Old News: Indy's WrestleMania moment and the scandal that followed

• The match card featured Bret "The Hitman" Hart beating "Rowdy" Roddy Piper to win the Intercontinental Championship.
• Randy "Macho Man" Savage took down Ric Flair to become the new WWF Champion.
• The show closed with a special non-title match between Hogan and the late Sycho Sid, who was performing under the name Sid Justice at the time.

The intrigue: The original plan was for Flair to defend his title against Hogan as the top bout on the card, making Indianapolis the site of the most anticipated match imaginable at the time.

• But sometime between the 1992 Royal Rumble and Mania at the Hoosier Dome, WWF chairman Vince McMahon changed his mind because he thought Flair was too small to fight Hogan in the main event.

Between the lines: Another element that changed Indy's WrestleMania plans was a looming WWF steroid scandal that would play out on mainstream news airwaves in the years to come, culminating in a 1994 trial.

• Indianapolis' WrestleMania VIII main event was billed as Hogan's last match. But in reality, the Hulkster — who long denied ever taking steroids — would go on hiatus and lay low for about a year.
• He came back to the ring in 1993 after his attempts to make it big in Hollywood fell flat, and eventually admitted to taking steroids during the 1994 trial.