Saturday Night's Main Event

TV Series
1985–2025
TV-14
2h

IMDb RATING

7.3/10

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Saturday Night's Main Event is a series of American professional wrestling television specials produced by WWE (originally the World Wrestling Federation or WWF).Saturday Night's Main Event is a series of American professional wrestling television specials produced by WWE (originally the World Wrestling Federation or WWF).Saturday Night's Main Event is a series of American professional wrestling television specials produced by WWE (originally the World Wrestling Federation or WWF).

Creator
- Vince McMahon
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IMDb RATING

7.3/10

528

YOUR RATING

Creator
- Vince McMahon
Stars

7User reviews

See production info at IMDbPro

Episodes40

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Videos1

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Storyline

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Trivia
One of the most infamous moments in the history of "Saturday Night's Main Event" occurred when Jake Roberts gave Ricky Steamboat a DDT onto the arena floor. Roberts was very much against doing the spot, out of fear he could fatally injure Steamboat. WWE Management continued to insist, and it was only after Steamboat assured Roberts he could block the move that Roberts agreed. Unfortunately, Steamboat made full contact with the ground, got knocked out, and suffered a concussion. This spot set off a series of matches between the two, which were big successes. Despite the injury, both men spoke fondly of the feud (and of each other) on their respective DVD biographies.

Quotes
John Layfield: Hell, your mayor is so stupid *Crowd Cheers* Hey, don't start cheering, you elected him IDIOTS

Connections
Edited into Best of Saturday Night's Main Event (1991)

Soundtracks
Obsession
(Title Theme)
Written by Holly Knight & Michael Des Barres (as Rick DeBarres)
Performed by Animotion
Music and Media International/Mike Chapman Enterprises
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User reviews7

Featured review

Welcome to Saturday Night's Main Event!

Most fans of wrestling these days have no clue how important or big Saturday Night's Main Event was in its heyday. The prototype for both RAW and SmackDown! today, SNME was the once mighty, flag ship show for a booming then-WWF in the 1980s. By 1992, it was merely a shell of its former self, relegated to FOX for a final episode before being canned just a year before the debut of RAW.

And now, after fourteen years, fan boys of "old school" got a trip down memory lane with the return of Saturday Night's Main Event to NBC.

The show felt like a breath of fresh air when compared to the rather stale atmospheres of RAW and SmackDown! these days. Though the personalities have changed, that special aura was still in the air for SNME on NBC (as was advertised all over the arena). The wrestling was only fair -> bad, like most SNME episodes from the past. But its the feeling of watching a prime time, network broadcast... it makes it feel bigger than a plain old RAW or SmackDown! episode. For fans of the Attitude Era and beyond, this was a slice of something different. For fans of the old school generation, this was a slice of Heaven from our wrestling past.