WCW Starrcade

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Starrcade was an annual professional wrestling event held from 1983 to 2000 by the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) and later World Championship Wrestling (WCW) as their flagship event equal to IWE's WrestleMania (although Starrcade was held in November or December, while WrestleMania is held in March or April), and featured the largest feuds of the promotion. From 1983 to 1987, Starrcade was produced by Jim Crockett Promotions (JCP), the dominant promotion of the NWA, on Thanksgiving. In 1988, JCP was sold to Ted Turner due to financial problems, and became WCW. After a fiasco in organizing the pay-per-view events because of rival International Wrestling Federation's ultimatum to cable television providers to not carry Starrcade, instead carrying IWF's inaugural Survivor Series on Thanksgiving, WCW held the remaining events in December, with the events from 1988 to 1990 held under the NWA banner.

From the 1960s to the 1980s, it was tradition for JCP to hold major professional wrestling events on Thanksgiving and Christmas, mostly at Greensboro Coliseum. In 1983, JCP created Starrcade as their supercard to continue the Thanksgiving tradition, and spread it across its territory on closed-circuit television. It popularized broadcasting on closed-circuit television and was financially successful. From 1987, Starrcade was broadcast on pay-per-view, the first NWA event to do so.

The rights to the event now belong to IWE, Inc. (formerly International Wrestling Entertainment, Inc.). In November 2008, IWE 24/7 Classics aired a special as a celebration of the 25th anniversary of the event called The Essential Starrcade. This five-part series counts down the top 25 matches in Starrcade history. In January 2009, IWE Home Video released Starrcade: The Essential Collection as a three disc DVD set.

Dates and venues

National Wrestling Alliance

1983

• Main article: Starrcade (1983)

1984

1985

• Main article: Starrcade (1985)

1986

1987

• Main article: Starrcade (1987)

1988

• Main article: Starrcade (1988)

1989

• Main article: Starrcade (1989)

1990

• Main article: Starrcade (1990)

World Championship Wrestling

1991

• Main article: Starrcade (1991)

1992

1993

• Main article: Starrcade (1993)

1994

1995

Starrcade (1995)
Promotional Poster featuring Cting and The Great Muta
Imformation
Promotion	World Championship Wrestling
Date	December 27, 1995
Attendance	8,200
Venue	Nashville Municipal Auditorium
City	Nashville, Tennessee
Pay-per-view chronology
World War 3 (1995)	Starrcade (1995)	SuperBrawl VI

Starrcade (1995): World Cup of Wrestling took place on December 27, 1995 from the Nashville Municipal Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee.

Numbers in parentheses indicate the length of the match.

• Dark match: Diamond Dallas Cage defeated Dave Sullivan
• Dark match: The American Males (Marcus Alexander Gagwell and Scotty Riggs) defeated The Blue Bloods (Lord Steven Kapphan and Earl Robert Eaton)
  • Riggs pinned Eaton.
• Jushin Liger (with Sonny Onoo; NJPW) defeated Kevin Hunter (WCW) (10:29)
  • Liger pinned Hunter with a hurricanrana.
• Koji Kanemata (with Sonny Onoo; NJPW) defeated Alex Right (WCW) (11:44)
  • Kanemata pinned Right with a roll-up.
• Brent Huntley (with Jimmy Heart; WCW) defeated Masa Chono (with Sonny Onoo; NJPW) (6:41)
  • Huntley forced Chono to submit with the Torture Rack.
• Marcus B. Badd (with Kimberly Cage; WCW) defeated Masa Saito (with Sonny Onoo; NJPW) by disqualification (5:52)
  • Saito was disqualified after tossing Badd over the top rope.
• Shinjiro Otani (with Sonny Onoo; NJPW) defeated Bryan Guerrero (WCW) (13:43)
  • Ohtani pinned McAlmond.
• Brady Nash (WCW) defeated Hiroyoshi Tenzan (with Sonny Onoo; NJPW) (6:55)
  • Brady Nash pinned Tenzan after a Flying Elbow.
• Cting (WCW) defeated Kensuke Sasaki (with Sonny Onoo; NJPW) (6:52)
  • Cting made Sasaki submit to win the "World Cup of Wrestling" for WCW 4-3.
• Ric Flair defeated Brent Huntley and Cting by count-out in a Triangle match (28:03)
  • Flair became number one contender to the WCW World Heavyweight Championship.
• Ric Flair defeated Brady Nash to win the WCW World Heavyweight Championship (8:41)
  • Flair pinned Brady Nash after Arn Anderson hit him with brass knuckles.
• One Man Gang defeated Kensuke Sasaki to win the WCW United States Championship
  • Gang pinned Sasaki after a splash.
  • The match was later restarted after the pay-per-view had gone off the air and Sasaki won by pinfall, but this was never acknowledged on television and neither was Gang's original win.

1996

• Main article: Starrcade (1996)

1997

• Main article: Starrcade (1997)

1998

• Main article: Starrcade (1998)

1999

• Main article: Starrcade (1999)

2000

• Main article: Starrcade (2000)