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
"The Nature Boy" Ric FlairJim Cornette
Jim CornetteMartin Lunde
Arn AndersonRuben Gibson
Robert GibsonPaul Taylor
Terry TaylorSione Vailahi
The BarbarianVirgil Runnels
"The American Dream" Dusty RhodesBarry Darsow
Krusher Khruschev