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the fury 
?Fix it. fix it 
the crowd at Fair
.3, Park Coliseum
chanted? during
Sunday I 3113p;
5' .1 
. -I cult telecast of the?
7~ ED IV 1U "World 'Wrestling? 1
R. .Federation' 3
TELEVISION . "Wrestlemania"
. sIhowII Ifrom Madefu?
son Square Garden. 

closed-circuit We knew closed~circuiIt afterI ?ve sea in the cemf: Of th-e 10 ?000?

The phony baloney. matches I'alreIadyLI
I had been fixed. But the sound system wasa'm
far dirtier villain than King Kong Bundy.?
Brutus Beefcake or even Paul (Mr Won-
derful) Orndorff. For _six of the nineB
matches, patrons who paid $10.25 a ticket
heard nothing but high ?pitched, speeded- 
up squawkings The crowd even booed their
unintelligible singing of The Spangled 
Banner. 
The extra added distractions included a' '7
smallish screen sloppy camera work sev
eral picture blackouts and mostly ho-humI?"
theatrics in the ring. Exclaimed one irked 
patron during intermission; ?Boy. look at
all these people going for refunds! This?
-- place is gonna be broke after this!"
A spokesman for Rainbow Ticketmaster
said 1,500 tickets were sold. with 400 re-I'u
funds given at the Coliseum during the 
Sunday afternoon eventreal honest with youthese close-circuit things I
where something didn't go wrong," the;-
spokesmansaid. mm 
Most of the wrestling fans were content ..
to boo and stew. But a few behaved lIikIeIIv
The iron Sheikstick his fist through?
the (refund) window" the Rainbow
spokesman said- . . II.
Calling WW17 headquarters in Green 
wich, Conn. was put on hold and enter-
tained by some wrestling interviewsm
Wendi Richter managed by rock singer
. Cyndi Lauper was promising to pulverize
champion Leilani Kai, managed by The
Fabulous Moolah
Elizabeth Milne (The Amazing Slither-
ing Lizzie?), a member of the WWF public
relations department, finally got on the
7 line to say it was a surprise to her that Dal.
In bad sound problems. . i
?Not every stadium had a problem like 
that." she said. ?Diiferent places had dif-
ferent problems, but it was with their own
equipment". 'e . .i
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?You cannot understand it and?
said

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Eventually afterI? almost 90. minutes of ..

'Igarble, Beene decided to try hooking the";

Coliseum house microphone to the speak; 

ers of a sound truck parked outside the fa-"
The sound technicians from Hons:

ton and San Antonio, were hired by the

The hookup was made in time to 
I clear up the sound ror the 'final II_three .
. matches.

?To us that proved it wasn't our house
system: 'Beene said. . 
. Before putting on its nationwide close-

circuit show the first in wrestling history 
3 the WWF had staged three live wrestling
events at the Coliseum. 


"We' ve had a nice working rrelationships

with them (the WP), Beene said "We;

haven't had any problems with' them.

. When you re dealing with Iclose-circuitj

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these things do happen." m; - . 1:5,
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moc? 1118;. folksi?" ?Rowdy Roddy into the ring: 

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;ocally. called it "a fiasco. them 31:10 we been 1? the 39mm um tpiIty the fools" who paid and stayed

ncredibl mismana ed thin l'Iove half-dozen times 1? watch the weekly- .
:evIer run {mo' in my ?gen 2 .7238' VA V?Friday night wrestling shows That's? 30" mess 
"They, (the wwr). had a golden happem?- ?01? What happened 
,?bpportunity? ,0 really, do something. Sund day was an_ overblown Idistaste- parking 10! one patron 
esterdayv and .thei? screwed it fui farce, made more unpleasant by: apparently (?8804 in by 8 friend,?
esaid. . p, eldrl. the sorry sight of Muhammad Ali. at the ngfiewm 
i: No :disagreement here se;ven helping to referee the main event hehadseen 
though on of the ringside announc tween 3??d guys ML and Hulk "You have 10 be moron Cit): E0 be
rs. Jesse SThe Body) Ventura Pro: gan and _andI ROWfiIliJieVe that CT he deduced. 
laimed, ?I'Woodstock was to rock? n' IRoddy Pip? ?st'tii?a' .. Meanwhile the folks at the 

oil what Wr'estlemania is to [wresv fare still counting the IfabulIous moo-

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f} W, uper,I Liberace and Muh
I eRelf spent about I1~lefthu ammad
ive min; . reds of fans 
II "um :nSt?ge the Sta air Colise 'pointed and angry Sun day map
a - . 
. .ISItonned 0::St?iyga before he . XEEght the match Would
an I . 
Other WII?esItling fans paid $10 2 SEC: the fans, .Who
goth" . . . a ?Pf" seat?s realized tb: for. reserVed
5 . ?e?v'ent 
I33: ?Don? buy a ticket} tYou Woui 'telev' IWould be
. be better off ed] most
th Iputtmg m'oney 08:0 in and others ask
bank Relf tIold Ifor refunds. .951
wresumg fan a young Sandra McDonald . I II 
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Wrestling Federation her ticket March 2 said 
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iseum "I'ire' saying," said Ray" Nash of i
IofI ancastertfa? h, 1 .ft, .
promoters; of; gauditoriu 9 S: Entigt
Imi SheenaIWalker

of Dallas called?u'
it ?the worst thing? She had-e 
_vtrs' 
representative paid ,i?f?zhd? 
reached for 11:0, Just bezor?x re interniission,lt,. then},
texplain. the ,.,sound problems WeKG-Wbrkeqroutg
32*:sz . ?butnot before. the some [if?I1 osItJ inst,
started when, lIcolor and briefly blacked? out. 

'th sound
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er of; television before the event ?gerg?ngs an iihotir :zduring the intermission that 
was work prprerly.

failed to IsatiSfled
?Ti" \u?av?w
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customers .IcIould get re-h?
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Ision,: others stayed, shouted and.
egIged onI Itheir favorite \tIrrestlerIsI 
fl: ?6119*?? {Hrr'ridlvl
came to
I don? listen to the .sound, said?
Sharon Henager a fan of 
IYardDoganerTl. 
I
said vItc'to't? Bala Io?: Houston. 3'15
really don? care. It is _my way 0
relaxing. decide _to come out
and watch it If you enjoy some-?2

doesnt Imatter what ?it;
cost