Ric Flair still has two months left to "rule" WCW as interim president... but on the just completed Souled Out PPV, the NWO re-asserted its claim (and the claim of their leader Eric Bischoff) to power in WCW.  The Hogan-led entourage hand-cuffed Ric Flair to the ropes and decimated his son David, tagging him with the initials "E.Z.E." and leaving him lying in the ring.   The move came after David actually pinned Curt Hennig (with help from Arn Anderson), but still re-established the group as a prominent heel stable.

In addition to that match, Goldberg was victorious in the Ladder/Tazer match main event, defeating Scott Hall.  Complete results of the big show:

 
• In a solid, if unspectacular, opener, Chris Benoit grappled with Mike Enos and walked away with a convincing victory.  This would wind up being the best match of the PPV's uneventful first half.
• Norman Smiley and Chavo Guerrero followed up...  after the crowd had been relatively hot for the opening prelim match, they settled back down here, popping for Smiley's dancing, and not much else.  Smiley had the earthly remains of Chavo's wooden horse Pepe in an urn, and after about 12 minutes of back and forth action (which was way too much for two reasons:  (1) fans don't care and (2) even if they did, Smiley focusing on submission wrestling isn't exactly thrilling to watch), Chavo was hit in the face with the wood chips, allowing the opening for Smiley to snag a submission win.
• Mongo McMichael was a no-show on the night, so Van Hammer stepped in and took his match against Fit Finlay.  He also dropped the contest when Finlay hit a tombstone piledriver.
• The night's battle of big men saw Bam Bam Bigelow win fairly easily over Wrath, hitting a version of his "Greetings from Asbury Park" Michinoku Driver to get the three count.  Again, nothing really noteworthy, but at least this continued the trend of decisive finishes through the first hour of the show.
• Konnan and Lex Luger had a match to settle their issues over Konnan being left out of the new and improved NWO.  To be honest, these two are among my least favorite wrestlers, so even though this was the first match to have any real crowd heat, it was the first of the night that I really didn't care for.  Things eventually panned out as Liz came out and interfered when Luger was in the Tequilla Sunrise (she sprayed something in Konnan's face), which opened the door for a Torture Rack win for Luger.  On the upside, it's always good to see Liz, I guess...
• Chris Jericho vs. Perry Saturn finally had the stipulations simplified to a very simple concept:  the loser must wear a dress.  The ref here was Scott Dickenson, who has a record of past troubles with Saturn, so the announcers were worried, but eventually decided Dickenson was alright when he called the opening minutes of the match down the middle.  As you might expect with these two, the match was solid, with both men hitting some nice maneuvers.  The end came when Dickenson suddenly turned back to the dark side of the force, reversing a Saturn small package and then fast counting to three for Jericho.  Jericho, Ralphus, and Dickenson celebrated and gloated while Saturn (ever a man of his word) put on the dress.
• The four way match for the Cruiserweight Title was more GREAT stuff out of Kidman, Rey Jr. and the gang....  this time, the crowd didn't seem to get into it, though, which kind of brought the intensity level down a notch.  Still, some great teamwork and car wreck spots that you just don't see anybody else on a national level pulling off.  Awesome.  Kidman got the win with a Shooting Star Press on Juvi; it also looked like he may have hurt his left arm legit.
• Fans got back into the show big time when Ric Flair made his entrance....  though they settled down because the Hennig/Windham duo just wasn't up to snuff, they still popped for all Ric's patented stuff.  This match saw David (Ric's son) have some success early on, but eventually he was out-classed and tagged out to his old man, who carried things the rest of the way.  Eventually, Arn Anderson got involved with Hennig outside the ring; Hennig got the best of Arn, but Arn came back, and while Hennig was beating on David (and Ric had the ref distracted), Arn pasted Hennig with a tire iron.  David fell on top of Hennig and got the win.  Almost immediately, the entire NWO B-team (black and white lackeys) swarmed to the ring and put the beat down on the Flairs and Anderson.  Benoit (the only other Horseman in the house, I guess) tried to make a save, but was soon joined by the NWO A-team (red and black, plus Hogan still wearing black and white).  The NWO hand-cuffed Ric to the ropes and then beat on David mecilessly, tagging him with "EZE" in red and black spray paint.   Obviously, it's meant to indicate that while Ric Flair is in charge, Eric Bischoff wants it known that he's still calling the shots, and really got the NWO over as heels with the live crowd.
• The main event did not live up to ladder match expectations, as it was shorter and less creative than past gimmick matches, but was still a solid match with good heat.  Things were slow early (including mic work from Hall and eventual in-ring work that seemed to plod on), but picked up at about the 8 minute mark, when they finally introduced the ladder into the mix.  Hall and Goldberg traded basic ladder shots (to the head and torso), and eventually, Goldberg came up bloody (his first blade job, I believe).  Hall tried to take a few of the more involved bumps made famous in the Razor Ramon/Shawn Michaels Ladder Matches of '94 and '95, but they didn't really come off.  Things finally came to a close at about the 15 minute mark, when Disco Inferno (still campaigning for the job as Hall's lackey, I guess) interfered, allowing Hall to climb the ladder and grab the Tazer.  But Goldberg avoided being hit with the tazer, and eventually kicked it out of Hall's hands and recovered it.  Before stunning Hall, Goldberg speared and jack-hammered him; he then shocked him with the tazer to get the win, just as Bam Bam Bigelow ran in to interfere.  Bigelow beat down Goldberg, but got tazered by a recovered Scott Hall; the PPV ended with Hall and Disco beating and shocking Goldberg.