WWE fans, what's your 10 favorite DVD releases?

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Deltronz

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Since there are a lot of WWE fans here (either of earlier years, or of the current current product), I wanted to get your thoughts on your favorite DVD releases from the company. I've said this before, but no matter how stale the product gets, I'll always keep my eyes open on their DVD releases since those tend to be pretty good (they're pulling from a very large library of content). As it stands for me, these would be my 10 favorites.

Wrestlemania 17
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- Top to bottom, the best Wrestlemania ever.


Summerslam 2002
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- Top to bottom, the best Summerslam ever.


Bret Hart: The Best There Is, The Best There Was, The Best There Ever Will Be
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- My favorite wrestler ever gives great incite into his career, as well as chalking it full of great matches.


Mick Foley: Greatest Hits & Misses
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- Shows how much range Foley had as a brawler. His promos alone make this worth owning.


Hard Knocks – The Chris Benoit Story
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- Great collection of matches and documentary piece. Shows how well Benoit could wrestle any style.


Cheating Death, Stealing Life: The Eddie Guerrero Story
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- The documentary piece was pretty touching, in addition to having lots of great matches.


The Ultimate Ric Flair Collection
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- Excellent collection that did Flair justice.


Edge: A Decade of Decadence
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- I was shocked at how well this was put together. After watching this, no matter what you think of Edge (or how overrated some of you may feel), it's undeniable he has had plenty of great matches.


The Best of Saturday Night's Main Event
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- One of the best trips down wrestling memory lane. Very enjoyable watch (even the Andre stuff is very watchable).


The Rise and Fall of ECW
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- The best overall of any of the WWE documentary pieces. It's short on matches, but the 7 matches included have good variety and are of high quality.
 
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I don't buy dvds but,

1.Wrestlemania Anthology

2.SummerSlam Anthology

3.Saturday Nights Main Event

4.Rise and Fall of WcW

5.Best Of The Undertaker

just to name a few.
 
y'know I wouldn't be mad if any of these were posted in Megaupload links here...............................................................................
 
I like all of those and own most but I have Ultimate Ric Flair at the top of the list. And the "Greatest Stars of the 80s" is fantastic.

That "Saturday Night Main Event" dvd was extra special to me. I actually still have some of those matches on vhs. I just have to find a vcr that still works to transfer them to dvd.
 
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I like all of those and own most but I have Ultimate Ric Flair at the top of the list. And the "Greatest Stars of the 80s" is fantastic.

That "Saturday Night Main Event" dvd was extra special to me. I actually still have some of those matches on vhs. I just have to find a vcr that still works to transfer them to dvd.
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Glad to see so many here up on that Saturday Night Main Event DVD set. The WWE really did an excellent job mixing in matches & promos on that one. A lot of lost gems were preserved.

The Greatest Stars of the 80s I kinda wanted to buy to have the Chi-town Flair/Steamboat match on DVD (I already have many of their matches, including some handcam houseshow matches, of their's on VHS), but then the Rise & Fall of WCW dropped which included it, so I got that instead. Besides that match, what would you say makes the Greatest Stars of the 80s DVD worth owning?
 
Depending on the age of the viewer

For older fans like me who grew up on Mid Atlantic Wrestling, it would be the Starrcade 83 dog collar match with Greg Valentine and Roddy Piper. They also have an old Ric Flair-Jay Youngblood match from 82.

For old WWF fans it has a great string of WWF title matches from Bob Backlund and Jimmy Snuka in the cage in MSG to Backlund losing to the Iron Sheik to Sheik losing to Hulk Hogan.

There's the classic Piper's Pit where Roddy and Bob Orton shaved Haiti Kid.

To be honest, they did waste some with a Bobby Heenan match against Ultimate Warrior and Paul Orndorff's MSG debut against Salvator Bellomo.

This one is far superior to the "Greatest of the 90s" set they put out.
 
Upgrade Dave said:
Depending on the age of the viewer

For older fans like me who grew up on Mid Atlantic Wrestling, it would be the Starrcade 83 dog collar match with Greg Valentine and Roddy Piper. They also have an old Ric Flair-Jay Youngblood match from 82.

For old WWF fans it has a great string of WWF title matches from Bob Backlund and Jimmy Snuka in the cage in MSG to Backlund losing to the Iron Sheik to Sheik losing to Hulk Hogan.

There's the classic Piper's Pit where Roddy and Bob Orton shaved Haiti Kid.

To be honest, they did waste some with a Bobby Heenan match against Ultimate Warrior and Paul Orndorff's MSG debut against Salvator Bellomo.

This one is far superior to the "Greatest of the 90s" set they put out.
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The matches you mentioned (sans the Warrior one) sound really good to me. I'll get it next month. Thanks for the info.
 
Deltronz said:
The matches you mentioned (sans the Warrior one) sound really good to me. I'll get it next month. Thanks for the info.
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If you haven't seen the dog collar match between Valentine and Piper (which would surprise me because I consider one of the few people who's probably seen more wrestling than me), it comes off as less of a wrestling match and more like a fight, similir to the Magnum TA/Tully Blanchard "I Quit" US title match at Starrcade '85.
 
Upgrade Dave said:
If you haven't seen the dog collar match between Valentine and Piper (which would surprise me because I consider one of the few people who's probably seen more wrestling than me), it comes off as less of a wrestling match and more like a fight, similir to the Magnum TA/Tully Blanchard "I Quit" US title match at Starrcade '85.
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I've seen that Dog Collar match many times. Even more times now since I own the Starrcade DVD. I completely agree with your assessment, much less of a match and more like a fight. GREAT match.
 
Deltronz said:
I've seen that Dog Collar match many times. Even more times now since I own the Starrcade DVD. I completely agree with your assessment, much less of a match and more like a fight. GREAT match.
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I figured you had. I have the Starrcade dvd too. Strictly for the matches, the documentary is one of the worst they've ever done. They took revisionism to a new level on that one.
 
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I figured you had. I have the Starrcade dvd too. Strictly for the matches, the documentary is one of the worst they've ever done. They took revisionism to a new level on that one.
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Wouldn't you also say that to say the match listing for about half of them was vey disappointing? I know the fans voted for the matches, but it seems like a majority of those who bothered to vote are fans of the current product. Thus, the reason there are Scaffold matches (which are never good), Hogan vs Piper, and even stuff which on paper is excellent (Malenko vs Guerrero...but from Starrcade) but is underwhelming in actuality. Not to say I necessarily feel like I wasted my money (half the matches are well worth owning in DVD quality) but it easily could've been an incredible set, but what we got was a decent one.
 
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Deltronz said:
Wouldn't you also say that to say the match listing for about half of them was vey disappointing? I know the fans voted for the matches, but it seems like a majority of those who bothered to vote are fans of the current product. Thus, the reason there are Scaffold matches (which are never good), Hogan vs Piper, and even stuff which on paper is excellent (Malenko vs Guerrero...but from Starrcade) but is underwhelming in actuality. Not to say I necessarily feel like I wasted my money (half the matches are well worth owning in DVD quality) but it easily could've been an incredible set, but what we got was a decent one.
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Thought I might be the only person to think that. There were some great matches left off the listing and some voted on based purely on name recognition of current fans (Liger/Mysterio is a good example, too).
 
I recently picked up the new Shawn Michaels & Hart Family DVD. Both are excellent.

I have to say, Shawn Michaels having 3 DVD sets is tremendous. Any one of them could be used as a way to make someone a fan of professional wrestling, imho. Don't know which of his 3 I favor the most. I'd recommend someone get all of them. I still have a tough time ignoring his part in the Montreal incident (and Ted DiBiase's hypocritical praise of Shawn Michaels for his part in it, yet blasting Hart in Michaels' 2nd DVD set).

The Hart Family DVD is almost perfect (even better if you don't own the Bret DVD from a few years ago). The only thing I really wish is that they had added more matches since clearly there was close to an hour of DVD room they could've tacked on an extra match or two. I understand people complaining about the Bret/Davey match being on this set since it was already on the Bret DVD. But at the same time if you don't have that DVD the match is one of the best ever, so it's worth putting on for that reason. All of the Owen inclusion in the DVD just reminded me of how great of a wrestling personality he was (not to mention his in-ring excellence. Besides Bret being obviously superior at selling, Owen was nearly on his level for everything else in the ring. And although they only tagged up a handful of times, they had extremely great chemistry together as a tag team. Had they'd been a more regular team, I could see them being even better than the Bret/Neidhart combination).
 
Not WWE but I did pick up the TNA Jeff Jarrett dvd set and it's very good with one of the best docs of any set I've seen in a while. Jarrett comes across as very sincere and the section where he talks about his wife choked me up a little. Now that part and the interviews with Jim Cornette and Kurt Angle, seeing how things have turned with both of them, seem very ironic.
The matches range from decent to really good to an occasional great. Jeff carried Kevin Nash to a very entertaining match and that's saying something. The problem with the matches isn't Jeff or his opponents' work but the overbooking and constant run-ins and outside interference. Several times I wanted to chat "Fire Russo" at my tv screen because the crappy booking ruined a good match.
The Memphis stuff, some with an early Cactus Jack, is good stuff.
 
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