WrestleMania III

March 1987

WrestlingFeuds documents three storylines that ran through WrestleMania III, held in March 1987. Two of them reached their blow-off here.

Storylines that paid off here

Golden Era·WWF·1986–1987

Macho Man Randy Savage vs. Ricky The Dragon Steamboat (Nov 1986 – Oct 1987)

Randy Savage crushed Ricky Steamboat's throat with a ring bell. The revenge match, planned move by move on a legal pad, stole WrestleMania III. Steamboat's reward lasted 64 days.

Randy Savage · Ricky Steamboat · Miss Elizabeth · George Steele

Golden Era·WWF·1987–1988

Hulk Hogan vs. André the Giant (Jan 1987 – Aug 1988)

André the Giant turned on his friend Hulk Hogan and challenged him for the WWF Championship at WrestleMania III, the biggest match of the 1980s wrestling boom.

Hulk Hogan · André the Giant · Bobby Heenan

Also referenced in

Golden Era·WWF·1986–1987

Hulk Hogan vs. Mr. Wonderful Paul Orndorff (Jul 1986 – Mar 1987)

Paul Orndorff spent a year as Hulk Hogan's tag partner and closest friend in the ring, then piledrove him on live television because Hogan was too busy squatting weights to take his phone call. The payoff filled Toronto's Exhibition Stadium with a then-record wrestling crowd and ended, months later, with a steel cage restart so contested it helped invent a corrupt referee angle nobody had planned.

Hulk Hogan · Paul Orndorff · Bobby Heenan · Adrian Adonis · Roddy Piper