WWF Championship Wrestling (March 30, 1985)

 

Original Airdate: March 30, 1985 (taped March 5)

From Poughkeepsie, New York; Your Hosts are Vince McMahon and Bruno Sammartino

The US Express v Buddy Rose and Jim Haley: The WWF Tag Team title is not on the line here. Mike Rotundo puts this away for the Express with an airplane spin on Haley at 3:17. DUD

Lord Alfred Hayes is the studio for Update, with a look at Junkyard Dog’s penchant for dancing with kids. Hayes is terrible in this role

King Kong Bundy v Paul Roma: Bruno stans for Roma here, thinking he has a future. Well, something like that. Bundy at 1:44. DUD

Gene Okerlund catches up with Cyndi Lauper, whose glad that Wendi Richter is on her side, because otherwise she’d tear Fabulous Moolah apart herself 

Ricky Steamboat v Rick Savage: This is almost like foreshadowing. Steamboat with a flying bodypress at 3:36. DUD

Okerlund catches up with Andre the Giant, who isn’t ready to hang it up, but is ready to collect some cash

Okerlund visits Liberace in his luxurious Manhattan highrise apartment to discuss his duties as timekeeper at WrestleMania

Don Muraco v Jim Powers: It’s like some sort of Young Stallions origin story today. Vince explains how you can see WrestleMania, noting that you have to go to a closed circuit location, because you’ll be ‘old and gray’ before you can watch a WrestleMania at home. Don at 2:36. DUD

Roddy Piper hosts Piper’s Pit, where he and Paul Orndorff deface Hulk Hogan and Mr. T on the WrestleMania poster

WWF Champion Hulk Hogan and Mr. T train on the streets of New York

Greg Valentine v Pete Pompeii: The WWF Intercontinental title is not on the line for this. Greg with the old figure four at 4:35. DUD

Okerlund catches up with WWF Tag Team Champions The US Express to discuss WrestleMania, and they hope that they’ll be airing the show in Iran, because they’re planning to take Iron Sheik hostage

BUExperience: This was the go-home episode for WrestleMania, and it didn’t especially make me want to see WrestleMania, to be honest.