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photos" to force Rhodes into a title defense. However, the angle was abruptly dropped when Baby Doll was unexpectedly released from JCP, possibly due to concerns over her husband, Sam Houston, wrestling for the WWF and a potential conflict of interest. Zbyszko held the Western States title until he departed for the AWA in early 1989, after JCP was sold to Ted Turner, leading to the retirement of the title.
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and Rhodes came to his defense, wielding a baseball bat and hitting Blanchard with it repeatedly, then inadvertently hitting Crockett when he tried to intervene. Lex Luger would be kicked out of the Horsemen after blaming J. J. Dillon for his losing the title, later he would team up with Barry
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Larry Zbyszko and Baby Doll formed a tag team and targeted Barry Windham's Western States Heritage title, which Windham won at the Bunkhouse Stampede in January 1988. They then shifted their focus to Dusty Rhodes' United States Heavyweight title, with Baby Doll threatening to use "incriminating
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in January 1988. He subsequently began to fade from the spotlight and appeared less frequently on TV as he dealt with personal challenges, including his wife Mandy's illness. Koloff eventually took a sabbatical from wrestling in November 1988 to care for Mandy until her passing in mid-1989.
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committee wanted to end Flair's reign as the champion, but their top preferences of whom to be the new champion could not be chosen due to the circumstances. Garvin was chosen instead, and he defeated Flair to win the title on September 25. He was not well accepted as the champion by fans.
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the titles. The match started with Koloff targeting Taylor's left arm. Taylor gained the advantage by sending Koloff's head into the guard rail outside. Taylor then targeted Koloff's left arm and shoulder with the use of the ring post. Gilbert attacked Koloff's left knee with a
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held the key to the cage. Rhodes would be suspended for 90 days if he lost. The match started back and forth until Luger sent Rhodes's head into the cage, and ground his head against it. Luger attacked Rhodes's left arm until Rhodes fought back and applied the
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was not long for the NWA following having to what he felt was an embarrassing spot in the Skywalkers match for the second year in a row at Starrcade in the same match but also allegedly not get paid for it. He would leave a few months later to join the rival
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at Morton and Gibson. The teams went back and forth until Lane climbed under the scaffold. Morton followed Lane and pushed him off. Morton and Gibson then attacked Eaton until he fell, and The Rock 'n' Roll Express won the match.
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and applied the figure four leglock. Garvin fought back after blocking Flair's attempts to send his head into the cage. Garvin hit Flair into the cage, applied a figure four leglock and performed a
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if they did not carry Survivor Series exclusively. Only a small amount of providers carried Starrcade, and it drew a 3.30 buy rate while Survivor Series drew a 7.0 buy rate.
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event, a television special, on the same night as Bunkhouse Stampede. In return, JCP held the first Clash of the Champions, also a television special, on the same night as
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event, and held it on the same night as Starrcade. The WWF also limited the amount of pay-per-view providers that would carry Starrcade by not allowing providers to carry
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had lasted for two months, and he never regained the title, then joined his brother Jimmy in a feud against Kevin Sullivan that ran until the Great American Bash 1988.
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Rhodes would retain his United States Heavyweight title until April, 1988, when he was stripped of the belt and suspended for 120 days after attacking NWA President
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and disqualified the Road Warriors for throwing Anderson over the top rope. Anderson and Blanchard won the match and retained the title.
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The event had a secondary theme, "Glory Bound", referring to Ron Garvin's quest for glory as NWA World Heavyweight Champion.
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from Zbysko, whose team dominated Garvin until Sting tagged in. Sting fought off Zbyszko, Gilbert and Steiner but Zbyszko
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at 100 different venues, as previous supercards had. This was the first major JCP event to feature wrestlers from the
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in the scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches.
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The Road Warriors would move on to have a have a feud with manager Paul Jones' new team, the
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as the "Big Boss Man" where he would have several high profile fueds, most notably with
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was closed and all its titles retired. Lead UWF announcer Jim Ross joined the
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announce team with Tony Schiavone and David Crockett on December 12, 1987.
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on the chair. Rhodes then pinned him to win the match and the title.
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The event involved wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and
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outside the ring. Animal threw Anderson over the top rope with a
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Meanwhile, Nikita Koloff lost his NWA World TV Title to
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remained the champion for over a year. In early 1988,
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Index

Starrcade (1987)

Promotion
National Wrestling Alliance
Jim Crockett Promotions
Chicago, Illinois
UIC Pavilion
Tagline
Pay-per-view
The Bunkhouse Stampede Finals
Starrcade
1986
1988
Starrcade
professional wrestling
supercard
event
Jim Crockett Promotions
National Wrestling Alliance
UIC Pavilion
Chicago, Illinois
pay-per-view
closed circuit narrowcast
Universal Wrestling Federation
main event
steel cage match
Ric Flair
Ron Garvin
NWA World Heavyweight Championship
feuded

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