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In 1985, the World Wrestling Federation was an emerging competitor to Jim Crockett Promotions, and created the WrestleMania event, which had significant success. [ 1 ] [ 5 ] The following year's WrestleMania, WrestleMania 2 , was created similar to Starrcade, being held in three locations.
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 '84: The Million Dollar Challenge; Starrcade '85: The Gathering; Starrcade '86: Night of the Skywalkers; Starrcade '87: Chi-Town Heat; 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 ...
Missy would engage in a battle over who the "First Lady of WCW" was with The Dangerous Alliance's Madusa, with Hyatt narrowly winning a Bikini Showdown at the 1992 Beach Blast pay-per-view event. While in WCW, Hyatt made an appearance in the IWA at ringside during a match between The Bushwhackers and The Thunderfoots.
At Starrcade '85: The Gathering that November, they successfully defended the titles against Billy Jack Haynes and Wahoo McDaniel. [18] [56] In the main event of Starrcade '85 between Flair and Dusty Rhodes, the Minnesota Wrecking Crew interfered in an attempt to help Flair retain his NWA World Heavyweight Championship. [60]
In 2017, WWE revived the Starrcade name for a non-televised house show and then would show a portion of the 2018 and 2019 iterations of the event on the WWE Network. Both The Great American Bash and Halloween Havoc names would rotate between special episodes and live streaming events as WWE ceased airing NXT pay-per-views from 2022 and has ...
Many major and historic wrestling events took place at the Omni, including Starrcade (1985, 1986, 1989 and 1992), the first WarGames match during the Great American Bash tour (1987), and the first Slamboree in 1993.
On July 9, 1985, he and Ivan lost the NWA Tag Titles to the Rock 'N Roll Express. The Koloffs subsequently regained and defended the belts without Khruschev's participation. At Starrcade 1985, on November 28, Khruschev won the vacant NWA Mid-Atlantic Heavyweight Championship by defeating Sam Houston. Later on that night, he was in the Koloffs ...