Road Wild (1997)

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Road Wild 1997 was the second Road Wild event produced by World Championship Wrestling which took place on 16th August 1997

## Background

The main match heading into the show is Hollywood Hogan defending his WCW Heaviweight Championship against Jeff Jarrett. Arn Anderson introduced The Resistance as a stable to take down New World Order, at Great American Bash Randy Savage, Steiner Brothers and Los Guerreros defeated New World Order in a war games match for The Resistance to win world title shots for every single member, Jeff Jarrett is the third man to get his title shot after Randy Savage and Rick Steiner failed, at Slamboree Jarrett managed to do the unthinkable and defeat Hogan after Goldberg interfered and helped him, Jarrett has promised that he will do the unthinkable twice tonight

At Great American Bash, Konnan defeated HHH with Perry Saturn's help to win the United States Championship as Konnan formed The Mob. The Mob has quickly done waves in WCW as nobody dares to mess with them, HHH has threatened to quit WCW if they don't fix this Mob problem but owners of WCW New World Order also negotiated with The Mob and endorsed them as no group would mess with each other's plans, HHH's mentor Hogan also mentioned that he had renewed HHH's contract without him knowing and he would get his US title rematch tonight, HHH just wants to end Konnan as he seems like the only man who has not yet gained respect of The Mob

Four Horsemen defeated The Mob at Bash at the Beach to become NO1 contenders to the tag titles, they'll finally get their tag title rematch that they lost against Steiner Brothers at Slamboree

During The Mob and Four Horsemen's feud, it was mentioned that both The Mob's Perry Saturn and Four Horsemen's Goldberg were undefeated in singles action, Saturn attacked Goldberg and oficially challenged him to a match, both men have been in dick measuring contests as they continue beating up jobbers and amounting to wins, both men are 23-0 coming into tonight's match where one of the streaks will end

Rey Misterio Jr has tried to bring back his friend Dean Malenko to his side, Malenko finally accepted to join forces with him, Rey felt like what Malenko needed was extreme matches just like ECW to get back his edge, they had a match against Public Enemy but Malenko walked out feeling like he couldn't do this match, the week afterwards he apologized to Rey and challenged Public Enemy to another match

During an episode of Nitro, Billy Kidman defeated Syxx, Jushin Liger, La Parka, Eddie Guerrero and Chavo Guerrero in a ladder match to become NO1 contender to Ultimo Dragon's CW championship tonight

## Results

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## Details

* Konnan and HHH shake hands in mutual respect but HHH has been forced to do it
* Goldberg ends Saturn's streak at 23-1
* We are shown footage from house shows in the past week where the hardcore title changed hands. Bobby Eaton won it right after Nitro, Chris Adams on the same night when Eaton was sleeping, on wednesday Sasaki retrieved it only to lose it right after to Ernest Miller who would lose it back to Finlay. Finlay has an interview with The Mob where he says the title isn't leaving his hands ever again