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Interesting question. I don't know who might have fit into that position but Tony Atlas and Jimmy Snuka were both massively over babyfaces. They might have gotten a shot. I'd also think Paul Orndorff may have fit into the role, but none of them would have worked as well as Hulk Hogan.
Not sure how true this story is, but I vaguely do remember reading an edition of the Daily News' Slammer column the day of Wrestlemania X, where he details how Lex Luger gave away the ending of his matches that night, that he was supposed to go over on Yoko and turn heel to beat Bret. Am I remembering a tall tale or did something like this happen?
The story was in the Daily News, but it was that Luger would win the belt and drop it to Bret. There was no truth to that being the booking, but someone leaked it to the News.
I recently watched Royal Rumble 1999 and it reminded me of all the questions in the Q&A lately regarding unprotected chair shots. Which by the way I am completely supportive of and am very happy about the awareness of concussion defects that has developed over recent years... But it got me to thinking, who do you think has taken the worst chair shot or sets of chair shots to the head? The Rock and Mankind watch was pretty rough, but I seem to remember Mike Awesome and Masato Tanaka used to have very brutal matches.
To me, it's a three-way tie between the matches you mentioned and some of the Balls Mahoney vs. Masato Tanaka matches, which were insanely brutal. I'm very happy to see that chairshots are used in a much more safe, sparingly manner today.
How has there not been a Pat Patterson-WWE DVD on his career?
While Patterson's life and genius would make for a fascinating DVD, I don't know that WWE would believe it would be a strong seller. That would probably prevent it from being released, especially when names that would be far more known to the general public (Sgt. Slaughter, Jimmy Snuka, etc.) have never had a DVD devoted to their career.
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