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WRESTLEMANIA VII
This was the event that got me watching the WWF, and I have been watching continuously ever since. WrestleMania VII was held in March 1991. The main event pitted the 'evil' WWF Champion, Sgt Slaughter against Hulk Hogan. Of course Hogan walked away from WM VII as World Wrestling Federation Champion. Another suprisingly good match was the 'Career Ending' match between the Ultimate Warrior and the then "Macho King" Randy Savage. The match itself lasted about 45 minuites. I say this match was suprisingly good because the Warrior hardly ever has good matches, in fact his only other good one was again against Randy Savage the following year at SummerSlam 92. This event also marked the WrestleMania debut of The Undertaker, who is MUCH different to his new 'American Badass' character. The Undertaker took on and defeated WWF legend "Superfly" Jimmy Snuka. Other matches on the card were:

WWF INTERCONTINENTAL CHAMPIONSHIP: Mr. Perfect VS Big Boss Man

WWF TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP:

Hart Foundation VS The Nasty Boys

BLINDFOLD MATCH: Jake "The Snake" Roberts VS "The Model" Rick Martel

"Million $ Man" Ted Dibiase VS Virgil

British Bulldog VS The Warlord

Greg "The Hammer" Valentine VS Earthquake

Texas Tornado VS Dino Bravo

Legion Of Doom VS Power and Glory

Demolition VS Tenryu and Kitao

The Mountie VS Tito Santanna

The Rockers VS The Barbarian and Haku

This is an excellent WrestleMania, if you dont already own it I suggest you buy it because in my opinion it was a classic.

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Superstars And Stripes Forever
WrestleMania VII
March 24, 1991
Los Angeles Sports Arena
Los Angeles, California

The Rockers V. The Barbarian & Haku
Great Tag Team Match and Opener. Rockers wins. ***3/4

The Texas Torando V. Dino Bravo
Torando wins with his Torando pucnh. * The sad thing is that both these guys are died. R.I.P guys

The British Bulldog V. The Warlord
Bulldog wins with a running powerslam. Match was about a *1/4

WWF Tag Team Championship:
The Hart Foundation (Champions) V. The Nasty Boys

Pretty Cool Match. But, the Hart Foundation lost the Titles because of that little runt Jimmy Hart. ***1/2

Blindfold Match:
Jake "The Snake" Roberts V. "The Model" Rick Martel
This match was pretty funny. As for as the wrestling goes, it's ok. Even though when you are watching the match, you can see their faces through the hoods. **1/4

"Superfly" Jimmy Snuka V. The Undertaker
I believe Snuka's last WWF match. Undertaker wins his first WrestleMania match with the Tombstone. Snuka's head it hard against the mat. *3/4 for Snuka's head bump

Career V. Career Match:
The Ultimate Warrior V. Randy Savage
A Classic. Warrior kicks out of FIVE top rope elbow drops by Savage to win the match. The emotionally aspect of the match helped the rated. But it was still, a great wrestling match. ****3/4

Tenryu & Kitao V. Demolition
There is no way that Demolition is going to job for those no namers right?...Right?..wrong. Demolition got there asses kick. 1/8* because the Japs actually were kind of good.

Intercontinental Championship:
Mr. Perfect (Champion) V. Big Boss Man
Not that bad of a match. Andre makes his final WrestleMania apperance to help out the Boss Man. Boss Man wins by DQ **

Greg "The Hammer" Valentine V. Earthquake
Earthquake wins. 1/2*

Legion Of Doom V. Power & Glory
Doom wins within one minute of the match. DUD

Ted DiBiase V. Virgil
Virgil wins by countout. The match was only about *

Tito Santana V. The Mountie
The Mountie wins with a caddleprod. Santana has done two useless jobs in two straight WrestleManias. Its sad. Match was 3/4*

WWF Championship:
Sgt. Slaughter (Champion) V. Hulk Hogan
This match wasn't as good as the past two WrestleMania main events, but it was still good. Hogan bloods and Hogan wins.
Match was about ***

Overall, this WrestleMania was better than the last two, however, the main event was wrse. Warrior V. Savage made this Pay-Per-View great. Overall...***1/4 stars

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Bobby 'The Brain' Heenan: "I can't even talk anymore!"
I just loved some of the folks who thought the whole angle of Sgt. Slaughter becoming an Iraqi turncoat (which culminated in the main event here) was in bad taste, in light of the Gulf War which was going on at the time. Hey, since when has the WWE ever been a paragon of good taste? Anybody remember the Billy & Chuck wedding from a couple years back? Howzabout the Triple-H necrophilia dealie? Yeah, see what I mean?

Anyhoo, aside from Sgt. Slaughter's immortal chin, and Bobby "The Brain" Heenan's hilarious color commentary, I found this particular presentation fairly run-of-the-mill. Actually, if it weren't for Heenan's flurries of insults and heel rooting, this three-and-a-half-hour-long show would have been downright tedious. Most of the matches featured the usual standard moves, and nothing all that spectacular. Willie Nelson sang "America the Beautiful"... in an effort to pay off his tax debt, I'm sure. Ya had guest stars Marla Maples (bell), Regis Philbin(commentator), and Alex Trebek (ring announcer) workin' the sidelines for the main event, as well as getting' a few interviews in. Hmmm... could WM8 have been the spark that helped to ignite that whole Jeopardy/Millionaire sniping almost a decade later? I wonder...

Other notable moments & matches:

- The Rockers (Shawn Michaels & Marty Jannetty) versus Haku & the Barbarian: Shawn Michaels sure has shrunk over the years since his appearance here. There were a few moments where combatants were a bit late in reacting to some shots. Haku & Barbarian have the upper hand for most of the match... but that doesn't necessarily mean they're gonna win...

- Texas Tornado vs. Dino Bravo: Heenan comes over to the color booth after managing Haku & Barbarian, and throws out his usual flurry of insults at the good guy (Tornado). A dumb "Jeopardy"-esque attempt to ape Abbot & Costello's "Who's on First" bit erupts between "Mean Gene" Okerlund and Alex Trebek backstage prior to the match.

- Warlord vs. Davey Boy Smith: What is up with all these wrestlers who were dressed up as some kindsa 'Mad Max' trilogy rip-offs back in the day? I mean, you've got the Legion of Doom (comin' up later), Demolition (also comin' up later) and the Warlord. So much for any hint of originality...

- Nasty Boys vs. the Hart Foundation for the tag-team championship: Heenan takes some pretty funny pre-match shots at Macaulay Culkin, who is sitting at ringside. The Nasty Boys and their manager Jimmy "Mouth of the South" Hart pull off some of the best interference and cheats I've ever seen here. BTW I read somewhere that the winners of this match gave one of the two tag team belts to Willie Nelson after the event. I guess they figured he could turn around and auction it off for a pretty penny to help get that tax bill down. So much for dignity, eh, Willie?

- Jake 'The Snake' Roberts vs. Rick Martel in a blindfold match: As one might expect, this one's got very few actual moves, except for walking around trying to find each other in pitch darkness. This one's pretty much a no-brainer to fast-forward through.

- Undertaker vs. Jimmy 'SuperFly' Snuka: Undertaker's WrestleMania unbeaten streak began here as he makes short work of his opponent. He and Paul Bearer would be backstage later taking Regis Philbin's measurements for, er, some reason that escapes me at the moment, heh...

- Ultimate Warrior vs. Randy "Macho King" Savage: this match is more notable for the sappy ending as Miss Elizabeth comes to her former man's rescue after he gets wailed on by Queen Sherri following his humiliating defeat. "The Brain" is absolutely disgusted by the whole post-match spectacle-and for once, I agree with his sentiments. The love-fest then segues into some dumb debate over the possibility of using instant replay in wrestling, with Vince McMahon acting as a mediator between Yankees boss George Steinbrenner and NBC Sports analyst Paul Maguire. Also thrown in for good measure of retardedness are the Bushwackers as the replay officials.

- Demolition vs. Tenryu & Kitao: Other than a few good exchanges between "The Brain" and Gorilla Monsoon, this match ain't got much. Neither of the Japanese tag teamers sell the shots on 'em all that well.

- Big Boss Man vs. Mr. Perfect for the Intercontinental title: The viewer gets "treated" to the inane banter of Lord Alfred Hayes in the color booth as Heenan steps out to manage Mr. Perfect. And Andre the Giant lumbers out in the middle of the show to help keep things on the up-and-up for the BBM.

- Earthquake vs. Greg 'The Hammer' Valentine: fairly short bout, though mildly entertaining.

- Legion of Doom vs. Power & Glory: This one's gotta be the shortest match on the entire card. Eh, there wasn't all that much to see, anyway...

- Virgil (with 'Rowdy' Roddy Piper) vs. 'Million Dollar Man' Ted BiBiasi: DiBiasi's 'everybody has a price' gimmick and evil laugh made him one of my all-time fave 'heel' wrestlers. Only thing is, this bout between him and his former bodyguard looked more like a boxing match than a wrestling match. It also sported the most unsatisfactory ending (a count-out?!) in this entire presentation.

- The Mountie vs. Tito Santana: another super-short match-which is good, 'cuz the tape has hit the three-hour mark, and they've yet to get to the main event...

- MAIN EVENT: Sgt. Slaughter vs. Hulk Hogan for the WWF Championship title: A decent display of back-and-forth momentum changes and near-falls, with a few of the usual dirty tricks pulled off by Slaughter. And, as you'd expect, Hogan milks the crowd for pop for about ten minutes after pickin' up the win. Oh Hulk, you big ham, you...

Overall, WrestleMania VII ain't half-bad... but I've seen better. Heenen's sarcasm and the pure cheesiness of the main event's angle make this worth at least one viewing.

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