Anyone other than Diesel winning the title from Backlund
By Scott Keith on October 22, 2018
Do you think WWF should have chosen someone else other than Diesel for the MSG title win over Backlund? If they had kept the title on Bob, would Bob vs Bret III worked as a WM Main Event? Could Lex Luger have worked as the guy who beat Backlund ala Hulk over
Iron Sheik in '84?
Iron Sheik in '84?
Was the plan going into WM XI, that they would come back with Diesel-Shawn II at WM XII?
The problem wasn't even that Diesel was or wasn't the guy to get the title. It's that they had him win it based on one character, and then completely changed the character literally the very next show he was on. No one's getting over with that kind of meddling.
As for long-term plan, I don't think they had one. I think in Vince's eyes it was
1) Get the title onto Diesel and make him the next Hogan
2) ?????
3) Profit!
Nash was definitely supposed to be the long-term guy, though. But where they would have gone with that, we definitely didn't know at the time.
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