#4 Future WrestleMania Stars get off to terrible starts
WrestleMania 2 had some truly terrible matches.
I don’t think I need to see a match with Uncle Elmer, Corporal Kirchner or a 59 second Women’s Title match ever again. This show is filled with lots of terrible, painful matches not worthy of a Saturday Night’s Main Event. But what I learned most is that future WrestleMania stars (Randy Savage, Bret Hart and Jake Roberts) got off to terrible WrestleMania debuts.
Randy Savage had his first match with George “The Animal” Steele. The issue is George’s style. Acting crazy and eating ring posts does not lend itself to the really good technical matches that Savage can pull off.
Jake Roberts didn’t do much better. Having a four-minute match with George Wells didn’t lend itself to Jake’s style either. But he did get to drop his snake on Wells as George foamed at the mouth so that is something.
The most surprising/disappointing was Bret Hart’s first match. He had the “honour” of being in the NFL vs. pro wrestler battle royal. It was as boring as you would think. Bret only threw out Russ Francis, a San Francisco 49er on his way to finishing in second place at the battle royal.
That would have been memorable if he didn’t get thrown over the top rope by Andre the Giant. WrestleMania 2 shows you that future WrestleMania stars can get off to mediocre starts.
