#NWO SOULED OUT 1997 INTRO PLUS#

The next match, wasn't any better, with (NWO) Big Bubba Rogers AKA Big Bossman fighting (WCW) Hugh Morrus (with Jimmy Hart) in a 'Mexican Death Match' AKA 'Last Man Standing', replacing Konnan who has travel problems. Also, sadly, the crowd didn't really, seem into it, as nobody had a clue, who Chono, was. Without spoiling the show, too much, I have to say, the opening card, between (WCW) Chris Jericho Vs Masahiro Chono (NWO) was not that bad. Nearly every match in the card, ended with some BS farcical means. No wonder, why nobody paid to watch this 3 hours show. It didn't help that every match on the card, featured the in-story crooked referee in Nick Patrick. It really alienation, a lot of the fans & talents that love in ring work. To make it worst, throughout the show, Ted DiBiase and especially Bischoff talk about, way too much about bland other subjects like motorcycles, and not enough on what's happening in the ring. This is what happen, before, during and after the matches most of the night. If not, it will make, the wrestlers, look weak, because there isn't much, praise about their athletic abilities or style. You need babyfaces to couther all the juvenile crapping, of wrestlers, outside of the NWO stable. The idea that all the audiences is only going to hear, from heels doesn't make the PPV, any easily to listen to. Talking about awkward, the commentary for the show was just as bad. The shots, they product, look shaky, grainy, dark, and awkward. The hand held camera on the stick, really don't mix, well, with the studio cameras.

Another thing, I hate about the layout of the PPV is the camera shots. It looks out of place, like the Miss NWO pageant of questionable women of beauty. Are they supposed to be bouncers!? They look like greasy sweat hogs! You would think, NWO would hired bodyguards with some muscle. Yet, I can't say, with the aged dancers that can barely dance, & the three random fat guys, sitting on the stairs.

#NWO SOULED OUT 1997 INTRO PLUS#

Plus the stage for the PPV was unique, with new light up staircase, trio of titan-trons, and live band. Despite that, at least, the opening video with a dictatorial speech from Bischoff, was kinda cool.

Honestly, the symbolic would be, better, if they were riding the semi-trucks! At least, that makes sense with the story, they were originally trying to tell, with the NWO taking over the production of WCW. Why, garbage trucks!? I guess, everybody knew, this PPV would be trash.

Taking place at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, at the Five Seasons Center, in the cold midst of the winter, the PPV opens up, with the NWO wrestlers riding the backs of garbage trucks. However, the first missteps in direction, became to show in early 1997, when then-president, Eric Bischoff, had the idea of making the NWO, its own entity or brand, by, giving the heelish group, its own PPV, without much deep thought. It was the main driving forces behind World Championship Wrestling promotion rise on topping the World Wrestling Federation, back in the Monday Night Wars, for a while. The idea of seeing a rebelling stable of wrestlers going against the corporation establishment was entertaining to see. In late 1996, the New World Order angle was perhaps the hottest thing in pro-wrestling at the time.

Nwo souled out 1997 intro