Claim: Starrcade was an annual professional wrestling event that began in 1988.
Evidence: Starrcade was an annual professional wrestling event , originally broadcast via closed-circuit television and eventually broadcast via pay-per-view television , held from 1983 to 2000 by the National Wrestling Alliance -LRB- NWA -RRB- and later World Championship Wrestling -LRB- WCW -RRB-.