WWE Raw XV

[Boner Kawanger 0]

So I expected this to be nothing more than the 15th Anniversary episode of Raw, and I was going to be happy enough watching Ted DiBiase buy one more win. Instead, it's the Best of Raw DVD, which should be awesome but is inexplicably clipped all over the place. Still, there's loads of (highlights of) good stuff. We've got...

 

Part 1

# First RAW January 11, 1993 (fluff piece)

# Mr. Perfect vs. Ric Flair Loser Leaves WWE Match January 18, 1993

# Parking Lot Brawl May 10, 1993

# Razor Ramon vs. The Kid May 17, 1993

# Shawn Michaels vs. Marty Jannetty Intercontinental Championship Match

May 17, 1993

# Gorilla Monsoon Fires Bobby Heenan December 6, 1993

# Bret Hart vs. 1-2-3 Kid WWE Championship Match July 11, 1994

# The Search for The Undertaker August 1994

# Kings Court with William Shatner January 9, 1995

# Shawn Michaels vs. Owen Hart November 20, 1995

# Vader attacks WWE President Gorilla Monsoon January 22, 1996

 

Part 2

# A Touch of Goldust May 27, 1996

# Pillmans Got a Gun November 4, 1996

# Mankind vs. The Undertaker No Holds Barred December 9, 1996

# Shawn Loses His Smile February 13, 1997

# The Ninth Wonder of the World February 17, 1997

# Original ECW Invasion February 24, 1997 (repeat from Rise and Fall of ECW)

# Owen Hart vs. British Bulldog WWE European Championship Match-

March 3, 1997

# Bret Speaks His Mind March 17, 1997

# Flag Match United States vs. Canada July 21, 1997

# Stone Cold Stuns the Boss September 22, 1997

# Bret Screwed Bret November 17, 1997

# Sable in a Sack December 8, 1997

# Gold Meets Water December 15, 1997

# Christmas with DX December 22, 1997

 

Part 3

# Tyson and Austin!- January 19, 1998

# DX Special Report February 2, 1998

# Dumpster Diving February 2, 1998

# Formation of the New DX- X-Pac Returns March 30, 1998

# Stone Cold vs. Vince McMahon April 13, 1998

# DX Invades WCW April 27, 1998

# DX Nation July 6, 1998

# Zamboni 3:16 September 28, 1998

# The Debut of Mr. Socko October 5, 1998

# McMahons Cement Corvette October 12, 1998

# Bang 3:16 October 19, 1998

# Mankind wins the WWE Championship January 4, 1999

# Stone Cold Beer Truck March 22, 1999

# Monster Truck vs. Town Car April 19, 1999

# Mean Street Posse vs. the Stooges May 10, 1999

 

Part 4

# The Greater Power Revealed June 7, 1999 This doesn't appear to be available for me

# Y2J August 9, 1999

# Rock: This is Your Life September 27, 1999

# Bossman Sympathy November 8, 1999

# What Happens in Vegas November 29, 1999

# Jericho not the new Champion April 17, 2000

# Shane Purchases WCW March 26, 2001

# Milk-o-Mania August 20, 2001

# Triple H Returns January 7, 2002

# Past Meets Present February 18, 2002

# Worlds Unite- Bischoff Hugs Vince July 15, 2002

 

Part 5

# The Rock Concert March 24, 2003

# Kane Unmasks June 23, 2003

# Musical Chairs with Eugene July 5, 2004

# Evolution Turns on Randy Orton August 16, 2004

# Are you ready for some wrestling? November 22, 2004

# Batista Turns on Triple H February 21, 2005

# Shelton Benjamin vs. Shawn Michaels Gold Rush Tournament Match

May 2, 2005

# John Cena Drafted # 1 to RAW June 6, 2005

# Edge / Lita Wedding June 20, 2005

# Shawn Michaels turns on Hulk Hogan July 4, 2005

# Jericho is Fired August 22, 2005

# Shawn Michaels vs. Kurt Angle - WWE Iron Man Match October 3, 2005

 

Part 6

# A Stone Cold Homecoming October 3, 2005

# Eric Bischoff Trial December 5, 2005

# Edge / Lita Live Sex Celebration January 9, 2006

# DX Impersonates Shane and Mr. McMahon June 26, 2006

# Edge vs. Rob Van Dam vs. John Cena Triple Threat Match for the

WWE Championship - July 3, 2006

# Edge vs. Shawn Michaels Street Fight January 22, 2007

# Shawn Michaels Returns! October 8, 2007

 

It's split up on three discs, but it looks like it will be more than three parts. I've just gotten through the Kid/Bret match, which I'd never seen. I really got into it, so I figured I'd make a thread. There's plenty of shit to discuss after fifteen years. Like Tek War.

[DrVenkman PhD 0]

It's scheduled to be 6 parts (24/7 normally does parts per disc). That's what tipped me off it was the DVD and not the TV show (I'd rather have the TV show, I have the DVD!).

[Boner Kawanger 0]

Once I get my PhD, I'll finally understand the intricacies of WWE 24/7 Scheduling . Are the pop-ups on the DVD or are they a creation for 24/7?

[DrVenkman PhD 0]

Original to the DVD. Deon felt they made it the worst DVD ever made. Don't bother with that chapter list either since it tricked a lot of people last January. "Frist Raw" is just a segment from the Raw Homecoming special on USA in 2005, Perfect vs. Flair is clipped, and a lot of later segments are just already existing video packages they threw on a DVD. I actually reviewed the set for the Observer website last year and would shamelessly link it here if it hadn't been lost in the F4W merger (though I was assured a back-up of it was archived somewhere along with everything else on the old Observer site).

[DrVenkman PhD 0]

http://web.archive.org/web/20080103052317/...t.asp?aID=21723

 

Fair warning though, I already changed my mind on some issues when people called me out on stuff in e-mail and I realized I made a few errors.

[Boner Kawanger 0]

Original ECW Invasion February 24, 1997 is the same segment from The Rise and Fall of ECW as well.

 

Also, from your review-"(unless no one has said how awesome Kevin Kelly's "CALL THE POLICE!" yelling was, then I'll go on record to say that)"

 

"Oh my God; he's back!" is the greatest call in wrestling history.

[cabbageboy 0]

Maybe since I didn't pay for a DVD of this I was able to enjoy it more. I watched part 1 tonight and since I was short on time I didn't mind the clip jobs. I can't recall if I actually saw Bret/Kid or not at the time but it was a great match.

[Darth Pipes 0]

Original to the DVD. Deon felt they made it the worst DVD ever made. Don't bother with that chapter list either since it tricked a lot of people last January. "Frist Raw" is just a segment from the Raw Homecoming special on USA in 2005, Perfect vs. Flair is clipped, and a lot of later segments are just already existing video packages they threw on a DVD. I actually reviewed the set for the Observer website last year and would shamelessly link it here if it hadn't been lost in the F4W merger (though I was assured a back-up of it was archived somewhere along with everything else on the old Observer site).

 

Yeah, I despise those video packages they've thrown onto the DVDs from the most recent PPVs. It's just plain lazy on their part although I guess it saves them money.

 

It annoyed me that they clipped the Flair/Hennig match and then don't even bother to put the full version on the Mr. Perfect DVD. I think, but I'm not sure, that Bret/Kid is in its entirety.

[Bigelow34 0]

Original ECW Invasion February 24, 1997 is the same segment from The Rise and Fall of ECW as well.

 

Also, from your review-"(unless no one has said how awesome Kevin Kelly's "CALL THE POLICE!" yelling was, then I'll go on record to say that)"

 

"Oh my God; he's back!" is the greatest call in wrestling history.

 

"Nobody has been struck...by any of the explosions!"

[Boner Kawanger 0]

Only now, in the wizake of Kizarny, do I understand why they called him "Mizark" in the Nation parody.

[Boner Kawanger 0]

Only because I've watched it so much did I notice a subtle edit in Jericho's debut.

 

Original:

 

Jericho: Chris Jericho has come to save the WWF!

JR: Aww from what?

 

New:

 

Jericho: Chris Jericho has come to save the World Wrestling Federation.

 

Then there's no commentary. The bold part comes from the beginning of the promo where he proclaims himself the new millennium for the Fed.

[DrVenkman PhD 0]

Yeah, some character with a blog pointed that out in his review of the set too. The set came out around the same time the Jericho debut was a Shortie on 24/7 and the difference could be compared easily.

[kirk angel 0]

Why did the use the original winged eagle belt during the zamboni segment? I thought they changed the belt to the newer version once Austin won the title

[DrVenkman PhD 0]

Austin was using the Smoking Skull belt at the time and was stripped of the title the previous night due to both Kane and Undertaker pinning him. Vince kept the belt as a prized possession and busted out the classic belt for the presentation. So, three choices:

 

1. They couldn't find the 'new' WWE title and used the old one as a prop for the night.

2. They were thinking of going back to that design.

3. They were teasing us.

[Ed Wood Caulfield 0]

I think the real reason is that Austin accidentally broke the new WWF Championship belt a few months before Breakdown. And since Austin wanted his own version of the Title anyway, they didn't go ahead and create the version with the WWF scratch logo that we all know and love until just right before or right after Breakdown.

Edited November 16, 2008 by Ed Wood Caulfield

[cabbageboy 0]

You know, while watching part 3 of this Best of Raw deal I noticed how nothing good on the show from that 1998-99 period had anything to do with wrestling. It was all goofy skits and angles. With the first couple of years they at least could put together a decent compilation in terms of quality matches. The only match on part 3 was Foley/Rock.

[Darth Pipes 0]

Raw cards up until like 1999 featured little in the way of great wrestling. You would have a very good main event but the undercard would be terrible. Once the decade drew to a close, the quality of the in-ring product picked up dramatically. Raw was storylines, promos, and angles. Memorable though.

[Boner Kawanger 0]

The heat for the musical chairs segment is at crazy awesome ten man tag

[Burning Pirate Ship Sex 0]

Flair owns that segment the minute he starts Naitchin' on Stacy

[Boner Kawanger 0]

It's beautiful. Seriously, there are no two wrestlers better suited for musical chairs than Jericho and Flair. Note the wink Jericho gives Flair shortly after he pushes Stacy (which bumps the game up to **** & 7/16).

[Burning Pirate Ship Sex 0]

I'd also like to give mention to Flair's bit in the Edge/Lita celebration. After years of threatening to make women out of guy's girlfriends, he actually attempts to make good on the threat.

[bob_barron 0]

Snitsky's poem is hilarious.

 

I also loved how "It wasn't MY fault" used to preceed his entrance.

 

Oh, the Matt Hardy tease is mean as hell, but funny

[DrVenkman PhD 0]

I knew someone that quit watching WWE over that tease. I laughed like a mad man at it though.