A Most Unexpectedly Stacked Roster - WWE in June 1993

[Seafort]

I heard this mentioned on a PWO podcast last year - the June 15th WWF Superstars taping was a unique blend of Old and New Generation talent. I decided to go to Historyofwwe.com and had a look. Indeed, for a brief moment, much of the talent that would drive WCW's ascent and the WWF resurgence were coexisting in the same locker room. Much like the famous Royal Rumble a year earlier, you had a number of legendary talents soon to be out the door (Hogan, Beefcake, Dibiase, Duggan, Santana) and a number of new wrestlers who would go on to leave a major impact to the business (1-2-3 Kid, Diesel, Razor Ramon, Johnny Polo).

At this taping we would have (and I'll use pictures from the Monday Night War heyday):

Hulk Hogan

Brutus Beefcake

Ted Dibiase

Mike IRS Rotundo

Bret Hart

Owen Hart

Doink the Clown

The Undertaker

Lex Luger

Randy Savage

Johnny Polo

Marty Jannette

Tito Santana

Giant Gonzales
(this was supposed to be him, but went to Ron Reis after Gonzales went home sick. The mummy costume was a last minute audible)

Diesel

Billy Gunn

Bart Gunn

Adam Bomb

Rick Steiner

Scott Steiner

Yokozuna

Jim Duggan

Crush

Tatanka

Mr Hughes

Mo

Mable

Virgil

Rex King

Steve Doll

Kamala

Bastion Booger

Fatu

Samu

On the roster but not wrestling that night was also:

Scott Hall

1-2-3 Kid

 

[Solidus1]

That's indeed very stacked.

 

[Zardnaar]

It was not that stacked at the time, most of those guys were not over to the extent they became later. Early 1992 was even more stacked IMHO.

Owen was just a dude for example, Bret had yet to get his main event push (he was a worker), HBK was a mid carder, Diesal was a bodyguard IIRC, Razor was getting there (1994/95 he went over big, 96/07 really big).

Randy was barely wrestling, Hogan was on the way out/stale, and Undertaker was big but not legendary like later on.

1993 was kinda crap IIRC. 1992 had a great RR, Summerslam, WM was OK, 1993 I can't remember much except WM was bad and there was no classic match like 1994 WM or Summer Slam. It was more or less the start of 3 or 4 years of crap WWE with a few high points (generally HBK, Razor, Bret, 1-2-3 Kid, Diesel a bit later, Undertaker).

I remember more from 1991/1992 than 1993. Worst year in WWF/E wrestling perhaps apart from 1995?

Stuff I remember
1990 Warrior/Hogan WM (the spectacle)
1991 Sgt Slaughter vs Hogan (terrible feud/bad taste even when I was 12)
1992 HBK superkicking Janetty, Royal Rumble, Bret/Bulldog Summer SLam
1993. Giant Gonzalez and "chloroform", Yokozuna/Bret then Hogan
1994 WM X (ladder match, Owen/Bret, overall good WM, Summer Slam), Taker Vs Taker
1995 not a lot, Lawrence Taylor WM?
1996 HBK Royal Rumble, WM, Austin 3:16, Goldust,
1997. Austin winning Rumble, Austin/Bret double turn, build up to Kane, Kanes debut, Montreal Screwjob, started wathcing WCW Monday Nitro early 97.
1998- (was watching Nitro)
1999- briefly watched WCW stopped watching wrestling.

 

[Solid Snake]

This was around the time I started watching for the first time. I was very young so I don't remember a lot of it but I do remember many of these rasslers.