WrestleMania
WrestleMania
Release: 1985-03-31
·Runtime: 114m
Action
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.
Production Companies
Edel Media & Entertainment
Evart Enterprises
Madison Square Garden Network
Cast
Hulk Hogan
as Hulk Hogan
Sylvester Ritter
as The Junkyard Dog
Cyndi Lauper
Jimmy Hart
Rick Blood Sr.
as Ricky Steamboat
Louis Albano
as Captain Lou Albano
Roddy Piper
Bob Orton, Jr.
Bob Marella
as Gorilla Monsoon
Chris Pallies
as King Kong Bundy
Barry Windham
Mike Rotunda
Mr. T
James Reiher
as Jimmy Snuka
Paul Orndorff
Muhammad Ali
Matt Osborne
as Matt Borne
Wendi Richter
Patty Seymour
as Leilani Kai
David Sammartino
John Wisniski Jr.
as Greg Valentine
Freddie Blassie
André Roussimoff
as Andre The Giant
John Minton
as Big John Studd
Ray Heenan
as Bobby Heenan
Jesse Ventura
Merced Solis
as Tito Santana
Paul Perschmann
as The Executioner