Wrestlemania 8 Question

[Mr Captain Falcon]

Wrestlemania 8 was my first ppv that i saw on tv. I know every match on the card by heart, the order each match appears, who wins each match, everything..... except one thing... Flair won the title in the royal rumble, and Hogan was named the number one contender for the title at wrestlemania, yet Hogan fought Sid Justice and Savage fought flair and won the title. I know that Hogan and Sid were feuding because of the result of the royal rumble, but why/how/when did the decision change to put Hogan and Justice against each other and Macho Man against Flair?

[Tyfo]

I think it was when they did that tag match where Sid walked out on Hogan against Flair and Taker, Hogan demanded the match with Sid after that. I don't remember however how Savage got the title match. They may have started the Elizabeth stuff with Flair and led that into it, but they may not have started it until the match was announced, dont remember for sure.

[kunswwfmark]

It's too bad politics got in the way of what would have been one of the greatest WrestleMania moments of all time: Hogan vs. Flair.

[Banned Member]

kunswwfmark said:

It's too bad politics got in the way of what would have been one of the greatest WrestleMania moments of all time: Hogan vs. Flair.

QFT

[Lord Rahl]

kunswwfmark said:

It's too bad politics got in the way of what would have been one of the greatest WrestleMania moments of all time: Hogan vs. Flair.

What happened with that? Hogan didn't wanna job?

[Citizen Snips]

johnwkd1 said:

kunswwfmark said:

It's too bad politics got in the way of what would have been one of the greatest WrestleMania moments of all time: Hogan vs. Flair.

What happened with that? Hogan didn't wanna job?

But Flair ended up jobbing to Savage anyway...did he just not want to job to Hogan?

[Milkman Norm]

After the Rumble there was an angle about WWF naming a #1 contender out of either Hogan, Sid or Savage. Later WWF President announced Jack Tunney that Hogan was #1 contender and Savage was #2. Later Sid and Hogan teamed against Flair and Undertaker on SNME. Sid turned heal and beat up Hogan. Hogan than wanted to have a "final" match against Sid. So Savage the #2 contender was moved up #1. The political reason for the switch had to do with the growing steriod controversy. Hogan was starting to get negative mainstream press for steriod allegations and for an apperence on A Current Affair in which he lied about using roids. It was decided that it be best if Hogan not be in the public eye for a while so he was off WWF programing for roughly a year.

[Big Daddy Bad Booking]

Then he came back at WM IX. We all know what happened there...

I saw the PPV for the first time yesterday, and the booking of that PPV extremely pisses me off. You have an awesome title match being lower on the card than:

Owen Hart vs. Skinner
Tag Team titles
Martel vs. Tatanka (which literally put fans to sleep)
and

Hogan vs. Sid, one of the WORST main events in HISTORY!!

[Mr Captain Falcon]

katievick said:

Then he came back at WM IX. We all know what happened there...

I saw the PPV for the first time yesterday, and the booking of that PPV extremely pisses me off. You have an awesome title match being lower on the card than:

Owen Hart vs. Skinner
Tag Team titles
Martel vs. Tatanka (which literally put fans to sleep)
and

Hogan vs. Sid, one of the WORST main events in HISTORY!!

If you notice, only ONE heel wins a match, and its the first match, and its HBK!

Starts out:
Reba McEntire sings the national anthem (or Arriba, Titos "sister" as bobby heenan put it, lol)
Tito Santana vs. Shawn Michaels- Michaels wins in a great match.

LOD Interview

Undertaker vs. Jake roberts- Victim Number 2 has been claimed.

Backstage segment- Piper/Bret Hart with Mean Gene.

Hart/Piper match was amazing with piper playing the tweener, yet staying face after throwing the bell out of the ring after wanting to hit bret with it. Hart wins the same way he beat steve austin at Survivor Series 96, claiming his IC title back.

Backstage segment- Repo Man, Nasty Boys, The Mountie talk about their upcoming match.
Backstage segment- Virgil, Duggan, Bossman, Slaughter talk about the match as well.

Ray Combs does a family feud segment with the 8 men and almost gets his butt kicked by the heels.
8 man tag match ends when Virgil pins one of the nastys and his cheesy music blares. VIRGIL GOT A PINFALL VICTORY AT A WRESTLEMANIA, THAT IS CORRECT!

One half of the double main event!
Segment- Sean Mooney intervies Flair and Perfect, the heels threaten to show the "prize photo of your old lady, savage" and we never see it.

I don't remember but i don't think savage had an interview.

Savage/Flair for the Title was the BEST match of the night! Savage was a huge ball of energy to start out, then he got tossed outta the ring and it was pretty much one sided the rest of the match. Savage did manage to hit the elbow, but perfect pulled savage out of the ring. Liz eventually made her way out, with Shane-O-Mac trying to get her to go to the back. Savage wins with a schoolboy and a hand full of trunks. Crowd went NUTS for this!

Backstage segment- Flair/Perfect/Heenan saying it was a load of BS what happened, Savage had the trunks, it would be OK.

Segment- Savage with liz, gives the belt to liz and says "THIS IS URS RIC FLAIR!" and rips his shirt. WOOOOH tough guy ripping his shirt.

Intermission- i kid you not it was INTERMISSION!
Build up the feud of Sid/Hogan starting off with the press conference, then the SNME match, then it shows Justice demolishing opponents left and right en route to WM.

The Lumbee Tribe are in the ring doing a native dance.

Mooney interviews The Model Rick Martel backstage. Martel says Tatanka is SCALPING tickets! HAHAHA!

Tatanka/Martel was kind of a snorefest, crowd woke up at the end when Tatanka pulled martel in the corner and gave him the loudest chop i've EVER heard, sounded like a whip cracking. Tatanka wins, keeping his undefeated streak alive.

Backstage Money Inc was being interviewed with Jimmy Hart. "GUESS WHAT! It's tax time!"
Natural Disasters being interviewed, Earthquake showed his intense his interviews could be, which is the reason i was embarrassed when my mother would come into my room while i would play with my hasbro figures (i was cutting a promo with earthquake and i mimicked his wrestlemania 8 interview by using the intensity he had, and my mother never let me live it down).

Natural Disasters win by Countout.

Backstage was Mean Gene interviewing Beefcake.

Owen Hart runs to the ring in his High Energy gear to the music that would be the future theme song of the Heavenly Bodies. Skinner was already in the ring and hacks a chew-loogie in owens face, freakin gross. 72 seconds later Owen wins with a rollup.

Sid being interviewed by Mean Gene, along with DOCTOR Harvey Whippleman. Sid tells mean gene "NO SHUTUP YOU FAT, BALDHEADED LITTLE OAF!!!" (i laughed for days) They cut to Vince interviewing Hogan (vinces only appearance on the PPV, but it wasn't even live, it was already aired on tv once before).

Doctor Harvey introduces Sid Justice to the ring, then Hogan comes out for his FAREWELL MATCH! (keep in mind, this was 15 years ago... he's STILL wrestling).
Horrible match, Sid powerbombs hogan and he kicks out at 2 and hulks up, Sid gets the leg drop and kicks out, Harvey jumps in the ring to get sid dq'd, and then Papa Shango shows up to beat up hogan til ULTIMATE WARRIOR SPRINTS TO THE RING, MAKING HIS RETURN AFTER 8 MONTHS!!! HE'S BACK! OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG! They clean house and celebrate as WM goes off the air.

Yeah don't ask me why i put this on here, i'm just reminiscing of when i was (counts....) 5? yeah i was 5.