Alexander from Portland
Last year I had a lot of free time on my hands so I decided to watch all of the WrestleMania’s I haven’t seen before, starting with WrestleMania I. My biggest takeaway for VI came from the main event where Hulk Hogan lost at WrestleMania for the first time (the match with Andre the Giant at WrestleMania 4 doesn’t count). I didn’t grow up watching wrestling so Hulkamania never appealed to me, but seeing Hogan booked so strongly in the prior Manias made me want to see him lose so badly. Similarly I didn’t grow up watching Ultimate Warrior matches so he never appealed to me either. While Hogan and Warrior were perhaps the two biggest names in the WWF at the time, they were far from the two best in-ring competitors on the show. Gorilla called this match “the irresistible force meeting the immovable object” and I couldn’t think of anything more appropriate. Warrior was very immovable during the match and Hogan wrestled just as good as “The Irresistible Force” Nia Jax (albeit with a better leg drop).
Besides the main event I found this show very forgettable. No must-see matches, no classic WrestleMania moments. Outside Hogan and Warrior what I remember most from this show is Mary Tyler Moore and how uninformed and disinterested she was. My first review of the show earned WrestleMania VI a 2.5/5, but after a second watch I give it a 4/10.
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what were the best and worst matches on this show? even though I complained about Hogan and Warrior I felt like they had the best story, but from an in-ring standpoint no match on this show stood out to me in either a good or bad way.
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how do you feel about the ending of this WrestleMania? While Warrior beat Hogan and became a double champion the moment didn’t feel as big as it could have. Warrior won not by being dominant but by dodging Hulk’s finisher and hitting his own, which Hulk kicked out of at 3. After the match Hogan is focused upon heavily, and after winning the title Ultimate Warrior had about four minutes to celebrate before the show ended. The presentation for this part of the show seemed really lacking to me.