#THE DISASTEROUS NWO SOULED OUT 1997 PPV TV#

Roadies who sit on the edge of the stage the entire show and kinda arbitrarily clap for anyone who walks by. They shouldвЂ™ve skipped the beauty pageant and just shown us some of that one-legged man contest.ДЄlso fun: Because thereвЂ™s a band, there are roadies. вЂњIвЂ™ve come to redeem you! IвЂ™ve come to take you away! The wrestling world as you know it tonight will be changed forever! The political snake, the python will wrap you, squeeze you, seal your soul in doom! ThereвЂ™ll be no prisoners, weвЂ™ve come to take no prisoners! IвЂ™m here to tell ya, this is the real thing, King Kong could not last in this building! nWo Lemme hear it! I brought some friends with me! I brought some jackal friends with me, and theyвЂ™ve come to have, kick some booty in a one-legged man contest! Lemme hear it! New World Order! New World Order! New World Order! New World Order!вЂќ And IвЂ™ve heard Tony Schiavone introduce KISS. The song is basically five minutes of him saying ARRRGH WEвЂ™RE GONNA ROB BANKS, NEW WORLD ORDER, NEW WORLD ORDER, and features one of the most hilariously off-the-top-of-the-dome rock intros IвЂ™ve ever heard. Bischoff continued the weird aesthetic of Souled Out by hiring a band of non-threatening thirty-something skinheads who we could watch pick up instruments for the first time, and yes, вЂњCaptain VirgilвЂќ wouldвЂ™ve been an awesome tag team name for M.

If that screenshot looks especially terrible, itвЂ™s because WWE Network edited out the live performance of the nWo house band CAPTAIN VIRGIL. Oh, and speaking of jamming, thereвЂ™s a live band! That ends up turning the New World Order from a group of disenfranchised anarchists into Homer Simpson jamming to Grand Funk on his kidsвЂ™ carpool. DudeвЂ™s like, вЂњwell IвЂ™m an aging white dude, all the kids these days must love what aging white dudes love!вЂќ When Hogan turned, it was less вЂњgasp,вЂќ and more, вЂњah.вЂќ There was gasping too, mind you, but the entire crowd was already ready to say f*ck that guy.Д®ric BischoffвЂ™s view of the nWo was, вЂњcondescending local failures youвЂ™d see hanging out in the background of The Lobo on Roseanne.вЂќ HeвЂ™s like, вЂњWEвЂ™VE GOT LEATHER JACKETS, WEвЂ™VE GOT HARLEYS, WEвЂ™VE GOT ROCK NвЂ™ ROLL,вЂќ more or less grabbing the bull by the horns and forcing it into a pair of Dockers.

#THE DISASTEROUS NWO SOULED OUT 1997 PPV TV#

So, most peopleвЂ™s view of the nWo, at least when it started, was, вЂњWWF guys have shown up on WCW TV to destroy it.вЂќ Getting Hulk Hogan on the team only furthered that narrative, because despite him being the focus of everything WCW did for two years, he never really felt like he was вЂњours.вЂќ He was just a WWF guy slumming it on the other show because the WWF didnвЂ™t want him anymore. Worst: Everything About The Set I DidnвЂ™t Mention ItвЂ™s not the same old same old and is absolutely worth watching for anthropological reasons, like the Sturgis pay-per-views or horrible car accidents. They had a condescending beauty pageant (more on that later) (much later). A wrestling faction got its own pay-per-view, they got a light-up staircase and a trio of screens so Hogan, Hall and Nash could each have one to themselves, they had two heel announcers and an nWo voice-over guy insulting WCW wrestlers during the matches.

Okay, so no review of nWo Souled Out is complete without pointing out that hey, itвЂ™s different. The f*cking green light in The Great Gatsby wasnвЂ™t as symbolic as this. If you want to know exactly how bad this show is without watching more than a second of it, the very first shot is of Eric Bischoff hanging off the back of a garbage truck, literally about to deliver garbage to a wrestling arena. Worst: Welcome To The Future Of Wrestling Let people know how much you like the column!ДЄnd now, the vintage Best and Worst of nWo Souled Out from Jan.

Remember, if you want us to keep writing 20-year old WCW jokes on the reg, your half of the deal is hitting these share buttons. You can catch up with all the previous episodes of Nitro on the Best and Worst of Nitro tag page. Also, sorry for everything else youвЂ™re about to read.Д¬lick here to watch Souled Out вЂ™97 on WWE Network. Previously on the Best and Worst of WCW: We recapped the Clash of the Champions XXXIV, which was basically an extra Nitro that hit most of the same plot points as this pay-per-view.

The disasterous nwo souled out 1997 ppv