ok as everyone knows Wrestlemania 9 has been called the shittest Wrestlemania in history but if the Main Event was Hulk Hogan vs Bret Hart like it was Planned before Hogan played his creative control card could this match of saved the PPV from being known as a lackluster PPV?
I believe it could of been because at each WM their always one match that is always remembered and this could of been that one
Ok, so you really know for a fact that Hogan played his creative control card? Can you prove this for us beyond any shadow of a doubt? Sorry man WWE produced DVDs and tell all autobiographies are not going to cut it.
Bottom line is that you CAN'T prove it...unless of course you were part of the WWF creative team back in the early 90s and were hanging around behind the scenes at Caesar's Palace that Sunday afternoon on April 4, 1993.
And no WrestleMania IX in some circles might be called the "shittiest" WrestleMania but not in all circles, it's not universally known as being the worst WrestleMania of all time so your post loses all credibility there with just that statement alone. I mean after all a better case can be made for WrestleMania 27 being a really shitty WM (with the exception of Taker vs HHH) considering that an advertised US Title Match did not occur at the event like it was SUPPOSED to. Let's also not forget other contenders for lackluster WrestleManias like VIII (but Flair vs Savage and Hart Vs Piper saves it big time I think) where the main event ended in a DQ and WrestleMania 2000 that had the biggest clusterfuck for a title match ever as well as having so many other lackluster matches...yes I know the Dudleys vs Hardys vs Edge and Christian Three-Way Ladder Match was great but the Chris Benoit vs Chris Jericho vs Kurt Angle Euro-Continental Title Match was overrated, and then take a good look at that WM and you have disappointment written over all that event. Big Bossman and Bull Buchanan vs Godfather and D'Lo Brown, The Hardcore Invitational and then of course who could forget how WM ended with Vince screwing The Rock out of the World Title in the aforementioned Fatal Four Way. Never saw Vince's umpteenth heel turn at the time ever coming! What a shocker! Say what you want about Hogan's impromptu title win against Yokozuna but it was a hell of a lot more unexpected than Vince dicking yet another wrestler out of the WWF title.
Back to focusing on WM IX though, to the best of my knowledge there was never any speculation that WM IX was going to be Hogan vs Hart, that rumor actually applies to SummerSlam 1993 and even that is an unsubstantiated rumor, again Bret might talk about it all the time and say there were photographs and press material prepared for such a match but alas I have never seen any of these "photos" surface and since we are in the reality era, I am sure something like that would surface by now. Especially when you consider that the True Story Of WrestleMania shows a lot of backstage footage that you would not have normally seen in the 90s. Therefore if the WWF was really ever serious about Bret Vs Hogan to the point where they had press material ready to distribute I think we'd probably see it by now, period.
Anyway things happened the way they did at WM IX because that's how the WWF wanted to do it. Whether I personally agree with every single booking decision of that event or Hulk Hogan's impromptu title win which I didn't, the fact is they did it. Bottom line is this all's well that ended well...Hogan lost to the monster heel that he got a controversial title win over, you know Yokozuna...and that said heel had a long title reign not seen accomplished by a heel in the (W)WWF since Superstar Graham. Bret Hart during all that time got a King Of The Ring victory and worked his way back into the World Title scene to win back the title from that monster heel he lost it to in the first place and even better it happened at the NEXT WrestleMania, which built off what happened at IX. No shit right?! Think of it the WWF actually having a WrestleMania Main Event Rematch, I am sure that was totally accidental though and this was never in the back of their minds to do.
My opinion, this was the WWF's plan all along and they stuck with it. It's just a pathetic thing to read someone like you lamenting over something you don't have all your shit together on. Granted it might not have been what you wanted or what I thought was a great way to win a title (I hate seeing impromptu title matches to be honest) but in today's era where you have concepts like Money In The Bank where someone if they have the briefcase can win the title at any time they choose to...Hogan's winning of the WWF Title was no better or worse than any other booking idea I've seen.
Bottom line is this though, the WWF in my opinion planned to make a WrestleMania ending that people would be talking about years and years later. Obviously it worked because we're having a discussion about it now, but here's a word of advice don't act like you're some expert on the inner workings of the business because you're not. Also your presumption that this is the WORST WrestleMania ever just reeks of someone who didn't put a lot of thought into their thread. If that's a condescending thing of me to say so be it...but I just had to get that out there because this is only like the thousandth discussion I've read where someone wants to bring up the whole "Hogan held WrestleMania IX hostage" BS. Just deal with it WWF wanted Hogan champion again and the payoff with Yokozuna having a monster heel title reign and Bret getting his redemption was memorable every step of the way. After all, it's not like Hogan beat Hart for the belt and Hart was not given a chance at redemption, he definitely did.
WrestleMania IX didn't need saving, the only thing that needs saving is asinine postings on this forum like ones that our fine OP has made.
aka Great Khali V1 but even worse lol
