WWE: 18 Most Important Decisions In History Of WrestleMania

13. Adding The Royal Rumble Story - WrestleMania 9

The WWF got lost in the years after the Canadian WrestleMania. Vince's decision making certainly proved questionable, including his choice to try and fill the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum with 100,000 WWF fans at Mania 7. He couldn't do it. Instead the show got moved to the much smaller Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena with 16,158 fans. Vince's decision making looked to be off again in 1993 when he booked Mania for an outdoor Las Vegas show. WrestleMania 9 is widely considered the worst Mania of all time ... however Vince did get one decision right. The 1993 Royal Rumble marked the first in a tradition of wrestlers winning the Rumble to go on to challenge for the WWE title at WrestleMania. It was a decision which made so much sense that the story has been used every year since, it has became the most compelling aspect of the Mania event. The story arc is the definition of compelling creative, the journey a wrestler takes from the Rumble to the Mania main event is stuff of legend. It all started with Vince's decision back in 1993.