WrestleMania IV

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WrestleMania IV
Promotion
World Wrestling Federation
DateMarch 27, 1988
CityAtlantic City, New Jersey
VenueBoardwalk Hall
(Promoted as Trump Plaza)[a]
Attendance19,199
Tagline(s)What the World is Watching!
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WrestleMania IV was the fourth annual

event produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE). The event took place on March 27, 1988, at Boardwalk Hall (advertised as Trump Plaza)[a] in Atlantic City, New Jersey
. The announced attendance of the event was 19,199.

The main event featured the finals of a one-night, 14-man single-elimination tournament for the WWF World Heavyweight Championship, in which Macho Man Randy Savage defeated "The Million Dollar Man" Ted DiBiase to win the vacant title. This marked the first WrestleMania that did not feature Hulk Hogan - regarded as the WWF's biggest star in the 1980s - as a participant in the main event (though he was at ringside in Savage's corner).

The

Brutus "The Barber" Beefcake versus The Honky Tonk Man for the WWF Intercontinental Heavyweight Championship
.

Contemporary critics gave the event a lukewarm reception, noting its extended length. Retrospective analysis, some by sociologists, noted the presentation of wrestler's interpersonal relationships how the event's sponsor, Donald Trump, used the event to craft his public persona.

Production

Background

Atlantic City, New Jersey.[3][4] This event was advertised as being held at the Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino,[5] but taking place across the road at Convention Hall. Donald Trump used the event to promote his properties and, although only an audience member, was highlighted in the broadcast.[6]

Much of the promotion of the event featured the continued rivalry of

closed circuit television to 175,000 homes, and also on PPV.[9]

Storylines

André vs Hogan

André the Giant (pictured) and Hulk Hogan met in the quarter-finals of the championship tournament, having headlined the event the year prior.

The most heavily promoted

Piper's Pit, André announced his new manager, Bobby Heenan, Hogan's longtime on-screen rival.[8] Hogan asked André to leave Heenan, to which André refused.[8] André then challenged Hogan to a WWF World Heavyweight Championship match at WrestleMania III, before ripping off Hogan's Hulkamania shirt and golden cross necklace, turning from an on-screen hero to villain (heel).[8] At WrestleMania III Hogan defeated André to retain the title.[11]

At

The Main Event I in February, where André defeated Hogan with a dusty finish.[14] André won the match when referee Dave Hebner's identical twin Earl Hebner made the decision.[15][16]

Shortly after being awarded the championship, André

single elimination 14-man tournament at WrestleMania IV.[15] As previous champions, André and Hogan received byes to the second round of the tournament, but faced each other in their second-round matchup.[16]

Hogan formed an unlikely alliance with a former enemy and top challenger to his WWF World Heavyweight Championship,

angle. Although Hogan and Savage teamed together at un-televised house shows, nothing more was made of it on national television until shortly before WrestleMania IV, when Hogan rescued Savage in a similar angle featuring Andre, DiBiase and Virgil.[17][18]

Undercard

WWF Intercontinental Championship, held by The Honky Tonk Man. Beefcake, nicknamed "The Barber" after his gimmick of a barber, vowed "to cut his (Honky Tonk Man's) ducktail hair" before winning the championship.[18] Honky, meanwhile, was portrayed as a cowardly champion, frequently relying on outside interference from manager Jimmy Hart or on-screen girlfriend Peggy Sue to win matches,[18] or intentionally getting himself counted out or disqualified to retain his championship with the champions advantage.[18]

The Ultimate Warrior had debuted in the WWF in the fall of 1987, and his feud with Hercules was his first major angle, the two feuding over who was the stronger, gladiatorial-style superstar in the WWF. To further the angle, the two met in a match on WWF television, wherein Hercules attacked Warrior with his steel chain and beat him down, but Warrior was able to fight back, gain control of the chain and began using it on Hercules until other wrestlers and officials were able to separate the two.[17]

After being left off the WrestleMania III card,

The Islanders. The storyline began shortly after the inaugural Survivor Series when during a match on WWF Superstars Of Wrestling, the Islanders took the Bulldogs' mascot, Matilda the bulldog, from ringside. Following a brief suspension in connection with the dog-napping incident, Islanders members Haku and Tama began bringing dog collars tied to a chain to ringside to taunt the Bulldogs. At the same time, the Islanders' manager Bobby Heenan began making remarks on the legality of having animals at ringside (in lieu of official managers), and also made derogatory remarks about Koko B. Ware's macaw, Frankie, who accompanied Ware to ringside. This led to a Six-man tag team match with manager Heenan tagging with the Islanders against the Bulldogs and Ware.[18][17]

The Hart Foundation (from whom Martel and Santana won the belts), The Bolsheviks
and The Islanders before Demolition demanded a match at WrestleMania IV.

Event

Opening match, 20-man battle-royal

Other on-screen personnel
Role: Name:
Commentator Gorilla Monsoon
Jesse Ventura
Bob Uecker
(Battle Royal)
Interviewer Gene Okerlund
Craig DeGeorge
Ring announcer Howard Finkel
Special Guest Timekeeper Vanna White (Main Event)
Supporting Robin Leach
Vocalist Gladys Knight

WrestleMania IV's coverage began with Gladys Knight singing a rendition of "America the Beautiful". The first match of the pay-per-view event was a twenty-man over the top rope battle royal. The winner of the match would receive a trophy. After fourteen eliminations, the final six participants were Bad News Brown, Bret Hart, Paul Roma, Harley Race, Jacques Rougeau, and Junkyard Dog.[19]

Race hit a

Ghetto Blaster before eliminating him over the top rope to win the battle royal.[21] Brown was presented with the trophy, but Hart interrupted and hit Brown with the trophy. Hart and partner Jim Neidhart later turned babyface over the next few months.[19][22]

First round

Before the 14-man

Superstar Billy Graham) defeated Dino Bravo (with Frenchy Martin) by disqualification after Bravo pulled the referee in front of him, causing the referee to be hit by a flying forearm from Muraco.[21][19]

"Macho Man" Randy Savage (with Miss Elizabeth) defeated "The Natural" Butch Reed (with Slick), Greg "The Hammer" Valentine (with "The Mouth of the South" Jimmy Hart) defeated Ricky "The Dragon" Steamboat, the One Man Gang (with Slick) defeated Bam Bam Bigelow (with Oliver Humperdink),[23] and "Ravishing" Rick Rude (with Bobby "The Brain" Heenan) fought Jake "The Snake" Roberts to a time limit draw. The winners of these matches advanced to the quarterfinals. As Rude and Roberts tied, they were both eliminated from the tournament, thereby giving the One Man Gang a bye into the semifinals.[21][19]

Tournament intermission one, singles match

In his PPV debut,

finishing move, a full-nelson but could not lock his fingers behind Warriors head. Warrior then pushed his feet off the top turnbuckle and both men fell to the mat with both men being pinned. Warrior lifted a shoulder before the end of the count, awarding Warrior the win.[21][19][22][20]

Quarter-finals

Greg Valentine faced Randy Savage in the quarterfinals of the WWF Championship tournament

The first of three quarterfinals saw Hulk Hogan take on André the Giant. During the match, Hogan hit André with a chair in front of referee Joey Marella. André retaliated, grabbing the chair and hitting Hogan. After both men hit each other with the chair, they both were disqualified by Marella and, as a result, were eliminated from the tournament.[24]

The second quarterfinal saw Ted DiBiase (without either André or Virgil after Virgil had been Suplexed in the aisle by Hulk Hogan) defeat Don Muraco by pinfall.[25] With both André and Hogan disqualified, DiBiase got a bye to the final.[26] The third quarterfinal saw Randy Savage defeat Greg Valentine also by pinfall. As One Man Gang had received a bye in the quarter-finals due to Rick Rude and Jake Roberts having wrestled to a time limit draw in the first round Gang faced Savage in the semi-finals.[21][19]

Tournament intermission two, Intercontinental title match and six-man tag team match

elbow drop on Honky, who took control with a second turnbuckle fist drop. Honky went for his Swinging neckbreaker called Shake, Rattle & Roll on Beefcake but instead Beefcake kneed him in the face.[22] Beefcake put Honky in a sleeper hold. With Beefcake in charge of the match, Honky's manager Jimmy Hart hit the referee with his megaphone. The bell didn't ring but it was announced that Beefcake won by disqualification, which meant that Honky was still the champion.[b][20] Post-match, with Honky Tonk apparently knocked out in the ring, Beefcake cut the hair of Hart with his barber shears.[21]

big splash to allow Dynamite to tag Koko whilst Tama tagged Haku.[20] Both members of the Islanders squared up to Koko prompting the Bulldogs to enter the ring. All six men brawled in the ring before being separated by the referee, who ordered the Bulldogs into their corner. The Islanders used this distraction to pick up Heenan and throw him onto Koko, leading to a pinfall victory.[21]

Semi-finals

Next, Randy Savage faced One Man Gang for a place in the final of the tournament. Ted DiBiase had already received a bye in the semi-finals due to the double disqualification of Hulk Hogan and André the Giant and met the victor. Savage hit a

cane; which he hit Savage with and attempted to jab him as he lay on the mat but Savage kept rolling away. The referee caught Gang using his cane and disqualified him awarding the match to Savage.[22]

Tournament intermission three, Tag-team title match

Before the final round,

flying forearm smash on an interfering Smash and tagged in Martel who dropkicked both Ax and Smash a number of times and applied a Boston crab on Smash. Santana grabbed Mr. Fuji up onto the apron, allowing Ax to get his manager's cane. He nailed Martel with it as Smash covered Martel with a pin. As a result, Demolition won the match, and the WWF Tag Team Championships.[21][19]

Main event, WWF title tournament final

The main event of WrestleMania IV was the tournament final for the vacant WWF World Heavyweight Championship between "Macho Man" Randy Savage and "The Million Dollar Man" Ted DiBiase.[29] DiBiase was accompanied to the ring by Andre The Giant, whilst Savage his regular valet Miss Elizabeth. Savage had wrestled three prior matches, whilst DiBiase had wrestled one fewer, having received a bye from the quarterfinals. DiBiase controlled much of the match, before a fightback from Savage, who attempted a top rope elbow drop on DiBiase but DiBiase moved out of the way. DiBiase applied a Million Dollar Dream submission on Savage.[22] To aid Savage, Elizabeth went backstage to bring Hulk Hogan to ringside to neutralize André being at ringside.[20][30]

André the Giant interfered in the match on behalf of DiBiase, and whilst the referee was distracted, Hogan attacked DiBiase with a

steel chair.[31] Freed from the submission, Savage climbed up the top rope for a second elbow drop attempt and hit the Diving Elbow. He followed it up with a pinfall victory.[32] He won the tournament and the vacant WWF World Heavyweight Championship. After the match, Hogan, Elizabeth and Savage celebrated Savage's WWF Championship win.[33][21][19]

Reception

The attendance for the event was announced as 19,199, with a total of $1,400,000 in admission fees.[9][14] This total was significantly reduced from that of the previous year's event, which sat at 93,173, and was similar to the following year's 20,369.[34] It drew a 6.5 PPV buyrate, which was reduced from 8.0 the previous year.[9]

WrestleMania IV received mixed to poor reviews from critics. Most reviews criticized the show's length as well as the number of matches. Rob McNew from 411Mania.com gave the show a 3.5/10 rating when reviewing the show, claiming the show was "bad".[35] McNew was frustrated by the number of matches on the show, and the size of the tournament, saying "This show could have been so much better had they trimmed the tournament down to eight guys from fourteen. Instead, we got a bunch of short matches, none of which ended up being memorable. The show had its moments and isn't all terrible. Just way too long. Savage-Dibiase provides a great moment, but the rest of the show is a pass."[35] Retoprowrestling.com was also highly critical of the show's length, calling it "a chore to watch",[36] and that "there's probably nothing wrong with a wrestling pay per view running nigh on four hours, but when about three and a half of those hours don't actually feature much in the way of entertainment, it often feels like you've spent your entire weekend just watching this one show."[36]

John Canton of TJR wrestling called the event "a below-average show", citing the event being "a 16 match card. That’s too many matches."[37] Canton also commented on the length of these matches, and primary usage of "rest holds", and bad finishes.[37] Bryan Rose from Voices of Wrestling called the show a "dud", before stating there was a "lot of nothing for 3 1/2 hours." Rose also suggested similarities that the event's length had to watch two Godfather films.[38] Mike Powell of prowrestling.net called the event "really bad", and commented that had the show been less than three hours in length, rather than 4, it would have been an allround better show.[28]

However, John Powell, from SLAM! Wrestling called the event "excellent", saying that the show's greatness comes from its unpredictability.[39] Powell, says that the show was "another tricky venture for Vince McMahon and he hits the jackpot again."[39] Powell was very positive about the show's tournament, stating that it and Savage's title win was the highlights of the night.[39] Bret Mix from Wrestling DVD Network commented on the structure of the event, before calling the event "average", but "underrated" for its high quality of matches throughout the show, despite the number of matches.[40]

As an event in the annual WrestleMania series of events, WrestleMania IV is considered to be one of the weaker events; with reviews commenting that the event was most notable for a year-long feud between Randy Savage and Hulk Hogan that preceded the event, with the two facing off a year later at WrestleMania V.[41] Scott Keith of SmarK rant gave the event a "recommendation to avoid", and commented it was "long, boring (and) dull", and that the event was simply to "serve as a prelude to WrestleMania V"[42]

Aftermath

In the months that followed the event, Savage defended the WWF World Heavyweight Championship on multiple occasions, primarily against DiBiase but also granted title shots to others such as the One Man Gang and Bad News Brown. Hogan, meanwhile, took a leave of absence from the WWF during the late spring and part of the summer to film the movie

The Main Event II.[44] Hogan challenged Savage for the WWF World Heavyweight Championship at WrestleMania V, with Hogan winning the title.[45]

In Hogan's absence, André the Giant's main focus for much of the summer of 1988 would be on Hacksaw Jim Duggan. The feud began when Duggan confronted André during a squash match involving the latter, before André suddenly grabbed Duggan and began attacking him violently, only for Duggan to knock him out with his

2x4 board. André would win a majority of these matches, although Duggan did have offensive moments in almost all of their matches.[45]

Having wrestled to a time limit draw in the championship tournament, Jake Roberts and Rick Rude were placed into a feud regarding Rude making kayfabe advances over Robert's real-life wife, Cheryl.[7] For Rude, this was his second high-profile feud after several months of being primarily a mid-card wrestler.

The Honky Tonk Man continued to feud with Brutus Beefcake over the Intercontinental Heavyweight Championship during the spring and summer of 1988, with Honky retaining the championship by being intentionally counted out or disqualified on multiple occasions. Beefcake was granted a "final" match at SummerSlam, but was sneak attacked by Ron Bass one week before the event. Honky then lost his championship at Summerslam to The Ultimate Warrior.[7]

Demolition defended the tag team championships against former champions Strike Force, The Young Stallions and occasionally the

The Powers of Pain (The Barbarian and The Warlord) to avenge both the injury and title loss. The Powers substituted for Strike Force in their remaining scheduled return title matches, after which The British Bulldogs and The Rockers became Demolition's primary challengers.[46] The Powers became top challengers again in late 1988 after an incident at the 1988 Survivor Series
where Mr. Fuji lured Barbarian and Warlord to his side, thus turning the Powers into villains and champions Ax and Smash – which had been getting more fan support during the summer and fall – into good guys. Martel, meanwhile, would return in early 1989 and reform Strike Force with Santana, but during their WrestleMania V match against Tully Blanchard and Arn Anderson, Martel turned on Santana after a (kayfabe) botched move and became a heel.

Following Bret Hart's elimination from the battle royal, he returned to the ring to challenge Bad News Brown.

WrestleMania XIII
in 1997.

Bam Bam Bigelow continued with the WWF through the summer of 1988, wrestling mainly One Man Gang and André the Giant. Bigelow, along with manager Sir Oliver Humperdink, left the WWF for Jim Crockett Promotions in September 1988, just before Ted Turner's purchase of JCP to form WCW.

Harley Race had competed in the battle royal at WrestleMania IV, despite suffering a legitimate injury during a match against Hulk Hogan taped for a Saturday Night's Main Event program aired earlier in March 1988. Following WrestleMania IV, he took several months off, and his robe and crown were given to Haku. Haku thus went on to a major singles push during the rest of 1988 and into 1989 as "King Haku," the push coming after the Islanders were disbanded with the departure of Tama (of The Islanders) and a short-lived teaming with Siva Afi, still as The Islanders. Race returned for a short run at the end of 1988, including the 1988 Survivor Series and 1989 Royal Rumble, his final major in-ring wrestling matches for the WWF in his lifetime.

Several other wrestlers finished their WWF runs at or shortly after WrestleMania IV, including Butch Reed, Sika and Ricky Steamboat, although Steamboat would return to the WWF briefly in 1991.

WrestleMania IV was later released on VHS, and became the only WrestleMania event to be released over two VHS tapes.[49][50] The event was later released in 2014 on the WWE Network.[51]

Results

No.Results
WWF World Heavyweight Championship[33]
9:27
(c) – the champion(s) heading into the match

Tournament bracket

[54]

Round of 14 Quarterfinals Semifinals Finals
            
Hulk Hogan 5:52
André the Giant DDQ
BYE
Ted DiBiase
Jim Duggan 5:02
Ted DiBiase Pin
Ted DiBiase Pin
Don Muraco 5:35
Don Muraco DQ
Dino Bravo 4:53
Ted DiBiase 9:27
Randy Savage Pin
Ricky Steamboat 9:12
Greg Valentine Pin
Greg Valentine 6:07
Randy Savage Pin
Randy Savage Pin
Butch Reed 4:09
Randy Savage DQ
One Man Gang 4:05
Bam Bam Bigelow   2:56
One Man Gang CO
One Man Gang
BYE
Jake Roberts 15:00
Rick Rude Draw

Pin-Pinfall; CO-Countout; DQ-Disqualification; DDQ-Double disqualification

Notes

  1. ^ a b The venue was referred to as the Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino during the broadcast.[1]
  2. ^ Like other professional wrestling championships, they can only be won or loss by pinfall, submission or knockout unless stated in the stipulations placed before the match.[20]
  3. George "The Animal" Steele was also supposed to participate in the match however, he spent the whole time ringside and left shorty after Hillbilly Jim was eliminated.[21]

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