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WrestleMania XV (1999)

WrestleMania XV – The Brawl For All Of 35 Seconds

By On June 1, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In The WrestleMania Project

Event: WrestleMania XV
Date: March 28, 1999
Venue: First Union Center (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
Attendance: 20,276

We’re greeted with Boyz II Men doing their version of America The Beautiful.  We then get the outstanding “Old School” promo followed by the “Showcase of the Immortals”.  This stuff absolutely gives me the chills.  I’m a [...]

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WrestleMania XIV – The Attitude Era Begins With Tyson

By On March 7, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In The WrestleMania Project

Event: WrestleMania XIV
Date: March 29, 1998
Venue: Fleet Center (Boston, Massachusetts)
Attendance: 19,028

We’re still in the WWF days… I keep thinking we’re flipping over to WWE pretty soon.  Good intro here that’s just starting to talk about the “Attitude Era”.  Goes into the lineage of the WWF title, introduces Austin, [...]

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WrestleMania 13 – The Match That Made Austin

By On October 26, 2010 · 2 Comments · In The WrestleMania Project

Event: WrestleMania 13
Date: March 23, 1997
Venue: Rosemont Horizon (Rosemont, Illinois)
Attendance: 18,197

Brief introduction package on what we’re going to see this evening. Vince, Jim Ross and Jerry Lawler on the call which is a great announcing lineup. We get right into the first match.

Four-way Tag Team Elimination Match

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Only A Few Matches But A Great Show – WrestleMania XII

By On September 7, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In The WrestleMania Project

Event: WrestleMania XII
Date: March 31, 1996
Venue: Arrowhead Pond (Anaheim, California)
Attendance: 18,853

Still coming to you as the World Wrestling Federation.  Damn if I can’t remember when the switch came.  I could have sworn it was around this time.  We start off with a Bret Hart/Shawn Michaels promo and go [...]

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WrestleMania XI – The Lawrence Taylor Debacle

By On August 25, 2010 · 1 Comment · In The WrestleMania Project

Event: WrestleMania XI
Date: April 2, 1995
Venue: Hartford Civic Center (Hartford, Connecticut)
Attendance: 16,305

The opening montage talks about the special guest stars that will be in attendance at the event including Pamela Anderson, Jenny McCarthy, etc.  Looking like the WWF is starting to REALLY branch out into “sports entertainment” at [...]

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WrestleMania X – Ten Years In The Making

By On July 16, 2010 · 2 Comments · In The WrestleMania Project

Event: WrestleMania X
Date: March 20, 1994
Venue: Madison Square Garden (New York, New York)
Attendance: 18,065

We kick off the show with images from the original WrestleMania.  Little Richard sings America The Beautiful poorly.  Pretty sure he was lip syncing and he looks like a damn wax statue.  Scary dude.  We [...]

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Double Main Event (Kind Of) – WrestleMania VIII

By On June 7, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In The WrestleMania Project

Event: WrestleMania VIII
Date: April 5, 1992
Venue: Hoosier Dome ( Indianapolis, Indiana)
Attendance: 65,167

This show was billed as having a “double main event” which rarely (if ever) works out.  I believe that this is the first Mania event that I watched live on PPV.  We get Gorilla and Bobby [...]

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Finally Something Good From The Birdman

By On March 10, 2010 · 2 Comments · In Professional Wrestling

I’ve often said that one of my least favorite wrestlers of all time is the WWF’s Koko B. Ware.  (The character that is… I actually enjoyed some of his earlier non-Birdman work).  This is a dude that’s in the WWE Hall Of Fame and I can’t for the life of me figure out why.  He [...]

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“Hitman: My Real Life In The Cartoon World Of Wrestling” By Bret Hart

By On June 29, 2009 · 1 Comment · In Book Reviews

He is “The Excellence Of Execution”.  He is “The best there is, the best there was and the best there ever will be”.  He is none other than Bret “The Hitman” Hart.  I have read quite a few wrestling books in my day and I have to say that this one is definitely at the [...]

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Top 10 WrestleMania Matches

By On April 13, 2009 · 2 Comments · In The Tops

WrestleMania 25 is just recently in the books.  It wasn’t great but there were a couple of REALLY good matches.  WrestleMania weekend for me always means going back and reliving some of those great matches from past events.  It’s rare that this list is modified, but thanks to the Dead Man and Mr. [...]

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