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WrestleMania IV
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.〔http://prowrestling.about.com/od/wrestlemania/a/wmthevenues.htm〕
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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Randy Savage vs. Ted DiBiase WWF Championship Tournament Finals )〕 The main matches on the undercard were a twenty-man battle royal won by Bad News Brown,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=WrestleMania IV official results )〕 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=WrestleMania IV results )〕
==Background==
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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=André the Giant vs. Hulk Hogan – WWE Championship )〕 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=André the Giant, One Man Gang, King Kong Bundy, "The Natural" Butch Reed & "Ravishing" Rick Rude def. Hulk Hogan, Bam Bam Bigelow, "Mr. Wonderful" Paul Orndorff, Don Muraco & Ken Patera )〕 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Main Event results – February 5, 1988 )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=André the Giant's first WWF Championship reign )〕 After a reign of only 47 seconds André then sold the title to Ted DiBiase and received a large sum of money.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=WWE World Heavyweight Championship )〕 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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