10 Best Moments In Starrcade History
3. Sting Vs. Hogan (1997)
Take out the opener, a cruiserweight bout between Eddie Guerrero and Dean Malenko, and Starrcade 1997 was something of a wrestling dud (its penultimate bout was a contested by Eric Bischoff and Larry Zbyszko, to give you an idea of the lowly depths we're talking about here).
The main event, however, was perhaps one of the most keenly-anticipated matches in professional wrestling history; the culmination of Sting's one-man mission to take down the New World Order, whose stranglehold on WCW had been largely unchallenged for close to 18 months.
Sting got his win, though some of the shine was taken off by Nick Patrick's "slow count" and the fact that Bret Hart, in his WCW pay-per-view debut, ended up looking like a heel for restarting a match whose finish was already fair and just.
An earth-shaking wrestling moment, albeit one for which Sting, not Hogan, should have made the headlines.