Columnist Rona Barrett interviewed Miss Elizabeth at the event.īecause Intercontinental Heavyweight Champion The Ultimate Warrior defeated Hulk Hogan to win the WWF Championship, Warrior was forced to vacate the Intercontinental Heavyweight Championship, as the rules prohibited any wrestler from holding more than one singles belt simultaneously. Mary Tyler Moore was sitting at ringside, and there was a backstage segment with Steve Allen and The Bolsheviks ( Boris Zhukov and Nikolai Volkoff).
Actor Stephen Amell, who would go on to compete in a match at SummerSlam in 2015, was also in attendance. Diamond Dallas Page had a cameo on the show driving Rhythm and Blues and Jimmy Hart to the ring in his pink Cadillac. Robert Goulet sang a rendition of O Canada before the event.įuture multi-time world champions Edge and Christian were in attendance, as were Lance Storm and Renee Young. It eventually became described as the Super Bowl of sports entertainment. It was the first of WWF's original four pay-per-views, which includes Royal Rumble, SummerSlam, and Survivor Series, which were eventually dubbed the "Big Four".
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It has become the longest-running professional wrestling event in history and is held annually between mid-March to mid-April. WrestleMania is considered World Wrestling Federation's (WWF, now WWE) flagship event, having first been held in 1985. At WrestleMania VI, Warrior won his sole WWF Championship. On February 24, Tunney announced that both the WWF Championship and Intercontinental Heavyweight Championship would be on the line for the first time ever during the match. On February 10, the match was officially announced as the main event of WrestleMania VI by then WWF President Jack Tunney. On February 3, 1990, a week after Hogan and Warrior crossed paths in the 1990 Royal Rumble match, Hogan put forth "The Ultimate Challenge" to Warrior, and had to know whether Hulkamania or the power of Warrior was the strongest force in the WWF. The Ultimate Warrior ( WWF Intercontinental Heavyweight Champion), in which both championship titles were on the line. It took place on April 1, 1990, at SkyDome in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, with an announced attendance of 67,678-then a record for Skydome.Īside from its record-breaking attendance, the event is arguably best remembered for "The Ultimate Challenge"-the main event match which saw Hulk Hogan ( WWF Champion) vs. WrestleMania VI was the sixth WrestleMania professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE) and the first to be held outside of the United States. Promotional poster featuring The Ultimate Warrior and Hulk Hogan
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