00:01Ladies and gentlemen, Ayatollah, Freddie Blassie, you are living out a lifelong dream right now in your stable, the world's heavyweight champion, the Iron Sheik.
00:10But, the test of his career, just moments away, here at Madison Square Garden.
00:15In other words, they pulled a 96er on us. Here we were trained, prepared for Bob Backlund, and they snuck this pencil neck geek in on us.
00:21Well, I guarantee his size means no difference, nothing to us, because I've been having the Iron Sheik training and sparring with fellas 6 foot 9, 6 foot 10.
00:30And I guarantee you, the camel clutch has worked on him, and I know it'll work on Hulk Hogan.
00:34All right, let me talk to the man who is currently the reigning World Wrestling Federation champion from Iran, the Iron Sheik, undoubtedly, the stiffest test of your short career as the world champion.
00:47Wait a minute, I know you speak English, Sheik. Please.
01:01Okay, you know what I said? I said, I think, in this country, a lot of prejudiced people is.
01:08They know I'm the real Olympic champion, I'm the world-class AAU champion, now I'm the world heavyweight champion.
01:16I beat Bob Backlund in the fair and square in the Madison Square Garden.
01:21Now, the reason I say you people prejudiced is because you go bring that animal, Hulk Hogan, for no reason, because I don't know the guy, I never met the guy.
01:32I think I should arrest him with that punk, Bob Backlund again.
01:36Now, Mr. Hogan, you are big.
01:38But remember, gentlemen, Fred Blassie, I'm sorry, gentlemen, I apologize.
01:43We are out of time.
01:45And then you cut us right off.
01:46We are out of time.
01:46You cut the world champion right off.
01:48Let's go to the ring.
01:48Well, I'll tell you, I'm going to fight.
01:50The Iron Sheik in the ring now, Madison Square Garden on its feet.
01:54They have a lot of hate in their hearts for this man as he stripped Bob Backlund of the World Wrestling Federation Heavyweight Championship last month here in Madison Square Garden.
02:04But he'll have his hands full tonight as Hulkamania has gone crazy here in New York and in Madison Square Garden as Hulk Hogan deemed the number one challenger by the World Wrestling Federation.
02:17He will try to strip the Iron Sheik of his title here tonight.
02:22Pat, once again, history could be made in Madison Square Garden.
02:25There he is.
02:27Hulkamania.
02:29The Hulk.
02:32Coming down the hallway.
02:34When it comes crashing down and it hurts himself.
02:39He is enormous.
02:43You gotta take a stand, it don't help you hide.
02:51If you hurt my friends, then you hurt my pride.
02:55I gotta be there, I can't think it's life.
02:59I am a real American.
03:02I am a real American.
03:04I am a real American.
03:06I am a real American.
03:07I am a real American.
03:08Here is the manager, the Ayatollah Blossy.
03:12This is the main event.
03:19the main event. It is for the World Whistling Federation Heavyweight Championship scheduled
03:27for one fall with a one-hour time limit. Introducing first the challenger from Venice
03:37Beach, California, weighing 303 pounds, the incredible Hulk Hagen. And his opponent from Tehran, Iran, weighing 258 pounds,
04:05the World Whistling Federation Heavyweight Champion, the Iron Sheep.
04:16The Iron Sheep, weighing that World Wrestling Federation Championship belt around. This is what it's all about.
04:24Hulk Hogan here with one thought and one thought in mind to strip this man of his title.
04:30What an opportunity for Hulk Hogan to step into the ring.
04:35When he came into the ring here, pandemonium broke loose and as one, Madison Square Garden was on its feet,
04:43giving a welcome.
04:46As Hulkamania definitely has hit the Big Apple.
04:51He is on top of the Sheep, pounding away. The Sheep still has his robot.
04:57Drops a big elbow on him. Sheep down in the center of the ring, still got his ring gear on.
05:09Hulk now has the Sheep's robe and he clotheslined him with it.
05:13Down to the canvas.
05:16Hulk Hogan is an animal. He wanted that chance for a long time, Vince. He's got it now and I'm sure he's not going to lose it.
05:24Finally, referee Dick Lutz manages to get that robe away from him and Hulk saying, get on your feet, boy, I want a piece of you.
05:34Hulk Hogan with a big right hand.
05:37And another.
05:40Sheep going for the ride.
05:42Into the ropes. Hulk up.
05:43A vicious clothesline.
05:45Sends him down.
05:46And a big knee right to the throat area.
05:52Hulk Hogan not wasting any time.
05:55And Madison Square Garden fans are on their feet.
06:00I-Rank, he'll use any means and any way in his power to win this match.
06:06Deliberate choke now.
06:07Referee Dick Lutz steps in and gives him the count.
06:10Look how powerful that Hulk Hogan is.
06:14Can he move for a big man?
06:16Incredible.
06:17304 pounds of power.
06:18Oh, he is actually spitting on the Sheep.
06:24And the fans love it.
06:26Hulk Hogan once again with the Sheep.
06:28Into the ropes.
06:29And he nails him right on the chin with a big boot.
06:34Down for the cover.
06:36Does that hook a leg?
06:37He won't get it.
06:38Sheep, a tough competitor in his own right.
06:43However, it's not mounted any offense as yet.
06:46Sheep again into the ropes.
06:47And he got down.
06:48Right on the top of the head.
06:50Oh, big elbow.
06:51He dropped another big elbow.
06:53Down for the cover.
06:54He hugs the leg.
06:56He only got two.
06:57Remember, that Sheep is tough.
07:00One of the greatest wrestlers ever to come out of Iran.
07:04Representing this country in the Olympics.
07:05Into the corner.
07:06Nobody.
07:07Oh.
07:08Hulk Hogan hit that turnbuckle heavy.
07:12Hulk Hogan, I'm amazed how quickly he moves for a big man.
07:17Sheep now going to work.
07:20Got his man in a compromising position and he's putting the boots to it.
07:25Down in that kidney area.
07:27And the noise is deafening here in Madison Square Garden.
07:30As the chant goes out, USA.
07:39Sheep going for a slam.
07:40Gets him up.
07:41No.
07:41Backbreaker.
07:43Down for the cover.
07:45No way.
07:48Hogan got those hands right in underneath that chest.
07:51And shoved him off of there.
07:57Sheep still on the offense.
08:02Hogan's had his worst kick.
08:03Let him in the throat.
08:04Uh-oh.
08:06Sheep doing something to that boot.
08:11Don't know what it is.
08:12He's come up with so many things over the years.
08:15Loaded it up somehow.
08:18Planted it right in that kidney area and it took its toll.
08:21The Hulk now is in trouble.
08:28Sheep going here for a Boston Crab.
08:30He's got him over.
08:34Boston Crab really bearing down.
08:37Referee Dick Lutz should be out in front asking him.
08:40This is a submission hole.
08:47Hogan doing a push-up, I don't believe it.
08:49Fantastic strength.
08:53What a maneuver by Hulk Hogan.
08:55I wonder if the Sheik's going to try for the camel clutch.
08:58Well, that's his patented hole pad.
09:00If he doesn't, he's a fool.
09:02Suplex coming up.
09:04He got that big 305 pounds over.
09:07And down for the cover.
09:09No, he got an arm up.
09:11Boy, that was close.
09:14Boots in the kidney again.
09:16Now he's going for it.
09:17Camel clutch coming up.
09:22Yes, he's got it.
09:24He's got it.
09:25No one has been able to escape that.
09:27Look at that.
09:27The Sheik really pulling on that shin of the Hulk.
09:30The Hulk's going to come out of it.
09:32If not, it's over for the Hulk.
09:34This is what did it for Barkley.
09:36He's got it on and he's got it applied tight.
09:39He's got those fingers interlocked.
09:40The Hulk, only the immense power of the Hulk could save him.
09:49He's starting to shake.
09:51He's got to reach down inside for that little something extra.
09:55Look at, he's powering his way up.
09:56He's made it to its knees.
10:00That takes the effect away from the hole.
10:04Hulk Hogan now stands up for the Sheik and rams it into the top turn.
10:10The fans are going wild and I'm so excited.
10:15I don't even want to talk.
10:17I want to watch the match.
10:17Sheik going up.
10:19Hulk Hogan, he drops a big leg on him.
10:21He's down for the cover of the leg.
10:23One, two, he's got it.
10:45We have a new champion.
10:48That's Hulk Hogan.
10:49The Hulk Hogan, the boom on the Irish Sheik.
10:51History made in Madison Square Garden.
10:55And the fans on their feet.
10:58Hulk Hogan Mania is here.
11:19Ladies and gentlemen, the time of the fall, five minutes, 40 seconds.
11:33The winner of this bout, a new World Wrestling Federation heavyweight champion,
11:40and the incredible Hulk Hogan.
11:48Madison Square Garden has won on their feet.
11:53As Hulkamania has taken over.
11:56Stay with us, wrestling fans.
11:58History being made tonight.
12:02Stay with us, wrestling fans.
12:04We'll be right back as Hulk Hogan crowns the new heavyweight champion.
12:08Saturday.
12:08We're back.
12:09Turn with you.
12:10Two.
12:10Two!
12:17Five!
12:17One!
12:18Three!
12:18Whoo!
12:30Two!
12:31Two!
12:31Three!
12:32Three!
12:32One!
12:33Two!
12:33Three!
12:33Okay, the Iron Sheik being led back to the dressing room after taking another vicious pounding at the hands of the newly crowned World Wrestling Federation champion Hulk Hogan.
12:47Stay with us, wrestling fans.
12:50We'll be right back with more exciting wrestling from Madison Square Garden in a moment.
12:55Right now, wrestling fans, let's go back into the dressing room with Gene Okerlund and the new champion, Hulk Hogan.
13:09All right, it's absolute bedlam and pandemonium here back in the locker rooms at Madison Square Garden.
13:16Gene Okerlund here with the brand new World Wrestling Federation champion Hulk Hogan.
13:21You proved it to thousands and thousands of fans, not only here tonight in Madison Square Garden, but throughout the wrestling world.
13:29You know something, me, Gene?
13:30They proved it to themselves.
13:31All I asked was for the whole WWF to stand behind the Hulkster, and I told him I'd bring it home for the USA.
13:38You know something, me, Gene?
13:39It is the dream of a lifetime daddy.
13:41And you know something?
13:42I can't imagine this as I go into the mountaintop a thousand times over.
13:45I feel the energy.
13:47Hulkamania's running worldwide, and it just turns me on, me, Gene.
13:50And I felt every one of those 25, 30-plus thousand people with me standing behind me all the way, and it felt great.
13:57Well, you have arrived, Hulk Hogan.
13:59I've never seen anything as beautiful as this, me, Gene.
14:01This belt is part of yours, too.
14:03It's everybody out there, man.
14:05Oh!
14:06What an awesome house!
14:08Oh!
14:09Oh!
14:10Like Andre the Giant congratulating the new heavyweight champion of the world.
14:16Hulk, that's nice of you, Hulk.
14:19I'm really proud of you, and you are a good wrestler, and I'm far now.
14:22Oh!
14:23The champagne is blowing Ivan Prutsky!
14:27Hulk, baby!
14:29Hey, I'm proud of you, Jack.
14:30Very good, Hulk.
14:31Can you win?
14:32Hey!
14:33It's Super Monday at the Garden with the new heavyweight champion, Hulk.
