Road Wild featured nine professional wrestling matches that resulted from scripted storylines and had results predetermined[2] by WCW played out on WCW's television programs Monday Nitro, Thunder, Saturday Night and WorldWide.

In 2007, Arnold Furious of 411Mania gave the event a rating of 2.5 [Very Bad], stating, "WCW’s big idea to push for buyrates worked once.

Goldberg was world champion but the focus remained on Hogan who the crowd had grown tired of seeing.

When you consider the WWF at the same time was building new characters and creating their own stars (Summerslam that followed this had Triple H-Rock’s big breakout ladder match) WCW looks even worse by comparison.

Keeping in mind this is on the back of a Nitro where they showed the entire PPV main event from Bash at the Beach for free.

Just to make that huge PPV number shrink in future as fans were outraged they paid to see a match that was then given away.