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"He should have been world champion"


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As regards the Million Dollar Man, they could have had him go over at Mania, and talked about how the odds had been against Savage, with both his semi final and final matches being against people who'd had byes in the previous round. This could lead to one half of a double main event at Summerslam, with Savage winning the belt, and a match that is billed as the last ever Hogan/Andre match (kind of how they did in 90 when Hogan wasn't champ). Then, the rest of 88/early 89 plays out the same way it did

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They knew before Savage won the title what the main event of WrestleMania V was though. Savage had to win the belt, because as soon as the Mega Powers got put together, the plan was for Hogan and Savage to eventually explode over the WWF title. Back then, things were done with an end plan well in advance. It was possibly the best storyline WWF has ever done as well. 18 perfect months from the Mega Powers getting together until they broke up and had a match for the WWF title, spanning massive business at two WrestleMania's, a SummerSlam and a Survivor Series.

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Vader should have won the title against HBK at Summerslam 1996. At this time WWF were lacking a monster heel....They pushed Vader hugely but then didn't pull the trigger on giving him the title. Largely of course down to HBK's politicking backstage. Putting the title on Vader could have led to a long reign for Vader potentially leading up to a Match at Wrestlemania 13 with Undertaker. As HBK "lost his smile" he wouldn't be around for Wrestlemania anyway. So they still could have done Stone Cold vs Bret Hart as well as Vader vs Undertaker. Then they would just have to find something for Sid to do.

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They knew before Savage won the title what the main event of WrestleMania V was though. Savage had to win the belt, because as soon as the Mega Powers got put together, the plan was for Hogan and Savage to eventually explode over the WWF title. Back then, things were done with an end plan well in advance. It was possibly the best storyline WWF has ever done as well. 18 perfect months from the Mega Powers getting together until they broke up and had a match for the WWF title, spanning massive business at two WrestleMania's, a SummerSlam and a Survivor Series.

 

Nothing in Dibiase having the belt from Mania to Summerslam would have affected that though?

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They knew before Savage won the title what the main event of WrestleMania V was though. Savage had to win the belt, because as soon as the Mega Powers got put together, the plan was for Hogan and Savage to eventually explode over the WWF title. Back then, things were done with an end plan well in advance. It was possibly the best storyline WWF has ever done as well. 18 perfect months from the Mega Powers getting together until they broke up and had a match for the WWF title, spanning massive business at two WrestleMania's, a SummerSlam and a Survivor Series.

 

Nothing in Dibiase having the belt from Mania to Summerslam would have affected that though?

You can't lose the Mega Powers/ Liz's skirt angle that was a big part of the story.

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Nothing in Dibiase having the belt from Mania to Summerslam would have affected that though?

If you look at the build to the WrestleMania V match, they played footage of Hogan hogging the spotlight at WrestleMania IV, Hogan being the person who told Liz to drop her skirt at SummerSlam 88 and Hogan picking up Liz at Survivor Series 88. Everything was planned out to build until the following year. Back then things were different. You only had a few PPVs and a few SNME's. DiBiase would have gotten in the way. Savage needed that 12 month run as the Champion.

 

Also, Savage was a huge success at house shows that Hogan wasnt on while he was filming No Holds Barred. A heel champion wasnt going to do the business Savage was doing at the time. None of that 18 month period should be changed. It was magic. They did, like 650,000 buys at Mania V, and that was with PPV a new concept. Imagine if it was in the about of homes it is now, what it would have done. They'd never have broken that record.

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In the summer of 1996 though, the plan was Bret vs Shawn again for WrestleMania 13 wasn't it?

 

 

As far as Bret was concerned, yes. The same goes for KOTR 97, although that match had even been announced for the PPV on Raw and had an angle going into it and everything. That was another great thing about 97 WWF, matches would change for PPVs all the time, sometimes on the night of the show.

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They should have given RVD the belt in 2001/2 when he was getting ridiculous reactions. Instead, they spent that time making sure the audience knew RVD was a level below the top guys.

 

I always thought he was a level below the top guys, I have never bought him as anything other than IC level

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I dunno if I would include Owen Hart in this. If he was ever to have stepped up to the world title level, the time to do it was after Bret left and had Steve Austin not existed, I think the chances of that would have been better. As it turned out though, there was never a point were you could say (as it says on the tin) "he should have been world champion at that point"

 

The only one that sticks out in my mind over the WWE title is Lex Luger (and it probably doesnt even count as he was obviously a world champion in wcw), I cant imagine any good reason why they didnt put that belt on him at Summerslam 93. Even if he only kept it until a Wrestlemania 10 match with Hart, it would still have been better than what they did with Luger. Count out win at Summerslam after a huge push, then a renewed push into Mania to get DQ'ed? Yeah you might as well forget about his chances. And they did.

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In the summer of 1996 though, the plan was Bret vs Shawn again for WrestleMania 13 wasn't it?

 

I think Bret said so on the Rivalry DVD. Maybe Vader wins at Summerslam carry's it to the Royal Rumble in Texas and either Michaels wins the belt or Rumble in his hometown leaving Bret to win the other and they meet at W.M 13.

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