WWF Mania is a professional wrestling

Professional wrestling

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 television program

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 produced by the World Wrestling Federation

World Wrestling Entertainment

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 (WWF). It aired on Saturday mornings on the USA Network

USA Network

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 between 1993 and 1996 and summarized the weekly events in WWF programming. In its earlier years, Mania usually featured a show exclusive wrestling match. For roughly the first year of its run, Mania also took viewer calls live and only viewers in the Eastern and Central time zones could participate in that portion of the show.

History

Mania was originally hosted

Presenter

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 by Todd Pettengill

Todd Pettengill

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, who was later joined by "Macho Man" Randy Savage

Randy Savage

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 from 1993 to 1994. He was later occasionally joined by Stephanie Wiand in 1995.

In September 1996, Mania was rebranded as WWF Blast-Off for the Superstation WGN

Superstation WGN

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, while Mania was then discontinued and later replaced with WWF LiveWire

WWF LiveWire

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.

In the United Kingdom

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, Mania aired on Friday nights and Saturdays at noon on Sky One. During this airing, Mania served as a summary show exclusively for Monday Night Raw

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until Raw premiered in the United Kingdom in 1995 on Sky Sports

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.

In the United Kingdom WWF Mania was released on VHS

VHS

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 in 1994 and was hosted by Johnny Polo

Scott Levy

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. It featured a Ten-Man Tag Team match with I.R.S.

Mike Rotunda

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, Jeff Jarrett

Jeff Jarrett

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, Rick Martel

Rick Martel

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, and The Headshrinkers

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 vs. Tatanka

Chris Chavis

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, 1-2-3 Kid

Sean Waltman

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, Bob Holly

Bob Holly

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, and The Smokin' Gunns

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.