WWE WrestleMania 5: The ultimate face-off between Randy Savage and Hulk Hogan

This event marks the birth of many starsWe are less than a month away from the most picturesque WWE event of the year, WrestleMania 32. Talk about the list of top 5/10 sporting events in a calendar year and guess what, WrestleMania would always feature in that list.An event with such an anticipation and build-up has always contained something phenomenal and the WWE team would try everything at their disposal to make it a blockbuster.This year’s Mania would be the biggest ever in the history of the company, which gives us more reason to tune in. We, the WWE fans, watch WWE all round the year and still eagerly wait for WrestleMania. We watch 54 RAWs, 54 SmackDowns, 54 NXTs, 11 other WWE PPVs and a lot of live events, but still when it comes to WrestleMania, all these shows become just too ordinary.Mania is aloof and one of its own kind. WrestleMania 32 is very important for the company as the WWE ratings have abated in the past 12 months and the company would try to get back on track by reaping the maximum benefits from this show.With that being said, we will quickly go and recap some of the interesting things from WrestleMania 5-

#3 Date, Place, Venue and Match Card

The iconic Trump Plaza

The fifth edition of WrestleMania was launched under the WWF banner and it took place on April 2, 1989, at the Trump Plaza in Atlantic City, New Jersey. As is the case with Mania always, this PPV too was a visual treat and the WWE fans savoured it well. The event was witnessed live by around 19000 WWE fans and contained 14 matches in all.

Let us quickly glance through the match card of WrestleMania 5 which contained 14 matches – 9 singles matches and 5 tag team matches.

Singles Action

Hercules vs. King Haku  

Brutus Beefcake vs. Ted DiBiase               

Mr. Perfect vs. The Blue Blazer 

Dino Bravo vs. Ronnie Garvin     

Rick Rude vs. The Ultimate Warrior (c) (WWF Intercontinental Championship match)      

Jake Roberts vs. André the Giant (Big John Studd as special guest referee)

Jim Duggan vs. Bad News Brown              

The Red Rooster vs. Bobby Heenan        

Hulk Hogan vs. Randy Savage (c) (WWF World Heavyweight Championship match)

Tag Team Action

The Twin Towers vs. defeated The Rockers

The Bushwhackers vs. The Fabulous Rougeaus

Demolition (c) vs. The Powers of Pain and Mr. Fuji (Handicap match for the WWF Tag Team Championship)        

The Brain Busters vs. Strike Force            

The Hart Foundation vs. The Honky Tonk Man and Greg Valentine