Wrestlemania II

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Wrestlemania 2 was the second Wrestlemania event and the first canon Wrestlemania in WWF Seasons produced by World Wrestling Federation which took place on 27th April 1986

## Background

The main feud heading into the show is WWF Champion Hulk Hogan defending against Royal Rumble Winner Barry Windham, Hulk Hogan had been going on a downward spiral ever since The Reboot until he joined Heenan Family at Summerslam, since then he has won every single match in a dirty way while the crowd still loves him and he still loves the crowd and he ended up winning the WWF Championship in december. Barry Windham won the Royal Rumble to get a title shot, he kept saying that Hogan was betraying his fans by doing what he's doing, Hogan says he doesn't need these underhanded tactics anymore and Windham wants Hogan to prove that to him, even if it means Hogan loses, this is a clear show of respect match.

Big John Studd and King Kong Bundy were dominating the tag team division until the summer where they lost the World Tag Team Championships, they both entered the G1 which led to them being unable to regain the tag titles, Bundy turned on Studd wanting to cut off his dead weight, Studd had nothing to say about it which led to Bundy taunting him on the months leading up to this, Studd finally challenged him to see who would be the best giant

Jimmy Snuka won King of the Ring to gain an Intercontinental Championship shot at Summerslam that was held by Jake Roberts, what followed were weeks of Roberts not taking Snuka seriously enough and they had a steel cage match at Summerslam where Snuka fell 20 feet to try and win the title but failed, after this Snuka wanted to join Roberts as he felt like he needed a friend, Roberts refused but Snuka tried to help him nonetheless, this led to Roberts losing the IC title because of Snuka and Roberts became even more infuriated with him, Roberts decides to team up with Snuka for 1 match only at Survivor Series for no specified reason and they actually do well going to SNME December to possibly get a tag title contendership but Roberts turns on Snuka, Roberts says Snuka made him lose his championship and now he's gonna make Snuka lose his career, they will face off in a Loser Leaves WWF.

British Bulldogs kept getting tag title shots at the start of the season but failed every single time, so much so that they started despising each other feeling like they were so much better in singles action, this came to a climax during the G1 when Smith and Dynamite faced each other and Smith won by countout making Dynamite lose points and they finally brawled, they took their issues to Jack Tunney who decided to make a Best of Seven with the winner getting a WWF Championship shot, Smith still respected Dynamite and wanted to reconcile with him after what he did during the G1 but Dynamite disrespected him at every chance he got until Smith snapped at him, this BO7 ended on a draw so Tunney instead decided to give them a tag title match at wrestlemania, they were forced to cooperate yet again but after this war of a feud they seemed to be even better as a team and this is their ultimate challenge to see if they have grown as a tag team.

During mid 1985, Bob Orton Jr. and Terry Funk grew a friendship and started teaming up, however not winning any tag gold, during the 8 week break on house shows, Adrian Adonis made his debut against Terry Funk and Bob Orton turned on Funk to join Adonis, Orton wanted to join a fresh new talent instead of an aging Terry Funk, they teased him that he had no friends left but Terry Funk promised that he would get a tag team partner at Wrestlemania.

Roddy Piper and Randy Savage started feuding with each other over who was the best as they felt like they needed to prove themselves in the biggest stage in wrestling

Jack Tunney decided to make a 7 Men Ladder Match for the Intercontinental Championship seeing how Andre was almost unbeatable, qualifier matches were made for it and Don Muraco, Ricky Steamboat, Haku, Jim Duggan, Tito Santana and Brutus Beefcake qualified for it.

## Details

* Randy Savage beat Roddy Piper by cheating
* Terry Funk's mystery tag team partner was former WWF Champion Junkyard Dog
* British Bulldogs had amazing teamwork and finally reconciled
* Hulk Hogan defeated Barry Windham completely clean with no underhanded tactics