WWE announces upcoming DVDs
 

WWE has announced a list of upcoming DVDs to look for on store shelves in the coming months. In addition to the upcoming pay-per-view DVDs, the list includes:

• Austin vs. McMahon: The Definitive Collection
• Brian Pillman: Loose Cannon
• Hulk Hogan: The Ultimate Anthology
• Born to Controversy: The Roddy Piper Story
• The Spectacular Legacy of the AWA
• John Cena: The Time is Now
• The World's Greatest Wrestling Managers
• The American Dream: The Dusty Rhodes Story (2-disc)

Source: wwe.com

I'm interested to see how "definitive" Austin vs. McMahon will be. I think they tried this before, but it lasted all of 60 minutes. That's nowhere near enough time to cover all the great moments of this feud.

These are almost all "must-haves" for me. The only exceptions are Cena (which I won't get) and the Hogan & Austin vs. McMahon ones (which I'll wait to see the contents).

I'd be surprised if Dusty is the only 2-disc set. Piper certainly has enough for 2 discs, as does the AWA. Hogan has enough for at least 3.

What?!? I thought they were working on another Ric Flair anthology??!

I'm only interested in the Austin/McMahon (IF it's long enough), the Piper, and maybe the Dusty Rhodes one. AWA one depends on the extras. Never really got into AWA.

The evil boss vs. employee bit was great the first go around, but subsequent rehashing and Vince getting the idea that he should be one of the primary on-air characters, has left a bitter taste in my mouth on this front.

I'm there for all except Cena and the McMahon/Austin.

I watched a lot of AWA on ESPN when I was younger. That's where I got my first exposure to to Curt Hennig, Scott Hall, The Road Warriors, Shawn Michaels and many others. There were a lot of great matches during that time, so this should be a good DVD with a little work.

Likewise.I would like to see the WWE purchase the UWF video library.

They are some busy little beavers aren't they? Holy cow. This is a lot of material. I'll definitely buy Brian Pillman, Roddy Piper, AWA, and Dusty Rhodes. wow!!!
:)

Austin vs. McMahon: The Definitive Collection. Ehhhhh this will just be a bunch of their "funny at the time" skits? If it has some ok bonus matches i might check it out. Did most of this take place during the attitude era? meaning a bunch of blurred logo action?

Hulk Hogan: The Ultimate Anthology. Yeah I might get this depending what's on it. If there is a bunch of wrestlemania rehash I'll pass. I always wanted to see the old "Hulk Still Rules" set.

John Cena: The Time is Now. Yeah right, actually the time is NEVER for me to buy this one.

The World's Greatest Wrestling Managers. Actually this might be ok. I'll have to wait to see what it's got on it. If they have a lot of Heenan Family and Slick material I might say yeah.

I'll get Hogan/Piper/Rhodes/AWA

Vince/Austin will be blurred to death due it being in attitude era.


Still need to make Sting/Savage/Angle/Owen Hart/Mr Perfect/Steamboat dvd's

Hulk Still Rules had quite a bit on there so hopefully they don't rehash it a lot. The Pillman one will be great if they put some old NWA/WCW stuff on it. His early NWA stuff with Luger was suprisingly good.

All must gets for me except Cena.

I just hope that none of them take the road the Undertaker set took. I just watched the Ultimate Warrior set and was so so so disappointed in the kayfabe they put forth in the UT set. No pre-UT history (Mean Mark anyone?) and no retrospective interview footage between matches. The only thing it has going for it is my DVD debut. I was in the crowd at the Providence Civic Center for the Royal Rumble where he took on Yoko. We were in the second row.

I don't see how they can't rehash most of what was on there.

Also,
They must be working on a Savage set, and are probably tryong to secure him to work on it. If he doesn't agree, the second entry onto the "Self Destruction of..." series will come out.

Does Vince own World Class Wrestling yet ?

Great news. WWE rarely disappoints me with their dvd releases. I plan on getting every one of them and eagerly await the piper, pillman, managers & dusty rhodes sets. The awa set surprises me and interests me at the same time. I know some wcw fans are probably annoyed by the news, but should be happy at the same time since this mean they may eventually get one.

Will be getting Hulk Hogan (I already have the Hulk Still Rules DVD), Roddy Piper, and Austin v.s. McMahon, can't wait!

Hopefully they'll focus a nice amount on The Grand Wizard, Blassie & Capt. Lou Albano. There's a lot of good stuff from those days.

I believe they bought the rights to World Class Championship Wrestling footage last year. As for UWF, that should belong to the NWA back from their merger.

I think that Bill Watts ex-wife owns the rights to the UWF.Hopefully there will be some available video of General Skandor Aagbar from World Class for the Greatest Managers DVD.Did Eddie Creachman ever manage in the old WWF and who represented the original Sheik in the WWF was it Abdullah Faurook or Grand Wizard(same guy by the way)?

They just added ECW Blood Sport: The Most Violent Matches - Volume II to the list.

They also added the previously mentioned ECW Blood Sport: The Most Violent Matches & WWE Divas Do New York.

That's true. Mid-south/uwf footage wasn't shown in any of the recent dvd releases of note(warrior, jake roberts, etc.)....just pictures. She wouldn't sell it to the wwe for some reason.

WCCW is still in the works. David was quoted. Nothing finalized.

But for some strange reason, Savage was even berated in the Self Destruction of the Ultimate Warrior DVD.

I'll be getting them all.

What about Paul E. Dangerously? it was Heyman's tenure in WCW? the dangerous alliance?

Jim Cornette? JJ Dillon? Jimmy Hart? Bobby Heenan?

Or Female Managers, I hope WWE wont a be a sexist not including the likes of:

Miss Elizabeth
Missy Hyatt
Tammy Sytch


and will they include scott d amore of TNA? hehehe I doubt

"WWE plans to release a DVD entitled, ‘The World's Greatest Wrestling Managers’, the DVD may possibly be a re-release of one of the manager videos the WWF released back in the 1980’s."

Yeah, Heyman got his managerial start with the Dangerous Alliance in WCW. I could do without JJ Dillon, but Heenan and Cornette are must-haves... I'm looking forward to watching their discussion DVD that Ring of Honor put out. As for the women, how dare you neglect Sweet Sapphire from the list?!?! :)

As for D'amore, that guy is great. He reminds me of Cornette when he was just hitting his stride.

Damn. Fantastic news there. I hope they space all these releases out. I'll be broke...or I'll at least be having a very wwe dvd filled christmas.

Very happy to hear about most of these...I'm not that excited about the Cena set...he's pretty bad in the ring...and besides they already did a disc on him...how 'bout doing it for someone who's great like Kurt Angle who hasn't had a DVD done on him yet? I never thought we'd see one on Brian Pillman...but I think that's great...he had a lot of great matches in WCW and his Loose Cannon character was incredible...especially in ECW. Does anyone remember the Clash of Champions where Pillman grabbed Bobby Heenan, and Heenan worried about his neck while doing commentary yelled "fuck" live on the air?

LOL, Im sorry I forgot sweet sapphire!, Well I guess she would definitely take a part in the upcoming Dusty Rhodes DVD.

To clarify from earlier, Heyman was managing in WCW/NWA long before he made the Dangerous Alliance. He managed the SST in 89 for sure and then Mean Mark before he split to be the Undertaker.

also just out this week on DVD from TNA...
October 2005's Bound For Glory PPV
http://www.tnawrestling.com/updates/...n/bfg05dvd.jpg

NWA World Heavyweight Title Match
Special Referee: Tito Ortiz
“King of the Mountain” Jeff Jarrett vs. “The War Machine” Rhino

10-Man Gauntlet For The Number One Contender:
Samoa Joe vs. Lance Hoyt vs. AJ Styles vs. The Alpha Male vs. Rhino vs. Sabu vs. The Truth vs. Kip James vs. Abyss vs. Jeff Hardy

Ironman X Championship Match
“The Phenomenal” AJ Styles vs. “The Fallen Angel” Christopher Daniels

Monster’s Ball 2
Abyss vs. Sabu vs. Rhino vs. Jeff Hardy

NWA World Tag Team Championship
America’s Most Wanted vs. The Naturals

Ultimate X Match
Chris Sabin vs. Petey Williams vs. Matt Bentley

Team Canada vs. The 3Live Kru

Lance Hoyt vs. “The Alpha Male” Monty Brown

The Diamonds In The Rough vs. Apolo, Sonny Siaki and Shark Boy

“The Samoan Submission Machine” Samoa Joe vs. Jushin “Thunder” Liger

Bonus Match: The Ultimate X Rematch
Bonus Footage: The TNA InterAction Fanfest

no offense, but I cant seem to find any WWE from your post

WWE’s product might be extremely shitty right now, but they are doing a good job on their DVD’s.

Also off topic, but that TNA pay-per-view mentioned above was great. If anyone is put off by the current product, give TNA a shot. Their weekly show suffers due to it being one hour, but their pay-per-views have been great.

The "new" WWE that embraces (cashes in) on wrestling history is pretty good at these releases. They have so much footage to sell, they will be able to stay bouyant even when arena and PPV business are down.

I agree with you on this. Same goes with their Classics Toy line-up which a top selling line-up for Jakks

Heyman managed before he ever came to WCW...he managed in Memphis and the AWA. When he orginally came in to WCW he was managing The Oringinal Midnight Express (Randy Rhodes & Dennis Condrey) in the AWA...and they all jumped to WCW and started a feud with the WCW Midnight Express (Bobby Eaton & Stan Lane) jumping them on the TBS show while Jim Ross screamed "they don't even wrestle here."

I don't know...they could put out great sets of other wrestlers instead of having a DVD about the managers, Roddy Piper, etc.

How about a good one for Chris Jericho? Or The Rock? Or even a triple discer for HHH? Kurt Angle?

= J

The Rock has had three DVD's, Triple H two.

What's wrong with a DVD release covering managers? Roddy Piper? These are meant for the old school fan, not the newbie fan that has no appreciation for either.

Kurt wil get his DVD when he retires. He has stated numerous times, he wants it done right, not rushed when he is still in the prime of his career.

Angle will get his dvd way before he retires. I could see one next year. One was scheduled 2 years ago but got pulled at the last second.

Piper deserves a dvd. As well do the managers of wrestling. I hope the managers dvd is set up similar to the greatest stars of the 80's was. 10 to 15 profiles and various extras of matches, interviews, skits and whatever else of importance.

my 15 real quick....

Heenan, Jimmy Hart, Cornette, Grand Wizard, Arnold Skaaland
Blassie, Albano, Bearer/Percy Pringle, Ellering, Mr. Fuji
Miss Elizabeth, Sunny, Paul Heyman/Dangerously, Gary hart, Sherri

Man....what a lost art.

Throw Slick in there instead of Sunny, and you've got a nice list.

You can't forget Sir Oliver Humperdink. There are so many more I could mention.

Yeah, the Oliver Humperdink vs. Bobby Heenan feud.

Also, don't forget...

Harvey Whippleman/Downtown Bruno