10 Things You Didn't Know About WWE In 1990
8. The WrestleMania Commentary End Of An Era
Jesse 'The Body' Ventura and Gorilla Monsoon had called all six WrestleManias together in some capacity, but 1990's "Ultimate Challenge" was the end of the road for the partnership on the 'Grandest Stage'.
Bringing charisma and gravitas to Monsoon's typically silky hosting, Ventura offered more respect to the former wrestler than he did to television partner and real life boss Vince McMahon. Monsoon in kind was more generous to Ventura's foibles than his best friend/worst enemy relationship with Bobby Heenan.
It wasn't just 'The Body's last 'Show Of Shows' with Gorilla either.
Ventura hadn't been shy about getting what he felt he was owed from McMahon, and after failing to create a wrestling union several years earlier, he'd managed to join the Screen Actors Guild by virtue of his burgeoning Hollywood career. He didn't need nor want to give his likeness up to WWE forever, and a dispute over royalties and future uses of the name for financial purposes resulted in a severing of the ties between both sides.