nWo presents Souled Out
January 25th, 1997
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
World Heavyweight Champion: Hollywood Hogan
World Tag Team Champions: The Outsiders/Hall & Nash
United States Champion: Eddie Guerrero
Television Champion: Lord Steven Regal
Cruiserweight Champion: Dean Malenko
Woman’s Champion: I think they have one of these IDK
The intro to this is hilarious yet amazing; they close down a whole street and roll down the street with dustbin trucks with nWo flags. Oh and they are being escorted by an ambulance I guess they couldn’t afford cops.
Amazing video package; and the stage looks awesome. Eric Bischoff & Ted DiBiasie are the commentators for the night. Liz is just hanging around the table too, god she was hawt.
Of course, Nick Patrick is the referee for the entire evening.
They even have their own ring announcer, but he’s not at the ring I think it’s a computer.
“From Somewhere North of the Border” Chris Jericho vs. “The Baddest Man from Japan” Masahiro Chono
A good feeling out process to sart as the camera cuts to the crowd with WCW wrestlers entering the bulding, Harlem Heat, Faces of fear, Nasty Boyz, Arn and a few others. Chono begins to take control of the match, he slows it down. Not methodically but do a move, pander and wait do something else. Thankfully Jericho begins to hit some high flying moves sending Chono to the floor. But he goes for one high risk too many and Chono sidesteps a dropkick up against the ringpost. Back in the ring, and Chono begins to target it while still pandering to the crowd. That allows Jericho hits Chono with one enziguri, but Chono catches a kick and snaps off a Dragon screw leg whip. Jericho manages to fight off the STF and hits a German suplex for two. Eric complains about a fast count
it really wasn’t. Clothesline by Jericho scores another two thanks to more slow-counting. While Jericho threatens Patrick, Chono grabs a sleeper from behind and drops Jericho with a falling inverted DDT. Chono delivers an inverted atomic drop and takes out a table. Chono sets up a table on the floor and calls for a suplex off the apron. Of course, Jericho counters the suplex. Missile dropkick gets another slow two count. Lionsault hits, but Jericho hit the mat on his injured knee which slows him from making the cover asap. Jericho heads up top, but Chono is there to MAFIA KICK him down through the table. Doesn’t work, but a shove will. Chono rolls Jericho back in and follows up with the Mafia kick for the win. Fun little opener. **3/4
They do some Miss nWo nonsense with some ugly ass shotgun makeup face painted whore.
Mexican Death Match: Hugh Morrus (w/Jimmy Hart) vs. Big Bubba
I have no idea why this is a death match more importantly; I’m trying to think why it’s a Mexican Death Match with no Mexican’s, it’s not taking place in Mexico IDK. Hugh Morrus is subbing for Konnan here who was originally scheduled and looking like a lost member of the Dudley family as he’s sporting a tie-dye t-shirt tonight. I think everyone know Death Matches are pretty much Last Man Standing matches. This is just a fat vs. fat boy brawl; it goes back and forth for a while until Bubba pulls out a chain and punches Hugh in the face with it. He begins to whip Hugh with it. Hugh fights back and hits the moonsault and asks Nick to count and when he does he finds reasons to break the count and starting over again
They go to the floor and up the aisle where Morrus misses a NO LAUGHING MATTER off the stage. That allows Bubba to push one of these Miss nWo contestants off a bike so he can RUN MORRUS DOWN with the bike
AWESOME! that keeps him down for the ten count. Ending was great; cause nothing better than seeing a man get run over. *
More Miss nWo questions for a pair of hideous blondes.
Mr. Wallstreet vs. “From Reject City USA” Jeff Jarrett
They show Mongo and Debra are in the crowd, Eric and Ted make a bunch of controlling wife jokes
This is embarrassing, boring, terrible, shit, weak, lame all those things into one. I again have no idea how or why this is a match. Jeff has been busy with the Horsemen and has not even had a single segment with the NWO the past 3 weeks I’ve watched. Jarrett controls to start and tries to do his best to avoid being pinned with a fast count. Wallstreet, then kills the whole match with his shitty boring offense. Wallstreet cheats on a chinlock, but Jarrett fights out and sets him up for the FIGURE-FOUR. Nick Patrick LITERALLY pulls Wallstreet to the ropes. Jarrett applies an abdominal stretch near the ropes just so he can cheat since he’s getting screwed over anyway. With Nick Patrick not watching, Mongo jumps up on the apron and BLASTS Wallstreet over the shoulders with the briefcase and Jeff covers for the win, lol ‘ WCW winning a match on nWo turf. Yeah fuck this match. *
EWWWWW! They interview some old bitches for Miss nWo.
Buff Bagwell vs. “He’s Always Been #2 & The American Male Loser” Scotty Riggs
American male song was awesome; shit is stuck in my head now. This feud is such a low rent when tag teams break up feud. This was a lot better than the previous two matches which is shocking but not really, cause anyone can top those two shitfest. Good thing about Buff is he knows he’s a low rent comedy heel gimmick. Riggs gets the better early as he’s one step ahead of Buff. After minutes of getting his ass kicked Buff hits him with suplex across the top rope. Buff nails Riggs off the apron, into the security rail, then poses in the middle of the ring. The P.A. system guy says “loser” as we see Riggs crawling back into the ring
it sounds like he’s saying it to Buff. Buff chokes Riggs across the middle rope, then rams Riggs into the buckle. Riggs with a brief comeback, but Buff blows a back breaker, as it almost turned into a knee to the crotch
Bagwell sits down rests with a rear chinlock, but Riggs battles out with an electric chair drop. Riggs mounts a comeback and delivers a tornado DDT. Both men try a crossbody and Bagwell lands on top for two. Riggs makes his comeback and connects with a powerbomb for two. Riggs wants a superplex, but Bagwell fights it off and debuts the BUFF BLOCKBUSTER!!! for the win. Trash! *1/4
Oh look more ugly ass trashy looking Miss nWo crap. A fat fat fat bitch with 9 zoom glasses says she would get naked with Vincent.
Scott Norton vs. Diamond Dallas Page
NO SELF HIGH FIVE! FUCK THIS SHOW. Poor Page I know he’s just getting his huge pop but he went from making a great breakout with the cutter on Hall to facing this piece of shit. Boreton dominates early cause he’s fat and lifts weights; this goes on for a few minutes before Page applies the headlock. STING IS STANDING BY THE TOP SECTION OF THE ARENA! Not the rafters, he’s by the stairs. Norton gives Page the shoulderbreaker and starts running him shoulder-first into the ringpost, back into the ring and Norton doesn’t work the arm instead he does a slingshot to the ropes and attempts 3 cloethesline but fails. Page makes a brief comeback before Buff Bagwell and the rest of the nWo jobbers offering DDP a second chance to join up with the crew. Like DDP always says, you always got to go nWo. Page puts on the shirt and pulls Norton in for a Cutter and nails it BANG! The crowd goes nuts as Page starts swinging at everybody and then makes a run for it up into the upper deck as he celebrates with all the fans and rips off the nWo shirt. Nick Patrick awards Norton the match via countout. Poor Page allowed this geek all this offense and stupid WCW not even allowing Page to get the clean win over this waste of a spot. *
Tag Team Championships: “The Two Dog-Faced Michigan Mutts” Rick & Scott Steiner vs. The “Outsiders” Scott Hall & Kevin Nash
You know the A team is out cause they get the nWo theme song, while the jobbers get the generic nothing like the nWo song. Scott and Scott lock up first. But as soon as Hall sees Scotty will win the power game he goes right to work on the right arm of Scotty. They trade abdominal stretches but Steiner slams Hall and starts throwing Hall around with belly-to-bellies. The leads to the Outsiders catching a breather on the floor, Rick and Hall interact now and Rick controls the pace buy gets caught with the fallaway slam for two. The Stieners make the tag but as soon as Scotty comes in Hall catches him with a chokeslam before tagging Nash in. Nash delivers the knees and elbows in the corner, but Scott fights out with a Spinning Belly to Belly Suplex for two. Rick tags in and gives Nash a powerslam, but Hall nails him from the apron and that allows Nash to take Rick to the floor with a big boot. The Outsiders antagonize Scott on the apron, Nash spits over at Scott, so Rick gives him a good low blow. HOT TAG TO SCOTT STEINER! And he cleans house. They go for the STEINER DDT, but Nash breaks that up and knocks down Nick Patrick by accident. Hall connects with the Outsiders Edge, but there’s no ref. Rick comes off the top with the with the Bulldog and puts Scott on top of Hall. He goes out to revive Nick Patrick, but here’s Randy Anderson jumping the rail and telling Rick that he will make the three-count since he’s a referee and all. So that’s what he does, he pushes his sleeves up, and counts the three. LOLWAT! Randy Anderson is not an nWo official. Just because you’re a referee doesn’t mean you can just count pins whenever you want to. Bischoff and DiBiase are already saying that this decision will be reversed
match was pretty meh, I wouldn’t say it’s bad but big guys vs. big guys rarely work and this didn’t. Also maybe the nWo should employ more than one ref. **1/2
Ladder Match for the United States Championship: “The Mexican Jumping Bean” Eddie Guerrero vs. Syxx
This is taking place ‘cause at Starrcade Eddie won the title but was jumped by the nWo and Syxx stole the title. Eddie has been chasing him ever since; this is a ladder match because this card needs some excitement I guess. Syxx doesn’t even get the nWo A lister music; being part of the kliq sure worked out for him, also this bum is wearing his 123 Kid attire. Did he not get the memo about wearing black and white? HOLY SHIT THE BELT IS FUCKIN’ HIGH! SHE LOOKS 30 FEET UP FROM THE RING! Syxx goes on the attack early with KARATE strikes of death. Thankfully Eddie comes back with and hits a sweet dive off the top to the floor. Syxx shoves Eddie off a hurracanrana attempt in the corner, who does a back flip onto his feet, and Syxx comes off the second rope with a spinning heel kick. He connects with the Bronco Buster, but Eddie flips out of a backdrop and dropkicks Syxx to the floor. Syxx counters a suplex off the apron and brings Eddie down hard to the floor. Syxx finds the ladder and slams it into Eddie up against the apron. They get into a tug-of-war over the ladder, which Eddie wins and hotshot the ladder up into Syxx’s face. In the ring, Eddie slams the ladder down on Syxx before leaving it in the corner, Syxx counters the whip and Eddie goes frontwards into the ladder. Syxx stomps the ladder on Eddie and gives him a lift into the air to come crashing down onto the ladder. He then tries a legdrop off the ladder, but Eddie meets him at the top. They exchange strikes until Syxx punches Eddie in the balls through one of the rungs and shoves Eddie down the ladder down. Syxx takes too much time and Eddie dropkicks the ladder to crotch Syxx on the top rope. Eddie brings Syxx down with a superplex and sets up the ladder. Syxx connects with this awesome dropkick off the ladder on Eddie to send them both crashing to the mat. Back up the ladder, Syxx punches Eddie down into the ropes as he bounces back and knocks the ladder over. One more climb up and they both get a hold of the belt. Eddie manages to smash the belt back in Syxx’s face and Eddie drops the belt as Syxx falls to the mat, so he climbs down and picks it up for the win, lolwat. Match was good, but not really good I’m sure at the time me and a lot of people would be marking hard but seeing how it’s 18 years later and ladder matches have been done to death it hard to care for stuff you see all the time now. ***
Alright, time to award Miss nWo cause it’s why we all tuned in. and the winner is……… the ugliest and the fattest chick of the crew. YAY! Fat chicks are people too. They had a chance to show off some hot models to wake up the crowd. Instead, we get this. No wonder WCW Is DEAD!
WCW nWo Wold Heavyweight Championship: “The Biggest Failure the nWo Ever Had” The Giant vs. “The Biggest Icon in Wrestling” Hollywood Hogan
Hogan comes out with a few of the Dallas Cowboys. Not sure what that is supposed to mean in Iowa, this must have been when the Cowboys were winning championships; even though the Superbowl that year was Pack/Pat. The Giant chops the shit out of him early, but Hogan uses his smartness to sucker the Giant in countless times. A double clothesline leads to Giant gaining the advantage, and beats on him until he bails from the ring. Vincent that bum tries to get involved and fails, Hogan tries a series on shouldtackles before a flying small package attempt
but the Giant catches him and throws him around some more. Hogan tosses some powder in Giant’s eyes. Giant fights back with a backbreaker, but misses a flying elbow drop off the top. Giant NO-SELLS a Big Boot, but takes the slam and the LEGDROP. BUT HE’S UP! Hogan poses around while the Giant connects with a Chokeslam for two Patrick says Hogan rolled the shoulders, but Hogan is out
Giant pushes down on both Hulk’s shoulders and still Patrick says Hogan kicked out at two
lmao He hooks a leg AND holds down the shoulders as Patrick complains of his shoulder hurting now
lmao
To be fair, he has been refereeing all night, Giant is pissed and chokeslams Patrick. Well the nWo come rushing down to go after the Giant and one by one, they all take chokeslams. Finally, Hogan finds a a guitar and levels the Giant with it. The crowd chants “We Want Sting” Well I guess the match is over ‘cause Nash, Hall, Eric, and Syxx all join Hogan and spray the back of the Giant. Terrible match to end what might be the worse PPV ever. *