Rick Rude (World Heavyweight Champion) vs. Frankie Lancaster
Paul Roma/Paul Orndorff vs. Kendall Windham/Leroy Howard
Flashback to 1988 Great American Bash
Ric Flair (WCW Champion) vs. King Kong
Starts off with The Living Legend and Chris Cruise talking about Ric Flair winning the Title for the 11th time
Ron Simmons vs. Brad Armstrong
Ron is still a fan favorite here so it is weird to have a face vs. Face match here. I believe this is during Ron’s heel turn but I am not sure.
Starts off with Ronnie refusing a handshake so my assumption of a heel turn is true
It really is too bad that Brad never got a sustained push, he was so smooth in the ring
The announcing with Terry Taylor is not good, I don’t remember this time period but whoever thought to put Taylor in the booth was not a good choice
Sloppy there at the end and I feel like it is because Brad was wrestling and Ron never was what I would call a smooth wrestler.
We come back and it is time for the Starrcade control center with Mean Gene
Talk about Ric Flair and Steve Austin winning the World and US Champions
Next up Larry and Chris talk about the Sting and Hawk unable to dethrone the Nasty Boys and we go to the ring
Sting vs. Bill Tyree
I thought it was Axl Rotten in the ring with the hair cut
Tyree is a big man but sloppy big
This match has already gone too far
Thankfully it is time for the Scorpion Deathlock and it is over...that was painful!
Sting vs. Steve Austin and Terry Taylor vs. Steve Regal tonight on Saturday Night was talked, both of those could be really good matches!
I have to say some of these old school commercials are awesome
Chris and Larry talk about Rick Rude against the Boss at Starrcade
Rick Rude, the World Heavyweight Champion vs. Frankie Lancaster
This was a time where we had a WCW Champions and the NWA World Champions
Frankie was always a nice hand in the ring and almost always had a good showing
And lets be honest, Rick Rude was one of the best in the ring, he could have a good match with a broom as the old saying goes
I wish Rude hadn’t been hurt later in 1994, he could have been a HUGE star during the attitude era in my opinion or even before.
Rude Awakening and that is it for Mr. Lancaster!
Back to Larry and Chris for more talk about Starrcade. Cruise was underrated for the time. He didn’t fit when they got a little more “real” but for the time he was good
We are going to the Highlight Zone? Oh it is a video package for Starrcade....weird....WCW was weird back in this time
Pretty Wonderful...wait they aren’t pretty wonderful yet vs. Kendall Windham/Leroy Howard
Kendall has a beard and really looks like his Barry here, just not a big/bulky
I know Roma gets a bunch of crap online but he was always solid. Not Four Horsemen solid but was never bad
2nd greatest piledriver of all time and this match is over!
More Larry and Chris and we are going to the Flashback
1988 Great American Bash: Arn Anderson/Tully Blanchard (NWA Tag Team Champions) vs. Sting/Nikita Koloff
The fans back then were always HOT, especially for big shows and anytime the Horsemen were involved
I never understood showing matches like this especially when they couldn’t have matches like this at the time. It is like reminding people what their shows used to be like!
I sure hope the rattail haircut doesn’t come back....EVER!
One thing that seperated WCW and WWF back in 1988 was the camera work. Such weird cuts for WCW that you would NEVER see Vince and company make
The WCW 1994 calendar full of Missy Hyatt...that isn’t a bad thing! It was before the bad surgeries
More Larry and Chris, this time kicking it to Flair against King Kong
Ric Flair (WCW Champion) vs. King Kong
The Colossal Kongs were a decent job team back in the day of WCW. Always treated like a threat but never really did anything
I like that they were still using Harley Race at this time, he added something as a manager I thought
This spinning ring thing at Disney was different and different which is good to separate each show
Lots of shots from Harley from the floor. Strange to see so much on what is almost a “C” show
Kong just kicked him with his left leg, don’t see that a lot
OH MY GOD! Ric just did the upside flip run to the other buckle thing and it worked! Well he is a good guy right now so it makes since but it is still weird to see
Figure Four and that is it boys and girls
A slam on Harley after the match for good measure
One more time to Larry and Chris to wrap the show up.
Overall a solid show to start the new year! WCW always had decent matches but the storylines weren’t great. To start off we saw some good matches and with Sting, Austin, Rude and Flair 1994 in ring is going to be good. Lets see what the creative team can give us!
Ron Simmons def. Brad Armstrong
Starrcade Control Center
Sting def. Bill Tyree via Submission
Rick Rude (World Heavyweight Champion) def. Frankie Lancaster
Video Recap: Ric Flair vs. Vader (WCW Champion)
Paul Roma/Paul Orndorff def. Kendall Windham/Leroy Howard
Flashback to 1988 Great American Bash
Ric Flair (WCW Champion) def. King Kong via Submission
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