Post by ThankGodForSidJustice on Aug 29, 2022 16:47:16 GMT -5
Do you mean programmed with Luger after Mania? If so I already said in my post that they were obviously setting up Luger against Perfect so them going back to Luger/Borga clearly wasn't in the cards.
I also don't even think it was a given that he would've beat Tatanka at Rumble. Could see Tatanka winning the singles matches and then Borga eliminating him in the Rumble to get his heat back. Basically just copy and paste with what they ended up doing with Bigelow and Tatanka. In his last televised appearance Borga interfered in a Tatanka/Jarret match that was taped before the Rumble which makes it seem that feud was supposed to drag out longer which also makes the announcement of Quake/Borga for Mania more weird.
Also I don't think Quake/Borga was meant to be a program. Just one of those one off matches with no angle like they would do all the time on PPV's in the old days. I guess they could protect Borga if there were still plans. It's hard to say as Borga never came back so we have no ideas what the plans for him were. Maybe he could've been still figured in as a player. Maybe he would've fallen down the card. I think the match with Quake would've either been a double count out or Quake going over.
It still dosen't make sense with the knowledge they had at the time though.
Borga had a couple of TV appearances after the Rumble as they still had stuff in the can that was taped before his injury. One squash match and then him interfering in the Tatanka/Jarrett which ended up being his final appearance. Both aired in February.