Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
WrestleMania IX was the ninth annual WrestleMania professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE). The event took place on April 4, 1993, at Caesars Palace in the Las Vegas suburb of Paradise, Nevada.
The first match rated more than five stars by Meltzer was Ric Flair vs. Ricky Steamboat in 1989. The highest-ever rating is seven stars, awarded to Kazuchika Okada vs. Kenny Omega at Dominion 6.9 in Osaka-jo Hall in June 2018. There have been 267 matches awarded 5 or more stars; Will Ospreay has the most individual matches with 44.
WCW aired the match the following night on the TNT show Nitro. WWE journalist Kevin Powers hailed the bout as the best ever held at a Halloween Havoc event, while criticizing Hogan vs. Warrior. He wrote, "It's hard to believe that thousands of pay-per-view customers missed the main event of Halloween Havoc 1998 because WCW ran out of broadcast ...
On March 31, 1985, WWE held its first ever WrestleMania at Madison Square Garden. 39 years later, WrestleMania has become a full-blown extravaganza, moving from relatively small arenas to sold-out ...
The match between The Undertaker and Shawn Michaels is widely acclaimed, earning the 2009 Match of the Year award from both Pro Wrestling Illustrated and the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, as well as Match of the Year at the 2009 WWE Slammy Awards.
The event is notable for the Rey Mysterio Jr. vs. Eddie Guerrero title vs. mask match for the WCW Cruiserweight Championship, which is considered both one of the best matches in WCW history, and one of the best matches of the 1990s. [2] In 2014, all of WCW's Halloween Havoc PPVs became available on WWE's streaming service, the WWE Network. [3]
On the May 9 episode of SmackDown!, Rico wrestled his first match in WWE, where he teamed with Billy and Chuck to defeat Al Snow, Maven and Rikishi. [4] At Judgment Day , Rico was forced to team with Rikishi to defeat his clients, Billy and Chuck for the WWE Tag Team Championship .
One of the newest premium live events in WWE took place Saturday with Bash in Berlin, marking another pay-per-view across the pond for the company, but the first ever in Germany.