Following Pillmans superbrawl shoot on kevin sullivan
....the announcers didn't know and the production people in the back all flipped out and legitimately went into a panic when a planned 12:00 strap match ended in 59 seconds. Several things were implemented later in the show (such as Lex Luger taking forever to get into the ring during the tag match with the Road Warriors along with the Anderson scenario) to kill time because the show would be running short. Perhaps the work will be so elaborate that Pillman will be fired, as an angle. Either that or he'll simply be fired. Clearly, if after all this, he isn't fired, it has to be a work because this is too many different things in a two week period. But if it is a work, they'd know that and have to fire him anyway to continue the work.
