News on WWE's Version of History Of WCW

[AlanWojcik]

Anyone interested in seeing this. Could be good like the ECW DVD even though some say the Jeremy Borash Forever Hardcore is better. The match listing is always the interesting thing with DVD's involving the NWA/Crocketts/WCW.

Reported by: Colin Vassallo
Submitted on: Jul 3, 2009 - 12:10:25 AM


- Europe's WWE DVD distributor SilverVision has released the chapters for the highly anticipated "Rise and Fall of WCW" triple disc DVD which will be released on August 25.

The story starts all the way from Jim Crockett Promotions and ends with WWE purchasing WCW.

The first disc will contain documentary-style sit down interviews with several WWE Superstars and former WCW executives while discs two and three will have some of the best matches, in full, in WCW history.

Below is a list of chapters and matches available on the DVD.


Disc 1

Jim Crockett Promotions

Georgia Championship Wrestling

Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling

Black Saturday

The Expansion

Crockett Sells to Turner

Greatest Talent in the World

New Management

Bill Watts Era

Bill Shaw Hires Eric Bischoff

Hulk Hogan Arrives

Nitro Debuts

nWo

Cruiserweights

Goldberg

WCW Ratings Champ

Celebrities

Goldberg vs. Hogan

Mistakes Begin

Vince Russo

A Corporate Merger

McMahon buys WCW

Legacy of WCW

Bonus Features

• Lost in Cleveland

• Bill Watts Defends Himself

• Spam Man

• The Origin of Goldberg

• Bischoff Gives Away RAW Results


Disc 2

$1,000 Challenge Match
Ric Flair vs. Magnum T.A.
NWA World Championship Wrestling – June 15, 1985

Sting, Lex Luger & Barry Windham vs. Ric Flair, Arn Anderson & Tully Blanchard (w/ JJ Dillon)
The Main Event – April 3, 1988

United States Championship Match
Dusty Rhodes vs. Barry Windham
Great American Bash – July 10, 1988

NWA World Heavyweight Championship Match
Ric Flair vs. Ricky ‘The Dragon’ Steamboat
Chi-Town Rumble – February 20, 1989

The Rock ‘n’ Roll Express vs. The Midnight Express
Wrestle War – February 25, 1990

NWA United States Tag Team Championship Match
The Midnight Express vs. The Southern Boys
Great American Bash – July 7, 1990

WCW World Tag Team Championship Match
The Steiner Brothers vs. Sting & Lex Luger
SuperBrawl – May 19, 1991

WCW World Heavyweight Championship Match
Sting vs. Big Van Vader
Great American Bash – July 12, 1992

WCW International World Heavyweight Championship Match
Rick Rude vs. Sting
Spring Stampede – April 17, 1994

WCW World Heavyweight Championship Match
Ric Flair vs. Hulk Hogan
Bash at the Beach – July 17, 1994


Disc 3

WCW World Heavyweight Championship Match
Ric Flair vs. The Giant
Nitro – April 29, 1996

WCW Cruiserweight Championship Match
Rey Mysterio Jr. vs. Dean Malenko
Clash of the Champions XXXIII – August 15, 1996

War Games Match
Team WCW- Sting, Lex Luger, Ric Fair & Arn Anderson vs. Team n.W.o.- Hollywood Hulk Hogan, Kevin Nash, Scott Hall & a Mystery Partner
Fall Brawl – September 15, 1996

United States Championship Ladder Match
Syxx vs. Eddie Guerrero
Souled Out – January 25, 1997

United States Championship No Disqualification Match
Eddie Guerrero vs. Dean Malenko
Uncensored – March 16, 1997

WCW Cruiserweight Championship Title vs. Mask Match
Chris Jericho vs. Juventud Guerrera
SuperBrawl VIII – February 22, 1998

WCW Unified World Tag Team Championship Match
The Steiner Brothers vs. The Outsiders
SuperBrawl VIII – February 22, 1998

Diamond Dallas Page & Karl Malone vs. Hollywood Hulk Hogan & Dennis Rodman
Bash at the Beach – July 12, 1998

WCW World Heavyweight Championship Match
Goldberg vs. Diamond Dallas Page
Halloween Havoc – October 25, 1998

WCW World Heavyweight Championship Match
Booker T vs. Lance Storm
Nitro – August 7, 2000

[Steve "Moose" Madison]

Midnight Express vs. the Southern Boys is a true classic! Love that match and cant wait to see this DVD!

[seandavishbe]

Steve you need to grab a copy of Lew Spectre's Midnight Express set. All of their best matches from Mid South through their end in WCW. The heat in the Mid South matches especially is UNREAL and makes me wish I was born 20 years earlier.


Steve "Moose" Madison said:

Midnight Express vs. the Southern Boys is a true classic! Love that match and cant wait to see this DVD!

[Neil]

I am currently reading " The Death of WCW" and has some really good stuff in it. These discs have some classic matches on them and looks like a great set to have.

[terry]

The whole problem is summed up in those matches on discs 2 and 3.
2 has classic matches that you can watch and the story is told in the ring no gimmicks needed
3 has Russo garbage that do not stand the test of time. some do but most don't.
That Midnight express collection have alot of RnR and Fantasics matches because I always loved when the midnights faced those guys.

[Aaron M. Royal]

There is exactly one match from the Russo era...one.

There was alot of garbage in WCW, especially at the end, but outside of the Bash match w/ the NBA stars, these discs (thankfully) look to be almost garbage free.

[Daron Smythe]

I'm not sure what Nitro it was, but it was 2000 and they did a Triple Cage War Games? I think? It was a really sweet Nitro.

[LewSpectre]

eh... so Mid Atlantic/Corckett/WCW was "born" in 195, after the first Wrestlemania and once Vince was already winning the war?

If this is the "rise and fall of WCW" it should start w/ WCW, in the early 90's.

If your going to include the "Good stuff" let's tell the whole story and go back to when WCW/MidAtlantic was the top area in the US/Canada.

See there's good matches here..but good matches in front of half-empty houses. WWE isn't gonna show you old footage of them 'hanging from the rafters" in southern venues, because according to them that never happened. It was all smokey arenas in front of a few hundred to a thousand fans before Vince, of course (rolls eyes)... True, The WCW era did have HUGE crowds, like you'll see on this DVD set, but that was by "stealing WWF's talent and ideas".. right Vince?

And how does this not end w/ Sting vs. Flair in the last match on a Turner network ever on the last nitro?

And Darron that was like, 99, had to do w/ David Arquette winning the title and the shitty Ready to Rumble movie and still makes my head hurt just thinking about it.

If you wanna see "wrestling the way we liked it" drop me a line... Oldschool Wrestling, cooked daily.