The Lapsed Fan: Dave Meltzer on WrestleMania 14
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- čas přidán 30. 07. 2024
- As part of The Lapsed Fan's 30-week WrestleMania journey, the Wrestling Observer's Dave Meltzer weighed in with his recollections of each event. Here, Meltzer discusses WrestleMania 14 in 1998.
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Shawn Michaels getting hurt in 1998 was a gift from above. Had he been around in 1998, he would have played his bullshit backstage politics and fucked up Austin's push.
And The Rock’s push and Triple H’s push and the Undertakers push and Kane’s push and so on and so on
@@timotye4079 Rock yes. HHH would have suffered a bit but still would've been eventually been a top guy and Taker was already made.
I was there!
Tyson and Austin! Tyson and austin! Tyson and Austin!
I took a shot everytime meltzer says you know im now on dialysis
R L god I love you you’re fucking right
I don't know about anyone else but I was glad to see Michaels leave after this show. Him as a heel is 1000 times better than face but his antics over the year getting here wore thin on me and my crew of guys that wanted to see Raw get ahead of Nitro with Rock and Austin
😒 Right because you knew everything going on back stage at this time.
Blueblur23 It’s all been pretty well-documented, so yes, we do know what went on, in great detail.
The answer why wrestling got so hot in the 90's. Is because the children of the 80's started earning their own money. We became nostalgic for the past. Same audience
I agree that was a factor, but not the only one. Otherwise, why wasn’t there another wrestling boom around 2010 when the 90s kids/Attitude era fans hit early adulthood? Funnily enough, there almost was another boom at that time-in 2011 with the Pipe-bomb and the Summer of Punk-but it was strangled in the crib by bad booking and poor creative. So good storytelling and marketable stars have to be at least equally as important as nostalgia.
Moron the audience tripled
No. You got the two biggest stars in the history of the business at the same time.
I remember being the only one not impressed with Tyson being there. He was coming off back to back fights where he got his ass kicked by Holyfield. I guess the ear biting thing got him cred enough as a tough/crazy guy, but his appeal was fading imo. Guess I was wrong. Don't get me wrong, I was a huge mark at the time and was gonna buy the show anyway
Chris Suswal Wrestling back then was so much more about characters and sales and Tyson was the biggest selling character on Earth at the time.
He had fallen off for sure with the Holyfield losses, but he was still undoubtedly one of the most famous people on the face of the Earth at that time. That's not hyperbole. Like 5 continents famous.
I say it all the time other than Michael Spinks and Larry Holmes at the end of his career. Who the hell did Tyson beat?
@@jodavey Trevor Berbick, Razor Ruddock, and Frank Bruno.
Mike Tyson was selling pay-per-view like crazy going into the 2000s
I still think Austin vs. McMahon would have happened even with Shawn around, the original DX would have been in Mr. McMahon's pocket the way that Dude Love and Kane wound up being.
azapro911 I don’t know if it would’ve happened but if it wouldn’t have, I’d have loved to see who would have ended up getting the big feud with McMahon and if it would’ve gotten over anywhere near as big. In my opinion late 90’s McMahon was the best heel of all time.
I agree Mr. Mcmahon is still around because they were already experimenting with the character while Shawn was there. As far as DX joining Mr. McMahon, that's a no. It doesn't make sense for DX to be in McMahon's pocket. When they first got together their initial statement was "You make the rules we break em" DX worked similar to Austin in that they were anti-authority figures. Making them authority figures would have killed their heat and would have been bad for business. Most likely Austin, DX and Mr. Mcmahon would have all been feuding with each other.
Not sure about his comment early on here. Wrestlemania was always the WWF/E's biggest show from the moment that the first one was confirmed as a big success. Yes back in the day WWF had other big drawing supershows, but it was still very much the show that the rest of the year was built around. The whole Austin/Tyson thing and change in direction for WWF meant that they were going to over take WCW again anyway, it wasn't just how big that Wrestlemania was.
Bored Now Not 13. It was a sorry show sans Bret vs Austin.
Dave's point wasn't that the early WMs weren't big shows. His point was they were fucking awful, which most of the Hulkamania WMs were.
Imagine if Shawn had refused to put Austin over who was getting white hot and who went on to become the biggest draw and star of all time.
+88smjls WWF would have been screwed probably.
+Edward Underhill lol and Shawn would've been killed by Taker backstage
Adam Oularbi Yeah he probably would have, or just knocked his ass out.
+88smjls austin was only hot for a matter of a few years. He is nowhere near Hogan, ask your grandaddy who Hogan is, they will know, ask your dad who austin is and he will have no clue let alone your grandaddy. Hogan is a household name for all generations
'Taker would have finished the job he started at the Rumble.