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Post by Deleted on Jul 5, 2013 6:03:09 GMT -5
This will be a late birthday present that will be well worth the wait. (My birthday is the week before.)
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Post by andrew8798 on Sept 11, 2013 21:15:50 GMT -5
It's been getting a lot of good reviews. Anyone picked it up yet?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2013 22:23:16 GMT -5
I think I will now. I'm unexposed to Mid-South, and this seems like a great way to get a good picture of what it was like.
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Post by Display Name on Sept 12, 2013 3:12:55 GMT -5
I picked the Blu up yesterday..good shit.Watching it reminded me that I have an awesome Hacksaw Jim Duggan shirt from that time in excellent condition(they actually show a fan wearing it)..wonder how much I can get for it.
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Post by wwfmark on Sept 12, 2013 7:23:27 GMT -5
Too bad there was no full documentary, that's what stopped me from buying it.
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Post by oniloco on Sept 12, 2013 8:42:56 GMT -5
I have this set (I'm a reviewer for a DVD site so I got it 2 weeks ago).
The talking heads-intercut with the matches bugs me, as they often revela the result of the match that plays straight after. But in tems of content it is a good set.
The Dibiase/Hacksaw match was great- it's a Steel Cage-Tuxedo-Loser Leaves Town For a Month-Coalminers Glove match!!!! And it's brutal.
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Post by oniloco on Sept 12, 2013 8:44:30 GMT -5
Oh, and it's good to see early Dr Death footage, and interesting to see Shawn Michels when he looks like a teenager. There's also a fun little Kamala-Andre moment during a run-in that I don't want to ruin.
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Post by laker8kiss on Sept 12, 2013 14:47:42 GMT -5
Just got it at Best Buy, they had two copies of it on Blu-Ray. Two copies!! but I am glad I got one.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 13, 2013 8:07:23 GMT -5
The Mrs. got it for me yesterday, working through Disc 1 now. Since the weather took a sudden turn from "unbearably humid & hot" to "get a frickin' sweater on", I'll have more time indoors, so all three should be done by the end of the day.
-I like the random clips with the featured guys beating up on...Arn Anderson. I marked for that.
-Even with the nostalgic goggles on, boy there were a lot of badly executed moves. That arm drag by Magnum TA dang near ripped the opponent's shoulder out.
-"This match scheduled for one fall, TV-time remaining." Man, I miss those...NOT! (The UWF was bad with those. You look at the clock as they say that and you're thinking, "Well, shoot, it's 10:57; how they gonna get this match off?")
Good stuff. (Despite not having subtitles for Boyd Pierce's commentary; which would have been nice.)
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Post by andrew8798 on Sept 13, 2013 18:19:23 GMT -5
WDN readers Joe, William Slack and Adam St. Pierre sent word that the following 2 matches are not present in the Blu-ray exclusives of Legends of Mid-South Wrestling, even though they were listed in the official content reveal.
Mid-South Tag Team Championship Match The Rock N’ Roll Express vs. The Midnight Express Mid-South Wrestling • April 19 1984
UWF Heavyweight Championship #1 Contenders Match Sting vs. Terry Taylor Universal Wrestling Federation • June 13, 1987
We can confirm that this is the case for the US version, but the UK copy (shown in the photo below and released next Monday) does in fact contain these two matches.
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Post by tigermaskxxxvii on Sept 14, 2013 19:33:54 GMT -5
If there is one instance of the "Hacksaw Jim Duggan stomp", I will say my purchase was well worth it. Dude was a HUGE STAR there. He was still "walkin' tall for America", but he was more of a blue-collar ass-kicker, not a flag-waving patriotic guy screaming "USA!" at every turn. Kinda weird that duggan was portrayed as a blue-collar ass-kicker when you consider he's a very intelligent man. I mean he went to college....
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Post by Madagascar Fred on Sept 15, 2013 13:33:57 GMT -5
must-buy for pretty much any oldschool wrasslin' fan
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Post by Deleted on Sept 15, 2013 13:45:55 GMT -5
I love the Tuxedo Cage Match, especially DiBiase's nickname: The Big Cheese.
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Post by Surfer Sandman on Sept 15, 2013 13:49:55 GMT -5
If there is one instance of the "Hacksaw Jim Duggan stomp", I will say my purchase was well worth it. Dude was a HUGE STAR there. He was still "walkin' tall for America", but he was more of a blue-collar ass-kicker, not a flag-waving patriotic guy screaming "USA!" at every turn. Kinda weird that duggan was portrayed as a blue-collar ass-kicker when you consider he's a very intelligent man. I mean he went to college.... Well, Ted DiBiase's WWF gimmick was that of a millionaire but in Mid South, he was nothing but a ruthless jock.
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Post by Phil Parent on Sept 15, 2013 14:31:43 GMT -5
If there is one instance of the "Hacksaw Jim Duggan stomp", I will say my purchase was well worth it. Dude was a HUGE STAR there. He was still "walkin' tall for America", but he was more of a blue-collar ass-kicker, not a flag-waving patriotic guy screaming "USA!" at every turn. Kinda weird that duggan was portrayed as a blue-collar ass-kicker when you consider he's a very intelligent man. I mean he went to college....
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Post by andrew8798 on Sept 21, 2013 20:01:21 GMT -5
Right now this is the DVD/Blu Ray of the year. Hope it sells well so we can see another volume
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Post by tigermaskxxxvii on Sept 21, 2013 20:49:36 GMT -5
Coal Miner’s Glove Steel Cage Tuxedo Loser Leaves Town Match “Hacksaw” Jim Duggan vs. Ted DiBiase Houston, TX • March 22, 1985 Man, talk about overbooking!
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Post by andrew8798 on Sept 21, 2013 21:40:44 GMT -5
On another note I can believe Terry Taylor's story about Flair
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Post by cabbageboy on Sept 21, 2013 22:39:19 GMT -5
I have to say after watching most of disc 1 aside from Flair/Taylor...this is a disappointing DVD. Having never been exposed to much Mid South I really wanted to get into the promotion itself and understand it better, but there isn't a great documentary like with World Class or the AWA. And for all of JR's hyperbole, most of the wrestling sucks from a modern viewpoint (aside from some of the RnR vs. Midnights stuff). The Dibiase/Duggan deal was hilarious though. A tuxedo/cage/coal miner's glove match?? Did Russo somehow get in a Delorean and go back to 1984?
But the biggest problem I have is that they don't even have some of the biggest angles the company did on here! No JYD vs. Freebirds stuff (which drew insane money, did they not have any usable footage?). I don't think there's much Eddie Gilbert stuff either, not even the notorious "They put the Russian flag on the cowboy!" angle.
Maybe Mid South is almost TOO redneck and southern for my taste? World Class was more polished and less trashy, the NWA had bigger stars, and Memphis was more innovative and fun. Most of the things they try to credit Mid South with, like the formation of the RnR Express and the scaffold match, were really things Lawler and Jarrett came up with in Memphis.
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Post by andrew8798 on Sept 21, 2013 22:43:18 GMT -5
The JYD/FreeBirds stuff doesn't exist no more
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