>>7286908Wrestlemania V's main event was the clash between the biggest superstars the world of professional wrestling had ever known and ever will know. It was the feud of the century that embodies the larger than life world of sports entertainment. Everyone had to see it.
The thing is, though, that Hulk Hogan was ostensibly the good guy. But throughout the buildup to the match, Randy Savage proved to the audience that not only did he have a point, but he was in the right; anyone over the age of 12 would have felt that Randy Savage deserved to win.
But he didn't. He was slated to lose to Hulk Hogan---again. Everything claimed to be bad about Hogan was proven and ignored in that outcome; the bottom-line is, evil triumphed, and the WWF was going to treat it as the proper conclusion. Hulk Hogan was going to no-sell Randy Savage the same as he did everyone else, and leave him with no title, no Elizabeth, no justice, and no dignity. It was the worst conclusion that could have possibly been given.
And it was over. The only equal footing rivalry on the scale of something like Goku v. Vegeta, Yugi v. Kaiba, that pro wrestling would have until 20 years later with Randy Orton and John Cena (also, uncoincidentally, botched and horribly executed) where the "villain" was right in that moment of time, utterly wasted.
There's no coming back from that. The story was ruined. Had Randy Savage won, they could have continued to build on that story and draw even more dimes. Hogan could have had a moment of truth in defeat that showed him the error of his ways and Randy Savage could have gotten his revenge for Hogan's slights against him. But the selfishness of Hogan and the short-sightedness of Vince ruined it all. This was the moment that killed Randy Savage's career and ended Hogan's reign as the protagonist of wrestling.
To make a long story short, the WWF blew the most important storyline it ever had involving its biggest stars, destroying the audience's good will forever.
