![]() It also had some matches that in hindsight were more suited for an episode of WWF Superstarsthan a WrestleMania card. A gritty battle for the WWF Intercontinental Championship between Greg “The Hammer” Valentine and challenger Junkyard Dog, or Andre the Giant slamming Big John Studd for example. Express duo of a young Barry Windham and Mike Rotunda versus The Iron Sheik & Nikolai Volkoff for the WWF World Tag Team titles. It definitely had some other great moments – The U.S. The rest of the card is mostly forgotten. Wonderful” Paul Orndorff, and Wendi Richter finally winning the WWF Women’s Championship. ![]() T to face the dastardly duo of Rowdy Roddy Piper and “Mr. But apart from the main event of the evening, which saw WWF World Heavyweight Champion Hulk Hogan team up with TV star Mr. The legacy of WrestleMania, as not only the flagship PPV event of WWE’s season annually but also the pinnacle of pro wrestling’s yearly calendar upon which multiples of promotions base events around, is without question. While WrestleMania wasn’t the first wrestling SuperCard to air on PPV – Jim Crockett‘s inaugural Starrcade 1983 beat WrestleMania by a year and a half on Novem– its lead-in and exposure via MTV helped bring the world of pro wrestling to a younger audience that had yet to experience the sport on such a major level.īut while WrestleMania is remembered as an important cultural landmark for the history of professional wrestling, whether you’re a WWE fan or not, its impact is more about what the event created than its actual card. But 1985 would mark the year that the WWF would emerge as the global leader in professional wrestling – er, sports entertainment – when it partnered with a burgeoning new cable network called MTV and then launched their first foray into the world of Pay-Per-View (or Closed Circuit Television as was the platform of the time) with the inaugural WrestleMania on March 31, 1985. Soon after, rebranded as World Wide Wrestling Federation (Who had acquired the company from his father in 1982. ![]() While the company was in the middle of its fourth decade of operation by this time (starting in 1953 as the Capitol Wrestling Corporation by Jess McMahon, then taken over by Vince McMahon Sr. The year 1985 was a monumental year for the World Wrestling Federation (WWF). ![]()
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