X-Nico

unusual facts about ''The Main Event''



City Bomber

The game's Soundtrack was produced by Konami Kukeiha Club and published by King Records on July 21, 1989 as part of "Konami Game Music Collection Vol.0" along additional soundtracks from Flak Attack (MX 5000), The Main Event, The Final Round, Gang Busters, and Devastators.

Gail Parent

Although the screenplay was adapted by someone else, she penned the scripts for Barbra Streisand's The Main Event (1979) and Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen (2004).

The Final Round

The game's Soundtrack was produced by Konami Kukeiha Club and published by King Records on July 21, 1989 as part of "Konami Game Music Collection Vol.0" along additional soundtracks from Flak Attack (MX 5000), The Main Event, Gang Busters, City Bomber, and Devastators.


see also

2008 Hammer Throw Year Ranking

The main event during this season were the Olympic Games in Beijing, PR China, where the final of the men's competition was held on August 17, 2008.

Amir Vahedi

In 2003 he made the final table of the Main Event of the World Series of Poker and finished sixth, earning $250,000.

Bruno Sassi

On the March 13 edition of Impact!, Sal and Kurt Angle accompanied Rocco as he wrestled Frontline member Eric Young in the main event, which Rocco lost after Young pinned him following a Death Valley driver.

Carlos Mortensen

He is considered to be the last big-name poker professional to win the Main Event at the World Series of Poker.

CMLL 60th Anniversary Show

The show consisted of four matches, with the main event being a Lucha de Apuestas, mask vs. mask match, between Atlantis defeated Mano Negra where the loser would be forced to unmask.

Deandre Latimore

In his last fight, Deandre was featured in the main event on a fight card that took place at the Chaifetz Arena on the St. Louis University campus.

Debunkify

As a result, Kate Voegele and Jackson Rohm from Cleveland headlined the Main Event on July 14 at the Newport Music Hall in Columbus.

Dewey Tomko

Tomko is chiefly noted as the runner-up in the World Series of Poker (WSOP) $10,000 no limit Texas hold'em main event in both 1982 (to Jack Straus) and 2001 (to Carlos Mortensen.) Besides his success in the main event, Tomko has won three WSOP bracelets, all in different variations of poker, in addition to various other tournament wins throughout his career.

Don Holt

He has won a World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet and has cashed in various events at the WSOP including the Main Event.

Erin Ness

In 2004 she was the third highest placing woman in the main event of the World Series of Poker (WSOP), finishing in the money in 207th place.

Hammond Civic Center

On September 9, 2012, K.O. Sports Promotions hosted a boxing card for a capacity crowd at the Civic Center, with the main event featuring former USBO cruiserweight champion Carl Davis (boxer) in an eight round heavyweight bout against former number one heavyweight contender Bert Cooper.

Henry Lundy

Three months after winning the title, Lundy made his first defense against John Molina Jr. in the main event of ESPN’s Friday Night Fights at Twin River Casino in Lincoln, Rhode Island on July 9, 2010.

Jade Chung

The feud was finally concluded at Steel Cage Warfare when she made a surprise appearance during the main event, an 8-man Steel Cage Warfare match between The Embassy (Jimmy Rave, Abyss, Alex Shelley and Prince Nana) vs. Generation Next (Roderick Strong, Matt Sydal, Austin Aries and Jack Evans).

Jeff Madsen

Later in 2007, Annette Obrestad broke that record with her win in the Main Event of the inaugural World Series of Poker Europe on the day before her 19th birthday.

Jeremy Gaubert

The 2008 World Series of Poker saw Gaubert make his first deep run in the Main Event.

Jonathan Duhamel

Duhamel defeated John Racener heads-up to secure the 2010 Main Event title, earning $8,944,310 and becoming the first Canadian player to capture the Main Event bracelet.

Josh Arieh

He has earned the friendship and respect of many of his competitors, but has also committed several faux pas during his career, lambasting Harry Demetriou after an important hand in the Main Event of the 2004 World Series of Poker and, after being eliminated from that tournament, pulling one of the remaining players (David Williams) aside and whispering, "bust this motherfucker," referring to the other remaining opponent, eventual champion Greg Raymer.

Kaci Aitchison

In August 2013, Kaci served as back-stage host for The International, an annual Dota 2 tournament hosted by Valve Corporation, providing fan and player interaction outside of the main event without prior knowledge of the game.

Lawrence Tanter

When World Wrestling Entertainment fought with the Denver Nuggets over an arena booking for a playoff game in 2009, Tanter was recruited as guest ring announcer for the main event of a newly relocated Raw at Staples Center.

Leonardo Cárdenas

On behalf of FONSAL he wrote music for the main event of the Quito Proclamation Light Bicentennial (Pregón del Bicentenario Luz de Quito), with the participation of Venezuelan violinist Alexis Cardenas, Argentine pianist Lito Vitale, Chilean multi-instrumentalist Mauricio Vicencio and others, made on August 1, 2009, on Independence Square.

Louise Fishman

In 1980 she was one of the ten invited artists whose work was exhibited in the main event of the Great American Lesbian Art Show.

Main Street Armory

The main event saw World Wrestling Federation Hall of Famers Jimmy Snuka and Tito Santana in action.

Martín Castillo

The rematch between Erik Morales and Manny Pacquiao on January 21, 2006 in Las Vegas, Nevada provided another opportunity to feature Castillo on the PPV undercard, this time as the chief supporting bout to the main event.

Mickie Henson

He made his debut for the brand on July 18 edition, officiating a match between Mike Knox and The Sandman, as well as the main event ECW World Championship match between The Big Show and The Undertaker.

Miguel Ángel Russo

Although Russo was called on by national team coach Carlos Bilardo to play in the 1986 FIFA World Cup qualifiers, a string of minor injuries prevented him from traveling to the main event in Mexico, which Argentina ultimately won.

Moses Stone

After The Voice he released his first single "My Moment" and went on to perform live on Showtime Championship Boxing for the main event Lateef Kayode vs. Antonio Tarver fight at the Home Depot Center in California.

Naomichi Marufuji

Marufuji returned to the United States to wrestle for Ring of Honor on the main event of the "Best in the World" show on March 25, 2006 show in New York City, teaming with Kenta for the first time in the United States against the team of Samoa Joe and Bryan Danielson; the team of Marufuji and Kenta won after Kenta pinned Danielson, but after Marufuji tried and failed to lift Joe.

Óscar Rivas

In the main event in Rio he beat Gerardo Bisbal 22:8, Didier Bence by walkover (injured) and reached the final but lost to Alfonso once again, this time 4:8.

Peter Eastgate

By winning the Main Event at age 22, he became the then youngest WSOP Main Event champion, surpassing Phil Hellmuth, who was 24 when he won in 1989.

Prahlad Friedman

He has rapped for ESPN for a "The Nuts" segment at the WSOP circuit event at Harrah's Rincon in 2005, the Main Event in the 2006 World Series of Poker, and also for the poker website RakeBreak.

Ralph Rinzler

After graduation he went to New York City where he eventually became one of the famous Greenbriar Boys, a popular folk group that was the main event at Greenwich Village's Gerde's Folk City, with Bob Dylan as his warm-up opening act.

Rep Porter

Porter has 23 cashes at the World Series of Poker (WSOP) among them was making the Final Table in the $1,500 Limit Hold'em Shootout event at the 2006 WSOP, coming in 4th earning $39,339, and a 39th place in the Main Event at the 2007 WSOP, earning $237,865.

Riddick Bowe vs. Jesse Ferguson

The fight took place in RFK Stadium in Washington, DC, was Bowe's second defense of the title he had won from Evander Holyfield in November 1992, and was the main event of a card that included a fight between Roy Jones, Jr. and Bernard Hopkins for the vacant IBF middleweight championship, which Jones won.

Riki Chōshū

After NJPW split ties with Takeshi Kitano over the December 27 Sumo Hall riot, Chōshū slowly climbed back up into the main event picture.

Rod Peate

Since then, Peate has cashed in the Main Event four times: 1987, 1990, 1997, and 1998.

Singing Revolution

However Latvian Song and Dance Festival of 1985 also has been sometimes named for choirs requesting and performing song Gaismas pils conducted by Haralds Mednis after the main event.

Struga

The main event of the cultural life in Struga is the world's largest poetry gathering, Struga Poetry Evenings, whose laureates have included several Nobel Prize for Literature winners such as Joseph Brodsky, Eugenio Montale, Pablo Neruda, Seamus Heaney, Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca and many others since 1966.

Triplemanía II-B

The Main event featured a Six-man "Lucha Libre rules" tag team match between the teams of Konnan, Perro Aguayo, and Cien Caras and the Los Gringos Locos team of Jake Roberts, Love Machine, and Miguel Pérez, Jr..

Turnbuckle Championship Wrestling

A house show in Winchester, Tennessee on February 17, later released on VHS, featured former ECW stars Yoshihiro Tajiri and Super Crazy, WCW veterans Ron Reis, Glacier, Scott Anton and, in the main event, a tag team match between Dusty Rhodes and Barry Windham against Erik Watts and Steve Corino.

UFC 76

The main event was anticipated to be Chuck Liddell versus Wanderlei Silva, a long-awaited match between the two popular former champions of the UFC and PRIDE, respectively; however, the main event featured a fight between former Light Heavyweight Champion Chuck Liddell and The Ultimate Fighter 2 alum Keith Jardine, with both fighters returning from knockout losses at UFC 71.

UFC 79

The main event was originally to pit The Ultimate Fighter 6 coaches Matt Serra and Matt Hughes for Serra's UFC Welterweight Championship, which Serra won at UFC 69: Shootout on April 7, 2007 in an upset victory over Georges St-Pierre.

UFC on Fox: Shogun vs. Vera

On July 30, 2012, UFC president Dana White confirmed that the winner of the main event will receive a Light Heavyweight title shot, regardless of how impressive either Ryan Bader or Lyoto Machida were in the co-main event of the evening.

UFC on Fox: Velasquez vs. dos Santos

Zuffa CEO Lorenzo Fertitta confirmed that the debut show would be a one hour special with only the main event airing live on television, but a full preliminary card taking place beforehand.

UFC Ultimate Fight Night 3

The main event between Tim Sylvia and Assuerio Silva was touted as a match to determine the next contender for the UFC Heavyweight Championship, then held by Andrei Arlovski.