10 Fascinating WWE WrestleMania 6 Facts
7. Four Matches From The Show Feature All Deceased Wrestlers
Andre is sadly one of 15 in-ring performers from the pay-per-view card that is deceased as of February 2017. Considering there were only 36 wrestlers on the show, it's even sadder that 42 percent of the participating wrestlers are gone. When The Ultimate Warrior died in 2014, it was noted that he was the twelfth (putting the total at one-third lost), with Dusty Rhodes, Roddy Piper, and Jimmy Snuka eventually joining him.
Of the 14 matches on the card, four of them entirely feature wrestlers no longer with us: Earthquake (2006) vs. Hercules (2004), Piper (2015) vs. Bad News Brown (2007), Rhodes (2015) and Sapphire (1996) vs. Randy Savage (2011) and Sensational Sherri (2007), and Snuka (2017) vs. Rick Rude (1999). Incredibly, prolific referee Joey Marella (who died in a 1994 car accident at age 31) didn't officiate any of those matches.