-
SPEAKER: ...athlete in the world today,
-
the World Wrestling Federation
Heavyweight Champion Hulkamania is alive.
-
Look at the fantastic crowd,
there's not one of them in their seats
-
they're all on their feet,
an unbelievable happening.
-
(CROWD CHEERS)
-
SPEAKER: They worked forward to our piece
-
looking no better in his whole life
than he's ever looked right now.
-
(CROWD SHOUTS)
-
SPEAKER: Golden opportunity here
for one Paul Orndorff.
-
This is what he wanted,
this is what he got.
-
This is what you get here,
to get here, you really made it,
-
the world's heavyweight champion.
Oh look at that! A sucker shot.
-
Right off the back as Orndorff
catches the champion.
-
He took advantage of the situation,
Hulk Hogan is lying down, look at this.
-
There's some on the grass if you get it,
and wham like that!
-
(CROWD CHEERS)
-
SPEAKER: The Hulk is down and Orndorff
unloading with right hands
-
but the champion fighting back
the champion's on top he switched it up
-
and he's unloading.
-
(CROWD CHEERS WILDLY)
-
SPEAKER: (INAUDIBLE) that's Hulk Hogan
pulling him back, running back with him.
-
Oh look at that referee.
What a snap, what the referee did Walt.
-
(CROWD CHEERS)
-
Banging. Get a go baby.
-
SPEAKER: Did you see the referee grab
the hair of the champion, give it a break?
-
(CROWD CHEERS WILDLY)
-
Big right hand by the champion
and Orndorff is down.
-
And Hulk is gonna look for the plug
getting him out of sight.
-
(CROWD CHEERS)
-
SPEAKER: Bugger the brain, oh,
-
look at Orndorff has even
pushed him out of the way.
-
And he's gone wild.
-
An elbow by the champion
and Orndorff's out again.
-
Oh he's pulling the champ out with him.
-
SPEAKER: (INAUDIBLE)
-
SPEAKER: The action goes
to the floor here.
-
SPEAKER: Kick and punch
and kick and punch!
-
They don't need a ring.
-
Ring means nothing here Bob.
-
SPEAKER: A block by the champion
rainbow by the champion.
-
(CROWD CHEERS)
(HEAD SMACKS POLE)
-
Look up, the challenger
gets rammed in head first.
-
Where's the Brain?
Nowhere to be spotted in sight anywhere.
-
And the champ wants him back
inside the ring.
-
(BACKGROUND CHATTER)
-
SPEAKER: Can't believe won it in the ring
and he's really got to win it again.
-
C'mon referee, get out of the way
-
and let these guys and let these guys
do their thing
-
let's settle this score once and for all.
-
Irish whip there and oh
what a close one by the champ!
-
(CROWD CHEERS WILDLY)
-
Orndorff's down!
The big elbow.
-
He could be setting him up here,
could be the beginning of the end.
-
(CROWD CHEERS WILDLY)
-
SPEAKER: I think Orndorff's just playing fox.
(CROWD CHEERS)
-
SPEAKER: I think just like
the champion said,
-
there's nowhere to run and hide,
I'm gonna set him up and take him out.
-
Those were his words.
(CROWD CHEERS WILDLY)
-
SPEAKER: Yeah, he almost took
his brains out with that one.
-
(HORN BLOWS)
-
I swear Orndorff's head's
going in circles.
-
SPEAKER: This is what the youth
of the world was looking up to today,
-
and rightly so.
(CROWD CHEERS)
-
The champion got a little confidence
right there.
-
He's in superb fitness.
-
(CROWD CHEERS WILDLY)
-
SPEAKER: Oh no, he's distracting
Hulk Hogan.
-
He's distracting him.
Let's (INAUDIBLE)
-
SPEAKER: Watch out champ.
Hello.
-
Hulk one, he's got a retaliation
by a right hand,
-
look out, atomic drop, yes!
(CROWD CHEERS WILDLY)
-
Orndorff rams headfirst
into the top turnbuckle
-
under his own steam.
-
SPEAKER: (INAUDIBLE)
-
You don't wanna stay around
with that man coming at you.
-
SPEAKER: Look how the Hulk's going
hot in pursuit of the Brain.
-
SPEAKER: You're the first thing
smoking out of there baby.
-
SPEAKER: And it's a foot brace
and he then gets loose
-
but caught coming in was the champion
by Orndorff.
-
SPEAKER: Champion's down.
Tide has turned once again in this match.
-
SPEAKER: And that is Orndorff!
-
SPEAKER: You've got to watch this.
-
(REFEREE SHOUTS INAUDIBLY)
-
SPEAKER: C'mon referee,
he's using the wrong foot.
-
This is the leverage there,
that's not legal.
-
SPEAKER: Oh, c'mon Monsoon.
-
SPEAKER: A tremendous knee drop
to the back of the head.
-
(CROWD CHEERS, CHANTS)
-
SPEAKER: If I didn't know better,
Monsoon I figured you don't like Orndorff.
-
SPEAKER: I don't have a whole lot of love
for the individual, no.
-
SPEAKER: All the way across the ring
with a big uppercut
-
sends the champion sprawling
out of the ring.
-
(CROWD CHEERS)
-
He took a quick look around and made sure
that the weasel wasn't attacking
-
from the back.
-
SPEAKER: I'll tell you what,
you're gonna need to have eyes
-
at the back of your head there, champ.
(BACKGROUND CHATTER)
-
SPEAKER: Hold on there in the street,
that's it.
-
SPEAKER: This is what it's all about,
look out, suplex perharps,
-
outside the ring, yes.
(CROWD CHEERS WILDLY)
-
There's nothing there but steel.
-
SPEAKER: We can have a new champion
tonight, hey pal?
-
Play that right now.
-
SPEAKER: Orndorff caught the champ
with a suplex outside the ring.
-
It could well be all over. However,
you cannot win the title on a countdown.
-
SPEAKER: Yeah, but I'm saying he could
snatch him back into the ring and pin him.
-
(CROWD CHEERS)
-
SPEAKER: Look at this individual...
SPEAKER: Hulk is seeing stars.
-
SPEAKER: ...don't show and slow.
-
This has got to personify once the
adrenaline starts flowing in that body
-
the chances for the
great conditioner comes in
-
and the champion you know...
-
A champion the last minute,
the last pushed an hour.
-
It belongs to the champion,
the champion's in great condition
-
I'm gonna assure you right now
will come out like never before.
-
That's why he is Hulkamania right now.
-
His superb condition,
the long hours in the gym
-
will pay off right now.
-
SPEAKER: Already, c'mon.
We're winding up.
-
The guys gonna be back
and for the speech back you're wondering
-
how did I ever lose my title
at the CNE?
-
SPEAKER: It's all on the line here
with 70,000 plus looking on
-
(ELBOW SMACKS)
-
at the Canadian National
Exhibition Stadium
-
here in Toronto, Canada,
and this is what brought them here.
-
This is what made them turn up,
(ORNDORFF GRUNTS)
-
all these unbelievable World Wrestling
Federation fans and Orndorff,
-
things looking good for him right at this
particular point in time.
-
SPEAKER: The relic's looking good,
but in a little bit he should have stayed
-
right on his attack right then and there.
(CROWD CHEERS)
-
He's putting too much time (LOUD SMACK)
in between (CROSSTALK)
-
SPEAKER: Oh, wow.
What a shot that was!
-
SPEAKER: I think I'm going head over heels
with that one.
-
SPEAKER: Right at the oesophagus
and the champion who's down
-
and perhaps out of this one.
-
SPEAKER: Paul's own race.
-
Paul Orndorff should put it
far away right now.
-
He's making a tremendous mistake Gorilla,
I can assure you that this is a mistake.
-
He's let the Hulk Hogan
get too much air.
-
Right now he should be
right on top of him.
-
Once you get a man in trouble,
keep him in trouble.
-
SPEAKER: Orndorff said you're looking at
the next world heavyweight champion.
-
(CROWD CHEERS)
-
Well, maybe we are,
we'll just have to wait and see.
-
SPEAKER: Draping him over backwards
at top rope,
-
a forearm shot right into the...
-
Probably the most powerful
part of the body in the champion.
-
Referee now getting Orndorff back.
Look at that bird's eye view
-
right over the shoulder of the weasel.
-
SPEAKER: You mean Bob is there
playing a little peek a boo,
-
is that what you mean?
-
SPEAKER: Well, he's hiding that's for sure.
-
Golden opportunity for him.
He made an awful lot of promises
-
to a lot of people including Orndorff.
-
(REFEREE SHOUTS INDISTINCTLY)
-
SPEAKER: Well there's your
heavyweight champion.
-
(REFEREE SHOUTS INDISTINCTLY)
-
(CROWD CHEERS WILDLY)
-
SPEAKER: Right hand up,
getting on Orndorff's case.
-
(CROWD CHEERS WILDLY)
-
SPEAKER: Look at the time that we have
with Orndorff
-
without being on top of the champion.
(CROWD CHEERS WILDLY)
-
SPEAKER: Champion down in the ring,
rolls over for the cover.
-
One time and he's got
that right arm out of there,
-
he's not gonna get him.
-
(REFEREE SHOUTS INDISTINCTLY)
-
SPEAKER: Referee needed a small tap.
-
SPEAKER: You're losing valuable time
Orndorff.
-
(CROWD CHEERS WILDLY)
-
This will count if you ask me.
-
SPEAKER: Orndorff complaining
vehemently to the referee.
-
And look at the champ,
he's not sure where he is exactly.
-
He is stunned for sure.
The jeopardy,
-
the championship of the world right here
as a slam by the challenger
-
and Orndorff about to drop an elbow,
yes, (CROWD CHEERS WILDLY)
-
right into the throat of the champion.
(CROWD CHEERS WILDLY)
-
SPEAKER: Good thing Paul Orndorff
is in real form, he's in great shape.
-
Hulk Hogan is in great shape,
and great move Orndorff.
-
SPEAKER: Over for the cover once again,
two count only as the right arm comes off.
-
SPEAKER: I'd say a pulp we're able
to do it right here myself.
-
SPEAKER: You can feel the electricity
in the air
-
and you can cut it with a knife
in anticipation.
-
Orndorff perched up on the top turnbuckle
(HEAVY THUD)
-
Lands one right in the sternum area
and the champion's
-
driving him into the canvas once again.
(CROWD CHEERS)
-
SPEAKER: Hulk Hogan is down.
And he's barely moving.
-
(CROWD CHEERS WILDLY)
-
SPEAKER: May be down but not out.
(CROWD CHEERS WILDLY)
-
Gorilla if this match goes on
Orndorff has great opportunity
-
but he's taking too much time.
-
SPEAKER: Look out, our champion
coming under Paul, look at him!
-
(CROWD CHEERS WILDLY)
-
The champ had enough life
to turn him into a dog catcher.
-
SPEAKER: Extra five seconds
he gave the champion
-
the champion was able to recuperate
just in a moment.
-
REFEREE: C'mon, get off him.
(SHOUTS INDISTINCTLY)
-
SPEAKER: Well it looks like Orndorff maybe
is losing his cool a little bit right now,
-
Johnny he is.
-
He's resulting to some
very unorthodox talent.
-
SPEAKER: What are you gonna do with him,
you're gonna grasp the straws of his head.
-
Hulk Hogan gets the ropes,
he set him up for that part rather.
-
(CROWD CHEERS)
-
SPEAKER: Why can't I give another one?
I think the man's (CROSSTALK)
-
SPEAKER: What do you mean another one?
He didn't give him one yet.
-
SPEAKER: I'm going to give him another one
quick plan to fix me up.
-
(INAUDIBLE)
-
(CROWD CHEERS WILDLY)
-
SPEAKER: The champ looking
a little bewildered,
-
looking a little befuddled
(CROWD CHANTS)
-
as he's taken some tremendous
punishment here.
-
Oh, look at, what is he doing?
He's fighting him.
-
SPEAKER: He's fighting him.
-
SPEAKER: I don't believe it (CROSSTALK)
SPEAKER: Championship matches.
-
(BACKGROUND CHATTER)
-
SPEAKER: Pointing the champion right,
possibly in the ear area, or eye area.
-
SPEAKER: Gorilla...
-
(CROWD CHEERS WILDLY)
(HEAVY THUD)
-
SPEAKER: Oh, what a suplex
by the challenger.
-
Orndorff really laid that one in,
good as the champ took a side headlock,
-
and Orndorff knew exactly
what to do with it.
-
SPEAKER: That could be a winning hold
right there.
-
SPEAKER: Look at the nonchalant cover.
-
Champ's got his foot outside
the ring area.
-
Orndorff thinks he's the winner,
he's ready to be called the winner.
-
(CROWD CHEERS WILDLY)
-
SPEAKER: You better be turning around
Paul Orndorff. (CROWD CHEERS WILDLY)
-
SPEAKER: Look at the Hulk,
(CROSSTALK)
-
(CROWD CHEERS WILDLY, HORN BLOWS)
-
Oh, now the tournament
is falling right now.
-
Oh, a knee right into the back,
and the referee goes down.
-
(CROWD CHEERS)
-
Orndorff and the referee
both knocked silly.
-
SPEAKER: Why doesn't Hulky
go after him now?
-
(CROWD CHEERS WILDLY)
-
SPEAKER: Champion with a thumbs up sign,
the referee is knocked cold.
-
SPEAKER: He's colder than (CROSSTALK)
(CROWD CHEERS WILDLY)
-
SPEAKER: Oh look at that!
That's what Orndorff did to him
-
and the champ is returning the favor
and what's this?
-
(CROWD CHEERS WILDLY)
-
I love it!
(CROWD CHEERS WILDLY)
-
Referee still out of it.
-
SPEAKER: Right here at the CNE.
(CROWD CHEERS WILDLY)
-
SPEAKER: Chances I'm gonna give him
the (INAUDIBLE)
-
And here it comes.
(CROWD CHEERS WILDLY)
-
Orndorff's up in the air.
(LOUD SMACK)
-
Oh what is that?
(CROWD CHEERS WILDLY)
-
Bobby the Brain hidden
from the outside,
-
clobbers the champion.
And the referee's still down.
-
(CROWD CHEERS WILDLY)
Look at him hiding like a weasel.
-
Champ flat on his back,
there's no one to count,
-
thanks God for that.
-
SPEAKER: Will somebody wake
that referee up?
-
(CROWD CHEERS WILDLY)
-
SPEAKER: The champion maybe knocked
unconscious here.
-
SPEAKER: Wake that referee up
and have him count!
-
Outrageous, he slapped him,
the damage was done but
-
counting he did did not see
(CROSSTALK)
-
He's still out of it,
look at the referee now.
-
Referee crawling towards the champion.
-
SPEAKER: Pandemonium.
(CROWD CHEERS WILDLY)
-
SPEAKER: The champion on his back
for a long time.
-
SPEAKER: This is it now.
This is it Monsoon.
-
SPEAKER: It's the referee.
Oh, we're gonna have a new champion here.
-
Look up.
-
Oh no no, he's tapping the shoulder
of Orndorff. (CROWD CHEERS WILDLY)
-
SPEAKER: Oh, c'mon Paul there was
no foul made there.
-
None whatsoever.
-
(CROWD CHEERS WILDLY)
-
Orndorff with the belt
but there was no count made.
-
(CROWD CHEERS WILDLY)
SPEAKER: He didn't.
-
(BELL RINGS)
SPEAKER: Bobby, no.
-
SPEAKER: The champion's out cold
in the center of the ring,
-
the challenger with the belt raised high
-
but I don't believe that
he is the champion.
-
(CROWD CHEERS)
-
SPEAKER: I'l tell you what.
Whether you believe it or not...
-
SPEAKER: There wasn't a count made,
there wasn't a three count made.
-
The champion was out,
he couldn't have said I quit. (BELL RINGS)
-
Let's get the official word.
-
SPEAKER: Ladies and gentlemen,
I have the results...
-
The winner by disqualification,
Hulk Hogan!
-
(CROWD CHEERS, HORN BLOWS)
-
SPEAKER: Winner out of disqualification,
look at Orndorff.
-
SPEAKER: Hulk Hogan?
Why would they say Hulk Hogan?
-
SPEAKER: Referee obviously disqualified
Orndorff when he crashed into him.
-
SPEAKER: And the referee's out colder
than a... than a mackerel.
-
SPEAKER: And look at this.
-
Orndorff with the championship belt
around his waist,
-
going to work on the champion again.
-
(BACKGROUND CHATTER)
-
And he needs some injury.
-
SPEAKER: And the referee can't even
make a decision,
-
that man's out cold.
-
SPEAKER: Look out,
with the championship belt.
-
Oh, nice block by the champ.
-
(CROWD CHEERS WILDLY)
-
The belt is down and so is Orndorff.
-
Wow, what a right hand!
-
SPEAKER: Orndorff want to play rough
and the champ is really playing rough
-
with him now.
-
SPEAKER: A close line by Hogan.
-
Orndorff had his opportunity and now
it's the Hulk star who's going bananas.
-
(CROWD CHEERS)
-
As Orndorff rolls out.
(HORN BLOWS)
-
There's your champion right there.
(CROWD CHEERS)
-
SPEAKER: There's a what?
(CROWD SCREAMS)
-
SPEAKER: Still the world's heavyweight champion.
-
SPEAKER: Well, this guy's gone nuts
this Hulk Hogan.
-
SPEAKER: We haven't seen the last
of this confrontation,
-
I can tell you that.
-
SPEAKER: 70,000 people here to see
and we're in Toronto baby!
-
And they don't believe it.
-
(BACKGROUND CHATTER)
-
SPEAKER: Certainly was a lot
of controversy there,
-
but the referee I think
made a wise decision
-
(CROSSTALK)
-
SPEAKER: ...one thing out of this,
the condition of these guys
-
looking very very superb.
-
I think the people that doubted
Paul could see
-
two of the greatest conditioned athletes
in the world
-
come back from adversity
on more than one occasion.
-
SPEAKER: Hulk Higan saying to Orndorff,
I got the belt right here if you want it,
-
come and get it.
-
SPEAKER: I think there'll be another time
for Paul Orndorff,
-
but it's not gonna be tonight.
-
('REAL AMERICAN' BY HULK HOGAN PLAYS)
-
Take a look at the greatest professional
athlete in the world today.
-
The world's heavyweight champion,
Hulk Hogan.
-
An unbelievable (INAUDIBLE)
(ROCK MUSIC PLAYS)
-
And everyone of the 70,000 plus
on their feet here at the CNEX stadium,
-
and the host there giving them
exactly what they want.
-
('REAL AMERICAN' BY HULK HOGAN PLAYS)
-
This has never happened
and that's gonna end right now,
-
he's made it happen.
-
('REAL AMERICAN' BY HULK HOGAN PLAYS)
-
Look at the looks on the faces
of the youth.
-
SPEAKER: All this (INAUDIBLE)
-
There's people up there again
and they love him.
-
SPEAKER: This man is loved throughout
the entire wrestling world
-
as he's aware.
-
He's earned the respect
and the love of the fans everywhere.
-
Take a look,
everyone on their feet applauding
-
as I am a Real American rings over
the PA system,
-
and he's thanking the man upstairs
and (INAUDIBLE), look at him.
-
('REAL AMERICAN' BY HULK HOGAN PLAYS)
-
The sound is deafening here in the stadium
as they are applauding their champion.
-
The world's champion, Hulk Hogan.
-
('REAL AMERICAN' BY HULK HOGAN PLAYS)
(SONG ENDS)
-
HULK: Oh, Andre was a a tough sell for me
because for the first eight years
-
in this business,
he didn't like me,
-
and he used to beat me up all the time
and on the way to the buildings
-
or the arenas,
I had to pull the car over and vomit,
-
I was so nervous so
I won over Andre in Japan
-
and I got in a tough situation in Japan
and he became friends with me when he saw
-
the situation I was in.
-
And it was a buildup to Wrestlemania 3,
-
the friendship made the promoters
wanna put us together more and more,
-
the friendship made us wanna wrestle
each other more and more,
-
and Wrestlemania 3, I really had to prove
to Andre that I can hold my own,
-
that was the ultimate test.
-
MCMAHON: Wow, here we have this great,
you know,
-
this monstrous baby face,
this Hulk Hogan character,
-
and we don't have anything equaling that
on the other side,
-
and as much as Andre had been to my dad,
you know, which was everything.
-
I called him and said I wanna talk
to you about something.
-
And he said well,
if it's about the business,
-
you know, it's about wrestling,
save your air fare.
-
I said but just hear me out
I wanna talk to you about something.
-
And Vince, my back,
you know I need an operation,
-
I'm done.
-
And so when I began to describe
to him what this would mean,
-
I promised him there'd be
93,000 people there.
-
I knew it, and it was.
-
I was so proud of Andre,
and proud of Hogan,
-
and there's no doubt that that was,
I wouldn't say a passing of the torches
-
much as like a huge seal of approval,
the good housekeeping seal of approval
-
or something, you know,
and it was like,
-
now you had Andre's stamp.
I was like (WHISTLES)
-
doesn't get any bigger than that,
literally or figuratively.
-
SPEAKER: Timmy Hart,
when you talk about Hulk Hogan
-
and Andre the Giant,
you gotta be talking about Wrestlemania 3.
-
SPEAKER: You don't mean Keith,
the largest indoor crowd in history.
-
Over 93,000 fans.
There were a lot of matches that day
-
but I think everybody was there
to see one match.
-
And that's to see if Hulk Hogan could
break Anrdre's 15 year undefeated streak.
-
SPEAKER: You said it right,
160 closed circuit venues,
-
plus pay per view television.
-
Let's watch Hulk Hogan and Andre the Giant
in the main event at Wrestlemania 3.
-
(CROWD CHEERS)
-
SPEAKER: Look at all these people.
-
SPEAKER: This is the main event
of the evening.
-
It is for the World Wrestling Federation
Heavyweight championship
-
scheduled for one fall
with a one hour time limit.
-
First, the challenger.
(CROWD CHEERS)
-
Accompanied by his manager,
Bobby 'The Brain' Heenan.
-
(CROWD APPLAUDS)
-
He hails from Grenoble
in the French Alps.
-
He weighs 520 pounds.
Andre the Giant!
-
(CROWD CHEERS)
-
SPEAKER: An awesome figure,
that 7 foot 5" frame of Andre the Giant
-
who has literally been brainwashed
by that man right there,
-
Bobby 'The Brain' Heenan...
-
SPEAKER: No, I disagree with you
a little Gorilla.
-
The man has never had a championship
tiltle match.
-
Don't you feel in a 15 year
illustrious career,
-
that he should be granted one shot
to curtail...