WrestleMania III

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WrestleMania III was a landmark 1987 WWF pay-per-view event famed for its record-setting Pontiac Silverdome crowd and the iconic Hulk Hogan vs. André the Giant world title match.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf WrestleMania event
professional wrestling pay-per-view event
announcer Bob Uecker
Gorilla Monsoon
Jesse Ventura
attendance 93173
billedAttendance 93173
broadcastAs closed-circuit television event
pay-per-view
celebrityAppearance Alice Cooper
Aretha Franklin
Bob Uecker
Mary Hart
championshipContested WWE Intercontinental Championship
surface form: WWF Intercontinental Championship

WWF Women’s Championship
World Heavyweight Championship (WWE)
surface form: WWF World Heavyweight Championship
city Pontiac, Michigan NERFINISHED
country United States of America
surface form: United States
date 1987-03-29
featuredMatch Butch Reed vs. Koko B. Ware
Demolition vs. The Rougeau Brothers
Hercules vs. Billy Jack Haynes
Hulk Hogan vs. André the Giant for the WWF World Heavyweight Championship
King Kong Bundy and Little Tokyo and Lord Littlebrook vs. Hillbilly Jim and Little Beaver and The Haiti Kid
Randy Savage vs. Ricky Steamboat for the WWF Intercontinental Championship
Roddy Piper vs. Adrian Adonis (Hair vs. Hair match)
The Can-Am Connection vs. Don Muraco and Bob Orton Jr.
The Dream Team vs. The Fabulous Rougeaus
The Hart Foundation and Danny Davis vs. The British Bulldogs and Tito Santana
The Junkyard Dog vs. Harley Race
The Killer Bees vs. Nikolai Volkoff and The Iron Sheik
featuredWrestler Adrian Adonis
André the Giant
Billy Jack Haynes
Butch Reed
Coco B. Ware
Demolition
Harley Race
Hercules
Hillbilly Jim
Honky Tonk Man
Hulk Hogan NERFINISHED
Jake Roberts NERFINISHED
King Kong Bundy
Koko B. Ware
Nikolai Volkoff
Randy Savage NERFINISHED
Ricky Steamboat
Roddy Piper
The British Bulldogs
“Dream Team”
surface form: The Dream Team

The Fabulous Moolah
The Hart Foundation
The Iron Sheik
The Junkyard Dog
The Killer Bees
The Rougeau Brothers
followedBy WrestleMania IV
follows WrestleMania II
mainEvent Hulk Hogan vs. Andre the Giant for the WWF World Heavyweight Championship
Hulk Hogan vs. André the Giant
notableFor Hulk Hogan body-slamming André the Giant
Randy Savage vs. Ricky Steamboat being regarded as a classic match
record-setting indoor attendance at the Pontiac Silverdome
openedWith rendition of “America the Beautiful” by Aretha Franklin
openingPerformance Aretha Franklin
partOfSeries WrestleMania
promotion WWE
WWF NERFINISHED
World Wrestling Federation NERFINISHED
ringAnnouncer Howard Finkel
tagline Bigger! Better! Badder!
themeSong Are You Ready for the Survivor Series (event theme reused era-appropriate rock style)
venue Silverdome
surface form: Pontiac Silverdome
year 1987

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Hulk Hogan mainEvented WrestleMania III
Silverdome hostedEvent WrestleMania III
André the Giant notableMatch WrestleMania III
this entity surface form: WrestleMania III vs Hulk Hogan
WrestleMania II nextEvent WrestleMania III
Macho Man Randy Savage notableMatch WrestleMania III
this entity surface form: WrestleMania III vs Ricky Steamboat