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This is a list of all closed-circuit television and pay-per-view events held by World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and its predecessor Jim Crockett Promotions (JCP).
From 1983 to 1987, these events aired live on closed-circuit television under the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) banner. Beginning in 1987, the events would air live on pay-per-view television. In November 1988, JCP sold its assets to the Turner Broadcasting System, which rebranded the company as World Championship Wrestling; they would later leave the NWA in 1991. In 1998 and early 1999, PPV events were promoted using the dual WCW/nWo brands.
In 2001, the World Wrestling Federation (now known as WWE) purchased the assets of WCW, including the video libraries of all previous NWA and WCW pay-per-views, and the ownership rights of the names of these events. To date WWE has only promoted one pay-per-view event using the name of a former WCW PPV, The Great American Bash, from 2004 until 2009. In 2012, it was rebooted as a live SmackDown special and in 2020, it was used as a two-week show as part of the NXT brand followed in 2021 by a special episode on one night. Also in 2020, the Halloween Havoc event name would be revived, once again as a special episode of NXT. In 2017, WWE revived the Starrcade name for a non-televised house show and then would show a portion of the 2018 and 2019 iterations of the event on the WWE Network. Both The Great American Bash and Halloween Havoc names would rotate between special episodes and live streaming events as WWE ceased airing NXT pay-per-views from 2022 and has aired solely on the WWE Network and Peacock.
Beginning in 2014, nearly all NWA and WCW pay-per-view events were made available on the WWE Network and Peacock.
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1983
| Date | Event | Venue | Location | Main event |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 24 | Starrcade | Greensboro Coliseum | Greensboro, North Carolina | Harley Race (c) vs. Ric Flair in a Steel Cage match for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship with Gene Kiniski as special guest referee |
1984
| Date | Event | Venue | Location | Main event |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 22 | Starrcade | Greensboro Coliseum | Greensboro, North Carolina | Ric Flair (c) vs. Dusty Rhodes for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship with Joe Frazier as special guest referee |
1985
| Date | Event | Venue | Location | Main event |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 28 | Starrcade | Greensboro Coliseum The Omni |
Greensboro, North Carolina Atlanta |
Ric Flair (c) vs. Dusty Rhodes for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship |
1986
| Date | Event | Venue | Location | Main event |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 27 | Starrcade | Greensboro Coliseum The Omni |
Greensboro, North Carolina Atlanta |
Ric Flair (c) vs. Nikita Koloff for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship |
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1987
| Date | Event | Venue | Location | Main event |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 26 | Starrcade | UIC Pavilion | Chicago, Illinois | Ron Garvin (c) vs. Ric Flair in a Steel Cage match for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship |
1988
| Date | Event | Venue | Location | Main event |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 24 | The Bunkhouse Stampede Finals | Nassau Coliseum | Uniondale, New York | Dusty Rhodes vs. Arn Anderson vs. The Barbarian vs. Tully Blanchard vs. Ivan Koloff vs. Lex Luger vs. Road Warrior Animal vs. The Warlord in the Bunkhouse Stampede |
| July 10 | The Great American Bash | Baltimore Arena | Baltimore, Maryland | Ric Flair (c) vs. Lex Luger for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship |
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1988
| Date | Event | Venue | Location | Main event |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 26 | Starrcade | Norfolk Scope | Norfolk, Virginia | Ric Flair (c) vs. Lex Luger for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship |
1989
| Date | Event | Venue | Location | Main event |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 20 | Chi-Town Rumble | UIC Pavilion | Chicago, Illinois | Ric Flair (c) vs. Ricky Steamboat for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship |
| May 7 | WrestleWar | Nashville Municipal Auditorium | Nashville, Tennessee | Eddie Gilbert and Rick Steiner (c) vs. The Varsity Club (Dan Spivey and Kevin Sullivan for the NWA United States Tag Team Championship |
| July 23 | The Great American Bash | Baltimore Arena | Baltimore, Maryland | Ric Flair (c) vs. Terry Funk for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship |
| October 28 | Halloween Havoc | Philadelphia Civic Center | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | Ric Flair and Sting vs. The Great Muta and Terry Funk in a Thunderdome match with Bruno Sammartino as special guest referee |
| December 13 | Starrcade | The Omni | Atlanta, Georgia | Ric Flair vs. Sting in an Iron Man tournament match |
1990
| Date | Event | Venue | Location | Main event |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 25 | WrestleWar | Greensboro Coliseum | Greensboro, North Carolina | Ric Flair (c) vs. Lex Luger for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship |
| May 19 | Capital Combat | D.C. Armory | Washington, D.C. | Ric Flair (c) vs. Lex Luger in a Steel Cage match for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship |
| July 7 | The Great American Bash | Baltimore Arena | Baltimore, Maryland | Ric Flair (c) vs. Sting for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship |
| October 27 | Halloween Havoc | UIC Pavilion | Chicago, Illinois | Sting (c) vs. Sid Vicious for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship |
| December 16 | Starrcade[1] | Kiel Auditorium | St. Louis, Missouri | Sting (c) vs. The Black Scorpion in a Steel Cage match for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship and to create the new WCW World Heavyweight Championship |
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
| nWo-branded event |
1998
| WCW/nWo co-branded event |
1999
| WCW/nWo co-branded event |
2000
2001
| Date | Event | Venue | Location | Main event |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 14 | Sin | Conseco Fieldhouse | Indianapolis, Indiana | Scott Steiner (c) vs. Jeff Jarrett vs. Sid Vicious vs. Road Warrior Animal for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship |
| February 18 | SuperBrawl Revenge | Nashville Municipal Auditorium | Nashville, Tennessee | Scott Steiner (c) vs. Kevin Nash in a Two-out-of-Three Falls Loser Leaves WCW match for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship |
| March 18 | Greed | Jacksonville Memorial Coliseum | Jacksonville, Florida | Scott Steiner (c) vs. Diamond Dallas Page in a Falls Count Anywhere match for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship |
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