The averages for these matches: 18 minutes per show. Booker for six and a half and Jarrett vs. the Mamalukes/Harris Brothers running 6 minutes, Sting vs. Spring Stampede was another handicap with Flair/Luger vs. 3 Count for the Hardcore Title taking up 7 minutes and the next to last match was Sid vs. On average, their matches ran about 24 minutes per show.īy comparison to the three shows after they were gone in the same spots on the cards: at SuperBrawl the third match had 3 Count and Norman Smiley lasting four minutes and the main event had Sid Vicious, Scott Hall and Jeff Jarrett running about 8 minutes. Souled Out was a two and a half minute opener, a ten minute hardcore match on sixth and a fifteen minute main event for the world title. Starrcade: fourth on the card was an 8 man tag lasting 5 minutes and the next to last was a ladder match for the US Title running 10 minutes. The three after they left were SuperBrawl 2000, Uncensored 2000 and Spring Stampede 2000.Īt Mayhem, the matches involving the Radicalz were an eleven minute elimination tag third on the card and the main event for the world title which ran 18 minutes. The three beforehand were Mayhem 1999, Starrcade 1999 and Souled Out 1999. For fun, let’s take a look at the three PPVs before they left and the three after and compare the matches in the spots on the cards with the Radicalz and the ones without them. When guys like them leave, you have to fill their spots. Counting promos and entrances, you’re losing almost an hour or 1/3 of a PPV. Let’s say there are three matches between the four of them at 12 minutes apiece. You have guys like Benoit and Malenko and Guerrero and Saturn out there having long matches on these shows and taking up a lot of the PPV time. At the end of the day, it’s a wrestling program. Now what does this mean? First and foremost, those are four guys worth of at least watchable matches that you have to replace. So we combine all these guys into one unit that bailed on WCW in January of 2000 and showed up on Raw before February hit. Anyway, he wasn’t great but he was another loss. Malenko is probably the weakest of the whole team, but he was certainly good for some solid mat work as well as being one of the members of the Horsemen (there’s a long thing that could be written on how badly that group was screwed up past about 1995 but that’s another story). Saturn kept getting cheered so he and Benoit were shoved down in favor of guys like the Jersey Triad and the reformed Harlem Heat. His popularity was growing, so WCW made him wear a dress and hook back up with Raven.
#Wcw souled out 1997 part 1 tv
Saturn was a rising star in WCW, having won some tag titles in 99 and having a few runs as TV Champion as well. Eddie was the best of all of the Hispanic wrestlers there and it gave them a door into Latin America, along with guys like Juvy and Mysterio.
He gave solid Cruiserweight Title matches and had arguably the best match in WCW’s history with Rey Mysterio at Halloween Havoc 1997. Now he was never nearly as big as Benoit was back in WCW but he was certainly worth something. Why should I buy him as the best when the guy that was champion never lost it at all? The same thing happened to Lex Luger back in 1991, which I assure you we’ll get to later on. In other words, whomever was the next champion had no claim to the title. Whether it was for the sake of trying to get him to stay or not, he had been given the WCW World Title just before he left. We’ll start with the biggest of the four in Chris Benoit. Now let’s take a look at what this meant both individually and then collectively. Now this had already happened in the form of Big Show a year prior and Chris Jericho about 4 months before, but this was a large group of people going at the same time. You have to remember that WCW had started their big run in 1996 on the idea of taking talent from the WWF. Now we get to the first of the big guns and something that I’ve considered a possible suspect in the past: the departure of the Radicalz.
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