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Busted Open

History of Starrcade Part II

Busted Open

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Aew, Bully Ray, Sports News, Ring Of Honor, Nxt, News, Tommy Dreamer, Mark Henry, Dave Lagreca, Sports, Professional Wrestling, Leisure, Wwe, Njpw, Wrestling

4.62K Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

In Part II of this two-part look back at the history of Starrcade, Dave LaGreca and ECW Legend Tommy Dreamer revisit the early years of Starrcade as a Jim Crockett/NWA event, from Starrcade '83 to its final year airing on Thanksgiving, 'Chi-Town Heat' in 1987.

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0:00.0

This is the busted open podcast.

0:04.3

You can listen to the full show Monday through Saturday from 9 a.m. to noon eastern on

0:09.3

serious xm. Fight Nation Channel 156.

0:13.0

Welcome to the busted open podcast.

0:15.3

This is Dave O' Grecker.

0:17.3

On today's episode, Tommy Dreamer and I

0:19.4

talk about the history of StarCade on Thanksgiving from 83 to 87 right now on the busted open

0:28.2

podcast.

0:29.2

Welcome back to Busted Open, Dave Le Greca, Tommy Dreamer, this very special holiday edition.

0:36.6

We're talking about the Thanksgiving tradition of StarCade from 1983 to 1987 Tommy and when you talk about StarCade 85 the gathering

0:48.1

this is probably the greatest StarCade of all time.

0:52.3

I know for myself I the greatest starcade of all time.

0:53.0

I know for myself I waited eight, fricking, maybe nine weeks to finally get this VCR tape in the mail.

1:01.0

I complained to the American Dream Dusty Roads, my friend that I had to wait so long, but back in the day I wore this tape out. I was afraid that I watched so much it would actually stretch the actual VCR tape but yeah man the

1:15.9

gathering and another you know we just talked to Greg Valentine who basically talks about the

1:22.1

legendary dog collar match,

1:23.7

but this match and this show had one legendary

1:26.8

I quit match that has set the bar for So Meant.

1:29.7

Very, very quick story, Tommy, is I ordered this VHS tape and never came and I so I

1:36.7

complained I actually called the offices and complained that I never got it and

1:41.3

then I got it and then I got it again.

1:43.7

So I had two copies of the gathering.

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