Is There a Year Where Either Starrcade Or Bound For Glory were better than Wrestlemania?

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It's weird having Starrcade and Bound for Glory side by side but TNA/Impact has been around long enough that there's legit a large enough sample size :ohhh: where did the time go? Honestly off the top of my head I couldn't even tell you last year's Wrestlemania card so I'd have to refresh my memory to be able to compare.

I remember Wrestle Kingdom 7 being better than Wrestlemania 29 though and Wrestle Kingdom 10 was definitely better than Wrestlemania 32 :manny:.
 
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In WWE alone , Wrestlemania wasn’t even their best event and this isn’t the first time either
 
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Looking back, most Starrcades werent that good, and I'm a big WCW fan. WCWs prime of 96-98 didnt have any really great Starrcade PPVS imo. Starrcade was probably only better 2 or 3 times. Bischoff has said on his podcast that he really treated Hallowee Havoc like the #1 PPV, and looking back it makes sense. There are like 5 or 6 Halloween Havocs that I consider great PPVs.

Most years when TNA was good, WM was still pretty good even if WWE as a whole wasn't, so there's probably only one or two years where BFG was better also.
 
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Starccade almost had their moment with 97 if it wasn't for the shyt tier booking and Hoegan being a bytch about the finish. The thing with Starrcade is that there was really no guidance to make it more than what WM was offering:

  • It felt like a regular WCW PPV rather than the "big one"
  • Most of the matches were forgettable at best
  • The only time Starrcade actually felt legit outside of the mid 80s and 97 was Starrcade 95 and that was because of fukking NJPW and no Hogan
  • Superbrawl and Slamboree felt more important imo
Bottom line, WCW can't shake off it's southern roots no matter how hard Biscoff turned the promotion into a Sports Entertainment spectacle. It was wrasslin and there's nothing wrong with such a thing, but the fact remains that WM>>>>>>

Now BFG....:francis:, look Impact put more work into Slammiversary than BFG for me to even give a shyt. Most of the BFG events always feel cheap and forgettable, while Slammiversary felt like the legit competitor.

As somebody mentioned in this thread, Wrestle Kingdom is the main competitor and their best years were during the Omega for the belt years which its hard for me to admit because I hated those years of NJPW being held hostage by the The Elite:camby:
 
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