Starrcade (1997)

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Starrcade (1997)
Details
Promotion World Championship Wrestling
Date December 28, 1997
Venue MCI Center
City Washington, D.C.
Attendance 17,500
Pay-per-view chronology
World War 3 (1997) Starrcade (1997) Souled Out (1998)

Starrcade (1997) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view event from World Championship Wrestling. It took place on December 28, 1997 from the MCI Center in Washington, D.C.

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[edit] Report

[edit] Background

After a successful 1996 with the nWo angle and with seemingly every top WWF star jumping ship, World Championship Wrestling was primed for a very successful 1997. The nWo, with Hulk Hogan, Kevin Nash, and Scott Hall as the catalysts, had been the most dominating heel stable since July of 1996, feuding with the popular face Sting. Throughout 1997, Sting would stalk the NWO, and would receive a title match with Hogan at the biggest WCW show of the year: Starrcade. On this historic night, coming off the Montreal Screwjob, newcomer Bret Hart would also be in the PPV, as the enforcer in a battle between the leader of the NWO: Bischoff, and the representative of WCW, Larry Zybysko, for control of the flagship show WCW Monday Nitro.

[edit] Event

The Sting vs. Hogan main event had a rather disappointing ending for many viewers since it was a year in the making. Sting, the babyface, who had been promoted so strongly, went out and had a heavily promoted match with Hogan, one that appeared to have Hogan as the winner. Hogan pinned Sting, but Bret Hart came out, and claimed that referee Nick Patrick had issued a fast count, and that the match was to be restarted, with Hart as referee. As Hart beat up Patrick, Sting forced Hogan to submit, and therefore lose the title. As for the Larry Zybysko-Eric Bischoff match, Zybysko won after Bischoff was disqualified due to Scott Hall interfering. Nash was scheduled to have a match with The Giant, but a day before the show he complained of heart pain which led to an in ring confrontation with Scott Hall and the Giant and led to the Giant delivering a jackknife powerbomb to Hall.

[edit] Aftermath

Due to the contoversy surrounding the finish, Sting would be stripped of the WCW title two weeks later on Thunder after a re-match the night after the pay-per-view on Nitro was deemed a no contest.[1] Two months later, Sting would win it again, at Superbrawl.[2] As for Nitro, it would stay under WCW control. In the coming months, Goldberg (who squashed Steve "Mongo" McMichael on the show), would become hugely popular, and would eventually win the WCW title.[3]

[edit] Results

Numbers in parentheses indicate the length of the match.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Sting Profile. Online World Of Wrestling. Retrieved on 2008-01-21.
  2. ^ Superbrawl VIII. Online World Of Wrestling (February 22, 1998). Retrieved on 2008-01-21.
  3. ^ Bill Goldberg Profile. Online World Of Wrestling. Retrieved on 2008-01-21.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h Starrcade 1997 Results. PWWEW.net. Retrieved on 2008-01-21.

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