WWE Chairman and CEO Vince McMahon has been on top of the pro-wrestling world for a very long time. While there was a moment in the 1990's that he was close to losing things, they made it through. The struggle WWE had was mainly due to the Time Warner owned WCW being a tough competitor and using their money to hurt the McMahon owned "WWF" at the time.

There was a lot of struggle to reach the upcoming WrestleMania 34 that will go down on April 8, 2018. Some legendary wrestlers have worked the show, including some that everyone knows combined with some that people do not. Top performers like Shawn Michaels, The Undertaker, "Stone Cold" Steve Austin, Hulk Hogan, The Rock, Triple H, Kurt Angle, Sting, Brock Lesnar, and countless others have walked down the aisle and performed on the grandest stage of them all.

Regardless of who performs, nothing would have ever happened without Vince McMahon's vision of WrestleMania to begin with. The first WrestleMania happened in 1985. It took place at the historic Madison Square Garden in New York City. New York has always been a home to the WWE due to their connection to the area during the territory days when Vince's father owned the company. The event went over very well, of course, and the rest is history.

WrestleMania has not always been the greatest thing for the WWE, nor has everything on the show always been great. There are moments Vince would want you to forget. There are also pretty big facts about WrestleMania itself that he would also want you to never know. However, we were nice enough to find out what those were and nice enough to point out some of the worst moments in the show's history.

On top of that, we'll point things out that Mr. McMahon would like for you to never know or overlook. We're not good at overlooking things, so please enjoy the 25 things Vince McMahon wants you to forget about WrestleMania.

Vince McMahon Would Have Gone Bankrupt (Again) If WrestleMania Did Not Work

This is very little known fact, but before WrestleMania went down Vince McMahon was in a bad position. Not only did WrestleMania I have to go off without any issues, but he also had to make his money back. If people did not buy the show or come to the arena, McMahon would have likely gone bankrupt. Vince had already filed for bankruptcy before all of this, which is quite notable and something he has even been open about. However, he rarely spoke of what WrestleMania would have done had it failed.

He did, however, open up about it when WWE decided to do a special WrestleMania DVD. He would claim here that if WrestleMania did not do as expected, it is likely that WWE never becomes what it is today. This is because Vince may have been forced to sell the company, which is something he forced all the other North American territories to end up doing over the years before this. As he wanted to go national, which was against his father's wishes.

WrestleMania was a huge vision, and Vince did all he could do insure people would come. He would somehow convince Mr. T to be part of the event, and his star top man Hulk Hogan would also be there as well as other notable legends. Several WWE Hall of Famers worked that first WrestleMania, and they'll all go down in history. However, had this not worked we likely may not be talking about some of them today.

The Odd Things Regarding WrestleMania II

WrestleMania did do well, which meant Vince McMahon would naturally want to do a second one. Who could blame him for that right? However, he seemed to be a bit too ambitious for this one. This is the only WrestleMania that took place in three different cities. Seriously, WWE did a show that would go down in front of crowds in three different places. What are those locations you ask? The Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in New York, the Rosemont Horizon in Rosemont, Illinois, and the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena in Los Angeles, California.

This was seen as a bit of a failure, as the people in each arena were really not able to see the rest of the show that was not in front of them. There were screens there to help in some ways, but this was not useful mostly. Imagine going to a venue and paying a ton of money to see live wrestling and then being forced to watch half of it on a screen that you likely could not see well. Especially having to do this in the 80's when things were not as great as today.

This is also the only WrestleMania to ever take place on a Monday. WWE never bothered to explain this and they have yet to do it on a Monday since. It is usually on a Sunday every year, which makes sense considering it's a weekend and all. However, WWE really messed up with this location nonsense and Vince really does not want you to remember much on it.

WrestleMania's Weird Connection To Playboy

While we sadly are unable to add Playboy images to prove our point here, WWE has been connected to Playboy over the years. Several WWE Divas posed for the magazine, including Sable, Chyna, Maria Kanellis, Ashley Massaro, Torrie Wilson, and Candice Michelle. While these women would appear in the magazine, the WWE would announce the cover girl for it around WrestleMania time each year for a while. Of course, when WWE began to go PG they realized the partnership had to end. However, these connections run deep in WrestleMania history. Not only have those women all performed on the grandest stage of them all in come capacity, but WWE went a step further.

They actually had a match called the Playboy Evening Gown match at WrestleMania 20. They would also have a Playboy Bunny match at WrestleMania 24. Before all of this, WWE would also have connections to models from the magazine too. While WWE Divas would grace the cover, a lot of models would be in the magazine over the years. Some of which had a role at WrestleMania.

Jenny McCarthy would walk out with Shawn Michaels before his memorable ladder match with Razor Ramon. Michaels would himself pose for Playgirl at one point. This is not to forget Pamela Anderson of Baywatch fame, who posed for the magazine a number of times and also valeted Diesel for his WWE Championship match at WrestleMania XI. Obviously with WWE being a PG, family-friendly company these days, Vince wants to forget about the Playboy days. Who could blame him there?

WWE Making Up Their Own Attendance Record, Twice

Vince McMahon is very big on making sure people know how great WWE and WrestleMania is. For the longest time, WWE made sure people knew that many fans loved the company and their product overall by giving out a fake number. The issue over their attendance record comes from the time they worked the Pontiac Silverdome for WrestleMania III. This is of course the infamous night where Hulk Hogan slammed Andre the Giant and Ricky Steamboat and Randy Savage likely gave the greatest WrestleMania match ever.

While the event was great, WWE reported that they set an attendance record for not only themselves but the Silverdome itself with 93,173 attendees. However, this number is doctored and not a true figure. WWE would later and legitimately break this record when they put on WrestleMania 32 at AT&T Stadium. They aimed for 100,000 people and they sort of claim they reached it. They claimed they reached the 100k mark as The Rock announced for WWE that WrestleMania 32 had 101,763 attendees. This number like their other one was not accurate. The real number currently sits at 97,769 people. This is still an incredible number of people for one event.

The Reality Show Craziness 

While The Miz is the only reality show star to ever truly transition to become a bonafide WWE Superstar, he is also the only reality star to wrestle in the main event of WrestleMania, when he did so against John Cena at WrestleMania 27. However, WWE has always tried to stay with the current generation even when it comes to the worst parts of it.

Obviously reality shows have been pretty popular over the years, and due to this, WWE had brought them over to WrestleMania. This in spite of the groans from most of the WWE fans. The biggest of these issues came when Snooki wrestled on the card, of course Snooki was from the train-wreck on MVP called Jersey Shore. This is not the only reality show mess concerning WrestleMania. Due to the Total Divas and Total Bellas reality shows on E! that follows the female WWE Superstars, the company has worked this into the show.

Not only did they set up a match just to cancel it in order to make good TV happen...but they would do stuff on the card concerning the reality show girls. Even having random matches that were just spots of messes. Of course the crown jewel was the proposal John Cena did at WrestleMania 33 when he asked his girlfriend Nikki Bella to marry him. This was a huge part of the reality show material, which made sense of course. However, it has been pretty bad for WWE fans and Vince likely wants you to forget much of it.

The WrestleMania 2000 Main Event

WrestleMania 2000 was an event that took place in, shockingly, the year 2000. Technically, the show would be WrestleMania 16. However, Vince McMahon wanted to take advantage of the new millennium, which is why we got the name we did. It was a "McMahon In Every Corner" match, which was really strange. While the set-up seemed somewhat interesting, it was a clear power-trip by Vince to have his entire family involved in the main event when the show was not technically about them. The match set-up like this.

Triple H, the WWE Champion at the time, was managed by his storyline and eventual real life wife Stephanie McMahon. He would technically retire Mick Foley, as he beat him in a Hell in a Cell match before this. The Rock would win the Royal Rumble match, guaranteeing him a right to be in the main event for the title. Meanwhile, he eliminated Big Show last and thus there was a thought that he should be in the match too. The Rock would be managed by Vince McMahon while Shane McMahon managed Big Show

Meanwhile, Linda McMahon would bring Mick Foley back from retirement to set up a fatal four-way for the WWE Championship. It was simply a terrible, ego-driven affair by Vince McMahon. While his family went along with it, Linda for one was never a good performer and hated being on camera. Meanwhile Shane and Stephanie were good for TV but not prepared for such a high-stakes affair. The match was not very good either, which made the "McMahon In Every Corner" idea a dud, and likely something Vince wants you to forget.

Speaking Of WrestleMania 2000....

WrestleMania 2000 was a weird event beyond the main event of the show. While the McMahon Family had their own drama that was weird to deal with for that, the show had one glaring hole. Almost every single match was multi-person, which means there were seemingly no singles matches to be seen. If a title was on the line, multiple men would be involved. The same could be said for even random rivalries. However, there was one actual singles match on the card. Seriously, only one in the entire event. While most would forget about it, this match did occur and Vince McMahon certainly does not want you to remember it.

The only singles match on the WrestleMania 2000 card was The Kat vs Terri Runnels. It was refereed by WWE Superstar Val Venis, and eventual WWE Hall of Famers The Fabulous Moolah and Mae Young were at ringside, and got involved in the match a lot. This despite being at a much older age. The match saw, no shock, some skin from Kat and Terri. The two were well-known for this, and we literally could not find many pictures with them clothed. On top of the fact that it was a spot-fest that would make any true wrestling fan cringe having to get through it. Plus with WWE being PG today, this goes a bit far.

The Celebrity And Musical Performances Are Usually Trash

While there is an exception to every rule, usually WWE seems to have a lot of crappy celebrity appearances. While some turn out great, see Stephen Amell from Arrow at WWE SummerSlam in 2016, others typically suck. There is no greater time for WWE to screw up and use a horrible celebrity appearance than at WrestleMania, where they have featured athletes as well as movie and television stars. Not just as interviewers or ring announcers, but as in-ring performers too. We already spoke of Snooki, but she isn't the only female to wrestle on the WrestleMania stage.

E! Correspondent and massive WWE fan Maria Menounos has competed here too. Celebrity Mr T. was featured in matches on the first two, and NFL great Lawrence Taylor actually main evented the show once. They have also featured some good singers for America the Beautiful to open the show, but other musical performances are easily forgotten. Kid Rock and Pitbull both performed on the WrestleMania stage to the groans of WWE fans everywhere. Vince has even cut some of these celebrity appearances out from video or DVD releases of the event. So even he's not the biggest fan.

A lot of them come off as forced, where as some seem okay. For example, a time keeper seems clearly forced to put a celebrity on camera, such as the case of doing this with Vanna White. Even the addition of one for a clear attempt to gain outside interest, such as the case of adding Donald Trump. Meanwhile, the use of Pete Rose and valets like Pam Anderson and Jenny McCarthy were not overdone and useful additions to the show.

The Part-Timer Nightmare Of Today's WrestleMania

For a long time, WWE had several stars hit the scene and they would become major fixtures in the company. The Rock, The Undertaker, Chris Jericho, Triple H, "Stone Cold" Steve Austin, and so many others would stand out and become top names in the world of pro-wrestling. WWE would even make new stars like Randy Orton and John Cena. However, due to the inability to make them the corporation began seeing a drop in interest to WrestleMania each year. The drop was not so much due to lack of stars, but mostly creative.

WWE did not realize this, and continued to keep fan-favorite men and women around. Most would be used at WrestleMania time. For about a decade now, WWE has relied massively on part-time talent to come in. Part-timers are people who come in off and on throughout the year and do not work the same schedule the full-time talent does. For example, Brock Lesnar is part-time and works about 20 dates a year in a good year. Compared to the average WWE Superstar who works about 220 a year.

While WWE tries to push off that they have a "star" problem, it does seem quite obvious that they do. If they didn't, why would they need the part-timers from the past to come in and take spots away from great full-time talent? This has had the reverse affect too, as fans do not seem to care as much about seeing part-timers wrestle when they are not as good as they used to be. Thereby making fans want full-timers and not be given them. Yet WWE wonders why they have a lack of stars?

There Has Not Been Two New Full-Time WM Main Eventers Since WrestleMania 19

There is more to add to the part-timer nightmare. WWE has always tried to make new stars, but for a while the company had trouble doing this. After the OVW guys of Randy Orton, Batista, Brock Lesnar, and John Cena arrived they were truly unable to produce top guys to replace them like they could replace Attitude Era guys. This sort of forced the need for The Undertaker and Triple H to stick around, as well as talented veterans like Shawn Michaels and more.

They were lucky enough to have some AE stars remain, due to being younger. So men like Kurt Angle, Edge, and Jeff Hardy were able to stand out in the company too. The real issue was that due to the lack of stars, WWE had trouble ever really adding top guys to the main event of WrestleMania. Each year, they have seemingly put guys in there that have been in the main event before. You have to go all the way back to WrestleMania 19 to find a time where two new main eventers were added to the main event of WrestleMania. Those men were Kurt Angle and Brock Lesnar, both of course would go on to become stars.

WWE has put new main eventers in over the years like Daniel Bryan, Roman Reigns, and The Miz. However, their opponent(s) were always men who had been there before. Vince wants to claim there are stars still around today. If that is the case, why does he have to end the show with older talent or guys who have been in numerous main events? There are better matches that could be added there.

Vince's Record At WrestleMania And Match Quality Is Pretty Bad

Vince McMahon may not be the best wrestler in the world, but he has wrestled on his own show. No one is shocked that he did this, but Vince having a role in WrestleMania made sense up to a point. He was a major character in the WWE throughout the Attitude Era and partially throughout the 2000's as well. Today he's rarely seen, as Stephanie and Shane McMahon are doing the television material for the McMahon Family along with Triple H. However, for a while Vince would wrestle off and on throughout the year. A few of those times were at WrestleMania, where Vince had an interesting distinction.

Vince has never once won a match on his own show. Currently, Vince McMahon is 0-4 on the show. His losses came at the hands of his own son Shane, Shawn Michaels, Bret Hart, and Hulk Hogan. He also lost a bet against Donald Trump, where the two picked wrestlers to represent them (because they were above the fighting). Whoever lost had to have their head shaved. Bobby Lashley was represented by Trump and Umaga was represented by McMahon. Lashley would win, thus the image above would occur.

All of these matches were absolutely terrible. For his part, Vince knows he isn't good in the ring and only works shows when the character makes sense for it. His last match at the event was against Bret Hart in 2010, only doing it because of the history between the two over the Montreal Screwjob. Meanwhile they did the match involving Trump for simple promotion purposes, where he made himself the butt of the joke.

The Undefeated Records Vince Wants You To Forget

For years, The Undertaker was the most infamous WrestleMania performer. He won every year he worked the show, which is why "The Streak" was just as important on the event as any title match on the card. Undertaker would win 21 WrestleMania matches in a row, a runaway record for the event. He would eventually lose at WrestleMania 30 to Brock Lesnar and would just last year lose to Roman Reigns at WrestleMania 34. However, a 21 match streak is undeniably impressive and Vince McMahon clearly wants you to talk about The Phenom's amazing record. However, there are other undefeated performers.

For WWE's part, they do not care about anyone who has gone 1-0 at the show. So Terri Runnels is not on their care meter. However, anyone going over one match being undefeated is a pretty big deal but WWE does not publicize it. The reason is likely because WWE does not want to discuss anyone else's streak considering most who have one are no longer with WWE, nor ever could come back to put their streak on the line. However, there are notable undefeated people.

Rob Van Damn is currently 4-0 at WrestleMania and since he's likely to ever be healthy enough to wrestle for WWE again, that record will stand. He's not the only one, as AJ Lee is 2-0 at the event, and shockingly Sable is 3-0 on the grandest stage of them all.  Other undefeated wrestlers include Ax who is 3-0, and Hawk and Animal who are both 3-0.

His Own Son-In-Law Has The Most Losses In WrestleMania History

Up to last year, WWE tried to avoid ever bringing up Triple H's WrestleMania record. While he has won a ton of matches on the show, he's also known for a record that will likely never be broken. He has more losses on WrestleMania than any other pro-wrestler in history. He currently sits at 12 losses, but these losses came at the hands of some understandable people. The fact that Triple H was able to be on 12 WrestleMania events to begin with is impressive in its own right. However, he's been on far more. He actually has 9 wins on the show too. Only The Undertaker has wrestled on more WrestleMania events.

However, Triple H has not won a match at WrestleMania since WrestleMania 31 when he defeated Sting. The notable people who have beaten Triple H at WrestleMania is quite large. The list includes: Ultimate Warrior, Kane, John Cena, Sheamus, Roman Reigns, Seth Rollins, Batista, Chris Benoit, The Undertaker, and Randy Orton. Some of these men he wrestled more than once, often in a multi-man platform. For example, he would lose to Randy Orton in a triple threat but beat him in a one on one match. Meanwhile he would face The Undertaker three times and lose all of those bouts. Vince would likely not want you remembering his son-in-law is quite the loser at WrestleMania.

The Andre The Giant Memorial Battle Royal Is Not As Special As WWE Makes It Out To Be

At WrestleMania 30, WWE decided to put on a battle royal that would commemorate the terrific man known as Andre the Giant. The winner would get a trophy and have their name added to a cup, similar to the Stanley Cup, that would stay on there forever. While it is a cool thing the WWE did for Andre, the match itself is not really special. For a very long time, decades possibly, the WrestleMania battle royal was a staple of the show. Why is that you may ask?

WWE wanted to make sure they put as many on the card as they could. So if there wasn't a match set up for you, WWE tried to make one happen out of the battle royal. The running gag for years was for a match to be put on the pre-show where it would somehow get broken up and made into a battle royal. The WWE Tag Titles and United States Title matches were broken up in this situation for example.

With that said, WWE simply added the Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal to the pre-show like the regular battle royal always is. This time, they simply gave it a name and a trophy. While it is nice that they show off how much Andre means to the company, the battle royal simply isn't as special as the company makes it out to be. Most fans know this very well by now. But Vince McMahon does not want anyone to realize what they did.

Closed Circuit And Pay-Per-View WrestleMania

For those unaware with what closed circuit is....this is understandable. Before the rise of Pay-Per-View that you could order at home, many companies would use the closed circuit model to sell shows. While many know what closed circuit television is, or CCTV, this was similar but not quite. While this is basically what a security camera might see and send back to a security booth, it was not unlike the original closed circuit. Like PPV, certain places would have access to something and the only way to see it would be to go to that place that has it.

In this case, WWE would send WrestleMania on closed circuit to theaters where you would see the latest Hollywood movie. The theater would have people pay for the show before they entered, as they do for movies. Then the profits would be split up between the theater and WWE. Of course, the PPV model did a similar thing yet more people could have access to buying it. Vince McMahon was not the biggest fan of closed circuit, as it was really unpredictable and some theaters would ask for more than others. The first few events were forced to use this model, and it was not the best thing.

PPV made things much easier, as WWE would pay one flat fee to the cable or satellite company to put a show up to buy. The company would take a piece of this, but WWE would end up making more on it. Today, WWE has their own stream service called the WWE Network, which is a low $9.99 a month. WWE makes all the profits off of this, where they had to charge $50 to $60 for PPVs in order to get enough money to profit. The ability to ask for lower made fans willing to buy the network, and now with over two million paid subscribers, WWE guarantees themselves over $20 million a month. Where they had to charge far more to make this on the PPV and Closed Circuit models.

The Hulk Hogan Remarks

While Hulk Hogan has never worked for WWE and used any sort of bad language on television or PPV, he has been connected to it. Years ago, Hogan was recorded having said some terrible comments. Gawker would put this out for the world to hear, and during the lawsuit where he was suing them over a tape also leaked by Gawker Media. Hogan was working for WWE on their Tough Enough show when Gawker put this out there, which resulted in him being fired from WWE. The company lost $300 million in stock in less than a few hours when the story broke. They had no choice but to fire the Hulkster.

The comments had to do with his daughter dating a young black man. While we cannot repeat his comments here, you can easily look them up. The comments were also made nearly ten years before the audio was put out by Gawker as well. Why does Vince McMahon want you to forget about this? Hulk Hogan is synonymous with WrestleMania. The show is literally around today partly due to Hogan appearing on the first one and countless others.

He has been a main for the show technically 8 times. The first three especially. WWE would ideally love to bring Hulk Hogan back to the company soon or at least one day. Many fans have forgiven him for the remarks. Which is telling, especially after his sincere apology. Hogan would end up winning his case against Gawker as well. Winning over $160 million from the case. WWE has since tried to add material involving him to video packages since. Vince would love to bring him back even this year, but he needs people to forget about the remarks before he ever could.

The Brawl For All End Result

WWE had the crazy idea back in 1998 to do a tournament designed for legitimate fighting. This is because obviously WWE needs to feature the real fighting stuff in a place involving people who are working normally under scripted guidelines. The idea for the tournament was actually to feature one man, and hopefully get him over as the real toughest and most legit guy in the whole company. That man was "Dr. Death" Steve Williams. The idea came from the mind of Vince Russo, mostly due to John "Bradshaw" Layfield.

Due to the rise of ECW, there was a bit of a need for a hardcore division. Bradshaw also claimed he could take anyone in a legit bar fight, so the entire idea literally came out of that and to help a legit Steve Williams get over with the fans. Not only would Williams go down earlier than anticipated, several real injuries took place throughout the roster regarding all who competed in the match. The winner would shockingly be Bart Gunn, who had knocked Williams out in the second round.

WWE could have used Gunn in a bigger way and made him out to be a legit beast who proved himself as the toughest man in the locker room. Instead of doing this, they would give him a WrestleMania 15 match against popular real boxer Butterbean. While Gunn did get a chance to compete at the biggest show of the year, putting him in the ring with a real fighter like Butterbean was nonsense. Butterbean won hands down, in under a minute. Bart Gunn did not last long in WWE after this.

Santina Marella Wins WWE Diva Battle Royal At WrestleMania 25

During his career, Santino Marella was a very popular WWE Superstar. He was used as a comedic actor during his career with the company, and he was perfect for the part. He would win multiple titles in his time with the company, including the WWE Intercontinental Championship on his first night. However, WWE would sometimes use Santino is some odd ways. There is likely no worse sin than how they used him at WrestleMania 25. In the build-up to WrestleMania 25, Santino was sort of on the outs.

His storyline girlfriend Beth Phoenix was seen as tougher than him, and she was often saving him during matches and helping him win some too. Santino was a lovable bad guy, but he felt overlooked and thus the creation of Santina Marella happened. Santina was of course Santino's sister. Obviously, this was Santino in drag, which would not have technically been a bad thing if not for how Santina was used. During WrestleMania 25, WWE planned to bring back past WWE Divas and use current ones in a big battle royal.

It was going to be done to celebrate the past and present. Some great girls came back like Torrie Wilson and Sunny. However, others turned down the offer like Trish Stratus and even Lita. No one understood why, until it was revealed they knew the finish. It was going to be a man dressed in drag, Santina, getting the win. Santina eliminated Beth Phoenix to end up winning the match, to the groans of everyone. Vince wants us to forget this especially these days, as they are trying to show how much women matter. When in this match, they scoffed at the notion that they even mattered.

The Odd WrestleMania History Of The WWE Diva's Championship

While WWE no longer has an active Diva's Championship, this is for a number of reasons. They no longer refer to the women as WWE Divas, but rather Female WWE Superstars. This equals them to the men in some respects. However, WWE would still give them three different Women's Championships to contend for. One for each brand's women to go after. Yet before all of this, WWE had a big issue. Today there may be a lot of talented women who can often times wrestle as good as the men, but that wasn't always the case.

For years, WWE would run into an issue where women were miserable to watch. WWE realized the issue too, and reduced matches to usually 5 minutes or less. This was known as the "model era" in WWE, as the company seemed to prefer hiring model types and barely teach them to wrestle rather than hire girls who are already good in-ring workers. Or hire some and train them well to learn. Due to this, the WWE Diva's Title was pretty much the crowning of horrible female wrestling. Yet the weird history at WrestleMania is likely something Vince McMahon wants you to forget.

The WWE Diva's Championship never changed hands at WrestleMania when put up for contest. Therefore, the champion simply never lost at the event. The weirdness continues though. At WrestleMania 32, when then WWE Diva's Champion Charlotte Flair walked in as champion, WWE would remove the Diva's Title. They would have the winner the triple threat match between her, Sasha Banks, and Becky Lynch become the new "WWE Women's Champion." Yet Flair would end up winning the this match and the new Women's Title, therefore continuing to make any Diva's Champion undefeated at WrestleMania.

Minorities And The Main Event Of WrestleMania

Speaking of the Hogan material, WWE has been called out over the years many times. Sometimes it is for accurate reasons while other times it is unfounded. Regardless of how you feel, one thing is certain, minorities are rarely ever used at the top of the card in WWE. When they are, their skin is lighter than it is darker. Not counting Samoans like The Rock, Yokozuna, and Roman Reigns, WWE has not featured a minority more than twice in the WrestleMania main event. Those two men you will be shocked to learn are not even pro-wrestlers.

The first is Mr. T, who wrestled in the main event of the first WrestleMania, yes the A-Team member. The other man is NFL Hall of Famer Lawrence Taylor, who wrestled Bam Bam Bigelow in the main event of WrestleMania 11. While The Rock is half-black, and has wrestled in 5 WrestleMania main events, it is still quite a small number considering how many talented men we have had in WWE. This is not even including black men and women, as there have been several amazing Hispanic performers like Rey Mysterio and Eddie Guerrero who never main evented WrestleMania either.

Vince McMahon would ideally like to cover this up if possible. However, he could change the problem this year. For if he allowed Shinsuke Nakamura, the current Royal Rumble winner, to main event....he would be the first actual Japanese man to do it. He would join the handful of minorities to main event WrestleMania. As of now, WWE has not finalized the card for the show yet.

The Undertaker "Retiring" At WrestleMania 33

Last year at WrestleMania 33, The Undertaker would seemingly retire from pro-wrestling after his loss to Roman Reigns. Obviously The Undertaker and WrestleMania are connected in so many ways, with Undertaker being infamous for his undefeated streak at the show of shows. He would memorably go 21-0 before losing to Brock Lesnar at WrestleMania 30, in what was still considered a great match. Undertaker would return for WrestleMania 31 & 32 and win his matches there. All to end up going into WrestleMania 33.

This time, he would take on Reigns in the main event of the show. Undertaker was in bad shape by this period, as the 51 year old Undertaker was a bit broken down. He needed a full hip replacement, and only did the half one in order to continue wrestling a bit more. He would compete at The Royal Rumble and look pretty bad there, then due to the pain he would be unable to get in the shape he wanted. By WrestleMania 33, he was out of shape and in a lot of pain. Which would hurt his ability to deliver like he always did previously.

Vince McMahon seemingly knew The Undertaker likely would not be performing much longer. So he had his new golden boy Roman Reigns beat him, which allowed for a possible retirement to take place after the match. Undertaker would get his full hip replacement and show up at WWE RAW's 25 Anniversary Show looking in great shape. It is believed he will wrestle at WrestleMania this year, making Vince clearly wanting you to forget about any retirement look you might have seen last year.

Hulk Hogan Beating Yokozuna In 22 Seconds, All With A Black Eye

At WrestleMania 9, Bret Hart would take on Yokozuna in the main event of the show for the WWE Championship. Hart earned the right to face the large and unstoppable Yokuzuna due to winning the Royal Rumble match in January of that year. WWE made Yokozuna out to be an unstoppable force that, due to his size and prowess of his manager Mr. Fuji, practically made him unbeatable. Yokozuna would need all the help he could get against Hart, who was the top face in WWE at that time period.

Yokozuna would manage to retain the title as Mr. Fiji threw salt in the eyes of Hart as he set up his sharpshooter on the big man. This allowed Yokozuna to take advantage and get the win. Directly upon the match's conclusion, Hulk Hogan would come out. The backstory to all of this is that Hogan had been gone from the WWE before this for months, but would come back and would even compete that night in a tag match that his team would lose.

Already having Hart lose, somehow the mighty Yokozuna would accept an impromptu WWE Championship match against the Hulkster. Of which Hogan won in 22 seconds. So a mighty champion goes down quick to a man who also wrestled that night in a tag match and lost? He did all of this with a mysterious black eye. Some say it happened earlier in the night while others say it was due to other reasons. Either way, this would end up making both Yokozuna and Hart look bad. McMahon made it up to them by having them main event the show the following year, where Hart would win.

The Triple H/Booker T WrestleMania 19 Storyline

In 2003, Booker T had already proven himself as a top wrestler in the world. In WCW he was a 5-time WCW World Heavyweight Champion, and he was clearly as good as anyone within WWE. His mic skills were great and he was good in the ring, all of this combined with being young enough to feature for years to come. Yet WWE would want to put a stop to that for no real reason at WrestleMania 19, and try to put Booker T in his place.

By this point, Booker T made himself out to be a real contender for Triple H's World Heavyweight Title. Thereby opening up an opportunity for Booker to challenge for it on the grandest stage of them all. However, the build-up to the event was absolutely terrible. One notable quote Triple H actually told Booker T was: "Somebody like you…doesn't get to be a world champion. People like you don't deserve it." Yes, you read that and thought of that exactly how it was intended. WWE would also have Triple H use the infamous black wrestler in WWE trope, with Triple H saying to Booker: "you're not a competitor, you're an entertainer."

This was a point made due to WWE having most black men made out to be wild characters by this point, mostly for laughs or only entertainment purposes, no more. Which had been done in culture for decades prior to this. Triple H even brought up Booker's past run-ins with the law as well. Basically, WWE made Booker out to be terrible, as some sort of unworthy man to Triple H's powerful man. One would assume all of this would lead to Booker T winning to overcome what the bad heel said right? Yeah, he would lose.

Chris Benoit Being In And Winning In The WrestleMania 20 Main Event

For a long time, Chris Benoit was a beloved pro-wrestler who was seen as one of the best technical in-ring wrestlers who ever lived. Benoit was fantastic, and in a time that WWE was trying to make new stars they realized fans were gravitating around a number of great veterans they had not explored opportunities with. One of those being Eddie Guerrero of WWE SmackDown and Chris Benoit of WWE RAW. Eddie would manage to capture the WWE Championship at WWE No Way Out from Brock Lesnar.

Goldberg interfered in this match, which set a match up for he and Lesnar at WrestleMania 20. It was remembered mostly for being terrible, and for both men leaving the company right after. Meanwhile, Eddie would defend his title against Kurt Angle on the show. After winning the Royal Rumble that year in an amazing effort, Chris Benoit earned the right to challenge for the World Heavyweight Championship at WrestleMania too. The story saw him sort of getting involved in an already on-going rivalry involving Triple H and Shawn Michaels.

This would set up a triple-threat for the title that Benoit would win in the main event. Eddie would come out after and both men would celebrate in the ring in the infamous image above. Sadly, Chris Benoit would be notable years later for being involved in a massive scandal. Vince McMahon and WWE have tried to avoid any mention of Benoit on programming ever since. Therefore making this moment from WrestleMania one of the key things he wants people to forget about.

WrestleMania Only Happened After Vince Stole Or Bought Out All The Major Territories

Years ago, pro-wrestling was controlled sort of by a single entity called the National Wrestling Alliance or NWA for short. They would be the controlling body for the country's true World Champion, while multiple territories would run their own areas the way they saw fit. They would even have their own territorial champion. These territories would split up various areas of the country and that would lead to a number of states only seeing the territory in their home district. These territories would be on local television, of course. But NWA would send around the person they saw as the top wrestler to call the true World Champion. Notable men who held this title include Dusty Rhodes and Ric Flair.

These territories would include places like WCCW, which was owned and promoted by Fritz Von Erich. Others would include the AWA: owned and promoted by Verne Gagne, Stampede Wrestling: owned and promoted by Stu Hart, Continental Wrestling Association: owned and promoted by Jerry Jarrett and Jerry Lawler. On top of Georgia Championship Wrestling, Mid-Atlantic Wrestling, and World Championship Wrestling which were all eventually owned by Jim Crockett Promotions. They were the only true competitor for Vince McMahon, Sr. from the north.

Speaking of him, Vince McMahon, Sr. owned the World Wide Wrestling Federation(WWWF). Vince McMahon, Jr would buy this from his father and end up slowly buying up all the smaller territories, and eventually the bigger ones. He would offer good money to buy many out. If these territories did not want to sell, he would strong-arm and force them into bankruptcy. Then Vince would buy them up for a low sum. The ability to buy these areas also allowed him to get their TV deals and wrestlers. Thus, allowing WWWF, rebranded WWF, to go national and eventually international. All of this material set up for WrestleMania to happen. His father asked him to never go national and take out the territory system, but he did anyway due to his own vision. He wants you to forget all of this.