Beginning around the time Hogan showed up, it seemed to me that they took the focus off of Starrcade and put it on Halloween Havoc. Even in his first year, 1994, the Havoc match against Flair had the cage and retirement stipulation upping the prestige and importance on anything that came before it. From there on, Starrcade still received a lot of promotion as the big event, but that always seemed to be based more on history than current. The only year that seemed to stray from this philosophy of pushing Havoc as the real big event was 1997, and that was primarily because of the culmination of the Sting angle. If you swap out the main events, I'd say Halloween Havoc was the more loaded show of the two even in 1997.