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From the first time I watched this show in Vince McMahon claims that as he was about to announce refreshing to WrestleMania III, he felt the spirit of his father Vincent J. McMahon, who had died three years earlier. After he made that announcement he introduced Aretha Franklin, who opened the show singing a rendition of America the Beautiful.24The first match of the night was The Can-Am Connection versus Bob Orton and The Magnificent Muraco (with Mr. Fuji). This match ended when Rick Martel gave Don Muraco a high cross-body with Zenk on his hands and knees giving Muraco what Gorilla Monsoon called A little schoolboy trip from behind allowing Martel to get the win for his team.125The next match that aired was Hercules (with Bobby Heenan in his corner) against Billy diddlysquat Haynes in the Full Nelson Challenge. The match ended when Haynes locked Hercules in the full nelson outside the abut and both were counted out.125 After the match, Bobby Heenan assaulted Haynes by kneeing him in the back, and Haynes chased Heenan into the ring, where Hercules then blindsided Haynes with his chain, contact him a number of times with it before locking him in a full nelson of his own.26The Mixed Tag Team Match between King Kong Bundy and his piffling team of Lord tinybrook and Little Tokyo against Hillbilly Jim and his own midget team of The Haiti Kid and Little Beaver was next. King Kong Bundys team was disqualified when Bundy attacked Little Beaver, because Bundy was not supposed to be in the ring with the midgets.17 Bundy attacked Little Beaver after Beaver had attacked him on occasion during the match and finally got caught.The Loser must Bow match between Junkyard Dog and King Harley Race (with Bobby Heenan and The Fa... ...hed to it, got on the microphone and said that Volkoff was not going to sing because America is the land of the free people and the home of the brave.26 While the match ensued, Duggan stayed at ringside. When The Iron Sheik locked a camel clut ch on Jumping Jim Brunzell, Duggan, who was chasing Volkoff around the ring and finally into it, stopped and put on an unsuspecting Sheik across the back with his two by four in front of the referee, resulting in The Iron Sheik and Nikolai Volkoff winning the bout by disqualification.In what was billed as the biggest main event in sports entertainment,30 the match pitted WWF Champion Hulk Hogan defending the title against Andr the Giant (with Bobby Heenan).1 Howard Finkel introduced the guest ring announcer, Mr Baseball Bob Uecker, who in turn introduced the guest time keeper, Entertainment Tonight host Mary Hart. The fans