Bigelow34 Posted June 3, 2016 Report Share Posted June 3, 2016 Chad and I wrote a piece about this match and its potential as a SummerSlam 1991 main event. What do you guys think? Could it have worked? Other options? http://placetobenation.com/the-desert-storm-match-the-summerslam-main-event-we-never-saw/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grimmas Posted June 3, 2016 Report Share Posted June 3, 2016 I was hoping for Hogan/Warrior vs Taker/Jake myself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WingedEagle Posted June 3, 2016 Report Share Posted June 3, 2016 Chad and I wrote a piece about this match and its potential as a SummerSlam 1991 main event. What do you guys think? Could it have worked? Other options? Sarge certainly would've taken issue with the link as yet another example of American greed, but I'm looking forward to the article Having not read it yet, curious whether the idea for Summerslam is a rematch or pushing the Mania match back and headlining that show with something else. Certainly seems like a rematch could've worked, but may have required changing the layout at Mania a bit and then a hot angle to ensure Slaughter's heat over the summer. You likely take that the route of the Desert Storm Match they ran at MSG. Pair that with the wedding and I'm sure the show sells just as well as the Hogan/Warrior tag. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilTLL Posted June 3, 2016 Report Share Posted June 3, 2016 (Edit: So I'm not crazy and that link is a Fidelity PDF about New Hampshire 529 savings.) Anyway, I'm not sure if or how much it might have affected the gate or buyrate, but Hogan/Slaughter had been blown off with a Desert Storm match in at least a dozen markets that summer, including New York. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Downend2005 Posted June 3, 2016 Report Share Posted June 3, 2016 I think the Desert Storm match should have been at Wrestlemania earlier in the year personally. As for Summerslam 91, I also suggested a Hogan/Warrior vs Taker/Jake match (but with Savage instead of Sid as guest referee) when discussing rebooking 1991 for the SCG podcast. As for Slaughter, I'd have slid him down the card for a match with Duggan. The way I picture it, Adnan and Mustafa could interfere causing a DQ, and proceed to beat down Duggan. With the crowd chanting USA, Slaughter then sees the error of his ways and turns face, saving Duggan and waving the flag, leading to the Slaughter/Duggan alliance that actually happened later that year anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigelow34 Posted June 3, 2016 Author Report Share Posted June 3, 2016 Anyway, I'm not sure if or how much it might have affected the gate or buyrate, but Hogan/Slaughter had been blown off with a Desert Storm match in at least a dozen markets that summer, including New York. Stupid clipboard. Is it fixed now? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WingedEagle Posted June 3, 2016 Report Share Posted June 3, 2016 Anyway, I'm not sure if or how much it might have affected the gate or buyrate, but Hogan/Slaughter had been blown off with a Desert Storm match in at least a dozen markets that summer, including New York. Stupid clipboard. Is it fixed now? Looking good, Billy Ray! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
funkdoc Posted June 6, 2016 Report Share Posted June 6, 2016 i just don't buy any form of Hogan-Slaughter moving the needle at that point. if you look at the build to Wrestlemania, it was basically "Hogan's going to win the title back for AMERICA" - they didn't do much to pretend Slaughter had a chance. and nobody was buying his flunkies as anything meaningful, even if Mustafa did get the only(?) TV pinfall win over the British Bulldog that year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyonthewall2983 Posted June 7, 2016 Report Share Posted June 7, 2016 I'll go back to what I said in another thread, that they should have put Slaughter on ice for awhile after WrestleMania. The war was over so they really didn't have to milk it anymore. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted June 7, 2016 Report Share Posted June 7, 2016 The match should have just been Warrior, Hogan, Sid vs Slaughter, Mustafa, Undertaker, no? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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