Also, please try and answer this:
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2007-07-05 04:18:58 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sports ➔ Wrestling
Compared to Savage vs. Steamboat it is a total snooze. Just a note, Savage and Steamboat were told TO TONE DOWN THEIR MATCH so they wouldn't upstage Andre and Hogan too much. Their matches the months before WM3 at house shows were hour long Epics.
2007-07-05 04:33:11 · answer #1 · answered by Joe J 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
well I can't add much here, I believe Patrick O already gave you the answer he got my thumbs up..
It was all about the storyline and the entreinment value (not the wrestling part) .
Andre was not in good health at this time, and you could tell that during the entire match. But anyways he gave it a great effort. The Hulkster knew how to work the crowd and say what you want making a bodyslam to Andre the giant (wether it was arranged) was simply amazing. Hogans knees never been the same after that match. This is the match that made Andre the giant an icon, and this is the match that took Hulkamania to a next level. And without those elements WWE wouldn't be as it is today. Boring match?? Yes, if you compare old-school wrestling with actual wrestling maybe. (I don''t agree but I can understand that some people think that way, it was slower) Overrated match? Hell no!!!
2007-07-05 05:06:51 · answer #2 · answered by BTII 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
This question illustrates the severe problem with where wrestling has gone in the last 10-15 years. It used to be that guys could go out and actually wrestle one another and entertain the audience. Now, unless a guy is jumping from one end of the ring to the other, tossing someone through a table, throwing themselves off of a 20 foot cage, or some other high-risk daredevil stunt, no one cares.
Hogan v. Andre was the event that set the standard for a very long time. It was honestly the first time in the Wrestlemania Era that you didn't know who was going to win the match going into it. Yes, it was slower paced and no, it wasn't flashy or high flying. But these were two of the biggest names in wrestling at the time. They played a super program to build the match and they delivered with a WRESTLING classic. Yes, Steamboat and Savage stole the show by delivering the best match of the event - but Hogan/Andre is what put the butts in the seats. You young kids need to go back and watch some old wrestling footage. Flair and the Horsemen (the original 4), Andre the Giant, Dusty Rhodes, Harley Race. It was guys in that era that set the standard and created a form of entertainment that has been degraded into the crap that WWE puts on TV several times a week now.
2007-07-05 06:37:38 · answer #3 · answered by kitchens68 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I have to disagree.
I understand where you are coming from if you are comparing Andre/Hogan to today's high-impact, bumpfest style of wrestling. Especially if you are basing your comparison on the match alone. I don't rate the match based on match quality alone, but the story that's being told as well.
Hogan was an unbeatable champion who had reigned supreme since winning the belt from the Iron Sheik in 1984.
Andre had compiled an astounding 15 year long unbeaten streak. Let me say it again: 15. YEAR. UNBEATEN. STREAK.
You can't write stories like that anymore because they just don't exist. It was genuinely a once in a lifetime match.
I guess you just had to be there. I may be biased since this match was the one that got me into wrestling in the first place and I feel the need to defend it, but still there can be no doubt that had that match been any different, wrestling would not be what it is today.
Enjoy your star for a thought provoking question, though. :)
2007-07-05 04:53:21 · answer #4 · answered by Patrick O 4 · 7⤊ 0⤋
Yes it was a little overrated but you have to remember a few things. Hogan was not even sure if Andre would let Hogan slam him. It was like passing the torch and letting Hogan have the spot light. It was also in a time when there was not much high flying, high impact moves. I try not to compare matches form then to now.
2007-07-05 04:24:46 · answer #5 · answered by clw7834 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋
i might say Shawn Michaels vs the super Khali (After he have been given an excellent push) you have between the ultimate superstars contained accessible right now, a bonafide legend, vs the actual greatest athlete interior the WWE. i know the super Khali isn't the ultimate wrestler to visual show unit, yet i think of that if the WWE pushed him and gave him some extra technical strikes particularly of in simple terms reducing and slapping his warring parties, and gave him an excellent push, made him the international Heavyweight Champion, and placed him against Shawn Michaels at Wrestlemania, we could genuinely have a well-known-day Andre vs Hulk. i think of that would make for a reliable adventure. Like I suggested, they only ought to revamp Khali's battling type and supply him extra technical wrestling.
2016-10-19 21:56:26 · answer #6 · answered by rajkumar 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah its slow but what do you expect from an Andre the Giant match? The Slam is over rated considering Andre Basically jumps half the way up.
2007-07-05 04:25:27 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
its a lil overrated because of the hype going in and the bodyslam heard round the world.
2007-07-05 04:42:14 · answer #8 · answered by jackevans630 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I agree with you totally. 2 big slow people that did not know a wristlock from a wristwatch
2007-07-05 04:39:26 · answer #9 · answered by UPGRAYEDD 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋
i resent that that was quite a preatty penny
2007-07-05 05:09:39 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋