WrestleMania (1985)

WrestleMania 1
Promotional poster showing Hulk Hogan and Mr. T
Tagline(s)	The Greatest Wrestling Event of All Time!
Theme song(s)	"Easy Lover" by Philip Bailey and Phil Collins
Information
Promotion	World Wrestling Federation
Date	March 31, 1985
Attendance	19,121
Venue	Madison Square Garden
City	New York City, New York
Pay-per-view chronology
First WrestleMania 1 The Wrestling Classic
WrestleMania chronology
First WrestleMania 1 WrestleMania 2

WrestleMania (sequentially known as WrestleMania I) was the first annual WrestleMania professional wrestling pay-per-view event (only in selected areas), produced by the World Wrestling Federation. It took place on March 31, 1985, at Madison Square Garden in New York City. 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 showing of an event on closed-circuit television in the United States at the time.

The show consisted of nine professional wrestling matches. In the main event, Hulk Hogan and Mr.T defeated Paul Orndorff and Roddy Piper. Also, Wendi Richter (accompanied by manager Cyndi Lauper) defeated Leilani Kai to win the WWF Women's Championship, and Nikolai Volkoff and The Iron Sheik defeated The U.S. Express (Mike Rotundo and Barry Windham) to win the WWF Tag Team Championship.

During the 1980s, Vince McMahon's World Wrestling Federation (WWF)'s main competition in the professional wrestling industry was from Jim Crockett Promotions. McMahon countered Jim Crockett's successful Starrcade pay-per-view, which began airing in 1983, by creating the WrestleMania franchise.