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.
Richard Fliehr
as "The Nature Boy" Ric Flair
Virgil Runnels
as "The American Dream" Dusty Rhodes
Scott Simpson
as "The Russian Nightmare" Nikita Koloff
Oreal Perras
as "The Russian Bear" Ivan Koloff
Richard Morton
as Ricky Morton
Ruben Cain
as Robert Gibson
Don Kernodle
as Don Kernodle
Bobby Eaton
as “Beautiful” Bobby Eaton
Dennis Condrey
as "Loverboy" Dennis Condrey
Jim Cornette
as Jim Cornette
James Fanning
as Jimmy Valiant
Roger Barnes
as Miss Atlanta Lively
