The BANNED WrestleMania VI Match!! | Wrestle Me Review - WWF WrestleMania 6 Part 2

I met John Tenta three times. Each in ordinary days,not conventions or at a show. Twice shopping,once just walking around Vancouver. He was most definitely a super nice, humble guy. Very soft spoken. Super pleasant

That's why he was called "Rowdy" Roddy Piper and not "Respectful" Roddy Piper.

The sign in the crowd behind Yokozuna 5:32 says "Owen Won't Fall" gave me cold chills.

As a young kid I met him while he was eating one orange Julious hot dog he stopped eating looked at me and signaled me over to him and politely said hello, shook my hand took a picture with me and signed my hotdog wrapper that I had at the time. He became one of my favorite wwf superstars because of the time he took out for his fans. I never ever forgot that and I am 41 now

Earthquake is long overdue for a WWE Hall of Fame induction. He is one of the best underrated big man during The Golden Federation Era.

Everything around that Piper/Bad News match makes it one of the best stories ever. The Andre rib is pure gold, it's like something out of Police Academy. I'm so content that I saw all of this in real time. Unforgettable.

I love the juxtaposition of the earthquake promo to John Tenta talking about his moms roast beef dinner

It’s an absolute CRIME that Earthquake isn’t in the HOF … he has done a lot for WWE and deserves some recognition

It would be perfect if Roddy painted himself half-blue. It's a Scottish gimmick. He just had to use blue war-paint.

Guessing Piper did not want to make it racial and the company pushed it. Or based on Piper's age and how the paint was done, he was inspired by that Star Trek episode with the half and half aliens. In any case, it is amazing WWE never realizes taking shit down only draws more attention to it. Corporations have no concept of the Streisand effect.

I was at WrestleMania VI live at the Skydome in Toronto and Earthquake was massive! Easily one of the fastest moving super-heavyweights in WWE history too. He'd even throw a Dropkick from time to time. When he went to WCW though, he wasn't Shark right away. He was Avalanche when he first arrived and was paired up with Kevin Sullivan and The Butcher (Brutus Beefcake) and sure enough, he was gunning for Hulk Hogan. It was later in the Dungeon of Doom that he became Shark. Then after that he was kicked out of Dungeon of Doom and they shaved half his head. Shortly after that he went back to being just John Tenta as a babyface before leaving WCW. Before his WCW run, he had briefly returned to WWF as a babyface feuding with Yokozuna and squashing Adam Bomb at WrestleMania X; but it didn't last even a year. And who could forget him donning the mask late in his career as Golga from The Oddities during the WWF Attitude Era (originally with Kurrgan and Don Callis and complete with fake head tumors under the mask)?! He went to Japan after that before succumbing to cancer, sadly. Tenta doesn't get nearly the accolades he should though. As a footnote; he didn't enter the business in 1990. Tenta started around 1987 in both Japan for All Japan Pro Wrestling, and in Vancouver, British Columbia (his home province) for Al Tomko's All-Star Wrestling, where he established his name in pro wrestling and was there until he arrived in WWF and did the pushup angle where Dino Bravo and Jimmy Hart called him out of the crowd and he attacked Ultimate Warrior. And as you know, WrestleMania VI wasn't the first time Piper did the half-black makeup. He did it on WWF programming for months leading up to the match in various promos during Event Center with Sean Mooney (or Billy Red Lyons if you were watching in Canada like myself), and of course during that podium interview with Gene Okerlund that you have footage of in the clip. It wasn't intended as a racist thing at all, although Bad News definitely took it that way. Nor was it Piper's idea. But Roddy liked it and ran with it to inject some psychology into the angle. Of course, race baiters will allude to something else. I can tell you firsthand that when Roddy came out painted half black from head to toe at the Skydome for WrestleMania VI, the place popped and the people mostly loved it! The match is also still available many places, thankfully. Censorship has no place in pro wrestling, PERIOD!! Long live Hot Rod, Bad News, and Quake!!!

Tenta was proud that he went here at LSU & we’re proud of him…

5:33 crowd sign says "Owen won't fall" In the nosebleed seats That's crazy!

Met John in 2002 wrestling at the Bedford corn exchange. Got a Polaroid with him in the ring. I asked him about why he no longer had his tiger tattoo? (We didn't really have mid 90s wcw wherei lived) He told me "son it was a dumb ass idea for a dumb ass gimmick" What a bloody nice bloke .

Without the beard and long hair you can tell his age a little better. Like when you showed him wearing that Japanese outfit during his Sumo days. He still doesn't look as young as he was, but much younger than he did when he grew all that out for the WWF.

John Tenta was one tough son of a gun. Rumor has it that he and Haku sparred in the locker room and Big John more than held his own against who many other wrestlers considered to be maybe the toughest one of them all.

I love Quake. Dude absolutely terrified me when I was a kid, but the more I learn about John Tenta and watch his matches with a critic's eye, the more I appreciate him .

Credit to John.... the Earthquake character was pretty darn scary when I was a kid watching TV.

I remember his debut, with Dino Bravo. He was playing a fan in the crowd, and they kept commenting about him during the show, so you knew something was going to happen. Only got to see John Tenta once, against Roddy Piper. He was on our local news shortly before he died, and was so nice that I felt guilty for hating him in the 90's.

Glad you mentioned Tenta's age in this....pretty wild he was so young. And he'd had some success in Japan with sumo already. One of the best at an early age...def fits up there with Terry Gordy and Bobby Eaton as guys great from such an early age.