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16, 1996, and deliver a promo that hinted at the drastic character change that was about to come. Sting came out to the ring on Monday Nitro on Sept.

The idea breathed new life into Sting's career and gave WCW the modern face it needed to counter the NWO.

Souled out 1997 cagematch movie#

Hall, after watching the 1994 movie 'The Crow,' gave Sting the idea to change his colorful look to a darker, more-ominous appearance. That left Sting, a WCW star from its early days (having main-evented 1989's Starrcade opposite Flair), as the only reputable foe to battle the NWO.Д«ut his white-meat babyface persona at the time was growing stale. The NWO had already either run through everyone else on the roster or turned them to join the black-and-white movement. Goldberg was early on in his undefeated streak at the time, so he wasn't an option. The NWO was still hot in 1997, a year after Hogan was infamously revealed as the third man at Bash at the Beach in 1996, but the villainous faction badly needed a believable adversary to avoid losing steam. Still, Bischoff knew he had to make fans wait to see the match between NWO's leader, Hogan, and the revitalized Sting until WCW's biggest event of the year. The likes of Kevin Nash, Scott Hall and, namely, Hulk Hogan had creative control of their characters written into their contracts, which made long-term planning almost impossible.

The buildД«uilding a matchup months in advance wasn't new to wrestling in the late '90s - Vince McMahon regularly, and still to this day, plants seeds for WrestleMania throughout the calendar year, and Starrcade often served as the blowoff to long-term feuds - but for WCW under the Eric Bischoff regime, the idea of long-term booking was a novel concept. As WWE gets set to bring back Starrcade for the first time under their banner on Saturday in Greensboro, let's take a look back at how WCW reached that fateful night. Though it stood as the moment that Sting and WCW finally turned the tide on the New World Order (NWO), that match is now remembered for all the wrong reasons. That distinction belongs to the main event of 1997's Starrcade, which took place 20 years ago this December - pitting Hollywood Hulk Hogan against Sting. Yet the most memorable Starrcade match in the minds of many fans didn't involve the Nature Boy at all. Flair-Race, Flair-Rhodes, Flair-Luger, Flair-Sting and Flair-Vader are some of the most iconic matches in Starrcade's history. In its early days, Flair was the main event every year from 1983 through 1990 - and almost every year, he faced off with a new challenger. Starrcade was the stage that helped Ric Flair grow from a regional star into a national icon. The event, which debuted in 1983, in Greensboro, North Carolina, under the banner of Jim Crockett Promotions of the National Wrestling Alliance, evolved from an annual Thanksgiving Day supershow to become World Championship Wrestling's flagship pay-per-view.

Starrcade is a name that will always resonate with wrestling fans. The legacy of Starrcade and the disaster of Sting vs.

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