10 Things We Learned From Something Else To Wrestle With: The Mega Powers

8. WWE Deliberately Kept Savage & Hogan Tag Matches Off TV At First

WWE moved at a much slower pace in the late-1980s. With only three pay-per-views (soon to be four when Royal Rumble joined the schedule in 1989) in '88, the company were a live event-focused business. TV shows, unlike today's, were syndicated and programming like Wrestling Challenge/Superstars was in the can long before it aired.

That's why, even though they formed in October 1987, The Mega Powers didn't work together on television in a match until SummerSlam 1988 in August the next year.

The tag-team of Hogan and Savage was considered strictly a house show attraction by management. It was the kind of carrot WWE could dangle in front of local markets to drive ticket sales, and it worked a treat. Though used more sparingly than one might imagine (The Mega Powers weren't teaming every week), it did big business.

This was a conscious decision by WWE. McMahon was looking to keep live event attendances high and wasn't as worried about the syndicated programming. There was was no way a Hogan/Savage tag match was going to air on Challenge, for example.