

114 minutes
3/31/1985
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.

Merced Solis
as Tito Santana

Paul Perschmann
as The Executioner

Chris Pallies
as King Kong Bundy

Jimmy Hart
Conrad Efraim
as SD Jones

Rick Blood Sr.
as Ricky Steamboat

Matt Osborne
as Matt Borne
Ed Leslie
as Brutus Beefcake
John L. Sullivan
as Johnny Valiant

David Sammartino
Bruno Sammartino

Sylvester Ritter
as The Junkyard Dog

John Wisniski Jr.
as Greg Valentine
Josip Peruzović
as Nikolai Volkoff
Khosrow Vaziri
as The Iron Sheik

Freddie Blassie

Barry Windham

Mike Rotunda

Louis Albano
as Captain Lou Albano

André Roussimoff
as Andre The Giant

John Minton
as Big John Studd

Ray Heenan
as Bobby Heenan

Wendi Richter

Cyndi Lauper
David Wolff

Patty Seymour
as Leilani Kai
Lillian Ellison
as Fabulous Moolah

Hulk Hogan
as Hulk Hogan

Mr. T

James Reiher
as Jimmy Snuka

Paul Orndorff

Roddy Piper

Bob Orton, Jr.

Bob Marella
as Gorilla Monsoon

Jesse Ventura

Muhammad Ali