In the ring, Tony Schiavone is joined by Bill Watts and Hank Aaron. There are only four matches this year and one name was automatically included. The wrestlers are shown in barely full locker rooms for the Lethal Lottery. They couldn’t update that opening video in enough time? ![]() Card Subject to Change, folks! The commentators discuss as the crowd doesn’t react. Steve Williams will be his replacement tonight. Rick Rude has a herniated disc and will be out for 5-7 weeks. ![]() There’s big news on the WCW Title match and Eric Bischoff updates us in a WCW Magazine Special report. It’s Jesse’s first Starrcade and there is some bad reverb in these mics. We go ringside in the Omni with Jim Ross and Jesse Ventura complete with Malcolm X hat. The intro is also very BUSY and the voiceover guy puts in work. Copying from WWF, I see? This intro works because it shows clips of recent events for that contest as well as the tag title match, the random King of Cable tournament and Sting trying to repeat as Battlebowl champion. We have five title matches tonight including the WCW Champ vs the US Champ. The past theme of the show are displayed to remind us of the better times. THE FIRST THING YOU SEE: The Starrcade logo and the Battlebowl accompanies it with a voiceover telling us it’s the 10th anniversary of Starrcade. PAY PER VIEW NUMBER 56- WCW STARRCADE 1992 Who will be in charge of my entertainment when I watch the whole thing now? My entire childhood had this one show incomplete to me, so there’s a chunk that’s a massive blind spot and it’s basically the stuff I didn’t mind miss as a kid: the non Battlebowl stuff. The special was only one hour, so I get the last 45 minutes or so as well. She naturally tape over the whole show except the first four matches. Except she didn’t check to see if I had been watching it recently. What she grabbed was that aforementioned yellow tape. When my mom noticed it was coming up in the TV Guide (and she still get TV Guide to this day), she grabbed the closest tape and set it to record for me. So, raise your hand if you’ve cried during a ventriloquist show before!) (Funny side story- Ronn Lucas was a performer on a cruise my family went on in 2014 and I legitimately got emotional during the show because it reminded me of my grandmother when I realized who it was. Think Jeff Dunham before Jeff Dunham, but I contend actually funny. One that I could not get enough of was “Who’s in Charge Here?” It was a showcase for ventriloquist Ronn Lucas and he had all kinds of kooky characters, most famously Buffalo Billy. They made all kinds like green and blue and red and they were in our curio cabinet pretty heavily at this time.Īlso at this time, my mother would set up recordings of movies on HBO and specials from the Disney Channel that I particularly liked. ![]() Like always, my mom recorded it on VHS so I could consume it over and over again. ![]() I filled out my scorecard in my WCW Magazine when the matches were announced and followed along with the show as only a five-year-old could. As a kid, however, I loved the Lethal Lottery. It’s the last gimmick Starrcade after several attempts to make their biggest show of the year something it shouldn’t be. Sure, it’s the last PPV hurrah of the Bill Watts era. Starrcade 1992 is definitely one to tell because it’s an odd show for many reasons. On top of tying in the themes and historical significance of the shows to my current life and the world, I want to leave little nuggets of tiny, shitty kid Mullet in here as well. Now that we’ve reached the point in the timeline where I have active memories, these opening will probably be an amalgamation of a few things.
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