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Starrcade 1983
Starrcade '83: A Flare for the Gold was the first annual Starrcade professional wrestling List of NWA/WCW closed-circuit events and pay-per-view events, event, produced under the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) banner by Jim Crockett Promotions (JCP). The event took place on November 24, 1983, at the Greensboro Coliseum Complex in Greensboro, North Carolina and was broadcast on closed-circuit television around the Southern United States.In 2014, the WWE Network included the previous Starrcades (1983–Starrcade#1986, 1986), which had been transmitted via closed-circuit television, alongside the rest of the Starrcades in the pay-per-view section. Eight professional wrestling matches were featured. The main event was a Professional wrestling match types#Cages, steel cage match where Ric Flair defeated Harley Race to win the NWA World Heavyweight Championship. Their Feud (professional wrestling), feud began after Race won the title from Flair in June. Race then offered a Bounty (r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ric Flair
Richard Morgan Fliehr (born February 25, 1949), known professionally as Ric Flair, is an American professional wrestler. Regarded by multiple peers and journalists as the greatest professional wrestler of all time, Flair has had a career spanning over 50 years. He is noted for his tenures with Jim Crockett Promotions (JCP), World Championship Wrestling (WCW), the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, later WWE) and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA). Much of his career was spent in JCP and WCW, where he won numerous titles. Since the mid-1970s, he has used the moniker "the Nature Boy". A major pay-per-view attraction throughout his career, Flair headlined the premier annual NWA/WCW event, Starrcade, on ten occasions, while also co-headlining its WWF counterpart, WrestleMania, in 1992, after winning that year's Royal Rumble. ''PWI'' awarded him their Wrestler of the Year award a record six times, while ''Wrestling Observer Newsletter'' named him the Wrestler of the Year (an awa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
