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Sean Mooney on Why the 'Mega Powers Exploding' is the Greatest Storyline

Prime Time with Sean Mooney

Prime Time with Sean Mooney

Sports News, Sports, News, Wrestling

4.7796 Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2026

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Sean Mooney explains why the 'Mega Powers Exploding' storyline remains one of the greatest in wrestling history. This segment dives into the complex dynamic between Hulk Hogan, Randy Savage, and Miss Elizabeth, highlighting their unforgettable moments at WrestleMania. It's a must-watch for any fan of classic wwe storytelling.

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0:00.0

And this is again, the even more teasing of Savage and Hogan and Elizabeth, the dynamic between them three, because Savage is kind of like, why are we sell, why are you celebrating with Hogan? Like, what do you, you're in your underwear? Yeah, already. What's, uh, what's going on here? Why don't you come over here and hug me too? Like, there's a lot going on. So they're already teasing this, and you brought up earlier about paper reviews.

0:22.4

There's only a few in the year.

0:24.1

So when you look at each one of these paper reviews with macho man and Hogan side by side,

0:29.1

each one of them has a breadcrumb to the story of the mega power was exploding.

0:34.2

Yeah, to me, that is brilliant in keeping to it. You're talking about

0:39.1

event centers taking four or five days to record multiple towns, multiple cities, advertising

0:44.2

matches. Vince McMahon had a vision and he stuck to it. He didn't go, oh, it's a bumpy road.

0:49.2

Maybe I shouldn't do this anymore. Like, no, he stuck to it. It took a year for a month to go.

0:53.1

So again, it's probably the greatest

0:56.7

storyline that actually had extra pieces allowed to be grown out of it what do you think about

1:02.5

the mega powers exploding as a storyline because you have you know you have austin and rock and

1:06.8

mcmann and stone cold and all these things but i don't think any can touch this one no and and and and Stone Cold and all these things, but I don't think any can touch this one.

1:12.7

No, and also because they had the time to do it.

1:17.1

Yes.

1:17.6

And your analogy there, you said breadcrumbs, that's a great way to look at it, is that you

1:24.0

would, you just keep dropping these breadcrumbs and people were just slapping them up and bringing them along.

1:31.6

And it really was one of those storylines of how they knew they had this payoff way down

1:41.8

the road.

1:42.5

This is where we're going to get to.

1:47.7

And Bruce talks about that being in those meetings back then where, you know, that Vince would lay this out.

1:54.3

I think, you know, Vince was at his best then when he was, you know, really putting this all together and um but they had the time to do it

2:05.9

and even as we would see later and certainly some great storylines you mentioned of the

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