10 Things You Didn't Know About WWE In 1991
4. The Real Reason Behind This Tuesday In Texas
If you're a millennial fan raised on the WWF, cast your mind back to the early 1990s when, with your Hasbro collection sprawled all over your living room carpet, you sit down with your sausage and smiley faces dinner to watch Survivor Series 1991 on Coliseum home video.
You sit there, thrilled, because you are not remotely discerning and have not yet realised that Virgil and the Berzerker are absolute dog dirt. They're big, wacky, and they have muscles!
Life is good, but oh boy - the Undertaker is out next, and before his t-shirt collection gave you a real reason to be horrified, through your childhood lens, he's real creepy. That ghostly make-up. The chilling gait. The dead eyes.
And, oh no - he's just beaten Hulk Hogan for the belt! Blast!
But!
Hulk Hogan might win it back at some show called This Tuesday In Texas?
"What the hell is This Tuesday In Texas, son?" your da asks.
It's another 20 quid at Woolworths, that's what it is. No chance.
Vince McMahon annoyed parents and left kids wanting, undermining the home video and PPV markets, with this cheap carny trick. Survivor Series and This Tuesday In Texas were two of the worst-performing WWF PPVs in years, and really only existed as a double-header to offset the start-up costs of the World Bodybuilding Federation.
They didn't even give you a proper finish at the show that "counted", either. It's no wonder the 1992 Royal Rumble buy number - just 260,000 - was so brutal.