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#3,882 ·
Re: WWE greatest rivalries DVD question

I just rlly dnt wanna see Ausin vs Mcmahon yet... I hope its aniother wrestler vs wrestler one
 
#3,886 ·
Re: WWE greatest rivalries DVD question

While I wouldn't put this in the "greatest rivalries" category I'd love to see a DVD documenting the WCW/ECW Invasion angle. I think it'd be cool to kind of get the feel of the backstage atmosphere at the time and the reason certain decisions took place; getting a bunch of different guys perspectives and feelings on it from both sides of the coin. I think it'd be pretty interesting.
 
#3,887 · (Edited)
We NEED a HBK/Taker career rivalry DVD/Blu Ray Asap.

EDIT: Also caught the 2008 Raw Scramble match earlier. **

Christ this was boring, JBL/Tista with their usual botchamania sequence, Kane didn't make things much better, Mysterio livened the match up but by that point the crowd were dead silent. Yes the ending with Jericho was cool but it didn't save this clusterfuck.
 
#3,888 · (Edited)

Disc 1
After 7 Long Years

A Year in the Making

The People’s Champ

The New Face of the WWE

Social Media Warfare

LockerRoom Noise

Loyalty and Respect

Let’s Go Cena – Cena Sucks

Once in a Lifetime

Special Features
First Class

Tiger Pride

World’s Most Famous Arena

A Funny Person

Comedy Translates

Flat on My Face

Singing

Tonight Show

Merry Christmas!

Getting Dad Involved

Giving Back

Unpredictable

Tickets

Clash

Secret Recipe

Disc 2
The Rock Returns to RAW
RAW 14th February, 2011

John Cena Responds to The Rock
RAW 21st February, 2011

The Rock Confronts “John Cena” At His Home
RAW 14th March, 2011

John Cena Adjusts The Rock’s Attitude
RAW 28th March, 2011

The Rock Welcomes the WWE Universe
WrestleMania XXVII 3rd April, 2011

WWE Championship Match
The Miz vs. John Cena
WrestleMania XXVII 3rd April, 2011

Save the Date: The Rock vs. John Cena
RAW 4th April, 2011

John Cena: This is Your Life
RAW 11th November, 2011

Boots to Asses
RAW 11th November, 2011

Never Before, Never Again
The Rock & John Cena vs. The Miz & R-Truth
Survivor Series 20th November, 2011

Disc 3
John Cena Calls Out Dwayne Johnson
RAW 20th February, 2012

The Rock & John Cena Face-to-Face
RAW 27th February, 2012

The Rock’s History Lesson #1
RAW 5th March, 2012

John Cena Returns Home
RAW 5th March, 2012

The Rock’s History Lesson #2
RAW 5th March, 2012

The Rock’s History Lesson #3
RAW 5th March, 2012

The Rock & John Cena Live in Boston
RAW 5th March, 2012

The Return of Thuganomics
RAW 12th March, 2012

Rock Concert
RAW 12th March, 2012

The Final Confrontation
RAW 26th March, 2012

WrestleMania XXVIII Press Conference
Miami 28th March, 2012

The Rock vs. John Cena
WrestleMania XXVIII 1st April, 2011

Blu-Ray Exclusive Features
Typewriter

A Dozen Eggs

Hungry?

Blaisdell Center

Instant Gratification

Billboard

Electrifying Mexico City

Evicted

Tattoo

The Kidman Spot

Enjoying the Moment

Tribute to the Troops

“U Can’t See Me”

Grilled Cheese

Bad Advice

Rise Above Hate

FILM CUT- Once in a Lifetime
The Rock vs. John Cena
WrestleMania XXVIII 1st April, 2012

The Rock Comments on his WrestleMania Match
RAW 2nd April, 2012

John Cena Comments on his WrestleMania Match
RAW 2nd April, 2012
The documentary should be great, they're telling the entire story. This main selling point here is the match of course which was great, but also the extras. WWE filmed for a year a lot of content, like you can see in the video packages they did. The feud was hypocritical as hell and they did everything to turn the crowd in favor of Cena. Including telling imaginary story on what really happened. But Rock had plenty of awesome promos, the return, Philly, Boston, History Lessons, SVS, Rock Concert etc. The atmosphere for the tag match at MSG at SVS was special and match was good. And in general, this is a feud nobody will ever forget, no matter what it was memorable and that's what important, so that's a great DVD for years from now, because nobody is going to remember all the crap they did in the build up. Especially when this match broke almost every record in wrestling history. Looks great with a lot of rare content and I'm sure this DVD will be a big seller.

Another interesting thing is the FILM CUT version of the match, that's also a big selling point because it's a special angle.
 
#3,889 ·
We NEED a HBK/Taker career rivalry DVD/Blu Ray Asap.

EDIT: Also caught the 2008 Raw Scramble match earlier. **

Christ this was boring, JBL/Tista with their usual botchamania sequence, Kane didn't make things much better, Mysterio livened the match up but by that point the crowd were dead silent. Yes the ending with Jericho was cool but it didn't save this clusterfuck.
JBL/Batista have some of the most dreadful chemistry. Especially in '08.

And the SD one from that show is fun though. Same with the ECW one.
 
#3,890 ·
Triple H PPV Matches : 2006-2007 (Second DX Run)

Ven 06 DX vs Spirit Squad : * 3/4
SS 06 DX vs Mcmahons : ** 3/4
Unf 06 DX vs Mcmahons & Big Show : *** 1/4
CS 06 DX vs Rated RKO : *** 1/4
SS 06 Elimination Tag : ** 3/4
NYR 07 DX vs Rated RKO : **** 1/4

I did a full write up for this but lost it in the process so fuck it , here are my descriptions for all of these matches in one paragraph :

Vengeance 2006 was very, very stupid. Should have been Mcmahon's vs DX with Summerslam as the blowoff. Some legit funny moments, but it drags at SEVENTEEN minutes long and it's a comedy main event with air horns and pantsing. A stupid fucking match that belonged on Monday Night Raw and not on the main event of a PPV, overshadowing a great forgotten match in RVD vs Edge. Both matches with the Mcmahons are fun, with the Summerslam match featuring great selling by Trips and some awesome tag team moves from Vince and Shane, and the HIAC match being bloody fun but being stupid in the sense that it was a semi comedy match in the cell. The first Rated RKO tag was great with some excellent execution from all 4 men, but the pacing was a little off IMO, Bischoff really added alot to the match as well. The SS 06 tag is a great little fast paced match that isn't fantastic on the snowflakes but is just FUN. I fucking ADORE the NYR 07 tag, and Trips effort even after her tore his quad. This match gets EXTREMELY intense, and the bladejobs are awesome. Maybe my favourite two on two tag team match ever, with the spots being perfect and the fact that their wasn't a conclusive ending added to the match IMO. They should have done Edge-Orton at WM 23.

Basically, Hunter's DX run (besides the Spirit Squad match) was just FUN. It was the complete inverse of 04-06, as he really showed off his versatility as a comedic performer as well. These matches are very entertaining with one all time classic in the mix (when those clowns finally started to get serious), but when it comes to the STARZZZ these matches aren't the best in Hunter's career.. Next up are the post second quad injury matches, all the way up to the end of 2007. Ratings for these matches anyone ?

OBIS , get off your lazy ass and give me some more damn Undertaker PPV match ratings! :p
 
#3,891 · (Edited)
OBIS , get off your lazy ass and give me some more damn Undertaker PPV match ratings! :p
Work has been really hard this week. :( Just haven't found the time to want to sit down and watch the matches yet.

But have no fear, for the weekend is near!

In the meantime, HHH DX 06 (and for a few days in 07) run:

Ven 06 DX vs Spirit Squad : I can only assume I've erased this match from my memory as I can't even remember if HHH or HBK even hit a pedigree or scm, and based on the fact K1ngofK1ngs of all people rates it so low and it's a Trips match, guess it was erased for a good reason :p ).
SS 06 DX vs Mcmahons : **
Unf 06 DX vs Mcmahons & Big Show : **1/2
CS 06 DX vs Rated RKO : ***1/2
SVS 06 Elimination Tag : *1/2
NYR 07 DX vs Rated RKO : ***3/4

The Rated RKO/DX matches were both great. The SVS06 match... I hate for SOOOOOOOOOOOOO many reasons. First off I just generally absolutely HATE clean sweeps in any match, but it's even worse in this case as Edge/Orton were on the losing end, and up until then they were looking very strong. Hell in all fairness, they still looked good even after the match but it definitely put a dent in them imo. Secondly the match never really kicked into second gear from what I remember and was basically Rated RKO's team falling one by one. It never really got that interesting for me to begin with. The DX/McMahon matches were, as K1ngofK1ngs said, "fun". They won't go down as the greatest of anything, but they are what they are.
 
#3,892 ·
I'll do the ratings for Hunter's 2007 PPV Matches (the ones that I've watched):

- New Year’s Revolution (w/Michaels vs. Rated RKO) ~ *** 1/2
- No Mercy (Orton) ~ ** 1/2; Last Man Standing ~ **** 1/2
- Cyber Sunday (Umaga) ~ *** 3/4
- Armageddon (Jeff) ~ *** 1/2

There is a solid match against Flair on the final episode of Raw (I believe) too.
 
#3,893 ·
I'll do the ratings for Hunter's 2007 PPV Matches (the ones that I've watched):

- New Year’s Revolution (w/Michaels vs. Rated RKO) ~ *** 1/2
- No Mercy (Orton) ~ ** 1/2; Last Man Standing ~ **** 1/2
- Cyber Sunday (Umaga) ~ *** 3/4
- Armageddon (Jeff) ~ *** 1/2

There is a solid match against Flair on the final episode of Raw (I believe) too.
That Flair match is really good. (Y)

As for Triple H...

vs Spirit Squad - Vengeance - **
vs McMahons - SS - ***1/4
vs McMahons/Shows - UF - ***1/2
vs Rated RKO - CS - ***1/2
vs Team Rated-RKO - SS - *1/2
vs Rated RKO - NYR - ****1/2
vs Orton - NM - **1/2
vs Orton - NM-LMS - ****1/4
vs Umaga - CS - ****
vs Hardy - Armageddon - ***3/4
 
#3,895 ·
Chris Benoit PPV Matches : 2000

NWO Radicalz vs. Too Cool - **3/4
WM16 Benoit vs. Jericho vs. Angle - ***
Backlash Benoit vs. Jericho - ***
Judgement Day Submission Match vs. Jericho - ***1/4
KOTR Benoit vs. Rikishi - *
Fully Loaded Chris Benoit vs. The Rock - ****
SS 2/3 Falls vs. Chris Jericho - ***1/4
Unforgiven F4W - ***
No Mercy Chris Benoit vs. Triple H - ****
SVS Radicalz vs. DX - ***1/4
Armageddon Chris Benoit vs. Billy Gunn - **1/2

So it appears that Benoit was Mr. Consistency this year, staying around the *** mark for the majority of his matches. Only two matches I would consider "definite viewing", them being the FL match against The Rock and the No Mercy match against Triple H. The rest I wouldn't avoid, but I wouldn't go out of my way to see and I'm not too bothered about a second watch. It's evident Benoit didn't really perform as well as he could have for whatever reason, whether it be due to the storylines or the competitors (which i doubt, given the caliber of them in general) but compared to other years, as we are all aware of, he wasn't proving why he was considered one of the best in the world.
 
#3,896 ·
Chris Benoit PPV Matches : 2000

NWO Radicalz vs. Too Cool - **3/4
WM16 Benoit vs. Jericho vs. Angle - ***1/4
Backlash Benoit vs. Jericho - ****
Judgement Day Submission Match vs. Jericho - ****
KOTR Benoit vs. Rikishi - **
Fully Loaded Chris Benoit vs. The Rock - ****
SS 2/3 Falls vs. Chris Jericho - ***
Unforgiven F4W - ***
Rebellion vs. Undertaker - **
No Mercy Chris Benoit vs. Triple H - ***
SVS Radicalz vs. DX - ***
Armageddon Chris Benoit vs. Billy Gunn - ***
 
#3,898 ·
I too love that event (gone waaay down on HBK/HHH though lol), yet haven't actually bought it on DVD yet :p. I should probably pick it up before it randomly goes OOP or something... but damn, £13.99 brand new on SV? Not a show I want to get pre-owned because... because I'm weird like that (got some WWE DVD's pre-owned, but only because I wasn't THAT interested in them to start with).

Just looked on Amazon and Play and FUCK, going for £30+ brand new on those sites :p. SV doesn't seem as bad now lol.
 
#3,899 · (Edited)
I'm a bit the same about pre-owned tbh, but if its a show or set that has either gone out of production or just too dear brand new then I don't mind as much, as I recently bought The Monday Night Wars DVD second hand.

I have noticed the PPV's from 02-04 seem to be a bit dear it seems imo.
 
#3,900 ·
Yeah, if a DVD I want is OOP I'll happily buy it pre-owned (like WM 15-18, which I managed to get nice and cheap considering how much they were going for at the time, obviously they've gone down in price thanks to them being released as Tagged Classics lol).

I've also noticed that the 02-04 shows seem to cost more. I can pick up new PPV's a few months after they come out for anywhere between £5-£8 or something on SV during one of their many sales, but something from 02-04 seems to stay at around £13-£14 lol.
 
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