Starrcade (1991)

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Starrcade 1991 was the third Starrcade event produced by World Championship Wrestling which took place on 22nd December 1991

## Background

The main match heading into the show is a WCW Heaviweight champion Ric Flair vs Lex Luger vs Sid Vicious in a triple threat match. At Great American Bash 1991, Sting, Dusty Rhodes, Lex Luger and Barry Windham defeated Four Horsemen in a War Games match with Lex Luger pinning Flair to get the win for their team, Lex Luger got his title shot at Halloween Havoc and was close to winning it when Sid Vicious(who had joined Four Horsemen 4 months before) attacked Luger and ended the match in a DQ, Ric Flair slapped Sid and because of his stupidity he would have to give Luger another title shot, Sid Vicious wasn't gonna take the disrespect and tried to attack Flair but Flair's new enforcer Nikita Koloff choked him out, Ric Flair looks to take down his 2 big contenders all in 1 match but people are pissed that Sting isn't involved in this match

At Saturday Night 100, Sting left Four Horsemen attacking Flair and turning face, he set up his own crew to face off against Four Horsemen in a war games match but since that match, Flair has dismissed Sting and has only been focused on Lex Luger, Sting keeps trying to get Flair's attention but only gets in hot waters with his enforcers, at Halloween Havoc Sting defeated Flair's first enforcer, Sid Vicious when Flair's second enforcer, Nikita Koloff made his debut and choked Sting out with chains, Sting wasn't chosen by Flair to be in the WCW Heaviweight Championship match so Sting will instead try to defeat another one of Flair's henchmen

Since Wrestlewar 1991, Vader has been targeted by Dangerous Alliance, in that PPV Rick Rude made his debut challenging Vader for the United States Championship but failed, Stunning Steve Austin made his debut and they both allied attacking Vader, later at Saturday Night 100 they would lead an ambush on Vader and injure him. At Great American Bash, Ted Turner was gonna vacate the title because Vader wasn't able to defend it when Vader returned and defeated Rick Rude once more. Rude and Austin's alliance grew stronger as they gained the managerial duties of Paul E.Dangerously who recruited Arn Anderson and Larry Zbyszko to their group. Paul made a preposition to Vader, if Vader can defeat The Enforcers and Austin in a handicap match tonight, they'll leave him alone, if he loses, Vader will have to face Rick Rude for the United States Championship in the same night which Vader accepted because he's a beast

At Great American Bash 1990, The Police was involved in the cash in the ladder tag match and injured Midnight Express with a ladder bump, when they returned The Police ambushed them again which led to a war games match at Starrcade 1990 where Lex Luger, Stan Hansen and Midnight Express defeated The Police, Nightstalker and Ranger Ross left the company after that loss but Terry Taylor and Brian Pillman remained resiliant winning the Cash in the Ladder Tag Match at Great American Bash 1991 and now Midnight Express haven't forgotten all they did in the last year and challenge them as this might be their last ever shot of becoming tag team champions

At Starrcade 1990, New Japan Legends made their debut attacking Masa Saito, Jushin Thunder Liger quickly made his debut too as he faced The Great Muta in his first match, since then NJL have all had singles matches against Liger even involving the TV Championship at some point which Muta, Liger and Masahiro Chono all became champions. Muta tried to focus on winning back the United States Championship after he became tired of Liger but Liger didn't want this to end until they're all gone, Muta had had enough and challenged Liger to the first ever Loser Leaves WCW match

At Halloween Havoc 1990, Dusty Rhodes announced himself as the new owner of WCW immediatly giving benefits to his son, Dustin, on his match against Barry Windham, after the match Dusty fired Windham and were gonna keep attacking him if Doom didn't come out for the save. Doom challenged The Rhodes but they refused at first, after many interferences by Doom in The Rhodes' matches, they had no choice but to accept and if Doom win, Barry Windham is re-signed

## Details

* After the tag title match, Bobby Eaton is pissed and lowblows Stan Lane turning heel
* The Great Muta and Kensuke Sasaki decide to beat up Masahiro Chono and Hiroshi Hase turning them face after the match
* Also after that match, Jushin Liger is going insane on the background taking off his mask and suit to reveal Kushin Liger who has a fork and tries to stab Muta, security throw him out
* After his win, Vader says he knows what Dangerous Alliance needs and that's brute strength, he attacks Paul E.Dangerously and announces from now on he will be the leader of that group, Rude and Austin don't really want to but they have no other choice
* The Starrcade Countdown was an announcment of a new championship: Cruiserweight Championship as Dusty Rhodes makes an 8-men package to determine the first champion
* After 15 minutes of the match, Dusty Rhodes comes out and says there is a 9th man in the match, his son Dustin Rhodes who swoops in and wins in 30 seconds
* Dangerous Alliance see Bobby Eaton backstage and Vader recruits him
* Sting leaves after the match but Nikita Koloff chokes him out, Sting tries to get out and eventually he low blows him Flair style, screams "WOOOOO" and double clothslines Koloff off the stage onto a bunch of tables
* The main event was overshadowed by "we want Sting" chants