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| + | #REDIRECT [[WCW Starrcade '95: World Cup of Wrestling]] |
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- | | align="center" colspan=3 bgcolor="#ffffff" style="border-bottom:1px solid gray; font-size:150%;" | <span style="color: #000000;">'''Starrcade (1995)'''</span><br>
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- | | style="text-align: left;" style="font-size: 115%;" |'''[[Tagline]](s)'''
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- | | bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan= "2" style="font-size: 115%;" |USA's Toughest Meet Japan's<br>Best In This International<br>Wrestling Showdown...
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- | | bgcolor=#BDBDBD align="center" colspan="3" style="font-size: 115%;" |'''Information'''
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- | | style="text-align: left;" style="font-size: 115%;" |'''Promotion'''
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- | | bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan= "2" style="font-size: 115%;" |[[World Championship Wrestling (WCW)|World Championship Wrestling]]
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- | | style="text-align: left;" style="font-size: 115%;" |'''Date'''
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- | | bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan= "2" style="font-size: 115%;" |December 27, 1995
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- | | style="text-align: left;" style="font-size: 115%;" |'''Attendance'''
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- | | bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan= "2" style="font-size: 115%;" |8,200
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- | | style="text-align: left;" style="font-size: 115%;" |'''Venue'''
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- | | bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan= "2" style="font-size: 115%;" |[[Nashville Municipal Auditorium]]
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- | | style="text-align: left;" style="font-size: 115%;" |'''City'''
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- | | bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan= "2" style="font-size: 115%;" |[[Nashville, Tennessee]]
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- | | bgcolor=#BDBDBD align="center" colspan="3" style="font-size: 115%;" |'''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" |Starrcade (1995)
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- | | bgcolor=#ffffff align="center" colspan="1" |[[WCW SuperBrawl#1995|SuperBrawl VI]]
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- | | bgcolor=#BDBDBD align="center" colspan="3" style="font-size: 115%;" |'''[[WCW Starrcade|Starrcade]] chronology'''
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- | | bgcolor=#ffffff align="center" colspan="1" |[[WCW Starrcade (1994)|Starrcade (1994)]]
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- | | bgcolor=#ffffff align="center" colspan="1" |Starrcade (1995)
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- | | bgcolor=#ffffff align="center" colspan="1" |[[WCW Starrcade (1996)|Starrcade (1996)]]
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- | '''Starrcade (1995): World Cup of Wrestling''' was a [[Professional Wrestling|professional wrestling]] [[Pay-Per-View|pay-per-view]] event that took place on December 27, 1995. The show was promoted by [[World Championship Wrestling (WCW)|World Championship Wrestling]] at the [[Nashville Municipal Auditorium]] in [[Nashville, Tennessee]]. The event included a seven match tournament between wrestlers representing WCW and their [[Japan]]ese partner [[New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW|New Japan Pro Wrestling]] (NJPW) billed as the "World Cup of Wrestling", in which [[Kevin Borden|Sting]] (WCW) defeated [[Kensuke Sasaki]] (NJPW) in the finals; WCW won the tournament four points to three. At the event [[Ric Flair]] also defeated [[Brady Savage]] in the [[Card (Sports)#Main event|main event]] for the [[WCW World Heavyweight Championship]],
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- | WCW closed in 2001 and all rights to their television and pay-per-view shows were bought by [[IWE]], including the Starrcade series.
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- | In 2015, All WCW pay-per-views were made available on the IWE Network.
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- | ==Production==
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- | ===Background===
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- | From the 1960s to the 1980s, it was tradition for [[Jim Crockett Promotions]] (JCP), a member of the [[National Wrestling Alliance]] (NWA), to hold major [[Professional Wrestling|professional wrestling]] events at Thanksgiving and [[Christmas]], often at the [[Greensboro Coliseum]] in [[Greensboro]], [[North Carolina]] in the center of JCP's [[Virginia]], North and [[South Carolina]] territory. In 1983, JCP created Starrcade as their [[Card (Sports)|supercard]] to continue the Thanksgiving tradition, bringing in wrestlers from other NWA affiliates and broadcasting the show in its territory on [[Closed-Circuit Television|closed-circuit television]]. Starrcade soon became the flagship event of the year for JCP and highlighted their most important [[Feud (professional wrestling)|feuds]] and championship matches. In 1987 the show became available by nationwide [[Pay-Per-View|pay-per-view]] as were all subsequent Starrcade shows. The Starrcade tradition was continued by [[World Championship Wrestling (WCW)|World Championship Wrestling]] (WCW), into which JCP was transformed after it had been sold to [[Ted Turner]] in 1988. The 1995 event was the thirteenth show to use the Starrcade name and was the second Starrcade to take place in the [[Nashville Municipal Auditorium]] in [[Nashville, Tennessee]].
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- | ==Event==
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- | ==Results==
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- | !style="border-style: none none solid solid; background: #e3e3e3"|No.
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- | !style="border-style: none none solid solid; background: #e3e3e3"|Results
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- | !style="border-style: none none solid solid; background: #e3e3e3"|Stipulations
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- | | colspan="4"|{{center|(c) – refers to the champion(s) heading into the match}}
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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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- | ==See also==
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- | *[[List of WCW pay-per-view events]]
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- | *[[Jim Crockett Promotions]]
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- | *[[WCW Starrcade|Starrcade]]
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- | ==References==
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- | {{NWAPPV}}
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- | {{WCWPPV|Starrcade}}
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