KAYFABE THEATER: The Standoff before Starrcade
1984 -Ric Flair & Dusty Rhodes are announced as the competitors in the ‘One Million Dollar Challenge’ and have a staredown on stage in Greensboro
1984 -Ric Flair & Dusty Rhodes are announced as the competitors in the ‘One Million Dollar Challenge’ and have a staredown on stage in Greensboro
Ric Flair talks about Starrcade 1987: Chi-Town Heat, and tells Ronnie Garvin that he’s leaving that night with HIS NWA World Heavyweight title
Ric Flair makes a heroic return to the top of the mountain – in the event that he made famous, by defeating Vader for the WCW World title
Lex Luger and Ric Flair battle at The Norfolk Scope in Starcade ’88: True Gritt, the first signature event under Ted Turner and the WCW banner
At Starrcade 1990, the mystery of the Black Scorpion is revealed when the character arrives in a spaceship to face Sting, only to be unmasked as Ric Flair
Dusty Rhodes defeats Ric Flair for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship match, only to have the match thrown out a week later on a technicality
After losing his title two months earlier, the Nature Boy re-captures the NWA World Heavyweight championship at Starrcade ’87: Chi-Town Heat.
Spoilers from Saturday Night’s event, which will also air in a one-hour , condensed version tonight on WWE Network at 8 p.m. ET
Jim Crockett Promotions presents the firstĀ Starrcade event, highlighted by Nature Boy Ric Flair against Harley Race for the NWA World Heavyweight title
Ricky Steamboat roughs up a very arrogant Tully Blanchard before their TV title match at Starrcade
1983 – Gordon Solie interviews NWA Promoter Jim Crockett, Jr. following the events that unfolded at his company’s first mega-event, Starrcade
1986 – Hawk and Animal work out to the Black Sabbath song, “Iron Man”, then send a message to Jim Cornette by throwing a pumpkin off the top of a scaffold
The Nature Boy talks with Bob Caudle about the $25,000 bounty that the World Champion has put on his head, and discusses his strategy going forward as he continues to pursue the NWA World title
This look back at pro wrestling from the Carolina region rumbles on through the early 80’s, and the first incarnation of Starrcade
Jim Cornette gets his men ready in this special training video, illustrating the Midnight Express preparing for the Road Warriors and the scaffold at Starrcade