Souled Out

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Souled Out
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The Souled Out logo used for the last edition of the pay-per-view
Promotions World Championship Wrestling
Brands nWo (1997)
WCW/nWo (1998-1999)
First event Souled Out (1997)
Last event Souled Out (2000)
Signature matches WCW roster vs. nWo members

Souled Out was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event promoted by World Championship Wrestling (WCW) in January from 1997 through 2000. The 1997 and 1998 WCW Souled Out PPV events were held on Saturdays due to the Super Bowl being played the next day, the 1999 and 2000 shows were held on Sundays.

The event was originally conceived in 1997 as a New World Order (nWo) exclusive pay-per-view, but did not generate the revenue that WCW had hoped it would, due to a low buy rate and a lack of ticket revenue from hosting the event in such a small facility. The pay-per-view was also created as a testing nWo event in order to see if there was enough demand to having two PPVs per month (one as a WCW event and the other as an nWo event). Despite the initial poor review, WCW elected to keep the event on its calendar (as prior to 1997 it did not have a regular January PPV event) and Souled Out became a co-branded WCW/nWo event during the 1998 edition. This established a practice WCW used throughout 1998, as all of its pay-per-view events that year were co-branded. The co-branding continued until the following Souled Out, when interim WCW President Ric Flair declared that WCW pay-per-views would no longer carry nWo branding.

The final Souled Out event was held in 2000, and WCW renamed its January PPV WCW Sin for 2001. Since its 2001 purchase of WCW, World Wrestling Entertainment has owned the rights to the Souled Out name, but have not used it for a pay-per-view. In 2015, All WCW pay-per-views were made available on the WWE Network.

Souled Out dates and venues

nWo-branded eventWCW/nWo co-branded event
EventDateCityVenueMain EventRef(s)
Souled Out (1997) January 25, 1997 Cedar Rapids, Iowa Five Seasons Center Hollywood Hogan (c) vs. The Giant for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship [1]
Souled Out (1998) January 24, 1998 Dayton, Ohio Hara Arena Lex Luger vs. Randy Savage [1] [2]
Souled Out (1999) January 17, 1999 Charleston, West Virginia Charleston Civic Center Goldberg vs. Scott Hall in a Stun Gun Ladder match [1] [3] [4]
Souled Out (2000) January 16, 2000 Cincinnati, Ohio Firstar Center Chris Benoit vs. Sid Vicious for the vacant WCW World Heavyweight Championship with special guest referee Arn Anderson [1] [5]
(c) – refers to the champion(s) heading into the match

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Souled Out pay-per-view results". The History of WWE. Retrieved 2016-02-28.
  2. ↑ "The SmarK Retro Repost – Souled Out '98". 411Mania. Retrieved 2017-02-28.
  3. ↑ "The Furious Flashbacks – WCW Souled Out '99". 411Mania. Retrieved 2017-02-28.
  4. ↑ "Souled Out 1999". World Championship Wrestling . January 17, 1999. Archived from the original on November 25, 1999. Retrieved February 23, 2023.
  5. ↑ "The SmarK Retro Repost – Souled Out 2000". 411Mania. Retrieved 2017-02-28.
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