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Starrcade was the inspiration of Rhodes. [20] [21] Wrestling historian Dave Meltzer has claimed that Dory Funk Jr. was the actual booker of the first Starrcade and the events leading up to it and that he came up with the idea for the show with Crockett. According to Meltzer, Rhodes came up with the name Starrcade and booked the show in ...
Starrcade was a recurring professional wrestling 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 ...
Starrcade '88: True Gritt; Starrcade '89: Future Shock; Starrcade '90: Collision Course; Starrcade '91: Battlebowl – The Lethal Lottery; Starrcade '92: Battlebowl – The Lethal Lottery II; Starrcade '93: 10th Anniversary; Starrcade '94: Triple Threat; Starrcade '95: World Cup of Wrestling; Starrcade (1996) Starrcade (1997) Starrcade (1998 ...
The show's original theme was an eight-bit melody similar to those heard in various arcade games of the time. Halfway through Richards' run, the theme was changed to one composed by "Mindseed" (Ed and Joanne Anderson), who were also employed by Data East at the time and who also composed the music for Venture and Mouse Trap for Exidy .
WCW/New Japan Supershow I, (known as Starrcade in Tokyo Dome [1] in Japan) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event that took place on March 21, 1991, in the Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan. It was co-promoted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), who hosted the event, and the US-Based World Championship Wrestling (WCW), which supplied a ...
It took place on November 28, 1985, from the Greensboro Coliseum Complex in Greensboro, North Carolina and Omni Coliseum in Atlanta, Georgia, with the event going back and forth from both arenas. The main event was between Ric Flair and Dusty Rhodes for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship.
The event featured wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines.The first match of the "Lethal Lottery" was drawn at random as part of the Clash of the Champions XXI show on November 18, 1992, which paired up Johnny B. Badd and Cactus Jack to face the team of Van Hammer and Danny Spivey, who won as part of the Starrcade show. [1]
The 2019 Starrcade was the 21st and final Starrcade professional wrestling livestreaming event. It was the third Starrcade promoted by WWE and was held as a live event for wrestlers from the promotion's Raw and SmackDown brand divisions. A portion of the event was livestreamed as a one-hour WWE Network special.