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WrestleMania III – Front Page Action

By On November 5, 2009 · 2 Comments · In The WrestleMania Project

Event: WrestleMania III
Date: March 29, 1987
Venue: Pontiac Silverdome (Pontiac, Michigan)
Attendance: 93,173

This is the first WrestleMania that I remember a hype for outside of the wrestling world.  In addition to the pre-event hype, I remember vividly seeing on front page of the Cleveland Plain Dealer sports page [...]

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WrestleMania 2 – Let’s Try That Again

By On October 22, 2009 · Leave a Comment · In The WrestleMania Project

Event: WrestleMania 2
Date: April 7, 1986
Venue: The Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, Uniondale, New York, The Rosemont Horizon in Rosemont, Illinois, and The Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena in Los Angeles, California
Attendance: 40,085 (combined)

As you can see above, this is the first (and I believe only) WrestleMania event to [...]

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WrestleMania – The Original Grandaddy

By On October 6, 2009 · Leave a Comment · In The WrestleMania Project

Event: WrestleMania
Date: March 31, 1985
Venue: Madison Square Garden (New York, New York)
Attendance: 19,121

If you’ve never seen this show before and you’re a fan of modern day WWE stuff the first thing you’ll notice is the production value here absolutely blows.  But don’t judge them too harshly.  First off, [...]

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