6 Ups & 4 Downs From WWE WrestleMania IX
Downs...
4. The Sad Guy
Watch this pay-per-view and admire, everywhere, the sense of grandiosity that permeates throughout. The roster is shrunken in size and literal stature but you're not given time to notice. The venue is barely a venue, but WWE had never cast so many production spells in one night. Jim Ross is in a toga, not that he gets to make use of the breathing space in the era before the Divas Division.
Razor Ramon was ready-made for the occasion. The gold around his neck glistened as it would just months later when he won his first Intercontinental Title - he was the tall, tanned film star that had stumbled into Vince McMahon's auspices when he was desperate for the type.
Bob Backlund...was not.
The match, subsequently, was horrifically boring - not least because it had no stakes attached either. WrestleMania IX needed bangers, not clangers.