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It's also worth noting that this was back in the day where: 1: Survivor Series was still considered one of the Big 4 PPVs, and therefore required a big main event, heavily promoted ahead of time. Michaels/Hart was the biggest one they had at the time. 2: The idea of bait and switching a PPV main event, barring injury, wasn't in the playbook. As previously mentioned, WWF was just getting back on their financial feet after raising the prices of PPVs, and to advertise Hart/Michaels and then change it for something else could have led to a major backlash and the loss of revenue. Vince knew that a loss of revenue was already going to be in the cards with one of his top draws leaving and the goal was to minimize it as much as possible. 3: Having Austin win wasn't a realistic idea since he was coming back after having his neck broken at Summerslam, with Survivor Series being his first match back. The hope was that Austin would be healed up enough to get his title win at Wrestlemania and have the rocket strapped to his rear end then, but to put him over Bret and run the risk of re-injury wasn't acceptable. 4: With WCW and ECW viable options, dicking over talent was a bad idea since they had somewhere else to go. WCW was still in the lead and the nWo angle hadn't worn out its welcome yet with the build to Sting/Hogan, while ECW had finally gotten onto PPV and were making the jump from regional to national, and Japan was always an option. These days most guys have to jump when told to but back then if you didn't have faith that a promoter would do right by you, there was somewhere else to go work and maintain your lifestyle. These days they'd just change the main and throw in someone else or use their MITB plot device, but back then those options weren't available.
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