Starrcade (1984)

Starrcade '84: The Million Dollar Challenge was a major professional wrestling show broadcast live on closed-circuit television^{[note 1]} that took place on November 22, 1984. The show was promoted by Jim Crockett Promotions (JCP) under the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) banner and took place at the Greensboro Coliseum in Greensboro, North Carolina. The main event of the show was billed as "the Million Dollar Challenge" as the storyline was that the winner of the match would not only win the NWA World Heavyweight Championship but also win a $1,000,000 purse, part of the illusion that professional wrestling was a legitimate sporting competition. The main event saw champion "The Nature Boy" Ric Flair defend the championship against long time rival "The American Dream" Dusty Rhodes, with boxer Joe Frazier acting as the special guest referee for the match. The show also saw the championship matches for the NWA United States Championship, NWA World Television Championship, NWA Florida Heavyweight Championship, NWA Brass Knuckles Championship and NWA Mid-Atlantic Heavyweight Championship.

Production

From the 1960s to the 1980s, it was tradition for the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) member Jim Crockett Promotions (JCP) to hold major professional wrestling events at Thanksgiving and Christmas, often at the Greensboro Coliseum in Greensboro, North Carolina in the center of JCP's Virginia, North and South Carolina territory. In 1983, JCP created Starrcade as their supercard to continue the Thanksgiving tradition, bringing in wrestlers from other NWA affiliates and broadcasting the show its territory on closed-circuit television.^[1] Starrcade soon became the flagship event of the year for JCP (later World Championship Wrestling, WCW), their Super Bowl event featuring their most important storyline feuds and championship matches. The 1984 event was the second show to use the Starrcade name.

No.	Results^[2]^[3]	Stipulations	Times
1	Denny Brown defeated Mike Davis (c)	Singles match for the NWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship	05:38
2	Brian Adias defeated Mr. Ito	Singles match	04:00
3	Jesse Barr (c) defeated Mike Graham	Singles match for the NWA Florida Heavyweight Championship	11:43
4	Assassin #1 and Buzz Tyler defeated The Zambuie Express (Elijah Akeem and Kareem Muhammed) (with Paul Jones)	Tag team elimination match	05:26
5	Manny Fernandez defeated Black Bart (c) (with James J. Dillon)	Singles match for the NWA Brass Knuckles Championship	07:35
6	Paul Jones defeated Jimmy Valiant	Tuxedo Street Fight Loser-Leaves-Town match	04:35
7	Ron Bass (c) (with J.J. Dillon) defeated Dick Slater by disqualification	Singles match for the NWA Mid-Atlantic Heavyweight Championship	09:12
8	Ivan and Nikita Koloff defeated Ole Anderson and Keith Larson (with Don Kernodle)	Tag team match	15:28
9	Tully Blanchard (c) defeated Ricky Steamboat	Singles match for the NWA World Television Championship and $10,000	13:17
10	Wahoo McDaniel (c) defeated Billy Graham	Singles match for the NWA United States Heavyweight Championship	04:18
11	Ric Flair (c) defeated Dusty Rhodes by knockout^{[note 2]}	Singles match for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship and $1,000,000, special guest referee Joe Frazier, judges Duke Keomuka and Kyle Petty. Should the match reach time limit, Frazier, Keomuka, and Petty would score the match, determining the winner by a vote of the three.	12:12
(c) – refers to the champion(s) heading into the match

↑ In 2014, the WWE Network included the previous Starrcades (1983–1986), which had been transmitted via closed-circuit television, alongside the rest of the Starrcades in the pay-per-view section.
↑ The referee stopped the match due to a cut on Rhodes's forehead

↑ "Flair defeats Race for wrestling title". Greensboro Daily News. 1983-11-25. p. D3. Retrieved 2008-06-02.
↑ Cawthon, Graham (2013). the History of Professional Wrestling Vol 3:Jim Crockett and the NWA World Title 1983-1989. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. ISBN 149480347X.
↑ "Starrcade 1984". Pro Wrestling History. November 22, 1984. Retrieved August 29, 2015.

National Wrestling Alliance pay-per-view events

All Events	Bunkhouse Stampede (1988) Capital Combat (1990) Chi-Town Rumble (1989) The Great American Bash (1985–1990) Halloween Havoc (1989–1991) Starrcade (1983–1990) WrestleWar (1989–1990)

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