Souled Out

Souled Out was a professional wrestling pay-per-view promoted by World Championship Wrestling in the month of January from 1997 through 2000. The 1997 and 1998 WCW Souled Out PPV events were held on a Saturday, while the 1999 and 2000 WCW Souled Out PPV events were held on a Sunday. It was originally started as an nWo PPV, but did not generate the revenue that WCW had hoped it would due in part to the fact that the event suffered from a low buy rate and a lack of revenue from such a small facility (the first Souled Out was held at the Five Seasons Center in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and although it sold out the arena only seated barely more than 5,000 people). WCW, however, elected to keep the event on its calendar (as prior to 1997 it did not have a regular January pay-per-view event) and Souled Out became a co-branded WCW/nWo event. 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.