Every Wrestlemania Guest Referee

Every Announcer Ever.

This is the last one of these this month.  Next month is the build for Survivor Series.

There has been a special guest referee at every Wrestlemania.

Yeah, that's an edit.  When I started I wasn't interested in anything but making the matches and that, for example, led to not including Muhammad Ali in WM1.

A decade later, that's pretty clear error.

As it happened, I used guest referees in about half of the Manias anyway.

So, I've added in the rest.  They don't impact anything, no storyline changes, there isnt any material difference (Dr. Death takes a minor bump, that's it). Just some digitizing George Lucas style, really just to get Ali on the first card.  So, if you don't remember Hector Guerrero the first time you read XVII, he's there now.  

Here's the list.

I. Muhammad Ali (Hogan v. Orndorff)

II. Pedro Morales (Andre v. Bruno)

III. Pat Patterson (Hogan v. Piper)
IV Billy Graham (Andre v. Hogan)
V. Dusty Rhodes (Hogan v. Warrior)
VI. Andre the Giant (Hogan v. Dusty)
VII Andre the Giant (Undertaker v. Jake)
VIII Lex Luger (Undertaker v. Sid)
IX. Jerry Lawler (Backlund v. Hogan)
X. Curt Hennig (Owen v. Bret)
XI. Roddy Piper (Razor v. Owen)
XII. Jim Neidhart (Owen v. Davey Boy)
XIII Ken Shamrock (Cactus v. Vader)
XIV Mike Tyson (Shamrock v. Austin)
XV Pete Rose (HHH/Waltman v. New Age Outlaws)
XVI. Bob Backlund (Hardys v. Dudleys v. Edge/Christian)
XVII. Hector Guerrero (Jericho v. Eddy)
XVIII Brock Lesnar (Rock v. Regal)
XIX. Bill Goldberg (Angle v. Lesnar)
XX. Steve Austin (Foley/Rock v. Goldberg/Lesnar)
XXI. Dean Malenko (Eddy v. Benoit)
XXII. Steve Williams (Fit v. Regal)
XXIII. Steve Austin (Undertaker v. HBK)
XXIV. Ric Flair (WMD v. HHH/HBK)
XXV. Jimmy Snuka (Undertaker v. GHB)
XXVI. Ted DiBiase (Kidd/Smith v. HHH-M/Miz)
XXVII. Road Warrior Animal (Barrett/Gabriel v. Orton/DiBiase)
XXVIII. Mick Foley (Rock v. Sheamus)
XXIX. Bruno Sammartino (Brock v. Danielson)
XXX. Jake Roberts (Bray v. Rey)

Announcer History. Matt Striker Called How Many Pay Per Views?

Every dark match ever.

It's not everyone who ever picked up a headset.  Sometimes a wrestler would call a match out of nowhere.  

It's also not just announcers who started the show; I've gone through phases (probably mistakes) where I'd have announcers call shows in waves.

It's some type of combination of all of that. 

Here's the list of WWF PPV announcers.  I told you there was content.  We're about to hit the ten year anniversary.  Wait until the content after Mania.  Content!

Jim Ross 65

Joey Styles 36

Gorilla Monsoon 29

Jim Cornette 23

Taz 22

Jesse Ventura 14

Paul Heyman 13

Matt Striker 11

Jerry Lawler 8

Josh Mathews 8

Steve Regal 7

Bobby Heenan 7

Roddy Piper 6

GHB 5

Mick Foley 4

Christian 2

Tony Schiavone 2

Michael PS Hayes 2

Tommy Dreamer 2

Scott Stanford 1

Michael Cole 1

Dean Malenko 1

HHH-M 1 

Undertaker 1

Bret Hart 1

Vince McMahon 1

Skip McMahon 1

Al Snow 1

Lord Alfred Hayes 1