While the WWF was prospering in the north, Jim Crockett Promotions was growing in the south. JCP boasted a talented roster better than McMahons in my opinion and it became the NWAs premier member, making it the WWFs main rival. It was decided in 1983 that the company would create a new super show at the Greensboro Coliseum JCP already had a tradition of holding shows there on Thanksgiving. Starrcade was a huge financial and critical success. Things went wrong in 1987. The WWF chose to run their own Thanksgiving show, Survivor Series, at the same time. Starrcade 1987 also marked the first time JCP entered the world of PPV, something the WWF had been doing since WrestleMania III. Vince McMahon threatened the cable companies, saying that if they showed Starrcade they would not be able to show Survivor Series and WrestleMania IV. The fact that Hulk Hogan was a mainstream celebrity, while JCPs main eventer, Ron Garvin, struggled to win over the promotions fans, must have had some influence. Starrcade struggled and JCP was sold to Ted Turner in 88. The first WCW years were very good. Sting, Vader, Flair, Steamboat and Lex Luger helped make WCW a better wrestling promotion, in terms of quality, than the WWF. Unfortunately, in a bid to attract more viewers, WCW got Hogan involved. At Hogans first Starrcade, The Nasty Boys, Mr T, Jim Duggan, Avalanche (WWFs Earthquake) and Brutus Beefcake who wrestled in the main event as The Butcher all featured it pays to be the Hulksters friend. There was an obvious dip in quality, from which WCW would never recover. The introduction of cruiserweights made the undercards exciting, with the likes of Misterio, Guerrero and Juventud lighting up otherwise boring PPVs, but the main events featuring Nash, Hogan, Piper and Goldberg were terrible. Starrcade 1998 saw Goldbergs winning streak come to an end as he was defeated by Kevin Nash for the WCW Championship Nash was the booker. Starrcade 2000, the last one, featured a main event of Scott Steiner vs. Sid Vicious a far cry from Flair vs. Race and it earned a dreadful 0.11 buyrate. It came as no surprise that WCW lost $62 million in 2000 and was sold to the WWF in 01. Starrcade was the super show before WrestleMania had even been thought up. Here are the ten best matches from the Granddaddy of them All...