WrestleMania Retrospective – WrestleMania VI (1990)

Here’s Part 6 of our WrestleMania Retrospective series, looking back at past WrestleMania events as we march towards WrestleMania 29 on April 7th.

WrestleMania VI (1990)
Tagline: The Ultimate Challange
Date: April 1, 1990
Venue: SkyDome Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Attendance: 67,678
O Canada: Robert Goulet

Aside its record-breaking attendance record, the event is arguably best remembered for “The Ultimate Challenge” – the main event match which saw Hulk Hogan (WWF Champion) vs The Ultimate Warrior (WWF Intercontinental Champion), in which both championship titles were on the line. On February 3, 1990, a week after Hogan and Warrior crossed paths in the 1990 Royal Rumble Match, Hogan put forth “The Ultimate Challenge” to the Warrior, and had to know whether Hulkamania or the power of the Warrior was the strongest force in the World Wrestling Federation.

On February 10th, the match was officially announced as the main event of WrestleMania VI by WWF President Jack Tunney. On February 24th, Tunney announced that both the WWF Championship and Intercontinental Championship would be on the line for the first-time ever during the match.

At WrestleMania VI, Brutus “The Barber” Beefcake was the first person to pin Mr. Perfect in a televised match, thus ending Perfect’s lengthy undefeated streak.

WrestleMania VI Results

• Paul Roma defeated The Brooklyn Brawler Singles match (Non PPV Dark Match)
• Rick Martel defeated Koko B. Ware

• Demolition (Ax and Smash) defeated The Colossal Connection (André the Giant and Haku) (c) (with Bobby Heenan) WWF Tag Team Championship
• Earthquake (with Jimmy Hart) defeated Hercules
• Brutus Beefcake defeated Mr. Perfect (with The Genius)
• Roddy Piper and Bad News Brown fought to a double countout
• The Hart Foundation (Bret Hart and Jim Neidhart) defeated The Bolsheviks (Nikolai Volkoff and Boris Zhukov).
• The Barbarian (with Bobby Heenan) defeated Tito Santana Singles match

• Dusty Rhodes and Sapphire (with Miss Elizabeth) defeated Randy Savage and Sensational Queen Sherri Mixed tag team match
• The Orient Express (Sato and Tanaka) (with Mr. Fuji) defeated The Rockers (Shawn Michaels and Marty
Jannetty) by countout

• Jim Duggan defeated Dino Bravo (with Jimmy Hart and Earthquake)
• Ted DiBiase (c) (with Virgil) defeated Jake Roberts by countout for the Million Dollar Championship
• The Big Boss Man defeated Akeem (with Slick)
• Rick Rude (with Bobby Heenan) defeated Jimmy Snuka
• The Ultimate Warrior (Intercontinental Champion) defeated Hulk Hogan (WWF Champion) Title For Title