WWF Mania: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

WWF Mania was a professional wrestling television program produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF). It aired on Saturday mornings on the USA Network 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. Mania was originally hosted by Todd Pettengill, who was later joined by "Macho Man" Randy Savage from 1993 to 1994. From December 1994 to July 1995 he was joined by Stephanie Wiand. For feature matches (matches exclusive to Mania), Sean Mooney and Lord Alfred Hayes were the broadcasters, until Mooney left in the Spring of 1993, which led to Hayes being phased out from the broadcast booth. From then on Mania used various other broadcasters including Jim Ross and Gorilla Monsoon. The 1994 Slammy Awards took place on an episode of WWF Mania.

Series details

• Title: WWF Mania
• Format: Reality
• Language: English
• Genres: Sports
• Premiere date: 1993-01-09
• Final broadcast date listed: 1993-01-09
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: USA Network
• Network country: United States
• Typical episode runtime: 60 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 27902
• IMDb ID: tt0352114

Cast and credited roles

• Todd Pettengill — Host
• Rodney Anoaʻi — Yokozuna
• Barry Darsow — Repo Man
• Jim Duggan — 'Hacksaw' Jim Duggan
• Harry Fujiwara — Mr. Fuji
• Jorge Gonzáles — Giant Gonzalez
• Bill Irwin — Bill Irwin
• Mike Jones — Virgil
• Jim Manley — Jim Powers
• Mike Sharpe — Iron Mike Sharpe
• Merced Solis — Tito Santana
• Randy Savage — Randy "Macho Man" Savage

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 1993-01-09; final listed air date 1993-01-09.

Source and licence

Adapted from WWF Mania on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.