Titan Shattered Questions
By Scott Keith on July 27, 2015
Dearest Scott,
More than halfway done with the book and a couple of questions obviously have sprung to mind:
Never once had I heard about Warrior at Rumble 96. He couldn’t possibly be in the Rumble, right? Squash match with Kid, maybe?
Working relationship with ECW involving Sabu in the Rumble? This substantiates my theory about Vince either owning ECW starting in mid-late 95, at the very least bank rolling them, but I’ve never once heard this rumor.
And IYH Mind Games was originally known as IYH School of Hard Knocks? I searched the web and found not a single reference to this.
I like both books but I really think the author should source these wild rumors that come out of left field.
Thanks
I actually just got my copy from the publisher today but I’ll start going through it tonight. The Kindle version is only $5 so I bought that too because James Dixon is awesome and deserves support for these:
As to the questions, I should see if I can get James to comment here on them, but I can tell you that Mind Games had an originally advertised main event of Shawn Michaels & Jose Lothario v. Vader & Jim Cornette before it was changed very quickly into the Shawn v. Mankind main event we all know and love, so perhaps that naming went along with the original match. It would certainly fit better.
As for the Warrior, here’s Dave Meltzer in the Jan 2 1996 Observer lead story:
In an effort to combat falling buy rates, the WWF has sent out for many surprising names in the Royal Rumble. Among those known to have been contacted for the event are Dan Severn, Jake Roberts, Ultimate Warrior, Big Van Vader and Rick Martel. Of those names, the only name that has been mentioned at all on television is Warrior, although Vince McMahon in negotiating with people about being on the show did mention Vader and Warrior as appearing in the Rumble.
The situation with Warrior is surprising since he’s been mentioned on the syndicated Superstars show twice about a potential return to the WWF, but has yet to be mentioned on cable. Several WWF wrestlers believe Warrior is in for not only the Rumble, but going to return as a regular, but one who is in position to know better than most wrestlers claimed that it wasn’t the case and nobody in what I’d call a position that I’d believe they’d know 100% (or even 75% for that matter) has told us anything one way or another. McMahon gave a hazy answer when asked on an Internet chat saying, "In order for the Ultimate Warrior to return to the WWF, the moon and the stars and the sun and the planet Pluto would all have to be perfectly aligned in some sort of celestial magnificence. But who knows? Anything can happen in the WWF." Even though the television related to the Rumble build-up was all taped this past week, no interviews were done at any of the tapings building up any of the aforementioned names. It appears most of the work by Vince McMahon and others to contact these surprising names began after the tapings were completed this past week, which means they went into the Rumble’s television build-up with no distinct plans on where they were going with the show which is decidedly un-Titanlike.
So there you go. And the Sabu thing sounds like something I’ve heard about before as well, but that issue doesn’t mention anything about it.
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