Wrestling Gold: Box Set Collection

[natey2k4]

Wrestling Gold: Box Set

 

Anyone heard of this? Or have it for that matter? It looks really good.. it looks like a sweet ass set... heres the match listings..

 

Busted Open

1. Sherri Martel Vs. Judy Martin

2. Shawn Michaels Vs. Ken Johnson

3. Gino Hernandez/ Tully Blanchard Vs. The Grapplers

4. Gino Hernandez Vs. Tully Blanchard

5. Bob Orton, Jr. Vs. Adrian Adonis

6. Bruiser Brody Vs. Abdullah The Butcher

7. Larry Zybisco Vs. Scott Casey

8. Jerry "the King" Lawler Vs. Bob Sweetan

9. Terry Funk And Ivan Putski Vs. Gino Hernandez And Tully Blanchard

10. Dick Slater Vs. Mongolian Stomper (cage Match) (special Referee: Bob Sweetan)

11. Bruiser Brody Vs. Nick Bockwinkel With Bobby "the Brain" Heenan. (special Refere

 

The Main Event

1. The Rock And Roll Express Vs. Randy "macho Man" Savage And Lanny Poffo

2. Nick Bockwinkel Vs. Manny Fernandez

3. The Sheik Vs. Mark Lewin

4. David And Kerry Von Erich Vs. Gene Yates

5. The Fabulous Ones Vs. Pyt Express

6. The Road Warriors Vs. Austin Idol

7. Randy "macho Man" Savage Vs. Jerry "the King" Lawler (cage Match)

8. The Samoans Vs. Ted Dibiase And Bob Roop

9. Bruno Sammartino And Dick The Bruiser Vs. Ernie Ladd Adn Baron Von Raschke

10. Tully Blanchard Vs. Manny Fernandez

11. Rick Rude Vs. Jerry "the King" Lawler

12. The Crusher, Dick The Bruiser And Little Bruiser Vs. Blackjack Mulligan, Bobby

 

We Like To Hurt People

1. Tommy Rich And Eddie Gilbert Vs. Phil Hickerson And The Spoiler (tennessee Street Fight)

2. The Rock And Roll Express Vs. Randy "macho Man" Savage And Lanny Poffo

3. Dick Slater Vs. Dory Funk, Jr.

4. The Sheik Vs. Tiger Jeet Singh (cage Match)

5. The Fabulous Blonde Vs. Al Perez And Manny Fernandez

6. Terry Funk Vs. Harley Race

7. Pepper Gomez Vs. The Bounty Hunter

8. Austin Idol Vs. Jim Neidhart

9. Junkyard Dog Vs. Butch Reed

10. Rick Rude, Jim Neidhart, Ox Baker And The Japanese Assassin Vs. Robert Reed, Tig

11. King Kong Bundy Vs. Jerry "the King" Lawler

12. Terry Funk Vs. Mark Lewin

13. Tommy Rich Vs. Massao Ito

14. Jerry "the King" Lawler Vs. Kamala

15. Ray Stevens, Blackjack Mulligan And Baron Von Raschke Vs. The Crusher, Dick The

 

No More Mr. Nice Guy

1. Randy "macho Man" Savage Vs. Rick Rude

2. The Sheik Vs. Andre The Giant

3. Pampero Firpo Vs. Jeff Doney

4. Bruiser Brody And Scott Casey Vs. Kelly Kiniski And The Spoiler

5. King Kong Bundy And Rick Rude Vs. Jerry "the King" Lawler And Randy "macho Man"

6. Chief Jay Strongbow Vs. Bulldog Don Kent (shark Cage Match)

7. Randy "macho Man" Savage Vs. Austin Idol

8. Terrible Ted The Wrestling Bear Vs. Gene Dubois

9. Terry Funk And Ivan Putski Vs. Gino Hernandez And Tully Blanchard

10. Tommy Rich Vs. Rick Rude

11. Jerry "the King" Lawler Vs. Nick Bockwinkel

12. Randy "macho Man" Savage Vs. Austin Idol

13. Bobby "the Brain" Heenan Vs. Cowboy Bob Ellis

 

Beat Me If You Can

1. Nick Bockwinkel Vs. Terry Allen (aka Magnum TA)

2. Ivan Putski Vs. Eddie Mansfield

3. Tito Santana Vs. Kelly Kiniski

4. The Sheik Vs. Tom Jones

5. Bobo Brazil Vs. Michael Angelo

6. Chief Wahoo Mc Daniel Vs. Tully Blanchard

7. Eddie Gilbert Vs. Jerry "the King" Lawler

8. The Sheik Vs. Tiger Jeet Singh (mud Match)

9. Austin Idol Vs. Massao Ito [

10. Tully Blanchard And Gino Hernandez Vs. Scott Casey

11. Terry Taylor Vs. Sabu

12. CHIEF WAHOO McDANIEL, TOMMY ROGERS AND MARTY JANETTY VS. TED OATES AND THE GRAPP

[dpac]

I think I saw this at Wal Mart a little while ago, I just couldn't justify dropping 70 bones on it. I am interested in a handful of the mathes though.

[natey2k4]

I've continued looking.. and you can buy each seperate set at a price of $20.. that would cost more over time, but if there was certain discs you had no interest in.. it may save you a bit.

[natey2k4]

Hey I just came across this DVD as well, listed at $26 CDN.

 

Wrestling Gold: Before They Were Famous

 

Before They Were Famous

1. Introduction [1:11]

2. Thrasher and Mosh, The Headbangers vs. Flash and Chris Michaels [12:37]

3. Hollywood Bob Holly vs. Paul Miller [4:15]

4. Jerry Lynn vs. Killer Kyle [3:44]

5. Dark Secrets vs. Dixie Dy-no-mite! [4:54]

6. Crash the Terminator vs. Miguel Perez [6:23]

7. Kevin Sullivan & Nightstalker vs. Brian Lee and Tim Horner [8:10]

8. Tazmaniac vs. Robert Gibson [4:44]

9. Interview With Tammy Fytch -- Her First TV Appearance Anywhere [2:01]

10. Interview and Brawl With Jim Cornette & the Heavenly Bodies and the Bruise Brothers [8:31]

11. Chris Kanyon vs. Brian Lee [2:52]

12. Interview With Louie Spicolli [8:28]

13. The Thrillseekers vs. the Infernos [5:04]

14. The Gangstas, New Jack and Mustafa vs. Ricky Morton & Robert Gibson [12:33]

15. D-Lo Brown vs. Steve Armstrong [5:48]

16. Cactus Jack vs. Boo Bradley [5:45]

17. Unabom and Eddie Gilbert vs. Rock and Roll Express [8:01]

18. Al Snow vs. Ricky Morton [14:35]

[The Decemberists]

I've got the Box Set.

 

 

Some of the matches are pretty good in and of themselves, as well as being interesting from a retro/historical viewpoint.

 

But I'd say it's worth getting just for the Cornette/Meltzer commentry which is excellent, very informing and entertaining.

[MillenniumMan831]

Got mine at Walmart for $14.50 US. Haven't even scratched the surface of it of but I'm sure just hearing Cornette yack on for 10 hours is worth it.

[LessonInMachismo]

Got mine at Walmart for $14.50 US. Haven't even scratched the surface of it of but I'm sure just hearing Cornette yack on for 10 hours is worth it.

Never change your avatar. I enjoy reading your posts in Gorilla's voice.

[razazteca]

Got mine at Walmart for $14.50 US. Haven't even scratched the surface of it of but I'm sure just hearing Cornette yack on for 10 hours is worth it.

Cornette repeats himself several times during the Randy Savage matches......and do not fast foward the bear match.

[natey2k4]

Does anyone know what Federation this matches come from? Like... I know its not AWA, but from that time period I'd persume.. what federation they linked with?

[MillenniumMan831]

Got mine at Walmart for $14.50 US.  Haven't even scratched the surface of it of but I'm sure just hearing Cornette yack on for 10 hours is worth it.

Never change your avatar. I enjoy reading your posts in Gorilla's voice.

It's highly unlikely that I'm gonna change it anytime soon.

 

As for the feds, it's mostly the old territories like Memphis, Texas, Florida, ect.

[Guest Arnold_OldSchool]

Southwest (Joe Blanchards fed) as well

[res37618]

Yeah, all of the WalMarts where I live have the Wrestling Gold set for $14.50 (the five disc set). And, Deepdiscountdvd used to have the Before They Were Famous disc for like $11.00 - that's where I got mine from. You shouldn't have to pay a lot for it wherever you get it from.

 

It's an entertaining set, especially with Cornette and Meltzer's commentary.

[Guest DVD Spree]

I got my set for £10.00 from Rowdys DVDs a couple years ago, but I think they've got wise to it now and bumped the price back up.

 

It's such a severely awesome set, though. And the Meltzer/Cornette commentary is as entertaining as it is informative – my girlfriend has absorbed so much classic wrestling history by just by Cornette osmosis.

[JJMc]

A lot of the matches were from Memphis in the early 80s (like the Savage/Rude ones for example), but I've only watched 2 of the discs, so beyond that I'm not sure. The Andre/Sheik match was from Detroit, I think...

[natey2k4]

Are any of the matches decent time lengths and what not? or are they all under like 5 or 6 minutes?

[Betty Houle]

Everyone should buy this set. 15 bucks. A ton o' matches and history.

 

The Shawn Michaels match is worth the price alone!

[Dobbs 3K]

I think most of the matches are around 10 minutes or less. Might've been a few longer than that, but it's been quite a while since I've watched those discs, so I'm not 100% sure.

 

I think I paid about 50 bucks for the set when it first came out, directly from the Wrestling Gold website. It is interesting watching a match with the original commentary for the nostalgia, and then listening to Cornette and Meltzer, with all their insight. Definitely buy it if you have any interest in old school wrestling.

 

My only criticism is that Detroit, Southwest, and Memphis seem heavily represented, and I wish they could've gotten stuff from a few other territories, like maybe Portland or World Class, but overall it is very good.