WM 10: Starring Lex Luger As Marv Levy

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Man, I can’t believe I’ve completed the first ten years already. I can’t believe it took me an entire weekend and three fully-clothed showers to get over WrestleMania IX. Usually, it takes me a good week. I guess my resilience has actually increased with age.

So it’s March 20, 1994, and we’re back at the epicenter of pro wrestling, Madison Square Garden in New York City. The event is billed as “Ten Years in the Making”, which proves that WWE and math have been mutually exclusive for far longer than the “Twenty Fifth Anniversary of WrestleMania”

Though, technically, if WrestleMania was born on March 31, 1985, and it takes nine months to give birth, then technically, the seed may have been laid in June 1984. June 1984 to March 1994 may not QUITE be ten years, but it’s darned close. So, good enough.

We kick things off with Little Richard doing America the Beautiful with a choir. The way his voice keeps cracking would indicate that some people don’t hit puberty until their sixties. I remember being ten years old and seeing the promo shot of Little Richard in the weeks before the event, saying he was going to be performing, and I excitedly told my brother that Johnny B Badd was coming to WWF. Seriously.

Our hosts this afternoon are Vince McMahon and a recently acquitted Jerry Lawler, who has big shoes to fill in the Heenan/Ventura role. Lawler immediately stumbles out of the gate when trying to make fun of Little Richard’s voice. Somebody graduated summa cum laude from The University of Trying Too Hard.

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Posted on March 8, 2010 | Filed Under WWE