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Post by G✇JI☈A on Feb 13, 2015 3:55:14 GMT -5
Remember those VHS tapes... Not talking about the PPVs.
Talking about the video containing a collection of matches from several house show locations, a profile on a wrestler... And of course something wacky (like at home with Hillbilly Jim)
Always had names like 'Wham Bam Bodyslam!' and hosted by some random WWF employee sometimes with a theme (like on what Wrestlecrap have covered hosting on a spaceship).
So come on WWE give us some Coliseum craziness!
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Post by MiLB Fan on Feb 13, 2015 8:05:31 GMT -5
Yes! I've wanted this ever since WWE announced the Network and Michelle Wilson said that it would include content from the company's home videos. Coliseum Video laid the groundwork for my wrestling fandom; I rented them from Blockbuster all the time.
It's time for a new generation of fans to watch Bret Hart draw cartoons, Yokozuna eat his weight in sushi, and Curt Hennig search for the "perfect" stamp. Make it happen, WWE.
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Post by Evilution E5150 on Feb 13, 2015 8:55:43 GMT -5
yes they should some of those compilations were amazing, like the Bret hart one hosted by Paul Beaer that i still have somewhere on vhs
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Post by YAKMAN is ICHIBAN on Feb 13, 2015 10:36:23 GMT -5
SUPERTAPE
I think it was Supertape 2 actually. Powers of Pain vs Rockers, with the biggest back body drop I've ever seen.
Lord Alfred Hayes makes the most bizarre call I've ever heard when someone hits a powerbomb. He calls it a powerbomb which was craftily disguised as a piledriver.
No...it was just a powerbomb. What the hell?
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Post by Dean-o on Feb 13, 2015 12:15:51 GMT -5
I own a bunch, brings back memories of me renting them from Blockbuster time and time again.
Some of the choices were really bizarre. One of them had a Warrior vs Savage WWF title match which must have went under 90 seconds. Complete squash match. It was obviously a dark match after a very long taping because the crowd was dead, and looked like it was just thrown out there to furfill their local advertised main event.
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Post by RowdyRobbyPiper on Feb 13, 2015 12:31:49 GMT -5
You need to see the hilarious skit from Coliseum's Hart Foundation video that has Mean Gene trying to sneak into the Hart Foundation's "headquarters" and score an interview a la Michael Moore in ROGER AND ME (even though the skit predated Moore's film). When he does get past the secretaries, he finds Bret, Anvil, and Danny Davis playing with the LJN action figures under the eye of a Spinal Tap-worthy bevy of groupies. An outraged Gene asks Bret, "what would your father, the Great Stu Hart say if he saw this? He would be outraged!"
Bret: "He approves of this! it was his idea!!!"
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Post by bmfjules on Feb 13, 2015 13:06:46 GMT -5
Best idea ever.
This was originally what hooked me on WWE as a kid. I was born in 85 and really became a fan in the early 90s around 92/93 when I was seven/eight. It was a cool time to become a fan because I was able to rent every single one of those old Supertapes and various Coliseum releases (Bloopers, Bleeps, and Body slams being my favorite) and learn the history of the last seven to eight years of the Hulkamania era (along with a tiny bit of some classic NWA/WCW events), which was at the time just slowly fading out and turning into the New Generation. Those video tapes are literally the foundation of my becoming a wrestling fan and I would LOVE to be able to see them all again.
Like others I wore out my welcome at every single video tape rental store within 20 miles of me (about how far I could talk my dad into driving me) by renting massive amounts of wrestling tapes, and often the same ones over and over again anywhere I could find them. One day my dad brought home a box containing the ENTIRE wrestling section of VHS tapes (which was sizeable) of a local place that was going out of business and since they knew my dad and me, they just saved them and gave them to me. I could damn near cry thinking about how awesome that was.
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Post by Hulkshi Tanahashi on Feb 13, 2015 13:25:44 GMT -5
If they did that, that might be the thing that gets me to finally plop down 10 bucks for the Network.
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Post by Manute Bol on Feb 13, 2015 23:26:18 GMT -5
I'd do anything to see Most Unusual Matches Ever from 1994 again. I watched that tape religiously as a kid.
Yes, even the Four Doinks match.
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Post by Jumpin' Jesse Walsh on Feb 15, 2015 2:40:06 GMT -5
I'd do anything to see Most Unusual Matches Ever from 1994 again. I watched that tape religiously as a kid. Yes, even the Four Doinks match. I'm so happy I'm not the only one who remembers this tape. For nearly twenty years, I thought the surreal image of Bob Backlund wearing a firetruck red flannel during an HBK vs. Jim Duggan lumberjack match only occurred to me in a fever dream, but alas. Also, there's nothing I won't do to defend the Four Doinks match. Like, absolutely nothing. Also, also: can we bring back wrestlers actually wearing firetruck red flannel during lumberjack matches? |
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