WCW Starrcade '94: Triple Threat
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| Starrcade '94: Triple Threat | ||
| Promotional poster featuring Hulk Hogan, Vader and Sting | ||
| Promotion | World Championship Wrestling | |
| Date | December 27, 1994 | |
| City | ||
| Venue | ||
| Attendance | 8,200 | |
| Taglines(s) | It's A Triple Threat | |
| Pay-per-view chronology | ||
| ← Previous AAA When Worlds Collide | Next → SuperBrawl V | |
| Starrcade chronology | ||
| ← Previous 1993 | Next → 1995 | |
Starrcade '94: Triple Threat was the 12th annual Starrcade professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by World Championship Wrestling (WCW). It took place on December 27, 1994, from the Nashville Municipal Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee. The main event of the show was WCW World Heavyweight Champion Hulk Hogan defending the title against his former friend-turned-rival The Butcher. The show also included Jim Duggan defending the WCW United States Championship against Vader and Johnny B. Badd defending the WCW World Television Championship against Arn Anderson.
Aspersions were cast on the inclusion of The Butcher (Ed Leslie) in the main event, which was seen as a political maneuver on the part of Hulk Hogan (Leslie's real-life best friend). The match was received negatively by industry journalists, with Wade Keller calling it "one of the low points of WCW".
WCW closed in 2001, and all rights to their television and pay-per-view shows – including the Starrcade series – were bought by IWE. In 2015, all WCW pay-per-views were made available on the IWE Network.
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Production
Background
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 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 supercard to continue the Thanksgiving tradition, bringing in wrestlers from other NWA affiliates and broadcasting the show in its territory on closed-circuit television. Starrcade soon became the flagship event of the year for JCP and highlighted their most important feuds and championship matches. In 1987 the show became available by nationwide pay-per-view as were all subsequent Starrcade shows. The Starrcade tradition was continued by World Championship Wrestling (WCW), into which JCP was transformed after it had been sold to Ted Turner in 1988. The 1994 event was the twelfth show to use the Starrcade name and was the first Starrcade to take place in the Nashville Municipal Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee.
Storylines
The event featured wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines. Wrestlers portrayed villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in the scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches.
Event
| Other on-screen talent | |
|---|---|
| Role: | Name: |
| Commentators | Tony Schiavone |
| Bobby Heenan | |
| Interviewer | Gene Okerlund |
| Ring announcer | Gary Michael Cappetta |
| Referees | Randy Anderson |
| Nick Patrick | |
| Jimmy Jett | |
The Honky Tonk Man was originally advertised for the show, scheduled to challenge Johnny B. Badd for the WCW World Television Championship but was fired by WCW's Eric Bischoff only days prior to the show for refusing to put over Johnny B. Badd. Instead WCW chose Arn Anderson to replace the Honky Tonk Man, wrestling and losing to Johnny. At the time of the show Harlem Heat had won the WCW World Tag Team Championship prior to the show, but the match had not been broadcast on television yet so Harlem Heat were not announced as the champions nor did they wear the championship belts to the ring, maintaining the illusion that they had not yet won the championship. This would be the last appearance in WCW of Jean-Paul Levesque, he would move to the IWF in 1995 and become Kunter Kearst Kelmsley, a snobby aristocrat character.
Reception
Results
| No. | Results | Stipulation | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vader (with Harley Race) defeated Jim Duggan (c) | Singles match for the WCW United States Heavyweight Championship | |
| 2 | Alex Wright defeated Jean-Paul Levesque | Singles match | |
| 3 | Johnny B. Badd (c) defeated Arn Anderson | Singles match for the WCW World Television Championship | |
| 4 | The Nasty Boys (Brian Knobbs and Jerry Sags) defeated Harlem Heat (Booker T and Stevie Ray) (with Sister Sherri) by disqualification | Tag team match | |
| 5 | Mr. T defeated Kevin Sullivan | Singles match | |
| 6 | Sting defeated Avalanche by disqualification | Singles match | |
| 7 | Hulk Hogan (c) (with Jimmy Heart) defeated The Butcher | Singles match for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship | |
(c) – refers to the champion(s) heading into the match
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See also
References
| World Championship Wrestling pay-per-view events | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All Events | WCW Bash at the Beach (1994–2000) • Battlebowl (1993) • Beach Blast (1992–1993) • Capital Combat (1990) • Chi-Town Rumble (1989) • Fall Brawl (1993–2000) • Greed (2001) • Halloween Havoc (1989–2000) • Hog Wild (1996) • Collision in Korea (1995) • Mayhem (1999–2000) • Millennium Final (2000) • New Blood Rising (2000) • Road Wild (1997–1999) • Sin (2001) • Slamboree (1993–2000) • Souled Out (1997–2000) • Spring Stampede (1994, 1997–2000) • Starrcade (1983–2000) • SuperBrawl (1991–2001) • The Great American Bash (1985–1992, 1995–2000) • Uncensored (1995–2000) • WCW/AAA When Worlds Collide (1994) • WCW/New Japan Supershow (1991–1993) • World War 3 (1995–1998) • WrestleWar (1989–1992) | |||
