Wrestlemania Flashback 2-4

Hello everyone and welcome back to Talk Wrestling World, I hope you are all well. Now, as you know it is now Wrestlemania season on my blog. Witch means from now right up to Wrestlemania thirty one my blog will be taken over by all things Wrestlemania, from top fives, to matches best for the thirty one card leading right up to the predictions on the final week. Today's post is the first in a complete series, Wrestlemania flashback. This will be a regular post going up every week leading up to the final prediction week. What I will be doing is going back to every single Wrestlemania and giving all the facts from that time. I will list every match that was on the card of that year and who won, the venue, how many people where in attendance and other little facts surrounding the Wrestlemania of  that year. There is special post for Mania one witch is why it is not featured in this post and we are starting at two to four. The links to any recent posts will be bellow at the end of the post. Finally, you can let me know what you would like to see in Wrestlemania season by leaving a comment bellow or by tweeting me at @TezangiVictoria.


Wrestlemania 2 
Date: April 2 1986
Venue: Nassau Coliseum, Rosemont Horizon,  Sports Arena, Uniodale, NY- Rosemont IL- Los Angeles CA
Attendance: 40,058

Matches:
WWE/NFL Battle Royal - Andrea the Giant won

Intercontinental Championship - Randy Savage defeated George Steele

Women's Championship match- Fabulous Moolah defeated Velvet McIntyre

Flag Match- Corporal Kirchner defeated Nikolai Volkoff

World Tag Team Championship- British Bulldogs defeated The Dream Team

Other matches:
Paul Orndorff VS Don Muraco went to a double count out

Ricky Steamboat defeated Hercules

Terry and Hoss Funk defeated Tito Santana and Junkyard Dog

Jake Roberts defeated George Wells

Adrian Adonis defeated Uncle Elmer

Boxing Match: Mr T defeated Roddy Piper by DQ

Steel Cage Match for the WWE Championship: Hulk Hogan defeated King Kong Bundy

In 1986, after the great success of Wrestlemania one the previous year, the WWE made the bold and risky decision to hold Wrestlemania two in three separate cities with each location holding its own set of matches. The New York show highlighted by a boxing match between Mr T and Roddy Piper; Chicago gave us a 20 man battle Royal featuring WWE superstars and NFL players; Finally, Los Angeles had the main event of Hulk Hogan VS King Kong Bundy in a steel cage match.

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Wrestlemania 3

Date: March 29, 1987
Venue: Pontiac Silverdome- Pontiac MI
Attendance: 93,173

Matches:

WWE Championship - Hulk Hogan defeated Andre the Giant

Intercontinental Championship - Ricky Steamboat defeated Randy Savage

King Harley Race defeated Junkyard Dog

Hair Match - Roddy Piper defeated Adrian Adonis

Other Matches:

Billy Jack Haynes VS Hercules went to a double count out

Hillbilly Jim, Little Beaver and The Haiti Kid defeated King Kong Bundy, Lord Littlebrook and Little Tokyo by DQ

Nikolai Volkoff and Iron Sheik defeated Killer Bees by DQ

Can-Am Connection defeated Bob Orton and Don Muraco

The Dream Team defeated The Rougeau Brothers

Hart Foundation and Danny Davis defeated British Bulldogs and Tito Santana

Honky Tonk Man defeated Jake Roberts


In 1987 a record number of fans attended what was now a premier live event in all of sports entertainment. The main even would go on to make history as Hulk Hogan was set to take on the great, Andre the giant however by the end of the night everyone was more so talking about the Ricky Steamboat/ Randy Savage match up witch has gone down in history to be one of the greatest contests in sports entertainment history.

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Wrestlemania 4 

Date: March 27, 1988
Venue: Trump Plaza- Atlantic City, NJ
Attendance: 19,199

Matches

WWE Championship Tournament, Round 1

Ted DiBiase defeated Jim Duggan

Don Muraco defeated Dino Bravo by DQ

Greg Valentine defeated Ricky Steamboat

Randy Savage defeated Butch Reed

One Man Gang defeated Bam Bam Bigelow by count-out

Rick Rude VS Jack Roberts went to a draw


WWE Championship Tournament, Round 2

Hulk Hogan VS Andrea The Giant ended in a double DQ

Ted DiBiase defeated Don Muraco

Randy Savage defeated Greg Valentine


WWE Championship Tournament, Round 3 

Randy Savage defeated One Man Gang by DQ


WWE Championship Tournament, Finals

Randy Savage defeated Ted DiBiase


World Tag Team Championship:

Demolition defeated Strike Force


Battle Royal:
Bad News Brown Won


Intercontinental Championship:
Brutus Beefcake defeated Honky Tonk Man by DQ


Other Matches: 

Ultimate Warrior defeated Hercules

The Islanders and Booby Heenan defeated The British Bulldogs and Koko B. Ware

It may have seemed like an impossible take attempting to top Wrestlemania three after it's amazing
performance, however the WWE went event stronger with Mania four, despite being in a smaller arena. Fist, ticket priced topped at $150 (witch is around $295 in today's money) witch aided in surprising the prior years live gate. They also got a then record 600,000 pay per view buys.


Source: WWE 50
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