• ON THIS DAY IN WWF HISTORY (March 30, 1985) – WWF Maple Leaf Wrestling
On this day in 1985, the World Wrestling Federation aired another episode of their weekly TV show ‘WWF Maple Leaf Wrestling’.
This episode featured pre-taped matches & interviews on the road to the first ever WrestleMania.
You can find the card below:
– Mr. X vs. Tito Santana
– Gino Carabello vs. David Sammartino
– “No 1 Frenchman” Rene Goulet & Terry Gibbs vs. Barry Windham & Mike Rotundo
– Joe Marcus vs. King Kong Bundy
– Paul Roma & SD “Special Delivery” Jones vs. The Iron Sheik & Nikolai Volkoff
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• ON THIS DAY IN WWF HISTORY (March 30, 1985) – WWF Championship Wrestling
On this day in 1985, the World Wrestling Federation aired another episode of their weekly TV show ‘WWF Championship Wrestling’.
This episode was pre-taped at the Mid-Hudson Civic Center in Poughkeepsie, New York and featured matches & interviews on the road to the first ever WrestleMania.
You can find the card below:
Barry Windham & Mike Rotundo vs. Buddy Rose & Jim Harley
King Kong Bundy vs. Paul Roma
Ricky Steamboat vs. Rick Savage
Don Muraco vs. Jim Powers
Piper’s Pit w/ Paul Orndorff
Greg Valentine vs. Peter Pompei
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• ON THIS DAY IN WWF HISTORY (March 30, 1985) – WWF All-Star Wrestling
On this day in 1985, the World Wrestling Federation aired another episode of their weekly TV show ‘WWF All-Star Wrestling’.
This episode was taped at the Brantford Civic Centre in Brantford, Ontario, Canada and fearued matches & interviews on the road to WWF WrestleMania I.
You can find the card below:
Interview with Women’s Champ Leilani Kai
Tito Santana vs. Mr. X
WWF Update
David Sammartino vs. Gino Carabello
Interview with Cyndi Lauper, Wendi Richter
Barry Windham, Mike Rotundo vs. Terry Gibbs, Rene Goulet
Interview with Liberace
King Kong Bundy vs. Joe Marcus
Piper’s Pit with guest Paul Orndorff
Hulk Hogan, Mr. T training Vignette
Iron Sheik, Nikolai Volkoff vs. SD Jones, Paul Roma
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• ON THIS DAY IN WWF HISTORY (March 30, 1985) – WWF Georgia Championship Wrestling on TBS *Final Episode*
On this day in 1985, the World Wrestling Federation aired the final episode of their TV show ‘World Championship Wrestling’ on Ted Turner’s channel TBS.
‘World Championship Wrestling’ originally belonged to the Georgia Championship Wrestling territory, which Vince McMahon bought in July 1984 (leading to the infamous “Black Saturday”).
After the first ever WrestleMania event in 1985, McMahon sold the TV-show and the timeslot on TBS that came with it, to the Atlanta based Jim Crockett Promotions (representing the NWA), who kept the ‘World Championship Wrestling’ name and continued the show as a weekly saturday night Wrestling show.
Ted Turner eventually bought Jim Crockett Promotions in late 1988 and renamed it ‘World Championship Wrestling’, which ironically was also the name of its weekly A-show, until they changed the show’s name to ‘WCW Saturday Night’ in 1992.
The World Wrestling Federation product ran on this show from July 14, 1984 until March 30, 1985.
This episode featured pre-taped matches & interviews on the road to the first ever WrestleMania event.
You can find the card below:
Davey Boy Smith & Dynamite Kid vs. Matt Borne & Goldie Rogers (replay from the 3/25/85 episode)
Jim Neidhart vs. Dick Dye
Mr. Wrestling II vs. the Starman
Handicap: King Kong Bundy vs. Chance Myers & Jeff Owens
WWF IC Champion Greg Valentine vs. Aldo Marino
Ricky Steamboat vs. the Demon
David Sammartino vs. Tony Russo
Nikolai Volkoff & the Iron Sheik vs. Joe Mirto & Tracy St
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