Al Snow's comment about wrestlemania 3

I see his point, and to an extent he is right. As someone who bought the PPV, and loved Steamboat vs. Savage, almost everyone ordered that PPV for Hogan vs. Andre. The hype was unreal. Sure Savage and Steamboat put on an all-time great match and it is a better wrestling match than the main event. But I get the point he is trying to make.

Snow is 100% correct!

Fans bought the WM 3 PPV to see if Hogan can slam Andre and beat him.

Sure, Savage vs. Steamboat had a good story line too, but fans weren't sure they were gonna see a great match between the two. It ended up happening, thus making it talked about to this day. But fans bought that PPV for Hogan vs. Andre.

Al Snow is right.

Hogan vs. Andre was the biggest blow off in that decade, everybody wanted to see if the 'immovable object' could be slammed. Shame Vince tried to replicate it with Yoko and Lex Luger - the lex express was a total flop, I remember as a kid being so upset after seeing Hogan leave straight-after KOTR 93. Just couldn't see Lex in the same vein.

the issue is that the wwf’s 1980 hulkamania product was focussing on bad aspects of the wrestling business imo. for example, in the nwa at this time you didn’t usually have this argument, because the best match was also 9 times out of 10 the main event - because the focus was on WRESTLING.

so yeah, I guess you could call sable’s tits a better wrestler than 90% of the attitude era roster based on drawing ratings and selling tickets based on al snow’s perspective.

You're saying NOBODY paid to see Steamboat vs Savage? First of all that's insulting to them and secondly I'm sure a lot of people ordered the ppv mainly for their match(I know Lance Storm said he did). But yes I agree most bought mainly for Hogan vs Andre. On a side not Hogan has said in interviews that he and Andre drew the house at Showdown at Shea. That's wrong because most people wanted to see Bruno get his revenge on Larry in the cage.

I'll say it. If it wasn't for Hogan vs Andre 80% of that arena and PPV sales wouldn't have happened. They were the two that everyone wanted to see. Sure Steamboat vs Savage stole the show, but if not for Hogan vs Andre then there would have been alot less people that would have seen it while it happened.

Basically if the Main Event leading up to WMIII was Savage vs Steamboat instead of Hogan vs Andre it wouldn't have come close to reaching the numbers they did.

Al Snow has always been about working the room, putting on the show, and giving the audience what they paid for.

It's not surprising that he thinks Hogan and Andre was the best match on the card. He's not wrong either. The match was the main event, and it did exactly what it was there to do. It drew, it made history, and it gave people a memory.

Transport yourself mentally back to 1987. Don't look at the match through the lens of 31 years later, look at it from there and then.

If you can't do that, then rewatch the end of that match. The crowd goes apecrap when Hogan slams him...and then somehow gets LOUDER after the pin is counted. Nothing can touch that. That's chills.

This 2018 mindset of everything has to be technical perfection forgets the fact that professional wrestling has always been first and foremost...a show. Hogan and Andre delivered like nothing before or since.

By that logic Reigns/HHH at WrestleMania 32 is the greatest WWE match of all time because it drew 101,763 🙄

WrestleMania today is a much different beast than it was back in the early days of WM. They didn’t have a fan fest week/weekend leading up to it...it was just the event. And with the Network they don’t need to care about PPV sales to drive it.