It is particularly notable for the reported attendance of 93,173: the largest recorded attendance for a live indoor sporting event in North America, and the largest paying crowd in the history of professional wrestling. Although this number is sometimes disputed, the event is still widely considered to be the pinnacle of the 1980s wrestling boom.
Results
Numbers in parentheses indicate the length of the match.
(c) refers to the champion(s) heading into the match.
Aretha Franklin sang a rendition of "America the Beautiful" before the show. She reprised that role at WrestleMania 23 at Ford Field.
During the WrestleMania 2000 pre-show entitled WrestleMania All Day Long, which went through the history of all of the previous WrestleManias, Vince McMahon claimed that as he was about to announce "Welcome to WrestleMania III!" he felt the spirit of his father Vincent J. McMahon who had died three years earlier.
Celebrity guests in attendance for WrestleMania III included Bob Uecker, Mary Hart, Aretha Franklin, and Alice Cooper.