On December 27, 1994 Starrcade: Triple Threat, WCW’s 12th annual Starrcade event, took place live from the Nashville Municipal Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee. Take a look back as Jean-Paul Levesque (later Triple H in the WWF) takes on Alex Wright. | Davenport Sports Network

On December 27, 1994 Starrcade: Triple Threat, WCW’s 12th annual Starrcade event, took place live from the Nashville Municipal Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee. The main event of the show was WCW World Heavyweight Champion Hulk Hogan (with Jimmy Hart) defending the title against his friend-turned-rival The Butcher. Aspersions were cast on the inclusion of The Butcher (Ed Leslie aka Brutus “The Barber” Beefcake) in the main event, which was seen as a political maneuver on the part of Hogan (Les

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31 years ago today, Starrcade 94 Triple Threat. Things had changed immensely in the year since Starrcade 93. Ric Flair was no longer the champion, Vader wasn’t the centerpiece, and Hulk Hogan had arrived, bringing his circle and his style of booking with him. In the main event on a Tuesday night in Nashville, TN, Hogan defeated The Butcher (formerly Brutus Beefcake) to retain the WCW World Title! Also on the show: ⚫ Mr. T defeated Kevin Sullivan when Santa (Dave Sullivan) interfered and hit Sull

Das Wunderkind faces da future WWE COO, Jean-Paul Levesque, at Starrcade '94. Bobby Heenan offers to show Alex how to “grind and get down”. And the first appearance in WCW of Mike Tenay! On his 83 Weeks podcast, Eric Bischoff revealed that both Dusty Rhodes and Ric Flair "thought the world of Alex Wright" and that he thought he was a better performer than Triple H at the time. But he admitted: "I think the mistake that was made with Alex from the get-go was the male stripper gimmick where he com

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