#3 Hogan-Andre 2 doesn’t live up to the hype
I am sure all fans who are being honest know that Hogan vs. Andre the Giant at WrestleMania III was not the best match in WrestleMania history. However, it was well put together and the 93,000 fans loved it.
Andre and Hulk told a great story and Andre gave it his all despite his health issues. It certainly was a big match on the biggest stage.
However, this was not the case in their rematch at WrestleMania IV. For some weird reason, this was a quarterfinal match in the tournament. You would think that a normal tournament bracket wouldn’t allow the two big stars of WrestleMania III to face off so early in a Heavyweight Championship tournament. But we had the rematch for ages about an hour into WrestleMania IV.
It wasn’t a good follow-up.
Andre was in pretty bad shape even a year later and it made him quite immobile in the ring. I don’t want to insult a man in failing health but it doesn’t lead to a fun or believable match for the fans. Since Andre can’t really help out a lot, we get the standard for the show, a lot of interference.
The issue is it wasn’t even really good inference. Virgil and DiBiase got involved a lot and tried to throw a chair in the ring. Hogan grabbed it and hit Andre with the chair in front of the ref. Naturally, this caused Hogan to lose by disqualification and Andre to pull the shocking upset. What?
You mean when Andre used a chair the second he too was disqualified causing a double disqualification. When does that ever happen in pro wrestling? A strange ending to a disappointing rematch. However it did have a shocking result, Hulk Hogan would not win the title for the first time in over four years.
I just wish we had a better way to get to that point.
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