1985
From Pro Wrestling
This is a list of various things that took place in 1985.
Contents |
Significant events
March
- March 10 – Bill Watts' Mid-South Wrestling debuts on TBS
April
- Vince McMahon sells his TBS World Championship Wrestling time slot to Jim Crockett Promotions, nine months after acquiring Georgia Championship Wrestling and taking over its TBS show
May
- May 11 – The WWF's Saturday Night's Main Event debuts on NBC, bringing pro wrestling back to broadcast network TV after a 30-year absence
July
- July 2 – Pro Wrestling Illustrated and its sister publications reinstate world title recognition to the World Wrestling Federation in their magazines
August
- August 27 – The Pro Wrestling USA program debuts on ESPN; within months, the show evolved into AWA Championship Wrestling after the Pro Wrestling USA alliance between the AWA and several NWA affiliates dissolves
September
- September 20 – The St. Louis Wrestling Club holds its final event in St. Louis before its purchase by Jim Crockett Promotions
October
- Stampede Wrestling resumes operations after Vince McMahon sells the promotion back to the Hart family
December
- December 5 – The pilot episode for the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling program is taped at the Riviera Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada
Births
June
- June 30 – Cody Runnels (Marietta, Georgia)
August
- August 2 – Harry Smith (Calgary, Alberta)
Deaths
January
- January 21 – Eddie Graham 55 (Suicide)
March
- March 8 – Bull Curry 71 (Natural causes)
September
- September 1 – Jay Youngblood 30 (Heart attack)
November
- November 1 – Rick McGraw (Heart attack)
December
- December 20 – Tarzan Tyler 58 (Auto accident)
Debuts
November
- November 28 – Sting
December
- December 5 – Jeanne Basone
- December 5 – Janet Bowers
- December 5 – Lisa Moretti
Events
April
- April 21 – AWA StarCage
May
July
- July 4 – WCCW Independence Day Star Wars
- July 6 – NWA The Great American Bash
August
- August 2-August 7 – WCCW Israel Tour
- August 16 – AWA Wrestling For Cure (Televised Eevent)
September
- September 2 – NWA Battle Of The Belts (Organised by Championship Wrestling from Florida)
- September 2 – WCCW Labor Day Star Wars
- September 28 – AWA SuperClash
October
- October 6 – WCCW 2nd Cotton Bowl Extravaganza
- October 21 – AJPW 13th Anniversary
November
- November 28 – NWA Starrcade - "The Gathering"
- November 28 – WCCW Thanksgiving Star Wars
December
- December 25 – WCCW Christmas Star Wars
Pay-Per-View events
March
- March 31 – WWF WrestleMania
November
- November 7 – WWF The Wrestling Classic
Title changes
January
- January 21 – US Express (Mike Rotundo and Barry Windham) win the WWF Tag Team Championship from Adrian Adonis and Dick Murdoch in Hartford, Conneticut
February
- February 18 – Leilani Kai wins the WWF Women's Championship from Wendi Richter in New York City
March
- March 18 – Ivan and Nikita Koloff win the NWA World Tag Team Championship from Dusty Rhodes and Manny Fernandez in Fayetteville, North Carolina
- March 23 – Magnum TA wins the NWA United States Heavyweight Championship from Wahoo McDaniel in Charlotte, North Carolina
- March 31 – Wendi Richter wins the WWF Women's title from Leilani Kai in New York City; Iron Sheik and Nikolai Volkoff win the WWF Tag Team title from the US Express in New York City
July
- July 7 – Tito Santana wins the WWF Intercontinental Championship from Greg Valentine in Baltimore, Maryland
- July 21 – Tully Blanchard wins the NWA United States title from Magnum TA in Charlotte
September
- September 29 – Jim Garvin and Steve Regal win the AWA World Tag Team Championship from the Road Warriors in St. Paul, Minnesota
November
- November 25 – Fabulous Moolah wins the WWF Women's title from Wendi Richter in New York City
- November 28 – Magnum TA wins the NWA United States title from Tully Blanchard at Starrcade 1985 in Greensboro, North Carolina
December
- December 29 – Stan Hansen wins the AWA World Heavyweight Championship from Rick Martel in East Rutherford, New Jersey
See also
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