Cranjis McBasketball
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Peace Love and Nothing But
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Jan 10, 2021 18:42:30 GMT -5
Not DVD but VHS, I have the collection of those black clam shell VHS tapes they sold in WWF Magazine. They’re only bad because some of them, the audio is mixed so awful you can’t hear commentary above the roar of the crowd.
They do have a bizarre collection of matches. Like Rick Martel v. Koko B Ware in a blindfold match, for some reason.
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Post by PTBartman on Jan 10, 2021 22:56:25 GMT -5
The DX set they released in 2007. It chronicles their return in 2006 up to Survivor Series with all their matches and segments. Power Slam magazine gave it 1 star and all the talking heads segments were done in kayfabe. The best thing about it was an extremely bored Carlito telling us that "DX were....you know they were....they were cool." I am actually on this dvd. When the dvd has the segment talking to fans at the uk show in Manchester I am the one who says: “when you put Triple H and Shawn Michaels together - two of the very best in the history of the business - obviously that’s going to connect with the fans in a big way.” I feel I played my part in achieving that one star rating. Dude, without you that's a ¼* at best.
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Post by One-Armed Drummer of Defrebel on Jan 10, 2021 23:07:15 GMT -5
I remember The Most Incredible Steel Cage Matches being pretty rough, mainly cause of the abundance of old school matches filmed by a stray dog vibing on top of the bleachers. You mean the one that came out in the early 2000s, right? I’m not sure if there was a later release, but that’s the one that I remember. I remember being more annoyed that so many matches were clipped. Yeah that one. Also holy shit I forgot that they clipped so many of the matches too! Like YouTube highlights in DVD form.
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chazraps
Wade Wilson
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Post by chazraps on Jan 10, 2021 23:28:30 GMT -5
You mean the one that came out in the early 2000s, right? I’m not sure if there was a later release, but that’s the one that I remember. I remember being more annoyed that so many matches were clipped. Yeah that one. Also holy shit I forgot that they clipped so many of the matches too! Like YouTube highlights in DVD form. There was also a second cage match collection I remember coming out circa 2009 after WWE's acquired more territories' archives, but I remember absolutely nothing else about it.
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Post by Main Eventer on Jan 10, 2021 23:33:12 GMT -5
NWO Back in Black: They take more time talking about the NWO's run in WWF then their entire run in WCW and only has Hall and Hogan as talking heads.
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Post by greyfmdan on Jan 11, 2021 0:01:13 GMT -5
i wouldn't necessarily call it the worst in terms of quality, but easily the most disappointing i own are volumes 1 & 2 of The Monday Night War. instead of being one 20-part documentary about the Raw/Nitro feud, its twenty 1-part documentaries about random things. and it is extremely boring to binge watch because it's so f***ing repetitive. in the New World Order episode, they talk about Hulk Hogan turning heel to form the nWo. in The Rock episode, they talk about Hulk Hogan turning heel to form the nWo. in the ECW episode, they talk about Hulk Hogan turning heel to form the nWo. in the divas episode, they talk about Hulk Hogan turning heel to form the nWo. by the time they get to the eighth episode, and they stop for the eighth time to air the same clips for the eighth time while telling you for the eighth time that the wrestling landscape changed forever on September 4, 1995 when the debut episode of WCW Nitro aired live opposite WWE's Raw, for at least the fifth time you say "We know already. Shut the hell up about it and move on!" and then there's the Kliq episode. in the nWo episode, they spend a lot of time talking about the Kliq. in the DX episode, they spend a lot of time talking about the Kliq. so in the Kliq episode, what do they spend a lot of time talking about: the nWo and DX. also, even though he's one of my all time favorites and was by far my absolute favorite when i was watching WCW, did Chris Jericho really need a stand alone episode (especially when Undertaker and Sting had to share one)? i mean Big Show didn't get his own episode and he did everything Jericho did...except he did them first. Big Show debuted in WCW in 95, Jericho debuted in 96. Big Show got fed up with the bullshit in WCW and jumped ship to WWE in February 99, Jericho jumped ship six months later. Big Show made his debut opposite a major star (Steve Austin), Jericho made his debut opposite a major star (The Rock, who as coincidence would have it was in the middle of cutting a promo on Big Show). Big Show held both the WWE and WCW Championships during the actual MNW (only three other wrestlers can claim that), while Jericho didn't win either until after WCW died for the second time (first the promotion, and then the Invasion stable). This was the DVD of the Network’s MNW documentary, right? I watched it when it was premiering on the Network & thought it worked well as a weekly series, the pro-WWE spin notwithstanding. I can see where it would have gotten boring to binge it, though, because they did repeat a lot of stuff from episode to episode.
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ToyfareMark
Vegeta
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Post by ToyfareMark on Jan 11, 2021 1:43:33 GMT -5
The Andre The Giant DVD that's just a transfer of his Coliseum Video with Jesse Ventura's commentary taken out. I only have 750 of these things.
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Post by The Barber on Jan 11, 2021 2:16:50 GMT -5
This. That 2006 DX DVD that Andee9001 mentioned earlier is a clear second. To be honest (with the exception of the bonus material) most of, if not all, of the WWE documentary DVDs have been garbage.
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Post by romanstylesiii on Jan 11, 2021 2:23:30 GMT -5
WWE tried an early go at documentaries in the late 90's on VHS. They were all in kayfabe & terrible. There is a reason they are not on the network .
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Post by Clutchhausen on Jan 11, 2021 4:11:12 GMT -5
I liked Hard Knocks and Cheap Pops especially the Edge and Christian segment.
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Legion
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Post by Legion on Jan 11, 2021 8:25:36 GMT -5
I had an old VHS from Silvervision here in the UK that was called 'High Flyers'
The High Flying it promoted was dropkicks, Macho's elbow and a woman's tag team called the Jumping Bomb Angels who just looked so out of place trying to do things against the Glamour Girls who didnt even seem to know how to take half the moves they were doing
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Jan 11, 2021 8:33:20 GMT -5
WWE tried an early go at documentaries in the late 90's on VHS. They were all in kayfabe & terrible. There is a reason they are not on the network . Oh goodness yes. I had the Jesse Ventura one. I was a huge fan of 1980’s wrestling. Even back then during the Attitude Era I preferred that stuff. So I was looking forward to some matches. I watched it with a friend and we were so disappointed it was a documentary probably only about an hour long. At least the music video it ended with that had Ventura kicking Hogan’s ass was kind of cool.
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wildojinx
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Post by wildojinx on Jan 11, 2021 9:03:44 GMT -5
The DVD version of Hard Knocks and Cheap Pops is worth it for the special feature where Mick and Michael Cole call the Kennel in the Cell match as if it were a five star classic.
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fw91
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Post by fw91 on Jan 11, 2021 9:54:39 GMT -5
The RAW XV anniversary one. Really nothing I haven’t seen before
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Post by EoE: Well There's Your Problem on Jan 11, 2021 10:32:43 GMT -5
Bought that about a year ago just so I was able to score the pre-show battle royal for the points rankings.
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agent817
Fry's dog Seymour
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Post by agent817 on Jan 11, 2021 10:55:36 GMT -5
The DVD version of Hard Knocks and Cheap Pops is worth it for the special feature where Mick and Michael Cole call the Kennel in the Cell match as if it were a five star classic. I like the DVD because it was released before the change in initials and you get certain matches without censorship. I will say that when watching the main feature, gave me flashbacks to a lot of things from that era. If show DVDs count, I'll go with December 2 Dismember. Why did I buy it? It was at a time when I was buying DVDs left and right that it bordered on habit or addiction. I did like the opening tag match, however.
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Post by jason1980s on Jan 11, 2021 10:58:25 GMT -5
Definitely the early 2000s Andre one. When I ordered it I think I expected the A&E biography. Instead it was a bunch of old matches I had seen already on the Coliseum Video. I know it's hard to put a guy as huge as Andre's life into one hour or 2 hour DVD but he deserved better. Even the A&E one, as good as it was, would have been better if done by WWE.
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Post by nickcave on Jan 11, 2021 13:34:40 GMT -5
The Andre The Giant DVD that's just a transfer of his Coliseum Video with Jesse Ventura's commentary taken out. I only have 750 of these things. There was an Undertaker DVD that was also just a transfer from a Coliseum video release and like the highlights were Undertaker vs. Fake Undertaker and Undertaker vs. Kwang lol
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JIMBOB
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Post by JIMBOB on Jan 11, 2021 14:41:01 GMT -5
The Andre The Giant DVD that's just a transfer of his Coliseum Video with Jesse Ventura's commentary taken out. I only have 750 of these things. There was an Undertaker DVD that was also just a transfer from a Coliseum video release and like the highlights were Undertaker vs. Fake Undertaker and Undertaker vs. Kwang lol Hey! Kwang is a legend around these parts! (as in Parts Unknown).
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Post by Shy Guy on Jan 11, 2021 15:13:59 GMT -5
bought my brother the 2004 diva search one
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