The Wrestling Classic
| The Wrestling Classic | |
|---|---|
| information | |
| date | November 7, 1985 |
| Venue | Rosemont Horizon |
| city | Rosemont , Illinois |
| Number of visitors | 14,000 |
| Event chronology | |
| WWE chronology | |
| ← Wrestlemania | |
The Wrestling Classic (also: WWF: The Wrestling Classic ) was a wrestling - Pay-per-view of the World Wrestling Federation (WWF). It took place on November 7, 1985 at the Rosemont Horizon in Rosemont , Illinois . It was the second pay-per-view in WWF history after WrestleMania I. According to the WWF, it was actually the first, because WrestleMania I was broadcast as a closed-circuit television show, while The Wrestling Classic was the then adopted new technology. However, this is not entirely true, as WrestleMania has been marketed as a PPV in some states.
The evening consisted of a 16-man tournament. The main fight was the final between Junkyard Dog and "Macho Man" Randy Savage . On the undercard there was also a match for the WWF Championship between "Rowdy" Roddy Piper and Hulk Hogan .
The event managed without a single tag team match. This was the only WWE PPV event up to the 2005 Royal Rumble where something like this happened. The two World Tag Team Champions at the time, The Dream Team ( Brutus Beefcake and Greg Valentine ) therefore did not take part. However, some well-known tag team wrestlers were part of the tournament.
As with all wrestling events, the matches were not a sporting competition, but a show fight with predetermined results that were presented within a storyline .
Storylines
The main part of the evening was a 16-man tournament that had previously been promoted on WWF television programs.
The fight between Hulk Hogan and Roddy Piper was about a long-running feud between the two, which arose from Piper's criticism of the so-called "Rock 'n' Wrestling Connection" (a collaboration between MTV and WWF) and within the course of Piper rose to the top heel of the doctorate.
The Wrestling Classic
The following wrestlers took part in the 16-man tournament: Adrian Adonis , Corporal Kirchner , Dynamite Kid , Nikolai Volkoff , Randy Savage , Ivan Putski , Ricky Steamboat , Davey Boy Smith , Junkyard Dog, The Iron Sheik , Moondog Spot , Terry Funk , Tito Santana , The Magnificent Muraco , Paul Orndorff, and Bob Orton . The course of the tournament is shown in the following diagram:
| First round | Quarter finals | Semifinals | final | |||||||||||
| Adrian Adonis | 03:22 | |||||||||||||
| Corporal Kirchner | Pin code | |||||||||||||
| Adrian Adonis | 06:00 | |||||||||||||
| Dynamite Kid | Pin code | |||||||||||||
| Dynamite Kid | 00:09 | |||||||||||||
| Nikolai Volkoff | Pin code | |||||||||||||
| Dynamite Kid | 05:00 | |||||||||||||
| Randy Savage | Pin code | |||||||||||||
| Ivan Putski | 02:57 | |||||||||||||
| Randy Savage | Pin code | |||||||||||||
| Randy Savage | 04:00 | |||||||||||||
| Ricky Steamboat | Pin code | |||||||||||||
| Davey Boy Smith | 03:00 | |||||||||||||
| Ricky Steamboat | Ref | |||||||||||||
| Randy Savage | 09:00 | |||||||||||||
| Junkyard Dog | CO | |||||||||||||
| The Iron Sheik | 03:00 | |||||||||||||
| Junkyard Dog | Pin code | |||||||||||||
| Junkyard Dog | 00:45 | |||||||||||||
| Moondog spot | Pin code | |||||||||||||
| Terry Funk | 00:17 | |||||||||||||
| Moondog spot | CO | |||||||||||||
| Junkyard Dog | ||||||||||||||
| bye | ||||||||||||||
| Don Muraco | 04:00 | |||||||||||||
| Tito Santana | Pin code | |||||||||||||
| Tito Santana | 08:00 | |||||||||||||
| Paul Orndorff | DCO | |||||||||||||
| Paul Orndorff | 07:00 | |||||||||||||
| Bob Orton | DQ | |||||||||||||
Pin = Pinfall / Ref = Referee Decision / CO = Count Out / DCO = Double Count Out / DQ = Disqualification
Títo Santana and Paul Orndorff met in the quarterfinals. Both were tallied in the eighth minute, giving Junkyard Dog a bye.
Between the quarter-finals and the semi-finals, the championship match between Hulk Hogan and Roddy Piper took place, which ended in Piper's disqualification after Bob Orton intervened in the match. The two then attacked Hulk Hogan until Paul Orndorff intervened in support of Hogan. Then the two celebrated in the ring.
| Match type | time | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Singles match for the WWF Championship |
Hulk Hogan (C) | esp. | Roddy Piper via DQ | 07:14 |
A fan competition took place between the semi-finals and the final, in which a spectator could win a Silver Cloud Classic Rolls-Royce . The winner was announced by "WWF President" Jack Tunney . In the VHS version published by Coliseum Home Video at the time , the segment that was restored for WWE Classics on Demand and the subsequent publication on the WWE Network was missing .
In the final, Junkyard Dog and Randy Savage finally met. After a back body drop, Randy Savage ended up outside the ring and was tallied. Junkyard Dog won the first major tournament of the WWF.
Moderation
Main commentators
Ring announcer
interviewer
referee
reception
Even at that time it was an event that was equipped with far too many matches. The quality of the often very short matches suffered as a result.
Web links
- The Wrestling Classic on the Internet Movie Database (English)
- WWF The Wrestling Classic on Cagematch.net
Individual evidence
- ^ The Wrestling Classic. Prowrestlinghistory.com, accessed July 25, 2019 .
- ↑ Kevin Sullivan : WWE 50 . Dorling Kindersley Ltd, 2014, ISBN 978-0-241-00675-7 , pp. 62 .
- ↑ WWF: The Wrestling Classic (1985 TV Special) Trivia. Internet Movie Database , accessed July 25, 2019 .
- ↑ Roddy Piper. Slam! Sports , accessed July 25, 2019 .
- ↑ On The Streeter - WWF The Wrestling Classic, 1985. insidepulse.com, April 28, 2019, accessed June 25, 2019 .
- ↑ Arnold Furious: WF014: The Wrestling Classic . In: James Dixon, Arnold Furious, Lee Maughan (Eds.): Tagged Classics: Just The Reviews . Lulu.com, 2013, ISBN 978-1-291-42878-0 .
- ^ Paul matthews: Classic Wrestling Review: The Wrestling Classic. CXF, May 12, 2018, accessed July 25, 2019 .