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33. 1993 | The Original Undercard

Hulk Hogan was widely believed to be in the frame for a rematch against Yokozuna. This didn’t happen. If the Lex Luger face turn felt like the most sudden development imaginable, that’s because it was. Vince McMahon basically recast Hogan. Luger was never Hogan, but perhaps a better way of emulating the Hogan push was “Luger beats the WWF champion in six minutes within days of returning” and not “Luger sits on a bus for weeks on end”. The undercard underwent some changes too. 

Per the July 26, 1993 edition of the Observer, two singles matches were originally envisaged as a tag; Razor Ramon and the 1-2-3 Kid were meant to wrestle the Money, Inc. team of Ted DiBiase and Irwin R. Schyster. That match was split into two. Neither were any good. Ramon Vs. DiBiase was a particular let-down, but DiBiase was in a bad place personally and broken-down physically. He got in there and wanted to get out - not just out of the ring, but the WWF. This was the last match he worked for Vince McMahon in his last year as an active full-timer. 

At the actual SummerSlam, Marty Jannetty lost to Ludvig Borga. In the rough draft of SummerSlam, he teamed with Crush to take on the original Doink and his doppelganger. Adam Bomb made his WWF PPV debut at Survivor Series, but this was originally mooted for SummerSlam. He was scheduled to face - and presumably annihilate - Tito Santana. 

Before Sensational Sherri was fired, she was going to team with Tatanka in a match against Bam Bam Bigelow and Luna Vachon. Tatanka and Bam Bam did still face off, albeit tagging with the Smoking Gunns and the Headshrinkers, respectively. The Headshrinkers, incidentally, were the original opponents for the Steiner Brothers. Fans almost missed out on that Steiners Vs. Heavenly Bodies minor classic.