What Should Have Been EVERY WrestleMania Main Event

WrestleMania VI

Main Event: Hulk Hogan vs. Ultimate Warrior for the WWF Intercontinental and WWF Championships

New Main Event: Unchanged

The main event of this show is remembered by everybody as a true spectacle and one of the greatest matches in both of these wrestlers’ careers. However, the PPV buyrate was down from the year before for the first time ever.

What went wrong here? Was it the fact both guys were babyfaces? Was it a 1989 full of Zeus(!) while the NWA was putting on some of the best matches ever featuring Ric Flair and Ricky Steamboat? Were people starting to get a bit sick of Hulk Hogan on top? Maybe a combination of all those factors.

The truth is the company was putting all its eggs in the Ultimate Warrior basket, and this was the perfect way to do it. This is still a match for the ages, and I would not change it.

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WrestleMania VII

Main Event: Sgt. Slaughter (c) vs. Hulk Hogan for the WWF Championship

New Main Event: The Ultimate Warrior (c) vs. Hulk Hogan for the WWF Championship

After keeping the first six WrestleMania main events intact, here’s the first I would actually change.

As you’ll see throughout this piece, changing the main events will sometimes mean we wouldn’t get to see some fantastic matches that happened in real life. Changing this would mean we wouldn’t get Randy Savage vs. Ultimate Warrior, which kills me on the inside…

With that said, however, I would put Warrior in the main event. Sgt. Slaughter played a very challenging role, and he played it very well, but instead, I would’ve had Warrior and Hogan represent America and beat Slaughter earlier in 1991, only for Warrior to then turn on Hogan.

Business was going down with Warrior as the babyface champion in 1990 anyway, so why not take a chance here and turn The Warrior babyface again in the future? With that said, you can call my main event of WrestleMania VII the ‘Ultimate Rematch’.

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WrestleMania VIII

Main Event: Hulk Hogan vs. Sid Justice

New Main Event: Ric Flair (c) vs. Hulk Hogan for the WWF Championship

In 1991, when a certain someone made the jump from WCW to WWF, it became pretty clear that certain former WCW wrestler with blonde hair would main event WrestleMania VIII with Hulk Hogan. Vince McMahon gave the fans what they all wanted, a classic in the main event of ‘Mania between Hogan and… Sid Justice.

Just why? Like I said in the previous entry, changing the main event will once again mean we wouldn’t get an absolute classic for the WWF Championship that took place in real life.

On a show that featured Bret Hart vs. Roddy Piper and Ric Flair vs. Randy Savage in two of the very best matches in the entire history of WrestleMania, I would’ve had the main event instead be Ric Flair vs. Hulk Hogan for the gold.

I’m not Clooney and this is not an ad for Nespresso, but seriously, what else? It just wrote itself. Hogan was going out for a year after this, so this was the perfect opportunity to have this match.

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WrestleMania IX

Main Event: Bret Hart (c) vs. Yokozuna for the WWF Championship (well, sort of…)

New Main Event: Unchanged… but no Hulk Hogan and Hart wins

WrestleMania IX! Oh, brother…

Even though Hulk Hogan was still in the WWF at this time, I would have him nowhere near the WWF Championship, or the main event of WrestleMania.

The company was clearly moving in a new direction with Bret Hart as its top champion, and Yokozuna was a pretty decent worker and could draw some money if booked correctly. Just look at the guy!

With that said, I’m actually not going to change the main event… aside from the Hogan involvement. Instead, I’d have Bret beat Yoko here. Yoko could get his heat back by killing Hulkamania at King of the Ring in Hogan’s last televised WWF match, and then he’d beat Bret in a rematch to win the gold at SummerSlam.

Apart from that, the main event remains Bret Hart vs. Yokozuna for the WWF Championship.

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WrestleMania X

Main Event: Yokozuna (c) vs. Bret Hart for the WWF Championship

New Main Event: Unchanged

The main attraction heading into WrestleMania X was the fact that Yokozuna would be defending his WWF Championship twice that night. That actually isn’t a bad idea on paper, but by the second match against Bret poor Yoko couldn’t be more tired.

If the WWF hadn’t made Lex Luger look like a total idiot by celebrating (what really was) a loss at SummerSlam, maybe you could’ve had Luger main event against Yokozuna for the gold in a rematch here. Just DON’T have him celebrate a count-out win…

Since that did happen, I would keep the main event the same. Just don’t make the poor man wrestle twice on the same night.

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