Hello and welcome to part 1 of 6 of my crib-notes on the 30 years of Wrestlemania. I would like to point out that for most of these paragraph are my own opinion and also mostly text-mainly because wwe has a habit of erasing 2nd and 3rd party videos of their videoes and programming!
but February is going a wrestling drought so I plan to hype up Wrestlemania as much as I can.
BESTLEMANIA! 1: THE SHOWCASE OF THE IMMORTALS IS BORN!
Once upon a time, Vince McMahon was a visionary, and in his grand vision was a world-wide event but the problem was the new medium of Cable television, Vince McMahon had BETTED HIS ENTIRE CAREER INTO HIS DREAM, And it paid off! Overnight Madison square garden became a mecca for wrestling fans, and the shows in New York are considered to be the point where a wrestler "makes it"
WORSTLEMANIA 1: TITO SANTANA VS THE EXECUTIONER AND KING KONG BUNDY VS SD JONES!: ALL LEGENDS MUST START SOMEWHERE!
Seriously who books a squash on their marquee event? *coughDIXIECARTER!cough*
BESTLEMANIA 2: THE TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP: BRITISH BULLDOGS, BRUTUS BEEFCAKE,A BRUISER AND A BAT-EATER!
Okay WMII Sucked but at least their was some good matches! the tag team championship was a hoot, as Greg Valentine and Hogan's Man-Bitch, Brutus Beefcake dropped the belts to the British bulldogs in the best match of the night! the real talking point was in the Brit corner was none other than Black Sabbath front-Man Ozzy Osbourne, who has appeared many times since!
WORSTLEMANIA: CELEBRITY SATURATION-WILL VINCE EVER LEARN?
There was celebrity involvement in the 1st but it was subdued in comparsion, I don't who that Susanne woman who kept saying uh-oh on commentary and I could care less 28 years later!
BESTLEMANIA 3: THE SLAM HEARD ALL OVER THE WORLD!
In 87, Bobby Heenan was untouchable! whilst in the past he was all talk, he could now back it up, with the acquisition of a shocking heel turn, Andre the Giant, the tete-a-tete on Piper's Pit is legendardy television as the 8th Wonder of the world tore off Hogan's shirt and cruxifix, causing Hogan to bleed from the scratch from it, this lead to this Moment in time that will live on forever...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H_RbnnX-II
WORSTLEMANIA 3- SHIEK/VOLKOFF VS KILLER BEES-BREAK HIS BACK AND FAHK HIS ASS!
The long feud has started here but it really started and came out years later when Shiek was accused by Brian Blair as a Peado (completely untrue and Blair himself was convicted of attacking his own son!)
BESTLEMANIA 4
HULK WHO? ANDRE THE WHAT?
The next year the wwe championship was in abeyance, and a tournament was made for mania, for the 1st and only time in it's history. after the above match last year it seemed like a lock that either will win. Until a double countout changed all that! the final was 2 of the all-time greats but both overlooked in their generation, Randy Savage vs Ted DiBiasie. The 2 had a match for the ages but in the end Savage won, and held the title until the next Wrestlemania
WORSTLEMANIA 4
EVERYONE DOESN'T LIKE BOB!
Bob Ueker, the statistically worst baseball ever, turned play-by-play, is only here because at the time, no-one in Europe had Baseball matches blasted onto tv because no-one wanted them! Was I the only 1 to Wish that Andre choked him harder this time?
BESTLEMANIA 5
The Mega Powers explode!
Savage got to the top, but when he did, his paranoid nature that was evident backstage and got him in trouble later in wcw, started to bug him-firstly accussing His wife of letting Hogan doing his 5 Moves of Doom on her! However they put Savage's real-life Paranoia, Elizabeth's Real Life Sluttiness, and Hogan's Real Life-WELL THE FACT THAT HE'S HACK HOGAN!-Aside a put on a decent match!
WORSTLEMANIA 5
RED ROOSTER VS BROOKLYN BRAWLER FOR 31 SECONDS
NUFF SAID!
Join me next Friday as we enter the 90's- we see the birth of the Streak, The worst mania EVER, And the 1sr ever ladder match!
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