premise: Starrcade was an annual professional wrestling bike.
hypothesis: Starrcade was an annual professional wrestling event , originally broadcast via closed-circuit television and eventually broadcast via pay-per-view television , held from 1983 to 2000 by the National Wrestling Alliance ( NWA ) and later World Championship Wrestling ( WCW ) . Starrcade was regarded by the NWA and WCW as their flagship event of the year , much in the same vein that its rival , the World Wrestling Entertainment , regards WrestleMania . Starrcade ( 1985 ) was the third annual Starrcade professional wrestling event produced by Jim Crockett Promotions ( JCP ) under the National Wrestling Alliance ( NWA ) banner . Starrcade ( 1987 ) was the fifth annual Starrcade professional wrestling event produced by Jim Crockett Promotions ( JCP ) under the National Wrestling Alliance ( NWA ) banner . Starrcade ( 1997 ) was the fifteenth annual Starrcade professional wrestling pay-per-view ( PPV ) event .