Old Coliseum Video Memories

[Guest JMTapes]

I remember back in '93, every Friday night, I would rent a Colieum tape. Some of my favorites were: Survivor Series '90, Royal Rumble '91, Invasion '92, and others. Did anyone else do anything like that? Those are some of my happiest memories.

 

                                                         -Jim

 

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[Guest EI Cubano]

"I'm Sean Mooney. What you are holding in your hand is a virtual collectors item..."

[Guest Daredevil21]

I remember that once 1990 came around, every comp had a dumbass theme. Supertape 2 had the echo everytime Mooney said Supertape, Hottest Matches had Mooney sweating to death in the studio, Mega Matches had really big stuff in the studio, Battle of the Superstars always had a war theme, among other horrible gimmicks. My most painful memory is that every "Coliseum Exclusive," had Mooney and Hayes doing commentary.

[Guest Youth N Asia]

Summerslam 91...the Macho Man/Liz wedding reception that's on the tape after the actual show.

 

Macho opening thr gifts: "OOHHH YEAH! A blender! I can use this!"

[Guest Tony149]

I remember CV. Back in the '80s I remember going with my Dad to rent whatever new CV was there. The "Star Trek" theme for Invasion '92 is bad. The first WWF Supertape looked low budget. What was up with Tony Schiavone's suit? Man, that look ugly. He looked different, too.

[Guest areacode212]

Those Coliseum Videos were great. Part of the reason I got kicked out of my old college was because all I ever did freshman year was rent CVs and porn. Monday Night Raw: Prime Cuts was my favorite one, but I enjoyed a bunch of the old PPVs. And Invasion '92, for the one and only HBK/Flair match.

[Guest Anorak]

Anybody remember that old 'High Flyers' video? I remember really liking that because it was just a bit different to what i had seen before at that time. I remember a few tag matches were on it involving Young Stallions, Rockers & Jumping Bomb Angels. I used to rent every avaliable wrestling vid from my local store when i first had the wrestling bug and 90% of them were wwf coliseum tapes. Great memories.

[Guest Daredevil21]

I have the High Flyers tape. It's really solid and at only an hour, it doesn't have much room to drag at all. I think it's one of the more forgotten CV's out there. Not really sure why, but at any rate there is only one match on there that is a bit dull and the rest is great. If you wanna see a Virgil match from he didn't suck, an early WWF Rockers match, some good women's wrestling and The Conquistadors, go pick this tape up.

[Guest DEEP THOUGHT]

I've got lots of bad Coliseum Video memories, mainly from the god awful "World Tour" series.

 

Best of the WWF vol 16 around the world (1988) was hosted by Gene Okerlund, Frenchy Martin & Outback Jack. One of the feature matches had the Killer Bees fighting in a (major) rain storm in Puerto Rico. Another feature on the tape was Okerlund touring Japan, acting like an obnoxious idiot the entire time.

 

World Tour 1990 feature an exclusive profile on Jimmy Snuka, with terrible interviews. Oh, and a guided tour of Paris and England by Lord Alfred Hayes. IIRC at one point, Alfred mistakenly calls the Union Jack "The flag of England" (Union Jack is the flag of Great Britian. The flag of England is white with a red cross.) Not to mention shitty matches from various foreign venues.

 

World Tour 1991 feature perhaps the most boring match I have EVER seen...Jim Neidhart vs. The Warlord from England. I think that those who have survived sitting through that attrocity would agree with me that if I were to rate it, it would  come close to -*****. Oh yeah and Alfred Hayes standing in fornt of backdrops of London. I hate how he and Mooney would make up some bullshit stories during every bout, acting like they were actually in the city that the match takes place.

 

World Tour 1992 included a battle royal from Germany, which is easily the worst battle royal I've ever seen (And I'm quite a mark for them.) Witness Col. Mustafa take the wussiest bump ever from a battle royal. After seeing that, there's not surprise that he didn't go over the top at WM X-7.

 

Global Warfare (1993) wasn't too bad (At least compared to the first four World Tours), and at least it had Ross and Heenan on commentary. Highlights included IRS delivering his pre match "Pay your fair share in taxes" message to the crowd and receiving NO reaction. He must have not known that they don't speak English in Spain. During the same match, the cameraman gave us a nice shot of the crowd that lasted for what seemed to be several minutes while there was action going on in the ring.

 

In short, don't rent ANY of the World Tour videos.  It seems like wrestlers ALWAYS dog it when working outside of Canada and the US.

[Guest Maurizio C... Version 2]

CV was great because on every tape there was a quasi-main event that made up for hours of crappy wrestling. On some videos like "invasion'92" and "smack'em whack'em" you even got great bouts like flair vs bret and bret vs shawn with a ladder.

 

other great videos:

 

Brawl in the family (bret vs 123 kid)

Raw: prime cuts (flair vs perfect)

Wrestlewar'90 (hogan vs perfect in a rare match)

 

 

and what about the videos on superstars? Undertaker, razor ramon, bret and shawn? I remember having something like 2 or 3 hogan videos with matches like hogan vs hansen in japan and hogan vs andre in a cage.

[Guest Mark4steamboat]

The hogan vs perfect match was Wrestlefest 90, not wrestlewar 90. That tape rocked and SK gave it .500. The Wrestlefest series was awesome and my favorite series out of them all.

[Guest Tony149]

Was it just me or did CV use to put the same match on two different video's? On Smack'em Whack'em, they have Bret vs. Kamala and it's just like their match on Wrestlefest '93. I think CV put the same match on two tapes. I wonder if they did that a lot.

[Guest dreamer420]

Coliseum Video ruled all.  Sean Mooney, and Lord Alfred Hayes calling the action is all those coliseum video exclusive matches.

[Guest DEEP THOUGHT]

Yes Coliseum did in fact recycle many of their matches. To the best of my knowledge all of the 60-cheapies (except World Tour) released by Coliseum Video in 1991-1992 was made up of matches taken from other CV tapes.

 

I do recall that the exact same Undertaker vs. Crush match can be forum on "Inside the WWF" and "Paul Bearer's Hits from the Crypt" (both released in 1993). Johnny Polo's (Raven) commentary and tour of the WWF studios do make "Inside the WWF" a worthwhile rental. There was the same Undertaker vs. Razor Ramon match feature on two 1992-1993 Coliseum Videos, but I can't remember which ones. Considering the huge "Vault" that they have (Shown on Best of the WWF vol. 19 & Inside the WWF) you would think that they wouldn't have to use the same match more than once. But it seems to have happened frequently.

[Guest dreamer420]

Imagine how shitty the matches that didn't make it were?

 

I shudder to think...

[Guest The Great Wesuke]

One of the best things on Coliseum Video was Lord Alfred Hayes call of the action.  

 

It was basically Lord Alfred botching the names of every move and then showing a replay of how the wrestler used them. They would also put little titles at the bottom of the screen naming the move.

 

The best was him calling a Shane Douglas match;

 

Alfred: And that is the "Boot to the midsection"... followed by "The running clothesline"... and then finally "The flying crucifix"

 

The flying crucifix was of course a crossbody block.

[Guest Maurizio C... Version 2]

am I the only one thinking the wwf could make up some hell of a videos with all the footage from wcw? something like "Chris Benoit - The definitive collection" or "Hulk Hogan - from heaven to hell and back"... and what about a video on the entire history of the nwo? I know I'd pay for a ppv like that instead of Jericho's video or Kurt Angle's one...

[Guest Tony149]

The WWF is sitting on a gold-mine with the video collection they own. They pretty much have all of Flair's WCW & WWF Title wins. A "Best of Flair" DVD would be awesome.

[Guest Drury37]

I liked Invasion '92 and did anyone ever see cooking with the Bushwhackers on Supertape 4 when the Bushwhackers started farting and Gene Okerlund was pretending to be passing out.It was pretty hilarious.

Thanks.

[Guest DynamiteKid2K2]

CVs ruled it, man!  That was a perfect Saturday Night right there for me, buddy, from about age 5-15.  Play some Putt-Putt, grab a Mexican Pizza from Max', and head down to Blockbuster to grab WWF Inside the Steel Cage, Best of the WWF Vol. 20 and The Best of "Rowdy" Roddy Piper.  That was livin' the HIGH LIFE, BROTHER!  Seriously, Coliseum Video ranks as one of my top memories about the old days, right up alongside Saturday Night's Main Event, Wrestling Challenge, and Superstars of Wrestling.  Hell, they should bring SNME back as a Clash of the Champions type deal...like once every two or three months.  Make it like a PPV-caliber card for free on TNN or whatever.  I mean, there's Jive Soul Bro, All American Boyz, Derringer's Demos theme, and the SNME THEME, BABY~!

[Guest Tony149]

They could bring back SNME if they drop a PPV. There would be too many shows for them to write.

[Guest Frankie Williams]

After the ppv last night, me and my friends watchted the original Bloopers Bleeps and Bodyslams with the Butcher Vachon wedding reception. It had been so long since we had watched anything like that and we laughed our asses off. That is one funny f'n tape. We had such a good time that im going to make a custom tape and next saturday night we are going to get together for another trip down memory lane.....good times.

[Guest Deathnote]

Vince is indeed sitting on a goldmine but it seems that he is in no hurry to make some good money while at the same time make a lot of people happy.

A "Best of Flair" DVD would indeed be great but I think they would need to make it a 2 DVD set , hell even a "best of Tito Santana" DVD would rule

[Guest Tony149]

They may wait until WWF business goes down until they get some good money by using the WWF & WCW video collection they own.

[Guest Some Guy]

WWF owns virtually every big match that Hogan, Flair, HHH, Austin, Foley, Rock, Hall, Nash, HBK, Benoit, Y2J, Angle, Luger, Sting, Goldberg, Piper, Vader, Taker, Savage, Steiner, Booker, DDP, etc... plus evry WCW PPV.

There are so many possibilities it boggles the mind.  They are slowly using there newly bought footage in video packages and DVDs are no doubt soon to come. I can't wait for it.

[Guest Your God]

I wonder if the WWF are really planning on releasing that "Before They Were Stars" PPV some fan wrote in Keith's mailbag.  That would be such a treat to watch.  

 

I don't see why the WWF won't release any past videos.  Considering that most of their pre-ROYAL RUMBLE 98 stuff is out of print and extremely hard to come by (and all of WCW's stuff), they really could make some easy money from their nostalgic fans and not even have to worry about interviewing Austin, Rock, etc.

[Guest Anorak]

I wish they would release some WCW stuff, there is a lot of matches from the mid 90's onwards that i really want to see. WCW tapes are a thing of the past where i live and there a dozens more ECW vids around than i ever remember seeing for WCW. At the moment the WWF seems content to tease us with the odd piece of old school footage on Excess or something but i hope they release stuff properly sometime in the future.

[Guest Tony149]

IMO, the WWF would be stupid not to use some older WCW footage in their "Before they were Stars" DVD. Turner WCW videos are hard to get as there out of print and very costly on eBay. I never see the WWF re-releasing old WCW stuff, but they will probably use old WCW footage for some & VHS & DVD's.

[Guest Drury37]

In The Undertaker:In My Yard video/DVD they show some stuff from when he was Mean Mark,so they are kind of doing that.

Thanks.

[Guest Maurizio C... Version 2]

this has become a GREAT thread... I've got 3 fav CV I always watch once in a while...

 

STME with the rockers/busters match (****)

raw prime cuts (I've already talked about that one, fine stuff)and brawl in the family