WWE announces 2006 DVDs

[UseTheSledgehammerUh 0]

That Pillman DVD lineup is awful.

[JN News 0]

It's only RUMORED, guys. I say we should wait until we get the actual CONFIRMED DVD line-up for Brian Pillman.

[Guest Frank_Nabbit]

From Meltzer's update today:

 

 

--Apparently WWE got rights to some old Portland Wrestling tapes, and all the Roddy Piper stuff from California must be gone. The Roddy Piper DVD has a 1 hour and 45 minute documentary on his career and ending with the Hall of Fame Ceremony.

 

Matches for the Roddy Piper DVD are:

 

*Roddy Piper & Mike Popovitch vs. Buddy Rose & Rip Oliver from Portland

*Piper vs. Buddy Rose from Portland

*Piper vs. Jack Brisco 7/7/82

*Piper vs. Greg Valentine dog collar match from the first Starrcade

*Piper & Orndorff vs. Hogan & Mr. T from the first Wrestlemania

*Piper vs. Mr. T from Wrestlemania II

*Piper vs. Iron Sheik from 10/4/86 Saturday Night Main Event

*Piper vs. Bob Orton from 11/29/86 Saturday Night Main Event

*Piper vs. Adrian Adonis form Wrestlemania III

*Piper vs. Hogan MTV special 2/18/85

*Piper vs Rick Rude cage match 12/28/89 MSG

*Piper vs. Badnews Brown (Badnews Allen) Wrestlemania VI

*Piper vs. Bret Hart Wrestlemania VII

*Piper vs. Mountie 1992 Royal Rumble

*Piper vs. Goldust Hollywood brawl Wrestlemania XII

*Piper vs. Hogan 12/29/96 Starrcade

*There is also a huge collection of Piper's Pits, including the Frankie Williams one

 

 

--There is a fourth disc on the upcoming Hulk Hogan DVD that will be exclusive to Walmart and to Europe:

*Hulk Hogan vs. Tito Santana 3/24/80 MSG

*Hulk Hogan vs. Sonny Rogers & Chuck Greenley (one of his first AWA TV appearances in the summer of 1981)

*Hulk Hogan vs. Terry Funk from the Saturday Night's Main Event

*Hulk Hogan vs. Harley Race from Saturday Night's Main Event

*Hogan wins 1990 Royal Rumble

*Hogan vs. Earthquake SummerSlam 1990

*Hulk Hogan interview on the 10/3 Raw Homecoming show

[Hunter's Torn Quad 0]

--Some more WWE DVD news. The Hogan DVD will be called the "Ultimate Anthology," The Piper DVD will be called "Born to Controversy" and the Brian Pillman DVD will be called "Loose Cannon."

 

--The Pillman DVD will be a 95 minute documentary on his career in football, Stampede Wrestling, Hollywood Blonds, Four Horseman, ECW, car accident Hart Foundation and more. The match list is:

 

*Bruce Hart & Brian Pillman vs. Midnight Cowboys 4/23/88 for International tag team titles

*Pillman vs. Lex Luger 10/28/89 Halloween Havoc

*Pillman & Tom Zenk vs. Michael Hayes & Jimmy Garvin 2/12/90

*Pillman & Austin doing "A Flare for the Old" segment on WCW TV

*War Games 1991 with Pillman & Sting & Steiners vs. Four Horsemen

*Pillman vs. Ricky Morton 10/27/91

*Pillman & El Gigante vs. Barry Windham & Arn Anderson 6/12/91 loser leaves town match to lead to the Yellow Dog angle

*Pillman & Windham vs. Johnny Gunn & Zenk 12/26/92

*Pillman & Austin vs. Ricky Steamboat & Shane Douglas 5/23/93

*WCW Thundercage with Pillman & Sting & Dustin Rhodes vs. Paul Orndorff & Austin & rick Rude

*Pillman vs. Jushin Liger from the first mach of the very first episode of Nitro

*Pillman vs. Dean Malenko 1/22/96 Nitro

*Pillman vs. Eddie Guerrero 1/23/96 Clash of Champions (where Pillmans scared Bobby Heenan half to death)

*Pillman vs. Austin 6/16/97 Raw

*7/6/97 Calgary Stampede Hart Foundation vs. Austin & Shamrock & LOD & Goldust (I can tell you from talking to Pillman right after this match ended that this match was the personal highlight of his career)

*Pillman vs. Goldust 9/7/97

*Pillman vs. Liger 2/22/92 SuperBrawl from Milwaukee

These are the dates WWE has listed. I know off the top of my head the SuperBrawl was 2/29/92 so others may be off as well

[BUTT 0]

Well damn, that's actually a good lineup.

[JimmyHendricks 0]

finally, the Canadian Stampede Match on DVD.

 

Scott Keith just jizzed in his pants.

[Jingus 0]

OK, that Pillman match lineup makes me retract everything I said earlier.

 

...except why the lack of Hollywood Blondes matches? There's only one of 'em, and they had so many that were better than that one.

 

And this has got to be the only time you'll ever hear the words "El Gigante" uttered on a WWE dvd.

[Hawk 34 0]

I'm all over those three DVDs.

[Guest Hadley]

Footage of Pillman/Eddy survives? Heenan claimed they erased the tapes of that match in his first book (due to the on-air profanity).

[BorneAgain 0]

Footage of Pillman/Eddy survives? Heenan claimed they erased the tapes of that match in his first book (due to the on-air profanity).

I've downloaded a watchable clip off a forum, so at the very least its not too difficult to find.

[JN News 0]

What about Pillman's Respect Strap Match against The Taskmaster from SuperBrawl 6? The "I Respect You, Bookerman" promo had better be featured on the DVD.

[Guest Kobe24KGold]

There are a ton of classic Hollywood Blonde matches with Arn and Flair, among others, that they left out.

 

 

Overall, though, a spectacular list.

 

Wargames 91 AND Canadian Stampede??? Those two alone are worth the purchase. Anything else is gravy.

[Fökai 0]

I don't see how anyone can complain. The guy was only in the company for two years, and he still gets this type of treatment. That's pretty awesome.

[Gert T 0]

Agreed Bravesfan, it should be good considering his lack of WWE time. I have a couple of questions though:

 

1. Is the Pillman/Zenk v. Freebirds match from Wrestlewar? And they were already champs by then, so who did they beat to win the titles?

 

2. Pillman/Windham v. Gunn/Zenk. Is this match from WCW Sat. Night because the timeframe is right around Starrcade '92, which I assume is a much better match (Steamboat/Douglas)

 

I guess the only match I wish was on there was an old match from WCW Syndication with Pillman/Zenk defending the U.S. Tag Titles against the SST. The Samoans absolutely beat the shit out of them and they barely walked away with the titles on a DQ. Match probably hasn't aged well in 15 years, but it was a fun little tag.

 

And in general, didn't WCW have a great tag division in the first half of 1990?

[snuffbox 0]

Hopefully the Hollywood Blondes get their own dvd in the future.

[Darthtiki 0]

I assume the Piper California stuff was done on "Big Time Wrestling" which was produced on Channel 40 out here, and when Tribune bought the station the bulk erased most of the tape-recorded archives.

[DrVenkman PhD 0]

Meltzer swerved me on that line-up as he listed everything in chronological order, so I kept scanning the 1992 area to look for the SuperBrawl II match. I assumed it was not on the DVD... then it shows up at the very end of the list. Well played.

[Guest droptoehold]

Pillmans dvd looks like a must own!

can't wait

[King Cucaracha 0]

War Games 91. That's all I need to hear.

[snuffbox 0]

I'll definitly be getting the Title History and Pillman dvds...and probably the Hogan walmart version.

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2. Pillman/Windham v. Gunn/Zenk. Is this match from WCW Sat. Night because the timeframe is right around Starrcade '92, which I assume is a much better match (Steamboat/Douglas)

 

 

 

And in general, didn't WCW have a great tag division in the first half of 1990?

 

Im guessing thats from Battlebowl, but only a guess.

 

WCW had a great tag team division right up to their downfall.

[Hawk 34 0]

Pillman's cover.

 

[Guest DRH 502]

Tremendous!

[Jericholic82 0]

 

 

2. Pillman/Windham v. Gunn/Zenk. Is this match from WCW Sat. Night because the timeframe is right around Starrcade '92, which I assume is a much better match (Steamboat/Douglas)

 

 

 

And in general, didn't WCW have a great tag division in the first half of 1990?

 

Im guessing thats from Battlebowl, but only a guess.

 

WCW had a great tag team division right up to their downfall.

I think it was from sat night, cuz starrcade was on a weekday that year IIRC (actually pretty much Starrcade was always on a weekday, until 94 right?since it started as a thanksgiving night event in 83)

 

I got to check my old 97 pwi almanac, damn whered I put it?

 

wait now that I think of it, xmas day was on a friday in 92, so the 26th was sat, so it must be from sat night

 

 

anyhow all these dvds sound great (especially the pillman one) , and now that I have a job I can finally buy them all lol

 

and since I work at CC maybe Ill have my discount by then, plus the dvds are usually on sale first week here (like mcmahons was last week, now its up to 19.99 in my store)

[JimmyHendricks 0]

Anyone know if Jesse will once again be absent on the History of the WWE Title DVD? I'm assuming so, but there are many, many matches with his commentary on there, so perhaps this is one release that will let it by.

 

I doubt it, though.

[Jericholic82 0]

Anyone know if Jesse will once again be absent on the History of the WWE Title DVD? I'm assuming so, but there are many, many matches with his commentary on there, so perhaps this is one release that will let it by.

 

I doubt it, though.

prob, just like he' ll be edited on pillmans dvd in the liger superbrawl match, and Im not sure if was the announcer for slamboree 93 too

 

 

[snuffbox 0]

Slamboree '93 was Schiavone and Zbyszko.

[Jericholic82 0]

Slamboree '93 was Schiavone and Zbyszko.

thank you

[UseTheSledgehammerUh 0]

I got history of the title for 20 bucks at Best Buy.

 

It has the ending spot for every single WWE Title change ever, in timeline format.

 

Hosted by JR who pretends he remembers things.

 

Awesome. Old stuff of course, but I never saw Christian/Cena/Jericho. the crowd is nuclear. The match is great.

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Jim Ross does color commentary for Koloff/Morales. When the crowd boo's it's a horrible fake REALLY loud "BOOO!" they inserted then it gets relatively real (I think?). Ross gives some cool background info., including about the curfew. Wow, if that's the real crowd going apeshit for Pedro's win, that's insane. It's a positive riot.

 

Bruno/Kowalshi is Vince McMahon commentating alone (sounds even younger than 80's)

 

Sammartino's pretty muscular but then when Graham gets introduced it's like "Sit down, kid...". Wow. McMahon commentary.

 

They totally don't have Savage/Flair from Hershey, title change #2 on full video. It never aired on TV or video (I'm pretty sure about the video thing), it was only in clips on Mean Gene's "UPDATE!" clip on Superstars, and during the timeline the brief clip they show of Savage passing out in the figure four is Gene talking in the UPDATE segment. Wow, if true, why would they not have that?

 

Young Greg Valentine has Brien Kendrick's face and facial move-selling.

 

When Valentine is half-way out of the cage door, Backlund pulling him in by the leg.

 

Heenan: "As far as I'm concerned the man is out of the ring." Whoever Heenan is doing commentary with, he's so cocky and condescending, it's hilarious.

 

Backlund/Slaughter is just Gorilla.

 

I know it's been on a bunch of DVDs but damn is Sheik/Hogan still awesome and the crowd is nuts. But on one hand - man, Bret/HBK takes up like 3 other matches combined that coulda been here. It BELONGS here, but it's just been released SO many times. A lot of repeats on this set.

 

Andre/Hogan Main Event!

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Tell us UTSU...Jesse or No Jesse?