All Elite Wrestling commentator Tony Schiavone recently discussed various topics related to professional wrestling on his podcast, “What Happened When.” He specifically talked about the first-ever WWE Saturday Night’s Main Event special.
Schiavone said, “This is leading right up to — if I’m right about that, or is the timing just before WrestleMania? It is WrestleMania because Mr. T is there, and Cyndi Lauper is there. And yeah, it’s about as nostalgic as you can get.”
On the production of the show:
“I was working in the business of course at that time. And I was fully into doing Jim Crockett Promotions, because we had started in April of 1985 doing the TBS show. So I was excited about that, but I really loved network TV back then. Who didn’t, right? And we loved Saturday Night Live, and this was a departure from Saturday Night Live. And it found its own niche. And then when I started working for them four years later, we still had Saturday Night Main Event. And I got to know Dick Ebersol, I got to know the people at NBC that worked on the show. And they shot this show a little bit differently than they did the regular WWE shows back then. It was more scripted by Dick Ebersol and his people, which I thought was very, very cool. And so I got to not only see it from the beginning, but work in it.”
You can check out the complete podcast in the video below.
(H/T to 411Mania.com for transcribing the above quotes)
