BlueStang302

Looks decent, i'll be picking that up. I really liked the 80s set and I would prefer an 80s set pt 2 over a 90s set, but so be it.

Those of you who are veterans of shoot interviews and youtube will know that Honky Tonk Man is very opinionated and outspoken. He's a fun guy to listen to rank. This is what he said: As the story goes, Vince McMahon wanted Savage to win the IC belt at that October Saturday Nights Main Event (when they ran the guitar shot angle). Honky refused, reasoning that he and Savage were doing sold out business across the country, and contacted NWA who told him to jump ship and bring the belt with him. Honky tells Vince he isn't going to put Savage over, and it sets off a chain of events that began the rise of the biggest storylines that were occuring in the WWF when I started watching as a kid (The Savage/Hogan alliance leading to the eventual Double Referee Andre Hogan match in 1988). The World belt was promised to Ted DiBiase, but Honky refusing to give up the IC gold resulted in Savage eventually winning the World Title at Wrestlemania 4. To appease DiBiase, apparantly, they gave him the "Million Dollar Belt". Watching this angle unfold on my SNME DVD last night I was amazed how quickly they must have come up with such a great angle - the formation of the Megapowers revolving around Elizabeth returning from the back with Hogan after Honky hit Savage with the guitar. This angle and the subsequent "The MegaPowers Explode!" angle headlined WWF shows for the better part of two years. My question is, if what Honky says is true... how would history have changed if he hadn't refused to do the job? If Savage wins the title clean theres no need for Hogan to save him from the attack (Honky admits that Vince told him he would be taken off the tv and repackaged. So it's clear there was no post match attack planned). Is Honky's story generally believed to be true?

Ah, well if it was a different event than that would make my question moot. I guess I could have looked it up, but Honky never specified which Main Event so last night while watching I just figured it must have been the one I was seeing. I remember the Andre-Hogan deal seeing it live as my first wrestling memory, but its very vague and I was 5 and I don't recall the undercard lol

With the other big three now out of the way (Wrestlemania, Royal Rumble, Summerslam) does anyone think this Fall we will see a Survivor Series Anthology Set? Has anyone heard anything, the 2009 schedule should be out soon I'd think

UPS delivered my Summerslam boxset yesterday. As someone mentioned above, the individual 5-disc volumes are much thinner than the WM and RR ones because the disks are in sleeves rather than the normal packaging. I wasn't all that happy about that, because I've read that sliding the disks in and out of the sleeves can damage them more so than "clicking" them out of the usual case that most DVDs come in. (whatever the proper term for that is). Obviously havent watched much of it yet. Threw on 1988 for awhile and very pleased to hear the original Summerslam music! IIRC, most of the old school PPV themes were removed from The Wrestlemanias and Royal Rumbles. I threw in 1993 for awhile and it too had the old theme (a different one from 1988, the one that would have been around in 93). Overall, it's all I expected and looks to come as advertised. Only issue being, maybe, the sleeves. I'm just going to be very careful with them.