WrestleMania 13 World championship match

[the ambush]

Always thought the Bret Hart vs Steve Austin submission match should have held World championship stakes and headlines WM 13. Instead the match played second fiddle to Undertaker vs Psycho Sid, at least on paper

What do you think?

 

[Pittie Petey]

Austin looks a lot like Goldberg and they were aften compared to each other during their time on top of the rasslin world and their respective promotions, it was the hypothetical dream match of the Monday Night Wars era
Coincidence?
I think not!

 

[SaigeVanZant]

It should've been HBK vs. Bret Hart but Shawn lost his smile. I was fine with Taker winning the title but it should've been against Vader.

 

[lakersfan45]

I think it all played out fine. It was better that bret won at summerslam.

 

[PRIDEWASBETTER]

It didn't happen because, as Austin said, Bret is a loser.

 

[BigSexy444]

That card was kind of a mess. Even Austin vs Bret wasn't built up particularly well if you were watching live at the time. Everything felt thrown together at the last minute.

 

[Goatenstein]

That card was kind of a mess. Even Austin vs Bret wasn't built up particularly well if you were watching live at the time. Everything felt thrown together at the last minute.

It came down to WCW was beating WWF's ass every week and when Vince panics he goes with the big men. Of course HBK had also bitched out on jobbing to Bret which further complicated things.

 

[My Spot]

It should've been a title match, Bret wrestled Sid for the title on the go-home Raw and Austin even helped him. But of course the sHitman couldn't get the job done.



Surprised he didn't blame Goldberg.

 

[My Spot]

It came down to WCW was beating WWF's ass every week and when Vince panics he goes with the big men. Of course HBK had also bitched out on jobbing to Bret which further complicated things.

Fortunately, Vince had a wild card who would turn the tide against WCW.

 

[Elvis.]

I don’t hate the way it played out
But it would have been better if Bret and Steve went on last had the exact same match and Bret retained the title .
Then the wwf should have retained Bret until after WM 14 so he could be the one to drop the title to Steve instead of pilled up Hbk

 

[Small Town Andrew]

I also don't hate how it played out. Wrestlemania 13 was a good show imo regardless of the weak main event.

97 is just such a special year in wrestling. WWF and WCW hit gold on about everything that year

 

[chimpoehurricane]

It should've been HBK vs. Bret Hart but Shawn lost his smile. I was fine with Taker winning the title but it should've been against Vader.

Vader got black balled. Rumor was Michael's didn't like him.

 

[chimpoehurricane]

It didn't happen because, as Austin said, Bret is a loser.

He actually said it?

Bret was good but had 0 charm.

 

[PRIDEWASBETTER]

He actually said it?

Bret was good but had 0 charm.

Bret was much better as a heel.

 

[SaigeVanZant]

Vader got black balled. Rumor was Michael's didn't like him.

I think the story was Vader was going to beat HBK for the belt at Survivor Series but he was too rough with the boy toy so HBK buried him. The In Your House after was even called It's Time

 

[chimpoehurricane]

Bret was much better as a heel.

Oh like in WCW? He is one of the few who got a W over Goldberg but Goldberg mule kicked him into retirement.

 

[chimpoehurricane]

I think the story was Vader was going to beat HBK for the belt at Survivor Series but he was too rough with the boy toy so HBK buried him. The In Your House after was even called It's Time

It's shitty. I always liked Vader.

I don't know why he did a stupid splash in wwf and not his power bomb. Lane.

They always gave fat guys splashes in wwf. Yokozuna sat on people. <Lmaoo>

I saw Vader had one of the best power bombs and it was done differently. The best IMHO was Nash but Vader had a good one. Psycho Sid too. Taker too.

Vader wasn't Bret or Owen Hart. He wasn't Ahmed Johnson nor Goldberg who were virtually killing people its unfortunate. Johnson was a huge mid carder. No clue what happened.

As I got older, I got annoyed the way they pushed some guys and buried others.

 

[gspieler]

Well, not simply letting Shawn bury the main event at Mania, to avoid having to do a job, would’ve been a good start.

 

[chimpoehurricane]

Always thought the Bret Hart / Steve Austin submission match should have held World championship stakes and headlines WM 13. Instead the match played second fiddle to Undertaker / Psycho Sid, at least on paper

What do you think?

Sid was great. His foot injury in wcw was horrific.

 

[CrimsomSky]

That card was kind of a mess. Even Austin vs Bret wasn't built up particularly well if you were watching live at the time. Everything felt thrown together at the last minute.

Wut? It’s the fued that reignited my wavering passion for wrestling before it got good again and I don’t remember it being jarring. I’ll check it out again. Undertaker vs Sid was shit thought. Make it the whole ppv besides Bret Austin.