The TBS shows switched to a format of 30-second squash matches paired with 90-second interviews, putting Crockett in last place in Nielsen ratings among wrestling shows.

Starrcade became a kind of time capsule, a thing you’d buy a WWE DVD for if they put Magnum and Tully in the cage on it, because that match was good, you remember. I remember Sting vs. Flair!

Starrcade’s a different matter, though. Last year nostalgia was the whole selling point, and this year it seems to be again, but Cincinnati is just the wrong place to expect Jim Crockett/WCW ...

Earlier in the year, Vader defeated Sting for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship at the “Great American Bash.” Here, the ...

Starrcade '83, one of the most significant events in professional wrestling history, will mark its 40th anniversary on Nov. 24. The megashow that launched Ric Flair’s second run as NWA world ...

Starrcade was the flagship show for NWA and WCW starting in the mid-1980s and came to define those promotions and their biggest stories. But as WCW reached its peak in 1997, with a can't-miss ...

WWE is reviving WCW's biggest pay-per-view, announcing Monday it will hold Starrcade at the Greensboro Coliseum in Greensboro, North Carolina, on Nov. 25. The event will be nearly 34 years to the ...

Greg Valentine (standing) works over Roddy Piper during their Dog Collar match at Starrcade ’83. The barbaric bout would be one of the most memorable and brutal in Starrcade history. (Wayne ...

The final Starrcade under the WCW banner occurred in December 2000. Last year’s Starrcade event did not air on the WWE Network, which many fans noted as a disappointment.

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