RKMBs Forums .::Robegories::. Sports and Wrestling Remembering Starrcade 1983-2000

and the very final Starrcade was even worse.

TRIPLE LADDER MATCH: Shane Helms & Shannon Moore beat Kaz Hayashi & Yang and Jamie Noble & Evan Karagias..
this might've been ok, simply for the added ladder stipulation. But I haven't seen it, so fuck it.

MATCH: Lance Storm defeated Ernest "The Cat" Miller..
basically Storm carrying Miller.

HARDCORE TITLE MATCH: Terry Funk defeated Crowbar to win the title!
I love Funk, but he was just too damn old for this shite.

TAG TEAM MATCH: KroniK (Brian Adams & Bryan Clarke) defeated Big Vito & Reno..
KroniK was a great angle. Shame they couldn't get over in the E later. especially since they had such long history with them and both worked the style well.

AMBULANCE MATCH: Mike Awesome defeated Bam Bam Bigelow..
actually would like to see this.

US TITLE MATCH: General Rection defeated Shane Douglas by DQ to retain..
was hoping Douglas would win. this was near the end of his WCW run.

6-MAN TAG: The Harris Brothers & Jeff Jarrett defeated Konnan & Billy Kidman & Rey Mysterio Jr...
don't remember this one.

TAG TITLE MATCH: The Insiders (Kevin Nash & DDP) defeated Chuck Palumbo & Shawn Stasiak to win the titles!
memorable only for the Insiders constant attempts at getting Scott Hall back in WCW. although Page and Nash worked well together. they should've since they first teamed up back in the early 90's as the Vegas Connection.

MATCH: Bill Goldberg defeated Lex Luger..
Meh.

WORLD TITLE MATCH: Scott Steiner defeated Sid Vicious to retain..
More meh. this almost rivals Hogan/Beefcake for worst Starrcade main event. *almost*

so there you have it. Starrcade goes out whimpering like a sad little dog with most of it's legs cut off.

it's a shame to see things that were once so promising finish out so poorly. especially when it's history is so rich.

Well,Grimm, it's like Mick Foley ( As Mankind ) once said -

" Of all the things in life I've lost, I miss my mind the most!"

Mick always had a way with words.

so essentially, what did I hope to get out of this?

I'm not really sure. share some memories. have a few laughs. recoil in horror at some of the inane booking. we've done all that, yeah.

one thought would be that the Starrcade name deserves to be revived so it can live on and continue it's history. but whoever had that thought would do well to notice how horrible the E's booking is right now and how it just seems to be getting worse. Starrcade would vanish under a sea of undistinguishable crap ppvs.

what I would ultimately like to see is a "Best of Starrcade" dvd set and here are my recommendations for the matches that should be on it.

83
Piper vs. Valentine US title
Flair vs. Race World title

84
Blanchard vs. Steamboat TV title
Flair vs. Rhodes World Title

85
Magnum vs. Blanchard US title
RNR Express vs. Koloffs Tag Title
Rhodes vs. Flair World title

86
Blanchard vs. Rhodes TV title
RNR Express vs. Andersons Tag title
Road Warriors vs. Midnight Express scaffold match
Flair vs. Koloff World title

87
Williams vs. Windham UWF title
RNR Express vs. Mid. Express scaffold match
Anderson & Blanchard vs. Road Warriors Tag title
Rhodes vs. Luger US title
Flair vs. Garvin World title

88
Midnight Express vs. “Original” Midnight Express
Windham vs. Bigelow US title
Rhodes/Sting vs. Road Warriors Tag title
Flair vs. Luger World title

89
Luger vs. Sting
Flair vs. Muta
Steiners vs. Road Warriors
Sting vs. Muta
Flair vs. Luger
Luger vs. Muta
Sting vs. Flair

90
Konnan/Misterio Sr. vs. Adams/Smiley
Skyscrapers vs. Big Cat/Madman
Steiners vs. Konnan/Misterio
Doom vs. Anderson/Windham Tag titles
Steiners vs. Muta/Saito
Sting vs. Flair


91
BattleBowl battle royal

92
Muta/Windham vs. Pillman/Scorpio
Steamboat/Douglas vs. Pillman/Windham Tag titles
Sting vs. Vader
Chono vs. Muta NWA title
BattleBowl battle royal

93
Regal vs. Steamboat TV title
Rude vs. Boss
(because it’d be a nice tribute to them both)
Austin vs. Rhodes US title
Hawk/Sting vs. Nasty Boys Tag title
Flair vs. Vader World title

95
Liger vs. Benoit
Kanemoto vs. Wright
Ohtani vs. Guerrero
Savage vs. Tenzan
Sting vs. Sasaki
Flair vs. Sting vs. Luger
Flair vs. Savage World title

96
Dragon vs. Malenko Cruiserweight title
Hokuto vs. Madusa Women’s title
Liger vs. Misterio
Jarrett vs. Benoit
Guerrero vs. Page US title
Piper vs. Hogan

97
Guerrero vs. Malenko Cruiserweight title
Saturn vs. Benoit
Page vs. Hennig US title
Zbszko vs. Bischoff
Sting vs. Hogan

98
Kidman vs. Misterio vs. Juventud Cruiserweight title
Kidman vs. Guerrero Cruiserweight title
Konnan vs. Jericho TV title
Bischoff vs. Flair
Page vs. Giant

99
Smiley vs. Meng Hardcore title
Revolution vs. Duggan/Varsity Club
Vampiro vs. Williams
Jarrett vs. Rhodes
Benoit vs. Jarrett US title

00
Helms/Moore vs. Hayashi/Yang vs. Noble/Karaver
Funk vs. Crowbar Hardcore title
Awesome vs. Bigelow


that's it.

Back when I first started watching Wrestling, (around 1960 - 62?) Bruno Sammartino, Chief Jay Strongbow, and Baron Michel Ceycluna (spell?) were all still wrestling.

Lou Albano wasn't a Captain yet, and he was still a wrestler, too.

Wrestling was on Saturdays, after the cartoons were over for the day.

The matches back then were very simple compared to today's WWE!

OOK OOK ACK EEK!

The Russians/Flair match you're thinking of was pre starrcade '85.

As for Nikita's face turn, it had really only just happened at this point, due to Magnum TA's forced retirement. Basically they rushed Nikita into the main event here to cover, and as a result I think he was still getting boos for a little while afterwards since some fans hadn't fully caught up with the storylines (most of my knowledge fro mthsi coems from retrospective reasearch done via old magazines and the aforementioned buddy with wrestling vids).

*SPOILERS*