![]() ![]() On the Strip, The Mirage reignited the long-dormant theming trend when it opened in November 1989. Hogan was about to have his first match in a year, and Randy Savage had been relegated to the announcers’ table. In the previous 12 months, household names including the Ultimate Warrior, Ric Flair and Roddy Piper had left the company. The whole thing was a bit of a mess, especially by modern WrestleMania standards.īoth the World Wrestling Federation, as it was known back then, and Las Vegas were going through major transitions in 1993.īusiness was suffering as some of the biggest stars in the WWF were leaving the company faster than new ones could be made. Reminded of some of the famously divisive events of that afternoon, his fellow WWE Hall of Famer Shawn Michaels is more succinct: “Oof.” I’m just like, ‘Wow, that was a real bump in the road that day.’ ” “I don’t really even look back anymore at it. “I was so consumed with my contribution to (the) awfulness,” says Mark Calaway, who had arguably the worst match of his three-decade in-ring career as The Undertaker. Talking about that day, 30 years after the fact, is enough to give The Undertaker chills. Of the nine bouts, only two had clean finishes that didn’t involve some form of cheating - and one of those lasted less than four minutes. ![]() Hulk Hogan left with the top title despite never really being in a match for it. One matchup involved identical evil clowns. Of the six photos on the cover of the book “Wrestlecrap: The Very Worst of Pro Wrestling,” half are from that afternoon, April 4, 1993, at Caesars Palace. Google “worst WrestleMania,” and if the ninth installment of professional wrestling’s biggest show isn’t at the top of the list, it’s a consistent top three. Julius Caesar in Egypt is a true story of double-cross, assassination and intrigue accompanied by lively battles, daring escapes, disastrous fires (the Great Library of Alexandria was largely destroyed in one fracas) and, if not a love story, at least a tale of sex and power as Caesar and Cleopatra's relationship shaped these world-changing events.Hulk Hogan poses in the ring with Brutus "The Barber" Beefcake and Jimmy Hart. The Romans were besieged in Alexandria for seven months before reinforcements could get through to them. Most of his army was still in Greece, leaving him massively outnumbered by the Egyptian forces. He quickly sided with the beguiling Queen Cleopatra (after her famous carpet trick), despite having little more than a bodyguard with him. ![]() Instead, Caesar - as if he did not have enough to do already - plunged gleefully into the world of Egyptian palace politics, riven by dynastic dispute. Caesar pursued Pompey and was presented with his severed head, which the Egyptians hoped would make Caesar leave them in peace. Pompey was comprehensively defeated and fled to the last power in the Mediterranean world that was independent of Rome, Ptolemaic Egypt. In 48 BC the armies of Julius Caesar and Pompey the Great fought a decisive battle at Pharsalus in Greece. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. ![]()
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