Loss Posted January 2, 2013 Report Share Posted January 2, 2013 Talk about it here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loss Posted May 6, 2013 Author Report Share Posted May 6, 2013 Commercial explaining the concept behind the Lethal Lottery and Battlebowl. This was a pretty cool idea. I just wish Starrcade wasn't used as the experimental show. They asked how crazy it would be if Sting and Luger were partners ... right before the next segment. I remember that making it painfully obvious to me that Luger would be the big reveal. Classic WCW. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Ridge Posted June 8, 2013 Report Share Posted June 8, 2013 Video plug for Battle Bowl. Big possibilities of drawing matches of WCW’s top forty stars. Another big gimmick match WCW is debuting on PPV. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeteF3 Posted June 9, 2013 Report Share Posted June 9, 2013 This is something the WWF would never, ever, EVER think of doing at this time--the Royal Rumble was as daring as it got in that regard. So in that sense it's an effective marketing gimmick for WCW. Still, I've never been crazy about all-tag-team shows, at least in the U.S., and you'd like for Starrcade to be a show to settle or start big feuds and storylines instead of acting as a gimmick PPV for the second time in three years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soup23 Posted June 6, 2014 Report Share Posted June 6, 2014 I think the Clash and Starrcade concepts should have been reversed with Luger getting a better challenger instead of Rick Steiner. I have always like the idea of Battlebowl, just not the execution. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garretta Posted October 20, 2015 Report Share Posted October 20, 2015 This seems like a mixture of the Survivor Series and the Royal Rumble, which is intriguing in theory. But if what I've read about the execution (both this year and in future years) is true, they'd have been better off not bothering, especially since it meant a total absence of championship matches on the card. Could you imagine WrestleMania, which Starrcade is supposed to WCW's equivalent of, with no title matches whatsoever? I can't either. They needed to make this its own pay-per-view, or do a dry run at a Clash similar to the WWF debuting the Royal Rumble on USA in 1988 in order to get the kinks out of the rules and see if it could be a viable concept for future pay-per-views. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loss Posted October 21, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 21, 2015 The sad thing is that while I think most fans still viewed Starrcade as the Wrestlemania, I don't think anyone running the company after buying from Crockett ever really did. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dawho5 Posted February 5, 2018 Report Share Posted February 5, 2018 WCW comes up with a lot of cool ideas. Then it tries to execute them and I cry a little on the inside usually. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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