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Taken from:http://www.wrestleview.com/info/faq/wwe.shtml I've boldened and enlarged the relevant part. Even the building officially stated at the time what the real number was. As soon as people accept the myth as being a myth, I'd be content to never talk about this again.

It didn't help that from returning to the WWF in 1998 until he left in late 2002 that he made no changes to his character or style or moveset or anything. He was beyond stale, and people got sick of him.

Yes, when the promoter of the event gave him the real number. In fact, I think Dave even mentioned that Bresloff showed him the paperwork to prove it.

Like the promoter telling the truth. As I pointed out earlier, why would the promoter downplay the success of his own event ? Why would he not go along with the mythical number ? His place in history would be assured by doing so. He'd be part of official history. But he didn't. Why ? What reason does he have, apart from just wanting to be honest with people, to go with the lower number, when going with the mythical number, with 'official history' backing him up, would assure him a place in history ?

Chances are the seats listed for the Silverdome today aren't the same number of seats that were available back in 1987. Stadium seating changes every so often, so it's likely that the number of seats there has changed a little over the years.

Meltzer has no reason to lie. If he says the number is really high or really low, it doesn't reflect on him either way. If Meltzer does lie, he comes off looking bad, so he has to tell the truth. If the owners of the building know the number is low, they're highly unlikely to say so, because it will reflect badly on them. It's not a question of one sides opinion being more valid than the other. It's simply that, realistically, when you've got two sides giving two different numbers, chances are the side with no reason to lie is telling the truth. Look, the bottom line is that the promoter of the event himself said the real number was 78,000. And he does have reason to inflate the number, because it will make him look good. Yet he didn't. Why ? Because he wanted to tell the truth. If he wanted to lie, he would have.

Hall and Nash weren't top level names. Nash was just under that level, and Hall was barely above midcard status, with his last high profile match being a clean loss to Vader. Nash was over in WCW for one reason; he was an ex-WWF guy. He was an ex-WWF guy who was being booked to look like he was 'invading' WCW. Put any WWF guy of the time who was at that same level in WCW, book him the same way you booked Nash, and that guy would have gotten over just as huge as Nash. Whether Taker would have had the gimmick or not, people would still have seen him as The Undertaker, and that would have made him seem real special in WCW. As for Bulldog and Hart, regardless of whether they were anyones cronies in WWE, or even top level names, they still had enough cache that they would have meant something had they jumped to WCW. And once in WCW, they would have been booked strong enough that any taint of being a crony in the WWF would have quickly been erased. It would have been the same with any WWF guy with high visibility, regardless of how they were being used in the WWF. Eric was so intent on making the WWF guys seem like legit invaders, that he booked them to strong that they were seen as invaders, which was what got Nash and Hall over so big. That fact alone would have ensured that any strong WWF name would have gotten over, because Eric would have pushed and pushed and pushed until they did get over.

I think that would probably make him more of a face. Stacy isn't over enough for a babyface to turn on, and become a big heel over. Remember when Austin gave her a stunner in 2003 ? He was still cheered.

Except to people who want to keep beleving the myth to be fact.

Rick Wilson had been wrestling for at least 2 years before he arrived in WCW.

Any of those names listed, except maybe Sid, would have gotten over better than Nash in the nWo angle. And I'm not discrediting Nash's part in the nWo. I'm just saying you can't point to the nWo angle as proof Nash can draw, simply because he was part of a group, and it's the group as a whole, not individual members, who deserve the credit.

Guiness also list the wrestler Happy Humphry as being the heaviest wrestler ever, at 802lbs. That number is a work too. When any article or press work is done on wrestling, it rarely does it's homework. When Playboy did a piece on wrestling in the Sable/Chyna issue, they said that wrestling was generating a $1billion a year. That too was a work. When WWF was hot in the 80's, financial publications like the Wall Street Journal said how it was making $500m a year. That too was a work. When Hogan would do press interviews in that time period, he'd go on about WWF generating $1.7b a year, and how their merchandising was doing better than Disney. How many of the papers printing that do you think bothered to point out that those numbers were works ? And if you had properly read the thread I linked to, you'd see some discussion about why the Silverdome webiste maintained the myth. They bought the work, as you have, and it's not going to make them look good if they have to come out and say they got worked by Vince McMahon, hence they go along with it. The 93.173 number is total fiction, and that comes straight from the promoter of the event. He has no reason to lie. The fiction comes straight from Vince, and he does have reason to lie.

It was just bad judgement on Lesnar's part, which is something everyone has been guilty of at one point. And no, this won't kill Lesnar's chances of returning to WWE. It might make it more likely that when they get their revenge on him it will even more humiliating, but his chances of returning remain the same as they would without the lawsuit.

Worst. Idea. Ever. While it makes sense in the storyline to be somwhat vague about Batista being on Raw or Smackdown, it makes no sense to keep that up until the day of the WM. The fans get dicked around too much for them to even tease the idea of Batista not facing Hunter at WM XXI beyond mid February at the latest.

Ok, so midcarder might have been a stretch. The point is they could have brought in any WWF guy on that upper tier that Nash and Hall were at and it still would have been booked to succeed as it did.

Bam Bam Bigelow's team to the Bushwhacker and MOM Doinks at Survivor Series in 1993.

Here is a thread that, after a couple of posts, talks in detail the 93,173 myth from Wrestling Classics: 93,173 myth If you still want to believe the myth, then more power to you. It's still just a myth.

The real number came from the promoter of the event, the late Zane Bresloff. The 93,173 number is pure myth, whose history has been gone into many times before.

I don't how any article put together that badly could be called interesting. Crap or rubbish, I could see, but interesting ? If someone wants to take a look past any 'heroification', that's fine. They should just go a good job of it, and not some lame piece like this. I think you are being overly critical of the writer. Obviosuly he wasn't out to paint a flattering picture of curt. If you happened to like him, as it seems you do, then the writer obviously got what he wanted in creating anger in you. He didn't create anger in me. The only thing something that badly written and put together could create is mild amusement at the stupidity of the person who put it together.

I don't how any article put together that badly could be called interesting. Crap or rubbish, I could see, but interesting ? If someone wants to take a look past any 'heroification', that's fine. They should just go a good job of it, and not some lame piece like this.

A piss-poor article, with all the depth of something totally lacking in depth. It didn't even try to give any real background to Hennig, and just seemed intent on trying bring him down, solely because others thought highly of the guy. Whoever the guy is that wrote this drivel needs to do us all a favor, and just stop writing this kind of crap.

Nobody is ever guaranteed a title reign in their contract. That myth always pops up in some fashion.

MOM were jobber fodder at that time, so no, of course not. You missed my point entirely.

Somebody should blow her pumpkin up on Halloween.

If you felt you were able to follow a dream you had, would you ?