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WWF Mania had an exclusive feature match earlier in the day.

Crush (7-0) beats Damien Demento (3-2) via submission to the head vice at 7:39:

This match was filmed in Fayetteville, North Carolina on March 7.  Demento screams nonsense to Crush at the beginning.  It is too bad that Crush does not reply with “Whatever, brah!”  What is also bad is the match as Demento’s heat segment in the middle is boring.  Crush eventually tires of taking a beating and does a backbreaker to set up the head vice.  Rating:  *

The Mega-Maniacs and Jimmy Hart repeat their acceptance of WWF Tag Team Champions Money Incorporated’s challenge for WrestleMania.  Hulk Hogan talks about how he is getting “bionic” Brutus Beefcake ready for the match by banging him in the head a lot with a briefcase.  They also hype a surprise they will give to Money Incorporated soon and Hogan sings “Getting to Know You.”  These early promos are showing that Hogan is losing some of his fastball in this program.

Vince McMahon, Rob Bartlett, and Randy Savage provide commentary, taped from the Manhattan Center in New York City.

All American Wrestling had two exclusive matches at noon on USA Network earlier in the day.

WWF Mania had two exclusive matches on Saturday morning:

Vince McMahon, Rob Barlett, and Randy Savage provide commentary, live from the Manhattan Center in New York City.  According to thehistoryofwwe.com, the show drew a sellout crowd of 1,000 fans.

Bartlett is doing an Elvis impression tonight.

With the end of Prime Time Wrestling the WWF started to farm some feature matches out to All American Wrestling, which aired on Sundays on USA Network.  On the February 28 episode Virgil (2-1) pinned Gary Key with the side Russian leg sweep at 4:03.

WWF Mania had two exclusive matches before Superstars aired later in the day on syndication:

Rob Bartlett is near the crowd, showing off a “Hulk” sign and saying that it is proof that wrestling fans can spell.

Vince McMahon, Barlett, and Randy Savage are doing commentary, live from the Manhattan Center in New York City.  According to thehistoryofwwe.com, the show drew a sellout crowd of 1,000 fans.

Gorilla Monsoon and Bobby Heenan are doing commentary, taped from Fresno, California.

WWF Mania featured two exclusive matches on Saturday morning.  On the show, host Todd Pettengill confirmed that Hulk Hogan would be returning on Monday Night RAW.

Brutus Beefcake promises to prove to Ted DiBiase that he is healed and ready for action.  DiBiase and Jimmy Hart rebut that Beefcake’s face will be the least of his worries.  Hart is worried that DiBiase is taking things too far.

Vince McMahon, Rob Barlett, and Randy Savage are in the booth, taped from the Manhattan Center in New York City.

Gorilla Monsoon and Bobby Heenan provide commentary for a new series of episodes from Fresno, California.  According to thehistoryofwwe.com, the taping took place on January 26.

WWF Mania featured one exclusive match on Saturday morning:

Gorilla Monsoon and Bobby Heenan do commentary for the last show of the taping cycle in Beaumont, Texas.

Vince McMahon, Jerry Lawler, and Randy Savage are in the booth, concluding the tapings in San Antonio, Texas.

Vince McMahon, Rob Bartlett, and Randy Savage are the commentary team, broadcasting live from the Manhattan Center in New York City.  According to thehistoryofwwe.com, 900 fans attended the show.

Gorilla Monsoon and Bobby Heenan provide commentary, taped from Beaumont, Texas.

Earlier in the day there was not an exclusive match on WWF Mania but one did air on Wrestling Spotlight:

Repo Man pulls up to the arena in a tow truck, jumping out with Randy Savage’s hat.  Sean Mooney talks with him and Repo Man compares his match with Savage to repossessing a Cadillac.  Excited, Repo Man runs into the Manhattan Center.  It is too bad the arriving in a tow truck for matches never became a Repo Man staple.

Vince McMahon, Rob Bartlett, and Bobby Heenan are the commentary team, taped from the Manhattan Center in New York City.  No explanation is given for why Heenan is now a part of the show after two weeks of failing to get on the air.  Regardless, Heenan improves the commentary quality immediately, hyping the career match main event between Mr. Perfect and Ric Flair.

Gorilla Monsoon and Bobby Heenan are in the booth, live from Sacramento, California in what would be their last pay-per-view together as a team.  According to thehistoryofwwe.com, the show drew a sellout crowd of 16,000, with 15,000 of those fans paying to attend.  The pay-per-view drew a 1.25 buyrate (300,000 buys).  The buyrate was less than the previous year but 40,000 more households bought the show than the prior Royal Rumble, showing that the U.S. pay-per-view audience continued to expand.