What was the REAL Main Event Sopost to be for WrestleMania 13!?

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No way was Austin/Bret bigger than Hogan/Warrior or Hogan/Savage or others. It did help get Austin over and Austin screaming in pain with blood running down his face is one of the most iconic images in WWE history, but in terms of business, Wrestlemania 13 was the worst bought one in history and business didn't start picking up until the last half of 1997.

Where did I say it was bigger? I said it was more important, without that match Austin loses one of the most iconic moments of his career and it's a possibility he doesn't become the star he did. He was crazily over but without Bret's rub who knows what he'd become? :

 

[Lockard 23]

Where did I say it was bigger? I said it was more important, without that match Austin loses one of the most iconic moments of his career and it's a possibility he doesn't become the star he did. He was crazily over but without Bret's rub who knows where he'd have become? :

Guss I interpreted more important as meaning bigger, although I contend that by the time WM14 rolled around, Austin likely would have been on the road to being the next mega star of wrestling anyway. Bret chose to work with him specifically because he saw that he already had the potential to become the top guy in the company after cutting the Austin 3:16 promo. I wouldn't want to erase the Austin/Bret match either, though.

 

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Guss I interpreted more important as meaning bigger, although I contend that by the time WM14 rolled around, Austin likely would have been on the road to being the next mega star of wrestling anyway. Bret chose to work with him specifically because he saw that he already had the potential to become the top guy in the company after cutting the Austin 3:16 promo. I wouldn't want to erase the Austin/Bret match either, though.

I agree he'd have probably become a megastar anyway but I really see that match as the launch pad if that makes sense, KOTR is where the character was born but WM13 is where it drank it's first beer if you want to continue the Austin metaphor.

 

[Lockard 23]

I agree, and I wish the original plan had happened with Bret dropping the belt to him at WM14. It would have made a nice full circle moment, with the circle completing with Bret finally doing the job for Austin (which he never got the chance to.) But we all know what happened there.

 

[Senhor Perfect]

I agree, and I wish the original plan had happened with Bret dropping the belt to him at WM14. It would have made a nice full circle moment, with the circle completing with Bret finally doing the job for Austin (which he never got the chance to.) But we all know what happened there.

He would've gladly jobbed to Austin at SS, but Vince wanted him to have to job to Shawn.

 

[Super Saiyan Goku]

I agree, and I wish the original plan had happened with Bret dropping the belt to him at WM14. It would have made a nice full circle moment, with the circle completing with Bret finally doing the job for Austin (which he never got the chance to.) But we all know what happened there.

Also maybe HBK never gets the career back injury then.

 

[Lockard 23]

He would've gladly jobbed to Austin at SS, but Vince wanted him to have to job to Shawn.

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When was Bret supposed to job to Michaels at Survivor Series and how would that affect Austin jobbing to Bret in another match? I'm confused.

 

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I'm assuming we're talking about 97 here.

 

[Lockard 23]

Also maybe HBK never gets the career back injury then.

I hear that HBK had a lot of back problems already, although that bump on the casket really didn't help. I wouldn't have minded Michaels still heading up DX along with HHH, New Age Outlaws, X-Pac and Chyna during the Attitude Era. We could have got a HHH/HBK feud earlier than what we got.

 

[Lockard 23]

I'm assuming we're talking about 97 here.

Oh. That one flew directly over my head like whoosh then.

 

[Senhor Perfect]

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When was Bret supposed to job to Michaels at Survivor Series and how would that affect Austin jobbing to Bret in another match? I'm confused.

Yeah I meant SS 97, sorry.