Nwo Souled Out 1997 Show Series More Suited
Trancius trancius.The idea was to force people to keep tuning into the network even after investing two hours of their Monday nights into Nitro. WCW Nitro 71299 - Macho Man Randy Savage vs Hollywood Hogan part 3. WCW Nitro 7599 - Bret Hart's promo about his brother Owen. NWo Souled Out 1997 - Hollywood Hogan vs Giant part 2. That’s what TNT and WCW tried to pull off on January 13th, 1997, exploiting a much-hyped Hogan-Giant main event to trick people into watching a new TV series more suited to Saturday afternoons on your local UHF station than to a prime-time time slot.8:36. Elsewhere, I made a bunch of signings before I did my first show (which, if I recall correctly, was the debut of Thunder on January 1st): - I signed three Japanese talents to full time contracts.This time around, though, instead of the big main event being presented without commercial interruption, it *is* the interruption the match would air in snippets during the commercials of another show.
Sure, it made no sense for The Giant to want to wrestle Hogan at an event where every match would feature a crooked nWo official, but it was the principle that mattered: the big man was guaranteed a title shot by winning the 1996 World War 3 battle royal, a feat made even more impressive by the fact that, according to WWE announcers, Paul Wight didn’t win a single battle royal until 2015.Half an hour later, a nearly identical scuffle erupted in the nWo locker room when The Giant again kicked down the door and again had to be restrained by security, looking like an alternate take of the scene that opened Nitro. The first part of the con was to build up this main event from the very first minute of the show, with the opening video sequence being interrupted by The Giant kicking down the door to the nWo’s locker room and being restrained by security.…of their scheduled title match at the nWo Souled Out pay-per-view. Executing this swindle would be a tall order indeed.
The Giant also thrilled viewers by stomping on Hogan’s hands and trying to make him eat his bandanna, which is admittedly less cruel than Hulk Hogan trying to make mall-goers eat his crappy pasta on the debut Nitro.“Live” footage resumed at around 10:30 pm for the last Nitro segment of the night, lasting another thrilling minute and a half. You know something? You sure are a big dumb-dumb!”After the most embarrassing stall tactics pre-Larry Craig scandal, the action got under way, as the Giant delivered a body slam, three turnbuckle smashes, and a kick to the gut before Nitro signed off……and we got to spend the next hour with this guy.One inordinately long, uninterrupted segment of Robin Hood later, the main event returned for 90 seconds, and fans were rewarded for their patience with two chops, a clothesline, a low blow, and a test of strength. The company was clearly not putting forth a good faith effort to make good use of the show’s last precious few minutes.Finally, Hulk Hogan started walking to ringside with the exaggerated strut of Ric Flair stepping through eight inches of mud (which made him an easy target for this rubber chicken thrown by a fan).With only two minutes left to go in the Nitro broadcast, Hogan grabbed the mic to recite those immortal lines, “ Fe Fi Fo Fum.
And yes, I say, “Wars,” plural, because despite what WWE will tell you, there were a number of smaller but no less important wars being waged on Monday nights, such as the bitter proxy war between La Femme Nikita and Robin Hood, the two action series that followed Raw and Nitro, respectively.At every opportunity, Vince McMahon, Jim Ross, and Jerry Lawler would talk about how La Femme Nikita was much tougher and physically imposing than that “wimpy” Robin Hood that went on the air after the competition signed off.The highlight of this absurd rivalry was Vince McMahon interviewing La Femme Nikita’s Peta Wilson. This was of course easy for the WWF to say, considering that their show was usually taped in advance.For weeks the WWF kept bragging about not jerking the audience around, even when Shawn Michaels backed out of his scheduled match against Sid and forfeited the title, and even when they repeatedly teased and postponed the Bret Hart-Sid title match during the next week’s broadcast.Such was standard fare for the Monday Night Wars. What, you expected the “biggest match in the history of Nitro,” which you had sat through most of an hour-long Hercules/Xena knockoff just to watch, to have a definitive ending? I guess the Giant wasn’t the only big dumb-dumb on this night!Following this debacle, the WWF announcers had a field day rubbing it in that they wouldn’t pull a bait-and-switch and fail to deliver on their main event.
Giant — for the title this time — on the card of nWo Souled Out after all.And of course, that match ended in an nWo run-in, too.
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