Starrcade '84: The Million Dollar Challenge

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Starrcade '84: The Million Dollar Challenge
Promotion
National Wrestling Alliance
Jim Crockett Promotions
DateNovember 22, 1984
CityGreensboro, North Carolina
VenueGreensboro Coliseum Complex
Attendance16,000
Tagline(s)The Million Dollar Challenge
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Starrcade '84: The Million Dollar Challenge was the second annual

NWA World Heavyweight Championship but also win a $1,000,000 purse, part of the illusion that professional wrestling
was a legitimate sporting competition.

The main event saw champion "The Nature Boy"

NWA United States Championship, NWA World Television Championship, NWA Florida Heavyweight Championship, NWA Brass Knuckles Championship and NWA Mid-Atlantic Heavyweight Championship
.

In 2014, the

1983–1986), which had been transmitted via closed-circuit television
, alongside the rest of the Starrcades in the pay-per-view section.

Production

Background

From the 1960s to the 1980s, it was tradition for the

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 through its territory on closed-circuit television.[1] Starrcade soon became the flagship event of the year for JCP (later World Championship Wrestling, WCW), their Super Bowl event featuring their most important storyline feuds
and championship matches. The 1984 event was the second show to use the Starrcade name.

Storylines

The Starrcade show featured a number of professional wrestling matches with different wrestlers involved in pre-existing, scripted feuds, plots, and storylines. Wrestlers were portrayed as either heels (those that portray the "bad guys") or faces (the "good guy" characters) as they followed a series of tension-building events, which culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches.

Other on-screen personnel
Role: Name:
Commentator Bob Caudle
Gordon Solie
Interviewer Tony Schiavone
Referee Earl Hebner
Sonny Fargo
Tommy Young
Joe Frazier (Rhodes vs Flair Match)
Ring announcer Tom Miller

Aftermath

The

Rick Steamboat left for the WWF after a dispute with booker Dusty Rhodes, all of them would appear at the first WrestleMania
event.

Wahoo McDaniel would hold the United States Heavyweight title until March, 1985, when he would be defeated (and move to Championship Wrestling from Florida) by a young up-and-comer named

Magnum T.A., fresh from Bill Watts' Mid-South Wrestling. Magnum would later get into a feud with Tully Blanchard (and his "Perfect 10" Baby Doll
) over the US title.

Buzz Tyler would go on to capture the Mid-Atlantic Heavyweight title from Dick Slater in March, 1985, but would then leave JCP after a dispute with booker Dusty Rhodes and take the classic title belt with him. J.J. Dillon would continue to manage Ron Bass and Black Bart into 1985, later adding Buddy Landel to his stable during the year. Brian Adias would return to World Class Championship Wrestling after Starrcade.

Paul Jones and Jimmy Valiant would continue their years-long feud after Valiant returned to JCP from CWG following his "loser leaves town" period into 1985 and beyond.

Dusty Rhodes would go on to win the NWA TV title, then the title became the NWA World TV title after JCP purchased Ole Anderson's Championship Wrestling from Georgia in March, 1985. After the buyout, Ole would turn heel and join up with his kayfabe brother Arn Anderson after his arrival in JCP and both help Arn in his feud with Manny Fernandez, then capturing the NWA National Tag Team Championship.

The Zambuie Express would break up during 1985,

Kareem Muhammad would spend a short time in Ole Anderson's CWG promotion, then move on to Championship Wrestling from Florida while Elijah Akeem would resume wrestling under his previous incarnation of "Bad Bad Leroy Brown" and move to Japan and then to the UWF
.

Ivan and Nikita Koloff would regain the

Great American Bash
in July 1985. Don Kernodle would no longer be in any title hunt, after his return from his (kayfabe) injury by the Koloffs he found himself down to the midcard after the mass influx of new talent (Magnun TA, Arn Anderson, Buddy Landel, Rock and Roll Express, Midnight Express, etc.) to JCP.

Assassin #1 would leave JCP after Starrcade and also move to CWG as a heel under the tutelage of Jimmy Hart before Hart left for the WWF; Assassin #1 left CWG after the buyout by Jim Crockett. Don Kernodle would fall down the card after his tag team title runs and became enhancement talent for JCP.

Results

No.Results
NWA World Heavyweight Championship with Joe Frazier
as special guest referee		12:12
(c) – the champion(s) heading into the match

Notes

  1. New Japan Pro Wrestling
    .
  2. ^ The referee stopped the match due to a cut on Rhodes's forehead.

References

  1. ^ "Flair defeats Race for wrestling title". Greensboro Daily News. 1983-11-25. p. D3. Retrieved 2008-06-02.
  2. ^ "Starrcade (1984) - Full Cast & Crew - IMDb". IMDb.
  3. ISBN 978-1494803476
    .
  4. ^ "Starrcade 1984". Pro Wrestling History. November 22, 1984. Retrieved August 29, 2015.
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