Starrcade '86: Night of the Skywalkers

Starrcade '86: Night of the Skywalkers
Starrcade '86: Night of the Skywalkers
Promotion	National Wrestling Alliance; Jim Crockett Promotions
Date	November 27, 1986
City	Greensboro, North Carolina; Atlanta, Georgia
Venue	Greensboro Coliseum Complex; Omni Coliseum
Attendance	30.000 (combined)
Tagline(s)	The Skywalkers
Starrcade chronology
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Starrcade '86: Night of the Skywalkers was the fourth annual

event, produced by Jim Crockett Promotions (JCP) under the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) banner. It took place on November 27, 1986, from the Greensboro Coliseum Complex in Greensboro, North Carolina and Omni Coliseum in Atlanta, Georgia

.

The main event saw

The Road Warriors wrestled The Midnight Express in a scaffold match

with both team fighting atop a 20 foot tall scaffold erected across the top of the ring.

Highlights of the show were shown on JCP's weekly television shows and an edited version of the show was later available for purchase or rental on

1983 through 1986) alongside the subsequent Starrcade shows appear in the pay-per-view section. The WWE Network versions of the shows were not edited for content, but some entrance music was replaced due to copyright

issues. At 4 hours, this Starrcade is the longest in the event's history.

Production

Background

From the 1960s to the 1980s, it was tradition for the NWA member JCP to hold major

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 throughout 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 1986 event was the fourth show to use the Starrcade name, and the last event to take place in two different locations at once.

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.

Ronnie Garvin

at the time, turn face as a result and took Magnum T. A.'s place in the main event of the show.

Event

Other on-screen personnel
Role:	Name:
Commentator (Greensboro)	Bob Caudle
Commentator (Greensboro)	Johnny Weaver
Commentator (Atlanta)	Tony Schiavone
Commentator (Atlanta)	Rick Stewart
Interviewer	Johnny Weaver (Greensboro)
Interviewer	Rick Stewart (Atlanta)
Referee	Sonny Fargo
	Scrappy McGowan
	Earl Hebner
	Tommy Young
Ring Announcer	Tom Miller (Greensboro)
Ring Announcer	Tony Schiavone (Atlanta)

The 1986 Starrcade show took place in two separate locations, the

The Rock 'n' Roll Express and the Anderson Brothers (Arn and Ole Anderson).^[2]^[3]

the Road Warriors and the Midnight Express

The Road Warriors won the

Big Bubba Rogers. Rogers was supposed to catch Cornette, but failed to do so. Cornette did not land properly and had to be carried out of the ring.^[2] Road Warrior Hawk wrestled the match with a broken leg, an injury he suffered during a match during a Japanese tour The Road Warriors did a month earlier.^[2]

Aftermath

Jimmy Valiant's years-long feud with Paul Jones finally came to an end, Jones would go on to manage Rick Rude and Manny Fernandez to the NWA World Tag Team titles, then lost them back to the Rock 'n' Roll Express after Rude jumped to the WWF in 1987. Ole Anderson would be kicked out of the Four Horsemen in February, 1987, replaced by Lex Luger, with his performance in this match as well as being absent for his son Bryant's amateur wrestling matches (in reality, this is the reason Anderson wanted to retire from active competition) being the pretext of kicking him out. Arn, having thus split from Ole, would form a tag team in the Horsemen with Blanchard, winning two NWA World Tag Team titles as Horsemen and one WWF World tag team championship as The Brain Busters. Also forming a regular tag team were the newly babyface Nikita Koloff and his former enemy Dusty Rhodes - the Superpowers would go on to win the 1987 Crockett Cup.

Big Bubba Rogers would move to the

Bill Eadie as Ax would go on to win three WWF World Tag Team championships, the first of these being the longest reign ever with the belts. Kruschev's spot in the Russian Team, meanwhile would be taken by Vladimir Petrov

who, along with Ivan Koloff, continued to feud with Nikita.

Results

#	Results from the Greensboro Coliseum^[4]	Stipulations	Times^[2]^[3]
1	Tim Horner and Nelson Royal defeated Rocky Kernodle and Don Kernodle	Tag team match	7:30
3	Hector Guerrero and Baron von Raschke defeated Shaska Whatley and The Barbarian	Tag team match	7:25
5	Wahoo McDaniel defeated Rick Rude (with Paul Jones)	Indian Strap match	9:05
7	Jimmy Valiant (with Big Mama) defeated Paul Jones	Hair vs. Hair match	4:00
9	Tully Blanchard (with J. J. Dillon) defeated Dusty Rhodes (c)	First Blood match for the NWA World Television Championship	7:30
11	The Rock 'n' Roll Express (Ricky Morton and Robert Gibson) (c) defeated The Minnesota Wrecking Crew (Arn Anderson and Ole Anderson )	Steel Cage match for the NWA World Tag Team Championship	20:20
No.	Results from The Omni^[5]	Stipulations	Times
2	Brad Armstrong vs. Jimmy Garvin (with Precious) ended in a draw	Singles match	15:00
4	The Russian Team (Krusher Khruschev and Ivan Koloff) (c) defeated The Kansas Jayhawks (Bobby Jaggers and Dutch Mantel )	Tag team match for the NWA United States Tag Team Championship	9:10
6	Sam Houston (c) defeated Bill Dundee by disqualification	Singles match for the NWA Central States Heavyweight Championship	10:24
8	Big Bubba Rogers (with Jim Cornette) defeated Ron Garvin	Street Fight	11:50
10	The Road Warriors (Hawk and Animal) (with Paul Ellering) defeated The Midnight Express (Bobby Eaton and Dennis Condrey ) (with Jim Cornette and Big Bubba Rogers)	Skywalkers match	7:00
12	Ric Flair (c) vs. Nikita Koloff ended in a double disqualification	Singles match for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship	20:00
(c) – refers to the champion heading into the match

References

^ "Flair defeats Race for wrestling title". Greensboro Daily News. November 25, 1983. p. D3. Retrieved June 2, 2008.
^
ISBN 978-1494803476
.

^ ^a ^b "Starrcade 1986". Pro Wrestling History. November 27, 1986. Retrieved August 29, 2015.
^ "NWA Starrcade 1986 - "Night of the Skywalkers" (Halle 1)". Cagematch. Retrieved August 5, 2018.
^ "NWA Starrcade 1986 - "Night of the Skywalkers" (Halle 2)". Cagematch. Retrieved August 5, 2018.

[1] "Flair defeats Race for wrestling title". Greensboro Daily News. November 25, 1983. p. D3. Retrieved June 2, 2008.

[WCW8388Book-2] 
ISBN 978-1494803476
.

[PWHStarrcade1986-3] "Starrcade 1986". Pro Wrestling History. November 27, 1986. Retrieved August 29, 2015.

[4] "NWA Starrcade 1986 - "Night of the Skywalkers" (Halle 1)". Cagematch. Retrieved August 5, 2018.

[5] "NWA Starrcade 1986 - "Night of the Skywalkers" (Halle 2)". Cagematch. Retrieved August 5, 2018.

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