Vince McMahon and Roddy Piper are calling the action, and they are taped from Providence, Rhode Island. According to thehistoryofwwe.com, these tapings took place on August 8 and drew a sellout crowd of 15,000 fans.
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What the World Was Watching: WWF Prime Time Wrestling “SummerSlam Fever” – August 19, 1990
Vince McMahon and Bobby Heenan are in the booth, and they are taped from Utica, New York. This show aired on USA Network on August 19 and the matches were taped at Utica’s Memorial Auditorium on August 15, drawing a sellout crowd of 5,000 fans, according to thehistoryofwwe.com.
What the World Was Watching: WWF Prime Time Wrestling – August 13, 1990
Gorilla Monsoon and Bobby Heenan are in the studio for this evening’s telecast, two weeks away from SummerSlam.
What the World Was Watching: WWF Wrestling Challenge – August 12, 1990
Gorilla Monsoon and Bobby Heenan are today’s commentators, continuing the taping cycle in Des Moines, Iowa.
What the World Was Watching: WWF Prime Time Wrestling – August 6, 1990
Gorilla Monsoon and Bobby Heenan spend another evening in the studio, acting like the matches from the recent Saturday Night’s Main Event have not been viewed by the public.
What the World Was Watching: WWF Superstars – July 7, 1990
Vince McMahon and Jesse Ventura call today’s action, wrapping up the television taping cycle in Binghamton, New York.
What the World Was Watching: WWF Prime Time Wrestling – June 25, 1990
Gorilla Monsoon and Bobby Heenan host tonight’s program.
What the World Was Watching: WWF Wrestling Challenge – June 24, 1990
Gorilla Monsoon and Bobby Heenan call the action, which originates from Rochester, New York. According to thehistoryofwwe.com, these tapings took place on June 5 and drew a crowd of 8,000 fans.
The Bushwhackers squash match from Prime Time Wrestling is today’s opener.
What the World Was Watching: WWF Wrestling Challenge – June 17, 1990
Gorilla Monsoon and Bobby Heenan commentate this Father’s Day edition of Wrestling Challenge. This is the last of the shows from Madison, Wisconsin.
Brutus Beefcake’s squash from Prime Time Wrestling kicks off the telecast.
What the World Was Watching: WWF Superstars – June 16, 1990
Vince McMahon and Jesse Ventura are in the booth, concluding the tapings in LaCrosse, Wisconsin. Ventura argues that his MIA bracelet will come off faster than McMahon’s Hulk Hogan friendship bracelet.
What the World Was Watching: WWF Prime Time Wrestling – June 11, 1990
Gorilla Monsoon and Bobby Heenan are in the studio for this evening’s show, with Monsoon in a dour mood because of Hulk Hogan’s condition.
What the World Was Watching: WWF Prime Time Wrestling – May 28, 1990
Gorilla Monsoon and Bobby Heenan are tonight’s hosts. Heenan refers to himself as “the perfect host” for this program in keeping with his new role as Mr. Perfect’s manager.
What the World Was Watching: WWF Wrestling Challenge – May 13, 1990
Gorilla Monsoon and Bobby Heenan are doing commentary, and they are taped from San Antonio, Texas. According to thehistoryofwwe.com, these tapings took place on April 24 and drew a sellout crowd of 10,700 fans.
What the World Was Watching: WWF Wrestling Challenge – May 6, 1990
Gorilla Monsoon and Bobby Heenan are in the booth, and they are wrapping up the television tapings in Syracuse, New York.
What the World Was Watching: WWF Superstars – May 5, 1990
Vince McMahon calls today’s action with Jesse Ventura. This is the last show of the taping cycle in Glen Falls, New York.
What the World Was Watching: WWF Wrestling Challenge – April 29, 1990
Gorilla Monsoon and Bobby Heenan call today’s action, still taped from Syracuse, New York.
What the World Was Watching: The Wrestling Summit (Special Column)
As noted in prior columns, this show was a joint effort by the WWF, New Japan Pro Wrestling, and All Japan Pro Wrestling. The WWF was looking to expand its global presence while New Japan and All Japan felt threatened by Akira Maeda’s shoot-like Universal Wrestling Federation, which drew a 50,000 person crowd to the Tokyo Dome for a big show in November 1989. To counter them, New Japan and All Japan worked together on a supershow at the Tokyo Dome on February 10. Then, they built on that effort by partnering with the WWF for another big card in Tokyo on April 13 that was named The Wrestling Summit. According tothehistoryofwwe.com, the show drew a crowd of 53,742.
What the World Was Watching: WWF Superstars – April 14, 1990
Vince McMahon and Jesse Ventura are in the booth, and they are taped from Glen Falls, New York. According to thehistoryofwwe.com, these tapings took place on April 4.
What the World Was Watching: WrestleMania VI
Vince McMahon and Jesse Ventura are in the booth and they are live from Toronto, Ontario, Canada in what will be Ventura’s last appearance calling a WWF pay-per-view. According to thehistoryofwwe.com, the show drew a sellout crowd of 67,678, a new attendance record for the venue. It drew a buyrate of 3.8 (an estimated 550,000 purchases). This was a decline from the 5.9 buyrate of WrestleMania V, but this can be attributed to more homes getting pay-per-view access by 1990, thereby messing with the buyrate average.
Robert Goulet sings the Canadian National Anthem. According to Bruce Prichard, Goulet was picked for this spot because he badly botched signing “The Star Spangled Banner” several years earlier and this was a chance for him to redeem himself in front of a live crowd. The WWF put the lyrics on the Skydome’s video screen to ease Goulet’s nerves. And if you watch his body language during the performance, he goes from a bad of nerves to a guy having the time of his life halfway through. His wife, who watched backstage, cried her eyes out after he nailed the song.
What the World Was Watching: WWF Wrestling Challenge – April 1, 1990
Tony Schiavone and Gorilla Monsoon are calling the action and they are still in San Francisco, California.
