On This Day February 5 1988 - Andre the Giant Defeated Hulk Hogan to Win the WWF Heavyweight Championship

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On This Day February 5 1988 - Andre the Giant Defeated Hulk Hogan to Win the WWF Heavyweight Championship.

On this day February 5 1988, Andre the Giant defeated Hulk Hogan to win the WWF Heavyweight Championship on Saturday Night’s Main Event, creating one of the most shocking and talked about moments in 1980s professional wrestling. The match ended Hogan’s long championship reign and stunned fans who had grown accustomed to seeing him dominate the WWF landscape.

The title change reflected the peak of wrestling’s mainstream popularity during the late 1980s. Andre the Giant was already a...
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