Former WWE Tag Staff Champion Brian Knobbs make clear the sudden flip of occasions that led to the Nasty Boys being taken off the WrestleMania IX card. In an interview with Wrestling Shoot Interviews, Knobbs detailed the circumstances that resulted of their exclusion from the extremely anticipated occasion.
Brian Knobbs revealed that he and his tag group associate, Jerry Sags, had been initially scheduled to function on the WrestleMania IX card. The plan was for the Nasty Boys to problem WWE Tag Staff Champions Ted DiBiase and IRS on the prestigious occasion with the expectation of reclaiming the coveted tag group titles.
We had been speculated to get the belts again at WrestleMania 9 however that’s when Brutus Beefcake got here again after his face deal and he was sort of whining to Hulk Hogan that he wanted cash so Hulk introduced them again as a tag group. So instantly in a single month, we had been kinda pissed as a result of we received knocked off the entire present, we weren’t even on WrestleMania IX.
The Nasty Boys, who had transitioned into fan favourites in October 1992, discovered themselves on the centre of a sudden flip of occasions. After their supervisor, Jimmy Hart, aligned with Ted DiBiase and IRS’s Cash Inc. tag group, the Nasty Boys had been working intently with them on home reveals. Nonetheless, Hogan and Beefcake’s return in February 1993 led to an entire shift in plans, finally ensuing within the Nasty Boys being omitted from WrestleMania IX.
We had been gonna beat them (Cash Inc.) clear as a result of they had been the heels on the time. We had been gonna be getting again at Jimmy Hart trigger he kinda screwed us to go along with them and in order that was the angle. We did that for nearly 6 or 7 months, after which growth in a single month we had been all executed. I had my household and everybody coming down and I wasn’t even on the present.
Expressing his frustration, Brian Knobbs acknowledged making regrettable feedback throughout a interval of inebriation, which can have contributed to the Nasty Boys’ departure from WWE.
I used to be mad as hell and getting drunk and saying some issues I in all probability shouldn’t have mentioned. However that’s the way in which politics go, it’s what it’s, water below the bridge now.
Subsequently, simply weeks after WrestleMania IX, the Nasty Boys confronted a suspension from WWE and finally discovered themselves in WCW by the summer time of 1993. In hindsight, Knobbs expressed resignation concerning the state of affairs, acknowledging the affect of backstage politics and accepting the occasions as water below the bridge.
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