NWA Starrcade ‘85: The Gathering was the third annual Starrcade professional wrestling event produced by Jim Crockett Promotions under the NWA banner. It took place on November 28, 1985 from the Greensboro Coliseum in Greensboro, North Carolina and The Omni in Atlanta, Georgia. The main event was between Ric Flair and Dusty Rhodes for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship. Their feud escalated when Flair broke Rhodes’ ankle in September. After the event, Flair formed the Four Horsemen stable, and continued to feud with Rhodes. Other matches included Magnum T.A. and Tully Blanchard in an “I Quit” steel cage match for the NWA United States Heavyweight Championship, and The Rock ‘n’ Roll Express and the team of Ivan and Nikita Koloff in a Steel Cage Match for the NWA World Tag Team Championship.
Rated NR | Length 180 minutes
Ric Flair | Virgil Riley Runnels, Jr. | Nelson Scott Simpson | Oreal Perras | Ricky Morton | Robert Gibson | Don Kernodle | Robert Lee Eaton | Dennis Condrey | James Mark Cornette | Jimmy Valiant | Roger Barnes | Terry Allen | Tully Blanchard | Nickla Roberts | Martin Lunde | Alan Robert Rogowski | Edward McDaniel | William Albert Haynes, III | Paul Taylor | William Ansor | J.J. Dillon | Eldridge Wayne Coleman | Sione Vailahi | Paul Frederick | Rick Harris | Ronald Heard | Emanuel Fernandez | Lawrence Robert Shreve | Barry Allen Darsow | Michael Smith | Bob Caudle | Tony Schiavone | Kenneth Weaver