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Post by tigermaskxxxvii on Oct 24, 2013 18:03:35 GMT -5
Just got another survey of possible DVD releases and thought I'd share. Each of these is a 3 disc set: Considering that that is one of their regular sets every year, I wonder if they're thinking of stopping it. Also, while the best of Raw not on Raw sounds fun, I'd rather a WWE Unreleased set where it's full of matches/segments never shown on TV (The Rockers winning the tag titles, the forgotten Hell in a Cell, Cena/Taker in a cage, etc.) What's the forgotten Hell in A Cell? That 1st set is just all win. I'd love to see some sort of PPV dark match collection now. And a DVD set full of battle royals. I could go for a set of battle royals as long as it had some variations without depending too much on using Royal Rumbles (since you don't want too much overlap with anything that's been on the Royal Rumble PPV DVDs). So I'd have some standard battle royals (especially the 40 man one that Tatanka won. I don't think that's been on DVD) and then mix it up with the first Royal Rumble that was on free TV. Some Battle Bowl Battle Royals (none of those are on the Starrcade DVD are they?), some World War 3 battle royals, I remember ECW had a gauntlet battle royal on its TV show in late '96 that was pretty good. Is the old L.A. territory in the WWE's tape library? Because I think they had a famous annual battle from the Grand Olympic battle royal. Does WCCW's "Triple Dome of Terror" count? If not then just put it in the proposed WCCW DVD mentioned in the survey. Speaking of World Class, the "Best of WCCW" entry on the survey got me thinking who owns the USWA Dallas tape library? I know ownership of the Memphis territory is a bit of a clusterf***, but I figured the USWA Dallas library would be seperate from that fray. Was that tape library included with the World Class purchase? Does Jerry Jarrett own it? Or is it tied up in the whole Memphis situation? Also, speaking of Dallas wrestling goodness "Buy the GWF tape library and release DVDs using its footage" should've been an option on the survey.
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Post by StuntGranny® on Oct 24, 2013 18:04:53 GMT -5
I would buy the hell out of the Sting, Ultimate Warrior, Best of WCCW, and Best of Great American Bash sets.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 24, 2013 18:07:10 GMT -5
Unseen, Heyman, Sting, and OMG 2 would get me to buy at least a couple of those. The Bruno one sounds like something I'd get for my dad Pretty much the ones I'm interested in as well
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Post by CH Punk on Oct 24, 2013 18:07:28 GMT -5
Considering that that is one of their regular sets every year, I wonder if they're thinking of stopping it. Also, while the best of Raw not on Raw sounds fun, I'd rather a WWE Unreleased set where it's full of matches/segments never shown on TV (The Rockers winning the tag titles, the forgotten Hell in a Cell, Cena/Taker in a cage, etc.) What's the forgotten Hell in A Cell? As a dark match on the go home Raw to Hell in a Cell 2011 (since they had the cage hanging and used it during the show), Teddy Long booked a Fatal-5-Way Hell in a Cell match for the WWE Championship. It was John Cena vs Alberto Del Rio vs CM Punk vs Dolph Ziggler vs Jack Swagger. It lasted like 5~10 minutes and, IIRC, Cena pinned Swagger to retain. Here are some pictures of it:
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Post by GuyOfOwnage on Oct 24, 2013 18:30:23 GMT -5
The Bruno set would probably be a definite buy for me, depending on what's on it. I have to question how much of his early stuff the WWE might have in their vaults. Was any footage of his famous early feuds against guys like Gorilla Monsoon or George Steele ever recorded? How about his earlier Capital Wrestling stuff with Antonino Rocca? Does the WWE have access to it? I don't want a set filled out with nothing but his 80's stuff where all he was trying to do was earn brownie points for his kid. The Bruno one would definitely be interesting, as I can find almost ZERO video footage from his historic 7.5 year reign. Literally the only things I have found are 1) a match from Japan against Giant Baba that dates to around 1968, and 2) 8mm fan cam footage of him losing the belt to Koloff in January 1971, and it's a certainty that neither one is WWE-owned. There's also a match in Japan with Giant Baba that dates to around 1968, but again, not WWE-owned. The earliest WWE footage I've seen used on any DVD is actually Pedro Morales pinning Koloff for the title, and that was on the History of the WWE Championship DVD from 2006. And then, they don't even have him dropping it to Stan Stasiak or Stasiak dropping it back to Bruno in 1973. WWE's video library, as far as the weekly shows go, seem to date back to about the time of Bruno's second reign, and seems to be their main, if not their only source of footage of him as champion. Anything before that seems to be single clips and matches that were recorded for posterity. I know I've seen footage of WWWF and the CWC circa the 1950s and 60s in tape trading circles, but none of that surviving footage includes anything involving Bruno, and while I assume that is WWE-owned, I'm probably not allowed to discuss anything related to tape trading here. But yeah, on that basis, I would be very interested to see how a Bruno documentary would be handled.
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Post by Bravo Echo November on Oct 24, 2013 18:44:10 GMT -5
What's the forgotten Hell in A Cell? As a dark match on the go home Raw to Hell in a Cell 2011 (since they had the cage hanging and used it during the show), Teddy Long booked a Fatal-5-Way Hell in a Cell match for the WWE Championship. It was John Cena vs Alberto Del Rio vs CM Punk vs Dolph Ziggler vs Jack Swagger. It lasted like 5~10 minutes and, IIRC, Cena pinned Swagger to retain. Here are some pictures of it: The official pictures give me hope. There's also a cameraman in one of them which means footage should exist (was there live in KC, would love to revisit the bout).
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Post by MiLB Fan on Oct 24, 2013 19:04:23 GMT -5
Best of Raw Not on Raw, the Sting set, and the Bruno doc are must-buys for me. I'm especially curious about the note that BORNOR will include dark matches. I've been to many Raw tapings that featured an NXT star in action before the cameras started rolling; for example, Dean Ambrose beat Zack Ryder at a show I attended last year.
I'd kill for a full-length Sting documentary, but at this point I'll settle for a collection of matches like the Savage set was.
Bruno's induction into the Hall of Fame got a lot of press here since he's a local guy, and it was so cool seeing him at Raw a few weeks ago.
The Warrior set is intriguing now that he and WWE are at least willing to do business together. Will Warrior participate? If it includes a documentary, will it be more balanced? Will Warrior address some of what was said in "Self-Destruction"?
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Post by Ishmeal Loves BBL Bayley on Oct 24, 2013 19:20:31 GMT -5
Still waiting for a Bulldogs set...
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Post by DoubleDare on Oct 24, 2013 20:30:09 GMT -5
There needs to be a best of wcw saturday night 3 disc set.
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Post by wildojinx on Oct 24, 2013 20:47:12 GMT -5
Speaking of World Class, the "Best of WCCW" entry on the survey got me thinking who owns the USWA Dallas tape library? I know ownership of the Memphis territory is a bit of a clusterf***, but I figured the USWA Dallas library would be seperate from that fray. Was that tape library included with the World Class purchase? Does Jerry Jarrett own it? Or is it tied up in the whole Memphis situation? Also, speaking of Dallas wrestling goodness "Buy the GWF tape library and release DVDs using its footage" should've been an option on the survey. They do own USWA Dallas (there are matches on austin and foley's recent dvds) as well as GWF. Speaking of GWF, im surprised that a Booker T bio disc wasnt an option.
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Post by Amazing Kitsune on Oct 24, 2013 21:19:20 GMT -5
All of the above is fine by me. I can't see them giving Paul Heyman a special DVD though. They didn't even give Bobby Heenan one, unless I've missed something. Of course, it can be argued that Paul Heyman was ultimately more influential.
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Post by BlackoutCreature on Oct 24, 2013 21:22:51 GMT -5
All of the above is fine by me. I can't see them giving Paul Heyman a special DVD though. They didn't even give Bobby Heenan one, unless I've missed something. Of course, it can be argued that Paul Heyman was ultimately more influential.
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Post by Ryback on a Pole! on Oct 25, 2013 8:46:19 GMT -5
•Best of RAW Not on RAW: Never before release off camera moments (Stone Cold singing to fans, Vince doing the Spinaroonie, Dark Matches...)
This sounds like an excellent idea. It would be seriously awesome.
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Post by Friday Night SmackOwn on Oct 25, 2013 8:59:54 GMT -5
•Best of RAW Not on RAW: Never before release off camera moments (Stone Cold singing to fans, Vince doing the Spinaroonie, Dark Matches...) This sounds like an excellent idea. It would be seriously awesome. Sign me up for this too. I've always wanted to see the post-show shenanigans that go down (that Stone Cold/Jericho segment, featuring Y2J's hilarious selling of a Stunner; Daniel Bryan after the YES! Night on Raw; the aforementioned lost Hell in a Cell match...).
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Post by repomark on Oct 25, 2013 9:04:00 GMT -5
Best of RAW Not on RAW: Never before release off camera moments (Stone Cold singing to fans, Vince doing the Spinaroonie, Dark Matches...) - YES!
Top Giants In Wrestling: 20 Profiles on WWE's Best Giants (Andre, Gorilla Monsoon, John Studd, Kamala...) - Mmmm, I like the idea but I think Andre is long overdue his own profile documentary as there are more than enough interesting stories about him to fill a really compelling set.
John Cena match set - not overly fussed by this, he has enough DVDs already. Wait until he retires then do this properly.
Paul Heyman biography - YES!
Ultimate Warrior match set - Mmmm. To be honest the Self Destruct DVD contained most of his three or four good matches as it was. A less biased documentary might be more worth putting together with a more comprehensive match listing.
Best of WCCW - not sure this is needed given the Triumph and Tragedy DVD did have a number of matches on it, but I would definitely give it a look.
Best of PPVs this year - not fussed by this as have all the PPVs anyway.
Best of the Great American Bash (WCW ONLY) - YES!
WWE Around the World (Never before seen matches and moments from around the world) - could be interesting, but not must buy.
Bruno Sammartino biography - YES!
Sting match set - YES! YES!
Attitude Era Vol 2 - Mmmm, was not a huge fan of the first set, but if done right then definitely.
Wrestlemania Main Events - not worth doing I don't think. I would much prefer them to do uneditted releases of each individual WM, with a documentary about that show and little factoid pop ups like they did with WM3 Championship Edition.
Wrestling Factions (Profile of the Best WWE Groups)- not sure this is worth it but would give it a look. They have covered DX and NWO in enough depth in other releases, so the focus would have to be on others for me to rate this.
OMG! Part 2 (WCW History): Top 50 Moments from WCW's History. - YES! Although I agree the OH MY GOD jingle needs to go.
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Post by BayleyTiffyCodyCenaJudyHopps on Oct 25, 2013 9:26:28 GMT -5
- Best of RAW Not on RAW: Never before release off camera moments (Stone Cold singing to fans, Vince doing the Spinaroonie, Dark Matches...)
- John Cena match set
- Best of WCCW
- Best of PPVs this year
- WWE Around the World (Never before seen matches and moments from around the world)
- Sting match set
- Attitude Era Vol 2
- Wrestling Factions (Profile of the Best WWE Groups)
All of these please. Especially the Cena match set and Raw Not On Raw.
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Post by Instant Classic on Oct 25, 2013 9:27:05 GMT -5
Cena dvd Sting dvd Bruno dvd Heyman dvd Giants dvd Attitude Era dvd
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Post by doinkmark on Oct 25, 2013 9:49:02 GMT -5
Best of RAW Not on RAW - I'd definitely get this. I love behind-the-scenes and/or off-air stuff.
Top Giants In Wrestling - This sounds boring to me. Lots of slow big-man matches following the same formula, with a few exceptions of course.
John Cena match set - Pass.
Paul Heyman biography - Pass. Heyman was an underrated manager and of course influential because of ECW, but a lot of the ECW stuff was already covered. Plus, how much of the DVD would just be Heyman lying/putting himself over? If they do this one though, they NEED to include the unedited inVasion shoot.
Ultimate Warrior match set - This could be a good balance against Self-Destruction, but a lot of Warrior's best matches were already covered IMO.
Best of WCCW - Didn't see enough WCCW to judge either way.
Best of PPVs this year - No. Never been a fan of this.
Best of the Great American Bash (WCW ONLY) - YES!
WWE Around the World (Never before seen matches and moments from around the world) - This could be good, or it could be lots of "other country" stereotyping WWE loves to do mixed with footage from international PPVs that are/were already available. Either way I'd be curious enough to consider getting it depending on the listing.
Bruno Sammartino biography - I wouldn't personally get it, but someone would and Bruno deserves it.
Sting match set - Only if Steve Borden participates. I shudder to think what WWE will do without him involved. That said, the matches would at least still be good.
Attitude Era Vol 2 - Now that they can say "WWF" again? Hell yes!
Wrestlemania Main Events - NO! Just get the 'Mania shows, which I do.
Wrestling Factions (Profile of the Best WWE Groups)- Depends heavily on which groups are featured.
OMG! Part 2 (WCW History): Top 50 Moments from WCW's History. - Yes but change the "OMG" name.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 25, 2013 14:19:31 GMT -5
Those unseen moments and around the world releases sound like absolute must-haves. I've been dying for WWE to start cashing in on some of that crazy stuff they have to be sitting on.
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Post by saintpat on Oct 25, 2013 14:33:03 GMT -5
I would most like to see one on the Kliq
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