30 years ago tonight, Starrcade: World Cup of Wrestling! WCW vs. New Japan Pro Wrestling in a rare cross-promotional pay-per-view showdown! Despite the ambitious concept, the show landed flat with fans and became the lowest-rated Starrcade since Battlebowl ’93. 🇯🇵 New Japan Scored Three Wins: ⚫ Shinjiro Otani defeated Eddie Guerrero ⚫ Koji Kanemoto defeated Alex Wright ⚫ Jushin “Thunder” Liger defeated Chris Benoit 🇺🇸 WCW Answers Back With Three Wins ⚫ Lex Luger defeated Masa Chono ⚫ Johnny

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On December 27, 1995 WCW’s 13th annual Starrcade took place at the Nashville Municipal Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee. Billed as “Starrcade '95: World Cup of Wrestling” the event included a 7 match tournament between wrestlers representing WCW and their Japanese partner New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). WCW won the tournament 4 points to 3. Take a look back to Dave Meltzer’s highest rated match of the night, receiving 4.25 stars out of 5, as Shinjiro Otani (with Sonny Onoo) takes on Eddy Guerr

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2.7K views · 1K reactions | “Here at WCW, I’m a Big Dog, buddy” This could have been a major main event of Starrcade '95 - Surfer Sting vs pre nWo black and white Hulk Hogan... ...but it's given away for free on Nitro next week to try to halt any momentum the WWF get from Survivor Series the night before Not for the first time, WCW sacrifices a big PPV payday in the hope of short-term success... #OnThisDayInWWE | On This Day in WWE | Facebook