4.Hogan Vs. Flair at Wrestlemania was Cancelled...Why?
When Ric Flair joined the WWF in the summer of 1991, his first target was WWF Champion Hulk Hogan. Everybody remembers how Flair brought the WCW Championship into the company and proclaimed himself to be the Real Worlds Champion. He was instrumental to Hulk Hogan losing the WWF Championship at Survivor Series, and played an integral part to Hogan being eliminated from the Royal Rumble. All sings were pointing to the Hogan/Flair dream match at Wrestlemania 8. Everybody knows what happened by now. Plans were scrapped, and the decision was made to go with a double main event of Flair defending the WWF Championship against Randy Savage and Hogan facing Sid Justice. It ended up being for the best, as we got the fantastic Savage/Flair feud over Elizabeth. But what exactly happened to make Vince and company change their mind on the main event? It depends on who you ask. WWE's story is that Hogan and Flair didn't draw well at house shows, including at Madison Square Garden in December 1991. The shows didnt sell out, and the live reaction to the matches were lukewarm at best. Vince uses MSG as a sort of barometer for his product, and if it didnt get over in New York, it wouldnt get over in front of 80,000 people in the Hoosier Dome. However, Dave Meltzer has debunked the "house show" reason and reported that when Sid Vicious left WCW to join the WWF in 1991, he was guaranteed the Wrestlemania main event and used it to get out of his existing contract with WCW in April. When Vicious was promised his Wrestlemania main event against Hogan, Flair was still in WCW, and had his falling out a couple months later. Meltzer claimed that Jim Herd, who was in charge of WCW at the time, told him that Vicious was promised the WrestleMania main event.
