7 Times WWE Sold Out Its Fans
WWE has sold us short more times than the Big Show his partners.
The relationship between WWE and its fans is akin to one where you are only in it for the sex. You hate on it and complain all the time, only to return at certain nights to enjoy what is on offer. Maybe that’s why their “best” recent storyline has also been based on just that.
But it doesn’t mean we forget all the times WWE rewarded our investment in the product by slapping us right across our mark cheeks so hard, we started to question our reality.
These are the seven times WWE, well and truly, sold out its fans.
7. The Dream Match That Never Came
In 1991, the then wrestling equivalent of hell freezing over had become a reality. Ric, limousine ridin', jet flyin', all that stuff, Flair had arrived in the WWF, with the Big Gold Belt still wrapped around his strutting waist. In the days where news permeating via the internet was not a thing, a moment such as this unsurprisingly wreaked delirium among the fans.
Every single person who knew of the existence of wrestling, had only one thing on their minds: the clash of the ages, the greatest in the world standing in the same ring, the biggest match in pro wrestling history, Ric Flair vs. Hulk Hogan. The story booked itself. And so of course, WWE never gave it to us.
Instead, in a very early prelude to WrestleMania’s current mantra of more matches please, they replaced it with a double main event. Flair battling Randy Savage in a match which actually involved one of the first appearances from pre-best in the world and pre-building jumping maniac Shane McMahon, and another pitting Hogan against Sid Justice which was built around a guy dressed as a voodoo doctor forgetting when to do his spot.
The most widely accepted reasoning for the change, if you can use the term accepted, was the poor house show returns generated from the matches between the pair. Regardless, it was one of those times the fans desperately wanted something, and WWE refused.