One MIND-BLOWING Secret From EVERY WWE WrestleMania
32. WrestleMania 10 | Randy Savage Was PISSED
WrestleMania 10 can’t be considered a classic, or up there with the best WrestleMania shows of all-time, because it was only a two-match show. Now, those two matches were as good as it gets.
Bret Hart Vs. Owen was perfect. There is no other word. It was two incredible fusions at the same time: a display of soapy WWF storytelling and scintillating in-ring action, with the action itself a fusion of pristine technical wrestling and, when Owen started acting like a brat, a pissy fight. Razor Ramon Vs. Shawn Michaels, meanwhile, was the most spectacular and futuristic match in the history of U.S. wrestling to that point. The Bret Vs. Yokozuna main event was an inferior sequel to the prior year’s title match. Randy Savage Vs. Crush was fun and unusual for the time. But really, WrestleMania 10 needed a far stronger undercard attraction to be remembered as one of the very best. The card almost had something in that vein to make it more exciting.
An unusual-for-the-time 10-man tag team match was set to take place. The WWF excelled at this sort of thing - memories of the traditional Survivor Series matches remain very fond - and the one fall to a finish rules would have added a further sense of briskness and chaos. The heel team of IRS, the Headshrinkers, Rick Martel and Jeff Jarrett were going to take on the 123 Kid, the Smoking Gunns, Tatanka, and Sparky Plugg. While this wasn’t likely to be as crazed as a 2000s Dragon Gate six-man, and was an excuse to hand some midcard dudes a payday, it could well have ruled, if Sean Waltman was going to bump, sell his ass off, and play Ricky Morton.
It was cut for time. Shawn and Razor went over theirs, they allegedly knew about it and didn’t care, and Randy Savage purportedly handed out a scary verbal assault to Shawn in the aftermath. Doing a “Taking food off my table” promo, and it actually making sense?
That’s why Savage was a genius.