Wrestling footage you lost but wished you still had

[fg]

I think I have some.

My mother’s friend husband is or was a WWE fan. He taped WM3 straight off the PPV (the PPV version had an advertisement for the WM3 magazine program that featured the Can-Am connection reading it. Did this make the home video releases and the Network version). He also taped miscellaneous WWE footage including matches that were shown on the MSG Network like HTM vs Randy Savage with Jimmy Hart in the shark tank as well as the first couple of matches from one of the syndicated shows ( I think he also had a few seconds on a house show plug for the NYC area but I am not sure.) anyway, he lent me these two tapes for several months in 1993. I didn’t dub them because for a than 13-year-old like me, dubbing something was hard to do. Dubbing something from one medium to the other was a lot harder to do back in 1993 than it is today.

For whatever reason, I also recorded the syndicated shows the weekend of WM10. Since I lived in the NYC area at the time, I saw the the local versions of the WMX PPV Report Up until when I saw the British version of Superstars on YouTube that aired the day before Summerslam 1992, I always wished I wanted to see what the local version of WWE PPV Reports and see how different they were. The day I saw that episode is when I got my wish. The British version of Superstars had Gene Okerlund doing the report and he did not mention PPV at all and made a lot of British references.

Anybody got any others?

[Cranjis McBasketball]

A lot. This Tuesday in Texas. Royal Rumble 91. SummerSlam 90 and 91. Lent them to a friend of my dad’s. Taped over them. I’m still not cool with it.

[Nickybojelais]

At a conservative guess I must have had something like 50 VHS recordings of WWF programming from late '91 up until mid '93. Not just the PPVs and SNMEs, but episodes of Superstars, Wrestling Challenge, All American and Prime Time.

I "grew out" of wrestling around mid '94 and by 1996 it wasn't looking like I was going to get back into wrestling. So all those tapes that I was never going to watch again were either recorded over, or thrown out to clear some space in my bedroom.

By the time 1998 came around and I was getting back into wrestling because it was "cool again" I was beginning to seriously regret dumping my extensive home recording collection. Hopefully the network will eventually fully restore my access to this period!

[Can you afford to pay me, Gah]

PPV recorded the first one night stand. Enter Sandman playing in the entrance made it a whole different live feel. A lot of that stuff I had got destroyed thanks to mother nature. A bunch of monday night war Raws and Nitros unedited stuff.

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WWF MSG shows on VHS

[thecrusherwi]

I have been fortunate enough to preserve and grow my massive collection of wrestling VHSs and DVDs all these years, but I do have a loss I think about. I had two big photo albums of pictures from the two WWF house shows I attended as a young kid in March 1992 and February 1994 - both in Oshkosh, WI. I used to look at them all the time. But our house was leveled by a massive tornado in July of 1996 and I lost them. I was lucky enough to not lose my Hasbro figures, my WWF magazines or less important things like my life and family, but I do miss those photos.

[Deleted]

I used to own literally every ROH dvd from the first show up until around the time Gabe stopped booking. I got rid of them because I never rewatched them. Now I wish I had them for certain matches. And watching the matches now on ROH compilations isn't the same because of the different or no entrance music. It's like watching ECW on WWE Network.

[Celexa Bliss]

I had several episodes of Raw from spring of 1995 on a tape that eventually wore out. I also used to have the ECW episode with Dreamer beating Raven and the Lawler invasion.

Also just remembered I used to have a tape of Crockett gimmick matches that my uncle bought me. Off the top of my head, it had the Tully/Magnum I Quit Match, the Piper/Valentine chain match, the Bunkhouse Stampede match in a cage, The Steiners/Nasty Boys Losers-Leave-Town match, Dusty vs Animal(I think, might have been Hawk), and I want to say Sting vs Flair from GAB 1990. When my Nana sold her house a few years ago, I went through my Aunt and Uncle's old tapes, just to see if I may have left it there many years ago, but nope.

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Mar 27, 2019 22:33:37 GMT -5 @therealoblivion said:

I used to own literally every ROH dvd from the first show up until around the time Gabe stopped booking. I got rid of them because I never rewatched them. Now I wish I had them for certain matches. And watching the matches now on ROH compilations isn't the same because of the different or no entrance music. It's like watching ECW on WWE Network.

I have the entire Gabe run still. I've been toying with the idea of seeing if someone would take it all for a good price. But I also know that I probably shouldn't do it. Too many great things in the collection.

[siredger]

I used to have tapes of Survivor Series 92, Royal Rumble 93 and Wrestlemania 9 that my uncle had taped for me but for some stupid reason, I taped over it and in hindsight, I really regret it.

My uncle used to have that massive collection of wrestling tapes with all the major Big 4 PPVs through 1994 and I was so mad when he told me that he didn't have them anymore as I would've killed to get them.

[ayumidah]

Miz and Morrison were my favorite tag team in the late 00s, gave me something to look forward to during really difficult times, but I never saw the first time they won the tag titles. My father had broke his leg the night before and was in surgery, I had DVR'd Smackdown but things were such a mess, I was never home enough to watch stuff and the DVR eventually filled up and that episode of Smackdown got deleted by other recordings.

[Ultimo Gallos]

I had,taped on Betamax,at one time most of 85 and 86 Mid South/UWF. LOST a few of the tapes moving. Got what was left transferred to DVD in 2003. But the person doing it for me,to save space,cut our all the commercials.

Also use to have on VHS all 12 episodes of the Tiny Uncle Elmer Frazier ran version of Gulf Coast Championship Wrestling. This aired in 86 for 3 months. All I have now is two episodes,thanks to someone borrowing them to transfer them to DVD and never sending me the dvds or returning my tapes.

[David-Arquette was in WCW 2000]

I just wish me and my parents weren't so cheap that we could've bought more than, like four blank tapes to record stuff on. I used to record episodes of Smackdown, Heat, WWF Classics and WCW Worldwide and have those episode for a while before they'd gradually get replaced with more recent episodes.

[Spider2024]

There's one segment that I've always wanted to tape the whole thing, instead of just the second half of it.

It was on their mid-90s Sunday recap show, "Action Zone" I think, a week or two after that In Your House where the power went out, as did the entire PPV in fact. They "interviewed" several WWF superstars and talents asking them where they were exactly and what they were doing when the lights went out. It was all in kayfabe character, so basically a sketch you could call it, and I remembered it was funny (you know, for those of you who found the humor of that era of WWF actually funny.) I know some of the people they spoke to was Stone Cold, the Body Donnas and Jim Cornette (and in true Cornette fashion he said that he was "...in the dark, you idiot, where else!")

[Ishmeal Loves BBL Bayley]

First-run recordings of ECW PPV's and TV. The music makes up so much of the show.

[Deleted]

Macho Man's bachelor party on WWF Prime Time.

One of my favorite things that I still have taped is an episode of World Championship Wrestling from 1989 building up to the Funk/Flair match at Clash of Champions complete with commercials. Takes me back to what it was like to be a kid.

[Joe Neglia]

Back in the 90s I had one of those monster satellite dishes - every once in a while I would come across a wrestling show being transmitted early on one of the "nothing to see here" satellites, complete with the commentators talking during the commercial breaks. Taped a few of them, but lost them during one move or another.

[DZ: WF Legacy]

I had a bunch of Shotgun Saturday Nights since I used to accidentally fall asleep through it as a kid (aired around 11PM on WGN following Svengoolie over here near Chicago), so I started taping them. I know I have a few left from '97: a Goldust/Owen match and then the Pillman-pencil incident. Don't have them all, though. I only have 1 or 2 ECW Hardcore TVs left, too. I had a few WCW Saturday Nights, but I taped over them all. Still remember the one I taped had DDP doing a sick counter from I think it was a power bomb reversed into a diamond cutter.

[chazraps]

Mar 29, 2019 0:20:33 GMT -5 DZ: WF Legacy said:

I had a bunch of Shotgun Saturday Nights since I used to accidentally fall asleep through it as a kid (aired around 11PM on WGN following Svengoolie over here near Chicago), so I started taping them. I know I have a few left from '97: a Goldust/Owen match and then the Pillman-pencil incident. Don't have them all, though. I only have 1 or 2 ECW Hardcore TVs left, too. I had a few WCW Saturday Nights, but I taped over them all. Still remember the one I taped had DDP doing a sick counter from I think it was a power bomb reversed into a diamond cutter.

This was DDP vs Eddy and actually went viral on Twitter a few weeks ago after DDP mentioned it was his favorite diamond cutter he ever did.

[Zutroy]

The first One Night Stand recorded from PPV, with Metallica music for the Sandman. Lost the disc, made no other copies...