Starrcade '86: The Skywalkers
| Starrcade '86: The Skywalkers | |||
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VHS cover featuring various wrestlers | |||
| Promotion(s) | National Wrestling Alliance Jim Crockett Promotions | ||
| Date | November 27, 1986 | ||
| City | Greensboro, North Carolina, United States Atlanta, Georgia, United States | ||
| Venue | Greensboro Coliseum Complex Omni Coliseum | ||
| Attendance | 30,000 (combined) | ||
| Tagline | The Skywalkers | ||
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Starrcade '86: The Skywalkers, also referred to as Starrcade '86: Night of The Skywalkers, was the fourth annual Starrcade professional wrestling closed-circuit television event, produced by Jim Crockett Promotions (JCP) under the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) banner. It took place on November 27, 1986, from the Greensboro Coliseum Complex in Greensboro, North Carolina in the United States and from the Omni Coliseum in Atlanta, Georgia in the United States.
The main event saw NWA World Heavyweight Champion Ric Flair defend the championship against the NWA United States Champion Nikita Koloff in a title versus title match. The dual location saw six matches take place in each location, with the Greensboro Coliseum main event being a steel cage match between defending NWA World Tag Team Champions the Rock 'n' Roll Express (Ricky Morton and challengers the Andersons (Arn Anderson and Ole Anderson). The "Skywalkers" tag line came from one of the featured matches of the show where the Road Warriors wrestled The Midnight Express in a scaffold match in which the teams fought atop a 20 foot tall scaffold erected across the top of the ring.
Highlights of the show were shown on JCP's weekly television shows and an edited version of the show was later available for purchase or rental on VHS tape. With the launch of the WWE Network in 2014, all closed-circuit television Starrcades (1983 through 1986) alongside the subsequent Starrcade shows appear in the pay-per-view section. The WWE Network versions of the shows were not edited for content, but some entrance music was replaced due to copyright issues. At four hours, this edition of Starrcade is the longest in the event's history.