Starrcade (1994)

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Starrcade 1994 was the sixth Starrcade event produced by World Championship Wrestling which took place on 18th December 1994

## Background

The main match heading into the show is WCW Heaviweight champion Hulk Hogan defending against Ric Flair and a man who wins a fatal 4 way earlier on the night. Hulk Hogan and Flair have been feuding since May as Flair made his WCW return and challenged Hogan for the WCW Heaviweight Championship and immediatly defeated him a week afterwards but at Slamboree Hogan won back the title. Flair continued leading Dungeon of Doom towards beating up Hogan's friends including a debuting Randy Savage, Flair blamed Savage for his downfall and they had a match where Flair won. Flair dropped Dungeon of Doom and reintroduced Four Horsemen as Sid Vicious became the leader of DoD, Dungeon of Doom and Four Horsemen had a war games match where the winners would get all the title shots at Starrcade and Four Horsemen won. Eric Bischoff decided to have a new idea as he made a fatal 4 way for tonight with the winner entering the world title match in the main event, Randy Savage, Meng, Sid Vicious and The Butcher qualified for it

Hollywood Blondes held the tag titles for almost a year but both Pillman and Austin agreed that as soon as they lost the tag titles fairly, they would focus on their singles career. Even with this promise, as soon as Road Warriors cashed in, Pillman turned on Austin and let him be pinned for them to lose the tag titles. This backfired on Pillman as Austin was the one who managed to win the battlebowl and go on to main event Starrcade 1993 against WCW Heaviweight champion Rick Rude while Pillman was in the undercard defeating Arn Anderson for the TV Championship. During the summer Pillman quickly made history as he won the Cruiserweight Championship and United States Championship to become the first ever triple champion in history, Austin kept beating him up as many times as he could, Pillman ended up losing all 3 titles by the end of the summer and joined Four Horsemen being involved in a wargames match against Dungeon of Doom where the winners would get all the title shots at Starrcade. Austin won the US title at Halloween Havoc and Pillman immediatly challenged his former partner

Since Four Horsemen defeated Dungeon of Doom in a war games match, Flair won a WCW Heaviweight title shot, Brian Pillman won a United States title shot and Arn Anderson and Paul Roma won a tag title shot, tonight they will face Flying Beauty for the titles

Dustin Rhodes was on top of the world last year being the top babyface of the company but he barely did anything this year which started disappointing people and rumors started coming that he was gonna leave WCW. After Dustin lost his US title at Halloween Havoc, he announced that he would be taking a break, it wasn't a retirement speech, it was just a "i need some time to know what i have to do with my career to get to the next step" speech. While he was leaving by the stage, a giant of a man showed up and chokeslammed him on the stage. "The Giant" said that he was gonna be signed by Eric Bischoff if he did an impact on WCW which he did, Bischoff was about to give him a contract when Dustin Rhodes interrupted him and begged Bischoff to not do it, Bischoff decided that they would fight tonight, if The Giant wins not only is he signed to WCW but Dustin Rhodes will be fired. He gave them the opportunity to choose the stipulation and the fans would choose which one they like the most, Dustin chose last man standing while The Giant chose a steel cage match, the fans picked the last man standing match

Eric Bischoff teased that there were more CWs coming into WCW, Jushin Liger asked who was gonna be his challenger and Bischoff announced that new talent Eddie Guerrero and Chris Benoit would fight for the chance to face him later on the night

The Great Muta returned to WCW after a short stint in NJPW, he announced the first ever interpromotional match as he would face Shinya Hashimoto for the IWGP Heaviweight Championship in a 30 minute time limit, Hashimoto made his debut on Nitro as he defeated Jushin Liger and Muta proceeded to suplex him

## Details

* Meng was about to win when The Barbarian debuts on WCW and takes him out
* The Giant chokeslams Dustin off the top rope onto the announcer's table as the ref counts to 10 and Dustin is fired
* After the tag title match, Lex Luger shockingly makes his WCW debut, PAA get ready to attack Luger when suddenly Arn beats up Roma and Luger helps him. Arn says Four Horsemen are freebirding the tag titles so Paul Roma has been replaced by Lex Luger
* Eric Bischoff comes out as he formally calls out Vince Mcmahon. He says Vince is a pussy as he has heard the rumors and he knows Vince is trying to make Smackdown the best and most watched show so they can cancel RAW and not have to go against Monday Nitro, WWF and Vince Mcmahon are scared of WCW. The Starrcade Countdown begins and the announcment this year is in december of 1995, WAR 2 will take place