WrestleMania 3: Will there be a better WrestleMania match card?
One of the best ever sporting eventsAsk any agency that conducts surveys on sports to take a list of 10 most successful sporting events in history and I would assure you that on all the lists published, you would see WrestleMania 3.No exaggeration! It’s just the magnificence of this event that made me utter the above line. This event boasts itself of providing the gamut of matches that no other WWE PPV has ever given to the WWE fans, which makes this night especially memorable.The third event under the WrestleMania brand blew the roof off the Silverdome, witnessing a record 93,173 audience. This held the record for maximum attendance for an indoor event in North America for 23 long years.As part of this slideshow, let us have a look at the things that made this so remarkable and recollect some of the ever fresh memories from WrestleMania 3:
#3 Date, place, venue and match card
WrestleMania 3 was held on March 29, 1987 at the Pontiac Silverdome in Pontiac, Michigan. The match card for WrestleMania 3 was incredible and it remains one of the best match cards to this day. A lot of variety was offered to the WWE fans and matches like Hair vs. Hair, Loser Must Bow and Mixed Tag were introduced on the grandest stage for the first time.
Now, let us quickly glance through the match card of WrestleMania 3 which contained 12 matches - 7 singles and 5 tag matches.
Singles Action
Billy Jack Haynes vs. Hercules
Harley Race vs. Junkyard Dog (Loser Must Bow match)
Roddy Piper vs. Adrian Adonis (Hair vs. Hair match)
Butch Reed vs. Koko B. Ware
Ricky Steamboat vs. Randy Savage (c) (WWF Intercontinental Championship Match)
The Honky Tonk Man vs. Jake Roberts
Hulk Hogan (c) vs. André the Giant (WWF Championship Match)
Tag Team Action
The Can-Am Connection vs. Bob Orton and The Magnificent Muraco
Hillbilly Jim, Haiti Kid, and Little Beaver def. King Kong Bundy, Little Tokyo, and Lord Littlebrook by disqualification (Mixed tag team match)
The Dream Team vs. The Rougeau Brothers
The Hart Foundation and Dangerous Danny Davis vs. The British Bulldogs and Tito Santana (Six-man tag team match)
The Iron Sheik and Nikolai Volkoff vs. The Killer Bees