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[1998-01-26-WWF-Raw] Don King announcement


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The hammer drops from King that Nevada has barred Tyson from fighting so he can't fight at Mania. However, he is confident that him and Vince can come up with a creative situation for Mike to appear in at Mania. King gives the people the hard sell to order the PPV.

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Standard wrestling practise would've been to let on that there might be a Tyson/Austin match for the next month or so. They only teased for a week here. Don King then shills Wrestlemania with even more gusto than Scheme Gene shilling his beloved Hotline.

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This is such an organic build and the perfect way to use Tyson to create interest in the WWF. I like that everyone knows there will be no Austin-Tyson, but that something is clearly going to happen. It's just a matter of what. Don King is great at selling us on Wrestlemania.

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King is a natural fit for wrestling--too bad he was a big enough scumbag to make your average wrestling promoter look like a choirboy. Don reveals that the Nevada State Athletic Commission has ruled that Tyson's suspension applies to wrestling as well...which actually was not true, as the head of the Commission was a wrestling fan who didn't see this as any different from Tyson appearing on any other TV show. But it works for storyline purposes. There will be an Austin-Tyson confrontation, it just may or may not be in the capacity of a match.

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