Mid South Wrestling "WrestleFest 1985" results from Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA outdoors at Skelly Stadium on Sunday, July 28, 1985:
Jim Ross was the ring announcer and also the time keeper at ringside. Bill Apter was at ringside taking pictures.
Al Perez pinned Mark Ragin (aka Mark Regan) with a German Suplex in 5:54.
The One Man Gang pinned Wendell Cooley after a short clothesline followed up by the big splash in 4:48.
Nord The Barbarian defeated Brickhouse Brown by referee stoppage with a full nelson in 4:50.
The Fantastics (Tommy Rogers and Bobby Fulton) defeated Eddie Gilbert and Jerry Grey when Rogers pinned Grey with a leaping sunset flip in 12:36.
Jake "The Snake" Roberts pinned Ted DiBiase after the DDT in 13:04. JR tells the crowd during the ring introductions that this was a "Captain's Match". He said DiBiase was half of the Tag Team Champions (with "Dr. Death" Steve Williams). When Roberts got in the ring he didn't say who his partner was but we know he was regularly teaming with Nord The Barbarian in Mid South at the time. Neither of the tag team partners were out there for this. Roberts and Nord would challenge DiBiase and Williams for the tag titles later that summer in losing efforts.
"Hacksaw" Butch Reed pinned "Dirty" Dutch Mantell after the military press slam in 9:57.
Intermission
"Hacksaw" Jim Duggan and Dick Murdoch arrive into the ringside area on the back of the Black Knight monster truck.
Bill Watts,"Hacksaw" Jim Duggan, and Dick Murdoch defeated Kamala, Skandor Akbar, and Kareem Muhammad (with North American Champion The Nightmare) when Watts pinned Kamala with a powerslam in 9:29. Before the match started, Akbar had his arm in a sling and he said he couldn't wrestle. He wanted The Nightmare to replace him. Mid South Wrestling matchmaker Grizzly Smith got in the ring and ordered Akbar to compete as scheduled or else Akbar would be in breach of contract. Smith also ordered The Nightmare to go back to the locker room or else be fined.
NWA World Champion Ric Flair defeated Dusty Rhodes by Disqualification by giving Flair a backdrop over the top rope in 15:28. The referee told JR the move was considered in violation of the Over The Top Rope rule and therefore a DQ. Flair was in his fourth reign going into this match after winning the title back from Kerry Von Erich in Japan in a 2/3 Falls Match on a All Japan Pro Wrestling event on May 24, 1984. Von Erich only held the title for less than a month after defeating Flair for it at the David Von Erich Memorial Show on May 6, 1984 in Dallas. Dusty Rhodes would win the title from Flair a year after this match in a Steel Cage Match at The Great American Bash on July 26, 1986. Flair would get it back for the fifth time quickly by defeating Rhodes on August 9, 1986.
Wahoo McDaniel defeated North American Champion The Nightmare (with Eddie Gilbert) by Disqualification when Gilbert ran into the ring to interfere just as McDaniel was about to get the pin after a chop in 4:44.
