AJ Styles and Samoa Joe will compete for the WWE Championship, there will be a “Cincy Street Fight” and WWE Hall of Famer Ric Flair will team up for a special concert with singing wrestling star Elias when WWE’s Starrcade comes to Cincinnati for the first time.
The event will take place the weekend after Thanksgiving (Nov. 24) at Cincinnati’s home for big WWE shows, U.S. Bank Arena. Tickets go on sale Friday, Sept. 21 at 10 a.m. via Ticketmaster. Tickets range from $15 to $303.
The Starrcade event was created in 1983 and that first year Flair (pioneer of the “Cincinnati woo“?) lost a steel cage match to Harley Race. He came back to beat Dusty Rhodes the following year. The show has bounced around a few different wrestling organizations, but WWE brought it back last year after a 17-year absence.
Here’s the full list of scheduled matches for the Starrcade’s Cincy premiere:
• “A Cincy Street Fight” featuring The Shield vs. Braun Strowman, Dolph Ziggler and Drew Mcintyre
• WWE Championship steel-cage match featuring current champ AJ Styles vs. Samoa Joe
• SmackDown Women’s Championship featuring current champ Charlotte Flair vs. Becky Lynch
• United States Championship featuring current champ Shinsuke Nakamura vs. Rusev (w Lana)
• SmackDown Tag Team Championships featuring The New Day vs. The Bar
This article appears in Sep 12-19, 2018.
