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.
Beginning in 2014, nearly all NWA and WCW pay-per-view events were made available on the WWE Network.
NWA (Jim Crockett Promotions) closed-circuit television events
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 |
NWA (Jim Crockett Promotions) pay-per-view events
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 |
NWA (World Championship Wrestling) pay-per-view events
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 |
WCW pay-per-view events
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 |
See also
- Clash of the Champions
- List of All Elite Wrestling pay-per-view events
- List of major Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide events
- List of ECW supercards and pay-per-view events
- List of FMW supercards and pay-per-view events
- List of Global Force Wrestling events and specials
- List of Impact Wrestling pay-per-view events
- List of Major League Wrestling events
- List of National Wrestling Alliance pay-per-view events
- List of NJPW pay-per-view events
- List of Ring of Honor pay-per-view events
- List of Smokey Mountain Wrestling supercard events
- List of World Class Championship Wrestling Supercard events
- List of WWA pay-per-view events
- List of WWE pay-per-view and WWE Network events
References
- ↑ The first wrestling pay-per-view event under the World Championship Wrestling (WCW) banner and the last wrestling pay-per-view event under the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) banner.