10 WrestleMania matches that almost happened

#9 Hulk Hogan vs Ric Flair - WrestleMania 8

This is a job for WCW!

Hulk Hogan was the biggest WWE star of the 1980's, and probably all of wrestling. Ric Flair was the biggest star of the 80's of the rival NWA. No one ever thought it would happen but in 1991, Ric Flair left the NWA after a major fall out with boss Jim Herd and signed with the WWE, and suddenly the biggest dream match in all of the wrestling was about to become a reality.... Until it didn't.

WWE did indeed have plans for the match even teasing it with stare downs between the two on television. So why didn't the ultimate dream match happen?.... Well in early 1992 WWE's live event attendance was getting pretty small and Vince McMahon decided to try to bring it up by booking a tour featuring Hogan vs Flair in the main event of each night, but surprisingly this did little to help attendance figures. WWE then got cold feet with the match happening as the main event of WrestleMania and scrapped it.

Instead, we got Flair vs Randy Savage and Hulk Hogan vs Sid Justice, and this was just wrong. Now it wasn't a total loss as Flair vs Savage was a great match, but Hogan vs Sid wasn't and no one will ever convince me that Hogan vs Flair was not the right main event. I really don't know how WWE thought that Hogan vs Sid would pull in better number than Hogan vs Flair.

Hogan and Flair would eventually meet but in WCW. Hogan defeated Flair in his historic WCW debut match for the WCW Championship and the two would collide several more times for Ted Turner's pockets. Hogan and Flair would eventually have a WWE match on RAW in 2002 and even share the ring in TNA.