The Wrestlemania Thread - 'It's Real Damn It!'

[Susan Foreman]

Originally Posted by MrBarlow

The Hart Foundation beating The Bolsheviks at Wrestlemania VI shortest tag team match at 19 seconds

The Rock vs Erik Rowan at Wrestlemania 32, 6 Seconds.

[MrBarlow]

First ever Women's Survivor Series match from 1987.

[Susan Foreman]

Highlights from the 2020 / 2021 Hall Of Fame ceremonies

[Susan Foreman]

Motorhead live, playing the intro music for HHH at WrestleMania X-Seven (2001)...

...and again at Wrestlemania 21 (2005)

Meanwhile, 'Hurricane' Nita Strauss plays Shinsuke Nakamura to the ring at WrestleMania 35 (2019)

[Susan Foreman]

Here is some trivia for ya!

What is the only WrestleMania main event to feature two wrestlers using their real names? The answer, of course, is Brock Lesnar vs. Kurt Angle at WrestleMania XIX (2003) - a match which became famous for Brock's botched shooting star press, where he misjudged the distance to Kurt and fell short, landing directly on his head and nearly breaking his neck!

Getting back to the original question I posed, the only times we have come close to seeing this being replicated is the WrestleMania XXVII (2011) match between John Cena and The Miz (whose real surname is Mizanin) and the triple threat main event at WrestleMania XXX (2014) between Daniel Bryan, (whose real name is Bryan Danielson), Batista (Whose real name is Dave Bautista) and Randy Orton

[MrBarlow]

One of the other bad botches was between Owen Hart and Steve Austin at SummerSlam 1997

[MrBarlow]

Wrestlers in Horror Movies.

[MrBarlow]

At Wrestlemania 13 Legion of Doom teamed with Ahmed Johnson to take on The Nation of Domination in a Chicago Street Fight, L.O.D and Ahmed did bring the kitchen sink with them.

[Susan Foreman]

Hurricane Nita plays the American National Anthem at the WWE NXT TakeOver: Stand & Deliver PPV on April 7, 2021

I wonder when we will see her and Alice Cooper getting inducted into the WWE Hall Of Fame!

[Susan Foreman]

WrestleMania 37, which was held over 2 nights on April 10th and 11th, got off to a bad start when bad weather almost resulted in the first night being cancelled with torrential thunderstorms and heavy winds knocking down chairs...

and damaging the sails of the pirate ship set.

The parking lots were closed because of the weather, and the Raymond James Stadium issued a warning instructing members of the audience already at the venue to seek cover

I've heard reports of there being a delay of between 30 minutes and 2 1/2 hours before the show was able to start, but there was still a lot of surface water on the ground, leading to a number of wrestlers slipping

Luckily, things were much better for the second night

Day 1 results

SPOILER:

• Bobby Lashley (with MVP) defeated Drew McIntyre by technical submission in a singles match for the WWE Championship
• Natalya and Tamina won by last eliminating The Riott Squad (Liv Morgan and Ruby Riott) in a Tag Team Turmoil match where the winners advanced to the WWE Women's Tag Team Championship match on Night 2 [other teams involved were Lana and Naomi, Billie Kay and Carmella, Dana Brooke and Mandy Rose]
• Cesaro defeated Seth Rollins in a singles match
• A.J. Styles and Omos defeated The New Day (Kofi Kingston and Xavier Woods) in a Tag team match for the WWE Raw Tag Team Championship
• Braun Strowman defeated Shane McMahon in a Steel cage match
• Bad Bunny and Damian Priest defeated The Miz and John Morrison in a Tag team match
• Bianca Belair defeated Sasha Banks in a Singles match for the WWE SmackDown Women's Championship

Day 2 Results

SPOILER:

• Randy Orton defeated The Fiend (with Alexa Bliss) in a singles match
• Nia Jax and Shayna Baszler defeated Natalya and Tamina by technical submission in a Tag Team match for the WWE Women's Tag Team Championship
• Kevin Owens defeated Sami Zayn (with Logan Paul) in a singles match
• Sheamus defeated Riddle in a singles match for the WWE United States Championship
• Apollo Crews defeated Big E in a Nigerian Drum Fight for the WWE Intercontinental Championship [This was a No Holds Barred match but with African drums surrounding the ring that could be used as weapons]
• Rhea Ripley defeated Asuka in a singles match for the WWE Raw Women's Championship
• Roman Reigns (with Jey Uso and Paul Heyman) defeated Edge and Daniel Bryan in a Triple Threat match for the WWE Universal Championship

The next sceduled PPV was originally announced as being 'Money In The Bank', but this seems to have changed to 'Backlash', which is due to be held on May 16. Unlike WrestleMania, it seems that this one is going to be held 'behind locked doors' again, presumably without a live audience