Souled Out
Souled Out was a professional wrestling pay-per-view promoted by World Championship Wrestling in the month of January from 1997 through 2000. It was originally started as an nWo PPV but it did not generate the revenue it hoped for so it was turned into a WCW and nWo co-promoted PPV. This show, along with all of the other WCW pay-per-views that followed, stayed as a co-branded WCW/nWo show until the nWo disbanded in 1999. In 2001, it was replaced by WCW Sin. World Wrestling Entertainment have owned the rights to Souled Out since they purchased WCW in 2001, however to date, they have not yet produced their own version of the event.
Souled Out dates and venues
1997
Souled Out 1997, and also known as nWo Souled Out,[2] took place on January 25, 1997 from the Five Seasons Center in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. This was an nWo sponsored PPV, all of the matches were nWo vs. WCW. WCW president/nWo member Eric Bischoff and Ted DiBiase provided commentary. The nWo referee, Nick Patrick, officiated all the matches.[1] No WCW wrestler was allowed to have theme music while the appropriate nWo theme songs played for the various members of the group.
Numbers in parentheses indicate the length of the match.
- Masahiro Chono defeated Chris Jericho[1] (11:08)
- Big Bubba Rogers defeated Hugh Morrus (with Jimmy Hart) in a Mexican Death match[1] (9:03)
- Jeff Jarrett defeated Mr. Wallstreet[1] (9:22)
- Jarrett pinned Wallstreet after Steve McMichael hit Wallstreet with a Haliburton briefcase.[1]
- Buff Bagwell defeated Scotty Riggs[1] (13:51)
- Scott Norton defeated Diamond Dallas Page by count-out[1] (9:39)
- Norton won the match after Buff Bagwell, Big Bubba Rogers, Vincent, and Mr. Wallstreet came to the ring to try to recruit Page to join the nWo.
- Page initially accepted, but then attacked Norton, Bagwell, Vincent, Rogers, Wallstreet, and Nick Patrick and left the ring tearing off the nWo shirt he was given by Bagwell.
- The Steiner Brothers (Rick and Scott) defeated The Outsiders (Kevin Nash and Scott Hall) to win the WCW World Tag Team Championship.[1]
- Eddie Guerrero defeated Syxx in a Ladder match to retain the WCW United States Championship (13:48)[1][2]
- Guerrero hit Syxx in the head with the title belt after both wrestlers had unhooked it simultaneously; Syxx fell and let go of the belt, and Guerrero retained his championship.
- WCW World Heavyweight Champion Hollywood Hogan fought The Giant to a no-contest[1] (11:00)
- The match ended after other members of the nWo came out and attacked The Giant.
1998
Souled Out 1998 took place on January 24, 1998 from the Hara Arena in Trotwood, Ohio and featured a double main event.[1]
Numbers in parentheses indicate the length of the match.
1999
Souled Out 1999 took place on January 17, 1999 from the Charleston Civic Center in Charleston, West Virginia.[1]
Numbers in parentheses indicate the length of the match.
2000
Souled Out 2000 took place on January 16, 2000 from the Firstar Center in Cincinnati, Ohio.[1]
The originally scheduled card was heavily changed, due to the serious injuries of Bret Hart and Jeff Jarrett.[1] Hart, who was scheduled to wrestle Sid Vicious, suffered a severe concussion at Starrcade, which forced him to vacate the WCW World Heavyweight title (Hart would not wrestle in another match until Wrestlemania XXVI, more than 10 years later). Jarrett, who was scheduled to wrestle Chris Benoit in a Triple Threat Theater series (Dungeon Rules, Bunkhouse, Caged Heat), suffered lingering headaches from Benoit's diving headbutt off the top of the steel cage on the January 10 edition of WCW Monday Nitro, which forced him to vacate the WCW United States Heavyweight title. Benoit was instead moved to take Hart's place against Vicious and the Triple Threat Theater series was contested between Billy Kidman and three separate wrestlers.
Numbers in parentheses indicate the length of the match.
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