On a recent edition of the “Stories With Brisco & Bradshaw” podcast, Mike Rotunda recalled working the inaugural WrestleMania event in 1985, where he and his U.S. Express tag team partner Barry Windham lost the tag team titles to The Iron Sheik and Nikolai Volkoff.
You can check out some highlights from the podcast below:
On The U.S. Express working the first WrestleMania: “It was exciting … I started [in the business] at the end of 1981 and now it’s 1984 and I’m in New York because at the time … there was like, the Carolinas, the Gagnes out in Minneapolis, and then New York were the three big territories. I don’t know how I got there, but that was a quick run to get there.”
On the WWE schedule around the first WrestleMania: “They used to take a little break around WrestleMania time, like a week before and a week after. We flew up that morning, did WrestleMania … [then] I ran to the airport and caught a flight home.”
Rotunda and Windham will be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame Class of 2024 on Friday, April 5.
