WWE
high level executive Bruce Prichard recently took
to his podcast, “Something To Wrestle,”
to discuss pro wrestling.
Summary
If
a Hogan vs. Tyson match was ever discussed:
Sure.
I mean, the prospect of actually having Hulk Hogan
vs. the baddest man on the planet, Mike Tyson, without
a doubt is always going to be discussed. I don’t
care who’s in what place, you always talk about
who’s the best and who would win in wrestler
vs. boxer. And there probably were not two bigger
stars in the galaxy than Hulk Hogan and Mike Tyson
at the time.
So
yeah, it was discussed. However, dealing with Don
King who was Mike’s promoter and manager at the
time, that can always be a little tricky and walking
through landmines as well. But Mike always loved the
business. Mike grew up watching wrestling, and he
absolutely loved the business and had a lot of respect
for it. So there was always — I think that there
was always potential there to do something with Mike.
Why
they opted not to do a match between the two:
But
the reality of ever getting to that? What the hell
do you do with it. You can’t beat Tyson, you
can’t beat Hulk. And it was not a situation where
both guys could look good. Using Mike’s name
and having Mike be a big part of something we were
doing, yeah. F**k yeah. And the biggest match on PPV,
the biggest draw on PPV up to this point was Randy
Savage vs. Hulk Hogan from WrestleMania V.
The
return in primetime on NBC for The Main Event to air
live on a Friday night, to add Mike Tyson’s name
into that? Come on, you’ve got the three biggest
names at that time on PPV in one match. That was huge,
and that was Vince’s goal all along, was to get
Mike involved somehow. And I don’t think Mike
was even available for WrestleMania at the time.
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