When he started and was managed by Freddie blassie and was a heel(Bad guy), he wore those blue trunks.

Can anyone verify that it comes with a figure because I haven't heard that anywhere else? Someone on another board has the DVD already and didn't get a figure with it.

Bob

In addition to what dx23 said, blue & white were his colors in No Holds Barred

No Holds Barred is one of my favorite movies, it has been years that I don't remember him wearing blue and white colors in the movie, it needs to come out on DVD...

Wow, I never knew he was a heel, I thought he was the good guy all his entire wrestling career well, except the crap NWO thing

The DVD and Figure are both released same day and its a Wal-Mart exclusive. I said I believe it comes with the DVD, it should since its released same day. Maybe some kind of package like Bestbuy did with the RVD figure that came with DVD.

Zeus!

Man, I remember seeing No Holds Barred in the theaters and by the end of the movie, the entire audience was cheering and hollaring like it was a real wrestling match.

i recently bought the laserdisc on ebay. It brought back great memories.

Cool

i hope the dvd covers a thorough history from the early days to his nwo heel years. And his post retirement years=P

Looks like best buy will be giving away the same hogan knows best sampler disc, according to speedy's best buy ad post. I gotta figure out a way to get a hold of that walmart bonus disc, hopefully they sell it online.

I got an email yesterday saying my DVD shipped so I should have it in a few days. I am working on getting a copy of the Walmart 4th disc with the matches.

Bob

Rip 'em!

For those interested here are the matches that are on the "Hulk Still Rules" dvd that ARE NOT on the "hogan anthology" dvd
Hogan debuts at msg vs Ted Dibiasi
the Shea Stadium match vs Andre the Giant (the date that is listed on page 16 is a few days later then the match at Shea)
Hogan returns from the awa (not really a match but Hogan's first wwf show when he got done with the AWA
Summerslam 89 tag match between Hogan and Brutus the Barber Beefcake vs Zeus and Macho King Randy Savage
All Star Wrestling Hogan as a heel vs 2 Latino jobbers
Hogan and Mean Gene Okerlund vs George "the Animal Steele" and Mr Fuji (match is taken from a fan cam with no announcers
Puerto Rican Downpour Vs Big John Studd (match is nothing special except that it rained in the middle of the match and Studd walked out.)
SNME vs Nikoli Volkoff
SNME vs Mr Perfect (little pissed that this match is not on the dvd)
SNME tag match with Hogan and Andre the Giant vs King Kong Bundy and Big John Studd
Wrestlevision 85 (first ppv for wwf) vs Roddy Piper
the 1988 Survivor Series match

Also there is potential (this has not been confirmed) that the Jesse the Body Ventura comentary might be deleted. For some of the matches on the anthology (the mega powers explode match) his commentary is essential. Also for the wm 2 match with king kong bundy in a steel cage, Ventura was the main announcer and Lord Alfred Hayes was the color guy.

Was that the Hogan-Perfect match where Perfect stole the WWF Championship belt and smashed it to pieces with a hammer? If so, is that footage still there?

My Walmart broke street date and I picked this up today. I checked the WM V match and Ventura is on there. I didn't check any other matches but I would think that we should be good.

fuckin a man (and i even have the wrestlemania 80's box set. Also, why would Ventura have commentary here but not on the Pillman dvd? (the last match on disc 2 has JR commentary only when Ventura did announce in wcw back in the early 90's)

not that i know of. At the end of the match on the Hulk Still Rules dvd, Hogan beats up the Genius and Ventura rants and raves about how Hogan should not be beating up managers and accuses Monsoon of cheerleading for Hogan.

Maybe I should go to Wal-Mart and see if they have it...

Just checked, they didn't have it

I think there are a couple of possibilites (not to say much of what Vince does has to make sense):

1. When the Wrestlemania boxes were put out, WWE cut a deal with Ventura which included all of the WM footage from that point on.

2. WWE already has the WM footage mastered for dvd releases with commentary and figured it was not worth the effort to go back and edit

3. WWE figures (correctly) that the Pillman set will not sell nearly what the Hogan set will sell, therefore the costs of Ventura's royalties can't be absorbed by the sales numbers.

4. Vince and his "WWE is wrestling and nothing else matters, even though I own all that other stuff too" mentality decided that the WM footage is severly lacking when Ventura's commentary is left out and too important to compromise. However (this is Vince talking), "Most fans don't even know Jesse worked for WCW and no one cares about WCW anyway, so let's save a few bucks. Besides, they're just lucky to get anything and that I don't burn all of Ted Turner's tape library to the ground while doing a ritual dance."

This is all just speculization on my part. All I know, is that the only Jesse stuff that seems to ever be intact is the WM stuff, and I know I've never seen a WCW match on a WWE dvd that had Jesse's voice. And that's a shame, because I personally loved the JR/Ventura combination, and 1992 WCW is some of my favorite stuff ever.

Anyone have a listing of what's on the Wal-Mart disc? And is the Walmart disc overlaping anything on the Hulk Rules DVD?

Didn't the Warrior DVD come out after the box sets? WM VI doesn't have Ventura commentary on that thus making it meaningless.

One other funny aside about the Hulk set. The footage of Bash at the Beach '96 has Heenan's constant "but who's side is he on?" questions edited out.