WrestleMania III
Promotion	WWF
Date	March 29, 1987
Venue	Pontiac Silverdome
City	Pontiac, Michigan
Attendance	93,173
Last Event	WrestleMania
Next Event	Survivor Series

WrestleMania III was the third annual WrestleMania professional wrestling pay-per-view event from the World Wrestling Federation. The event was held on March 29, 1987 from the Pontiac Silverdome in Pontiac, Michigan. Its tagline was "Bigger, Better, Badder".

The official theme song was Aretha Franklin's "Who's Zooming Who?" which was used during the end montage.

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.

• The Can-Am Connection (Rick Martel and Tom Zenk) defeated Bob Orton and The Magnificent Muraco (w/Mr. Fuji) (5:37)
• Billy Jack Haynes fought Hercules (w/Bobby Heenan) to a double countout (7:44)
• Hillbilly Jim, The Haiti Kid and Little Beaver defeated King Kong Bundy, Little Tokyo and Lord Littlebrook in a Mixed Tag Team match (3:23)
• Harley Race (w/Bobby Heenan and The Fabulous Moolah) defeated The Junkyard Dog in a "Loser Must Bow" match (4:22)
• The Dream Team (Greg Valentine and Brutus Beefcake) (w/Johnny Valiant and Dino Bravo) defeated The Fabulous Rougeaus (Jacques and Raymond) (4:03)
• Roddy Piper defeated Adrian Adonis (w/Jimmy Hart) in a Hair vs. Hair Match (6:54)
• The Hart Foundation (Bret Hart and Jim Neidhart) and Danny Davis (w/Jimmy Hart) defeated The British Bulldogs (Davey Boy Smith and The Dynamite Kid) and Tito Santana (8:52)
• Butch Reed (w/Slick) defeated Koko B. Ware (3:39)
• Ricky Steamboat (w/George Steele) defeated Randy Savage (c) (w/Miss Elizabeth) to win the WWF Intercontinental Championship (14:35)
• The Honky Tonk Man (w/Jimmy Hart) defeated Jake Roberts (w/ Alice Cooper) (7:04)
• The Iron Sheik and Nikolai Volkoff (w/Slick) defeated The Killer Bees (Brian Blair and Jim Brunzell) (5:44)
• Hulk Hogan (c) defeated André the Giant (w/Bobby Heenan) to retain the WWF Championship (12:01)

Other on-screen talent

Notes

• 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.

Also See

• List of WWE pay-per-view events
• WWF Event History
• WrestleMania

DVD & Video Releases

• Tag Classics, WrestleMania 3 & 4

External links

• The Official Website of WrestleMania III
• WrestleMania 3 at CAGEMATCH.net
• WrestleMania 3 at Online World of Wrestling

History of WrestleMania

I (1985) • II (1986) • III (1987) • IV (1988) • V (1989) • VI (1990) • VII (1991) • VIII (1992) • IX (1993) • X (1994) • XI (1995) • XII (1996) • XIII (1997) • XIV (1998) • XV (1999) • XVI (2000) • XVII (2001) • XVIII (2002) • XIX (2003) • XX (2004) • XXI (2005) • XXII (2006) • XXIII (2007) • XXIV (2008) • XXV (2009) • XXVI (2010) • XXVII (2011) • XXVIII (2012) • XXIX (2013) • XXX (2014)

WrestleMania

I (1985) • II (1986) • III (1987) • IV (1988) • V (1989) • VI (1990) • VII (1991) • VIII (1992) • IX (1993)

X (1994) • XI (1995) • XII (1996) • XIII (1997) • XIV (1998) • XV (1999) • XVI (2000) • XVII (2001) • XVIII (2002)

XIX (2003) • XX (2004) • XXI (2005) • XXII (2006) • XXIII (2007) • XXIV (2008) • XXV (2009) • XXVI (2010) • XXVII (2011) • XXVIII (2012) • XXIX (2013) • XXX (2014)