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Post by jason1980s on Jun 26, 2022 16:41:54 GMT -5
Can we count almost the entirety of Wrstlemania 8? Because what they were buildning to is very different to what we got. This was the first Wrestlemania really since 1985 to feature the fewest wrestlers and yet it did probably have the most changes. Bulldog and Berzerker was cut from the broadcast and according to the WWF Magazine there was supposed to be Disasters v. LOD in a street fight, Money Inc v. Duggan/Slaughter for the tag titles (amazing the magazine was normally three months behind but were well caught up to mention Money Inc having the titles). I think the 8 man tag was originally supposed to be a six man with Bossman, Virgil, Bulldog v. Mountie and Nasty Boys. That's all I can think of. I don't remember Owen v. Skinner being mentioned. Since Royal Rumble they lost Haku, Barbarian, Valentine, Snuka, Anvil and Hercules. I'm not sure if Sheik was still around. I think he was doing the foreign tour with Dino Bravo. None of them really would have made any good matches but I always did enjoy seeing as many guys on shows as I could.
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Post by ToyfareMark on Jun 27, 2022 4:24:59 GMT -5
Sid Vs. Razor Ramon at Summerslam 95. It was actually Sid was Shawn Michaels. March was changed to Shawn/Scott in a Ladder Match. My bad, I knew the match was changed I just jumped the gun lol.
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Post by James Fabiano on Jun 27, 2022 8:54:01 GMT -5
The bikini contest at SummerSlam '96? Was supposed to be Sunny vs. Cloudy.
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Post by jason1980s on Jun 27, 2022 9:12:41 GMT -5
The bikini contest at SummerSlam '96? Was supposed to be Sunny vs. Cloudy. Not sure if it was mentioned but Ahmed v. Owen for the IC title was supposed to take place also.
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Post by Rumble McSkirmish on Jun 27, 2022 23:39:13 GMT -5
For three straight years Mick Foley's WrestleMania plans were changed prior to the event:
At WrestleMania 13 he was slated to face Marc Mero, but Foley shot down those plans because he refused to work with Mero because Marc was being paid more on a guaranteed contract. As a counter offer Foley wanted to work with Vader again which would be the culmination of an angle where he and Vader would first team together and then Vader would turn on him leading to the one on one match. However the turn never came and Mankind/Vader ended up facing Owen/Bulldog in a sadly heatless tag title match.
(As an aside to that story Mero was going to face Rocky Miavia at the PPV but Marc got injured and was replaced with the Sultan.)
At WrestleMania 14 Mick wanted to recreate his famous barbed wire exploding ring death match with Terry Funk. Only this time the match would be pre taped from Funk's ranch in order to make the pyrotechnics go off without a hitch and to edit out anything too intense to keep the cable companies happy. Once again this was supposed to start with Mick and Funk teaming up and then turning on each other setting up a best of seven death match series culminating with said exploding ring death match, however the turn never happened and Funk/Foley took on the New Age Outlaws in a dumpster match instead.
And finally at Mania 15 Foley was going to be slotted into the main event in a triple threat match with The Rock and Steve Austin, but Shawn Michaels got into Vince's ear that the main event of Mania should be one on one and sadly Mick was the odd man out in this scenario. Instead taking on Big Show in a match to determine the special guest referee for the main event.
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Post by XaviersSS2015hair on Jun 28, 2022 21:41:07 GMT -5
A couple others I remember: Starrcade 97: Nash vs. Giant - was scheduled, but Nash called in, saying he thought he was having a heart attack. So instead, they did a segment with Scott Hall announcing the match wasn't happening and getting Chokeslammed On the preview show for Starrcade 1998, they announced a Scott Hall vs. Bam Bam Bigelow match that ended up not taking place Not sure which PPV it was, but I remember seeing a video online of Paul Heyman explaining a no-show for an event, either in 99 or 2000, I think. Shane Douglas was supposed to face Justin Credible at Hardcore Heaven 1999, but was either injured or had already left the company, so Credible got Sid (who left that same month lmao) Pretty sure Nash used the heart attack excuse to pull out of BFG 05. Nash vs Jarrett was scheduled to main event TNA's first BFG which was supposed to be TNA's version of WM. And the day of or day before Nash calls in sick again with another heart attack. Instead we got a gauntlet match main event at BFG.
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Post by Susan "Poison" Candy on Jun 30, 2022 9:16:29 GMT -5
Undertaker and Nathan Jones vs Big Show & A-Train at Wrestlemania 19 but that got changed to a Handicap Match instead with just Taker against Big Show and A-Train
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Post by Wardlow on Wardlow 54 on Jun 30, 2022 9:36:09 GMT -5
Undertaker and Nathan Jones vs Big Show & A-Train at Wrestlemania 19 but that got changed to a Handicap Match instead with just Taker against Big Show and A-Train WrestleMania 21 was originally supposed to be Brothers of Destruction vs. Snitsky and Heidenreich. Angle vs. Undertaker, with Angle breaking the Streak, was planned for Mania 22 before EddiesPloitation happened.
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Post by Pipe_Bomb2k13 on Jul 3, 2022 3:26:35 GMT -5
Bulldog/Berzerker was replaced by Owen/Skinner as the legend goes when asked about the squash match Bulldog apprantly replied with "I don't do 2 minute matches" and quick with a response Skinner said "I do".
Wasn't there a Austin/Pillman match planned for KOTR 97 before Pillman's car accident?
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Post by nobody on Jul 3, 2022 4:51:31 GMT -5
No Way Out 2007 was going to have a rematch of the Armageddon 2006 Ladder match for the WWE tag titles, London/Kendrick vs MNM vs Regal/Taylor vs The Hardyz.
This was advertised as late as on SD two days before the event, however on the PPV it was changed to a 6-Man tag The Hardyz/Benoit vs MNM/MVP while London/Kendrick defended the titles against Deuce and Domino.
I don’t know if it’s ever been said why the match was changed, but the most common theory is that because WM had MITB scheduled they didn’t want two PPV’s in a row with ladder matches.
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Post by Mozenrath on Jul 3, 2022 5:11:22 GMT -5
For three straight years Mick Foley's WrestleMania plans were changed prior to the event: At WrestleMania 13 he was slated to face Marc Mero, but Foley shot down those plans because he refused to work with Mero because Marc was being paid more on a guaranteed contract. As a counter offer Foley wanted to work with Vader again which would be the culmination of an angle where he and Vader would first team together and then Vader would turn on him leading to the one on one match. However the turn never came and Mankind/Vader ended up facing Owen/Bulldog in a sadly heatless tag title match. (As an aside to that story Mero was going to face Rocky Miavia at the PPV but Marc got injured and was replaced with the Sultan.) At WrestleMania 14 Mick wanted to recreate his famous barbed wire exploding ring death match with Terry Funk. Only this time the match would be pre taped from Funk's ranch in order to make the pyrotechnics go off without a hitch and to edit out anything too intense to keep the cable companies happy. Once again this was supposed to start with Mick and Funk teaming up and then turning on each other setting up a best of seven death match series culminating with said exploding ring death match, however the turn never happened and Funk/Foley took on the New Age Outlaws in a dumpster match instead. And finally at Mania 15 Foley was going to be slotted into the main event in a triple threat match with The Rock and Steve Austin, but Shawn Michaels got into Vince's ear that the main event of Mania should be one on one and sadly Mick was the odd man out in this scenario. Instead taking on Big Show in a match to determine the special guest referee for the main event. It's kind of interesting that Foley was proposing basically a "cinematic match" before those came into vogue with the Deletion matches and some from the pandemic era, but I guess that's not surprising given he was in several, like Empty Arena with the Rock after this, and both Boiler Room Brawls, the Big Show one involving special effects and props to both cover for Mick being injured and keeping Big Show away from audience reactions because this was during a period where he was having difficulty getting over. I wonder how much of Mick repeatedly getting involved in these sorts of things was due to not being a total purist, and how much of it was due to character, though if it was more the latter, you'd figure Kane and Undertaker would have been in more of these sorts of things.
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Post by cjh on Jul 3, 2022 6:21:30 GMT -5
Bulldog/Berzerker was replaced by Owen/Skinner as the legend goes when asked about the squash match Bulldog apprantly replied with "I don't do 2 minute matches" and quick with a response Skinner said "I do". Wasn't there a Austin/Pillman match planned for KOTR 97 before Pillman's car accident?Pillman's accident was in April 1996, not 1997. The match was planned for KOTR, then was changed to Austin/Michaels. Austin/Pillman happened the next night on Raw.
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Post by David-Arquette was in WCW 2000 on Jul 3, 2022 7:00:00 GMT -5
Has anyone mentioned Ric Flair and Arn Anderson Vs Doom at Starrcade '90 being changed to Barry Windham and Arn instead. All storyline, due to Flair being revealed as the Black Scorpion. Great match, by the way.
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Post by chrom on Jul 3, 2022 7:56:13 GMT -5
Scott Norton vs Booker T for the IWGP Championship at World War 3
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Post by chronocross on Jul 3, 2022 8:01:28 GMT -5
I think Earthquake was supposed to go against Ludvig Borga at WM10 but it got changed to Adam Bomb. I think it was due to Ludvig's injury or being let go from the company.
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Post by jason1980s on Jul 3, 2022 9:57:08 GMT -5
The match was planned for KOTR, then was changed to Austin/Michaels. Austin/Pillman happened the next night on Raw. I thought Pillman has some sort of injury which prevented the KOTR match. Or was it a kayfabe injury since the original Shawn match was supposed to be Bret but I think neither wanted to do it. IIRC Pillman was using crutches around KOTR time.
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Post by Citizen Snips Has Left on Jul 3, 2022 10:14:57 GMT -5
Ahmed Johnson vs Dean Douglas at In Your House 5 became Ahmed vs Buddy Landell and featured the brief return of Jeff Jarrett. This was the last televised appearance of Dean Douglas as well.
Did we mention HBK vs Douglas not taking place at IYH 4 and turning into Razor vs Dean? The Dean had some lousy luck at those In Your Houses.
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Post by chronocross on Jul 3, 2022 11:15:56 GMT -5
Survivor Series 1991-It was supposed to be Sid, Bossman, LOD vs. Natural Disasters/IRS/Jake, but Sid got hurt and they took Jake out for some reason which turned the match into a 6 man tag.
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Post by agent817 on Jul 3, 2022 11:20:17 GMT -5
I could have sworn that Mark Henry was supposed to take on Triple H at Breakdown: IYH for the Intercontinental title. It didn't happen because I think Triple H was injured.
Now that I think about it, I heard that he suffered an injury at Summerslam in that ladder match against The Rock, but he was still in action for at least a couple of weeks. He was out for only a couple of months because he came back in late November of that year, 1998.
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Post by fg on Jul 3, 2022 11:47:45 GMT -5
The match was planned for KOTR, then was changed to Austin/Michaels. Austin/Pillman happened the next night on Raw. I thought Pillman has some sort of injury which prevented the KOTR match. Or was it a kayfabe injury since the original Shawn match was supposed to be Bret but I think neither wanted to do it. IIRC Pillman was using crutches around KOTR time. Pillman was crutch free around that time. He said he would allow Shawn to take his place at KOR since his match with Bret was off. He said he would want Steve in short order. Steve and Brian had a match the Raw after the event.
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