eWWF Wrestlemania VI

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Wrestlemania VI

April 1, 1990

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

The Skydome

 

-Vince Mcmahon voice over with some constilations forming into Hogan & Warrior. ITs the ULLLLLLLTIMATE CHALLENGE!

 

-Robert Goulet sings O' Canada. All I know is. God Save our land, glorious and free. And obviously O' Canada.

 

- Opening Match:

Koko B. Ware vs. Rick Martel:

What an enthralling choice for an opener. Martel attacks to start, but gets caught with a bodypress for two, and Ware hits a series of dropkicks to big pops. I love hot crowds! Koko hits a backdrop, and knocks Rick to the floor! He slingshots him back in, but misses a shoulderblock allowing the Model to toss him to the outside. Back in with a suplex for two, and Rick does more clubbing than Kevin Nash for five minutes. He tries to hook the Boston Crab, but Koko fights it and makes the ropes before Rick can hook it. Martel tries to ram him to the corner, but Ware makes the Tatanka comeback with some crappy headbutts for two. He misses a crossbody, and Martel easily hooks the Boston Crab now for the win at 5:18. Eh, nothing match. ¼*.

 

- Gene talks with the Colossal Connection, who don’t say anything of note. Heenan is holding Andre's Belt for some reason.

 

- WWF Tag Team Title Match:

The Colossal Connection vs. Demolition

The Connection is Andre the Giant and Haku (Meng), for those that don’t know. I wonder if E&C were thinking about being WWF champions themselves back then? Big pop for the Demos too. The heels attack from behind, but the Demos quickly get control and Smash works on Haku. Why is this title match so early on? They fight over a backslide, which Smash wins, getting a two count (saved by Andre). The Giant was REALLY bad at this point, at the worst in his whole career. It’s understandable too; this is like his last major match, EVER! Haku gets control, and does the usual choking on Ax, who plays Ricky Morton. Shoulder breaker gets two, and Haku gets a foot to the face off a charge. Hot tag to Smash, and he backdrops Haku to the heavens! Andre comes in for the first time, but the Demos clothesline him into the corner! Damn this crowd is hot now! Andre grabs Smash, and holds him for Haku to superkick, but he moves and Andre takes the shot getting tied up in the ropes! It’s easy pickings for the Demos now, who hit the Decapitator on Haku for the titles at 9:11, to a MAJOR pop! Match was crap. DUD. Afterwards, heel manager Bobby Heenan comes in and lays into Andre for not saving Haku, but makes the mistake of slapping the Giant. Uh-Oh! Andre takes Bobby and Haku out, and gets some MONSTER pops in his last great WrestleMania moment. Great stuff!

 

- Hercules vs. Earthquake:

Oh boy! You know, I LOVE those little carts that carried the wrestlers to the ring in the Dome ‘Mania’s like III & VI. Hopefully, ‘Mania XVII will have them too! Earthquake misses a charge to start, and Herc hammers away, prompting the ‘Quake to bail. Both of these guys are like the least tan people EVER! Test of Strength comes next, which Earthquake easily wins, but Hercules lays in with a series of clotheslines knocking the big guy down! He dumbly tries a backbreaker, so the ‘Quake calmly knocks him over for some elbow drops just for being a dumb ass. He hits the earthquake shortly after for the pin at 4:37. DUD.

 

-Beefcake interview. He admire's Mr. Perfects perfect record, although Hoganbeat him i think in February.

 

- Mr. Perfect vs. Brutus Beefcake:

A little brawl to start, won by Beefcake, and Perfect oversells a punch, flying to the floor. If I ever become a wrestler, I wanna wrestle Hennig. He sells so beautifully. Brutus works on the back, tossing him to the corner a couple times with Perfect overselling at every turn. The Genius distracts Beefcake, allowing Hennig to get his metal scroll and bash Beefcake’s brains in. Curt controls for a while now, doing nothing of interest except taunting the Barber. Eventually, Beefcake trips him up and slingshots him into the metal post and gets the pin at 7:08, getting a BIG pop from this GIGANTIC crowd. The match was nothing. Call it ½* for Perfect’s overselling. Afterwards, the Genius gets a hair cut.

 

-Piper/Brown fued recap. From royal Rumble to something on Superstars.

 

- Roddy Piper gives a crazy, rambling interview, ranting on Bad News Brown. I love Piper.

 

- Bad News Brown vs. Rowdy Roddy Piper:

This is the famous moment when Piper painted half his body black, and looks like the moon-cookie from Seinfeld. Before it gets underway, Piper does a few little choice dances to make sure to offend not only Bad News, but the crowd. Gotta love Piper. Big ass brawl to start … and not really just to start, but for the whole match. News controls, but rams Piper’s head to the buckle, getting some no selling. It doesn’t go anywhere, however, as News hooks a nerve hold. It’s a freakin’ BRAWL, who the hell goes to a nerve hold? He lets off and chokes Piper down to a two count, and gets an elbow for two. Piper comes back and goes crazy on him with a series of punches (which Bad News can’t sell correctly), but News pokes the eyes. He exposes the turnbuckle, but Piper rams HIM into it instead, and pulls out a white glove. He puts it on and does some punches. Okay. The brawl spills outside, and it goes to a double count-out at 6:44. Not a BORING match, but still a bad match. DUD.

 

- Steve Allen has a piano in the bathroom, and is with the Bolsheviks to sing the Soviet Anthem. First attempt he plays somethin i dont know. Then he does something else that Zhukov calls the Polish national anthem. Then he plays Pop Gos the Wesel. For the 4th team, he is going to do it. He presses on a key as someone flushes the toilet, and Allen runs away. It was pretty funny to see, actually.

 

- The Hart Foundation vs. The Bolsheviks: The Russians want to sing the Soviet Anthem beforehand, and mid-way through the Harts attack and hit the Hart Attack on Boris for the quick win at 0:19. DUD

 

- WrestleMania VII promo, which will be LIVE from the LA Memorial Coliseum. Sure it will.

 

- The Barbarian vs. Tito Santana:

Santana hammers away to start, and the Barbarian bails to consult with Bobby Heenan. Tito gets a high cross body for two, and works the headlock. Tito then pulls a Rey Mysterio Jr., as Barbarian goes for a powerbomb, but he pounds his way down for a two count. Tito runs into the Barbarians foot off an Irish whip, and the big guy hits a shoulder breaker. He misses an elbow though, so Tito takes him down with some dropkicks. He hits the flying forearm, and has him, but Heenan puts Barb’s foot on the ropes. The big guy heads up top, and hits a beautiful flying clothesline to take Santana’s head off for the win at 4:32. The crowd was dead for the whole thing, except for the sweet flying clothesline, which got a good pop. Call it ¼*. Chico Santana jokesby Ventura all the while.

 

- Dusty Rhodes interview. The fat ass redneck lets Savage know that he has the crown jewel. So he has Savages balls?

 

- Mixed Tag Team Match:

Randy Savage and Sherri vs. Dusty Rhodes and Sapphire: What a contrast. One side has a GREAT wrestler, and a good female wrestler, while the other has two TERRIBLE wrestlers. I’ll let you guys guess which is which. The Polka-cow also makes good on his promise of the “crown jewel” by bringing out Savage’s former valet Liz. Of course, she still has Savage’s music, but either way. Jesse goes off about the Rhodes/Phire combo is weighed in at somewhere around a 100 pounds short of their fullness.  Savage starts with Rhodes, and they mess around for a bit playing the comedy match factor with Sherri and Savage as two bumbling heels. Dusty tags, so Sherri has to come in. Remember that it’s 1990 and man vs. woman wasn’t something that happened in mixed tags like today. Sapphire uses her ass to knock around the Queen, and then Dusty gets in to beat on Savage. More bumbling heel-ness follows. Macho gets the advantage and dumps Dusty out, where he hits a SWEET double ax from the top. He then follows with another, redeeming this match a little bit. Back in, Savage gets the scepter and nails Rhodes with it from the top. Sherri splashes Dust for two, and then Rhodes rams her head with the King’s. He uses his favorite part, the elbow, to work over Savage, and Sapphire hits something slightly resembling a DDT for two on Sherri, and then Liz distracts the Queen long enough for Sapphire to roll her up for the pin at 7:28. Bad match, DUD. The faces then  have a dance off.

 

- WrestleMania VII promo number II! Give the WWF credit, they tried.

 

- A Demolition interview is next. The Demo’s are still all covered in sweat......even though the match was the opener just about.

 

- Hulk Hogan also gets interview time and gives a truly crazy, nutty interview saying that if the Warrior wants to live forever, than during the match he needs to “breath his last breath into Hulk’s body” and Hogan will give him salvation. Oooooooooooook.

 

(dials phone)

 

-Happy Acres Mental Institution Please.

 

- Warrior follows with his own crazy interview, and say’s that he’ll take the beliefs of Hogan and the Hulk-A-Maniacs and make them one with his. He’s also come to “do no one no harm.” Well, we never said he was an English professor.

 

- The Orient Express vs. The Rockers:

Marty starts with Tanaka, and Marty takes a solid elbow to the head. The Rocker’s quickly comeback with a powerslam on Tanaka, and a double body block to the floor, on both guys. Crowd likes that. Back to Marty/Tanaka, and Jannetty takes a fall to the outside for some cheating by Fuji. Back in, Sato hits some crappy chops, but Marty tags and Tanaka takes a double superkick. Shawn hits a backdrop, and Sato tags back in. He doesn’t fare too well, however, getting a neckbreaker. He comes back, and hits a gutwrench gutbuster, and tags. Tanaka catches him with a big flying forearm and tags again. Gotta dig the quick tags! Sato does a nerve hold, further driving Michaels into the Ricky Morton role. Shawn hits a big clothesline to comeback, and makes the hot tag to Marty. Marty kills both guys, and catches Tanaka with a flying back elbow for two. Both faces dropkick Sato out, and hit a double backdrop on Tanaka. They both head to the top, and go to dive, but Fuji distracts Marty, and Jannetty follows him out. He gets some powder in the face for his troubles, and gets counted out at 7:38 as a result. Bad ending, to an okay match. ** ¼.

 

- Dino Bravo vs. Jim Duggan:

Duggan brings the American Flag with him (in CANADA), which doesn’t earn him the face pop it would in the States. Oh well, next year Jim … at the All-American one. Jesse even makes fun of him for it. Monsoon brings up the fact that Earthquake (Bravo’s henchmen) doesn’t have a manager’s license and can’t be at ringside for this. I miss little points like that in wresting. Today, ANYONE can come down to ringside, and there isn’t even TALK of licenses and such. Shows how much the business has changed in 10 years. Duggan does some hammering, and knocks Bravo to the outside with a clothesline. He comes back in, and Duggan hits the ten punch count (but can’t count that high and only goes to six) so Bravo kills him for being a doof. Dino chokes him out, and Earthquake gets his cheep shots in. Duggan makes the comeback, and hits a series of clotheslines, but Earthquake stops the 3-point stance, allowing Jimmy Hart to toss the 2X4 in to Dino. It backfires, however, as Duggan gets it and nails Bravo for the easy pin at 4:13. Afterwards, Earthquake kills Duggan with 3 Earthquake splashes, building to his big heel push. Match sucked, of course. DUD.

 

- Jake the Snake gives an interview about his upcoming match with Ted DiBiase. Yet another great Roberts promo.

 

- Million Dollar Belt Match:

Ted DiBiase vs. Jake Roberts:

Brawl to start, and a criss cross leads to a knee by Jake, and DiBiase bails. He comes back in, and Jake takes it to him, continually trying for the DDT, but Ted keeps slipping away, pissing Jake off more and more. He goes to work on the arm, and dumps DiBiase to the outside. Back in, Ted hits an elbow, and tosses Jake viciously into the corner when Jake charges. DiBiase hooks a long front facelock, and the crowd does the wave, which is kinda cool to see at a wrestling show. Jesse loves it, too. Ted hits a piledriver, and the crowd gets back to the match, rather than the wave. He covers for two, but Jake rolls him up for his own two count. He hooks the Dream on Roberts, which gives everyone a major heart attack, but Jake makes the ropes. Ted dives off the 2nd rope, and Jake hits a shot to the gut, but sadly he doesn’t do his somersault sell of it. Backdrop by Roberts, and the crowd chants “DDT.” He hits his short-arm clothesline and calls for the DDT, but Ted won’t go. It spills outside, and Jake gets his head knocked to the post so Teddy wins by count-out at 11:53. Crowd was very hot through it all, but the match was only okay. **. Jake comes back in, however, and takes DiBiase out with the DDT and gives Ted’s $100 bills out to the fans at ringside.

 

- Akeem vs. The Big Bossman:

Funny thing I read recently, Akeem was created to knock Dusty Rhodes who was always “acting black” despite being a white boy. That’s Akeem’s gimmick right there. He does have Slick, however, and that music make up for anything. BTW, these guys were Tag Partner’s and split up because Bossman wouldn’t take DiBiase’s money, so this is the blow off. The Twin Towers explode a year after the Mega Powers. As Bossman makes his entrance, Ted DiBiase pops up from under the ring, and gives him an ass kicking, leaving him easy pickings for Akeem. Akeem easily clobbers him around the ring, but Bossman comes back with some cross corner whips and a clothesline. He catches him with a quick Bossman Slam for three at 1:51. Well, that was quick. Don’t get me wrong, that’s a GOOD thing. Still, a DUD.

 

- Sean Mooney is in the crowd and gives one of the funniest interview segments I’ve ever seen. First he finds a little boy in the crowd, with a New York accent, and the kid gets majority pissed, and reels insults at Rhythm and Blues. Too funny. He then strolls over to Mary Tyler Moore, who knows NOTHING about wrestling ….....and I will not even mention how bad this is.

 

- Its time for Honka Honka Honkey Love!

 

Col. Sandurz (Spaceballs): PREPARE TO FAST FORWARD!!!!

 

- Yet another WrestleMania VII promo.

 

- Finkel announces the official attendance tonight at 67,678! It is a damn big crowd, no doubt about it! But you KNOW they’ll break that at WrestleMania VII! R&B/Bushwhacker’s! GET YOUR TICKETS NOW!

 

- Rick Rude vs. Jimmy Snuka:

This is right before the main event because the WWF was building up Rude for a main event run at SummerSlam. Yeah, because we all know that beating Jimmy Snuka is what TRULY makes a champion. Steve Allen also joins the commentators for this, and makes some crappy ass jokes. Rude jumps him to start, but misses a big dropkick, and Snuka hammers away. He drops him with a couple backdrops (I love when Rude takes a backdrop. He does it greatly.), then mocks his poses. They go at it a bit more, and Rude hits a snap suplex, and a backdrop of his own. Criss cross leads to a Superfly shoulderblock, and he heads up stairs. He misses (but lands on his feet), then slams Rude. He goes to the 2nd rope, and misses a head BUTT (landing on his head, not his feet this time), and takes a Rude Awakening to give Rude the win at 3:50. Decent enough, actually. * ¼.

 

- THE ULTIMATE CHALLENGE:

WWF-World & Intercontinental Championship Match:

Hulk Hogan vs. The Ultimate Warrior:

Yes, it’s THAT match, with the crazy 50/50 crowd! Like I said earlier, everyone rides little carts to the ring, but these guys decide to go on foot. The problem? Warrior runs. The isle is HUGE, and Warrior decides to totally blow up on the way to the ring. On second listen, Hogan’s pop IS quite bigger than Warrior’s, so I question the decision to take the gold off him here. I mean, when a guy comes out to “I am a Real American” in Toronto, and blows the roof off, you know he’s something special. The crowd is super pumped for this, too, which helps make the match is many ways. They stare eachother down to start, and then trade shoves (Hulk’s shoves get a bigger pop, BTW), and I keep thinking that this crowd is absolutely super electric. I mean, whoa. They do a test of strength next, as I realize it’s been two minutes, and nothing worthwhile has happened. But in this match, does it really matter? It’s so entertaining anyway! Warrior gets Hogan to his knees off the hold, but Hulk fights back, and gets Warrior down. I can’t comment enough on how MASSIVE the crowd heat is here. Even for a freakin’ Test of Strength. Hogan sweeps his legs out, and hits a quick elbow for two. They trade shoulderblocks, and a big criss cross leads to a Hogan slam with massive heat. Another criss cross, and Warrior slams him now, then clotheslines him to the floor, where Hogan hurts his knee. Warrior doesn’t give half a crap, however, and goes out to kick at it. That’s just COLD! He puts the Hulkster back in, and keeps kicking the knee, but Hogan gets all Superman on his ass, and clotheslines him into the corner for a ten-punch count (only going to eight though). A series of elbows heads to a Hogan two count, and he hooks a front facelock into a small package for another two. Hogan clotheslines him for two, and hits a backbreaker for two. Gee, Hogan’s going through the whole moveset tonight! He gets tired of that workrate stuff, however, and goes to a chinlock (which the crowd STILL remains hot for). He lets off and hits a big side suplex for two, and goes back to the chinlock. Warrior breaks out with some elbows to the mid-section, and a criss cross leads to a double clothesline, leaving both guys out. They get up at about the same time, but Warrior does the rope-shaking comeback, and no sells Hogan’s stuff (fun to see), and then clotheslines the life out of the Hulkster! He chops, and does some cross corner whips, and Hogan is gone. Snap suplex (!) by Warrior for two, and he clasps on a bear hug. Hogan fades away, but the arm only drops twice, so he comes back. I never understood that spot. A criss cross leads to a ref. bump, and Warrior goes to the top (!) for a double ax, and then does it again! Hogan is stunned, and Warrior goes for his flying shoulderblock, but Hogan moves and Warrior hits hard. Hogan covers, having the win, but the ref. is gone! The crowd doesn’t like that. Jim wakes up, and side suplexes him for three, but again, there’s no ref. Earl finally crawls over and makes a big dramatic two count, getting the crowd even MORE pumped. Hogan rolls him up for a dramatic two of his own, and then elbows him to the floor. Slugfest develops out there, and Hogan eats post. Back in, Warrior hits the Gorilla Press (Hogan … bumping?), and hits the splash, but it only gets two!! Hogan Hulk’s Up, and does his usual no-sell routine (fun to see Warrior’s stuff no sold, that’s for sure), but he misses the big leg, which allows the Warrior an easy splash for the win at 22:47. WOW! Afterwards, Earl screws up by giving Warrior the WWF title (the plan was to have Hogan hand it to him), but the camera quickly cuts away, so it’s not totally ruined. Hogan goes out, gets the belt, and then gives it to the Warrior himself, which gets a gigantic pop. He rides out on the mini carts  and Warrior gets the major fireworks treatment to big pops as we go off the air.

 

Not the greatest Wrestlemania, but several great matches. Ill give it a slight reccomendation.