Starrcade was a one-time-only 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 ) . Starrcade was regarded by the NWA and WCW as their flagship event of the year , much in the same vein that its rival , the World Wrestling Entertainment , regards WrestleMania . 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 ( 1997 ) was the fifteenth annual Starrcade professional wrestling pay-per-view ( PPV ) event . Starrcade ( 1998 ) was the sixteenth annual Starrcade professional wrestling pay-per-view ( PPV ) event .