WWF The Main Event

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WWF The Main Event
World Wrestling Federation roster
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of episodes5
Production
Running time60 minutes
Production companiesOnce a Month Productions
Titan Sports Inc.
Original release
NetworkNBC
ReleaseFebruary 5, 1988 (1988-02-05) –
February 1, 1991 (1991-02-01)
Related
Saturday Night's Main Event

The Main Event is an American series of

World Wrestling Federation (WWF). The Main Event was a spin-off of Saturday Night's Main Event and was held only one time in a year (with the exception of 1990 where it was held twice) and was equivalent to today’s monthly pay-per-view
(PPV) events. Like Saturday Night’s Main Event, The Main Event aired late and held its main event match on the first hour of the show. There were five shows between 1988 and 1991. Only the first three The Main Event episodes were shown live on NBC. The final two were taped and then shown on NBC at a later date. It included mainly high-card wrestlers of the WWF including
"Million Dollar Man" Ted DiBiase
.

All episodes of The Main Event are available on the WWE Network, included with Saturday Night's Main Event.

Dates and venues

Event Date City Venue Main Event Ref
The Main Event
 February 5, 1988
Indianapolis, Indiana
 Market Square Arena
WWF World Heavyweight Championship
 [1]
The Main Event II
 February 3, 1989 Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Bradley Center
The Twin Towers (Akeem & Big Boss Man
) 		[2]
The Main Event III
 February 23, 1990 Detroit, Michigan Joe Louis Arena
special guest referee
 [3]
The Main Event IV
 October 30, 1990
Aired November 23, 1990 		Fort Wayne, Indiana Allen County War Memorial Coliseum
WWF World Heavyweight Championship
 [4]
The Main Event V
 January 28, 1991
Aired February 1, 1991 		Macon, Georgia Macon Coliseum
WWF World Heavyweight Championship
 [5]
(c) – refers to the champion(s) heading into the match

Results

The Main Event

The Main Event (1988)
Indianapolis, Indiana
The Main Event chronology
← Previous
First 		Next →
II

The Main Event (1988) took place and aired live on Friday February 5, 1988 at 8pm ET from the

Nielsen rating and 33 million viewers, both records for American televised wrestling.[8]

The match between

pinfall victory despite Hogan's shoulders not being down. It was revealed post-match that the referee was not the assigned referee, Dave Hebner, but rather his twin brother, Earl Hebner, who was hired by Ted DiBiase as part of a storyline screwjob. After the match, André attempted to surrender the title to DiBiase. Then-WWF President Jack Tunney said the title could only change hands by pin or submission, and said that by attempting to surrender the title, André had actually vacated it.[9] Following the vacancy, a single elimination tournament was held at WrestleMania IV to crown the new champion.[10]

The

The Hart Foundation match was still in progress when NBC signed off. In 2014, when the WWE Network
made available this episode to its on-demand section, the ending of the match was added in.

No.ResultsStipulationsTimes
1D
dark match

The Main Event II

The Main Event II
Bradley Center Milwaukee, Wisconsin
The Main Event chronology
← Previous
1988
 Next →
III

The Main Event II took place and aired live on Friday February 3, 1989 at 8pm ET from the Bradley Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.[11][12] The live broadcast drew an 11.6 rating and 19.9 million viewers.[13]

The slowly building tension between

The Twin Towers, leading to the team's breakup upon Savage's heel turn when Savage contended that Hogan was lusting after his manager, Miss Elizabeth.[citation needed
]

No.ResultsStipulationsTimes
1D
dark match

The Main Event III

The Main Event III
World Wrestling Federation
DateFebruary 23, 1990
VenueJoe Louis Arena Detroit, Michigan
The Main Event chronology
← Previous
II
 Next →
IV

The Main Event III took place and aired live on February 23, 1990, at 10pm ET from the Joe Louis Arena in Detroit, Michigan.[14][15] The live broadcast drew a 12.8 rating and 20.9 million viewers.[16]

special guest referee, but this changed following Buster Douglas' knockout title win over Tyson just under two weeks before, on February 11. Tyson would eventually be the guest referee at WrestleMania XIV
.

Tito Santana was a substitute for Jimmy Snuka.[citation needed]

No.ResultsStipulationsTimes
1D
dark match

The Main Event IV

The Main Event IV
World Wrestling Federation
DateOctober 30, 1990
(aired November 23, 1990)
VenueAllen County War Memorial Coliseum Fort Wayne, Indiana
The Main Event chronology
← Previous
III
 Next →
V

The Main Event IV took place on October 30, 1990, from the Allen County War Memorial Coliseum in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and aired on Friday November 23, 1990 at 10pm ET.[17][18] The broadcast drew an 8.6 rating and 15 million viewers.[19]

The

two-out-of-three falls match. The match can be seen unedited on the DVD The Shawn Michaels Story: Heartbreak & Triumph. Marty Jannetty pinned Bret Hart in the first fall with a sunset flip counter at 9:33. Hart pinned Shawn Michaels in the second fall with the Hart Attack at 19:23. Jannetty pinned Jim Neidhart
in the third fall when Michaels dropkicked Jannetty onto Neidhart, who was setting up the Hart Attack at 25:41.

Nikolai Volkoff was scheduled to face Sgt. Slaughter on the show, but Slaughter attacked Nikolai before the opening bell rang and the match never took place.

No.ResultsStipulationsTimes
1D
dark match

The Main Event V

The Main Event V
World Wrestling Federation
DateJanuary 28, 1991
(aired February 1, 1991)
VenueMacon Coliseum Macon, Georgia
The Main Event chronology
← Previous
IV
 Next →
Final

The Main Event V took place on January 28, 1991, from the Macon Coliseum in Macon, Georgia, and aired on Friday February 1, 1991 at 8pm ET.[20][21]

US Airways passenger jet and a SkyWest Airlines commuter plane. The crash occurred in the late afternoon, and KNBC opted to air news bulletin coverage of this story throughout the night. The station did replay the program unadvertised on a later date.[citation needed
]

The broadcast drew 10.6 million viewers and a 6.7 rating,[22] which was at the time the worst rating any WWF program had received on NBC despite the presence of Hulk Hogan. This has been blamed on the controversial and exploitative Sgt. Slaughter Iraqi sympathizer storyline that was on going at the time.[23]

WWF President

WWF Championship at WrestleMania VII
.

No.ResultsStipulationsTimes
1
The Orient Express (Kato and Tanaka) (with Mr. Fuji
)		Tag team match5:11
(c) – the champion(s) heading into the match

References

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  23. ^ Observer Staff (February 18, 1991). "February 18, 1991 Observer Newsletter: More on Wrestlemania relocating". F4WOnline.com. Wrestling Observer Newsletter. Retrieved September 4, 2019. (subscription required)

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