Starrcade Matchlists

 


Starrcade 1986

Rock 'n Roll Express  vs.  Ole & Arn Anderson   ****
Big Bubba  vs.  Ronnie Garvin
Jimmy Valient  vs.  Paul Jones   Hair vs. Hair Match
Dusty Rhodes  vs.  Tully Blanchard    TV Title Match, First Blood
Midnight Express  vs.  Road Warriors      Skywalkers Scaffold Match  (this is where Cornette seriously fucks up his knee for the rest of his life, when he drops from the scaffold post-match....not for the faint of heart)
Ric Flair  vs.  Nikita Koloff   ***1/4
 
 

Starrcade 1989
(note-- This was mostly a concept show to decide who would be the Wrestler and Tag Team of the 1990s....each wrestler or team wrestled the others, and the ones with the most points would be declared the winner.  Good idea in theory, in practice it didnt really come off that well.  Still, a fairly entertaining show.)

The Steiners vs. Doom
Lex Luger vs. Sting
The Road Warriors vs. Doom
Ric Flair vs. The Great Muta
The Steiners vs. The Road Warriors
Sting vs. The Great Muta
Samoan Savage/Fatu vs. Doom
Lex Luger vs. Ric Flair
Samoan Savage/Fatu vs. The Steiners
Lex Luger vs. The Great Muta
Road Warriors vs. Samoan Savage/Fatu
Sting vs. Ric Flair     ***   (at ***, this is basically the only decent match on the card, which is quite the shame....concept shows suck in general though, so it's not that surprising....well, cept for Starrcade '95, that actually rocked)
 
 
 

Starrcade 1990
***note-- All the tag team matches are part of the Pat O'Connor Memorial Tag Tourney or something....hence all the teams wrestling more than once.***
 
 

Bobby Eaton  vs.  Tom Zenk
Steiner Bros.  vs.  Col. DeKlerk/Sgt. Kruger
Norman Smiley/Chris Adams  vs.  Konnan/Rey Mysterio Sr.   ***1/4   (really good match that was definately before it's time....the crowd just doesn't know how to react to some of the lucha shit)
Jack Victory/Rip Morgan  vs.  Great Muta/Masa Saito
Bull Johnson/Troy Montour  vs.  Victor Zangiev/Salman Hasimokov
Terry Taylor  vs.  Michael Wallstreet
Motor City Madman/Big Cat  vs.  Sid Vicious/Dan Spivey
The Freebirds  vs.  Ricky Morton/Tommy Rich
Steiners  vs.  Konnan/Rey Mysterio Sr.
Great Muta/Masa Saito  vs.  Victor Zangiev/Salman Hasimokov
Lex Luger  vs.  Stan Hansen      Bullrope Match    U.S. Title Match
Doom  vs.  Arn Anderson/Barry Windham     WCW Tag Team Title Match   ***3/4    (really good, intense brawl)
Steiners  vs.  Great Muta/Masa Saito
Sting  vs.  Black Scorpion    WCW World Title Match    (let's not speak of this, shall we?)
 

Starrcade 1991

Jimmy Garvin/Marcus Bagwell  vs.  Michael Hayes/Tracey Smothers
Rick Rude/Steve Austin  vs.   Big Josh/Van Hammer
Ricky Morton/Dustin Rhodes   vs.  El Gigante/Larry Zbysko
Bill Kazmeier/Jushin Liger  vs.  Diamond Dallas Page/Mike Graham
Ricky Steamboat/Todd Champion   vs.   Cactus Jack/Buddy Lee Parker
Lex Luger/Arn Anderson  vs.  Tom Zenk/Terry Taylor
Sting/Abdullah the Butcher  vs.   Brian Pillman/Bobby Eaton
Big Van Vader/Mr. Hughes  vs.  Rick Steiner/The Nightstalker
Scott Steiner/Firebreaker Chip  vs.   Johnny B. Badd/The Arachnaman
Ron Simmons/Tommy Rich  vs.  P.N. News/Steve Armstrong
Battle Bowl Battle Royal     (think Slamboree 96 if you've seen that and not this.....all the winners of the previous matches are in the battle royal...Sting wins it)
 
 

Starrcade 1992

Cactus Jack/Johnny B. Badd  vs.  Van Hammer/Dan Spivey
Dustin Rhodes/Vader   vs.  Barbarian/Kensuke Sasaki
Great Muta/Barry Windham   vs.  Brian Pillman/2 Cold Scorpio
Sting/Steve Williams   vs.  Jushin Liger/Erik Watts   (who the fuck was responsible for allowing Erik F'N Watts to be in the same match as Jushin Liger....oh wait, it was Bill)
Ron Simmons  vs.  Steve Williams    WCW World Title Match
Ricky Steamboat/Shane Douglas   vs.  Brian Pillman/Barry Windham     WCW/NWA Tag Team Title Match
Sting  vs.  Vader     King of Cable Tournament Final    ****
BattleBowl   8 Guys are in it but I can't remember who and it sucks anyway so don't worry about it
 
 

Starrcade 1993

Paul Orndorff/Paul Roma  vs.  Marcus Bagwell/2 Cold Scorpio
The Shockmaster  vs.  King Kong
Steven Regal  vs.   Ricky Steamboat    TV Title Match  (this one, of course, goes to standard 15 minute time limit draw that all TV Title matches had back then)
Cactus Jack/Maxx Payne  vs.   Tex Slashinger/Shanghai Pierce
Rick Rude  vs.  The Boss       WCW International Title Match
Steve Austin  vs.   Dustin Rhodes     WCW U.S. Title Match    Best 2/3 Falls
Sting /Road Warrior Hawk   vs.   The Nasty Boys      WCW Tag Team Title Match
Ric Flair  vs.   Big Van Vader       WCW World Title Match   ****1/4   (Flair takes a helluva shitkicking here but gets the win)
 
 
 

Starrcade 1994
***note-- If you're interested at reading a review about a shitty show, you can click HERE to see my review!!!***

Vader  vs.  Jim Duggan      U.S. Title Match
Jean Paul Levesque  vs. Alex Wright
Johnny B. Badd  vs.  Arn Anderson        TV Title Match
Harlem Heat  vs.  Nasty Boys
Kevin Sullivan  vs.  Mr. T
Avalanche   vs.  Sting
Hulk Hogan  vs. Butcher    WCW World Title Match
 
 
 

Starrcade 1995
***note-- Another concept show for a Starrcade, but this one is actually really good, as New Japan has "invaded" WCW (sound familiar?) and thus we have a World Cup of Wrestling to decide who the best really is.  Plus on top of that a really good main event.  If you're interested, you can click HERE to check out my friend Brandon's review of this show.***

Chris Benoit  vs.  Jushin  Liger   ***1/2
Alex Wright vs. Koji Kanemoto
Lex Luger  vs.  Masahito Chono
Johnny B. Badd  vs.  Saito
Eddy Guerrero  vs.  Shinijiro Ohtani  ****1/2   (awesome match!)
Macho Man Randy Savage vs. Tenzan
Sting  vs.  Kenasuki Sasaki

Sting  vs.  Lex Luger  vs.  Ric Flair      Winner gets a title shot against Randy Savage   ****  (geez, as Sting, Luger, and Savage have ALL wrestling already tonight, do you think Flair might win this one?  Great match though and a good ending, typical Flair)
Ric Flair vs.  Macho Man Randy Savage        WCW World Title Match   ***
 
 
 

Starrcade 1996

Ultimo Dragon  vs.  Dean Malenko    J-Crown vs. Cruiserweight Title  *** (this unified all 9 titles, which amazingly I never heard a mention of on either WWF or WCW TV, since one of the belts in the J-Crown was the WWF Jr. Title....a WWF Title defended on WCW's biggest PPV, and no mention of it....somebody should have been doing their homework back then)
Madusa  vs.  Akira Hokuto  (WCW again tries to throw me a bone with a women's match, but Madusa was absolutely worthless at this point, and Hokuto was still good but she wasn't early 90s Hokuto, who could have *** match at will and with anybody)
Rey Mysterio Jr.  vs.  Jushin Liger   ***  (good match, completely heatless unfortunately)
Chris Benoit  vs.  Jeff Jarrett
Outsiders  vs.  Faces of Fear
Eddy Guerrero  vs.  Diamond Dallas Page
Giant  vs.  Lex Luger
Hollywood Hogan  vs.  Roddy Piper
 
 
 

Starrcade 1997

Eddie Guerrero  vs.  Dean Malenko     Cruiserweight Title Match   (decent match but disappointing, considering what these guys have done previously against each other)
Scott Norton/Vincent/Konnan  vs.  Steiner Brothers/Ray Traylor
Bill Goldberg  vs.  Steve McMichael   (this was pre-Superman phase for Goldberg, although he still sucks)
Chris Benoit  vs.  Saturn
Lex Luger  vs.  Buff Bagwell
Diamond Dallas Page  vs.  Curt Hennig    U.S. Title Match
Larry Zbyscko  vs.  Eric Bischoff
Hulk Hogan  vs.  Sting     WCW World Title Match    (out of all the fuckups in the history of WCW, this ranks as pretty much the biggest...what a fuckin joke)
 

Starrcade 1998

Rey Mysterio Jr.  vs.  Juventud Guerrera  vs.  Billy Kidman   Cruiserweight Title Match   ****1/2
Eddy Guerrero  vs.  Billy Kidman    Cruiserweight Title Match  ****  (Eddy came out and challenged Kidman right after the opening match, and God bless him for it)
Norman Smiley  vs.  Prince Iaukea
The Cat  vs.  Saturn
Brian Adams/Scott Norton  vs.  Fit Finlay/Jerry Flynn   (what the hell.....3 outta 4 guys in this match have no business wrestling at the biggest PPV of WCW's year)
Chris Jericho  vs.  Konnan    TV Title Match
Ric Flair  vs.  Eric Bischoff
Giant  vs.  Diamond Dallas Page
Goldberg  vs.  Kevin Nash     WCW World Title Match
 
 

Starrcade 1999
 

Disco Inferno/Lash Leroux  vs.  Johnny the Bull/Vito Legrasso
Evan Karagous  vs.  Madusa     Cruiserweight Title Match
Norman Smiley  vs.  Meng     Hardcore Title Match
The Revolution  vs.  Jim Duggan/Mystery Partners (Varsity Club)
Steve Williams  w/Oklahoma  vs.  Vampiro        If Vampiro wins, he gets 5:00 with Oklahoma
Vampiro  vs.  Oklahoma
Harlem Heat/Midnight  vs.  Creative Control/Curt Hennig
Dustin Rhodes  vs.  Jeff Jarrett
Diamond Dallas Flair  vs.  David Flair
Sting  vs.  Lex Luger
Kevin Nash  vs.  Sid       Powerbomb Match
Chris Benoit  vs.  Mystery Opponent (Jeff Jarrett)   U.S. Title Match  ***  (earlier in the show, Benoit was given the U.S. Title when Hall had to vacate it and challenged anybody to face him later that night and Jarrett accepted)
Bret Hart  vs.  Goldberg    (sigh....and here endeth Bret's career due to Goldberg not being able to even do a proper superkick...well Bret would wrestle for a few months after, but it basically ended right here...well, it actually ended as soon as he appeared in WCW....eh, nevermind)
 

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