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WrestleMania 2
WrestleMania 2 was a 1986 professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE). It was the second annual WrestleMania and took place on Monday, April 7, 1986, making it the only WrestleMania that was not held on a traditional Sunday until the two-night WrestleMania 36 in April 2020. The event took place at three venues on the same day: first at the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Uniondale, New York, then at the Rosemont Horizon in Rosemont, Illinois, and finally at the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena in Los Angeles, California.
Each venue had its own card of four matches each, totaling 12 matches for the PPV broadcast that were shown back-to-back-to-back. The main event of WrestleMania 2, which was in Los Angeles, featured WWF World Heavyweight Champion Hulk Hogan defending the title against King Kong Bundy in a Steel Cage match. In the last match in Chicago, The British Bulldogs (Davey Boy Smith and The Dynamite Kid) faced The Dream Team (Greg Valentine and Brutus Beefcake) for the WWF Tag Team Championship, while the final match in Uniondale was a boxing match pitting Mr. T against Roddy Piper. The undercard in Uniondale also saw WWF Intercontinental Heavyweight Champion Randy Savage defend his title against George Steele, while the card in Chicago featured a 20-man battle royal involving WWF wrestlers and National Football League players.
WrestleMania 2 received generally poor reviews, with much of the criticism being centred around the decision to hold it as three separate events across the country. Many publications rank it as amongst the worst WrestleMania events of all time.
Following the success of WrestleMania I in 1985, the American professional wrestling promotion World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE) scheduled a second WrestleMania for the following year, thus establishing WrestleMania as an annual pay-per-view (PPV) event for the company. Unlike the previous year, WrestleMania 2 was scheduled to be held at three venues on Monday, April 7, 1986: the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Uniondale, New York, the Rosemont Horizon in the Chicago suburb of Rosemont, Illinois, and the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena in Los Angeles, California. Each location was scheduled to have its own card of four matches each, which were broadcast back-to-back-to-back, starting in Uniondale, then Chicago, and finally Los Angeles.
The event featured separate commentary and announce teams in each location. The commentating teams consisted of Vince McMahon and Susan Saint James in New York; Gorilla Monsoon, Gene Okerlund, and Cathy Lee Crosby in Chicago; and Jesse Ventura, Alfred Hayes, and Elvira in Los Angeles. The ring announcers were Howard Finkel (New York), Chet Coppock (Chicago), and Lee Marshall (Los Angeles).
Ray Charles sang a rendition of "America the Beautiful" before the show at the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in New York. Celebrity guests in attendance for the New York segment included: Cab Calloway, Darryl Dawkins, G. Gordon Liddy, Joan Rivers, Joe Frazier, Lou Duva, Herb, and Susan Saint James. Celebrity guests in attendance for the Chicago segment included: Clara Peller, Dick Butkus, Ed Jones, Ozzy Osbourne, Bill Fralic, Ernie Holmes, Harvey Martin, Jim Covert, Russ Francis, William Perry, and Cathy Lee Crosby. The Los Angeles segment included celebrity guests Ricky Schroder, Robert Conrad, Tommy Lasorda, and Elvira.
The card featured 12 matches, which resulted from scripted storylines and had results predetermined by the WWF. Building to the event, storylines between characters played out on WWF's primary television programs, Championship Wrestling, All-Star Wrestling, Saturday Night's Main Event and Prime Time Wrestling.
Three of the main-event feuds were set up on the March 1, 1986, Saturday Night's Main Event V. The main feud heading into WrestleMania 2 was between Hulk Hogan and King Kong Bundy, with the two battling over the WWF World Heavyweight Championship. Although they had wrestled occasionally before, their first nationally televised encounter was on the November 2, 1985, Saturday Night's Main Event III where Hogan teamed up with André the Giant against André's rivals Bundy and Big John Studd. Hogan and André won the match by disqualification. On March 1, Hogan defended his WWF title against The Magnificent Muraco. Just as Hogan was about to pin Muraco, Bundy ran into the ring and—with Muraco's help—initiated a 2-on-1 assault on Hogan, repeatedly crushing him with his body weight (with a move called the "avalanche") to break his ribs. Hogan had a very serious (scripted) injury, while Bundy (gloating over his actions) challenged Hogan for the title. With revenge on his mind, Hogan decided not to heed his doctor's advice and accepted the challenge; a match was then booked between the two in a steel cage for the WWF title.
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WrestleMania 2
WrestleMania 2 was a 1986 professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE). It was the second annual WrestleMania and took place on Monday, April 7, 1986, making it the only WrestleMania that was not held on a traditional Sunday until the two-night WrestleMania 36 in April 2020. The event took place at three venues on the same day: first at the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Uniondale, New York, then at the Rosemont Horizon in Rosemont, Illinois, and finally at the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena in Los Angeles, California.
Each venue had its own card of four matches each, totaling 12 matches for the PPV broadcast that were shown back-to-back-to-back. The main event of WrestleMania 2, which was in Los Angeles, featured WWF World Heavyweight Champion Hulk Hogan defending the title against King Kong Bundy in a Steel Cage match. In the last match in Chicago, The British Bulldogs (Davey Boy Smith and The Dynamite Kid) faced The Dream Team (Greg Valentine and Brutus Beefcake) for the WWF Tag Team Championship, while the final match in Uniondale was a boxing match pitting Mr. T against Roddy Piper. The undercard in Uniondale also saw WWF Intercontinental Heavyweight Champion Randy Savage defend his title against George Steele, while the card in Chicago featured a 20-man battle royal involving WWF wrestlers and National Football League players.
WrestleMania 2 received generally poor reviews, with much of the criticism being centred around the decision to hold it as three separate events across the country. Many publications rank it as amongst the worst WrestleMania events of all time.
Following the success of WrestleMania I in 1985, the American professional wrestling promotion World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE) scheduled a second WrestleMania for the following year, thus establishing WrestleMania as an annual pay-per-view (PPV) event for the company. Unlike the previous year, WrestleMania 2 was scheduled to be held at three venues on Monday, April 7, 1986: the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Uniondale, New York, the Rosemont Horizon in the Chicago suburb of Rosemont, Illinois, and the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena in Los Angeles, California. Each location was scheduled to have its own card of four matches each, which were broadcast back-to-back-to-back, starting in Uniondale, then Chicago, and finally Los Angeles.
The event featured separate commentary and announce teams in each location. The commentating teams consisted of Vince McMahon and Susan Saint James in New York; Gorilla Monsoon, Gene Okerlund, and Cathy Lee Crosby in Chicago; and Jesse Ventura, Alfred Hayes, and Elvira in Los Angeles. The ring announcers were Howard Finkel (New York), Chet Coppock (Chicago), and Lee Marshall (Los Angeles).
Ray Charles sang a rendition of "America the Beautiful" before the show at the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in New York. Celebrity guests in attendance for the New York segment included: Cab Calloway, Darryl Dawkins, G. Gordon Liddy, Joan Rivers, Joe Frazier, Lou Duva, Herb, and Susan Saint James. Celebrity guests in attendance for the Chicago segment included: Clara Peller, Dick Butkus, Ed Jones, Ozzy Osbourne, Bill Fralic, Ernie Holmes, Harvey Martin, Jim Covert, Russ Francis, William Perry, and Cathy Lee Crosby. The Los Angeles segment included celebrity guests Ricky Schroder, Robert Conrad, Tommy Lasorda, and Elvira.
The card featured 12 matches, which resulted from scripted storylines and had results predetermined by the WWF. Building to the event, storylines between characters played out on WWF's primary television programs, Championship Wrestling, All-Star Wrestling, Saturday Night's Main Event and Prime Time Wrestling.
Three of the main-event feuds were set up on the March 1, 1986, Saturday Night's Main Event V. The main feud heading into WrestleMania 2 was between Hulk Hogan and King Kong Bundy, with the two battling over the WWF World Heavyweight Championship. Although they had wrestled occasionally before, their first nationally televised encounter was on the November 2, 1985, Saturday Night's Main Event III where Hogan teamed up with André the Giant against André's rivals Bundy and Big John Studd. Hogan and André won the match by disqualification. On March 1, Hogan defended his WWF title against The Magnificent Muraco. Just as Hogan was about to pin Muraco, Bundy ran into the ring and—with Muraco's help—initiated a 2-on-1 assault on Hogan, repeatedly crushing him with his body weight (with a move called the "avalanche") to break his ribs. Hogan had a very serious (scripted) injury, while Bundy (gloating over his actions) challenged Hogan for the title. With revenge on his mind, Hogan decided not to heed his doctor's advice and accepted the challenge; a match was then booked between the two in a steel cage for the WWF title.