Perhaps the best Rumble ever centered around Flair becoming champ. My ? though now is who would have won the Rumble had Flair not been there? Also would the belt be on the line in the Rumble if Flair wasn't there?
My thinking is Hogan would have been champ and one of Sid or Randy Savage would have won the Rumble.
I'd imagine Sid fits into the equation somehow, likely as the guy coming out of Wrestlemania 8 as champion.
To get there, maybe have him win the title at the Rumble by eliminating Hogan and win via DQ in the rematch.
The title still ends up vacant after Tuesday in Texas, as I view all of that as a way of getting the title off Hogan without having him lose clean. Instead of the Flair involvement, something involving the urn is the finish to both matches
I read in "The Death of WCW" that WCW had legal issues over Ric Flair parading their belt around on WWF television, and when he changed it to tag belt that got censored, there were still issues, so putting the WWF belt on Flair was a way of solving this.
It's possible the WWF title wouldn't have been vacant and they still would've waited a year to add the "winner gets a WrestleMania title shot" stipulation. That being said, the winner would've been Hogan for the third year in a row or Sid.
The 1992 Royal Rumble is by far my favorite. Ric Flair stole the show. In the words of Micahel Cole "Vintage Flair!!!!!" Plus the commentary with Heenan and Monsoon was excellent like always.
If Flair wasn't there, my money would go on Sid winning the title. He was extremely over before they turned him heel.
As others have said, I think Sid would have gotten the win. He was so over at the time, definitely had the qualities Vince wanted at that time to be a top guy.
Though, how would the main event have gone? Sid / Hogan / Savage are all faces. Unless they had planned on Sid turning heel long term to face Hogan.
I think it's open of the best WWF shows of all time, even the Piper-Mountie match was fantastic and I was really pulling for Piper to win that match as well. That being said, besides this show and WrestleMania 8, I was never a fan of his but during that era he was on absolute fire.
My memories of Royal Rumble 1992 are based on what I saw as Hogan's heel turn. The guy totally acted like a spoiled little bitch when Sid tossed him out of the ring: he grabbed Sid's hand and dragged him out! Total heel turn! Sid didn't do anything wrong in eliminating Hogan. It was really shocking to me at the time and I really thought that Hogan had turned heel. It was weird booking.
Never got to see this Rumble, I'll try find it on youtube or wherever but from what I've seen in past threads of this match it really showed a 'shock' side to Hogan after his elimination where seems he had the attitude that if he was out he was going to make sure Sid was also; probably was booking but was it really out of character for Hogan?
Flair was on fire this match, how many people do you see lasting over an hour attacking just about everyone face or heel that enters the rumble? I think he even tried to chop at Undertaker a few times to no effect :lmao
Sid Justice was being pushed huge, so he would seem to be a logical replacement. Loved that Rumble and was legit shocked that Flair won it. I never thought Vince would allow him to do so, in order to verify, in his mind, that WCW was a lesser organization.
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