10 Best Years To Be A WWE Fan
2. 1987
Triple H must love it when he welcomes his latest Performance Center recruits to the Orlando facility only to be told that he was the reason they wanted to get there in the first place. "I was right to go over Booker T in 2003 after all" he might muse, yet more confidence misplaced in his own complex legacy.
It was so much easier when it was all just Hulk Hogan slamming Andre The Giant at WrestleMania III.
A generation of fans - many of whom became wrestlers - found themselves circling around the climactic conclusion of the the legendary third edition of the 'Showcase Of The Immortals' in their formative years. It was huge. Bigger even, than the men themselves, though not on that night. Hogan and Andre were superpowers colliding like never before as far as the bulk of the world were concerned - a seismic victory for Vince McMahon the promoter. He sold a main event on some white lies and incredible lines. He sold between 78,000-93,000 tickets and inflated the figure. He sold his own American Dream and more people bought it than ever before.
WWE - as all good wrestling should be booked - had worked backwards. 1985 was a boom that somehow came before 87's Big Bang.