WWE Senior Vice President Bruce Prichard recently took to his “Something To Wrestle With” podcast and talked about a variety of topics such as how the blockbuster matchup between WWE Hall of Famers Shawn Michaels and Ric Flair at WrestleMania 24 nearly headlined, but the WWE ultimately decided against it as they didn’t want to end the show with a bummer and have the fans go home on a sad note.

Bruce Prichard said:

“It was (talks of Shawn Michaels & Ric Flair main eventing WrestleMania 24) but it was also the realization of, also kind of a bummer. So you don’t wanna leave people with a bummer. I think if you would have left it to the end, the expectations would have been so high that Ric was going to win and continue on that by doing that finish, that really would have left people on — not the right kind of bummer, that wouldn’t have been heat. It’s a good story. This was a great story with Ric and it needed to be ended earlier.”

You can check out Bruce Prichard’s full comments at this link. H/T to PostWrestling for transcribing the above quotes.