WCW Starrcade (1995)

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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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CW won the "World Cup of Wrestling", four points to three as [[Kevin Borden|Sting]] defeated [[New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW)|New Japan Pro Wrestling]] (NJPW) representative [[Kensuke Sasaki]] in the seventh and final match of the tournament.
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At the event [[Ric Flair]] also defeated [[Brent Huntley|Lex Luger]] and Sting by count-out in a [[Professional wrestling match types#Basic non-elimination matches|Triangle match]] to earn an immediate title match against [[WCW World Heavyweight Championship|WCW World Heavyweight Champion]] [[Brady Savage]] in the [[Card (Sports)#Main event|main event]]. Flair defeated Savage for the championship.
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After the main event WCW held one additional match, taping it for a later broadcast. The match saw [[IWE United States Championship|WCW United States Champion]] [[Kensuke Sasaki]] wrestle against [[George Gross (wrestler)|The One Man Gang]]. At the end of the match the 400-plus pound One Man Gang landed a splash on Sasaki and covered him for the pinfall. While Sasaki kicked out of the pinfall, referee Randy Eller still made the three-count to give victory to the One Man Gang. After the bell rang the One Man Gang celebrated with the title belt. Moments later however, the mistake was pointed out by another official, and the match was restarted. Sasaki then pinned Gang to retain the title. Parts of the match was later shown on ''[[WCW Saturday Night]]'' but they ended after One Man Gang was declared the new champion. WCW never acknowledged that the match was restarted, choosing to recognize the One Man Gang as champion instead.
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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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!1{{small|<sup>D</sup>}}
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|[[Dallas Cage|Diamond Dallas Page]] defeated [[Ryan Sullivan|Dave Sullivan]]
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|[[Professional wrestling match types#Variations of singles matches|Singles match]]
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!2{{small|<sup>D</sup>}}
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|[[The American Males]] ([[Jeffery Bagwell|Marcus Alexander Bagwell]] & [[Bob Ridgeway|Scotty Riggs]]) defeated [[The Blue Bloods]] ([[Bobby (John) Easley|Earl Robert Eaton]] & [[William Kapphan|Lord Steven Regal]])
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|[[Professional wrestling tag team match types|Tag team match]]
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|[[Jushin Liger|Jushin Thunder Liger]] (with [[Sonny Onoo]]; ([[New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW)|NJPW]]) defeated [[Chris Hunter]] ([[World Championship Wrestling (WCW)|WCW]]
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|Singles match in the World Cup of Wrestling
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|[[Koji Kantamoto|Koji Kanemoto]] (with Sonny Onoo; NJPW) defeated [[Alexander Weigand|Alex Wright]] (WCW) (WCW 0 - NJPW 2)
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|Singles match in the World Cup of Wrestling
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|[[Brent Huntley|Lex Luger]] (with [[Jimmy Heart]]; WCW) defeated [[Masahiro Chono]] (with Sonny Onoo; NJPW) (WCW 1 - NJPW 2)
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|Singles match in the World Cup of Wrestling
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|[[Clarence J. Mollo|Johnny B. Badd]] (with [[Kimberly Cage|The Diamond Doll]]; WCW) defeated [[Masa Saito]] (with Sonny Onoo; NJPW) by disqualification (WCW 2 - NJPW 2)
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|Singles match in the World Cup of Wrestling
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|[[Shinjiro Otani]] (with Sonny Onoo; NJPW) defeated [[Brian McAlmond|Bryan Guerrero]] (WCW) (WCW 2 - NJPW 3)
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|Singles match in the World Cup of Wrestling
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|[[Brady Savage]] (WCW) defeated [[Hiroyoshi Towle-Tenzan|Hiroyoshi Tenzan]] (with Sonny Onoo; NJPW) (WCW 3 - NJPW 3)
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|Singles match in the World Cup of Wrestling
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|[[Kevin Borden|Sting]] (WCW) defeated [[Kensuke Sasai]] (with Sonny Onoo; NJPW) (WCW 4 - NJPW 3)
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|Singles match in the World Cup of Wrestling
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|[[Ric Flair]] defeated Lex Luger and Sting by countout
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|[[Professional wrestling match types#Basic non-elimination matches|Triangle match]] to determine the challenger for the [[WCW World Heavyweight Championship]]
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|[[Ric Flair]] (with [[Jimmy Heart]]) defeated [[Brady Savage]]
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|Singles match for the [[WCW World Heavyweight Championship]]
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!12{{small|<sup>D</sup>}}
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|[[Kensuke Sasaki]] (c) defeated [[George Gross (wrestler)|The One Man Gang]]
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|Singles match for the [[IWE United States Championship|WCW United States Heavyweight Championship]]
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| colspan="4"|{{center|(c) – refers to the champion(s) heading into the match<br>'''D''' – indicates the match was a [[Glossary of professional wrestling terms#dark match|dark match]]}}
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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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