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WrestleMania VII: Stars and Stripes Forever

He's just an Iraqi man
Herding Goats with his hands
He's just an Iraqi man
Praising Allah with his men

[Chorus]
Hey, he's Iraqi dream (He's dream, Iraqi dream)
Hey, he's Iraqi dream (He's dream, Iraqi dream)

[Verse 2]
If you are black or white
Fatwas will run your life
President Bush lacks a lot of soul
A strong deen should be his goal

[Chorus]
Hey, he's Iraqi dream (He's dream, Iraqi dream)
Hey, hey, he's Iraqi dream (Hе's dream, Iraqi dream)

[Guitar Solo]

[Chorus/Outro]
Hеy (He's Iraqi, hey), he's Iraqi, the Iraqi dream (He's dream, Iraqi dream)
(I know he's working hard) He's Iraqi dream (He's dream, Iraqi dream)
He's the Iraqi, hey, he's the dream (He's dream, Iraqi dream, hey, hey)
He's Iraqi dream (He's dream, Iraqi dream)
He's (A dream, a dream, a dream, a dream, a dream, hey, hey, hey) Iraqi dream (He's dream, Iraqi dream)
He's Iraqi dream (He's dream, Iraqi dream, hey, hey)
He's Iraqi dream (He's dream, Iraqi dream, a dream, a dream, a dream, a dream, hey, hey)
He's Iraqi dream
 
I just want to hear him say Thaddam Huthein a bunch.
 
I wish there would've been some Perfect Strangers crossover back then. Adnan and Slaughter try to recruit Balki because if you can bring Iran and Iraq together, they'd assume Mypos would surely follow. Coozin Larry would fall prey to the Million Dollar Man's conniving ways.
 
https://twitter.com/x/status/2030478614202929227

Struck me now how big of a star Tenryu was in his homeland ATM and he's working in a bathroom break match. I suppose Baba just worked the Demos at a dome show a year earlier, so it was an easy sell for the Japan fans. Kiato is sort of just casually no selling everything the Demos do to him in this clip.
 
Actually, similar to WM 5.... here Hacksaw and Tugboat go from main eventing house shows leading up to the show to.... not having a match at all at Mania.

I'd hate to break up Snuka/Taker because it's a banger and it opened Taker up to be the Phenom, but Taker smashing Tugboat would be fine. Or Give us that epic Tugboat vs Bravo blow off minus 4 star 3 min match and let Taker kill Kerry in short order.
 
Or put Duggan and Tugboat in a one-off tag vs Demolition. Doesn't make sense but it's better than Kitao being a dipshit & Duggan just getting a guest commentator gig for a match.
 
I think if the kids in the family ever ask me about wrestling from my childhood, Warrior/Savage from this show would be the first thing I show them. As terrible was Warrior was technically, the story telling here superceded so much of the other art parts of wrestling that happens bell to bell.

Don't get me wrong, I would immediately follow up with some actual technical wrestling highlights from the years, but damn, the Liz thing at the end still hits.
 
I think it's one of the goat matches and a very good choice as a first thing to show someone. Sometimes I wish they'd swapped this with Hogan-Slaughter on the card.
 
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I think the first real shaking of kayfabe for me was the fact Sarge burned his shirt, beat him up, all this shit, but they were civil enough to pose for the poster? Hogan was a pussy for that tbh.
 
A lot of the pose downs in wrestling raised some inquiry for me, as well. There's some unintentional hilarity in evaluating my self talk to preserve kayfabe in light of the adults constantly bombarding me with the "it's fake" shit. For instance, specific to pose downs, once the Flair/Savage photo doctoring feud happened, I realized people could fake pictures to tell a false narrative. I deduced from there that the same tech was used for wrestling promo stills etc...

Papa Shango's curses had to be real. After all, every Sunday we're eating some dude's flesh and drinking his blood. So, clearly, supernatural things are possible. God someone go kick that kid.
 
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