WrestleMania

Jack Simon
1985-03-31

The Greatest Wrestling Event of All Time!
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114 min

WrestleMania, sequentially known as WrestleMania I, was a 1985 professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE). It was the inaugural WrestleMania and took place on March 31, 1985, at Madison Square Garden in New York City, New York. The attendance for the event was 19,121. The event was seen by over one million viewers through closed-circuit television, making it the largest PPV showing of a wrestling event on closed-circuit television in the United States at the time.

Cast

Name Character Team
Merced Solis Tito Santana Unowned
Paul Perschmann The Executioner Unowned
Chris Pallies King Kong Bundy Unowned
Jimmy Hart Unowned
Conrad Efraim SD Jones Unowned
Rick Blood Sr. Ricky Steamboat Unowned
Matt Osborne Matt Borne Unowned
Ed Leslie Brutus Beefcake Unowned
John L. Sullivan Johnny Valiant Unowned
David Sammartino Unowned
Bruno Sammartino Unowned
Sylvester Ritter The Junkyard Dog Unowned
John Wisniski Jr. Greg Valentine Unowned
Josip Peruzović Nikolai Volkoff Unowned
Khosrow Vaziri The Iron Sheik Unowned
Freddie Blassie Unowned
Barry Windham Unowned
Mike Rotunda Unowned
Louis Albano Captain Lou Albano Unowned
André Roussimoff Andre The Giant Unowned
John Minton Big John Studd Unowned
Ray Heenan Bobby Heenan Unowned
Wendi Richter Unowned
Cyndi Lauper Unowned
David Wolff Unowned
Patty Seymour Leilani Kai Unowned
Lillian Ellison Fabulous Moolah Unowned
Terry Gene Bollea Hulk Hogan Unowned
Mr. T Unowned
James Reiher Jimmy Snuka Unowned
Paul Orndorff Unowned
Roddy Piper Unowned
Bob Orton, Jr. Unowned
Bob Marella Gorilla Monsoon Unowned
Jesse Ventura Unowned
Muhammad Ali Unowned