Wrestlemania III

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Wrestlemania 3 was the third Wrestlemania event produced by World Wrestling Federation which took place on 26th April 1987

## Background

The main feud heading into the show is WWF Champion Andre The Giant defending against Royal Rumble Winner Hulk Hogan, Hulk Hogan shockingly joined the Heenan Family at Summerslam 1985, what followed was almost a year of cheating in matches until Barry Windham set him straight as he made Hogan realize that he still loved the fans, Heenan Family noticed this and were starting to get angered at Hogan for his decisions especially when it was revealed that Hogan attacked fellow Heenan Family member Kamala to take his WWF Championship Match, at Summerslam 1986 Heenan Family showed up after Hogan's match but shook hands with him as they embraced Hogan as one of the bad guys that would do anything to get a WWF Championship match but Hogan couldn't take it anymore and beat them up because he wanted to be on the fans's side again, Andre The Giant ambushed him and injured him taking him out until the Royal Rumble where Hogan made his return and won the whole match, this is a highly personal match and Hogan's biggest challenge yet to see if he fully gets the fans's support back.

Randy Savage vs Roddy Piper goes all the way through Wrestlemania 2 when what was supposed to only be a showing of talents match turned sour as Savage low blowed Piper to be able to pick up the win, after this win Savage would go on to win MITB and become WWF champion in July while Piper left from June until October to film a movie, Piper returned at G1 finals set to take away anything Savage had, he caused him to lose the WWF title against Jake Roberts in the same show and interfered in any shot he had at regaining the championship, Randy Savage was tired of this and wanted to get rid of Roddy Piper so he challenged him to a Career vs Career Match, Roddy Piper wanted to take the most important thing in Savage's life, his career(Sorry Miss Elizabeth lmao) so he accepted.

Ricky Steamboat and Jake Roberts finally got to the main event scene in 1986 after being undervalued for most of 1985, Jake Roberts won the WWF title at G1 Finals but just 28 days later he'd lose it to the G1 winner Ricky Steamboat, Roberts got a rematch at SNME December on a fatal 4 way elimination match and he was the first one out by Steamboat, on the 8 weeks leading up to mania Roberts finally called out Steamboat feeling like he took everything away from him and now he wants him 1 on 1 in the biggest stage of them all, since they're both former WWF champs Tunney made this a NO1 contendership match to further even more the stakes.

At Summerslam 1986, Bret defeated Steamboat to win the IC title, in the same show Neidhart lost a loser is suspended from WWF until Survivor Series, Bret would start having a good singles reign, on the G1 Dynamite defeated Bret so he got a IC title shot at Survivor Series, Bret got the win, Neidhart returned and forced Bret to turn back to heel as Hart Foundation attacked British Bulldogs, Bret retained against Davey Boy but the feud continued onto the rumble as British Bulldogs defeated Hart Foundation to both get IC title shots, Bret wanted to be a face clearly while Neidhart still wanted cheap attacks, Tunney decided to make it a tag match where anyone could become IC champ, this caused some animosity with Bret and Neidhart.

US Express were one of the best tag teams of this season holding the tag titles for 200 days and they seemed to be completely on the same page when suddenly Windham eliminated Rotundo from the Rumble, Rotundo was rightfully pissed and they exchanged words as Windham said he needed to win the rumble again and Rotundo said he'd just fail again which led to the 2 breaking up, throught the weeks they continued to go into blows as Windham said Rotundo only did what he did to get 1 decent moment on his shitty career.

Honky Tonk Man debuted in May as a cocky elvis impersonator, sadly he couldn't win any matches ending up with a losing streak, on the other hand Koko B.Ware debuted in June and immediatly caught the crowd's eyes with his flashy charisma, Koko impressed so much that he became Steamboat's protege, HTM of course was pissed that he had been overshadowed and proclaims that 1987 will be his year and it would start with him ending his losing streak at wrestlemania against Koko B.Ware

US Express held the tag titles for 200 days until they broke up and the titles had to be vacated, Jack Tunney decided to do a big 10 team battle royal, amongst them are the reuniting The Islanders and new teams like Bundy/JYD and Bam Bam/BJH.

The evil russians Nikolai Volkoff and The Iron Sheik reunited after a short feud and want to get rid of the most american guy in the roster, Jim Duggan

## Results

Other Participants: Junkyard Dog & King Kong Bundy, Dream Team(Brutus Beefcake and Greg Valentine), Demolition(Crush and Smash), Fabulous Rougeaus(Jacques and Raymond Rougeau), Strike Force(Tito Santana and Rick Martel), The Naturals(Butch Reed and Harley Race), Flower Shop Alliance(Adrian Adonis and Bob Orton Jr.), Orndorff & Kamala

## Details

* Bret submitted Dynamite Kid to retain the Intercontinental Championship
* After the match, HF and BB shook hands as Jim Neidhart and Bret Hart turned back face
* Randy Savage retired from wrestling
* Hulk Hogan bodyslammed Andre The Giant in front of 90 000 Hulkamaniacs.

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