1993 WWF Should Have Been A Transitional Year Like 2005

Shawn v Perfect at Summerslam 93 for example, but it was clear Hennig was either struggling with his back or more likely getting flak from Lloyds of London having claimed on their policy, so he wasn't around for much after that.

To be fair they did try some of this...

Shawn v Perfect at Summerslam 93 for example, but it was clear Hennig was either struggling with his back or more likely getting flak from Lloyds of London having claimed on their policy, so he wasn't around for much after that.

DiBiase's tag run was more about him saving his marriage than injuries... he'd been caught out and had to be home more - the Money Inc. period allowed for that and had him on the road with Mike Rotundo, who was a "good influence" on a notorious party guy.

A lot of the problems in 1993 apply even now... They raced so many new talents higher up the card than they ever had before. Yoko had no real business being pushed that quickly, same for Lex, Crush and Ludvig Borga... all of these would be the equivalent of an NXT class coming up post Mania... You'd know that they'd push a Roode or Joe immediately just as they did Lex for example.

The issue they had more than anything was that they didn't really allow anyone's push to properly form... he "got it from nowhere", then Yoko did, then within a year Diesel had...

The right guy to push at the time was Tatanka - he had built a solid years worth of work, winning the IC at Mania 9 was a no brainer... Shawn's politics (remember this is right about the time he admitted he lied about Marty and Hennig got Marty a "Billy Martin") actually screwed with a lot of what WWE were trying to do.

This was the first time they did an "oil change" of talent and it didn't work. They'd done it 87 and 90/91... After WM3 you had new guys like Rude, Bigelow, Warrior, Duggan and DiBiase replacing Sheik, Bob Orton etc... in 1990 you lost Rude, Brutus, Koko, Dino Bravo for guys like Slaughter, Von Erich, Bulldog & Undertaker and the following year you had Greg Valentine, Ricky Steamboat and Dusty Rhodes and Warrior leaving for guys like Flair, Sid, IRS and The Mountie...

Each time they changed out the roster, the replacements were not quite as big/as good and you had guys like Sid who bombed being pushed and Flair who just wasn't given the chance properly... By the time we got to them having to change it AGAIN in 92/93 cos of the scandals with Warrior and Davey, Nailz and Flair's leaving... the guys coming in were nowhere near ready.

Razor was immediately main event... it nearly killed him. It was only really blind luck the face turn worked for him after 1-2-3 Kid... Doink was interesting but shouldn't have been fighting Bret, neither should Lawler have been. Bigelow was arguably the best placed of those who "came in" at that time... arguably he should have won that Rumble ahead of Yoko... but they'd already decided he was going to be more of a jobber. Makes you wonder why they bothered at all with him.

They went from changing it every 2-3 years to changing it every year from 90 to 95 and it showed.

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