Starrcade was an annual professional wrestling event.
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 ( NWA ) and later World Championship Wrestling ( WCW ) . From the 1960s to the 1980s , it was tradition for JCP to hold major professional wrestling events on Thanksgiving and Christmas , mostly at Greensboro Coliseum . Starrcade ( 1987 ) was the fifth annual Starrcade professional wrestling event produced by Jim Crockett Promotions ( JCP ) under the National Wrestling Alliance ( NWA ) banner . Starrcade ( 1997 ) was the fifteenth annual Starrcade professional wrestling pay-per-view ( PPV ) event .