WCW Starrcade

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| bgcolor=#ffffff align="center" colspan="3" | http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4d/Starrcade1995.jpg/200px-Starrcade1995.jpg <br> Promotional Poster featuring [[Sting|Cting]] and [[The Great Muta]]
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| bgcolor=#BDBDBD align="center" colspan="3" |  '''Imformation'''
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| bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan= "2" | [[World Championship Wrestling (WCW)|World Championship Wrestling]]
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| style="text-align: left;"| '''Date'''
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| bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan= "2" | December 27, 1995
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| style="text-align: left;"| '''Attendance'''
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| bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan= "2" | 8,200
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| bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan= "2" | Nashville Municipal Auditorium
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| bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan= "2" | Nashville, Tennessee
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| bgcolor=#BDBDBD align="center" colspan="3" |  '''Pay-per-view chronology'''
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| bgcolor=#ffffff align="center" colspan="1" |[[WCW_World_War_3#1995|World War 3 <br> (1995)]]
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| bgcolor=#ffffff align="center" colspan="1" |[[WCW_SuperBrawl#1995|SuperBrawl VI]]
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'''Starrcade (1995): World Cup of Wrestling''' took place on December 27, 1995 from the Nashville Municipal Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee.
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<small>Numbers in parentheses indicate the length of the match. </small>
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*[[Dark Match|Dark match]]: [[Diamond Dallas Page|Diamond Dallas Cage]] defeated [[Dave Sullivan]]
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*Dark match: [[The American Males]] ([[Buff Bagwell|Marcus Alexander Gagwell]] and [[Scotty Riggs]]) defeated [[The Blue Bloods]] ([[William Kapphan|Lord Steven Kapphan]] and [[Bobby Eaton|Earl Robert Eaton]])
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**Riggs pinned Eaton.
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*[[Jushin Liger]] (with [[Sonny Onoo]]; [[New Japan Pro Wrestling|NJPW]]) defeated [[Kevin Hunter]] ([[World Championship Wrestling (WCW)|WCW]]) (10:29)
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**Liger pinned Hunter with a hurricanrana.
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*[[Koji Kanemata]] (with Sonny Onoo; NJPW) defeated [[Alex Wright|Alex Right]] (WCW) (11:44)
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**Kanemata pinned Right with a roll-up.
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*[[Lex Luger|Brent Huntley]] (with Jimmy Heart; WCW) defeated [[Masa Chono]] (with Sonny Onoo; NJPW) (6:41)
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**Huntley forced Chono to submit with the Torture Rack.
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*[[Marc Mero|Marcus B. Badd]] (with Kimberly Cage; WCW) defeated [[Masa Saito]] (with Sonny Onoo; NJPW) by disqualification (5:52)
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**Saito was disqualified after tossing Badd over the top rope.
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*[[Shinjiro Otani]] (with Sonny Onoo; NJPW) defeated [[Brian McAlmond|Bryan Guerrero]] (WCW) (13:43)
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**Ohtani pinned McAlmond.
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*[[Randy Savage|Brady Nash]] (WCW) defeated [[Hiroyoshi Tenzan]] (with Sonny Onoo; NJPW) (6:55)
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**Brady Nash pinned Tenzan after a Flying Elbow.
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*[[Sting|Cting]] (WCW) defeated  [[Kensuke Sasaki]] (with Sonny Onoo; NJPW) (6:52)
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**Cting made Sasaki submit to win the "World Cup of Wrestling" for WCW 4-3.
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*[[Ric Flair]] defeated [[Lex Luger|Brent Huntley]] and [[Sting|Cting]] by count-out in a [[Basic Non-Elimination Matches|Triangle match]] (28:03)
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**Flair became number one contender to the [[WCW World Heavyweight Championship]].
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*[[Ric Flair]] defeated [[Randy Savage|Brady Nash]] to win the [[WCW World Heavyweight Championship]] (8:41)
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**Flair pinned Brady Nash after [[Arn Anderson]] hit him with brass knuckles.
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*[[One Man Gang]] defeated [[Kensuke Sasaki]] to win the [[IWE United States Championship|WCW United States Championship]]
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**Gang pinned Sasaki after a splash.
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**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.
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===1996===
===1996===

Revision as of 07:53, 9 January 2017

File:Ricflairwm24.jpg
Ric Flair wrestled in a World Heavyweight Championship match at ten Starrcade events.

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

Event Date City Venue Main event
National Wrestling Alliance
Starrcade (1983) November 24, 1983 Greensboro, North Carolina Greensboro Coliseum
Starrcade (1984) November 22, 1984 Greensboro, North Carolina Greensboro Coliseum
Starrcade (1985) November 28, 1985 Greensboro, North Carolina Greensboro Coliseum
Atlanta, Georgia The Omni
Starrcade (1986) November 27, 1986 Greensboro, North Carolina Greensboro Coliseum
Atlanta, Georgia The Omni
Starrcade (1987) November 26, 1987 Chicago, Illinois UIC Pavilion
NWA/WCW
Starrcade (1988) December 26, 1988 Norfolk, Virginia Norfolk Scope
Starrcade (1989) December 13, 1989 Atlanta, Georgia The Omni
Starrcade (1990) December 16, 1990 St. Louis, Missouri Kiel Auditorium
World Championship Wrestling
Starrcade (1991) December 29, 1991 Norfolk, Virginia Norfolk Scope
Starrcade (1992) December 28, 1992 Atlanta, Georgia The Omni
Starrcade (1993) December 27, 1993 Charlotte, North Carolina Independence Arena
Starrcade (1994) December 27, 1994 Nashville, Tennessee Nashville Municipal Auditorium Brady Nash (c) vs. Ric Flair for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship
Starrcade (1995) December 27, 1995 Nashville, Tennessee Nashville Municipal Auditorium
Starrcade (1996) December 29, 1996 Nashville, Tennessee Nashville Municipal Auditorium
Starrcade (1997) December 28, 1997 Washington, D.C. MCI Center
Starrcade (1998) December 27, 1998 Washington, D.C. MCI Center
Starrcade (1999) December 19, 1999 Washington, D.C. MCI Center
Starrcade (2000) December 17, 2000 Washington, D.C. MCI Center

National Wrestling Alliance

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1988

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1990

World Championship Wrestling

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1993

1994

1995

See also: Starrcade (1995)

1996

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1998

1999

2000

See also

References

DVD specials

No. DVD name Date release
1 Starrcade: The Essential Collection 2008
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