Nothing like SNME existed before 1985: a national network program ... Saturday Night’s Main Event gave the WWF a major platform to launch them into the stratosphere, but their partnership ...

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

Live from Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, WWE’s historic Saturday Night’s Main Event returns to NBC! The very first Saturday Night’s Main Event took place in May of 1985 at the Nassau ...

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

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 ...

1985 — months after the first WrestleMania — and aired the following night. The main event featured Hogan, the WWF Champion, defending the title against 'Cowboy' Bob Orton while other matches ...

Every fad has a chance to make a comeback under the right circumstances, but the most important aspect to reviving what once was is often a true commitment to what was lost. WWE has had success ...

An original TV special, Saturday Night's Main Event was a ratings hit when WWE and NBC first teamed up in 1985. The first few events saw Hulk Hogan defend the then-WWF Title against Bob Orton ...

DiBiase took part in the original WWE's Saturday Night's Main Event series, which spanned from 1985 until 1992 ... for the WWE Championship (then known as WWF World Heavyweight Championship).

With WWE returning to its innovative roots by bringing Raw to Netflix, we look back at wrestling's 40-year journey of ...