The week leading up to Hogan/Andre being announced on Piper's Pit the Silverdome had sold already sold 17,000 seats.
That's a solid number for most arenas, but this is a stadium. Nonetheless, that was the baseline before anything was truly "announced" although most of the top matches could be figured out for most viewers. The Jan SNME basically laid out the undercard.
Meltz at the time declared it a one match show, obviously dismissing any mass appeal for Dragon/Savage, Piper/Adonis, and to a lesser extent Harts/Bulldogs (The tag match was ambiguous at first before the six man aspect came into play), JYD/Race and Jerk/Herc.
To be fair Piper/Adonis was "bombing" as a main event at house shows and that MAY be why they switched to six man main events at the house shows leading up to the event.
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Watching a bit of the WM 9 build on Superstars. They played up Duggan returning to come after Yoko pretty hard. U have to think the fans should assume Bret would retain so Duggan/Yoko could go forward.
Vince is being just OBNOXIOUS with the screaming commentary.
I was awaiting Lawler saying something really racist during Kamala's match, but alas he was more cartoon than cunt.
Bret and Yoko have yet to sign their contract for Mania with 2 weeks to go. Seems like Jack Tunney is slipping.
Hogan talks about sweating on women while getting his pump on.
Bigelow has a good line for his promo for Kamala. Bigelow represents what Kamala and his tribe fear the most... FIRE!
