5 Ups & 8 Downs From WWE WrestleMania 2

By Michael Hamflett / April 6, 2020

4. A Cold War

Leaning into post-war panic as WWE, Corporal Kirchner and Nikolai Volkoff's feud dragged its heels through much of 1985 and 1986 before this pithy payoff on something substantially smaller than the 'Grandest Stage'.

Kirchner was a diet-Sgt Slaughter for Vince McMahon after the GI Joe star took his business elsewhere so the usual flag-waving jingoism briefly popped the crowd, but as usual it was fleeting and false.

The match - as was the case with most of Volkoff's work - had very little going for it after he'd belted out his heat-seaking Russian National Anthem. The two minutes felt like ten, but that was all the match really warranted on a show with so much more to get through.