NWO SOULED OUT 1997 INTRO PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING POWER

Nwo Souled Out 1997 Intro Professional Wrestling Power

Maybe it'll even go down as a turning point in an ever changing wrestling war at the very worst. WWE and WCW were embroiled in a ratings war which would be nicknamed the 'Monday Night Wars.'Two of the biggest stars at the time were Razor Ramon (Scott Hall) and Diesel (Kevin Nash).Both jumped ship to WCW, lured with the promise You may call it the night that the NWO gimmick was fully exposed. Was Bischoff really too busy writing the silly introductions to leave these.The New World Order (nWo) was a professional wrestling Power Stable that formed at WCWs Bash at the Beach pay-per-view in 1996. Fans soured on the idea at the start when the nWo started the show arriving on garbage trucks.NWO SOULED OUT (or suddenly the Royal Rumble was a hell of a show) POLL RESULTSNWO Souled Out (1997 TV Special) User Reviews Review this title 3 Reviews. The hope was that there would be a new television show for the nWo and the Souled Out 1997 PPV was initially used as a test. WCW moved forward with the concept of the New World Order moving forward as their own brand.

It was like WCW copied the worst aspects of the first two weeks of Shotgun Saturday Night, and then tried to go even farther to the point it looked like a bar show put on by a person whose brain was so fried by acid that only they knew what world they were in and it had only a semblance of resemblance to the pro wrestling show they were attempting to put together. But there has never been a show with such poor announcing and outside wrestling skits, and combined with the bad wrestling, lack of heat and bad atmosphere made it the night the Baltimore Bash and the Philadelphia Halloween Havoc were no longer thought of as the bottom of the PPV barrel. There have been shows with less heat and worse atmosphere, although this would be a bad show by those criteria as well. There have been shows where the quality of the matches were worse, although this would be a bad show by that criterion. You can see the blueprint for this concept throughout 1998's entire PPV listing as each PPV was branded WCW/nWo SuperBrawl, etc.NWO Souled Out, what came off to outsiders as the brainchild of someone intoxicated by his own success to the point of all perspective being lost, was the single worst PPV show in the history of pro wrestling. Problem is, most of the television viewing wrestling fans who actually spend money on pro wrestling, thus basically keep the wrestling economy going, do order PPV events.1997 laid the groundwork for this between an early nWo themed PPV named Souled Out in January and culminated in a full nWo takeover of Nitro in December.

While the name NWO is over, the NWO name can't get anyone over. This show, based on crowd reactions, in that an NWO show in a sea of NWO t-shirts saw the NWO wrestlers get booed, or in many cases, ignored in nearly every match sans Scott Hall & Kevin Nash's tag team match. And it will likely turn out to be a fairly significant buy rate for the show since NWO was the in thing in wrestling.

If that wasn't bad enough, the booking was horrible as well. If the Oak Ridge Boys, who are a real big name band, in Nashville, their home town, didn't sell ticket one or PPV one and ended up as the bathroom break for the live wrestling fans, the idea of trying it again with a worse band just shows that those who don't know anything about the past are doomed to repeat its stupidity. Sweet? Not!The less said about the NWO Beauty Pageant and the members of the washed-up band Jackal the better. While Hall & Nash can get away with the teenage lingo or just about anything else in their late 30s because when you're over you can almost do no wrong, both Eric Bischoff and especially Ted DiBiase come off as pitiful trying to act like teenagers in the parking lot during class breaks while in their 40s. The rest of the guys are guys who weren't over, dressed up with the same cool t-shirts as those in the crowd, but still couldn't get over. Hogan, trying to play heel and rogue babyface at the same time, is still both a big drawing card based on his past and an obnoxious bore based on his present.

Jericho did a great plancha and then his knee hit the post and began selling the knee. That was in reference to the WWF which only could get 48,000 paid for its show last week. Bischoff made a remark that they didn't have to give tickets away at a 7-11 to get people to come to this PPV. Masahiro Chono pinned Chris Jericho (Chris Irvine) in 11:08 after a Yakuza kick. A PPV show without even one interview with a wrestler, despite having some of the best interviews in wrestling sitting about fourth rows deep in the audience? Suffice to say that if someone wanted to put on the worst show possible on purpose, they could have put on worse matches, but they'd be hard pressed to have a worse show. A Mexican death match without any Mexicans and without an explanation as to why? A wrestler running another over in a motorcycle and the announcers selling it as a comedy spot rather than a heat spot? And that same wrestler after having been run down, appeared two nights later on a live television show not selling an injury nor did the announcers even acknowledge the incident.

**The beauty contest started with Eric Bischoff's teenage protege, Jeff Katz, making his television debut in a basically impossible situation. As he got back in, Chono hit the Yakuza kick for the pin. As Jericho went to the top, Chono kicked him off the top and he fell backwards through the table. Jericho mounted a comeback doing both a dropkick off the top rope and his Lionsault (quebrada), but still selling the knee. Chono brought a table from under the ring and set it up.

Morrus finally delivered a hot moonsault, but Patrick wouldn't count to ten. They traded using chains on each other, which the announcers tried to sell as comedy spots. You'd think they'd limit copying other offices to their good gimmicks. Morrus was wearing a total Dudleys blue jeans and tie-died t-shirt gimmick, a gimmick he didn't wear on Nitro two nights later. Rules were the match continued until one man couldn't answer the bell. Morrus subbed for Konnan who was saved the embarrassment by being told not to come due to a scheduling conflict in Mexico.

Match was boring as neither guy is over, even though Jarrett has been really good in the ring during his WCW stint. The story of this match was that Debra McMichael looked worried as Jarrett would sell. Jarrett was introduced as 'Double J.' As if legal affairs aren't busy enough with depositions about ridiculous mistakes. 1/2*Jeff Jarrett beat Michael Wallstreet (Lawrence Rotunda) in 9:22. Bubba then ran him down with a motorcycle and Morrus was counted out of the ring in 9:03.

Bagwell is a very good worker in his new role, but Riggs is a zero by himself. Riggs is so not over that he's under. DUDMarcus 'Buff' Bagwell pinned Scotty Riggs (Scott Antol) in 13:51. Wallstreet had Jarrett in an abdominal stretch when Debra made Steve hit him with the briefcase, and McMichael intimidated Patrick into making the three count.

If Jesse Ventura or Bobby Heenan would have said it on a good show it would be funny, but at this point in the show every joke fell flat.Scott Norton beat Diamond Dallas Page via count out in 9:39. The latest was Katz mentioning that Vince (the NWO Vince of course) wears a cheap hair piece and powder blue suits. *1/4The beauty contest travesty continued.

Patrick then announced Norton the winner via count out. He ripped up the shirt, gave Norton a Diamond cutter, punched all the other guys and ran into the crowd. Right in the middle of the match, Bagwell, Bubba, Vince and Wallstreet came out and gave Page an NWO t-shirt. Sting showed up in the balcony but that was the extent of his involvement in the show.

Crowd booed Steiners heavily early on but seemed to cheer them more as the match went on. It was your basic tag team match. Most of the match saw them get heat on Rick, building to Scott's hot tag. Steiners offense with the suplexes was real good.

This was an excellent match, although one wouldn't have known it since the announcers absolutely killed the match. **1/4Eddie Guerrero beat Syxx (Sean Waltman) in a ladder match to gain possession of the U.S. Randy Anderson, who was in the fourth row, ran to the ring and hopped the rail while Rick knocked down Patrick once again and counted the fall and gave the Steiners the belts. Rick then bulldogged Hall off the top rope and Scott covered him.

Granted, this didn't hold a candle to the Razor Ramon vs.