WCW Souled Out 1999 - The "Reliving The War" PPV Review
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WCW Souled Out 1999 took place in Charleston, West Virginia on the 17th of January. The first WCW pay per view since the infamous "Fingerpoke of Doom" incident and the first WCW PPV under the presidency of Ric Flair, Souled Out 99 is all about World Championship Wrestling seeking revenge against the nWo.
The show is headlined by a ladder match, Scott Hall vs Goldberg. Whoever can grab a cattle prod first and use it against their opponent will win the match. Elsewhere on the card Norman Smiley continues his rivalry with Chavo Guerrero, Chris Jericho wants to beat Saturn and force him to wear a dress, Konnan looks to get revenge against his former nWo Wolfpac teammate Lex Luger, and Ric Flair teams up with his son David to take on Curt Hennig and Barry Windham.
This video is part of the Wrestling Bios Reliving The War series.
00:00 - Intro
02:00 - Chris Benoit vs Mike Enos
03:30 - Norman Smiley vs Chavo Guerrero
06:51 - Van Hammer vs Finlay
08:00 - Bam Bam Bigelow vs Wrath
09:47 - Konnan vs Lex Luger
12:31 - Chris Jericho vs Saturn
14:54 - Kidman vs Mysterio vs Juvi vs Psychosis
18:43 - Ric & David Flair vs Curt Hennig & Barry Windham
24:51 - Goldberg vs Scott Hall
29:12 - Final Thoughts / Credits
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Dude, no matter the quality of the ppv, you putting "living dead girl" with Kidman's theme was worth it.
I want a full version of that
'Get in the ring or youll be looking for work in the wwf'
'Im thinking about it'
😂
This PPV shows how good Hall was. He made Goldberg look like a million bucks.
Hey YO
David Flair's blotchy red face always made him seem like a loser tbh
That and everything else about him. I swear, he must have been adopted. Just zero charisma.
1000% he looked like just some average dude. Had no business being in wrestling plain nepotism
He had all the charisma and stage presence of a dial tone 😴
He was absolutely the worst 2nd generation wrestler of all time. He didn't have Crowbar and Daffney covering for him yet.
it looks silly, but you're just being mean :(
I have been waiting ever since this series began for this one so I can say. I Was There!
@@jbagz1359lmfao
I love how the refs in WCW always turned a blind eye to rule breaking lol
especially for disco inferno lol
Some people did, most apparently didn't which could have contributed to it failing
@@smallies7154you mean in no dq matches like ladder matches?
I liked how they ended matches due to DQ in a no DQ match...
I love how Norman Smiley's Big Wiggle was meant to be a heel character change, yet he didn't get booed and just got him more over as a face. (Bar that tease in their match).
Not all heels are hated...and not all faces are liked. It's like most fans and the business itself has missed this
We like anti heros as much as we like heros....you can be a heel and liked.
Hey it worked for Alex Wright. Dude went on to become an 18 time world champion.
Sorta was sad when bam bam was limping after the match... u can see how beat up the beast from the east was, he was so good for being 300+lbs!! Much love to his family and RIP bam bam!!
Roared at the '....f*ck off Tony' 😂😂
2:09 Enos‘ greatest achievement in WCW was being in the match, that got cancelled by Scott Hall during his debut/return in WCW.
Sad when your regular TV appearance is more famous than your PPV match.
Let's not forget his amazing run as one half of the Beverly Brothers
Mike Penos
A ppv with no tv, tag, us, or world title matches
I think Wrestling Bios made me even more of a Norman "Big Wiggle" Smiley fan than I already was. Thank you man! Wish we could've gotten a Wiggle Wiggle and Everybody here comes 2 Cold Scorpio mashup if they could've shared a ring together
With 2023 propaganda glasses lol
It only took wrestling bios to stop the disco inferno and Alex wright intro...I think no one would like them more if wrestling bios didn't do that music before
Wiggle wiggle?
Love how the main event was all about Goldberg getting revenge on hall, yet at the end scott tases Goldberg again and stands tall. WCW was really falling apart here.
There’s nothing wrong with a tragic ending. Where the hero hard fought battle ends with his loss.
What's wrong with this booking?
@@schizzo8959It sucked.
@@schizzo8959That it's happened several times over the past number of months. It literally just happened on the 4th of January Nitro. Goldberg barely gets his revenge later on - and he doesn't even get the world title back. That's the big issue with WCW around this time compared to WWF. None of their stories ever had a satisfying conclusion, and on the very rare occasion that they did-they'd either be retconned or quickly forgotten about the following week, or the champion would be dethroned within the next few days or weeks.
RIP WCW
Gone but never forgotten
"Toss my salad and peel my potatoes" Legend.😂😂
There was a WCW music album that played that clip before playing Konnan’s theme. I never gave much thought to where it came from but now I know lol
Tremendous 😂
I had no idea van hammer took on fit finlay. It was cut out of the vhs release and I can see why lmaoo
Why was that match removed?
@@christopherstephens5284 probably because it sucked lol
Curt Hennig was so entertaining.
"Scott Hall knows a thing or two about ladder matches..." :)
That Wheelbarrow Wiggle! That was a thing of beauty.
Tremendous 😂
Wait...Barry Windham and Curt Hennig are a tag team and it's 1999.
Uh oh. I think I know exactly where this is going.
.... there's only one thing that I hate 🎶
West Texas
@@WrestlingBiosiiiiiiii hate rap!!
If they were going to put David Flair in such a big spot, they probably should have Arn Anderson playing manager and telling David what to do, so the other guys could focus on the match instead of focusing on covering for David.
What's crazy is 11 year old Reid was a better promo and had better timing in the ring in his spots on Nitro
@RobJaskula I can see it being easier for an 11 year old just because of the lack of pressure. David was an adult and able to fully understand the context that his father is one of the best to ever do it. That thought probably never entered Reid's mind at 11. I know 11 year old me would probably perform better than 19 year old me in that situation.
Agree this was a terribad book and no excuse given how many veterans were involved.
@@MyPisceanNature hah, that's fair! (To Flair)
And where were Steve and benoit why didn't they come out during the nwo beat down
As soon as the first match ended and there was a pregnant-pause of dead air, I knew, I _just_ knew I would hear the mellifluous tones of "Wiggle, Wiggle". You can just _feel_ when Norman Smiley is about to grace us with his presence.
Just a random thought, but seeing Norman bust out submission moves and mixing them with comedy makes me wish, we would have gotten a match against Kurt Angle. Would have been awesome and funny at the same time.
Angle would beat him in 1 minute
@CurlyFromTheSwirly Norman wasn't a Huge Star but He actually Could Wrestle.... He was Trained By The Malenko Family and he's still in Wwe as a Trainer
He just get settled in a good position. In Mexico he was a serious wrestler and a bigger star @@dary0097
@@CurlyFromTheSwirlyless than a minute
Norman Smiley would be world champ in AEW
It was wild back then having a pro wrestling PPV take place in my home state of WV.
Agreed. I was in the 6th grade when I went to this.
@@timelessjason8326 I was in high school.
Now they only get house shows there. It’s a small arena though and pretty old.
@HARAMBEAKAGEORGEFLOYD Considering Elvis was supposed to be the first act there, yeah, it's dated, I know. Huntington within city limits has less than 50,000 residents & it isn't getting better.
Bill seemed to perform that zap with the cattle prod more as a formality. Goldberg refusing to use weapons 90% of the time is one of those traits you notice looking back. When he beat Triple H in WWE he had a chance to use the sledgehammer but chucked it to the side in favor of the spear and jackhammer finish. Course, it bit him when he decided to apply that personal principle to car windows.
The best thing about this PPV was the cruiserweights finally being given the time and place and respect on the card they deserved.
Are you crazy? The best thing about this show is the appearence of the wrestling god Norman Smiley. He was the undoubted highlight of every show he ever graced with his presence. Anyone who thinks otherwise is deluded, no question.
@@howardsimcox5596 don't forget David F
@@howardsimcox5596Norman is good but I think he would be a better ice hockey Starr
@@howardsimcox5596 Wiggle Wiggle
First match is the third most important match. They where demoted.
21:30 I love how Ric has to take a second to be like "how did that even happen?"
Hennig was a seller, a regular salesman.
@@UndergroundSkat2000And at the same time one of the best wrestlers, especially technically. And hilarious in his almost joking way of selling.
Gah, WCW’s booking was so atrocious. All of that wasted star power sitting on the sidelines while they have matches that don’t mean anything that nobody cared about. It was nWo or bust for them.
Giving guys creative control was the fall of wcw. It just took them a few years to feel it.
"He gets scared when Ric starts Naitchin'" 😂
If I was Saturn I would have destroyed that ref after the match !!!!! Perry Saturn was awesome . I hated how WWF did silly stuff with him too . The Mike Bell incident I'm sure didn't help his cause either though .
Just sat down for a night shift and this pops up on my phone. Love to see it, thank you Wrestling Bios
Get back to work
The grab by Curt Hennig was great lol
Some say it was Perfect.
The Cruiserweight division was always 🔥
Agreed. That’s what WCW always had over WWF
@@gamingshawnandjewel6233, exactly. Once WWE brought WCW, they ruined the Cruiserweight division
Lots of bandwagon Norman Smiley fans in here because of the new meme intro, but back in the day we were wondering wtf they were thinking giving this character so much air time considering all the other talent they had.
I can't believe how watch RtW has changed my impression of Norman Smiley. The guy was an underrated treasure back then. I enjoyed his work in the hardcore division (eventually) cause it was funny but he really has some moves (pun intended). I also don't get how WCW put on a PPV without any big titles on the line (WTF?), so weird. Keep up the awesome work WB!
Same here brother, Norman has become my favorite from this series.
I still have WCW Souled Out 1999 and Royal Rumble 1999 on the same VHS tape 📼.
Dude the amount of terrible falls they took off the ladder and didn't get injured is a testament to how tuff these two were
Lmfao “terrible falls” you stuck in the 1940s?
@@HARAMBEAKAGEORGEFLOYD ??? go watch some wrestling first then you will understand the point of the comment
Haa! 14:48
The nerve that ref. had to walk over a zip up the back for Saturn.🤦♂️
😆👍
Thank you for turning this boring Sunday into something great! Perfect time to watch this during lunch.
I'm watching right after lunch 😂
@@CurlyFromTheSwirlyWatching as I eat dinner, wiggle wiggle!
@@mafiaz187
nibble nibble 😆
your day only lasts 40 minutes... use your brain fool
Lex Luger looks like a character from the Simpsons 😂😂!!
This is the only wrestling ppv to take place in West Virginia. WWE hasn't even ran a televised event here. (AEW has ran 2 dynamites here) I wanted to go to this as a kid, but we were pretty poor around this time.
Sadly for me, WCW didn't/couldn't do any shows in NYC
i'm in Pittsburgh
i remember thinking why did they go to West Virginia but never Pittsburgh, not even for a house show
@@CurlyFromTheSwirly why couldn't they?
@@MikeG82,
Maddison Square Gardnen had/has a deal with McMahon to only allow WWF. WCW did do NYS events, but not NYC.
@MikeG82 that's crazy. I think they missed out by not going there for shows. Heck, I've driven to Pittsburgh just for wwe ppv and concerts. You all get a lot of good shows/concerts.
Here's a major match I would've love to had seen, chavo/pepe vs saturn/moppy
Nice, just what I needed. Seriously, a WCW PPV review to kill some time.
Man David Flair parts plus your narration cracked me so hard😂
Dude, you're amazing! Thank you so much for all these great hours of entertainment. Don't really like modern pro wrestling but these days were gold. I could listen to you talk about these old shows for ever... And I do. Thanks again and amazing work🤌🙏👍
“Toss his salad, and peel his potatoes.”
Get ready, folks. You’re going to be hearing that little zinger a lot from Konnan going forward…
I love seeing Bam Bam win.
I prefer seeing Wrath win
Scott Hall was fantastic in any role. That being said, I wish they would have allowed him play the role of more than just a clown to the degree that he did. Hall was a big dude, no reason why he couldn't slam Goldberg and be a little more physically imposing.
He should have been given the belt. He won war world 3
It's tricky because on one hand Scott Hall should be big enough to slam Goldberg but on the other hand Goldberg was built up to this point to basically be superhuman. This is honestly the most competitive match Goldberg had up to that point and they really had to try to make sure not to piss away everything they built Goldberg up to be and just make him another dude.
@@tux789,
This is somewhat true.
No matter how big other guys were (except for a few: Giant, Nash, Bigalow, etc), all other wrestlers were just something for Goldberg to squash.
Having the kayfabe of a wounded knee allowed Hall to get a pretty good match out of Goldy.
But I wouldn't say it was as competitive as Halloween Havoc against DDP.
Hall definitely deserved a run with the wcw title
They also didn't know what to do with Wrath. Such an amazingly takented big guy.
Not really....he was a drunk who no showed...you don't make a successful business with that as your face
I'm a huge Hall fan, have been ever since I was 10. But I have to say no. He never got healthy enough for that sadly.
No he didn’t. He probably would have traded the belt for alcohol
For fillers, why not have Benoit, a Horseman, challenge an nWo member since that seems to be the feud with Bischoff and Flair. Would've made more sense. Even if it was Adams or Horace.
Most of the nwo were deep into the booze and the party powder at this point. I think we are a few weeks away from the Tampa nitro where it’s basically a three hour nwo kegger. Benoit and Blake Beverly were probably some of the only guys that could work at this point.
@ryant2418 could very well be right, but they could've done something a Lil better.
@@ryant2418 source or video on the tampa nitro?
Well David is definitely not his sister
Norman Smiley would have done so well in today's wrestling
David Flair says he’s not a wrestler…😂 no one will ever think you were.
David: I'm not a wrestler
Me: thanks captain obvious
The more I think about it, the more I'm confused on why Bam Bam didn't cost Goldberg the streak. They were teasing a feud between the two and just dropped it.
It's just how WCW was.
Same as why did the nWo lose the tag match before only to interfere after?
My opinion is Hall won this match by what the standard for a ladder match is: get the object to win.
I'm wondering if they thought Bam interfering would be too strong and Hall would have to win.
I don't think they wanted to have Goldberg lose another match so soon after the last time.
They probably should have had him face Bigalow here, and Flair vs Hogan for the world for the main event.
The next month could have had Hall against Goldberg in a ladder match without the lame stipulation.
WCW and randomly dropping feuds. Name a better duo.
Raven's flock was never the same after they broke up... Including Raven...
80s and 90s forever
Smiley has been a great holdover until your boy Alex Wright comes back. I don’t know which I love more in this series.
While watching Reliving the War, I am absolutely baffled how horrible the Four Horseman were booked during this time in WCW. I know in the early years of the faction they were an incredible group. But with the NWO and how dumb the Legion of Doom were, the Horseman was an after thought.
Do you mean how dumb the Dungeon of Doom were? Or how badly buried LOD were in WWF in those days?
If David Flair works hard and trains and gets some mat work maybe someday he can be a professional like Barry Windham and wrestle in jeans and a denim vest.
Great video! The ladder match has been a little forgotten, I think. Goldberg did a nice job of selling his leg; short buts of activity with visible hobbling afterwards, and as you point out, that "catch this" sequence at the end was fun. Seeing Scott Hall being taken out by the same types of dirty trick he would conceivably use was a nice bit of storytelling.
Scott Hall did the impossible he made Goldberg look like a great wrestler in a ladder match of all things
but did he?
@@CurlyFromTheSwirly I enjoyed the match not the best ladder match ever obviously but i thought it was pretty good
@@jameshill3403
I agree. I got a copy of the PPV for that match. Mainly cause Hall should have won.
@@CurlyFromTheSwirly it was a fun main event WCW was still watchable in early 99 godspeed to wrestlingbios when we get to the Russo death march in mid 99
@@jameshill3403
I'm gonna love that with this guy's humor 🤣
That Konnan promo was immortalized on the WCW Mayhem CD before his song😂
Having never seen this PPV I was like “damn, Hall is good, but he’s not a miracle worker”
Well, as highly as I hold Scott Hall, he gets even more props for getting a good ladder match out of Goldberg. The man could work miracles.
Very nice! Happy to see Souled Out '99 reviewed.
I remember the Wrath match still to this day:
"HIT HIM WITH YOUR FAT ASS!"
What most people don't know is Norman Smiley is actually Warren Moon.
Lex was such a nob in the wolf pac, he thought he was so cool but he wasnt lol
Glad I wasn’t the only one to think this way.
Yeah it was really dumb putting him in the NWO
Something that shouldn’t be undervalued is how this show had relatively good PPV buys. Unlike today where you get PPV access at the push of a button back in 1999 there was a lot that went into getting something on PPV.
Also you can be critical of David Flair being greener then grass in this match but at least David can say he has a pinfall victory over John Cena when he was in OVW. 🤣
The WCW cruiserweight fatal 4-way title match match of the night
David Flair looks like he had a no-paint Ultimate Warrior mask on.
Norman smiley made WCW watchable
After a monthish of binging reliving the war I can finally watch a video on release! LET’S GOOO 🎉🎉
One of us, one of us...
Norman Smiley = ripped Carlton Banks😂
Just a goofy looking HARAMBE
*I can't wait for the reliving the war episodes of August 1999 when Jericho makes his WWF debut*
break the walls down
@@CurlyFromTheSwirly yes sir indeed
@Butt--Head
yeah yeah, that'll be cool, heh heh
This show just screams “trying not to burn contractually-limited PPV appearances.”
Lol i love how the knee brace makes goldberg look more like a great value Steve Austin.
Goldberg 1.16 😂
or $3.16 🤣
I love a treat like this once in a while in the middle of watching football. Thanks wrestling bios!
I hope you mean real football and not that bs American football? Why do they even call if football? That stupid egg hardly gets kicked at all, throw/run ball is way more appropriate. W*nkball is much,much more fitting tho
@@howardsimcox5596 Stay mad
@@EssexAggiegrad2011 thanx for giving me permission to feel my own feelings. Cretin
Hey Norman Smiley did used to be heavyweight champ in CMLL and he has been a trainer in NXT since it started.
Dammit, i woke up with that Norman Smiley song in my head! Thanks Ryan!
That Cruiserweight Championship match should have just been a standard Fatal 4-Way match.
Northamptons finest Norman smiley ..a legitimate hard man also apparently knocked out Rick Steiner
Wouldn’t surprise me as he was one of Haku’s main drinking buddies
amazing they kept pushing david flair after that. i never could understand why he was on the program. also norman smiley was weird
Norman Smiley Wiggle has replaced Alex Wright Saturday Wright Big Bratwurst Not as good but it's still funny 🤣
I feel its one of Goldberg's best matches, his match with DDP will always be first but hall worked him into a good match.
Norman is the mustached dancing Bret Hart. He has so much jam!
WCW should have just had this show on TBS and called it _Clash Of Champions XXXVI..._
19:54 Why Curt is look like Jim Duggan in this one 😅
Souled Out 1999 is pretty decent.
The very first PPV I ever watched, renting the video...and it's aged sourly.
Doing great as always, WB. That ending music is an earworm, btw. Where's this one from?
This would be the last WCW ppv my family would ever buy. The in-ring action and main even booking was just starting to grow stale. I started turning all my attention towards WWF, so every WCW show you cover from here on out will be fresh to me 😊
Here we go!! Thank you Wrestling Bios for all you do for us fans
He does it for the money not the fans
@@michaelpowell-si2kwFans & Money
Enjoy his stuff either way
The match that made Scott Hall a legend in ladder matches…..oh wait, that was a different one
epic 😂
Nepotism is showing up on the ming meter in this ppv
Intro Mashup was great
I remember going to my local blockbuster buying wcw and wwf love
This one was the first ppv video, I loved it
I'm suprised by how well Goldberg seems to have sold his leg in the main event. Especially for someone who up to this point has been in 90% or more squash matches.
Oh I can go to the gym half hour later than planned I guess :D
No one of mh favourite ppv but Bois does a great cover bravo good sir
Took place in my home town 😊
David Flair lol what is he doing here? When you said if hes dancing,i started belly laughing