Wrestlemania IX

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Wrestlemania 9 was the ninth Wrestlemania event produced by World Wrestling Federation which took place on 25th April 1993

## Background

The main match heading into the show is WWF Champion Ric Flair defending against Lex Luger in the opening match and the winner of that defending against Bret Hart in the main event. Ric Flair, Lex Luger, Shawn Michaels and Bret Hart formed Four Horsemen a year ago at Wrestlemania 8, they were the main stable of Smackdown dominating with Flair becoming World Heaviweight champion and Shawn Michaels winning the Money in the Bank briefcase. Ric Flair won the G1 and decided to face RAW's WWF Champion Hulk Hogan, at Survivor Series Flair defeated Hogan to win the WWF Championship and Four Horsemen were all traded to RAW. Cracks began to show at RAW 58 as 3 local talent defeated Bret, Shawn and Luger in a 6 men tag match and after the match Shawn teased a sweet chin music on Bret but Bret noticed and argued with him. Since then, these 2 men have argued and almost beat each other up with Ric Flair proclaiming that they're fine. Bret Hart and Lex Luger co-won the Royal Rumble, they had a match the following RAW where the winner would be in the main event which Bret won, Shawn Michaels has teased that he's not afraid to cash in on whoever he wants

At Summerslam 1992, Randy Savage buried The Undertaker alive and won a match against him. Savage kept gloating that he was the man who killed The Undertaker, at RAW 54 during Savage vs Perfect a vignette started saying that "no one who's dead ever truly dies" and Taker's gong hit, this distracted Savage to the point where he was defeated. The mind games continued as the titantron showed stuff like Undertaker's hand reaching out of the grave. At In Your House 5, Savage defeated Tatanka to win the World Heaviweight Championship and after the match druids come out with a casket, Savage opened it and Miss Elizabeth was in there, Savage ran away. Savage says that if Undertaker is truly alive, he challenges him to a match at Wrestlemania in a world title match.

Owen Hart debuted in the WWF Draft and won the European Championship in the first In Your House, since then he has had an amazing year long reign with multiple challengers coming ahead. At G1 Finals, Owen defeated Backlund and wanted to be the one retiring him but Backlund and Razor Ramon beat him up, Koko B.Ware showed up and tried to save Owen but failed. Since then, these 4 men have feuded amongst each others with Ramon constantly turning on Backlund and then being back friends with him and Koko and Owen having respectful matches against each other. Owen decided that he wanted to face all 3 men in a fatal 4 way, on a RAW leading up to mania they had a tag match where Koko injured his leg and he was taken out of the match. Following that, The Kid rolled Razor Ramon up and managed to defeat him which caught Owen's attention as he decided to add the now 123 Kid to the match

Strike Force reunited in middle 1992 to huge crowd support, they won the Survivor Series Tag Team Tournament and tonight they face Steiner Brothers for the tag team titles which could be their first reign since 1988. Rick Martel defeated Scott Steiner in a match leading up to Mania which made Martel choose a ladder match as the stipulation

The Bushwhackers got an upset win against Big Bubba in a handicap match to become tag team champions, right after Men on a Mission defeated them in a tag team match and became NO1 Contenders

In a segment leading up to Wrestlemania 8, Big Boss Man was arresting a man for trespassing when the man put his name for the battle royal at Wrestlemania 8 which would determine the GM of Smackdown. While he didn't win it, Nailz was now signed to WWF and put on the RAW brand but since he was supposed to be in jail, his sentence would now be that he had to be stuck to Big Boss Man all the time, the 2 started working as a dysfunctional team but started growing in their teamwork. At In Your House 2, Demolition threw Nailz through a table and Boss Man stood up for him but got beaten up as well. While at the hospital, Nailz decided to escape and went on the run, Boss Man called this decision idiotic as Nailz only had 3 more weeks left of being stuck to Boss Man but with an escape, his sentence is extended to 1 year, Boss Man finally caught Nailz during a match but Nailz had a preposition for him, a steel cage match and if Nailz wins, he's free from Boss Man but Nailz himself says that is very unlikely so this will just be Boss Man legally being able to beat up Nailz and then arresting him anyways, Boss Man accepted. At Summerslam, Nailz defeated Boss Man and Boss Man was fired from his police job, he had to revert back to his Big Bubba name and became homeless, an altercation happened between him and Nailz on the streets which led to both men getting arrested on the same cage. On it, Nailz revealed to Bubba that he didn't beat him fairly at Summerslam, he took fivestarmeth, it's not illegal as it's not technically a drug, it just makes you wrestle better than your opponent and he knows how to cook it. After this Nailz and Bubba began to regularly team up as they got closer and closer leading to Royal Rumble 1993 where Big Bubba alone defeated Headbangers for them to become tag champions, Nailz wasn't with him because he had passed out due to abuse of fivestarmeth. Nailz went missing and Bubba stopped taking the drug and he lost the tag titles in a handicap match to The Bushwhackers due to this, he finally found Nailz backstage where it was revealed that Nailz had revealed to the cops that some part of fivestarmeth was illegal and in exchange he'd gain 500 000 dollars, Bubba was arrested and Nailz was promoted to a cop. Bubba had one final preposition to Cop Nail, a handcuff match, if Bubba loses he leaves the country never to mess around with drugs again, if Cop Nail loses he loses his police officer job and Cop Nail accepted.

In an episode of RAW after Summerslam, a fatal 4 way was set to determine the NO1 contender to Koko B.Ware's WWF Championship, Mr.Perfect perfectplexed Hogan right onto Owen Hart and posed to the camera as he didn't realize Hogan was pinning Owen because of this as he got the win, Koko decided to add Perfect to the match as he should have won, Hulk Hogan ended up winning the WWF Championship at In Your House 4. Perfect sets his sights on Hogan as he wants to beat what was once the greatest star WWF had to offer. At RAW 53, he turned heel during a 4 vs 4 between Empire vs Hulk Hogan, Perfect, Owen Hart and Roddy Piper as he beat up Hogan. Eventually he would cost Hogan a chance at getting back the WWF championship he lost to Ric Flair and a match was made between them at Royal Rumble where Perfect beat Hogan completely clean. Hogan tried to get a rematch against Perfect but he refused multiple times saying that the job was done, Hogan started costing Perfect matches but even that wouldn't make Perfect accept the rematch. Suddenly Hogan dropped a bomb where he said that if he couldn't defeat Perfect at Wrestlemania, his WWF career would be over, Perfect immediatly heard him and accepted that stipulation promising to everyone that he was gonna end the greatest WWF career ever.

At Survivor Series, Barry Horowitz, Ted Dibiase, IRS, Jeff Jarrett, Jerry Lawler and Virgil tried to end Doink The Clown in a handicap elimination match but Doink completely massacrated all of them, Dibiase and IRS even ran away during the match which ended with Barry Horowitz going missing. At Royal Rumble 1993, Horowitz came back but as a dark version of himself who had now aligned himself with Doink as he eliminated IRS, the duo started taunting IRS and Virgil choking them out whenever they had the chance and tonight they fight in a tag team match

## Results

Other participants: Papa Shango, The Mountie, Earthquake, Typhoon, Mosh, Thrasher, The Berzerker, Adam Bomb, Ludvig Borga, Jeff Jarrett, Brutus Beefcake, Beau Beverly, Blake Beverly, Damien Demento, Duane Gill, Samu, Fatu, Crush, Repo Man, Demolition Axe, Jerry Lawler and King Kong Bundy

## Details

* Lex Luger was pointing to a tron that showed a graphic that it was gonna be Lex Luger vs Bret Hart in the main event of Wrestlemania when Shawn's theme hit, he apologized to Luger who was pissed and cashed in, Luger tried to clothsline him, Shawn ducked and SCM'd him to win the title
* Backstage, Shawn is walking with the title on his shoulders, Bret stops him pissed off, Shawn says that Bret wanted to kick his ass so badly so here he is, Bret says he'll see him in the main event as he taps the belt
* The tag match is basically 5 minutes of just teleportation until the lights go out and IRS falls from the top but no one was there to even make him fall, Doink chokes out IRS and wins
* Undertaker doesn't show up until a minute from his song starting as Savage slowly comes to the realisation that he's fucked
* After the world title match, Sherri kicked Savage and turned on him, Miss Elizabeth showed up from the crowd and got Sherri out of there, Savage and Elizabeth reunite as Savage turns face
* Bobby Heenan and Harley Race are backstage to see who won this year's brand war as RAW won 25-24, Heenan's pissed and Race says this now means he can pick a wrestler from RAW without having to trade him for anyone
* Bubba is pissed after the match breaking the handcuffs with his bare hands and chokeslamming Cop Nail through a table
* Hogan struggles to get to his feet after his match but when he does, he gets a standing ovation and Perfect nods at him before leaving. Hogan does his ear motion one last time
* MoM defeated Bushwhackers in under a minute
* Bret won the title with a sweet chin music
* Shawn shakes Bret's hand after the match, Lex Luger and Ric Flair also come out and they all shake hands and throw the 4HM sign, all 4 men have held the title at least once tonight in a historic moment

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