Bischoff wanted to make the NWO look strong with this event but fell at the first hurdle, if there was ever a metaphor for WCW’s convoluted and over the top booking this was it.
The show opened with Hogan and his lackeys riding into the arena on the back of a parade of garbage trucks…I shit you not! What I would have given to have been a fly on the wall during the meeting for this one. Ultimately, as is probably obvious today, this did not go to plan… Bischoff’s eventual idea was to split the NWO and WCW in two with each brand producing their own respective shows against each other, creating a kind of in house Monday Night War. Eric Bischoff was delving deep into the pockets of WCW owner Ted Turner to finance this show making the assumption that with the NWO being so popular, that a separately branded show would pull in big bucks. At the time, the NWO was at the height of their power with NWO merchandise flying off the shelves thanks to the brash and cocky antics of Hogan and co. The attendance on hand to witness this debacle just about crept over the five thousand mark with the NWO taking control of every aspect of the show. NWO Souled Out was held on January 25th 1997 at the Five Seasons Center in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
As time has gone by, I have built up enough testicular fortitude to go through with it and bring to you the NWO’s first foray into pay per view events. You see, as my keyboard has slowly accumulated dust, I have been sat wrestling with my own conscience whether to even watch the next event that the great randomizer in the sky (internet) has bestowed upon me. Now, it has been a while since I wrote about the escapades of the wrestling world but that is all for good reason. The time has come for another installment of Tales From The Network where I, your charismatic host, Bob Johnson take you on a magical mystery tour through the sights and sounds of the vast WWE video vaults one event at a time.
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