Before there was WrestleMania, there was Starrcade. While WrestleMania is universally regarded as the Super Bowl of pro wrestling, Starrcade was the original closed-circuit TV supercard, preceding ...
Starrcade was so often the Ric Flair show. The 16-time world champion headlined the NWA (and later WCW) mega event 10 times. And Flair annually made the most of that grand stage. The list of best ...
Starrcade is a name that will always resonate with wrestling fans. The event, which debuted in 1983, in Greensboro, North Carolina, under the banner of Jim Crockett Promotions of the National ...
From the 80s, right up until the height of the Monday Night Wars, Starrcade was WCW's version of WrestleMania. The only difference is that it would take place either on the Thanksgiving weekend (until ...
Take out the opener, a cruiserweight bout between Eddie Guerrero and Dean Malenko, and Starrcade 1997 was something of a wrestling dud (its penultimate bout was a contested by Eric Bischoff and Larry ...
As historically significant as the Ric Flair-Harley Race title change was at the inaugural Starrcade on Nov. 24, 1983, it was the brutal “Rowdy” Roddy Piper-Greg “The Hammer” Valentine match that ...
Starrcade was once WCW's flagship show in the same vein as WWE's Wrestlemania. In fact, WCW Starrcade actually predates Wrestlemania by almost 18 months. Debuting on November 24, 1983, before the ...
Starrcade is a name that will always resonate with wrestling fans. The event, which debuted in 1983, in Greensboro, North Carolina, under the banner of Jim Crockett Promotions of the National ...
Bret Hart's match with Goldberg at Starrcade 1999 was simultaneously one of the best and worst moments in the event's history, having featured a botched superkick that ultimately precipitated the ...
Starrcade is a name that will always resonate with wrestling fans. The event, which debuted in 1983, in Greensboro, North Carolina, under the banner of Jim Crockett Promotions of the National ...
After 18 months of building up to Sting as the man worthy of toppling Hulk Hogan and the NWO, the events of Starrcade 1997 are a testament to the problems WCW faced as the tide began to turn in the ...