WrestleMania Tampa Forecast For Sunday Night

Author Geno

April 11th, 2021 10:27 AM

Last night, WWE had to postpone the start of WrestleMania as the crazy weather moved through Tampa Bay. Will it happen again tonight?

Image courtesy of Chuck Schafer

ABC Action News weather guru Denis Phillips says… maybe. However there’s good news. The weather we’ll see today will be wild again, but Denis seems to think it’ll be mostly during the daylight hours. Once the storms pass us late this afternoon, he says there’s still a risk of a passing shower. But he definitely thinks the worst of the weather today (and he says it will get bad) will be over by the time the bell rings at WrestleMania tonight at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa at 7pm.

Hopefully his forecast is on the money. Tonight will be my first WrestleMania since Hulk Hogan took on Andre The Giant over 30 years ago at WrestleMania 4!

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  Hulk Hogan vs. Andre The Giant headlined WrestleMania the year before. But Andre's health was in decline by this point. It was just a match during the tournament. Hulk and Andre only did this one match.

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  Final round of the tournament. Randy "Macho Man" Savage vs. "Million Dollar Man" Ted DiBiase.

• Geno’s Pictures From WrestleMania 4 in 1988

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  Ah mom. Miss ya.
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  $150 for a ticket was a fortune back in '88. This would've been my first WrestleMania since 1988! Yup! I was there when Sarasota's own "Macho Man" Randy Savage won the World Wrestling Federation championship. I got to see Hulk Hogan, Andre The Giant, Bret "The Hitman" Hart, Bobby "The Brain" Heenan, and celebrities galore like Wheel of Fortune's Vanna White, Gladys Knight, and "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous" host Robin Leach. That ticket stub you see up there? Guess who was sitting in our section? Some real estate guy named Donald Trump. Wonder whatever happened to him.

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  How mom pulled this off I'll never know. She worked so many jobs to make ends meet. Miss you Mum.

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  "Mean Gene" Okerlund, Robin Leach and Howard Finkel.
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  Lights down, crowd ready!

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  DiBiase vs. Savage in the main event for the belt!

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  And your winner... Macho Man Randy Savage with Miss Elizabeth on his shoulders.
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  Vanna White says hello.

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  Celebration time with Macho Man, Elizabeth and Hulk

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  Celebration continues...
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  Andre The Giant looming

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  Oooohyeahhhh!

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  Randy "Macho Man" Savage about to win his first world championship.
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  Macho Man gets some help from Hulk Hogan

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  Magnificent Muraco accompanied by former champ Superstar Billy Graham

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  "Million Dollar Man" Ted DiBiase
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  Hoooooooooo! Hacksaw Jim Duggan.

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  "Million Dollar Man" Ted DiBiase

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  "Million Dollar Man" Ted DiBiase vs Magnificent Muraco
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  Magnificent Muraco vs Dino Bravo I believe

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  New champ!

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  Savage vs One Man Gang
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  Savage is down but not out

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  Bam Bam Bigelow vs One Man Gang... fun fact, before WrestleMania, my amazing mother rented a car so we could look for the pro wrestling school Bam Bam trained at. We knew it was SOMEWHERE in this small New Jersey town I can't think of the name of. There was no internet or GPS back then. We couldn't look up the address so we went driving around just looking for it for HOURS. We never found it. So I never became WWF champ.

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  These were all taken with my handy dandy Kodak Disc camera. Remember those? I loved mine.
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  Hulk vs Andre

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  Hulk Hogan KO's Virgil the Bodyguard

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  Brutus "The Barber" Beefcake
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  Demolition about to become WWF Tag Team Champs over Strike Force

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  Tag team championship match

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  Defeated and no longer champs... I was happy. I always liked the bad guys!
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  Bret Hart, Bad News Brown and Junkyard Dog

• Geno’s Pictures From WrestleMania 4 in 1988

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  Took a walk around the arena when we arrived to get different shots like this.

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  Battle royal action
• Geno’s Pictures From WrestleMania 4 in 1988

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  Battle royal time!

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  Crowd filling in.

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  "Mr Baseball" Bob Eucker I believe!
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  Gladys Knight sings the America The Beautiful.

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  Howard Finkel ready to get this thing started.

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  Trump Plaza was really just the Atlantic City Convention Center. Trump Plaza was just a hotel.
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  Our view!

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