Pay-Per-View Rewind of: NWA/WCW Starrcade '83: A Flare for the Gold 24/11/1983 Match 8/Part 8/Conclusion by AverageMansReviews - Spoiler Alarm!

Pay-Per-View Rewind of: NWA/WCW Starrcade '83: A Flare for the Gold 24/11/1983 Match 8/Part 8/Conclusion by AverageMansReviews - Spoiler Alarm!

Warning/Disclaimer: there is flashing effects/colourful effects/blood warning. Disclaimer I have never been in a professional wrestling ring and never likely to be.

Match/Stipulations: "The Nature Boy" Rick Flair vs. the NWA World Heavyweight Champion Harley Race; Steele Cage Match for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship with Special Guest Referee Gene Kiniski

Match Attributes:

Match Quality: 5/10

Match Storyline: 4/10

Crowd Participation: 8/10

On Commentary: Bob Caudle & Gordon Solie 6/10

Satisfying Conclusion: 6/10

Recommend Watch: 6/10

Match Total: 35/60 - this match is mixed.

Comments: wow, after all of the hyping throughout this pay-per-view alone, this match was as you can see a mixed bag, I don't know what actually went wrong, actually I do based on my viewing experience. I don't think Gene Kiniski had any idea or to be fair to him, maybe they didn't go through the dos and don'ts of this match and it's stipulations, I also have to keep in mind that this was early in the 1980s so maybe they aren't going to be of today's stipulations.

But now I have tried to be fair, he kept interdicting himself in this match when he shouldn't have, like pulling away or pulling a competitor away from the corner because he wouldn't let the other individual out of the corner or the old chestnut of having a closed fist which they don't make much of a deal about this rule nowadays or for some strange reason he does this count like a Last Person Standing Match count thing, I have no idea why this is? Consequently because of his involvement in this match being way too much; this match and its mechanics and so on will it isn't there as in this match has no fluency or any great tempo to it, I know that these two competitors are not the most quickest anyway, but because of Gene Kiniski involvement it interrupts their individual or together methodical approach to wrestling. In the very late stages of this match we have this cartoon-ish moment, this could have been genuine, but the more I look at it, it looks planned out where Kiniski seemingly accidentally takes a clash of a head-butt from Race, it could be genuine based on Flair trying to get out of this situation.

Away from this Race performs this piledriver on Flair and if or when you watch this match it looks slightly wrong/botch as Flair's hair or head goes before Race's legs which as everyone should know a move like this or anything similar to this it should always be legs protect the head, but to cover my back as I have already pointed out this could be just Flair's hair but this is one of those quick moments where you just see a little bit much of the head at the wrong moment. When Flair performs a piledriver on Race it's a bit more sturdy and just in the interest of fairness and balance he has an Afro thing going on, not a full-blown Afro but I would say a little something like that and without giving too much away the final move of this match is on the most cleanest either, is he going to fall short or has he overshot, who knows you will have to watch this match to find out. The reason why I have given this match 6/10 in the Recommend Watch category is because of everything I have put here, you just have to watch it once. Solie continues to say suplex wrong as I have pointed out throughout this pay-per-view and at one point or another gives praise to howGene Kiniski done refereeing this match.

Basic Result: your new NWA World Heavyweight Champion "The Nature Boy" Rick Flair.

Briefly things to know:

* Ric Flair gives thanks and appreciation to the crowd over a microphone

* Bob Caudle, Gordon Solie,Tony Schiavone & Barbara Clary: in summary they are all discussing or/and catching up with the fallout of this match as Tony deals with the celebrations and interviews from the new NWA World Champion Ric Flair including other wrestling characters/performers including Ricky Steamboat or/and Ricky Steamboat & Jay Youngblood saying something at some points, the next No1 Contender "The American Dream" Dusty Rhodes shaking Flair's hand, but also alluding to add some time down the line I am next. We also have this trio of wrestlers holding their respective Championships at some point, to subliminally say  “We are the new generation of wrestling."  Barbara Clary has a little interview/promo from Harley Race basically saying “tonight is your night, but Ric Flair I am not going anywhere." We finish on Bob Caudle, Gordon Solie and then these ending credits over the final match which we have just seen.

This pay-per-view receives: 7/10, this pay-per-view is good; I mean after everything is said and done this mark is the right outcome I know at one point I have mentioned about the ring making unreliable sounds as it relates to if my memory is correct about the ropes, but it isn't just the ropes on reflection I think it is just a case of the revolution of the ring itself, meaning it was different back then, it was different in the 1990s it is different today and finally I think I have made a little mistake as it relates to the interview segments with their actual taking place, I think I have been saying locker room when it was or should have been in Flair or Race dressing room or dressing rooms with their heel or baby faces sharing dressing rooms, to do their promos or interview segments with Schiavone in the next pay-per-view I will not be so specific so I can't make this mistake again, but for here and now I apologise for it any convenience. But to leave this pay-per-view on a positive the crowd were there for this pay-per-view from beginning to end.

The highest ranking match on this card based on attributes that we see would be:  Jay Youngblood & Ricky Steamboat vs. the NWA World Tag Team Champions The Briscoe [Jack & Jerry Briscoe;] Tag Team Match for the NWA World Tag Team Championships, with "King Kong" Angelo Mosca as Special Guest Referee, additional stipulations no time limit and the Championships can change hands on a disqualification with 46/60.

The lowest ranking match on this card based on attributes that we see would be: Carlos Colon vs. Abdullah the Butcher: Singles Match with 16/60.