Warrior Hogan WM 6

[The Fabulous Rougeau's]

I remember renting this video over and over just to see the Hogan/Warrior match. You have to keep in mind back than we didn't get to see the top guys wrestle all that much. WWE TV back than was used more as a tool to continue stories. As such, we wouldn't see Hogan and Warrior fight every week like we do with Punk and Cena, or even like we did with Rock and Austin back in the Attitude Era, or even Bret and Shawn before them. So not only was it special to see them wrestle, but wrestling each other just made it that much more insaine.

As many have said the match itself is nothing to go crazy about, but the crowd was amp and it just felt huge, so thus it is and was huge. I was a little too young back when Hogan came to prominence in the WWE during his first run, but I was the perfect age when Warrior did the same so even though I liked Hogan, I was Warrior all the way. Kicking out of the leg drop was epic.

[duxdelrio]

I was there live to see this match, and I can honestly say that the crowd went crazy when Warrior won the strap. I even popped/marked out myself. It wasn't because I was a Warrior fan, it was just nice to see a changing of the guard.
While Warriors promos were somewhat nonsensical leading up to the event, you could see a change in him that made you believe he could actually beat Hogan.

[thebarber]

[quote=HBsam31;4301265]The crowd was about 50/50 in this match, but Warrior was the first guy to come around that really took fans away from Hulk Hogan.

Thsi is incorrect. Jake Roberts had his major fued with Hogan in 1986 scrapped after their first confrontation on the Snake Pit. The crowd were going nuts for Roberts and actually booed Hogan. Vince was in attendance this night and when Snake came back stage, Vince told him that he could not go against what the fans wanted and they spoke in volumes. And Vince was not doing face vs face feuds in those days. So Vince turned Roberts face instead and Hulk resumed his feud with Paul Orndorff, leading to their famous steel cage match January 1987. Hogan vs Roberts was supposed to be the house show circuit main event leading to Mania 3.

"Around this time, the WWF was trying to get a feud between Roberts and Hulk Hogan going, but after Roberts DDT'd Hogan during an episode of The Snake Pit, too many people started chanting for the DDT rather than for Hogan, forcing them to step away from this like it never happened." source Wikipedia, Jake Roberts page

[OnceMeansOnce]

Loved the build-up, loved the match, loved the ending! Warrior takes a lot of crap these days for whatever reason but any fan who watched WWF in those days can tell you we were all hooked on the Warrior character! Amazing unique character! He was on fire during that period. and thats why WM6 was such a huge success!

[HBsam31]

[quote=thebarber;4302149]

Originally Posted by HBsam31

The crowd was about 50/50 in this match, but Warrior was the first guy to come around that really took fans away from Hulk Hogan.

Thsi is incorrect. Jake Roberts had his major fued with Hogan in 1986 scrapped after their first confrontation on the Snake Pit. The crowd were going nuts for Roberts and actually booed Hogan. Vince was in attendance this night and when Snake came back stage, Vince told him that he could not go against what the fans wanted and they spoke in volumes. And Vince was not doing face vs face feuds in those days. So Vince turned Roberts face instead and Hulk resumed his feud with Paul Orndorff, leading to their famous steel cage match January 1987. Hogan vs Roberts was supposed to be the house show circuit main event leading to Mania 3.

"Around this time, the WWF was trying to get a feud between Roberts and Hulk Hogan going, but after Roberts DDT'd Hogan during an episode of The Snake Pit, too many people started chanting for the DDT rather than for Hogan, forcing them to step away from this like it never happened." source Wikipedia, Jake Roberts page

Yeah you are right. Now that you say that I remember seeing that on the Jake Roberts DVD. I guess the Warrior was the first person that Vince really let take fans away from Hogan in the long haul.

[lowandmighty]

Its a lot of statements that aren't all true is all I can say about this post.

Contrary to what the poster thinks about everyone thinking Hogans wouldn't lose, all my friends and I at the time knew that Warrior was going to win it was just so obvious. Hogan throwing him out of the rumble, a new decade and a new champion. It was just so obvious. However we did wonder what the warrior would do after that. It was a gamble to say the least and it didn't pay off. Warriors fans would have stayed fans of wwe even if he's lost but sadly because Hogan lost they lost half their fans. They actually had to end up making Hogan champion again the next year and wave American flags everywhere just to stay on top.

Warrior was no where near the outright favourite of the match either and quite frankly the match itself sucked to the max. I actually found the whole thing quite forgettable.
It wasn't shocking. Maybe shockingly predictable.