Halloween Havoc

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Halloween Havoc
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Promotions World Championship Wrestling (1989–2000)
WWE (2020–present)
BrandsWCW/nWo (1998)
NXT (2020–present)
First event 1989

Halloween Havoc is a professional wrestling event currently produced by WWE. Since 2020, it has been held annually for the company's developmental brand, NXT. As the name implies, it is a Halloween-themed show held in October.

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It was originally produced as an annual pay-per-view (PPV) by World Championship Wrestling (WCW) from 1989 until 2000. The first two events were held when WCW was still affiliated with the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) before WCW split from the NWA in January 1991. The final five events under WCW (1996–2000) were held at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in the Las Vegas suburb of Paradise, Nevada.

WWE – at that time still known as the World Wrestling Federation – purchased the assets of WCW in March 2001. Nineteen years later, Halloween Havoc was revived as an annual event for WWE's NXT brand in 2020. The 2020 and 2021 events were held as a television special of the NXT program, but it was made a livestreaming event in 2022. It then returned to being a television special in 2023 but expanded to a two-part special of NXT.

History

In 1989, World Championship Wrestling (WCW) of the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) scheduled a Halloween-themed pay-per-view (PPV) event for October 28, 1989, at the Philadelphia Civic Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The event was aptly named Halloween Havoc. [1] A second Halloween Havoc was scheduled for the following year, thus establishing Halloween Havoc as an annual PPV for WCW. This second event was also the final Halloween Havoc produced by WCW under the NWA banner as WCW split from the NWA in January 1991. [2]

The 2000 event was the final Halloween Havoc produced by WCW, as in March 2001, WCW was acquired by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF); the WWF was renamed to World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) in 2002 ("WWE" became an orphaned initialism in 2011). [3] After 19 years since the acquisition of WCW, WWE revived Halloween Havoc for their developmental brand, NXT. Both the 2020 and 2021 events were held as television special episodes of the NXT television program, which aired on the USA Network. [4] [5] The 2022 event, however, was held as a livestreaming event, airing on Peacock in the United States and the WWE Network in international markets. [6] The event returned to being a television special in 2023, but was expanded to a two-part special of NXT on the USA Network. [7]

The 1994 and 1995 events were both held at the Joe Louis Arena in Detroit, Michigan [8] [9] before becoming a main stay at the MGM Grand Garden Arena Las Vegas, Nevada from 1996 to 2000. [10] [11] [12] [13] Since the event's revival in 2020, it has been held at NXT's home venue, the WWE Performance Center in Orlando, Florida. [4] [5] [6]

In 2014, all WCW PPVs, including Halloween Havoc, were made available on WWE's streaming service, the WWE Network. [14] Since March 2021, they are also available on Peacock in the United States as the American version of the WWE Network merged under Peacock at that time. [15]

Events

WCW/nWo co-branded eventNXT-branded event
#EventDateCityVenueMain event(s)Ref
National Wrestling Alliance: World Championship Wrestling
1 Halloween Havoc (1989) October 28, 1989 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Philadelphia Civic Center Ric Flair and Sting vs. The Great Muta and Terry Funk in a Thunderdome match with Bruno Sammartino as special guest referee [1]
2 Halloween Havoc (1990) October 27, 1990 Chicago, Illinois UIC Pavilion Sting (c) vs. Sid Vicious for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship [2]
World Championship Wrestling
3 Halloween Havoc (1991) October 27, 1991 Chattanooga, Tennessee UTC Arena Lex Luger (c) vs. Ron Simmons in a two-out-of-three falls match for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship [16]
4 Halloween Havoc (1992) October 25, 1992 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Philadelphia Civic Center Sting vs. Jake Roberts in a Coal Miner's Glove match [17]
5 Halloween Havoc (1993) October 24, 1993 New Orleans, Louisiana Lakefront Arena Big Van Vader vs. Cactus Jack in a Texas Death match [18]
6 Halloween Havoc (1994) October 23, 1994 Detroit, Michigan Joe Louis Arena Hulk Hogan (c) vs. Ric Flair in a Steel Cage match for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship with Mr. T as special guest referee [8]
7 Halloween Havoc (1995) October 29, 1995 Hulk Hogan (c) vs. The Giant for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship [9]
8 Halloween Havoc (1996) October 27, 1996 Las Vegas, Nevada MGM Grand Garden Arena Hollywood Hogan (c) vs. Randy Savage for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship [10]
9 Halloween Havoc (1997) October 26, 1997 Roddy Piper vs. Hollywood Hogan in a Steel Cage match [11]
10 Halloween Havoc (1998) October 25, 1998 Goldberg (c) vs. Diamond Dallas Page for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship [12]
11 Halloween Havoc (1999) October 24, 1999 Sting (c) vs. Goldberg for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship [13]
12 Halloween Havoc (2000) October 29, 2000 Goldberg vs. KroniK (Brian Adams and Bryan Clark) in a Handicap elimination match [3]
WWE: NXT
13 NXT Halloween Havoc (2020) October 28, 2020 Orlando, Florida WWE Performance Center [lower-alpha 1] Io Shirai (c) vs. Candice LeRae in a Tables, Ladders, and Scares match for the NXT Women's Championship [4]
14 NXT Halloween Havoc (2021) October 26, 2021 Tommaso Ciampa (c) vs. Bron Breakker for the NXT Championship [5]
15 NXT Halloween Havoc (2022) October 22, 2022 Bron Breakker (c) vs. Ilja Dragunov vs. JD McDonagh for the NXT Championship [6]
16 NXT Halloween Havoc (2023) October 24, 2023 Becky Lynch (c) vs. Lyra Valkyria for the NXT Women's Championship [19]
October 31, 2023 Ilja Dragunov (c) vs. Carmelo Hayes for the NXT Championship [20]
(c) – refers to the champion(s) heading into the match

Notes

  1. ↑ The main arena of the WWE Performance Center was known as the Capitol Wrestling Center from October 2020 to September 2021.

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