10 Best WWF Matches Of The 1980s

4. Hulk Hogan vs. Paul Orndorff - The Big Event (1986)

The WWF was merely just *red hot* in 1986 when they took their hottest feud of then WWF Champion Hulk Hogan versus "Mr. Wonderful" Paul Orndorff over the American border to Toronto's Exhibition Stadium for a sold out card entitled "The Big Event." The idea that the WWF was hot enough only two years into Vince McMahon's experiment to take their product to a baseball stadium in Toronto is significant. Selling out a 60,000 seat stadium there likely gave Vince the idea that he could put 80,000 people (or 93,173, depending on who you believe) in the Pontiac Silverdome just over the border from Toronto just six months later. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5SisMkGX14 Paul Orndorff and Hulk Hogan have tremendous chemistry, as Orndorff's roughhouse style blends well with Hogan's traditional 80s WWF heavyweight style. A feud that's oftentimes forgotten, Hogan and Orndorff set the table for the amazing things that were to come for Vince McMahon's company.