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Andre The Giant and WrestleMania 5/6 DVDs

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all information from silvervision.co.uk

 

Andre DVD is available late Febuary in the UK, so probably mid-January in the states:

 

Andre the Giant was a man larger than life, so large his nickname was “The Eighth Wonder of the World.” Lord Alfred Hayes hosts the matches that built the legend of this Hall of Famer.

 

Matches Include:

 

vs. Moondog Rex 8.1.1981

 

18-Man Battle Royal with Sgt. Slaughter, Big John Studd, Jimmy Snuka, Pat Patterson, “Hollywood” Hogan, Paul Orndorff, The Iron Sheik & Tito Santana.

 

vs. Black Gordman & Great Goliath 1.12.1976

 

vs. Jack Evans, Johnny Rodz, & Joe Butcher Nova

 

vs. Gorilla Monsoon with the Grand Wizard

 

Andre the Giant & Jimmy Snuka vs. the Wild Samoans 2.18.1983

 

vs. the Masked Superstar 2.20.1984

 

Andre the Giant & S.D. Jones vs. Big John Studd & Ken Patera with Bobby Heenan 12.15.1984 This is the legendary haircut match.

 

vs. Ken Patera 1.21.1985 Revenge of the Giant.

 

vs. Big John Studd 3.31.1985 WrestleMania® commentary by Michael Cole & Tazz.

 

(This title was previously released on VHS)

 

 

and WrestleMania 5/6 Tagged Classic:

 

 

Wrestlemania 5

 

Hercules vs. Haku

 

Akeem & Big Bossman vs. The Rockers

 

Brutus Beefcake vs. Ted DiBiase

 

Bushwhackers vs. Jacques & Raymond Rougeau

 

Mr. Perfect vs. The Blue Blazer

 

Demolition Axe & Smash vs. The Powers of Pain & Mr. Fuji

 

Dino Bravo vs. Ronnie Garvin

 

Arn Anderson & Tully Blanchard vs. Tito Santana & Rick Martel

 

"Piper's Pit" with Morton Downey, Jr. and Brother Love

 

Jake Roberts vs. Andre the Giant (special referee John Studd)

 

The Hart Foundation vs. Honkytonk Man & Greg Valentine

 

Intercontinental Title Match

Rick Rude vs. Ultimate Warrior

 

Jim Duggan vs. Bad News Brown

 

Red Rooster vs. Bobby Heenan

 

World Title Match

Hulk Hogan vs. Randy Savage

 

 

Wrestlemania 6

 

Rick Martel vs. Koko B. Ware

 

World Tag Titles Match

Demolition vs. Andre the Giant & Haku

 

Earthquake vs. Hercules

 

Brutus Beefcake vs. Mr. Perfect

 

Bad News Brown vs. Roddy Piper

 

The Hart Foundation vs. Nikolia Volkoff & Boris Zuhkov

 

The Barbarian vs. Tito Santana

 

Dusty Rhodes & Sapphire vs. Randy Savage & Sherri Martel

 

The Orient Express vs. The Rockers

 

Jim Duggan vs. Dino Bravo

 

Ted DiBiase vs. Jake Roberts

 

Big Bossman vs. Akeem

 

Rick Rude vs. Jimmy Snuka

 

World Title Match

Ultimate Warrior vs. Hulk Hogan

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Guest The Shadow Behind You

The Andre one looks interesting enough to pick up if it's cheap.

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Guest Shutterspeed

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It's almost as if he's being portrayed in a preschoolesque, Eugeneesque, "prod me with a stick" light.

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Guest LooneyTune

Hmm...I might be interested in getting a copy of the Andre tape. (sends an email to my connections)

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Guest LooneyTune

Wait...why is Cole/Tazz commentary on the WM 1 match? WWE has released it on tape several times a few years back and it had Jesse Venturas commentary.

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Wait...why is Cole/Tazz commentary on the WM 1 match? WWE has released it on tape several times a few years back and it had Jesse Venturas commentary.

Probably something to do with Jesse's royalties lawsuit.

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Wait...why is Cole/Tazz commentary on the WM 1 match? WWE has released it on tape several times a few years back and it had Jesse Venturas commentary.

They can't use Jesse's voice. Not sure if you bought Foley'd DVD but his match with Vader, you only hear Tony talking though Ventura did commentary on it.

 

Same thing with Foley vs. Sting on the DVd, notice Foley and Coach did commentary, that's because Jesse was on that one too with Jim Ross.

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Guest LooneyTune

Hulk Rules DVD has Wrestlemania III's orginal commentary, as does the 1988 Survivor Series Match and 1990 Royal Rumble Match.

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Wait...why is Cole/Tazz commentary on the WM 1 match? WWE has released it on tape several times a few years back and it had Jesse Venturas commentary.

They can't use Jesse's voice. Not sure if you bought Foley'd DVD but his match with Vader, you only hear Tony talking though Ventura did commentary on it.

 

Same thing with Foley vs. Sting on the DVd, notice Foley and Coach did commentary, that's because Jesse was on that one too with Jim Ross.

They can use Jesse's voice as long as it meets two requirements:

 

A) It's not a WCW match

 

and

 

B) It's a match that has previously been released at some point on a WWF(E) video or DVD release.

 

The commentary may likely be an "alternate commentary" choice rather than deleting the original commentary altogether, or maybe they just decided to give another perspective on the match.

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DVD sounds good enough, as long as they don't want to extent it to 2 Discs so they have to delay the red hot RVD DVD, like the Hall Of Fame DVD delayed the ECW DVD. :angry:

 

Can you guess what they're going to do for the main feature? Anyone?

 

 

By looking at the Match listings, it seems like they is goin OLD SCHOOOOLL for this DVD. But the 18-Man Battle Royale seems like a Cheap attempt of putting Hulk Hogan on there. Still not bad...

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I thought they were going to paste the Larger Than Life feature on there, which was released by WWF Home Video around '98. Still, this DVD sounds like a collector's holiday. Most of the matches look frickin rare. Larger than Life ain't that easy to get anymore. So this seems like a nice recommendation.

 

Of course this is Andre we're talkin about so Scott Keith will probably crash the party and recommend the DVD to avoid...

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It's actually a really interesting 90 minutes. As you can imagine, there's a lot of younger Andre squashing everyone but the haircut match along w/ the revenge match vs. Ken Patera is perfect stuff for fans of that era. Plus, there's an awesome TNT segment where Vince McMahon tries to goad Andre into putting up his career against Studd much to Andre's annoyance. And it ain't pretty when the big man gets annoyed.

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