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Retro Ups & Downs - WWE WrestleMania 1 Review

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Sports & Recreation, Sports, Wrestling

4.41.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2023

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Simon Miller goes all the way back to 1985 to review the first ever WWE Wrestlemania...


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0:00.0

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0:11.0

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0:15.0

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0:22.0

So here we are,

0:23.2

we are, WrestleMania 1.

0:25.2

Even though it's not called WrestleMania 1,

0:28.0

the time it was just WrestleMania.

0:30.0

Amazingly it was almost dubbed the colossal tussle,

0:32.4

because that's what Vince McMahon wanted to call it and I tell you I get super duper sad about this if you told me we were on the cup of colossal tussle 40 my life would be exactly 2.97% better. Instead it was Lend J.

0:45.3

ringing out to Howard Finkel that came up with WrestleMania because of course

0:48.8

BeatelMania had a big thing. He's like well let's just put wrestle in front of that Bob's your

0:54.0

ankle even though his name was Howard. Most of the other stories you've heard

0:56.9

about all of this are true too because way back in 1985 pay-per-view wasn't

1:01.6

really a thing and even closed television, which is what the

1:05.0

W-W-F was going to use, was still a crazy concept.

1:08.7

To the point, the cell job here was, well, you'll need to see this amazing sports entertainment event to the

1:13.8

point you have to leave your house and go to a theater or some kind of arena to

1:19.6

watch it. The thing of that it's rainy and it's horrible and you're still going to go somewhere live

1:24.7

but not actually be part of the live experience.

1:28.0

What? It also was make or break too because when you do get into the research it does sound

1:32.0

like if this hadn't been an absolute bust,

1:34.0

Vincent Mann would have been in trouble, but instead over 1 million people decided,

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