Recreate WWE History, WrestleMania 4. Who Leaves with the Belt.

[More Cowbell]

I grew up with wrestling in the 80's and some PPVs to me have stood the test of time. I remember Wrestlemania IV like it was yesterday, or almost like yesterday. Solid long event with a vacated WWF World Championship. Everyone was lead to believe it was ALLLLLL coming down to Hulk Hogan or Andre walking away with the world title. They were the two stars on the PPV Poster. Then suddenly they meet and neither of them advance. Out of now where Randy "The Macho Man" savage rizes to the occasion to put himself on the map as a main eventer. It was the changing of the guard after Hogan's 3 year run to see a new face as world champion. What if that didnt happen like that. There was 14 Men in the tournament if you could redo the tournament who would you put the title on?


Ted Dibiase
Jim Duggan
Don Muraco
Dino Bravo
Randy Savage
Butch Reed
Greg Valentine
Ricky Steamboat
One Mang Gang
Bam Bam Bigelow
Rick Rude
Jake Roberts
Hulk Hogan
Andre the Giant


For me I would of put the title on Andre the Giant. He was a solid performer who helped make lots of money for both Vince Sr and Jr.
He was a Giant in the ring and wether as a Face at WM 1 against Big John Stud in the Body Slam Challenge or AS A Heel with Haku
as the Clossal Connection. He was The Big Backbone of WWE in early 1980's He was without a doubt a WOrld Champion that was never
regonized.  I remember back in the Day WWF made it out to be that Andre really never pinned Hogan cleanly or tried selling the title and
made it out to sound like he never actually had the title on him until years after his death then they tote it around as a merchandize
selling tool saying how pretious their title is being worn by Andre, when back in the day they never mentioned it.

I know in 1988 he was WAYYYY past him prime but I always enjoyed him in the ring and when I watch match on wwe on demand it reminds me
oh how he controlled the ring. If they would of put the Title on Him I could of seen limited matches to PPVs only
with Andre and have him start a fued with the next big face, Heck it could of been the Ultimate Warrior as he jobbed to him next, but
theyhad the greatest big man ever and never paid him his dues, they could of paid him off that night and he could of held onto the title
for a few months, heck it Could of had a Huge rematch with Hogan at Wrestlemania 5 with Hogan, or they could of pushed Savage as the next top face
taking second in the tournament. From the time Bob Backlund won the WWF title until Flair won it in his first WWE run in the early 1990s the
Title was only heels for what 5 months total from late 1970's to the early 1990's. I would of loved to of seen him given the reigns one last
time and have him parade around as a TRUE WWE Champion.

Anyone else got a pick from the list of 14?

[James Lofton]

Everyone was lead to believe it was ALLLLLL coming down to Hulk Hogan or Andre walking away with the world title.

Once they announced the brackets showing they both had a first round bye you knew that neither were going to win. Stupid move by Mcmahon. It killed a lot of the suspense.


Andre would have been a terrible champion at that point. He could barely even move. At the previous wrestlemania, half the match was spent with Andre trying to open his legs wide enough for Hogan to crawl underneath him after he failed to connect a head butt. Andre definitely deserved a title run, but should have happened earlier in his career.

Savage was the logical choice(and in hindsight makes perfect sense), but this was the perfect moment for McMahon to give Steamboat a run. Could have reignited the once red hot Steamboat/Savage feud.

Bam Bam Bigelow would have worked as long as it was a very short title run.

Dibiase should have had an IC title run. The world title picture started to fizzle when he got involved.


Best match at this event was Demolition vs Strike Force.

[Hammy]

Rick Rude.  A Rude vs. Savage feud I think would have been golden!