection. I believed the doctored photos (ok, I was 9 years old) I wanted Savage to kill Flair, im just so glad they didnt Russo it, because had that been 6-7 years later Liz would have turned heel.. but the ending was awesome.
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Post by somsta on Aug 17, 2015 7:21:03 GMT -5
I always heard the "Wasn't a draw" wasn't the case, but rather it was Flair and Hogan's chemistry being off for whatever reason, namely the clash of styles as well as Flair's severe inner-ear problems being at their worst when Hogan-Flair was run. The ear injury didn't occur until later in 1992 after a match with Warrior.
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