Intro first Saturday Night's Main Event

[kaesab100]

i will upload a highlights for this event soon



[Jonwood74]

Back in the day I was such a mark for this stuff...lol. I was a 10 year old wrestling addict. Man, the 80's were a great time to be a kid.

[kdeala21]

@Jonwood74 Yes, i agree. The 80's were the best years of my life.

[Skywalker567]

I remember seeing an ad for the 1st SNME in the TV Guide. I was 13 years old and I was a huge, huge wrestling fan since 1979. I really didn't know what to expect when I saw the ad but I was very excited about it. Before SNME, there were rarely major matches on TV, especially title defenses, and I didn't have cable which aired the MSG matches on MSG. This was a very exciting time. I think I still have the 1st SNME on VHS somewhere. Haven't watched it in more than 20 years.

[kdeala21]

@Skywalker567 If you find that tape, please upload the video. I'd watch them all.

[kdeala21]

where can i find full episodes of this? Can anybody help?

[thesameday24]

@kdeala21

try crazymax.org or ioffer.com complete set for cheap.

[SamFisherOO]

Nice to see Cyndi Lauper easy to forget she was an avid wrestling supporter in the mid 80s

[paulsonj72]

@charmer711 -actually SNME was not every weekend. it aired around 4 or 5 times a year in the time slot where SNL airs.

[Fugsy07]

Hulk Hogan pities that fool too.

[lizmag18]

Those were the days.................

[adamfear17]

didn't moolah beat her?

[lorenzj86]

1:24 Those were Biceps!!!!

[HANDSOMEVICTOR]

Those were the good old days of wrestling !

[kimv020887]

@Tropata well there's WWE Classics on Demand, you can watch 80's wrestling there instead of today's WWE.

[dxmakina]

whos that cindy lauper looking chick?

[yardlet6]

@dxmakina Wendi Richter

[venefil]

Probably the Golden Age of professional wrestling?

[Tropata]

Man what happened to wrestling??

I used to watch this classic gold wrestling and i missed it :(

The wwe now is nothing compared to that era.

[apollo112]

TUNEEEEEEEEEEEE hahaha

Obsession by Animotion

[sculpen]

Funny how Jesse can't remember JYD and Vince has to remind him and then smiles.

[SweetWhiskerz]

Omg...'Obsession' is the theme song...i forgot that...Up here in canada it was the theme music for a show called 'Fashion Television'.....it was good song until then...it fit for wrestling cuz since i was 5,it was an obsession

[NeverwinterKnight77]

Before Monday night was wrestling night, we had Saturday night rasslin', brother!

[sittingduhk]

holy shit, they used obsession!?

[sukmacack365]

Back when Vince McMahon was coooooooool!

[fukgloryzz]

It was so fucking great!!!! Great memories from my childhood. I still love this theme song 25 years later and of course the old matches. It was Hulkamania.

[leaguefan4life]

wrestling has gone from the penthouse(late80's/Attitude Era) to the shithouse(todays wwe)

[dancumbe]

Hair spray all day



[exportmarket]

HOLY SHHHHH Mr.T is nothing compared the size to hogan.

[FreshTiDef]

Mr T looks like a dwarf next to Hogan....Lol

[jww112093]

@FreshTiDef I PITY YOU FOOL!

[FreshTiDef]

@jww112093 WHATCHA GONNA DO, WHEN THE LARGEST ARMS IN THE WORLD, RUNS WILD, ON YOUUUUUU?

[exportmarket]

@FreshTiDef ILL TELL YOU WHAT IM GONNA DO BROTHER!!

[meterman432110]

wow what memories 1985

[asstcommish]

i was at this show

[slv754]

@asstcommish who cares?

[MrBbear77]

Never knew this theme existed at all! I started SNME when the second theme came out.

[thanoson]

Jesus. Mr. T looked so tiny compared to Hoke Kogan.

[jww112093]

Cyndi Lauper to guest host RAW!

[romans52345]

@jww112093 when??

[jww112093]

@romans52345 Sometime soon.

[lead4blade]

It's funny that in 80s and early 90s wwf themes were not agressive like they are today.

[TheTechnoa]

lol soundtrack "obsession" by animotion to Sat.urday night's main event

[Derby14]

I love the opening theme song to SNME but the best part of this video...Salvatore Bellomo walking by in the background from:40-:44!!

[danteras23]

Those were the days....

[TheMashwatcher585]

was that  laverne and shirley in that promo(cindi and wendy) lol

[uncbb89]

After 25 years, that intro still kicks ass.

[MrJKA2000]

WWE 80s, 90s - 2003 : Great and memorable

2004 - now : Shitty

[Hulk2k6]

I reccomend you all go out and by the best of DVD released last year.

I've rewatched it about 4 times. Sure Hogan's all over the product but he WAS Mr. Wrestling in 1985.

[Karemaker]

fucking awesome

[HISTORYBUFFPA]

This really brings me back.

I used to get so excited as a kid when SNME was coming on over the weekend.

[parkercadie1]

I was also at this event too, really high up in the seats. It has been such a LONG time since I've seen any footage from this. Christ, I was 12 or 13 then. What a blast it was! Of all my time at the Nassau Coliseum, this was the best show for me. I didn't even know this was the very first SNME that night, which I think was a Friday when they taped it. My grandmother, now deceased, really loved being at this show with me.

[NYPrimrose]

I was @ this event in the Nassau Coliseum. I still have the ticket stub. It came across a million times better on TV. I love the opening video with the song, its so perfect to define its "time". The best time of wrestling, the 80's. The 90's brought crap.

[deluxedookie]

@NYPrimrose

90's was good the big buy out of the 2000's is what killed it + internet giveing away the secrets.

[SirHulk1977]

@NYPrimrose ..not in the early 90's..it was '94 and on that brought the crap..

[bigpat666]

@NYPrimrose how the hell can u say the 90s brought crap to wrestling ... hell son ... didn't u watch the ROCK vs AUSTIN FEUD and the monday night rivalry ??? and the RAW IS WAR from 97-99 ???

[Tajier56]

@bigpat666 Actually, he's right. It was in the 90s that wrestling really stopped being the main focus. I still love the monday night wars, and even today's product. There are still great storylines. But there is not less wrestling then there was in the 80s, but things are starting to slowly get better again.

[Tajier56]

@bigpat666 My bad, I meant less wrestling then there was in the 80s.

[TheMashwatcher585]

got to love ventura`s pink tux

[Starsky5000]

Great Stuff. The Best period in wrestling history. This was the best time to be a wrestling fan ever. The best wrestling happened in this time.

[marshalljimduncan]

oh, you didnt know?  Your ass better call sommmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmme­body!

[Mysterwright]

See here what sold WWF? A singer in one segment of the promo, an actor in the other! That's something the WWE now severely underplays. They could hypothetically be the American Bandstand of all entertainment by cultivating singers, actors... the whole bit! That's what makes Raw so good right now with celebs! What if SmackDown had Musician hosts in the same vein ala' Alice Cooper or Cyndi Lauper in the old days? Some crossover, sure but like Raw has pop celebs, this could be more character hosts.

[GohModley]

you butt-fuck moron

[Mysterwright]

Whose talking about Jesse Ventura's kid? j/k All I'm saying is it sold back then, sells now and the only thing assholes can do about it is hope for me to jump ship and watch TNA. Then maybe when I'm not looking one after another current young Superstar can have something tragic happen to them too.

[GohModley]

I watch old school NWA tapes my Dad and Uncles taped. Not this WWF/WWE shit

[Mysterwright]

So why you here then, fool? Just to talk shit? Get to steppin' and don't let it hit ya on the way out!

[GohModley]

you have no idea who you fucking with!

[Mysterwright]

Pfft, if you had a spine at all there'd be a rant following what you just said explaining in detail who you are like Duvall telling off punk greasers in Secondhand Lions. Go home, little boy and don't blame me for whatever is up your ass. I was there when Pee-Wee was still being dissed by Cheech and Chong *before* the Tequila dance. If it weren't for T and Stallone, Hogan would still be either a heel dying his hair red or having his belt taken away by Bockwinkle. Friends help each other out!

[josephD32]

@Mysterwright I agree with you. However, back in '85, the WWF paired flashy pop celebrities with some solid wrestling. Today, RAW does a decent job (usually) with bringing in the celebs, but for the most part, the wrestling sucks.

[Mysterwright]

Amen! Well, look @ it: They pin all their hopes on Orton. Who was Orton's dad, Cowboy Bob? A guy in a cast. That's it! Might as well pair Randy with IRS! No offense, Teddy. DiBiase should be Big Show's partner. What they need are babyfaces like Snuka, heels like Piper and upcoming friends in the wings like Hogan and Mr. Wonderful. I think the main reason McMahon hasn't done so is he still feels burned by all the talent flocking first to WCW and today TNA. Its made him bitter. Offer better deals!

[landrykkb]

Saturday Night's Main Event had debuted only a month after and a half after WrestleMania and this was long before we had a pay-per-view every month,which I believe has long since run its course.

[GWRevolution2008]

I PITY THAT FOOL TOO!

[drevsdre9]

back when when wrestling was gollllllld!

[adamfear17]

@drevsdre9 the good old days the golden age of wrestlng

[Djteedoe420]

rockin' wrestling years...

[hulkyone]

Man, before seeing this I didn't know Cyndi Lauper's natural voice sounded just like Betty Boop's.

[Mysterwright]

@hulkyone She'd still be a natural in a Betty Boop movie! :P

[hulkyone]

@Mysterwright  True.

[hulkyone]

@Mysterwright I think it would also be creative if she played a Betty Boop who mentored the WWE Divas. Did you know that many of the extreme antics the divas have done were also practiced in old pre-1935 Betty Boop cartoons? In one cartoon, I saw a grizzly old man strip Betty down to her bra and panties. I think it would be an interesting story. I can already picture the tagline for it: one of the first divas mentoring the current-day divas, with Cyndi Lauper as Betty Boop.

[Mysterwright]

Haha, that'd be awesome! I can totally see that! Dig it, what if, when she were swinging her whistle pacing back and forth, with all the divas lined up like grunts in front of their bunks, Cyndi got called over to Mae Young and Moola whom told her the Divas' orders like The Godfather? Haha! Perhaps Slaughter could show up and be like "you want to *really get their attention? try this" before going vintage GI Joe drill instructor. Hehehe!

[BOX5]

this made me like the song obsession haha yell

[recreationleader1]

jyd vs pete dougherty , anyone have this...its on MSN video

[DanielARoyer1]

Air Date:May 11th 1985

courtesy of NBC

started by Cyndi Lauper,Wendi Richter,

Mr. T and Hulk Hogan