WrestleMania Rewind: WrestleMania I - Hulk Hogan and Mr. T vs Roddy Piper and Paul Orndorff

The granddaddy of them all, WrestleMania is just about a month away. The anticipation for the extravaganza is sky high among the WWE Universe. And since the pay-per-view is richer than Richie rich when it comes to history, we have decided to take a look back at some of the best WrestleMania matches with this latest series. Now let’s go back to the point where all of this started.The first annual PPV of WrestleMania by WWF took place on March 31st 1985 at Madison Square Garden in New York City. The event comprised of 9 matches on the card and was attended by 19,121 WWF fans. The show stealing match in WrestleMania-I was between the teams of Hulk Hogan, Mr. T and Roddy Piper, Paul Orndorff. This was the only WrestleMania till now without a World title defence.

#1 The Build-Up:

Roddy Piper started a talk show named ‘Piper’s Pit’, in the months leading to WrestleMania. Piper appointed Bob Orton as his body guard. In an episode of ‘Piper’s Pit’, Roddy spoke out against the ‘Rock ‘n’ Wrestling’ connections and this lead to a confrontation between Hogan and Piper. In February 1985, Hogan and Roddy Piper fought at ‘The War to Settle the Scores’ where Hogan won by disqualification due to interference from Orndorff and Mr. T. The feud between these two sides led to this match on the grand stage.

All the iconic superstars of the day were involved in this match.