13 Biggest Matches WWE Should've Booked In The 80s (But Didn't)

10. Hulk Hogan Vs. Brutus "The Barber" Beefcake

Throughout the 80s, the WWF often used the best friend betrayal angle in order to create new opponents for the Immortal Hulk Hogan year after year. In 1987 it was Andre The Giant, in '89 it was Randy Savage, Tugboat kept the trend going in '91 but without a main event blow-off match, and Sid capped off Hogan's first WWF run with this same angle in 1992. In 1990, the company wisely decided to take a break from this storyline pattern and instead featured a face vs. face, Hogan vs. Ultimate Warrior main event for WrestleMania Vi. Hogan vs. Mr. Perfect and Hogan vs. Zeus served as alternative possibilities and backup plans. While the main event of WrestleMania VI was much better than anything Hogan and Bruti could've produced, these two could've started a program in '89, in-between Hogan's feuds with Savage and Warrior. The program could have been resumed later in 1990 after Hogan dropped the title to Warrior, freeing Earthquake up to work with Warrior and paid off the Hogan/Barber angle at SummerSlam '90. Like him or not, The Barber was over in the 80s and a match with Hogan would've kept him in the main event beyond SummerSlam '89. Whether that would've been good for the long-term or not is open for debate, but it probably would've been better than Zeus bridging the gap between WrestleMania V and VI.