WrestleMania X8

The presence of Bobby Heenan in particular reminded the teenage fans that wrestling was just as entertaining when it felt a bit more innocent.

A year later, in 2002, WrestleMania X-8 illustrated, to deafening effect, the power, the real power, of nostalgia with the Icon vs. Icon match between The Rock and Hollywood Hogan.

In August 1999 though, two months prior to Heroes of Wrestling, Hulk Hogan had dusted off the red and yellow attire in a bid to rescue his babyface turn.

It did nothing to resuscitate WCW's cratering business.

They wanted to do it.

Hey, Death Scythe, if we got Hulk Hogan versus Stone Cold Steve Austin instead of The Rock against Hogan at WrestleMania X-8, What would The Rock end up doing on that show? I could see him, I mean, it could be him and Hall, but I could see him in there with Nash, right? Rocking Big Daddy Cool Diesel.

I could see that being the match.

Kevin Nash trying to get revenge for that diesel crack.

Oh, yeah.

I'll touch on those matches oh but also foreshadowing right 11 years later Ric Flair will meet with The Undertaker at WrestleMania won't he he will WrestleMania X8 I believe so

and we'll get to another Undertaker Hulk Hogan match in a few years same year also 2002 yes another championship match yeah

that one is much different than this one oh yes it is yes they have aged a little bit so we'll get to that too but yeah yep

of all the wrestling matches that have happened that's one of them they absolutely

did all right before we round out all the way out of the attitude era um i mean the apa are around they do win tag titles and billy and chuck i apparently i i knew they were a saying unfortunately i didn't know they won the tag titles they were tag champions at wrestlemania 18.

Good for them,

right? Pretty high profile.

It's interesting because when you look at it, the Acolytes and especially Billy and Chuck were kind of singles people thrown together into a team, but then they actually became a real team.

I think this might have been the beginning of the end in terms of good teams that are formed as teams and stay that way.

Well, the last note on this section I have is that the tag title matches at WrestleMania 18, 19, and 20 were just random thrown together tag matches, usually involving multiple teams.

And then on WrestleMania 21, there's just no tag title match.

You know what I mean? Like, it depends on kind of what you're looking for.

But if you mean, like, good match, I mean, Rock Hogan, WrestleMania 18 would be a great one to show.

That's what I was trying to do.

Don't tell me it's

Is Roman Reigns overrated?

So the reason that I say that I even brought up The Rock and Hulk Hogan from WrestleMania 18 is because when we talk about match psychology, ring psychology, understanding the moment, how to let the moment build.

If you were to take that match and just turn everything off except for the visual, no sound, no anything else, and just watch the match for what it was, the match by and large is a very, very basic run-of-the-mill match.

two very grounded wrestlers, two striking wrestlers who would go at it, very limited move sense, but knew how to engage with the audience, know how to sell the moment.

And we reviewed their debut show, No Way Out, 2002.

And then our next episode is WrestleMania X8, which is like 28 days later.

And within that 28 days that the NWO debuted, they had matches on TV and they effectively split up.

They had members leave and turn on each other.