Sid Vicious was one of the first to be approached, and he recruited Michael Lombardi, promoter of Northeast Wrestling in New York, to act as booker. Recruitment of wrestlers began in May 1999. Stone intended to run three more pay-per-views, run on a quarterly basis, if an initial target of 40,000 buys was reached.
He expressed his surprise that the World Wrestling Federation had not already put on such an event. Playing off the resurgence in popularity of pro wrestling at the time, Fosstone Productions president Bill Stone conceived a series of events consisting of wrestling stars from the 1980s and early 1990s fighting one another in a series of 'dream matches'.
Plans for the franchise were abandoned following the event, which suffered from a poor buy rate and several controversies, most notably a disastrous main event featuring an extremely inebriated Jake Roberts who teamed up with Yokozuna in the main event, only to lose to Jim Neidhart and King Kong Bundy in a tag team match. The event was meant to be the first in a series of pay-per-views that would feature popular wrestling stars from the 1980s and early 1990s. Heroes of Wrestling was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event that took place on Octofrom the Casino Magic hotel and casino in Bay St.
