10 Greatest Tag Team Matches In WWE WrestleMania History
3. Hulk Hogan & Mr. T Vs. “Rowdy” Roddy Piper & Paul Orndorff (WrestleMania)
Matches like this show how, in retrospect, wrestling was a much simpler thing. Granted, with the inaugural WrestleMania, Vince McMahon was taking quite the financial risk, and if it didn't pay off, it could have altered the company's future drastically. However, the marquee match featuring TV and film star Mr. T in a wrestling capacity speaks to the sort of cartoonish simplicity of wrestling days gone-by.
Nowadays, unless we're talking a gimmicky WrestleMania weekend show hosted by GCW, fans aren't gonna have any of this "celebrity going on last" falderal. However, it was the '80s, and the crowd just wanted to see the good guys beat up the bad guys, and Hulk Hogan and Mr. T taking on Roddy Piper and Paul Orndorff? It was a recipe for success.
More than anything this match offered from an in-ring standpoint, it became a classic from the sheer spectacle. From Muhammed Ali as the special referee, to IRL frenemies Piper and T facing off, this main event tag match presented to a worldwide audience Vince McMahon's vision of sports entertainment. They ate it up in droves, and the rest is history.