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Almost one million fans watched the event at closed circuit locations in North America. The feud began during a title match between the two when Savage attacked Steamboat as he greeted fans at ringside. Savage then pushed Steamboat over the security rail and delivered an elbow shot that thrust Steamboat's throat into the rail and dropped the ring bell onto his throat from the top rope, injuring his larynx and sending him to the hospital.

This resulted in a long, bitter feud that lasted for six months, included several bloody match-ups and finally culminated at WrestleMania. Billy Jack Haynes and Hercules Hernandez ' feud started when Bobby Heenan continuously taunted Haynes, telling him that Hercules was the real master of the full nelson; which came to a boiling point when Hercules attacked Haynes on an edition of Superstars of Wrestling , which led to their match at WrestleMania.

This battle was advertised as the "Full Nelson Challenge. Another heated feud leading up to this event was between Harley Race and the Junkyard Dog.

When The WWF Wrestling Classic became the King of the Ring tournament, Harley Race went on to win the tournament and began referring to himself as "King" Harley Race, and coming to the ring in a royal crown and cape to the ceremonial accompaniment of the classical music piece "Great Gates of Kiev" by Modest Mussorgsky.

After each of his victories, Race forced his defeated opponent to "bow and kneel" before him. Usually, Race's manager, Bobby Heenan, forced the defeated opponent to "bow and kneel" by grabbing his hair. This set the stage for the WrestleMania match, which included the stipulation that the loser had to bow to the winner. Danny Davis was the referee and allowed The Hart Foundation to use illegal double-team maneuvers.

After being given some time off to recuperate, the Bulldogs continued their rivalry with The Hart Foundation when they teamed up with Tito Santana against the Foundation and the referee-turned-wrestler Danny Davis in a six-man tag team match at WrestleMania III.

This event began Roberts' turn into a babyface as well as the feud between the wrestlers, which culminated in their WrestleMania match. Piper, who returned as a face , spent weeks crashing Adonis' show and trading insults, leading to a "showdown" between the two segments that ended with Piper being assaulted and humiliated by Adonis, Piper's former bodyguard "Cowboy" Bob Orton , and Don Muraco.

The trio left Piper with his face covered in red lipstick, lying in the middle of the remnants of the destroyed Piper's Pit set. In response, Piper stormed the set of Adonis' show and destroyed it with a baseball bat.

This led to their Hair vs. Hair match at WrestleMania III, which was billed as Piper's retirement match from wrestling before becoming a full-time actor. McMahon , who had died three years earlier. After he made that announcement he introduced Aretha Franklin, who opened the show singing a rendition of " America the Beautiful. This match ended when Rick Martel gave Don Muraco a high cross-body with Zenk on his hands and knees giving Muraco what Gorilla Monsoon called "A little schoolboy trip from behind" allowing Martel to get the win for his team.

After the match, Bobby Heenan assaulted Haynes by kneeing him in the back, and Haynes chased Heenan into the ring, where Hercules then blindsided Haynes with his chain, hitting him a number of times with it before locking him in a full nelson of his own. King Kong Bundy's team was disqualified when Bundy attacked Little Beaver, because Bundy was not supposed to be in the ring with the midgets. Bundy attacked Little Beaver after Beaver had "attacked" him on occasion during the match and finally got caught.

Add content advisory. Did you know Edit. Quotes Gorilla Monsoon : [Hulk Hogan and Andre the Giant were staring at each other in the ring] The irresistable force meets the immovable object! Alternate versions The DVD replaced some of the theme songs for some wrestlers. This was done due to song rights. KoKo B Ware Piledriver which would later become his theme song from Ward Performed by Aretha Franklin.

User reviews 25 Review. Top review. Details Edit. Release date March 29, United States. United States. WrestleMania 3. Pontiac, Michigan, USA. We wanted to leave people in suspense. Most wrestlers of that era would call the match in the ring, but Savage was different. He meticulously planned out this match, move by move, which was not a popular or endearing move in We decided we wanted to make it a championship-level match, knowing that the closing match was Hogan-Andre. We wanted to make a statement.

My mindset was, after a long layoff and coming back from an injury, beating him for his title would be the way to hurt him most. The match was brilliantly crafted. But I came up to the WWF and it was the big time. You can name 10 guys without even thinking about it. For all of its highlights, WrestleMania III will forever be remembered as the night Hogan slammed Andre, an irresistible force overcoming an immovable object.

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