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 Wrestling Challenge – August 19, 1990
Gorilla Monsoon and Bobby Heenan are in the booth and they are wrapping up the taping cycle in Des Moines, Iowa.
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 Wrestling Challenge – August 5, 1990
Gorilla Monsoon and Bobby Heenan are in the booth for a new round of television tapings in Des Moines, Iowa. According to thehistoryofwwe.com, these tapings took place on July 17.
What the World Was Watching: WWF Superstars – August 4, 1990
Vince McMahon and Jesse Ventura call today’s action, taking place from Omaha, Nebraska, the same site as the recent Saturday Night’s Main Event.
What the World Was Watching: WWF Wrestling Challenge – July 29, 1990
Gorilla Monsoon and Bobby Heenan handle commentary duties for today’s show, concluding the taping cycle in Huntington, West Virginia.
What the World Was Watching: WWF Prime Time Wrestling – July 23, 1990
Gorilla Monsoon and Bobby Heenan are doing their usual studio duties for tonight’s telecast.
What the World Was Watching: WWF Superstars – July 21, 1990
Vince McMahon and Jesse Ventura are doing commentary and they are taped from Dayton, Ohio.
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 Superstars – June 2, 1990
Vince McMahon and Jesse Ventura are doing commentary and they are starting a new set of television tapings in LaCrosse, Wisconsin, a location the WWF does not highlight in the show’s opening. According to thehistoryofwwe.com, the taping took place on May 15.
What the World Was Watching: WWF Wrestling Challenge – May 27, 1990
Gorilla Monsoon and Bobby Heenan handle commentary and they are concluding the taping cycle in San Antonio, Texas.
Rhythm & Blues squash match from Prime Time Wrestling opens the show.
What the World Was Watching: WWF Prime Time Wrestling – May 14, 1990
Gorilla Monsoon and Bobby Heenan are in the studio for tonight’s show.
What the World Was Watching: WWF Superstars – May 12, 1990
Vince McMahon and Jesse Ventura handle commentary today, taped from Austin, Texas. This was the same location as the recent Saturday Night’s Main Event taping, taking place on April 23 and attracting 8,500 fans.
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: 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.
What the World Was Watching: WWF Superstars – March 31, 1990
Vince McMahon and Jesse Ventura are in the booth, and they remain taped from Sacramento, California. On the eve of WrestleMania VI, Ventura is dressed in Ultimate Warrior face paint and t-shirt and a Hulk Hogan hat. When McMahon asks for a prediction, Ventura says the bout is a tossup.
