Starrcade

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For the 1991 and 1992 shows promoted in Japan as "Starrcade", see WCW/New Japan Supershow.
For other uses, see Starcade (disambiguation).
Starrcade
1983
Last event2019

Starrcade was a recurring

event, originally broadcast via closed-circuit television and eventually broadcast via pay-per-view. It was originally held from 1983 to 2000, first by the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) from 1983 to 1990, with the 1983–1987 events specifically held by Jim Crockett Promotions (JCP) under the NWA, and then held by World Championship Wrestling
(WCW) from 1988 to 2000.

Starrcade was regarded by the NWA and WCW as their flagship event of the year, much in the same vein that its rival, the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), regarded WrestleMania. As a result, the buildup to each Starrcade featured the largest feuds of the promotion. In 2001, the WWF acquired WCW, and the WWF was renamed to World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) in 2002.

WWE revived the event in 2017 as a house show with portions of the events in 2018 and 2019 airing as WWE Network specials. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, an event was not held in 2020 and no further events were scheduled.

History

From 1983 to 1987, Starrcade was produced by the

Turner Broadcasting due to financial problems and became World Championship Wrestling (WCW), though Starrcade was held under the NWA banner until 1990.[1][2]

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.[3] It popularized broadcasting on closed-circuit television and was financially successful. From 1987, Starrcade was broadcast on PPV, the first NWA event to do so.[4]

Starrcade was held for the final time as a WCW event in 2000: the promotion would be acquired by the WWF in 2001, and the brand would become dormant.

orphaned initialism in 2011).[6][7] In 2017, WWE revived Starrcade for a SmackDown-branded non-televised house show on November 25, 2017.[8] The following year, WWE's Starrcade house shows began to be held as WWE Network specials and featured both the Raw and SmackDown brands.[9][10] An event did not occur in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which prevented WWE from holding shows outside of its normal weekly television programming and PPVs.[11] WWE resumed live touring in July 2021, but a Starrcade event was not scheduled for that year.[12]

Events

WCW/nWo co-branded event SmackDown-branded event
# Event Date City Venue Main Event Ref.
National Wrestling Alliance: Jim Crockett Promotions
1 Starrcade '83: A Flare for the Gold November 24, 1983 Greensboro, North Carolina
Greensboro Coliseum
special guest referee
2 Starrcade '84: The Million Dollar Challenge November 22, 1984 Greensboro, North Carolina
Greensboro Coliseum
special guest referee
3 Starrcade '85: The Gathering November 28, 1985 Greensboro, North Carolina
Greensboro Coliseum
NWA World Heavyweight Championship
Atlanta, Georgia
 The Omni
4 Starrcade '86: Night of the Skywalkers November 27, 1986 Greensboro, North Carolina
Greensboro Coliseum
NWA World Heavyweight Championship
Atlanta, Georgia
 The Omni
5 Starrcade '87: Chi-Town Heat November 26, 1987
Chicago, Illinois
UIC Pavilion
NWA World Heavyweight Championship
National Wrestling Alliance: World Championship Wrestling
6 Starrcade '88: True Gritt December 26, 1988 Norfolk, Virginia Norfolk Scope
NWA World Heavyweight Championship
7 Starrcade '89: Future Shock December 13, 1989
Atlanta, Georgia
 The Omni Iron Man tournament - final: Ric Flair vs. Sting
8 Starrcade '90: Collision Course December 16, 1990 St. Louis, Missouri Kiel Auditorium
special guest referee
World Championship Wrestling (WCW)
9 Starrcade '91: Battlebowl – The Lethal Lottery December 29, 1991 Norfolk, Virginia Norfolk Scope Battlebowl
10 Starrcade '92: Battlebowl – The Lethal Lottery II December 28, 1992
Atlanta, Georgia
 The Omni Battlebowl
11 Starrcade '93: 10th Anniversary December 27, 1993 Charlotte, North Carolina
Independence Arena
Title vs. Career match for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship
12 Starrcade '94: Triple Threat December 27, 1994 Nashville, Tennessee Nashville Municipal Auditorium Hulk Hogan (c) vs. The Butcher for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship
13 Starrcade '95: World Cup of Wrestling December 27, 1995 Nashville, Tennessee Nashville Municipal Auditorium Randy Savage (c) vs. Ric Flair for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship
14 Starrcade '96 December 29, 1996 Nashville, Tennessee Nashville Municipal Auditorium
Hollywood Hogan vs. Roddy Piper
15 Starrcade '97 December 28, 1997 Washington, D.C.
MCI Center
Hollywood Hogan (c) vs. Sting for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship
16 Starrcade '98 December 27, 1998 Washington, D.C.
MCI Center
no disqualification match for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship
17 Starrcade '99 December 19, 1999 Washington, D.C.
MCI Center
no disqualification match for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship
18 Starrcade (2000) December 17, 2000 Washington, D.C.
MCI Center
 Scott Steiner (c) vs. Sid Vicious for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship
WWE
19
Starrcade (2017)
 November 25, 2017 Greensboro, North Carolina Greensboro Coliseum
steel cage match for the WWE Championship
 [8]
20 Starrcade (2018) November 24, 2018
Cincinnati, Ohio
U.S. Bank Arena
steel cage match
21 Starrcade (2019) December 1, 2019 Duluth, Georgia
Infinite Energy Center
 Kevin Owens vs. Bobby Lashley [13]

2017

Starrcade
Promotion
WWE
Brand(s)SmackDown
DateNovember 25, 2017
CityGreensboro, North Carolina
VenueGreensboro Coliseum Complex
Attendance10,234
Tagline(s)Starrcade Returns
Starrcade chronology
← Previous
2000 		Next →
2018


The 2017 Starrcade was the 19th Starrcade

The Hardy Boyz
.

No.ResultsStipulations
1D
dark match

References

  1. ^ Molinaro, John (December 17, 1999). "Starrcade, the original "super card"". SLAM! Sports. Archived from the original on July 21, 2012. Retrieved November 26, 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  2. ^ Meltzer, Dave (November 27, 2003). "Thursday news update: It was 20 years ago today..." Wrestling Observer. Archived from the original on August 10, 2007. Retrieved June 2, 2008.
  3. ^ "Flair defeats Race for wrestling title". Greensboro Daily News. November 25, 1983. p. D3. Retrieved June 2, 2008.
  4. ^ Hoops, Brian (December 18, 2007). "Specialist – 20 Years Ago: Detailed look back at Starrcade '87 with Flair vs. Garvin". PWTorch. Retrieved May 24, 2008.
  5. ^ "WWE Entertainment, Inc. Acquires WCW from Turner Broadcasting". March 23, 2001. Archived from the original on March 13, 2014. Retrieved May 5, 2007.
  6. ^ "World Wrestling Federation Entertainment Drops The "F" To Emphasize the "E" for Entertainment". WWE. Archived from the original on January 19, 2009. Retrieved August 28, 2008.
  7. ^ Sacco, Justine; Weitz, Michael (April 7, 2011). "The New WWE" (Press release). Connecticut: WWE. Retrieved November 25, 2021.
  8. ^ a b c d e f g h i "Starrcade returns to Greensboro this November". WWE. September 18, 2017. Retrieved November 26, 2017.
  9. Wrestling Observer
    . Retrieved November 17, 2018.
  10. ^ "Starrcade returns to WWE Network Dec. 1". WWE. Retrieved September 18, 2019.
  11. ^ Mohan, Sai (November 13, 2020). "Backstage News On WWE Moving On From House Shows Post COVID-19 Era". Wrestling Inc. Retrieved March 26, 2021.
  12. CBSSports
    . Retrieved October 23, 2021.
  13. ^ "Starrcade returns to WWE Network Dec. 1". WWE. Retrieved 2019-09-18.
  14. ^ "WWE Live presents STARRCADE". Greensboro Coliseum Complex. September 18, 2017. Archived from the original on September 19, 2017. Retrieved November 26, 2017.
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