WrestleMania I
WrestlingFeuds documents four storylines that ran through WrestleMania I, held on March 31, 1985. Two of them reached their blow-off here.
Storylines that paid off here
Rowdy Roddy Piper vs. Superfly Jimmy Snuka (Mar 1984 – Mar 1985)
Roddy Piper smashed a coconut over Jimmy Snuka's head on Piper's Pit in 1984, starting a grudge that ran through the WWF's arenas all summer and fed into the main event of the first WrestleMania.
Roddy Piper · Jimmy Snuka
Hulk Hogan vs. Rowdy Roddy Piper (Jun 1984 – Mar 1985)
Roddy Piper's contempt for the WWF's new MTV-driven Rock 'n' Wrestling Connection escalated from talk-show insults into an assault on Cyndi Lauper, pulling in champion Hulk Hogan and building to the first WrestleMania, a closed-circuit show Vince McMahon called the biggest gamble of his career.
Hulk Hogan · Roddy Piper
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Hulk Hogan vs. The Iron Sheik (Dec 1983 – Jan 1984)
The Iron Sheik held the WWF Championship for less than a month as a transitional flag-waving heel before Hulk Hogan escaped the camel clutch at Madison Square Garden to win the title, launching Hulkamania and, by both men's later account, surviving a $100,000 bribe to break Hogan's leg instead.
Hulk Hogan · The Iron Sheik
Hulk Hogan vs. Mr. Wonderful Paul Orndorff (Jul 1986 – Mar 1987)
Paul Orndorff spent a year as Hulk Hogan's tag partner, then piledrove him on television after Adrian Adonis spent weeks calling him "Hulk junior." Their title match filled Toronto's Exhibition Stadium with a then-record outdoor wrestling crowd, and the feud ended in a steel cage match that had to be restarted after two referees declared different winners.
Hulk Hogan · Paul Orndorff · Bobby Heenan · Adrian Adonis · Roddy Piper