Ranking WWE's One-Off Pay-Per-Views From Worst To Best
6. The Wrestling Classic - 1985
This was WWF’s second-ever pay-per-view presentation, seven months after the very first WrestleMania, and was a tournament-based mess not becoming of its hyberbolic title.
Some clever booker tried to fit 15 matches into a three-hour show, and therefore there were lots of abrupt or screwy finishes, with no contest going longer than 10 minutes, even Hulk Hogan’s disqualification victory over Roddy Piper in the WWF Championship bout.
There were all-time greats littered across the tournament brackets, such as Dynamite Kid, Davey Boy Smith, and eventual winner Junkyard Dog, and we even got a brief preview of the Randy Savage-Ricky Steamboat WrestleMania III classic in the quarter-finals.
It was an entertaining format which would later lend itself perfectly to the King of the Ring pay-per-view that would stick around for 10 successive shows from 1993 to 2002, but the size of this tournament was too ambitious and the standard of the in-ring action suffered.