Nope Hogan proved he is the real world champion beat flairs ass more times than flairs ever won your movies Hogan fan just a cheap asssmall time wcw fan Hogan put wrestling on the main stream media nit flair you dork
Why these two didn't clash at Wrestlemania 8 I shall NEVER know. It is a considerable loss to the business in my opinion. Hogan and Flair would have made history.
It’s real simple the real reason why McMahon never let this happen and took it out of the pay-per-view events and never to be seen again was simply because he knew that by having hall Cogan lay low and put Ric Flair over will destroy the company that they had doing the back in the days when they will call WWF but that’s the reason why and then also another reason is because he knew that this pay-per-view oh that pay-per-view at that time. Which was a 91 would’ve shattered Andre the giant versus hulk hogan wrestlemania attendance so that’s why That’s the reason why Vince McMahon pulled the card from the wrestlemania event because he knew it would shadow records since the biggest match or the dream match that was supposed to take place in the primes was when everybody asked for it doing the 80s and 90s the world a professional wrestling as we know it along with Vern Kanye the owner of the AWA association wrestling alliance and also NWA that’s the reason why because it would’ve made NWA a lot bigger than what it was
I remember when Flair wrestled Hogan at the Sun Dome in Tampa back in 1992. Flair KO’d Hogan with brass knuckles and pinned him. The crowd went apeshit...they loved it! When the ref reversed the decision, the entire arena booed. The bloom had been off Hogan’s rose for a while, but unless you went to a live show at that time, you’d never really know the truth.
Wrong the crowds cheered when the decision was reversed your lying as hell wcw fan where is wcw at dead and buried Hogan greatest of all time pal people exploded for Hogan after the decision was reversed dumbass
@@richardtaylor5461 quit sucking Hogan off and face the facts that flair was better than Hogan. Hogan's ego was the only reason he was around for so long.
Biggest McMahon mistake was not going through with this angle for WrestleMania VIII. For those like me who grew up in the eighties as wrestling fans, Flair vs. Hogan was THE dream match from mid 1984 onward. All through the Horseman era in the NWA and the Hogan/Andre-Hogan/Savage era WWF the Flair vs. Hogan match was the thing of legend. PWI ran stories every few months contemplating it...it was THE dream. Then 1991 comes and Flair's iconic Big Gold belt shows up on the end of the syndicated Wrestling Challenge TV show in the hands of Bobby Heenan. EVERYONE who was a big fan marked out and we all figured, it's mid year hopefully there's enough time to build it to WrestleMania. Back then angles were given time to heat up and grow, unlike the two week feuds of today's WWE. When the first house show figures came back from MSG, the Spectrum and the Forum in L.A. we all thought WM8 was a lock for the epic dream match. Then, as quickly as it appeared, the angle dissolved and Flair went through Piper first en route to a Savage WM8 match and Hogan was put with Sid Vicious. The real WHY? has never been answered. Some say it was bad feedback and sales from the Flair/Hogan house show run (which is bullshit as now released footage of some of the matches show great attendance and although feeling each other out, the two worked well together from jumpstreet) or McMahon was worried that with Hogan leaving after WM8 to play actor for awhile a heel champion Flair wouldn't be good for business. Its been said the fact that a hefty sum had been paid to Sid to come to the WWF prompted Vince to put him with the biggest name possible, knowing Flair/Savage were great talents who could put on a better match than Flair/Hogan. Whatever the reasoning, fans alive during this unforgettable time will always wonder "What if?" and even though Flair and Hogan wrestled 100 times since then it was that first PPV match, at a WrestleMania, that truly captured the fans hearts and imaginations.
Eduardo Nunes Hogan sucked it came to cutting promos. he never even used his real voice to make promos. Ric Flair, Jake the Snake Roberts, Arn Anderson, never had to disguise their voice for a promo. If they cannot use their real voice then they suck and are not a natural at it
It's part of his character. He's supposed to sound as manly as possible. Lots of people alter their voices for promos. Scott Hall did it, Mick Foley did it, even Vince McMahon did it. Just because someone changes their voice doesn't mean they suck on the mic.
The bottom line is Vince HAD THE CHANCE to make this match happen at a WM. He had Hogan and Flair in the same company AT the same time! We've heard about the reasons why the match didn't happen. BUT were those reasons ENOUGH to not make that match happen?? Back in the day, house shows are one thing. BUT to get the overall financial gain, it had to happen at WM to get the PPV bucks. Even though Flair had a very productive WWF run, SO MUCH MORE could have been done with Naitch. In a sense, Flair was Richard Pryor in a Bill Cosby world, and his act was toned down to fit the WWF environment. Put a peak Flair with the Horsemen in Vince's Attitude Era, it would have been EPIC!!! Feuds with Rock, Austin, and D-X would have been awesome!!!
It would've been much more anticipated. I remember as a kid being genuinely disappointed that they changed the main event at WM 8. But one thing we can say, theres no way that their match would've been as good as Flair vs Savage.
I agree! Savage vs. Flair was a dream match scenario! And worthy of a LEGIT WM main event match. That match could have went on last easily! In my opinion, Flair and Savage were the top two total packages of the 80's! So since we didn't get Hogan vs. Flair, Flair vs. Mach was the next best thing!
Vince couldn't really bring himself to commit to Flair. I mean, Flair had 2 world title reigns, so in a way he did, but he never got the WM spot vs Hogan the world was dreaming of. That's on Vince, or maybe its on Vince + Hogan since I read Hulk wasn't really thrilled about Flair being in WWF either.
The problem is, they made the mistake of rushing it. You have Flair and Hogan, you slow play that. Have them do vignettes...build up to Survivor Series. Flair costs Hogan the belt, Hogan gets it back. Same exact scenario as they did...treat SS as the blowoff for Flair/Piper and let him jump right in to Hogan. Royal Rumble, he wins the belt...set it up any way you want to so that Hogan is the #1 guy to face Flair. It's really not difficult booking at all. It's McMahon again underestimating the value of anything that he didn't create.
Hogan did not want to drop the title to Flair so he use his creative pull with Vince to squirm out of doing it, while letting Vince move on to smaller guys like Bret. Hogan then went on in 1994 to Ruined the Trilogy of Matches with Flair in WCW by not doing the back and forth and keeping the title from his first WCW match until a year later when Lex Luger beat him and was Champion for like 1 week. Flair was one of the very few guy who got to keep his character in the WWE. Not even 6-time NWA World Champion Harley Race or Dusty Rhodes were immune from Vince's 80s style cartoon gimmicks. Flair on the other hand was treated very differently to other NWA wrestlers who went to the WWF. The Truth is Vince wanted to move away from Hogan towards the Smaller guys like Bret Hart and Ric Flair was a more believable transition guy compared to Hogan. Bret was barley 6 feet tall, so Hogan looked like a giant next to Bret. Where as Flair was right in between the two, not too big and, not to small and a big enough name and National Draw to make beating Hogan believable as well as making a title drop to Bret believable. Hogan and his roided up friends were giants and not very skilled workers compared to guys like Flair or Curt Henning. But Hogan's ego always had to get in the way of anyone else's shine and Vince had only had one HUGE draw that was reliable since taking the comapny from his father in the early 80s, and that guy was Hogan. Vince tried to move on with the Warrior but he was a freaking psycho. Jake Roberts was gone, Curt Henning was injured collecting insurance money, Rick Rude was in WCW. So that left Savage or Flair to be the transition man. We had already seen the Savage/Hogan feud with the quote "Mega-Powers" Gimmick in the mid 80s. This left Vince in a quagmire, what to do about the transitional title move from the Hogan era to Hart "New Generation" era. This is where Ric Flair came in to play. Flair could be the transition champion. But Hogan's ego was so bruised that he wormed his way out of it by dropping the title to the Undertaker and destroying the dream match of a lifetime and then Hogan preceded to rob the fans in 91/92 of the big payoff of Flair vs Hogan. The WCW version in 1994 just left a bad taste in everyone's mouth because it was pure Hogan politics that ruined the feud.
This was supposed to be the main event match at WrestleMania 8 Hulk Hogan versus Ric Flair for the WWF championship instead they changed it WWF Champion Ric Flair versus Randy Savage and Hulk Hogan versus Sid Justice that's what they did at WrestleMania 8 and I still wonder why they did that
You saw some of the matches they had on house shows? They sucked, and a lot of fans were clearly not invested in the storyline since it didn't draw big money (particularly at Madison Square garden). Such a match would have been HUGE in 87 or 88, but by 1992 it just wasn't that huge anymore.
Flair vs Savage was a much better match than Flair Vs Hogan would have been. But yeah, seeing Flair talk shit to Hogan on WWF TV was shocking. My eight year old self wanted to punch Flair.
+JRSIV1975 The timing just wasn't quite right. They planned on doing the match at WrestleMania 8 with Hogan winning the title from Flair, but Hogan was leaving the WWF after Mania so they couldn't have him beat Flair and walk out with the belt. But they also couldn't have Flair pin Hogan at Mania either because it's Mania and back then, WrestleMania always had to have a happy ending. So they just scrapped the idea altogether and put Hogan with Sid and Flair with Savage.
+jobezg You're correct in the poor timing...if it had been like a year or two earlier it would've been a lock. With Hogan still doing the monster heel slayer gimmick with guys like Bossman the change of pace with Flair would've been great. Still I believe even with Hogans departure looming post WM8 they should've pulled the trigger on it, it would've helped WWF set the plate earlier for their eventual switch from the Hogan led big man era to the Michaels/Hart athletic era. But Vince would not do the Crockett booking of a heel going over on the big show. On Flairs Pocast last month Hogan was on and the WM8 topic was brought up with both men claiming they don't know why it never happened then and in retrospect they both seemed nonplussed by it not going down. We fans are epically disappointed this historical watershed moment slipped through the cracks but the two principals aren't...they feel they had the run and made their money together in WCW a few years later.
I agree that it would have been a perfect situation had Flair entered the WWF a year earlier. In a perfect world, Flair puts Sting over at the 1990 Great American Bash and then jumps to the WWF immediately. Imagine Hogan vs. Flair at WM7 instead of that terrible Sgt. Slaughter Gulf War angle.
Mike Minnick The WWF title didn't receive "World Title" status until 1985 by PWI, the NWA belt was and is the oldest sports title in the world, it's lineage going back to the 1900s, therefore, Ric Flair was at that time not only the REAL world's champion but the NWA&WCW world champion as well since he never lost either title, how bout that?
This should've been the match at WM8! Vince didn't let it happen! He had them wrestling each other around the country in house shows before WM8! Sad it didn't happen though Flair vs Savage was a thrill ride the whole match! 🤼
Vince didn't let it happen for a reason - the matches they had in house shows were barely watchable, and didn't draw the money it should have. It would have went down as the biggest disappointment ever, so it's a good thing it didn't happen at Wrestlemania 8.
The hogan-flair matches were fine. I think mcmahon just couldn't stomach flair beating hogan, and it would be a letdown if hogan just cleanly beat flair. Their matches in wcw were almost identical to their wwf matches.
Jay Lethal was on Ric Flair's podcast and re-enacted this promo to PERFECTION.
OMG I'm gonna check that out right now..! Thanks !
HOGAN IM WAITING!!!!!!😂😂😂😂😂😂
WHOOOOOOOOO !!!!
Lethal goes to Space Mountain when he does his Naitch bit....He is great! Cheers
Little girls... lookin'... at... their mothers...
Hogan was always a great promo, but Flair is another level.
The only man who can truly say he is the REAL world champion. I love Hulkster but Ric Flair is the greatest of all time.
TheMrEMeat nope
Nope Hogan proved he is the real world champion beat flairs ass more times than flairs ever won your movies Hogan fan just a cheap asssmall time wcw fan Hogan put wrestling on the main stream media nit flair you dork
@@richardtaylor5461 Hogan couldnt carry flairs jock lol
Why these two didn't clash at Wrestlemania 8 I shall NEVER know. It is a considerable loss to the business in my opinion. Hogan and Flair would have made history.
I wonder if one wouldn’t agree to lose to the other?
It’s real simple the real reason why McMahon never let this happen and took it out of the pay-per-view events and never to be seen again was simply because he knew that by having hall Cogan lay low and put Ric Flair over will destroy the company that they had doing the back in the days when they will call WWF but that’s the reason why and then also another reason is because he knew that this pay-per-view oh that pay-per-view at that time. Which was a 91 would’ve shattered Andre the giant versus hulk hogan wrestlemania attendance so that’s why That’s the reason why Vince McMahon pulled the card from the wrestlemania event because he knew it would shadow records since the biggest match or the dream match that was supposed to take place in the primes was when everybody asked for it doing the 80s and 90s the world a professional wrestling as we know it along with Vern Kanye the owner of the AWA association wrestling alliance and also NWA that’s the reason why because it would’ve made NWA a lot bigger than what it was
@@retrogaming4u865 You need to spell and grammar check before you post lol And your reasons were incorrect also, do your research.
Apparently it had to do with the MSG shows, main-evented by Hogan and Flair, not doing well regarding attendances.
The House Show Run Failing & Supposedly Neither Compromising or Wanting to Lose
These old school promos are awesome. Made you excited for the matches.
Damn Jay Lethal captured this perfectly!!!!!
Best promo ever ric is the best on mic and on the mat.
When the NWA belt showed up on WWF it blew my fucking mind and 9 year old me marked the fuck out!
Haha, Jay Lethal made exactly that imitation on Ric Flair podcast.
I remember when Flair wrestled Hogan at the Sun Dome in Tampa back in 1992. Flair KO’d Hogan with brass knuckles and pinned him. The crowd went apeshit...they loved it! When the ref reversed the decision, the entire arena booed. The bloom had been off Hogan’s rose for a while, but unless you went to a live show at that time, you’d never really know the truth.
They did the same thing in Oakland and NYC as well, with the crowd cheering when Flair won, only for the decision to be reversed...
Wrong the crowds cheered when the decision was reversed your lying as hell wcw fan where is wcw at dead and buried Hogan greatest of all time pal people exploded for Hogan after the decision was reversed dumbass
@@ratesforless nope cheered for Hogan fact
No they didn't. Not in Oakland...
@@richardtaylor5461 quit sucking Hogan off and face the facts that flair was better than Hogan. Hogan's ego was the only reason he was around for so long.
Flair, flair, flair, flair, fliar... I spit my drink all over the floor ROTFL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! the theatrics made wrestling. Epic!!
I'm here because of Jay Lethal lol
the caption you gave this upload is perfect!! sums it up! idc what few shows did for money. this was is and always be the main event anywhere anytime
Man O Man O Man did WWF blow this one.
jay lethal did this TO A TEE
Hulk never beat Earthquake, at least not by pinfall in any sort of high profile match, so that natural disasters line falls a bit flat.
Yes he did in a house show in Long Beach I was there
Biggest McMahon mistake was not going through with this angle for WrestleMania VIII. For those like me who grew up in the eighties as wrestling fans, Flair vs. Hogan was THE dream match from mid 1984 onward. All through the Horseman era in the NWA and the Hogan/Andre-Hogan/Savage era WWF the Flair vs. Hogan match was the thing of legend. PWI ran stories every few months contemplating it...it was THE dream. Then 1991 comes and Flair's iconic Big Gold belt shows up on the end of the syndicated Wrestling Challenge TV show in the hands of Bobby Heenan. EVERYONE who was a big fan marked out and we all figured, it's mid year hopefully there's enough time to build it to WrestleMania. Back then angles were given time to heat up and grow, unlike the two week feuds of today's WWE. When the first house show figures came back from MSG, the Spectrum and the Forum in L.A. we all thought WM8 was a lock for the epic dream match. Then, as quickly as it appeared, the angle dissolved and Flair went through Piper first en route to a Savage WM8 match and Hogan was put with Sid Vicious. The real WHY? has never been answered. Some say it was bad feedback and sales from the Flair/Hogan house show run (which is bullshit as now released footage of some of the matches show great attendance and although feeling each other out, the two worked well together from jumpstreet) or McMahon was worried that with Hogan leaving after WM8 to play actor for awhile a heel champion Flair wouldn't be good for business. Its been said the fact that a hefty sum had been paid to Sid to come to the WWF prompted Vince to put him with the biggest name possible, knowing Flair/Savage were great talents who could put on a better match than Flair/Hogan. Whatever the reasoning, fans alive during this unforgettable time will always wonder "What if?" and even though Flair and Hogan wrestled 100 times since then it was that first PPV match, at a WrestleMania, that truly captured the fans hearts and imaginations.
All the Apter mags had us salivating for this Dream Match.. It could have been Match of the century!
Wooooooooooooo I love ric flair
Awesome, Hogan and Flair are 2 of the greatest when it comes to cutting promos.
Eduardo Nunes Hogan sucked it came to cutting promos. he never even used his real voice to make promos. Ric Flair, Jake the Snake Roberts, Arn Anderson, never had to disguise their voice for a promo.
If they cannot use their real voice then they suck and are not a natural at it
It's part of his character. He's supposed to sound as manly as possible. Lots of people alter their voices for promos. Scott Hall did it, Mick Foley did it, even Vince McMahon did it. Just because someone changes their voice doesn't mean they suck on the mic.
+Rvdecw you are full of shit.
Just Flair, take Hogan out of this topic
Stone Cold and The Rock
The bottom line is Vince HAD THE CHANCE to make this match happen at a WM. He had Hogan and Flair in the same company AT the same time! We've heard about the reasons why the match didn't happen. BUT were those reasons ENOUGH to not make that match happen?? Back in the day, house shows are one thing. BUT to get the overall financial gain, it had to happen at WM to get the PPV bucks. Even though Flair had a very productive WWF run, SO MUCH MORE could have been done with Naitch. In a sense, Flair was Richard Pryor in a Bill Cosby world, and his act was toned down to fit the WWF environment. Put a peak Flair with the Horsemen in Vince's Attitude Era, it would have been EPIC!!! Feuds with Rock, Austin, and D-X would have been awesome!!!
It would've been much more anticipated. I remember as a kid being genuinely disappointed that they changed the main event at WM 8. But one thing we can say, theres no way that their match would've been as good as Flair vs Savage.
I agree! Savage vs. Flair was a dream match scenario! And worthy of a LEGIT WM main event match. That match could have went on last easily! In my opinion, Flair and Savage were the top two total packages of the 80's! So since we didn't get Hogan vs. Flair, Flair vs. Mach was the next best thing!
jb Couldn't agree with you anymore, very well said! 🤘
Vince couldn't really bring himself to commit to Flair. I mean, Flair had 2 world title reigns, so in a way he did, but he never got the WM spot vs Hogan the world was dreaming of. That's on Vince, or maybe its on Vince + Hogan since I read Hulk wasn't really thrilled about Flair being in WWF either.
In late 1991 Hogan and Flair sold out lot of house shows including a few at MSG. How WWE just dropped the ball I'll never understand.
The problem is, they made the mistake of rushing it. You have Flair and Hogan, you slow play that. Have them do vignettes...build up to Survivor Series. Flair costs Hogan the belt, Hogan gets it back. Same exact scenario as they did...treat SS as the blowoff for Flair/Piper and let him jump right in to Hogan. Royal Rumble, he wins the belt...set it up any way you want to so that Hogan is the #1 guy to face Flair. It's really not difficult booking at all. It's McMahon again underestimating the value of anything that he didn't create.
WWF brand prestige. Hogan was homegrown Flair was a competitors face. If flair ever beat hogan fair and square it would of diluted WWF brand!
They should have kept the Big Gold belt and done the match at WrestleMania 8
The feud itself was mediocre, but the promos were amazing. Hogan's good at promos and Flair is even better.
I agree the matches were very underwhelming. Hogan and Ric Flair's wrestling styles didn't mesh well together.
Difference Hogan was a better wrestler than flair and made more money
It's all a written script
@@richardedmiston3756 You still have to deliver it well. And many pro wrestlers write their own scripts for promo
@@richardtaylor5461 😂😂😂 you’re delusional . Hogan was nowhere near better than Flair
Hogan did not want to drop the title to Flair so he use his creative pull with Vince to squirm out of doing it, while letting Vince move on to smaller guys like Bret. Hogan then went on in 1994 to Ruined the Trilogy of Matches with Flair in WCW by not doing the back and forth and keeping the title from his first WCW match until a year later when Lex Luger beat him and was Champion for like 1 week. Flair was one of the very few guy who got to keep his character in the WWE. Not even 6-time NWA World Champion Harley Race or Dusty Rhodes were immune from Vince's 80s style cartoon gimmicks. Flair on the other hand was treated very differently to other NWA wrestlers who went to the WWF. The Truth is Vince wanted to move away from Hogan towards the Smaller guys like Bret Hart and Ric Flair was a more believable transition guy compared to Hogan. Bret was barley 6 feet tall, so Hogan looked like a giant next to Bret. Where as Flair was right in between the two, not too big and, not to small and a big enough name and National Draw to make beating Hogan believable as well as making a title drop to Bret believable. Hogan and his roided up friends were giants and not very skilled workers compared to guys like Flair or Curt Henning. But Hogan's ego always had to get in the way of anyone else's shine and Vince had only had one HUGE draw that was reliable since taking the comapny from his father in the early 80s, and that guy was Hogan. Vince tried to move on with the Warrior but he was a freaking psycho. Jake Roberts was gone, Curt Henning was injured collecting insurance money, Rick Rude was in WCW. So that left Savage or Flair to be the transition man. We had already seen the Savage/Hogan feud with the quote "Mega-Powers" Gimmick in the mid 80s. This left Vince in a quagmire, what to do about the transitional title move from the Hogan era to Hart "New Generation" era. This is where Ric Flair came in to play. Flair could be the transition champion. But Hogan's ego was so bruised that he wormed his way out of it by dropping the title to the Undertaker and destroying the dream match of a lifetime and then Hogan preceded to rob the fans in 91/92 of the big payoff of Flair vs Hogan. The WCW version in 1994 just left a bad taste in everyone's mouth because it was pure Hogan politics that ruined the feud.
I love how they train for a fight as if they are training for a body building competition.
WOOOOOOOO.
nuff said….
Two of the best ever! It had to been the battle of the ages! Too bad they didn't wrestle more in their prime.
All this and they NEVER pulled the freakin trigger!
Ya total shame. They could’ve ran this program for 10 years
I stop at the end of Flair's promo (:57), rewind, and watch it again. Hogan's promo doesn't matter or compare to Nature Boy nostalgia. 😎
Even Hulk Hogan admitted it that Ric Flair is the greatest wrestler of all time! That ESPN documentary about Ric Flair was and is still awesome!!!
Jay Lethal nailed this
A series of House matches resulted but the momentum wasn't quite enough to ensure enough success.
This was supposed to be the main event match at WrestleMania 8 Hulk Hogan versus Ric Flair for the WWF championship instead they changed it WWF Champion Ric Flair versus Randy Savage and Hulk Hogan versus Sid Justice that's what they did at WrestleMania 8 and I still wonder why they did that
Me too. They could’ve ran a Hogan Flair program for years...
You saw some of the matches they had on house shows? They sucked, and a lot of fans were clearly not invested in the storyline since it didn't draw big money (particularly at Madison Square garden). Such a match would have been HUGE in 87 or 88, but by 1992 it just wasn't that huge anymore.
Flair vs Savage was a much better match than Flair Vs Hogan would have been.
But yeah, seeing Flair talk shit to Hogan on WWF TV was shocking. My eight year old self wanted to punch Flair.
Missed opportunity
Dude!!!
when was this taken?
Sometime in 1992
Jay Lethal brought me here
Punk and Heyman were Heenan and Flair 2.0
The Ruuuuueeeeeal world champion
Ric Flair the greatest wrestler ever and in the microphone was unbeatable . Hogan was too much drama.
Hogan was leaving, but i think mcmahon just didnt want flair getting the win over hogan.
G550 about to EASE on in
Wahhoooo🤘
JAY LETHAL
Hogan’s rebuttal was weak at best
The Big Gold is the best title...... brottttttttherrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Biggest McMahon mistake ever not going through with this for WM8...
+JRSIV1975 The timing just wasn't quite right. They planned on doing the match at WrestleMania 8 with Hogan winning the title from Flair, but Hogan was
leaving the WWF after Mania so they couldn't have him beat Flair and
walk out with the belt. But they also couldn't have Flair pin Hogan at
Mania either because it's Mania and back then, WrestleMania always had
to have a happy ending. So they just scrapped the idea altogether and
put Hogan with Sid and Flair with Savage.
+jobezg You're correct in the poor timing...if it had been like a year or two earlier it would've been a lock. With Hogan still doing the monster heel slayer gimmick with guys like Bossman the change of pace with Flair would've been great. Still I believe even with Hogans departure looming post WM8 they should've pulled the trigger on it, it would've helped WWF set the plate earlier for their eventual switch from the Hogan led big man era to the Michaels/Hart athletic era. But Vince would not do the Crockett booking of a heel going over on the big show. On Flairs Pocast last month Hogan was on and the WM8 topic was brought up with both men claiming they don't know why it never happened then and in retrospect they both seemed nonplussed by it not going down. We fans are epically disappointed this historical watershed moment slipped through the cracks but the two principals aren't...they feel they had the run and made their money together in WCW a few years later.
I agree that it would have been a perfect situation had Flair entered the WWF a year earlier. In a perfect world, Flair puts Sting over at the 1990 Great American Bash and then jumps to the WWF immediately. Imagine Hogan vs. Flair at WM7 instead of that terrible Sgt. Slaughter Gulf War angle.
jobezg the promo for that wrestlemania match sgt vs hogan was good plus it was around the gulf war time
Hogan was the True Champ. Flair was a talking
Mike Minnick The WWF title didn't receive "World Title" status until 1985 by PWI, the NWA belt was and is the oldest sports title in the world, it's lineage going back to the 1900s, therefore, Ric Flair was at that time not only the REAL world's champion but the NWA&WCW world champion as well since he never lost either title, how bout that?
This should've been the match at WM8! Vince didn't let it happen! He had them wrestling each other around the country in house shows before WM8! Sad it didn't happen though Flair vs Savage was a thrill ride the whole match! 🤼
Vince didn't let it happen for a reason - the matches they had in house shows were barely watchable, and didn't draw the money it should have. It would have went down as the biggest disappointment ever, so it's a good thing it didn't happen at Wrestlemania 8.
The hogan-flair matches were fine. I think mcmahon just couldn't stomach flair beating hogan, and it would be a letdown if hogan just cleanly beat flair. Their matches in wcw were almost identical to their wwf matches.