Starrcade (1996)

Starrcade
Promotional poster featuring Lex Luger and Bobby Walker
PromotionWorld Championship Wrestling[1]
DateDecember 29, 1996[1]
CityNashville, Tennessee[1]
VenueNashville Municipal Auditorium[1]
Attendance9,030
Tagline(s)Not Your Typical Warm, Fuzzy Holiday Special
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The 1996 Starrcade was the 14th annual Starrcade professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by World Championship Wrestling (WCW). It took place on December 29, 1996, from the Nashville Municipal Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee.[2] The event featured the New World Order (nWo) stable, which formed in July.

The main event was between Hollywood Hogan and Roddy Piper. Piper debuted in WCW a few months prior to oppose the nWo, and challenge Hogan to determine who the bigger icon was.[3] Other matches featured Lex Luger and The Giant, Diamond Dallas Page and Eddie Guerrero for the vacant WCW United States Heavyweight Championship, The Outsiders and the Faces of Fear for the WCW World Tag Team Championship, and Ultimo Dragon and Dean Malenko to unify the J-Crown Championship and the WCW Cruiserweight Championship.[1] In 2015, all WCW pay-per-views were made available on the WWE Network.

  1. ^ a b c d e Furious, Arnold (2006-12-25). "The Furious Flashbacks – WCW Starrcade '96". 411mania. Retrieved 2008-06-07.
  2. ^ "WCW Live Events - December 1996". wcwwrestling.com. Archived from the original on 20 April 1997. Retrieved 14 March 2022.
  3. ^ "Wrestling History". Pro Wrestling Illustrated. Archived from the original on 2015-09-24. Retrieved 2008-05-23.