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Event
WrestleMania IV

Date
Sun 27th March 1988 UTC
Sun 27th March 1988 Local

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Time
00:00:00 UTC

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24-04-30 17:00 (PST Los Angeles)
24-04-30 19:00 (CST Chicago)
24-04-30 20:00 (EST New York)
24-05-01 01:00 (GMT London)
24-05-01 02:00 (CET Paris)
24-05-01 04:00 (GST Dubai)
24-05-01 05:30 (IST Kolkata)
24-05-01 09:00 (JST Tokyo)
24-05-01 10:00 (AEDT Sydney)

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League
WWE

Season
1988

Round
2

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(18,165 Attendance)

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Description
WrestleMania IV was the fourth annual WrestleMania professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF). It took place on March 27, 1988, at the Historic Atlantic City Convention Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The announced attendance of WrestleMania IV was 19,199.

The main event was the finals of a fourteen-man single elimination tournament for the Undisputed WWF Championship, in which Randy Savage defeated Ted DiBiase to win the vacant title. The main matches on the undercard were a twenty-man battle royal won by Bad News Brown, Demolition (Ax and Smash) versus Strike Force (Tito Santana and Rick Martel) for the WWF Tag Team Championship, and Brutus Beefcake versus The Honky Tonk Man for the WWF Intercontinental Championship.

The main feud (scripted rivalry) heading into WrestleMania was between Hulk Hogan and André the Giant. In January 1987, Hogan was awarded a trophy for his third year as WWF Champion while Hogan's best friend André was awarded a smaller trophy than Hogan's, for being undefeated in the WWF for fifteen years. Hogan congratulated his friend and said that André was the real champion of superstars all around the world, but André exited the arena before Hogan's speech was finished. In February, on an episode of Piper's Pit, Andre announced his new manager, Bobby Heenan, Hogan's longtime enemy. Hogan begged André to drop Heenan, but André refused. André said that he had come to challenge Hogan to a World Championship match at WrestleMania. He then ripped off Hogan's Hulkamania shirt and tore off Hulk's gold cross, turning heel. This culminated in their historic match at WrestleMania III in March, where Hogan defeated André to retain the title. During the match, he set a WWF record by scoop slamming the 520-pound Frenchman. At the first Survivor Series in November, André, One Man Gang, King Kong Bundy, Butch Reed and Rick Rude defeated Hogan, Paul Orndorff, Don Muraco, Ken Patera and Bam Bam Bigelow in a Survivor Series match. At the first Royal Rumble in January 1988, Hogan and André had their official contract signing for a WWF Championship rematch. Their rematch took place on the first edition of The Main Event in February, where André controversially won the title from Hogan in a screwjob plot involving a fake referee. After a reign of only 47 seconds André then sold the title to Ted DiBiase and received a large sum of money. Andre revealed, in an arena interview with DiBiase a few weeks before the event, that he planned to take a year off and go on a cruise with the money DiBiase was paying him once he secured the title for him, thereby providing the explanation as to why Andre would sell off the belt he had wanted himself at WrestleMania III just a year earlier. WWF President Jack Tunney, however, vacated the title and ordered it to be decided in a 14-man tournament at WrestleMania IV.


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Result List


Result Description
Battle Royal
Bad News Brown defeats B. Brian Blair and Boris Zhukov and Bret Hart and Danny Davis and George Steele and Hillbilly Jim and Jacques Rougeau and Jim Brunzell and Jim Neidhart and Jim Powers and Ken Patera and King Harley Race and Nikolai Volkoff and Paul Roma and Raymond Rougeau and Ron Bass and Sam Houston and Sika and The Junkyard Dog (10:40)
- Danny Davis eliminated Sam Houston
- Brian Blair & The Junkyard Dog eliminated Sika
- George Steele eliminated Jim Neidhart
- Jacques Rougeau eliminated Brian Blair
- Jim Brunzell eliminated Raymond Rougeau
- Jacques Rougeau eliminated Jim Brunzell
- The Junkyard Dog eliminated Ron Bass
- Boris Zhukov eliminated Hillbilly Jim
- George Steele was eliminated
- Paul Roma eliminated Danny Davis
- Bad News Brown eliminated Jim Powers
- Ken Patera eliminated Nikolai Volkoff
- Bad News Brown eliminated Ken Patera
- Bad News Brown eliminated Boris Zhukov
- King Harley Race eliminated Jacques Rougeau
- The Junkyard Dog eliminated King Harley Race
- Bad News Brown eliminated Paul Roma
- Bret Hart & Bad News Brown eliminated The Junkyard Dog
- Bad News Brown eliminated Bret Hart

WWF World Heavyweight Title Tournament First Round Match
Ted DiBiase (w/Andre The Giant & Virgil) defeats Jim Duggan (4:54)

WWF World Heavyweight Title Tournament First Round Match
Don Muraco (w/Superstar Billy Graham) defeats Dino Bravo (w/Frenchy Martin) by DQ (4:53)

WWF World Heavyweight Title Tournament First Round Match
Greg Valentine (w/Jimmy Hart) defeats Ricky Steamboat (5:07)

WWF World Heavyweight Title Tournament First Round Match
Randy Savage (w/Miss Elizabeth) defeats Butch Reed (w/Slick) (9:12)

WWF World Heavyweight Title Tournament First Round Match
The One Man Gang (w/Slick) defeats Bam Bam Bigelow (w/Oliver Humperdink) by Count Out (2:56)

WWF World Heavyweight Title Tournament First Round Match
Jake Roberts vs. Rick Rude (w/Bobby Heenan) - Draw (15:00)

Singles Match
The Ultimate Warrior defeats Hercules (w/Bobby Heenan) (4:29)

WWF World Heavyweight Title Tournament Quarter Final Match
Andre The Giant (w/Ted DiBiase & Virgil) vs. Hulk Hogan - Double DQ (5:22)

WWF World Heavyweight Title Tournament Quarter Final Match
Ted DiBiase defeats Don Muraco (w/Superstar Billy Graham) (5:44)

WWF World Heavyweight Title Tournament Quarter Final Match
Randy Savage (w/Miss Elizabeth) defeats Greg Valentine (w/Jimmy Hart) (6:06)

WWF Intercontinental Title Match
Brutus Beefcake defeats The Honky Tonk Man (w/Jimmy Hart & Peggy Sue) (c) by DQ (6:30)

Six Man Tag Team Match
Bobby Heenan & The Islanders (Haku & Tama) defeat Koko B. Ware & The British Bulldogs (Davey Boy Smith & The Dynamite Kid) (7:30)

WWF World Heavyweight Title Tournament Semi Final Match
Randy Savage (w/Miss Elizabeth) defeats The One Man Gang (w/Slick) by DQ (4:05)

WWF World Tag Team Title Match
Demolition (Ax & Smash) (w/Mr. Fuji) defeat Strike Force (Rick Martel & Tito Santana) (c) (12:33) - TITLE CHANGE !!!

WWF World Heavyweight Title Tournament Final Match (vacant)
Randy Savage (w/Miss Elizabeth) defeats Ted DiBiase (w/Andre The Giant) (9:27) - TITLE CHANGE !!!


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