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Bait And Switch Main Event – WrestleMania IX

By On June 30, 2010 · 2 Comments · In The WrestleMania Project

Event: WrestleMania IX
Date: April 4, 1993
Venue: Caesars Palace (Las Vegas, Nevada)
Attendance: 16,891

Gorilla Monsoon on the mic for this outdoor event at Caesars Palace.  They’re referring to it as “the world’s largest toga party”.  I’m sure that’s supposed to be clever, but it comes across and being completely lame.  [...]

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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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