Category: Wrestling PPV Musings

So I’ve recently popped in a VHS tape of WCW Uncensored ’95 – because why the hell not? – and decided to do a quick musing of this show. Not necessarily a review or a report, but rather some ramblings and thoughts.

The recurring concept of Uncensored was that it was an event that, in storylines, the (fictional) WCW Board of Directors had washed their hands of. Thus, each match on the card was ostensibly “unsanctioned”, meaning they were not subject to the normal rules of WCW-sanctioned wrestling matches. Of course, in reality, it was a normally-booked WCW show, albeit one with a tendency to feature more “gimmick” matches than usual. This notion, however, was downplayed during the last few years that it was part of the WCW PPV schedule.

Most folks may recall the Doomsday Cage match thing at Uncensored 96 which featured Hulk Hogan and the Macho Man overcoming the odds and defeating eight guys in a single match… a rather atrocious match that would have the final nail in the coffin for the revived Hulkamania before the nWo came along and gave Hogan’s career a much needed shot in the balls… sorry, poor choice of words.

But this is the 1995 edition of WCW Uncensored… the original show under this label.

I never saw the PPV during its original airing, as I didn’t get into wrestling until the late-90s. However, during the early 2000s, there was a shop selling video tapes and DVD of various things… and the shop had a number of retail tapes from WWF and a couple WCW tapes when they were made available. So that’s how I got my grubby little mits on this thing, along with a couple other tapes along the way.

So, yeah, on with the show…

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I recently came across a blog post somewhere in which the author had done a recap/review of the 1997 PPV event, nWo Souled Out. nWo Souled Out was the first and only PPV event promoted by the nWo and was a different kind of beast compared to what the WWF or WCW were offering at the time. Reading this review had prompted me to do my own little reflection on the show.

I never saw the show “live” during its original 1997 airing. At the time, I was not yet into wrestling as much as I would eventually become a year later when the WWF Attitude era was in full force. However, I did dabble a bit in the weekly WCW Saturday Night that would air on one of the local channels (forget which one) and it’s usually through that I usually get into the storylines. So I knew about the nWo and the Hogan heel turn and the Outsiders and whatnot… while mostly oblivious to what was going on in McWrestling Land. When I heard of an nWo-promoted PPV, my wheels were turning a bit. The most I got was the pre-show; no PPV purchasing powers at the time or even a descrambler box.

So I would not bare witness to Souled Out until a year or so ago when someone got me a copy of the show. Now I have read that this show wasn’t any good; it was different but not quite good and not worth the effort in tracking down. Despite this, however, I always had a vested interest in watching this show. So with copy on hand, I plopped the show onto my DVD player and began watching the show. What follows are some points and thoughts that occur throughout the show – don’t expect any indepth analyses or anything of that nature. Just good old fashioned rambling.

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