This is a list of all closed-circuit television and pay-per-view events held by World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and its predecessor Jim Crockett Promotions (JCP).
From 1983 to 1987, these events aired live on closed-circuit television under the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) banner. Beginning in 1987, the events would air live on pay-per-view television. In November 1988, JCP sold its assets to the Turner Broadcasting System, which rebranded the company as World Championship Wrestling; they would later leave the NWA in 1991. In 1998 and early 1999, PPV events were promoted using the dual WCW/nWo brands.
In 2001, the World Wrestling Federation (now known as WWE) purchased the assets of WCW, including the video libraries of all previous NWA and WCW pay-per-views, and the ownership rights of the names of these events. To date WWE has only promoted one pay-per-view event using the name of a former WCW PPV, The Great American Bash, from 2004 until 2009. In 2012, it was rebooted as a live SmackDown special and in 2020, it was used as a two-week show as part of the NXT brand followed in 2021 by a special episode on one night. Also in 2020, the Halloween Havoc event name would be revived, once again as a special episode of NXT. In 2017, WWE revived the Starrcade name for a non-televised house show and then would show a portion of the 2018 and 2019 iterations of the event on the WWE Network.
Beginning in 2014, nearly all NWA and WCW pay-per-view events were made available on the WWE Network.
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| November 24 | Starrcade | Greensboro Coliseum | Greensboro, North Carolina | Harley Race (c) vs. Ric Flair in a Steel Cage match for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship with Gene Kiniski as special guest referee |
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| November 22 | Starrcade | Greensboro Coliseum | Greensboro, North Carolina | Ric Flair (c) vs. Dusty Rhodes for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship with Joe Frazier as special guest referee |
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| November 28 | Starrcade | Greensboro Coliseum The Omni | Greensboro, North Carolina Atlanta | Ric Flair (c) vs. Dusty Rhodes for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship |
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| November 27 | Starrcade | Greensboro Coliseum The Omni | Greensboro, North Carolina Atlanta | Ric Flair (c) vs. Nikita Koloff for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship |
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| November 26 | Starrcade | UIC Pavilion | Chicago, Illinois | Ron Garvin (c) vs. Ric Flair in a Steel Cage match for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship |
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| January 24 | The Bunkhouse Stampede Finals | Nassau Coliseum | Uniondale, New York | Dusty Rhodes vs. Arn Anderson vs. The Barbarian vs. Tully Blanchard vs. Ivan Koloff vs. Lex Luger vs. Road Warrior Animal vs. The Warlord in the Bunkhouse Stampede | |||||
| July 10 | The Great American Bash | Baltimore Arena | Baltimore, Maryland | Ric Flair (c) vs. Lex Luger for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship |
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| December 26 | Starrcade | Norfolk Scope | Norfolk, Virginia | Ric Flair (c) vs. Lex Luger for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship |
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| February 20 | Chi-Town Rumble | UIC Pavilion | Chicago, Illinois | Ric Flair (c) vs. Ricky Steamboat for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship | |||||
| May 7 | WrestleWar | Nashville Municipal Auditorium | Nashville, Tennessee | Eddie Gilbert and Rick Steiner (c) vs. The Varsity Club (Dan Spivey and Kevin Sullivan for the NWA United States Tag Team Championship | |||||
| July 23 | The Great American Bash | Baltimore Arena | Baltimore, Maryland | Ric Flair (c) vs. Terry Funk for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship | |||||
| October 28 | Halloween Havoc | Philadelphia Civic Center | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | Ric Flair and Sting vs. The Great Muta and Terry Funk in a Thunderdome match with Bruno Sammartino as special guest referee | |||||
| December 13 | Starrcade | The Omni | Atlanta, Georgia | Ric Flair vs. Sting in an Iron Man tournament match |
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| February 25 | WrestleWar | Greensboro Coliseum | Greensboro, North Carolina | Ric Flair (c) vs. Lex Luger for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship | |||||
| May 19 | Capital Combat | D.C. Armory | Washington, D.C. | Ric Flair (c) vs. Lex Luger in a Steel Cage match for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship | |||||
| July 7 | The Great American Bash | Baltimore Arena | Baltimore, Maryland | Ric Flair (c) vs. Sting for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship | |||||
| October 27 | Halloween Havoc | UIC Pavilion | Chicago, Illinois | Sting (c) vs. Sid Vicious for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship | |||||
| December 16 | Starrcade[1] | Kiel Auditorium | St. Louis, Missouri | Sting (c) vs. The Black Scorpion in a Steel Cage match for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship and to create the new WCW World Heavyweight Championship |
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| February 24 | Larry Zbyszko and The Four Horsemen (Barry Windham, Ric Flair and Sid Vicious) vs. Brian Pillman, Sting and The Steiner Brothers (Rick Steiner and Scott Steiner) in a WarGames match | ||||||||
| March 21 (aired April) | Tatsumi Fujinami (IWGP) vs. Ric Flair (NWA/WCW) in a Title-for-Title match for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship and the WCW and NWA World Heavyweight Championships | ||||||||
| May 19 | Ric Flair (WCW) vs. Tatsumi Fujinami (NWA) for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship and the NWA World Heavyweight Championship | ||||||||
| July 14 | Rick Steiner vs. Arn Anderson and Paul E. Dangerously in a Steel Cage match | ||||||||
| October 27 | Lex Luger (c) vs. Ron Simmons in a two-out-of-three falls match for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship | ||||||||
| December 29 | Battlebowl Battle Royal |
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| January 4 (aired March) | Sting and The Great Muta vs. The Steiner Brothers (Rick Steiner and Scott Steiner) | ||||||||
| February 29 | Lex Luger (c) vs. Sting for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship | ||||||||
| May 17 | Sting's Squadron (Barry Windham, Dustin Rhodes, Nikita Koloff, Ricky Steamboat and Sting) vs. The Dangerous Alliance (Arn Anderson, Bobby Eaton, Larry Zbyszko, Rick Rude and Steve Austin) in a WarGames match | ||||||||
| June 20 | The Steiner Brothers (Rick Steiner and Scott Steiner) (c) vs. The Miracle Violence Connection (Steve Williams and Terry Gordy) for the WCW World Tag Team Championship | ||||||||
| July 12 | The Miracle Violence Connection (Steve Williams and Terry Gordy) vs. Barry Windham and Dustin Rhodes in a tournament final for the vacant NWA World Tag Team Championship | ||||||||
| October 25 | Sting vs. Jake Roberts in a coal miner's glove match | ||||||||
| December 28 | Battlebowl Battle Royal |
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| January 4 (aired March) | Sting vs. Hiroshi Hase | ||||||||
| February 21 | Big Van Vader vs. Sting in a White Castle of Fear Strap match | ||||||||
| May 23 | Big Van Vader (c) vs. Davey Boy Smith for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship | ||||||||
| July 18 | The Superpowers (Davey Boy Smith and Sting) vs. The Masters of the Powerbomb (Big Van Vader and Sid Vicious) | ||||||||
| September 19 | The Superpowers (Sting and Davey Boy Smith), Dustin Rhodes, and The Shockmaster vs. Harlem Heat (Kole and Kane) and The Masters of the Powerbomb (Big Van Vader and Sid Vicious) in a WarGames match | ||||||||
| October 24 | Big Van Vader vs. Cactus Jack in a Texas Deathmatch | ||||||||
| November 20 | Battlebowl Battle Royal | ||||||||
| December 27 | Big Van Vader (c) vs. Ric Flair in a Title vs. Career match for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship |
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| February 20 | Ric Flair (c) vs. Vader in a Thundercage match for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship | ||||||||
| April 17 | Ric Flair (c) vs. Ricky Steamboat for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship | ||||||||
| May 22 | Sting vs. Vader for the vacant WCW International World Heavyweight Championship | ||||||||
| July 17 | Ric Flair (c) vs. Hulk Hogan for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship | ||||||||
| September 18 | The Stud Stable (Arn Anderson, Bunkhouse Buck, Col. Robert Parker and Terry Funk) vs. Dustin Rhodes, Dusty Rhodes and The Nasty Boys (Brian Knobbs and Jerry Sags) in a WarGames match | ||||||||
| October 23 | Hulk Hogan (c) vs. Ric Flair in a Steel Cage match for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship with Mr. T as special guest referee | ||||||||
| December 27 | Hulk Hogan (c) vs. The Butcher for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship |
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| February 19 | Hulk Hogan (c) vs. Vader for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship | ||||||||
| March 19 | Hulk Hogan vs. Vader in a Leather Strap match | ||||||||
| April 28–29 (aired August 4) | Antonio Inoki vs. Ric Flair | ||||||||
| May 21 | The Mega Powers (Hulk Hogan and Randy Savage) vs. Ric Flair and Vader | ||||||||
| June 18 | Randy Savage vs. Ric Flair | ||||||||
| July 16 | "The Beach" | Hulk Hogan (c) vs. Vader in a Steel Cage match for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship | |||||||
| September 17 | Hulk Hogan, Lex Luger, Randy Savage and Sting vs. The Dungeon of Doom (Kamala, Meng, Shark and Zodiac) in a WarGames match | ||||||||
| October 29 | Hulk Hogan (c) vs. The Giant for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship | ||||||||
| November 26 | 60-man World War 3 Battle Royal | ||||||||
| December 27 | Randy Savage (c) vs. Ric Flair for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship |
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| February 11 | Hulk Hogan vs. The Giant in a Steel Cage match | ||||||||
| March 24 | THe Alliance to End Hulkamania (Ric Flair, Arn Anderson, Meng, The Barbarian, Lex Luger, The Taskmaster, Z-Gangsta and The Ultimate Solution) vs. The Mega Powers (Hulk Hogan and Randy Savage) in a Doomsday Cage match | ||||||||
| May 19 | The Giant (c) vs. Sting for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship | ||||||||
| June 16 | The Giant (c) vs. Lex Luger for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship | ||||||||
| July 7 | Hulk Hogan and The Outsiders (Kevin Nash and Scott Hall) vs. Randy Savage, Sting and Lex Luger | ||||||||
| August 10 | The Giant (c) vs. Hollywood Hogan for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship | ||||||||
| September 15 | Team WCW (Arn Anderson, Lex Luger, Ric Flair and Sting) vs. nWo (Hollywood Hogan, Kevin Nash, nWo Sting and Scott Hall) in a WarGames match | ||||||||
| October 27 | Hollywood Hogan (c) vs. Randy Savage for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship | ||||||||
| November 24 | 60-man World War 3 Battle Royal | ||||||||
| December 29 | Hollywood Hogan vs. Roddy Piper |
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| January 25 | Hollywood Hogan (c) vs. The Giant for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship | ||||||||
| February 23 | Hollywood Hogan (c) vs. Roddy Piper for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship | ||||||||
| March 16 | Team Piper (Chris Benoit, Jeff Jarrett, Roddy Piper and Steve McMichael) vs. Team WCW (Lex Luger, Rick Steiner, Scott Steiner, and The Giant) vs. nWo (Hollywood Hogan, Kevin Nash, Randy Savage and Scott Hall) in a Triangle Elimination match | ||||||||
| April 6 | Diamond Dallas Page vs. Randy Savage in a No Disqualification match | ||||||||
| May 18 | Kevin Greene, Ric Flair and Roddy Piper vs. nWo (Kevin Nash, Scott Hall and Syxx) | ||||||||
| June 15 | Diamond Dallas Page vs. Randy Savage in a Falls Count Anywhere match | ||||||||
| July 13 | Dennis Rodman and Hollywood Hogan vs. Lex Luger and The Giant | ||||||||
| August 9 | Lex Luger (c) vs. Hollywood Hogan for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship | ||||||||
| September 14 | The Four Horsemen (Chris Benoit, Curt Hennig, Ric Flair and Steve McMichael) vs. The nWo (Buff Bagwell, Kevin Nash, Konnan and Syxx) in a WarGames match | ||||||||
| October 26 | Hollywood Hogan vs. Roddy Piper in a Steel Cage match | ||||||||
| November 23 | 60-man World War 3 Battle Royal | ||||||||
| December 28 | Hollywood Hogan (c) vs. Sting for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship |
| WCW/nWo co-branded event |
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| January 24 | Lex Luger vs. Randy Savage | ||||||||
| February 22 | Hollywood Hogan vs. Sting for the vacant WCW World Heavyweight Championship | ||||||||
| March 15 | Hollywood Hogan vs. Randy Savage in a Steel Cage match | ||||||||
| April 19 | Sting vs. Randy Savage in a No Disqualification match for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship | ||||||||
| May 17 | The Outsiders (Kevin Nash and Scott Hall) (c) vs. Sting and The Giant for the WCW World Tag Team Championship | ||||||||
| June 14 | Sting (c) vs. The Giant (c) for control of the WCW World Tag Team Championship | ||||||||
| July 12 | Dennis Rodman and Hollywood Hogan vs. Diamond Dallas Page and Karl Malone | ||||||||
| August 8 | Diamond Dallas Page and Jay Leno vs. Eric Bischoff and Hollywood Hogan | ||||||||
| September 13 | Team WCW (Diamond Dallas Page, Roddy Piper and The Warrior) vs. nWo Hollywood (Bret Hart, Hollywood Hogan and Stevie Ray) vs. nWo Wolfpac (Kevin Nash, Lex Luger and Sting) in a WarGames match | ||||||||
| October 25 | Goldberg (c) vs. Diamond Dallas Page for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship | ||||||||
| November 22 | Diamond Dallas Page (c) vs. Bret Hart for the WCW United States Heavyweight Championship | ||||||||
| December 27 | Goldberg (c) vs. Kevin Nash for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship |
| WCW/nWo co-branded event |
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| January 17 | Goldberg vs. Scott Hall in a Stun Gun ladder match | ||||||||
| February 21 | Hollywood Hogan (c) vs. Ric Flair for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship | ||||||||
| March 14 | Hollywood Hogan (c) vs. Ric Flair in a Barbed Wire Steel Cage First Blood match for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship | ||||||||
| April 11 | Ric Flair (c) vs. Diamond Dallas Page vs. Hollywood Hogan vs. Sting for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship with Randy Savage as special guest referee | ||||||||
| May 9 | Diamond Dallas Page (c) vs. Kevin Nash for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship | ||||||||
| June 13 | Kevin Nash (c) vs. Randy Savage for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship | ||||||||
| July 11 | Kevin Nash (c) and Sting vs. Randy Savage and Sid Vicious for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship | ||||||||
| August 14 | Hulk Hogan (c) vs. Kevin Nash in a Retirement match for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship | ||||||||
| September 12 | Hulk Hogan (c) vs. Sting for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship | ||||||||
| October 24 | Sting (c) vs. Goldberg for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship | ||||||||
| November 21 | Bret Hart vs. Chris Benoit in a tournament final for the vacant WCW World Heavyweight Championship | ||||||||
| December 19 | Bret Hart (c) vs. Goldberg in a No Disqualification match for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship |
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| January 16 | Sid Vicious vs. Chris Benoit for the vacant WCW World Heavyweight Championship with Arn Anderson as special guest referee | ||||||||
| February 20 | Sid Vicious (c) vs. Jeff Jarrett vs. Scott Hall for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship | ||||||||
| March 19 | Hulk Hogan vs. Ric Flair in a Yappapi Indian Strap match | ||||||||
| April 16 | Diamond Dallas Page vs. Jeff Jarrett in a tournament final for the vacant WCW World Heavyweight Championship | ||||||||
| May 7 | David Arquette (c) vs. Diamond Dallas Page vs. Jeff Jarrett in a Triple Cage match for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship | ||||||||
| June 11 | Jeff Jarrett (c) vs. Kevin Nash for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship | ||||||||
| July 9 | Jeff Jarrett (c) vs. Booker T for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship | ||||||||
| August 13 | Booker T (c) vs. Jeff Jarrett for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship | ||||||||
| September 17 | Kevin Nash (c) vs. Booker T in a Caged Heat match for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship | ||||||||
| October 29 | Goldberg vs. KroniK (Brian Adams and Bryan Clark) | ||||||||
| November 16 | Sting vs. Kevin Nash for the WCW European Cup with Axel Schulz as special guest referee | ||||||||
| November 26 | Scott Steiner (c) vs. Booker T in a Straitjacket Caged Heat match for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship | ||||||||
| December 17 | Scott Steiner (c) vs. Sid Vicious for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship |
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| January 14 | Scott Steiner (c) vs. Jeff Jarrett vs. Sid Vicious vs. Road Warrior Animal for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship | ||||||||
| February 18 | Scott Steiner (c) vs. Kevin Nash in a Two-out-of-Three Falls Loser Leaves WCW match for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship | ||||||||
| March 18 | Scott Steiner (c) vs. Diamond Dallas Page in a Falls Count Anywhere match for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship |