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Post by thelonewolf527 on Mar 28, 2020 4:43:50 GMT -5
There had been talk of Hogan/Austin ever since the nWo came in, but supposedly, neither one was willing to do the job, and they were completely at loggerheads. That’s why Rock got Hogan at Mania 18, and Austin ended up with Hall. I'm more interested in ok why was Hogan not willing to job to Austin but was ok with the Rock and same year tapped out to Angle when Hogan red and Yellow NEVER taps out. I found that odd. Hogan's WWE contract at the time had substantially less creative control, so they could make him tap out to Angle.
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Post by Mozenrath on Mar 28, 2020 4:48:59 GMT -5
I'm more interested in ok why was Hogan not willing to job to Austin but was ok with the Rock and same year tapped out to Angle when Hogan red and Yellow NEVER taps out. I found that odd. Hogan's WWE contract at the time had substantially less creative control, so they could make him tap out to Angle. Plus I guess it's not like he'd never lost by submission before, since he'd submitted to Lex Luger in WCW when he lost the title to him. It's just something Hogan very selectively did.
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Post by Mid-Carder on Mar 28, 2020 7:21:05 GMT -5
There had been talk of Hogan/Austin ever since the nWo came in, but supposedly, neither one was willing to do the job, and they were completely at loggerheads. That’s why Rock got Hogan at Mania 18, and Austin ended up with Hall. I'm more interested in ok why was Hogan not willing to job to Austin but was ok with the Rock and same year tapped out to Angle when Hogan red and Yellow NEVER taps out. I found that odd. Hogan was very protective of his position, understandably, and Austin is the one guy who threatened that position. Even with Rock beating Hogan, nobody thought Rock was in Hogan's league because everyone knows it should and would have been Austin. Austin wasn't willing to job and Hogan wasn't either.
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Mar 28, 2020 8:17:46 GMT -5
I'm more interested in ok why was Hogan not willing to job to Austin but was ok with the Rock and same year tapped out to Angle when Hogan red and Yellow NEVER taps out. I found that odd. Hogan's WWE contract at the time had substantially less creative control, so they could make him tap out to Angle. He also passed out in a bear hug to Brock. On an episode of goddamn Smackdown.
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Post by segaz on Mar 28, 2020 10:23:17 GMT -5
Austin needed the time off as he was hurt and in a bad place also. I don't even know if him leaving wasn't a bad idea, as physically he couldn't really go much longer. Perhaps a retirement match instead of walking out.
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Post by cornettesracket on Mar 28, 2020 18:24:47 GMT -5
Given that it seems that Austin in ring in 2002 was on a downward spiral from comments made here. Was it a blessing that Austin took time off ? I ask that because if he had stay on the road and wrestled would he have made it to his match with the rock at wrestlemania 19 ?
edit: I hadn't seen the very last post in this thread which hints at the same thing I'm asking.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2020 20:15:15 GMT -5
Really I think the important thing is that somebody at least won to mercifully end that awful match.
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Post by robferatu on Mar 29, 2020 14:52:41 GMT -5
Only in hindsight because Austin walked out shortly after. For long-term planning, WWE champion Austin v Brock would have been huge. Even bigger than Brock v Rock was. There's no doubt that Lesnar vs. Austin would have been a huge, money-making match for the WWF/E, but I don't think their styles would have meshed as well as The Rock and Brock Lesnar's did, and question how safe it would have been to put "Stone Cold" in the ring with the "Next Big Thing" as by the time the Spring of 2002 rolled around, Steve was incredibly banged up and a shell of his former self. As for Hogan vs. Austin at Judgment Day, it almost feels like a disservice to have such a "Wrestlemania" caliber match on a third tier PPV, but hindsight being twenty-twenty and knowing what we know now, it would have been the only way to have that "once in a lifetime" match so it probably would have been better served for Austin to defeat Undertaker at Backlash to challenge the Hulkster for the WWF Championship at Judgment Day.
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Post by clifford on Mar 29, 2020 15:10:07 GMT -5
This was the feud that gave us "Say 'What' if you like to sleep with your sister", right?
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