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BOSTON--The Real Man of the Year was nowhere to be seen, but that didn't stop 19,028 fans and a high-wheeling crowd of international wrestling/boxing media from packing into the Fleet Center last night for the World Wrestling Federation's (WWF) Wrestlemania...
...Wrestlemania was a definite departure from the Fleet Center's normal black and gold or green and white fare, but even the pre-match announcer seemed to believe that history was being made...
...Mullah Wrestlemania The arrival of American wrestlers in Tehran has Iranian conservatives ready to rumble...
...Captain, the knowledge that they may never see their mother or father, their son, daughter or lover ever again. But for much of the American public, those who do not know anyone fighting in the Gulf, this war is being marketed like a World Series, a Superbowl or Wrestlemania...
...boomlet has been propelled mainly by special events. Last June's heavyweight title fight between Mike Tyson and Michael Spinks was sold to nearly 600,000 TV homes on a pay-per-view basis at an average $35 a crack. Wrestling matches have proved an even bigger draw. Wrestlemania IV had a reported 900,000 takers last March (the largest audience yet claimed for a PPV event), and well-hyped ring battles like last week's Chi-Town Rumble '89 are coming almost monthly. Robbie Knievel, son of daredevil Evel, will attempt a motorcycle jump over the fountains...