WWE WrestleMania VI
More than 65,000 fans pack the Toronto SkyDome to witness The Ultimate Challenge as The Ultimate Warrior faces Hulk Hogan with both the WWE Championship and WWE Intercontinental Championship on the line. "The Million Dollar Man" Ted DiBiase defends the Million Dollar Championship against Jake "The Snake" Roberts. Dusty Rhodes and more in action!
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- Cast:
- Hulk Hogan , Jim Hellwig , Aurelian Smith Jr. , Ted DiBiase Sr. , Virgil Runnels , Juanita Wright , Randy Poffo
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Usually, the main event of any major wrestling event was "babyface" (good guy) vs. "heel" (bad guy). Hulk Hogan vs. Andre the Giant would be a big example of such a main event. With Wrestlemania VI, however, two incredibly popular wrestlers at the time in Hogan & the Ultimate Warrior put their respective belts on the line in a main event that split the crowd in half in terms of cheering support. Good guy vs good guy!Of course, an event is not made by its main event alone, and this is a great wrestling card that earns its 5-star rating. I won't go into detail on every match here, but here are some of the highlights:-Mr. Perfect continuing his great brand of wrestling against Brutus "The Barber" Beefcake. -The Hart Foundation taking on The Bolsheviks with some hilarious pre-match comedy featuring Steve Allen. -An interesting semi-heel turn from newly-branded "Macho King" Randy Savage by pairing up with Sensational Sherri instead of the traditional Elizabeth. -Any Big Boss Man match (this time vs. Akeem) is usually pretty entertaining because he is such a great character.There are no terrible matches in this entire event. They are all entertaining in some facet or another. The commentary from Gorilla Monsoon & Jesse "The Body" Ventura helps set the perfect tone once again.Then, "Hulk vs. Warrior" blows the lid off! This was one of the most anticipated battles of all- time, and it pretty much lives up to the billing. Neither big man is a particularly talented wrestler, but the hype is just so big and each man plays his part perfectly.This is the best Wrestlemania in the series so far, just ahead of the tournament from W4.
1. Koko B. Ware Vs. Rick Martel - Woow, clean victory for heel Martel 5.5/10 2. World Tag Team Title match: Champs-André the Giant/King Haku Vs. The Demolition - Im impressed, Haku eats beat. André must be ill in these times...5.5/10 3. Hercules Vs. EarthQuake - Eartquakes's mouth bleed. Not so special match, but I haven't got problem with it. 6/10 4. Mr. Perfect Vs. Brutus the Barber Beefcake - Yes! Mr. Perfect but No! That Dumbass Beefcake has again his ugly gay-outfit :-/ Who booked to job Henning to that abnormal unpleasant clown BRUTUS. FU*K YOU! :-/ 3/10 Piper get interviewed. Oh my. -5/10 5. Bad News Brown Vs. RR Pipa Pajpaa - Like I expected, one awful match,furthermore DQ. 3/10 6. Hart Foundation Vs. The Bolsheviks - 30 seconds match. Sometimes it's better, like in Bolsheviks case. 7/10 7. Barbarian Vs. Tito Santana - Tito nice sells Barbarian's Finisher.. Amazing 6/10 8. Randy Savage/Sister Sherri Vs. Piggy "Elbow is my only weapon" Rhodes/Sapphire - Vaudeville match... 4/10 9. The Rockers Vs. Some Fuji's "who cares" Japanese wrestlers 7/10 10. Dino Bravo Vs. Hacksaw Jim Duggan - Greatest Wrestler of all time Jimmy Duggan (Sarcasm) 4/1011. Ted Dibiase Vs. Jake Roberts - Hmm another lose for Jake Roberts... Poor great guy... 6/10 12. Akheem Vs. Big Stiff Man 4/10 Bushwackers Appearance -10/10 13. Rick Rude Vs. Superboring Snuka - Decent match 7/10 14. The Retarded Warrior Vs. "Always Unbeatable" Hulk - Warrior played with electricity, or like Twisted Sisters, looks even more dumber and It wasn't easy... HEY It's not possible Hulkamania losing wild! I'm impressed, shame that the winner is Warrior. Hulk almost started to cry when he was going into the locker room. Must give 6/10
In the 1980s in wrestling the world was simple. Hulk Hogan would take on Roddy Piper, or Bobby Heenan's cronies or Ted DiBiase and come out victorious more often than not. Occasionally he would get an ally like Randy Savage in 1988, but mostly it was all about Hulk Hogan vs Bobby Heenan, and that's the way it should be.But on this night that was about to change, a new champion, a man who the WWE thought would be their man for the 90s was crowned. It didn't work out. But the WWE was right about one thing: Hulkamania was finished and a new order needed to be established.This historic Wrestlemania, the first to be held outside America, kicked off with Rick Martel defeating Koko B Ware. Koko never really had a lot of luck at Wrestlemania and was taken down in short order here.Next up the Colossal Connection Andre the Giant and Haku put their tag team titles on the line against Demolition Ax and Smash and lost. New tag team champions crowned.Next match saw Earthquake defeat Hercules. Hercules was another fellow who didn't really have a lot of luck at Wrestlemania. Plenty of luck for Brutus Beefcake as he ended Mr Perfect's undefeated streak. Well, I guess someone had to end it.Roddy Piper and Bad News Brown fought to a double count out in a slow but fun match, next up the Hart Foundation defeated Nikolai Volkov and Boris Zhukov in 19 seconds. Not really a match, unfortunately. The Barbarian then defeated Tito Santana in a short match.The American Dream Dusty Rhodes and Saphire then defeated the Macho King Randy Savage and Queen Sherri in a messy mixed tag match. This was the only female wrestling really going on in the WWE at this point of time.Next up was a fun match as the Rockers Marty Janetty and Shawn Micheals defeated The Orient Express in a fast paced encounter. There were a lot of good tag teams at this point in time. Jim Duggan then beat Dino Bravo in a nothing match.Next Ted DiBiase put his most cherished possession, the Million Dollar Championship on the line against Jake Roberts. Roberts was distracted by Virgil and counted out allowing Ted to retain his title in an entertaining match and one of the longer matches on the show.Next up the Twin Towers collide as the Big Bossman defeats Akeem in short order, this is followed by Rick Rude winning a short match with Jimmy Snuka.Finally we come to the main event with Hulk Hogan putting the WWE Title on the line against Intercontinental Champion The Ultimate Warrior. This is an entertaining back and forth match won by the Warrior after Hogan missed a leg drop. The crowd was extraordinary and the match was a great spectacle.And so the torch was passed, but would the Ultimate Warrior prove to be the Champion the WWE hoped he would be?
This was a very good PPV, but like Wrestlemania XX some 14 years later, the WWE crammed so many matches on it, some of the matches were useless. I'm not going to go through every match on the card because it would take forever to do.However major highlights included the HUGE pop for Demolition winning the tag team belts from Haku and Andre the Giant, The first ever mixed tag match featuring Randy Savage and Sensational Queen Sherri vs Dusty Rhodes and the late Sapphire and the first ever clash between The Ultimate Warrior and Hulk Hogan.Some matches were a complete waste of time. Like The Bolsheviks vs The Hart Foundation was only about 40 seconds long, Koko B Ware vs Rick Martel was short and Big Bossman vs Akeem was too short.Mr Perfect vs Brutus Beefcake and Ted DiBiase vs Jake 'the snake' Roberts were very good indeed.Overall Grade - B