The very first Saturday Night’s Main Event took place in May of 1985 at the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum. The main event featured Hulk Hogan (with Mr. T) retaining his WWF Championship ...

Saturday Night’s Main Event brought the WWF into the mainstream in a way that ... Nothing like SNME existed before 1985: a national network program that beamed into millions of homes several ...

The late-night wrestling events first debuted in May 1985 for ... as much as the WWF benefitted from the national exposure, Ebersol was able to use the WWF to help keep the Saturday late-night ...

Fraizer signed with WWF in the mid-80s and started ... During an episode of Saturday Night's Main Event in October 1985, Uncle Elmer married Joyce Stazko in the ring. Surrounded by stars like ...

Saturday Night's Main Event is set to be an exciting nostalgic trip for any longtime fan of WWE. However, one WWE Legend won't be making an appearance.

The original Saturday Night's Main Event series on NBC had a solid seven year run from the spring of 1985 to the fall of ... challenged Hulk Hogan for the WWF Championship at the first Saturday ...

But nearly 40 years after the then-WWF launched its revolutionary ... The inaugural Saturday Night's Main Event took place at the Coliseum on May 10, 1985 — months after the first WrestleMania ...

Former WCW star Konnan wasn't exactly a fan of WWE's recent revival of the classic Saturday Night's Main Event TV special.

The original run of Saturday Night's Main Event holds ... between 1985 and 1991, occupying late-night slots when Saturday Night Live was on hiatus, and helped usher in the then-WWF's rise to ...

But fans who have only known WWE programming during the past 30 years would be shocked to watch pre-1985 WWF ... The reason: Saturday Night’s Main Event. Up until that point, WWF was still ...