10 Fascinating WWE WrestleMania 4 Facts
2. Demolition's Historic Tag Team Title Reign Began Here
Demolition found themselves relevant in WWE canon once more this past December, when The New Day rapidly approached Ax and Smash's long-standing record for longest Tag Team Championship reign in company history. That reign of more than 16 months began at WrestleMania 4, when the face-painted brutes defeated Rick Martel and Tito Santana just before the main event to capture the belts. They wouldn't drop the straps until July 1989.
And who was the team that would dethrone Demolition? That would be Arn Anderson and Tully Blanchard, who weren't even with WWE at the time of WrestleMania 4. In fact, Anderson and Blanchard were on NWA's Clash of the Champions the same night as WrestleMania 4, losing the NWA World Tag Team Championship to Lex Luger and Barry Windham. Circle of life, eh?