KB Talks About Wrestlemania

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Ladies and gentlemen, today is Wrestlemania Sunday. This is why we are all here. This is what we wait our entire year to arrive at. Tonight, everything in all of wrestling stops for four hours to watch what has been called the Showcase of the Immortals, the Granddaddy of Them All, the Super Bowl of Wrestling and countless other names. In short, this is Wrestlemania.

Over twenty six years ago at Madison Square Garden held on March 31, 1985. It was the climax of what was known as the Rock N Wrestling Connection as Hulk Hogan teamed up with the star of the A-Team Mr. T to face Roddy Piper and Paul Orndorff. The response was incredible and wrestling hit the mainstream like no one had ever thought possible before.

Two years later in Pontiac, Michigan 93,173 people came into one building to see the main event of Hulk Hogan vs. Andre the Giant for the WWF World Title. The next year we saw the biggest wrestling tournament of all time. After that we saw everything from the Mega Powers Exploding to the Ultimate Challenge to NFL players to Iron Man matches to I Quit matches to Mike Tyson to Austin vs. Rock in a trilogy to a UFC Champion nearly breaking his neck to 80,000 people at Ford Field to Shawn Michaels vs. The Undertaker in a pair of classics.

Wrestlemania has been all over the map over the years, going from New York to Los Angeles to Seattle to Orlando. It’s a global phenomenon and the wrestling world stops to watch it. This is what we watch wrestling for. This is the one night each year when nothing else matters and all eyes focus on a 20x20 foot ring where the best in the world go at it to entertain us.

This is Wrestlemania. In the words of Vince McMahon, “it only comes once a year”, and tonight it comes again. This is what we’re here for people, so enjoy it while it lasts tonight. Take off your smark goggles and have a flash back to when you were a kid and you couldn’t be happier about this night. It’s the most important night of the year in wrestling. Treat it like it is.

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...There was nowhere close to 93,000 people in the Silverdome for Wrestlemania 3 KB. That's the oldest Wrestlemania myth in the book.

I'm excited too though. Giddy even.
 
...There was nowhere close to 93,000 people in the Silverdome for Wrestlemania 3 KB. That's the oldest Wrestlemania myth in the book.

I'm excited too though. Giddy even.

You know what else I heard? Some of those punches don't actually hit each other. I've been told that the endings are predetermined but I'm not entirely sure I believe it. Also, some people actually believe that these people ACTUALLY LIKE EACH OTHER IN REAL LIFE!
 
I can't wait. Going by my buddy's uncle's house to watch it and enjoy marking the fuck out all night.
 
Sure there was. Can you prove otherwise?

Can you "prove" there were? No.

But the issue has been widely debated and the general consensus among most people is that the actual attendance number was closer to 73-80,000 than it was to 93,000.

http://forums.wrestlezone.com/showthread.php?t=11892

There's an interesting thread I started on the topic all the way back in '07, trying to get to the bottom of the issue. Didn't really get too far, but from what research I did at the time I remember reading the max capacity was something like 80,000.
 
It's still possible though (as several people in that thread pointed out) because of "standing room only" tickets and putting people on the damn field. Either way, it's impossible to prove without somehow gaining access to WWE's financial records to that event.
 
Any way you slice it, 80,000 or 93,000, that's still incredible.
 
Can you "prove" there were?
I'm not the one who is disputing the official number, and calling people liars. :shrug:

But the issue has been widely debated and the general consensus among most people is that the actual attendance number was closer to 73-80,000 than it was to 93,000.

http://forums.wrestlezone.com/showthread.php?t=11892

There's an interesting thread I started on the topic all the way back in '07, trying to get to the bottom of the issue. Didn't really get too far, but from what research I did at the time I remember reading the max capacity was something like 80,000.
Here, I have a read for you.

http://prowrestling.about.com/gi/o....rt.com/articles/69939-the-93173-debatemy-take
 

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