‘WWE In 1985’ Profiled By CBS Sports; Several Legends Discuss The Most Evolutionary Year In Wrestling Ever

wweCBSSports.com recently posted a new retrospective editorial called “WWE In 1985: An Oral History”, which looks at WWE’s ‘most evolutionary’ year ever.

The piece talks about the introduction of Tuesday Night Titans, Roddy Piper and Hulk Hogan feuding, new merchandising deals, The Wrestling Album, and many other memorable moments from that year. The article features quotes from wrestling legends such as Don Muraco, Paul Orndorff, The Iron Sheik, Brutus Beefcake, and a number of others. You can read a few excerpts below: 

Don Muraco Comments On Tuesday Night Titans (TNT): 

We did that big, epic “Fuji Vice” thing. They flew me and my wife and kids all the way back from Hawaii early to go down to Baltimore. We rented out a big bar; we did a bar scene there. Then I closed it off with the comedy routine that they gave me, that I could do like Johnny Carson. They ran the prompter so fast that all I could do was speed read. I had no idea what the jokes were, and they just ran the prompter. The idea being the worse I was, the better it is.

Paul Orndorff Talks About Roddy Piper’s Place In Wrestling History:

In wrestling, if there is a legend, Roddy Piper is a legend, no doubt about it. Nobody was ever like he was. He knew how to put asses in the seats. That’s what we got paid to do, and we did it. I owe Roddy a lot. He helped me a lot. Some of the ways he did his interviews, he was the best. Nobody was ever better than Roddy Piper was when it came to interviews. He didn’t pull no punches. He wasn’t afraid of nothin’ or nobody. He was a trip, and he was good people, too. He was a good friend. A damn good friend. It just saddens me that he’s not here right now.

Rick Derringer Talks About Writing The “Real American” Theme: 

We had just done a demo of it. That demo existed, so when we started working on the project and people were saying “What songs could we use?” that was one of the songs we had available to pull out and say “Well, here’s one that no one has recorded yet. It’s a brand new song.” Right away, Vince McMahon has real insight. He was one of the people that said “Oh, wow. We can use this.” He chose a tag team [Barry Windham and Mike Rotundo] to say that this’ll be for them. But Hulk Hogan was the guy that had the insight to say “It’s bigger than them. It’s gonna be me. It’s gonna be my theme song.”

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