After dominating their respective companies for the better part of a decade, Ric Flair's signing with the World Wrestling Federation in 1991 led to many believing this dream match was finally to happen. Flair was referring to himself as the 'Real World Champion' after all, and frequently got involved in Hogan's business, costing him his own WWE Title in the process. WrestleMania VIII was to be the setting, and a match between the two was all but confirmed for the event. Jack Tunney even gave a press conference hyping the match and WWE presented the match graphic on television. Nothing would have made more sense than the two biggest icons of the sport at the time going up against each other, in what would have been their last opportunity to put on a match worthy of their lofty reputations. Hogan was already breaking down and getting less mobile, and Flair's ability to bump like a madman was diminishing with every failed leap off the top rope. Inexplicably, the match at WrestleMania VIII never happened. Why? You can make your own rumour up for that. Egos, poor crowds for house shows in the build up... who knows? It seems strange in hindsight that Vince McMahon would leave such a match on the table. Although, judging by their so-so battles in WCW, this may have been for the best. Still, those WCW matches just a couple of years later made big money, big money that Vince, Hogan and Flair could have made at WrestleMania VIII.