Sound Off 698 Part II - WRESTLEMANIA EDITION OF THIS WEEK IN HISTORY!

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🗓️ 5 April 2021

⏱️ 122 minutes

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PART II of Sound Off 698 is a special WRESTLEMANIA-SIZED EDITION of "This Week In Wrestling History" looking back at over TWENTY WRESTLEMANIAS, including the very first one at Madison Square Garden... who WWE had as a backup in case Andre the Giant couldn't wrestle Hulk Hogan and why his match with Ricky Steamboat nearly ruined Randy Savage's life... Roddy Piper talks about why he painted himself half black for WrestleMania VI in a story that has to be heard to be believed... what Bret Hart says Hulk Hogan said to him backstage after WrestleMania IX... why Kevin Nash says Shawn Michaels tried to SABOTAGE him on the finish of their WrestleMania XI match... how we nearly got Roddy Piper against OJ SIMPSON at WrestleMania XII... the heel turn that ENDED THE ATTITUDE ERA... the Shawn Michaels vs. Eddie Guerrero match that never was... why HBK was angry with John Cena at the end of their WM23 match... Triple H on why he beat Sting at WrestleMania 31 and more.

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0:00.0	Relax. Concentrate on your breathing, hanging in the cold air because your boil is broken,
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0:18.2	again and again. Repeat our mantra, home care.
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0:51.3	This is a special bonus episode of the Salomonster Sounds Hub here for
0:56.0	Sunday April 4, 2021. I am the Salomonster. This is a special WrestleMania edition of this
1:04.3	week in wrestling history. You know, when I saw that there were over 20 WrestleMania
1:10.6	this week in history, I wanted to cry. And then I I smacked myself in the face and I
1:17.2	said, quit lining and get back to work. And so this week is dedicated to some of the
1:23.5	biggest WrestleMania of all time. And some not so big ones. And there may be a few
1:30.8	stories worked in here that you've never heard before. And so we begin with the most
1:36.8	important WrestleMania of all time. The very first one which took place 36 years ago this
1:44.6	week on March 31, 1985. The year Marty McFly was from at Madison Square Garden in New
1:54.6	York City. My father and his father were in attendance that night. I still have the original
2:01.1	WrestleMania logo t-shirt they bought me, which is a size small. And so if I tried to
2:06.6	wear it now, it would basically be a bra or a man's ear if you're a Seinfeld fan. But
2:13.9	I do still have it. Vince McMahon's national expansion was in full effect. There was a chance
2:19.5	meeting on a flight the year prior with Captain Lou Elbano and Cindy Lauper that got her
2:26.0	involved with the company as part of the whole rock and wrestling connection. Mr. T, he
2:31.1	was involved, right? He was one of the most famous TV stars of that era from the A team.
2:36.2	He would team up with Hulk Hogan in the main event of this show. They brought in other
2:40.5	celebrities like Liberace is the guest timekeeper. They had former Yankees manager Billy Martin is
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