The greatest Wrestlemania drop off of all time; in 1992 Savage won the WWF Championship against future Hall of Famer Ric Flair. In 1993, he was on the fucking commentary table. For shame!
I recently downloaded every episode of Monday Night Raw from 1993 and have been marvelling at some of the poor booking decisions they made during that year. With the roster they had at the time, Wrestlemania IX had an inexcusably crummy card. Hulk Hogan was booked in a tag team title match? Savage was relegated to commentating? Bret Hart and The Undertaker were both facing people who had been in the company less than six months? Talented guys like Owen Hart, Bam Bam Bigelow and Rick Martel were left off the card altogether. Such a waste of great talent. WWF must've had some real retards writing for them at the time.
In the WWF Championship match, they had a lot of guys to choose from who were better, more over and more credible than Yokozuna. Hulk Hogan had just returned, Randy Savage could still have been a legitimate name in the main event scene, The Undertaker was incredibly popular and Mr. Perfect was white hot following his return / face turn and vanquishing of Ric Flair from the WWF. Any of these guys would have been great contenders for the WWF Championship (and we would have got a far better main event match).
Personally, I'd have gone for Mr. Perfect vs Bret Hart for the WWF title, with Hulk Hogan against The Undertaker and Shawn Michaels against Randy Savage for the IC title. Failing that, Bret vs Hogan, Savage vs Undertaker and Mr. Perfect vs Shawn Michaels would have been just as good.
Vince McMahon was in the middle of pushing Yokozuna as a top guy in the company, so that's why he was put in the main event at Wrestlemania 9 (and 10.) Also at the same time Vince was trying to force Randy Savage into retirement as he was putting the focus on the so called "New Generation" of guys like Bret, Yoko, Razor, HBK etc.
I always surprised that we never got a New Generation vs Old Generation type deal in 1993/94; the New Generation guys like Bret Hart, Shawn Michaels and Razor Ramon would have benefited massively from feuds with Hulk Hogan, Randy Savage, Ted DiBiase, Warrior, Roddy Piper etc. Summerslam 1993 could have been an old vs new style event.