>>19043372I vaguely remember some stuff from around this time, if another anon knows better or can be bothered to Google I'm happy to be correct:
This wasn't really Lawler's show even though it was Memphis. Hogan was testing the waters to see if there was any capacity in America for a new fed he could promote on "Hogan Knows Best", basically what you'd expect - him, Beefcake, Honky Tonk Man, Nasty Boys, whoever else was available. He teamed up with... I forget the guy's name, the black guy who owned Memphis after Lawler, to promote this show. Lawler being pulled was a Vince "fuck you" to Hogan, and it really was something like four days before the event was due to go down. He also pulled any other WWE-signed talent from it (which is why Robert Gibson isn't teaming with Ricky Morton, as Gibson was a WWE agent at the time). I think the legal excuse was that as Hogan was an MTV employee at the time (because of Hogan Knows Best), it was technically a "rival network". Big Show wasn't WWE signed at the time because Randy Savage had convinced him to train as a boxer, as he'd previously done with... either Bryan Clark or Brian Adams, one of Kronik. He's called "Paul Wight" on the show and did an angle saying that "The Big Show" was his "slave name".
