Below you will find everything that happened in Professional Wrestling history on April 7th.
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• On This Day In Pro Wrestling History (April 7, 1986) – WWF WrestleMania 2
On this day in Pro Wrestling history on April 7, 1986, the World Wrestling Federation aired ‘WrestleMania 2’ LIVE on PPV from 3 different locations: the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Uniondale, New York, the Rosemont Horizon in Rosemont, Illinois and the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena in Los Angeles, California.
This was the 2nd annual WrestleMania event and it had the tagline “What the World Has Come To!”.
The inaugural WrestleMania happened in 1985 and even nowadays WrestleMania is still by far the biggest professional wrestling event on the planet each year.
Here are the PPV results …
Nassau Coliseum:
The Magnificent Don Muraco wrestled Paul Orndorff to a double-countout
WWF Intercontinental Championship: Randy Savage (c) defeated George Steele
Jake Roberts defeated George Wells
Boxing match: Mr. T defeated Roddy Piper by DQ
Rosemont Horizon:
WWF Women’s Championship: The Fabulous Moolah (c) defeated Velvet McIntyre
Flag match: Corporal Kirchner defeated Nikolai Volkoff
André The Giant won the WWF vs. NFL Battle Royal
WWF Tag Team Championship: The British Bulldogs defeated The Dream Team (c)
Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena:
Ricky Steamboat defeated Hercules Hernandez
Adrian Adonis defeated Uncle Elmer
Hoss Funk & Terry Funk defeated The Junkyard Dog & Tito Santana
WWF World Heavyweight Championship – Steel Cage: Hulk Hogan (c) defeated King Kong Bundy
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