So, WrestleMania is the biggest sporting event in the world. Unless you prefer American football,

then I guess you'd pick the Super Bowl. Or if you're into soccer, for my American friends, you would probably talk about the World Cup final. I do not know why I've started the video in this fashion. But if we are talking about sports entertainment, nothing comes bigger than WrestleMania, which hits us once every single year. and let's face it, apart from that one guy on the internet, we do get super excited about it.

And look what could happen every single year, and let's face it, apart from that one guy on the internet, we do get super excited about it. And look what could happen. Last year at WrestleMania 41, Joe Hendry turned up from nowhere to take on Randy Orton. If you were told somebody that back in 2002, they would have said you were nuts. It just goes to show that anything can happen at WrestleMania and there is a lot of trivia out there. Can we go deeper than this to find some interesting factoid? You bet your ass. My name is Simon Miller. This is one mind-blowing secret from every WW WrestleMania. So go get a helmet. WrestleMania 1 and Akarni's claim. So of course, when we do go back to WrestleMania 1, everybody talks about the fact that the WWF bet the bank on this, and that's why they went out there and got a bunch of mainstream celebrities, because not only would that help their superstar Hulk Hogan, but also make WrestleMania feel like the must-see event of the summer. Jump forward to WrestleMania 19, and of course, Vincent Man and Hulk Hogan were then feuding over this idea, or who was responsible for the success of WrestleMania and by by extension, the W.W.E. itself. I mean, I'm sure if you ask them, they say the fans, such a ridiculous answer. You shall absolutely ignore all that, though, because of course it comes down to these celebrities, because the sheer mainstream attention that Mr. T and Cindy Lulper brought to WrestleMania was absolutely ridiculous. I mean, the A-team, which of course was the famous program in which Mr. T starred, was regularly watched by a quarter of the entire US television audience. And yes, you heard that right. So in terms of olden days culture, Mr. T was a super giant. Cindy Lauper and MTV were also behemos in their own, right? Believe you, me, a lot of people that had never watched professional wrestling tuned in to the first WrestleMania. They wanted to see what the flood Mr. T was going to do. I mean, he pities the fall. And of course, yes, Hulk Hogan was a far bigger name than say Sergeant Slaughter, but not one wrestler in that company could even lay claim to be close to B. A. Baracus. I mean, you're nann, probably who Mr. T was. Maybe she'd sort of see Hulk Hogan on a

pizza. The only reason I throw Sarsetlaught in there as well, because during an close to B. A. Barracus. I mean, you're nanned probably who Mr. T was. Maybe she'd sort of see Hulk Hogan

on a pizza. The only reason I throw Sergeant Slaughter in there as well, because during an interview in 2004, he said he was as big as Mr. T, and you know what? More power to him, you believe what you want to believe. Of course, Dave Meltzer came out and shot that down. I don't think we needed that. even more so because at the time, Sarge wasn't even working for the WWF, he was with the AWA.

This is just old wrestler brains. down. I don't think we needed that. Even more so, because at the time, Sarge wasn't even working for the

WWF. He was with the AWA. This is just old wrestler brain, though, as they all will argue, that they were responsible for the future and therefore the past, because they were in the present, just smile and move on. It really doesn't matter. WrestleMania 2 and Mr. T got scared. So yes, the WWF had seen such an upswing from getting Mr. T on the first

WrestleMania. They sat down in their celebrity

mask and they said, you know what? and Mr. T got scared. So yes, the WWF had seen such an upswing from getting Mr. T on the first WrestleMania.

They sat down and did their celebrity mask.

They said, you know what?

We should do it again for round two.

So they did.

Now, before he did get into acting, Mr. T disserving the army and he worked as a bouncer.

That's what brought him to the attention of Rocky 3 screenwriter Stavester Stallone,

who of course cast him in the movie. And from there it was just

up and up and up. It's not like he was an actual boxer, though, which is of course what the WWF also wanted you to believe, but Mr. T knew that he couldn't throw hands properly. So when all of a sudden he was about to beat in a boxing match at WrestleMania 2, well, I think he raised an eyebrow and thought he was going to get knocked out for real. Now the WWF leaned into this as well because they hired

Flipping Joe Frazier to legitimately train Mr. T ahead of his workboxing match against Rowdy-Roney Piper, and Fraser got a little bit mad because the rumor was Mr. T refused to spar. If we jump into the November 21st, 2011 Wrestling Observer newsletter, they also had a report that T confined to people within the World Wrestling Federation that he feared for his public image.

One of the reasons he was so successful is because he did come across as one of the hardest guys on the planet. So if all of a sudden this Scottish guy does smack him to the floor, he's going to be in ruins, man. So with that said, if he does touch me, I am going to be a Superman 18 guy. That's why he didn't want to spar either in case he did catch one, which of course wound up Joe Frazier no end. But look, he still accompanied Mr. T to the Nassau Coliseum to secure his payday, and the whole thing was an attraction to begin with. Actually, if you go and watch it now, it's a bit of an overly long mess, and people get really tired. Once again, I think we all forget how hard boxing is. WrestleMania 3 and the ridiculous argument about the real attendance. So was it 78,000 or 93,000? Or to wrap it up in a nice neat little package, what was the WrestleMania 3 attendance actually? So even though this is an objective fact, the answer does somehow vary, only in the world of wrestling. If you love WWE, you will happily go along with the 93,000 number they threw out there, because once again, you're trying to be a fan. The issue, though, when you do go through the books and listen to some experts, is that WWE was never in the business of telling the whole truth when it came to their WrestleMania attendance numbers, something they still do today. After all, if you can inflate the books, you will.

Of course, when they went public, there would be two of these numbers, one that they would share with the audience and one that they would share with their shareholders. But that kind of sums it up, doesn't it? If they were doing that all these years later, why wouldn't they be doing it at WrestleMania 3? Dave Meltzer believes this, and of course that's going to be contentious right away, but he was the man to dispute the 93,000 number, because he said he spoke to Zane Breslov, who was the promoter at the time, who said, backed up by the turnstile count, the actual number was more or less 78,000 people. I want to make it very clear, these are two incredible numbers, no matter which way you split it, so I don't know what we're getting mad about. It also caught the eye of another wrestling journalist known as David Bixen Span, and he conducted his own investigation of sorts. From here we got a brand new story, which was the WWF couldn't keep its story straight, insisting that 88,000 people were set to attend in a press release issued days before the show, which of course is still more than 78,000. I'm sure you could figure that out, but just in case. This is when Bixen Spam pointed out that's more consistent with the venue when it's set up for football games. So if you are working on the hunch that 7,8,000 felt like too low a number, maybe there was something to this. David would soon eventually determine using research materials uncovered by wrestling historian Corey Gibson, that stadium director Mike Abington revealed the number, and he said it was round about, 88,100 tickets sold to the public.

He then had a further 5,000 people working in the building that night, including concession staff,

WWF personnel, and when you do add that together, that's right, you get to 93,000. Basil DeVito, who was the WWF marketing guy responsible for the 93,000 number in the first place, was also interviewed by Keith Elliott Greensburg for his WrestleMania 3 book, who also said that, yes, I'm sure we did work those numbers in. So if I was going to hazard, I guess, it does sound like WWF sold 88,000 tickets. But even if they had sold 62,000 tickets, you've accounted up to 62,000 tickets. That takes forever. WrestleMania 4 and the revenge plot begins. So let's make this very clear. I mean, how many people did turn up to that building for WrestleMania 3? It was one of the most significant events in wrestling history. The WWF had established Hulk Hogan as a living

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