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Taken from the book "Wrestlecrap" by RD Reynolds and Randy Baer. Pg 139
Hogan left the WWF amid amid a good deal of controversy in the summer of 1993. He had resurfaced after almost a year, at Wrestlemania IX, muscling his way into the main-event scene and recapturing the WWF world title. This in and of itself wouldn't have been so unusual, save for the fact that Hogan wasn't even in the main event!
The scheduled main event was to see youthful champion Bret Hart tangle with the 500-pound Yokozuna, a match Hart was to win Hogan, howvwe, had other plans. Throwing a hissy fit behind the scenes, Hogan was able to convince Vince McMahon that he, not Hart, should be the world champion. Hart therefore was booked to lose the title, after which Hogan would run down to the ring and "rescue" Hart. Yoko issued an immediate challenge to Hogan, who pinned the monster in under a minute, thus making Bret and Yokozuna look like total losers.
Vince McMahon had a method to his madness. He would allow Hogan to prance around one last time with the belt, provided that Hogan would see that Hart was the champion for a new era, and Hogan could ride off into the sunset. Hogan agreed to this before Wrestlemania, and, much to the chagrin of the majority of fnas, he won the belt. As soon as the belt was in his grasp, Hogan reneged on his promise, and took two months off from defending the belt. McMahon, incensed, had Yokozuna crush Hogan in thier rematch to win back the belt.
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