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EditorialWWE WrestleMania IV: Macho Man Ascends & Fuse is Lit

WWE WrestleMania IV: Macho Man Ascends & Fuse is Lit

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WrestleMania 4 WWF Championship Tournament Final: Randy ‘Macho Man’ Savage (with Miss Elizabeth) vs Milion Dollar Man Ted DiBiase (with Andre the Giant)

Uecker gets a minimal pop, Vanna gets the best one of the post-Hogan matches.

Million Dollar Man is out first with Andre, Virgil is still selling the suplex from earlier. Vanna woke the crowd up, they give DiBiase a very loud chorus of boos. Savage and Elizabeth come out to a quiet pop, both in coordinating outfits of white.

This was a great match. Both guys looked good. The addition of Hogan to neutralize Andre was nice and got the crowd engaged.

Winner: Randy ‘Macho Man’ Savage by pinfall

Highlights: The post match celebration, with Savage acknowledging Elizabeth and putting her on his shoulders is still an iconic picture.

Thoughts: This was a good match and having Hogan help Savage win by getting back at DiBiase was fun. I still thing a Hogan turn starting at this WrestleMania would’ve been interesting. Savage’s return to being a heel almost seems pre-ordained here.

Overall WrestleMania 4 Comments: This was a good PPV, but it doesn’t come close to WrestleMania III. The tournament was a good idea, but the swerve of Hogan not making it to the final seemed to take the crowd out of the rest of the tournament, which isn’t fair to Savage, who had to wrestle four times that night.

The big problem with the tournament is that, as time went on, it became obvious who the final match was going to be once Hogan was out. However, most of the matches were good.

Stinkers and Snoozers: I cannot state enough how bad that Ultimate Warrior match was. In our current age of wrestling, this would not have made it onto NXT programming, never mind a WrestleMania card. I actually felt sorry for Hercules, who should’ve been in the tournament, for having to do that match to get Warrior over.

Roberts vs Rude was easily the most boring match of the night. Rude’s over-the-top selling was the only thing that saved it.

The ‘Eh’: Hogan/Andre Round 3 (if we count Survivor Series) just didn’t pass muster. There wasn’t that same electricity that they had in WrestleMania III. Andre looked tired and it just didn’t work.

The Intercontinental Match was fun, but there was too much silly to take seriously.

WrestleMania 4 Celebrities: Again, Vince seems to have realized that he needs to keep the number of  celebrities short. Uecker was fun, as always, and he was a good sport about the Andre spot. Vanna White was very nice, but seem to be more there because she was paid to, than really invested in the product.

The thing between Uecker and Ventura over Vanna White was gross. I actually cheered the heels who kept telling Uecker to shut up about it.

I don’t have much of an opinion about Leach since he was only in two spots, but he did that job well.

Final Thoughts: As someone who loves tournaments, this WrestleMania has a special place in my heart, but it definitely wasn’t the greatest, but it did a very good job.

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