WCW Starrcade Countdown Show (December 27, 1994)

 

Original Airdate: December 27, 1994

Your Host is Gene Okerlund in the studio 

We start with a run down of the Hulk Hogan/Butcher feud. It’s still so weird to me seeing Hogan working at Center Stage. Butcher may not have been a main event caliber guy, but the story was fine, and it had worked so many time before for Hogan

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Sting/Avalanche feud review

Starrcade ad. Why do they keep running ads in the middle of this literal show long ad?

Jim Duggan/Vader feud review

Gene runs down the rest of the card, with clips of the issues at play, but without full length review videos

After 25 minutes, Gene finally gets around to mentioning Randy Savage, who has promised to appear at Starrcade to either shake Hulk Hogan’s hand, or slap his face. I’m surprised he wasn’t pushing on Savage sooner and harder

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BUExperience: They did a good job of building up the show and the important matches. I’m still surprised Duggan/Vader was billed as one of the three ‘main events,’ though.