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Why didn't they just have Luger and Bret go at it again?

posted 16 years ago by AlphaMale87
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One of my favorite Royal Rumble matches, but the ending to the match was really unnecessary. After Luger and Bret both go over, the referees spend five minutes arguing with each other about who won, with Bret and Luger losing their patience as to what was going on. Why didn't they just have the two guys get back in the ring and try to eliminate the other again since they couldn't determine a winner? The same situation happened in the 2005 Royal Rumble with Batista and John Cena, but in that one, they easily made them do it again. This is the only Rumble match to ever have co-winners. Why did they make the 1994 Royal Rumble out to be so controversial instead of simply putting the two guys back in the ring?

[–] andycool24 16 years ago

Ask Vince.

Who really knows though.....

I don't know why they even thought of Luger being a rumble champion, Bret Hart I can understand, and he should be a 2-time winner. But 1994 was a pretty bad year I guess.

[–] Bobbydoomocculta 14 years ago

they used only having so much tv time as an excuse, nice cliffhanger to bump ratings for Raw the next night... the fact that you go to the trouble to start this thread shows that people would've went to the trouble of tuning in to the next episode of RAW to find out what was happening...

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[–] BobSetch 13 years ago

Unlike the 2005 RR the plan was for the last two partisiapnts to go over the top rope at the same time and be Co winners. That's why they didn't let them go again.

Vince Russo (under his pen name Vic Venom) made a public pridiction stating his choice to win the Rumble was Bret Hart. The origanl plan was to has Hart win but after Russo gave away the result Vince McMahan went with the double winner ending.

Blame Russo.

[–] glemay25 11 years ago

I think the biggest reason is that both Luger and Bret both had unresolved issues with Yoko. Mr. Fugi's interferance caused Bret the belt and Lex had a countout victory but Jim Cornette put a no-rematch clause. I think fans at the time were split on wether which face they wanted to dethrone Yoko. I also think
Vince was testing the waters on making double title matches at Wrestlemania. Remember the twist at Wrestlemania 9 where after Yoko beat Bret, Fugi wanted
a title defense against Hulk Hogan right then?

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