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The Wrestling Classic was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE). It took place on November 7, 1985, at the Rosemont Horizon in Rosemont, Illinois in the United States. It was the promotion's second ever pay-per-view (after WrestleMania).
WWF: Lutte vs. WWF: Montreal, Quebec, Canada Dino Bravo and King Tonga defeated Nikolai Volkoff and The Iron Sheik in a tag team match September 2 FCW: Battle of the Belts Tampa, Florida: Ric Flair (c) defeated Wahoo McDaniel in 2 out of 3 three falls match for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship: September 20 EMLL: EMLL 52nd Anniversary ...
The company also ceased operations of three short-lived titles: the WWF North American Heavyweight Championship (1979–1981), [14] WWF Canadian Championship (1985–1986), [15] and WWF Women's Tag Team Championship (1983–1989). [16] Despite their names, the geographic-name-based titles were not restricted to wrestlers from that location.
In December 2016, the title's name reverted to WWE Championship. [9] [183] 129 John Cena: January 29, 2017: Royal Rumble: San Antonio, TX: 13 14: 14 [184] 130 Bray Wyatt: February 12, 2017: Elimination Chamber: Phoenix, AZ: 1 49: 48 This was an Elimination Chamber match also involving AJ Styles, Baron Corbin, Dean Ambrose, and The Miz. [185 ...
WWF Wrestling Challenge aired from 1986 to August 1995 and was syndicated weekly. [5] The show premiered as WWF Wrestling Challenge and became simply known as WWF Challenge in 1995. The show comprised matches, pre-match interviews, enhancement talent matches, and occasionally, summarized weekly events in WWF programming.
The title was introduced into the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE) in 1979. Pat Patterson , holder of the WWF North American Heavyweight Championship , was awarded the title (with the kayfabe explanation that he won a tournament in Rio de Janeiro , Brazil and unified the North American and South American titles).
Maeda departed from the WWF during this reign and defended the title as the "UWF Heavyweight Championship" in the Universal Wrestling Federation before vacating the title on July 23, 1984. † Tatsumi Fujinami: July 5, 1984 — — 3 379 Fujinami regained recognition from the WWF on July 5, 1984, though NJPW recognized his second reign as ...
However, due to a lawsuit over the "WWF" initials brought on by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), from May 2002 until June 2012, they were not allowed to use the letters WWF or the "scratch" logo used between December 15, 1997, and April 29, 2002 (the pre-"scratch" logo was not covered under this lawsuit, with a variation of this being used ...