Starrcade

Starrcade was an annual professional wrestling pay-per-view event held from 1983 to 2000 by the National Wrestling Alliance and later World Championship Wrestling as their flagship event equal to the World Wrestling Federation's WrestleMania (although Starrcade was held in November or December, while WrestleMania is held in March or April), and featured the largest feuds of the promotion. From 1983 to 1987, Starrcade was produced by Jim Crockett Promotions, the dominant promotion of the NWA, on Thanksgiving. In 1988, JCP was sold to Ted Turner due to financial problems, and became WCW. After a fiasco in organizing the pay-per-view events because of rival WWF's ultimatum to cable television providers to not carry Starrcade, instead carrying WWF's inaugural Survivor Series on Thanksgiving, WCW held the remaining events in December, with the events from 1988 to 1990 held under the NWA banner.