WWE WrestleMania III (1987)
March 29, 1987Release Date
WWE WrestleMania III (1987)
March 29, 1987Release Date
Plot.
Where to Watch.
Cast & Crew.
Hulk Hogan
Hulk Hogan
André Roussimoff
André the Giant - The Heenan Family
Randy Savage
Macho Man Randy Savage
Rick Blood Sr.
Ricky 'The Dragon' Steamboat
Kerwin Silfies
Director
Aurelian Smith Jr.
Jake 'The Snake' Roberts
Vince McMahon
Producer
Wayne Farris
The Honky Tonk Man
Elizabeth Hulette
Miss Elizabeth
Roddy Piper
Rowdy Roddy Piper
Sylvester Ritter
Junkyard Dog
Jim Myers
George 'The Animal' Steele
Harley Race
'King' Harley Race
Bret Hart
Bret 'The Hitman' Hart
Keith Franke
Adrian Adonis
Jim Neidhart
Jim 'The Anvil' Neidhart
Dan Marsh
'Dangerous' Danny Davis
Merced Solis
Tito Santana
Davey Boy Smith
Davey Boy Smith
Tom Billington
The Dynamite Kid
Billy Haynes
Billy Jack Haynes
Ray Fernandez
The Mighty Hercules
Jim Brunzell
'Jumpin' Jim Brunzell
Brian Blair
B. Brian Blair
Khosrow Vaziri
The Iron Sheik
Josip Peruzović
Nikolai Volkoff
John Wisniski Jr.
Greg 'The Hammer' Valentine
Ed Leslie
Brutus Beefcake
Jacques Rougeau
Jacques Rougeau
Raymond Rougeau
Raymond Rougeau
Bruce Reed
'Hacksaw' Butch Reed
James Ware
'The Birdman' Koko B. Ware
Rick Vigneault
Rick Martel
Tom Zenk
Tom Zenk
Don Muraco
The Magnificent Muraco
Bob Orton, Jr.
'Cowboy' Bob Orton Jr.
Chris Pallies
King Kong Bundy
Shigeru Akabane
Little Tokyo
Eric Henry Edward Tovey
Lord Littlebrook
Jim Morris
Hillbilly Jim
Media.
Details.
Wiki.
WrestleMania III was the third annual WrestleMania professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE). The event was held on March 29, 1987, at the Pontiac Silverdome in Pontiac, Michigan. There were 12 matches, with the main event featuring Hulk Hogan successfully defending the WWF World Heavyweight Championship against André the Giant.
WWF claimed that paid attendance was 93,173, which would have made it the largest crowd for a WWF event as well as the largest recorded attendance of a live indoor event in North America at the time; however, retrospective analyses of the event have determined the actual attendance to be around 78,000. The event is considered to be the pinnacle of the 1980s wrestling boom, with almost one million fans watching the event at 160 closed-circuit locations in North America and the number of people watching via pay-per-view estimated at several million. The WWF generated $1.6 million in ticket sales, and pay-per-view revenue was estimated at $10.3 million, setting a record for the time. The promotion's only event with an official higher attendance was WrestleMania 32, held at AT&T Stadium in 2016. The record for the largest indoor event stood until January 27, 1999, when it was surpassed by the papal mass with Pope John Paul II at the TWA Dome in St. Louis, Missouri, which drew an audience of 104,000.