Re-booking the WWF expansion plus years, with the WrestleMania cards Options

[Promoter]

I have always been curious how Vince Mcmahon could have done things different when he took over the company in 1982. I've always had it outlined anyways. I got some free time here, so here it goes.

I would have moved up the first WrestleMania and put it on FREE television or at least pay tv MTV. I would have used WM instead of the Brawl to Settle it all. The reason I would put this on free tv would be for impact and show the world that there is a new pro wrestling arriving on the scene called sports entertainment. This would also play off the heat of Hogan coming from the AWA and being in Rocky III with Mr. T.

March 1984
WrestleMania
Madison Square Garden
WWF World Heavyweight Championship Title Match
Special referee: Muhammad Ali
The Iron Sheik vs. "The Incredible" Hulk Hogan with Mr. T
Winner: same match as the January 23, 1984 one

WWF Intercontinental Heavyweight Championship Title Match
"Magnificent" Don Muraco vs. Tito Santana
winner: new champion Tito Santana (same kind of match that happened at BG)

WWF World Tag Team Title Match
The American Express vs. The Destroyers
Winner: The Destroyers

WWF World Woman's Title Match
"Fabulous" Moolah vs. Wendi Richter
Winner: Wendi Richter ends the multi-year reign of Moolah

"Rowdy" Roddy Piper vs. Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka
Special referee: Lou Thesz
winner: Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka

Retirement Match
Bruno Sammartino vs. Bob Backlund
Winner: Bruno Sammartino

$15,000 Bodyslam Match
Andre "The Giant" Rousimoff vs. Big John Studd
winner: Andre The Giant

"Mr. Wonderful" Paul Orndorff vs. Greg "The Hammer" Valentine
Winner: Paul Orndorff

Junkyard Dog vs. The Executioner
Winner: JYD to start up the show

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March 1985
WrestleMania II
Toronto Maple Leaf Gardens
WWF World Heavyweight Championship Title Match
Hulk Hogan vs. "Rowdy" Roddy Piper
winner: Hulk Hogan

WWF Intercontinental Title Match
Tito Santana vs. Greg "The Hammer" Valentine
Winner: new champion Greg Valentine

WWF World Tag Team Title Match
American Express vs. Shiek/Volkoff
winner: new tag champion Sheik/Volkoff

Andre "The Giant" vs. Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka
Heel turn to give Snuka something worthwhile in 1985
Who wouldn't want to the see the superfly done on Andre?
Winner: Andre The Giant after kicking out of the superfly

Father vs. Son match
Bruno Sammartino vs. David Sammartino
winner: David becomes the new "living legend" destroying his father

"Magnificent" Muraco vs. Ricky "The Dragon" Steamboat
Winner: Steamboat by dq

King Kong Bundy/Big John Studd vs. S.D. Jones/Executioner
Winner: squash match with Bundy/Studd

"Mr. Wonderful" Paul Orndorff vs. "Cowboy" Bob Orton
Winner: Bob Orton with interference from Piper

WWF Woman's Title Match
Wendi Richter vs. Lelani Kai
Same as went down

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April 1986
WrestleMania III
Chicago Rosemount Horizon
WWF World Heavyweight Championship Title Match
Hulk Hogan vs. "Mr. Wonderful" Paul Orndorff
winner: Hulk Hogan (the match that happened at Big Event)

WWF Intercontinental Title Match
Tito Santana vs. "Macho Man" Randy Savage
winner: new champion Savage(BG match)

WWF World Tag Team Title Match
The Dream Team vs. The British Bulldogs
winner: New champs (same as what happened)

WWF Woman's Title Match
Fabolous Moolah vs. Velvet McIntyre
same as happened

Jake "The Snake" Roberts vs. Ricky "The Dragon" Steamboat
winner: Steamboat by DQ (the match where he got ddt'ed on concrete)

I would still do NFL/WWF battle royal and added Mr. T
winner: Andre The Giant

"Rowdy" Roddy Piper vs. Junkyard Dog
Winner: Roddy Piper

The Islanders vs. Hoss and Terry Funk

Hercules vs. George "The Animal" Steele

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WrestleMania IV
March 1987
Pontiac Michigan
WWF World Heavyweight Championship Title Match
Hulk Hogan vs. Andre The Giant
as is

WWF Intercontinental Title Match
as is

WWF Tag Team Title Match
2 out of 3 falls
British Bulldogs vs. The Hart Foundation
same as SNME match

Hair vs. Hair match
Piper vs. Adrian Adonis

Detroit street fight
Tito Santana vs. "Dangerous" Danny Davis
winner: Tito Santana in a squash

Billy Jack Haynes vs. Hercules
as is

Jake "The Snake" Roberts vs. King Kong Bundy
as the snme match from Joe Louis Arena

Can-Am Connection vs. Orton/Muraco
as is

The HTM/midgets vs. midgets/Hillbilly Jim
comedy match since that was HTM's character

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I would cut down on the actual tournament to prevent boredom that's for sure.
WrestleMania V
March 1988
WWF World Heavyweight Championship Tournament
Quarter Finals
Hulk Hogan vs. Andre The Giant
Hogan wins

Ted Dibase vs. Muraco
as is

Bam Bam vs. "Ravishing" Rick Rude
winner: Rick Rude

Savage vs. Steamboat
Savage avenges loss from prior year

Semi-Finals
Hogan vs. Dibase
winner: Dibase

Savage vs. Rude
winner: Savage

Finals
Savage vs. Dibase
as is

WWF Intercontinental Title Match
The HTM vs. Ultimate Warrior
as SS match went down

WWF World Tag Team Title Match Fatal Fourway
Demolition vs. The British Bulldogs vs. The Hart Foundation vs. The Islanders
winner: Demolition

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WrestleMania VI
April 1989
Toronto SkyDome
Yes, I move the event to SkyDome this year
WWF World Heavyweight Title Match
"Macho Man" Randy Savage vs. Hulk Hogan
as is

WWF Intercontinental Title Match
"Ravishing" Rick Rude vs. Ultimate Warrior
as is, then again the slam match was much better
Piper returns as a surprise

WWF World Tag Team Title Match
Demolition vs. The BrainBusters
winner: BrainBusters as from snme match

Strike Force vs. The Powers of Pain
winner: POP with storyline from Busters match

Mr. Perfect vs. Jake "The Snake" Roberts
winner: Perfect

Million Dollar Belt
Owen Hart vs. Ted Dibase
winner: Dibase

The Rockers vs. The Rogeaus
winner: Rockers
Ko Ko B. Ware vs. Red Rooster
winner: Rooster in the battle of the birdmen (IMG:http://forums.thesmartmarks.com/style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

Brutus Beefcake vs. Haku
winner: not too fond of this match, but they were over

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WrestleMania 7
April 1990
Los Angeles, California
100,000 fans make a record as I believe this is the only match that could have done it.
Champion vs. Champion/Title for Title
Hulk Hogan vs. Ultimate Warrior
winner: as is

WWF World Tag Team Title Triple Threat
Hart Foundation vs. Demolition vs. The Rockers
winner: Rockers win, but Demo regain titles to lead to match-up with LOD at SummerSlam

Retirement Match
Andre "The Giant" vs. "Rowdy" Roddy Piper
winner: Andre The Giant
I would turn Piper heel and make him go up against Warrior post Mania 6 for the title

"Ravishing" Rick Rude vs. "Superfly" Jimmy Snuka
winner: Rick Rude

Jake "The Snake" Roberts vs. Ted Dibase
winner: as is

Tito Santana vs. Bad News Brown
winner: Bad News Brown to gear him up to contend against Warrior as well
I believe the wwe did not build up strong contenders for Warrior as champ which caused him not to draw as well as Hogan as champion.

"The Model" Rick Martel vs. Brutus Beefcake
battle of the beefcakes (IMG:http://forums.thesmartmarks.com/style_emoticons/default/cool.gif) Beefcake was over back then.

Mr. Perfect vs. Hercules
winner: Mr. Perfect

The Orient Express vs. "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan and Dino Bravo
just something to fill out 9 match card and have Bravo/Duggan as a Can-Am Connection

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WrestleMania 8
March/April 1991
HoosierDome
WWF World Heavyweight Championship Title Match
Ultimate Warrior vs. "Hollywood" Hulk Hogan
yes, I would turn Hogan heel with something similar to his heel turn in wcw. This way Vince prevents the eventual big turn in 1996 although it's impossible for him to forsee that. Anyways, Hogan turning heel would have been montrous back then.
winner: Hogan regains the championship and walks out the first heel to win title at Mania. This would rejuvenate Warrior's popularity and have Hogan fresh.

WWF Intercontinental Heavyweight hampionship Title Match
Mr. Perfect vs. Bret "The Hitman" Hart
winner: as slam match later in the year

WWF World Tag Team Title Match
Demolition vs. Legion Of Doom
winner: LOD win straps and later in the year turn heel with the appearance of Ric Flair and Kerry Von Erich in the wwf version of the Four Horsemen in a NWA type invasion.

"Macho Man" Randy Savage vs. The Undertaker
winner: take a guess

The British Bulldog vs. Sgt. Slaughter
winner: British Bulldog
play Britain vs. heel turn American Slaughter

The Rockers vs. Haku/Barbarian
winner: as is

Jake "The Snake" Roberts vs. "The Model" Rick Martel
without the gimmick

The Nasty Boys vs. Power and Glory

Texas Tornado Kerry Von Erich vs. Ted Dibase

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WrestleMania 9
March 1992
The DREAM MATCH
"The Nature Boy" Ric Flair vs. Hulk Hogan
Flair enters the wwf in 1991 and runs rampant with an Invasion from the NWA. Hogan who was heel turns back face to save the wwf from the attack of the NWA's greatest champion in Ric Flair.
winner: Hulk Hogan defeats Ric Flair and becomes champ for fourth time
Ric Flair being the dirtiest player in the game injures Hulk Hogan during the posedown celebration and the championship is held up for grabs for television. This way you keep fans still interested and try to cut the spiral of interest that happened in 1992. This is where Ultimate Warrior does his surprise run-in.

WWF Intercontinental Title Match
as is

WWF Tag Team Title Match
LOD vs. Money Inc.
as is Slam match

"Heartbreak Kid" Shawn Michaels vs. "Macho Man" Randy Savage
storyline would be the same as the one they did for Savage/Flair.
winner: Macho Man, but same post match theatrics as Savage/Flair

Sid Justice vs. The Undertaker
winner: Taker of course it's Mania

Tito Santana vs. Papa Shango
winner: Papa Shango

Owen Hart vs. Jake "The Snake" Roberts
winner: Owen Hart

Tatanka vs. Model Rick Martel
winner: Tatanka

Natural Disasters vs. Beverly Bros.
just stretching now to fill the card
winner: who cares?

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WrestleMania X
April 1993
Madison Square Garden
Best there is, best there was, and best there ever will be match for title
Hulk Hogan vs. Bret Hart
I know the chances of this were, but damn it this was the match we wanted.
winner: Bret Hart wins by SUBMISSION! to end Hulk Hogan era for now.

WWF Intercontinental Title Match
Shawn Michaels vs. The Undertaker
winner: UT by disqualification

WWF World Tag Team Title Match
The Steiners vs. Money Inc.
winner: Stieners as is

Macho Man vs. Razor Ramone
storyline would be both men thinking they ooze machismo
winner: Macho Man

Mr. Perfect vs. Bob Backlund
storyline would be Perfect thinking he was the superior athlete or something
winner: Perfect

Yokozuna vs. Lex Luger
winner: Yokozuna

Doink The good Clown vs. Doink The evil Clown
winner: take your pick

Crush vs. Repo Man
take your winner

Kamala vs. Tito Santana
take your winner

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The second decade of WrestleMania will soon be put up. Notice this direction has Bret and Shawn on top as the respective singles champion surpassing somehow Taker and Hogan at the tenth anniversary show. I believe this was a major problem the two had. They did not go over the respective men who made WM in the first decade. Bret and Shawn are the obvious future by this point. However, Bret still had one man to go over and that was Macho.

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WrestleMania 11
March 1994
Birth of the New Generation
WWF World Heavyweight Championship Title Match
Bret "Hitman" Hart vs. "Macho Man" Randy Savage
winner: Bret Hart and Savage's last hurrah at Mania

Ladder match as is

The same final four gimmick
Bret vs. Owen Hart
Macho Man vs. Lex Luger

WWF World Tag Team Title Match
The Quebecors vs. The Doinks

For all the talk about this Mania being so great I can't even remember the participants or half the damn card.

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WrestleMania 12
March 1995
WWF World Heavyweight Championship Title Match
Bret "Hitman" Hart vs. "Heartbreak Kid" Shawn Michaels
winner: Shawn Michaels

WWF Intercontinental Title Match
Razor Ramone vs. Owen Hart

WWF Tag Team Title Match
Allied Forces vs. Smoking Gunns

Diesel/LT vs. Bam Bam Bigelow/123 Kid

It gets much harder as the years go by to remember and fill the latter cards
This is the main matches I would choose
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WrestleMania 13
March 1996
Montreal
Ironman Rematch
Bret Hart vs. Shawn Michaels
This sounds crazy, but what would have been if the Montreal screwjob happened at this event or a work of it? Bret did disappear for the summer and some of the fall. It is the most controversial championship match ever. Imagine Vince pulling that stunt with Bret after a 60 minute match? Woo hooo would it by funny as he would tear up Vince on live tv for sure.

WWF I-C Title Match
Ahmed Johnson vs. GoldDust
winner: Ahmed

Interim President Roddy Piper vs. Steve Austin
suppose the anti-hero stuff started here?
winner: Steve Austin sending Piper packing and then setting his eyes on another wwf legend Jake The Snake.

Undertaker vs. Diesel
as is

Undertaker vs. Triple H
same as because it's funny as hell

Vader vs. British Bulldog
winner: Vader

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WrestleMania 14
March 1997
WWF World Heavyweight Championship Title Match
Bret Hart vs. Steve Austin
as is
Bret had returned to the wwf and his stock had risen from the Montreal screwjob type finish.

WWF World Tag Team Title Match
Undertaker/Sid vs. LOD

Again, the rest of the card and players are pretty weak here. These two matches should help the drawing power though.

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WM 14
March 1998
pretty much as is

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WM 15
March 1999
WWF World Heavyweight Championship
The Rock vs. "Stone Cold" Steve Austin

WWF Intercontinental Title Match
Triple H vs. Mankind

WWF World Tag Team Title Match
Jarrett/Owen vs. Hardys

The Undertaker vs. Big Show
winner: UT

Again, I can't even remember the undercard really.
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WM 16
March 2000
WWF World Heavyweight Championship
Actual Backlash main event
Actually the whole Backlash card should have been WM 2000

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WM 17
as is

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Already went through the last few Manias in other threads