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The event had an announced attendance of 67,678, a record for the Skydome at the time. The main event of WrestleMania VI was "the Ultimate Challenge" — pitting WWF World Heavyweight Champion Hulk Hogan against WWF Intercontinental Heavyweight Champion the Ultimate Warrior in a Winner Takes All match.
For the third consecutive year, Warrior was the sole survivor for his team. He later survived the "Grand Finale Match of Survival" with Hulk Hogan. [31] Warrior wrestling Randy Savage on March 7, 1989, at the El Paso Civic Center. The Ultimate Warrior would go on to "retire" Savage at WrestleMania VII.
The card is infamous for featuring a widely pilloried rematch of the main event of WrestleMania VI, a 1990 pay-per-view event produced by WCW's rival the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE) in which The Ultimate Warrior had defeated Hulk Hogan for the WWF Championship.
The two main feuds entering WrestleMania in 1991 were between Hulk Hogan and WWF Champion Sgt. Slaughter and The Ultimate Warrior and "Macho King" Randy Savage, and in a way, both were intertwined. Warrior had defeated Hogan for the WWF Championship at WrestleMania a year earlier and entered 1991 as the champion.
The final two were taped and then shown on NBC at a later date. It included mainly high-card wrestlers of the WWF including Hulk Hogan, André the Giant, "Macho Man" Randy Savage, The Ultimate Warrior and "Million Dollar Man" Ted DiBiase. All episodes of The Main Event are available on the WWE Network, included with Saturday Night's Main Event.
[279] [280] Instead, Hogan endorsed a blender, known as the Hulk Hogan Thunder Mixer. He has since endorsed a grill known as "The Hulk Hogan Ultimate Grill", voluntarily recalled as a fire hazard in 2008 along with other QVC and Tristar grills. [281] In 2006, Hogan unveiled Hogan Energy, a drink distributed by Socko Energy. [282]
This was contrasted with "A Match Made in Hell", the main event of the show, which was a handicap tag team match between WWF Champion Hulk Hogan and The Ultimate Warrior against Sgt. Slaughter, General Adnan, and Colonel Mustafa. It was Slaughter's final on-screen appearance as an Iraqi sympathizer, a storyline fueled by the Gulf War.
The Ultimate Warrior won the match in just 31 seconds to end Honky Tonk's 14-month title reign, at the time, the longest Intercontinental Championship reign in history. The main event was a match pitting The Mega Powers (Hulk Hogan and Randy Savage), against their long-time rivals, The Mega Bucks (Ted DiBiase and André the Giant). Hogan and ...