Text about the year 1985
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The infamous edition of ABC's 20/20 program airs, which features both "The Continental Lover" Eddie Mansfield and "Big" Jim Wilson openly breaking kayfabe before a nationwide audience and, even more notably, David Schultz attacking reporter John Stossel.
[caption id="attachment_3135" align="alignleft" width="286"] Hulk Hogan & Muhammad Ali[/caption] On March 31, 1985, Vince McMahon and the WWF held the first Wrestlemania at Madison Square Garden in New York City. The attendance for the event was reported to have been 19,121 fansmand was viewed by over one million fans through…
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WWF debuted Saturday Night Main Event, the first broadcast of professional wrestling on network television since the 1950s. The program originally aired on NBC as an occasional replacement for Saturday Night Live on its weekend broadcast schedule. The show was a huge rating success for NBC. The March 14, 1987 show, which focused on Hulk Hogan…
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The animated series "Hulk Hogan's Rock N Wrestling" debuts on CBS. The first and only wrestling program of its kind, the Saturday morning cartoon aired for nearly two years before being cancelled in June of 1987.
The World Wrestling Federation presents "The Wrestling Classic," professional wrestling's first-ever pay-per-view event. Held in Chicago, IL., "The Wrestling Classic" featured a tournament that was won by "Macho Man" Randy Savage when he defeated The Junkyard Dog in the finals of the event.
Jim Crockett Promotions presents Starrcade '85: The Gathering. The event emanated from two separate locations, Greensboro, N.C. and Atlanta, GA., both of which sold-out, drawing over 32,000 spectators live and tens of thousands more watching via closed-circuit. All total, Starrcade '85 generated over $936,000, a tremendous success. The co-main events…
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