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Starrcade '89: Future Shock was the seventh annual Starrcade professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced under the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) banner. It was the second Starrcade event produced by World Championship Wrestling (WCW), and it took place on December 13, 1989, at The Omni in Atlanta, Georgia .
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 ...
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Sting finished out the year by winning a four-man round-robin Iron Man tournament at Starrcade '89. In the final match of the night, Sting defeated Flair to accumulate the necessary points to win the tournament. The victory made Sting the number one contender for Flair's NWA World title, leading to tension within the Four Horsemen.
Throughout 1987 and 1988, a bitter event scheduling war broke out between rival wrestling promoters Vince McMahon and Jim Crockett, Jr. On Thanksgiving night 1987, McMahon's World Wrestling Federation (WWF) aired Survivor Series against Starrcade from Crockett and the National Wrestling Alliance, two pay-per-view (PPV) events on the same day. [1]
Lawrence Wendell Pfohl (born June 2, 1958), [5] better known by the ring name Lex Luger, is an American retired professional wrestler, bodybuilder, and football player.He is best known for his work with Jim Crockett Promotions, World Championship Wrestling (WCW), and the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE).
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 ...
Hyatt went on to accompany them to ringside for their title defences at Halloween Havoc and Starrcade. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] She made her final appearance with WCW on the February 26, 1994 episode of WCW WorldWide , accompanying the Nasty Boys for their successful title defence against Chris Nelson and Scott Allen.