2. Not Booking Hogan vs Flair - WrestleMania 8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7DHzNpJ3UI Forget Sting vs Undertaker. Forget Stone Cold vs Hulk Hogan. Forget Bret Hart vs Kurt Angle. If there is one dream match that absolutely needed to happen at Wrestlemania, it was Hogan vs Flair. Do we need to discuss this? It's goddamn Hogan vs Flair! The Nature Boy vs The Immortal.This is the stuff wrestling fans dream about. It would be reasonable to assume that this didn't happen through sheer circumstance. Both guys were just never available at the same time. Oh wait, they were both at Wrestlemania 8. Well maybe they were allergic to each other? Or there were lawyers and one of them... erm... maybe to do with t shirt sales... Nope. The WWE just didn't think it would sell. Which is like saying you don't think there's a market for heroin in Glasgow. As utterly crackers as this seems now, Vince and co had some solid reasoning behind their thinking. Namely, they'd already done the match on house shows and nobody seemed that interested. Their matches didn't draw as well as expected. This is largely down to the way the shows were booked. Ric Flair, despite being pushed to win the Royal Rumble, was never allowed to look on Hogans level. Perhaps due to Hogans ego or his NWA background, Ric Flair was all but buried in matches against Hogan. Combine that with an audience ignorant to his accomplishments in the NWA, it's no surprise fans were cold to a possible encounter. Booked on the same level, with Flair's NWA accomplishments exploited for maximum anticipation, it's inconceivable that fans would not have gotten behind this. When you have two of the most decorated, charismatic stars who represent a passionate wrestling divide, fighting for the most coveted prize in the industry, success is all but guaranteed. Unfortunately this would require Vince to act as though anything that happens outside WWE matters, so he screwed up potentially the biggest feud in history out of sheer ego. Sound familiar?