That was an excellent one.

Load of rubbish!!

A lot more amusing than I thought it would be.

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

Here are the matches...Tatanka vs Shawn Michaels – Intercontinental title match: Decent chain-wrestling and use of side headlock to start with as Shawn gains control. Plenty of reversals and Irish-whip sequences here and Shawn scores with nice moves like a sunset-flip off the top rope and modified victory rolls. Tatanka's offence is more straight-forward with chops and axe-handles but very good with his reversals. Shawn removes the ref from the ring for no good reason and gets caught in Tatanka's fall-away slam. The ref gets back in the ring and declares the match a count-out victory for Tatanka when it probably made sense to give him a disqualification victory or just let Tatanka get the clean pin to make him look legitimate. 6/10 Steiner Brothers vs Headshrinkers: A tough match as Scott gets beaten up after getting dropped through the ropes from what appears to be a botched hotshot and Afa's interference by smacking a kendo-cane across his back. The Headshrinker's ability to withstand huge amounts of pain from their heads was consistently on display and The Steiner's power was evident throughout. Scott ends the match with a sick-looking Frankinsteiner. A typical WWF Steiner match. 5/10Crush vs Doink: Crush dominates to start with a neck-breaker and a convincing foot rake across Doink's eyes. Doink comes back with axe-handles, an old-school pile-driver and a dropkick off the top to get Crush reeling. Crush recovers with a military press and goes for his Cranium Crusher. Doink knocks out the ref trying to escape it. Double Doink comes from under the ring and attacks Crush with an arm cast. The two Doinks look at each other and complete a convincing reflection sequence. The match was not that bad but notorious for it's debate on gimmick wrestling. 3/10 Bob Backlund vs Razor Ramon: This single-handedly buried Bob Backlund, the face, who jumps around like a lame rabbit. Backlund makes a meal of his match before Razor, out of nowhere, snares Backlund in a cradle. Backlund the 'wrestler's wrestler' is defeated legitimately by a heel and wouldn't be seen on PPV again for the rest of the year. 3/10 Megamaniacs vs Money Inc – Tag title match: Everybody notices Hogan's damaged eye and the 'official' line is Money Inc beat Hogan up. Money Inc beat-down on Brutus after Megamaniacs clear the ring and decent psychology rules in the early going with reasonable old-school formula tag wrestling. Ted eventually removes the protective mask from Brutus's face (worn because of his paragliding accident). Later on the ref gets clobbered while Brutus attempts the sleeper-hold on Ted, allowing Brutus to smack Money Inc with his mask and Hogan to drop the leg on Ted. However, the ref is still down so Jimmy Hart turns his coat inside out to conveniently show black and white stripes and counts the pinfall. Megamaniacs think they have won but another official comes out('Dangerous' Danny Davis the official used to wrestle in 1987-1988) and award the disqualification to Money Inc. This loss meant little to Hogan as all will soon be revealed...4/10Mr Perfect vs 'Narcissist' Lex Luger: Both men chain-wrestle to start, Perfect works on Luger's legs and Luger works on Perfect's back (good continuity knowing Perfect already had a bad back from Summerslam 1991). Perfect comes back with a sunset-flip, backdrop, slingshot and a few near fall attempts. The end comes when the ref, who spotted feet on the ropes all through the match, counts an illegitimate landslide. Luger then smacks Perfect over the head with his 'loaded forearm' (metal inside his arm as a result of a motorcycle accident). The match lacked cohesion and chemistry and left me disappointed. 5/10 Undertaker (with Paul Bearer) vs Giant Gonzalas (with Harvey Wippleman): The late Gonzalas was formerly El Gigante in WCW sporting a flesh body suit. Both men start by choking each other. Undertaker keeps getting up from Gonzalas offence which makes Wippleman throw in a chloroform napkin in the ring and puts Undertaker to sleep causing his disqualification. Undertaker gets stretchered out and then returns to the ring. Horrendous match with some unconvincingly selling. 2/10 Bret 'Hitman' Hart vs Yokozuna – World title match: Bret goes on the attack straight away, dropping the late Yokozuna and tying his feet in the ropes. Yokozuna hits a slam and the crowd mark out for his big leg-drop which gets a 2 count. The crowd chant 'USA' for Canadian born Bret. Yokozuna applies a nerve-hold. Bret comes back with a bulldog off the top rope for a 2 count and uses basic aerial moves. Bret mounts punches on Yokozuna while on turnbuckles and Yokozuna desperately pulls him away, Bret hangs on to the turnbuckle padding and it rips exposing the turnbuckle and Bret sends Yokozuna's head into it. By the ropes at this point, Bret applies the sharpshooter but Mr.Fuji throws salt in Hart's eyes allowing Yokozuna to get the cheap pin in one of the quickest main-events in Wrestlemania history. Hogan comes out and pretends to like Bret Hart. Fuji taunts Hogan and puts the belt on the line. Hogan after a short delay obliges and accepts the challenge. One big boot and leg-drop later and Hogan becomes the new WWF champion. Yokozuna held the belt for about 2 or 3 minutes! The crowd popped for Hogan's triumphant return and simultaneously sent a shock-wave of anger throughout the wrestling world, the argument being Hogan comes across as lazy after Bret does all the dirty work. 4/10 The location and pomp and circumstance at Wrestlemania 9 was great but the wrestling severely lacked Hulk Hogan at the end really irritated me. This Wrestlemania would be important for introducing Jim Ross to the announcer's team as Gorilla Monsoon steps down but would also, sadly but probably fitting through Hogan, be the start of the destruction of that wonderful 'magic act' known as wrestling.

The worst Wrestlemania ever.This had no must see bouts and many crap ones at that. This took place in Las Vegas and WWE made it's employees dress up like Egyptian gods! They even changed Howard Finkels name to Finkus Maximus, which probably doesn't mean anything. The sight of seeing Jim Ross in that terrible gown still gives me nightmares to this day and I'm 21 years old, so you could imagine it when I was 7 years old! Bobby Heenan was funny though.Matches included The Undertaker vs Giant Gonzales in a p*ss poor match, The Headshrinkers vs The Steiner Brothers in a useless match, Doink vs Crush in a comedy match and a boring match featuring Razor Ramon vs Bob Backlund. Hulk Hogan teamed up with Brutus Beefcake to battle Money Inc. You could clearly see Hogan had a black eye. In storyline purposes Ted DiBiase and IRS beat up Hogan while he was playing poker or something like that in the casinos, which is a poor storyline, but in reality, Macho Man Randy Savage hit Hogan because Savage thinks he's like The Hulk (no pun intended) no not the wrestler but the film character.The main event consisted of Bret 'Hitman' Hart facing off against Yokozuna in a very boring main event match. Mr Fuji threw salt in the face of Hart and Yoko won, but not until Hogan came down and squashed Yoko in 21 seconds.Overall Grade - E

Terrible! The Worst WrestleMania ever! WrestlMania IV even beats this out! Too much Hogan at the end really ruined it as he was just too old. Match Of The Night ironically though, went to Hogans match (**3/4). The Doink stuff was horiific.Not Recommended.

This was without a doubt the best Wrestlemania of it's time period. That period being the first half of the 90s. This is of course just my opinion. Being one of only 2 outdoor WWF events (and the only outdoor Wrestlemania) this one had a distinctive look that sets it apart from the others. It also had the smallest crowd of any Wrestlemania, since Caesers Palace doesn't seat many people. There is one big flaw here, though. The cheesy "Ancient Roman Times" theme. All the commentators were forced to dress in togas and enter the stadium riding on camels. WWF promoted the show as "The World's Biggest Toga Party", and hoped the fans would wear Togas too. That didn't happen of course. What fan would want to humiliate themself on live Pay Per View by wearing a bed sheet? Jim Ross and Bobby Heenan were the only fools dumb enough to do that.Getting past the cheesy theme, the rest of the show was fantastic. Tatanka and Shawn Michaels kicked off the show with an entertaining IC Title match that went almost 20 minutes. Lex Luger and Mr. Perfect were brilliantly matched opponents. Their match ended with Luger nailing Perfect with his Running Forearm, which WWF promoted as being an illegal weapon due to Luger's steel plate he had surgically implanted. Who else remembers that gimmick? Undertaker and Giant Gonzalez's match was a great show. It would have been entertaining even if they just stood there. Seeing the 6'10" Undertaker in the ring with the over-7 foot tall Gonzalez was a sight to see. Of course Bret Hart delivered an amazing math as always, against the challenger Yokozuna. It seems to be a forgotten fact that Yokozuna was the fastest rising World Champion ever. It took him only 5 months in the WWF to take the belt. Bret was an averagely sized 230 pound man, and Yokozuna was 500 pounds, which makes them an unlikely pairing. But both make the match work.Ultimately there is one reason above all else to rent Wrestlemania IX. That reason is DOINK THE CLOWN! A sadistic and violent evil clown. When I think professsional wrestling, sadistic and violent evil clown is what I think. Rent Wrestlemania IX and you get 2 Doinks for the price of one. I'm sure I'm not alone in saying that's the highlight of Wrestlemania....... maybe I am alone in thinking that. Who cares. DOINK RULES!