A dog collar match was next as Paul Jones and Jimmy Valiant locked horns in their feud which seemed to take forever to end. If anyone knows why these guys started feuding please let me know. The dog collar match was at the time one of the most violent matches in wrestling. Jimmy Valiant came out on top over the hated manager. Paul Jones had won the last few supercard matches between these two so a win for Valiant made sense. 

The United States championship was up for grabs as Magnum TA went head to head with Kamala The Ugandan Headhunter. This match was supposed to prove that Magnum was a fighting champion and deserved a shot at Ric Flair's NWA heavyweight title. Although TA never won the world title and only had a little more than a year left in his career he managed to vanquish his rival on this night and continue his reign as champion. 

A match for the world tag team titles was next on the already historic card as Krusher Krushchev and Ivan Koloff defended their world tag team titles against the then AWA tag team champions The Road Warriors. This match was the first of a huge series that would take place until 1988.  It was one of the better matches from either of these teams. The fans were behind The Road Warriors all the way. After a huge brawl the match ended in a double disqualification. I don't know why the NWA brought in the AWA tag team champions, unless they knew that they were looking to return to the NWA after they were done in the AWA. 

The next match the match that set up what was considered the greatest Four Horsemen angle in a long time. It was Ric Flair defending the NWA world title against Nikita Koloff. The buildup was that Nikita was plowing through his opponents left and right and demanded a title match to prove his "Russian Superiority" This was Nikita's first chance at gold in the USA and he was determined to get it on this night. Koloff was used to overpowering his opponents and wasn't expecting to be out wrestled but he came up on the short end of the stick. This match produced the rematch that saw Flair get his clock cleaned by Nikita, Ivan, and Krusher. Dusty Rhodes saved Flair who thanks him by beating him up with the rest of the Four Horsemen and breaking his ankle.

Tully Blanchard and Dusty Rhodes met inside of a steel cage to determine the television title. As usual Rhodes bled buckets and Baby Doll, Blanchard's valet tried to interfere but in the end all the American Dream came out on top. This was a match that I felt was best left off the card.

The final match was Ole and Arn Anderson defending the National Tag team titles against Dick Slater and Buzz Sawyer. Ole and Arn showed some of the deviousness that made them famous members of the Four Horsemen and showed the challengers what they could do when they easily put them away.

It's kind of sad when on the first card of a great show no titles change hands, no feuds are settled, and The Road Warriors had to go back to the AWA. However, it was a historic night on July 6, 1985 and it was one of the first big supercards before the era of PPV.

NEXT MONTH: 

A look at the first NWA stint of "Dr. Death" Steve Williams.