101 Shocking Wrestling Plans You Won't Believe Almost Happened
22. An Ultimate Heel Turn
Just when you thought SummerSlam 1992 lore couldn't get any deeper!
One abolished plan for the London, England spectacular was to have The Ultimate Warrior turn heel and join forces with Ric Flair, Mr. Perfect and Bobby Heenan during his WWF Title clash vs. Randy Savage. The company went with a countout decision on the match, but talks were ongoing about a Warrior turn right up until the eleventh hour.
That would've been a colossal swerve at the time, because Ultimate hadn't been a villain since literally sprinting onto the scene back in 1987. The audience had accepted him as a heroic babyface from the get go, so boos seemed out of the question. Savage's own popularity might've made it more plausible that people in the old Wembley Stadium would jeer Warrior, to be fair.
Longer term, the WWF wanted Warrior to win the big belt then defend it against Bret Hart at Survivor Series 1992. From there, they'd work a rematch at WrestleMania IX that'd culminate with the 'Hitman' scoring the win and seizing the strap. That's one million miles away from the actual ending with Hulk Hogan that kickstarted one last hurrah for 'Hulkamania' in 90s (at least on the fed's side).
Warrior agreeing to go heel could've changed so, so much about the decade. Lex Luger probs wouldn't have received his monster babyface push, Hulk wouldn't have grabbed another ego-boosting moment at 'Mania, and Warrior could've theoretically done more business with the promotion in 1994, 1995 and beyond.
He said no to the heel turn, obviously.