11 Things WWE Announced Then Wrestlers Said No

6. The Ultimate Warrior Ignores House Shows

In Your House 9 The Ultimate Warrior
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This, like everything with Warrior, was rather convoluted.

The Ultimate one was supposed to be a top draw on house shows in late-1996, but skipped them without telling the WWF he wouldn't be there. Naturally p*ssed off about this, Vince McMahon decided to pull Warrior from a planned six-man tag at the upcoming In Your House 9 pay-per-view.

The company called up Sid to see if he was available and had him work some of the live event dates instead. After that, they decided to stick him in for IYH too. Warrior was out, Sid was in and the match quality was barely affected. The likes of Shawn Michaels and Owen Hart looked after that side of things.

Warrior had effectively said a big fat "no" to the WWF's house show plans, and they weren't about to reward him with a pay-per-view payday because of it. Sid suddenly popped up in Warrior's place on all graphics for In Your House, and the old ones were thrown on the scrapheap.

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