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By Joseph Currier | @josephcurrier | Sep 18, 2017 7:45 am

Though details are still sparse, WWE is reviving the Starrcade name for a SmackDown live event during Thanksgiving weekend.

The Greensboro Coliseum announced today that they would be hosting WWE Starrcade on November 25th, which would be the Saturday after Thanksgiving. The venue at least partially hosted the first four Starrcade events from 1983-1986, with the shows in 1985 and 1986 being split between the Greensboro Coliseum in North Carolina and The Omni in Atlanta, Georgia.

WWE has yet to indicate whether the show will air on the Network, but the timing of it would place Starrcade less than a week after Survivor Series and 22 days before SmackDown's Clash of Champions pay-per-view.

A tentative card for the show was also listed by the venue, including two steel cage matches and appearances by The Hardys, The Rock 'n' Roll Express, and Ricky Steamboat:

WWE Champion Jinder Mahal defending against Shinsuke Nakamura in a steel cage match
SmackDown Women's Champion Natalya defending against Charlotte Flair in a steel cage match
United States Champion AJ Styles defending against Baron Corbin and Rusev
SmackDown Tag Team Champions The New Day defending against The Usos in a tornado tag match
Sami Zayn vs. Kevin Owens
Bobby Roode vs. Dolph Ziggler

Pro Wrestling Sheet had reported yesterday that WWE was considering reviving WCW show names for upcoming live events/specials.

This seems too good to not wind up on the Network.

.... so the plan is for Jinder Mahal to still be Champion by then....

KILLdozer wrote: ↑Sep 18th, '17, 10:41 .... so the plan is for Jinder Mahal to still be Champion by then....

Probably, but this reads like one of those tentative cards they put out so they at least have something announced. Notice how the Usos vs. New Day feud is till going on, and all of the other champs are the same. They'd probably have Nattie vs. Naomi or Carmella announced if the show wasn't in Flair Country.

Yeah, let's just hope it's "card subject to change".

KILLdozer wrote: ↑Sep 18th, '17, 10:41 .... so the plan is for Jinder Mahal to still be Champion by then....

don't be surprised if Jinder makes it to Wrestlemania as champ

i don't know how to feel about this logo

cero2k wrote: ↑Sep 18th, '17, 12:47 i don't know how to feel about this logo

It's just the 85 logo but with the WWE logo instead of a giant star. Although, to be fair, Starrcade logos have always been lame.

cero2k wrote: ↑Sep 18th, '17, 11:12

KILLdozer wrote: ↑Sep 18th, '17, 10:41 .... so the plan is for Jinder Mahal to still be Champion by then....

don't be surprised if Jinder makes it to Wrestlemania as champ

I'm the only only one who felt he could even win it in the first place, so hey lol.

According to this week's Observer, the match that Kavita Devi had in the MYC got about three times as many hits on YouTube- mostly from India- as anything on Raw or or SD normally gets, including Jinder's stuff. He got outdrawn by a wrestler no one had ever heard of before, having her very first televised match.

Big Red Machine wrote: ↑Sep 18th, '17, 14:40 According to this week's Observer, the match that Kavita Devi had in the MYC got about three times as many hits on YouTube- mostly from India- as anything on Raw or or SD normally gets, including Jinder's stuff. He got outdrawn by a wrestler no one had ever heard of before, having her very first televised match.

yeah, because she's fought Dakota Kai, the one chick everyone is salivating all over for

Problem solved then. Put the belt on her instead of him. Can't be any worse.

cero2k wrote: ↑Sep 18th, '17, 15:04

Big Red Machine wrote: ↑Sep 18th, '17, 14:40 According to this week's Observer, the match that Kavita Devi had in the MYC got about three times as many hits on YouTube- mostly from India- as anything on Raw or or SD normally gets, including Jinder's stuff. He got outdrawn by a wrestler no one had ever heard of before, having her very first televised match.

yeah, because she's fought Dakota Kai, the one chick everyone is salivating all over for

Then why didn't Kai's second-round match get as many views?

Big Red Machine wrote: ↑Sep 18th, '17, 18:41

Then why didn't Kai's second-round match get as many views?

because you realize she's not that amazing after all