Following yesterday’s cover artwork reveal, WWE Home Video UK have just let loose the complete content listing in anticipation of the 3-disc collection hitting stores this September.
The “WWE Unreleased 1986-1995” DVD is set to feature no less than a colossal 45 completely new and never-before-seen matches, and an exclusive never-aired Piper’s Pit! [GET YOURS]
WWE will unearth previously unseen footage from the vault, including: multiple Andre the Giant matches, Ric Flair vs. Hulk Hogan, Shawn Michaels and Bret Hart teaming up, Randy Savage and Hulk Hogan doing the same, Taz’s WWE “tryout”, a rare moment where Hogan saved HBK from a beat-down, along with loads of hidden gems involving The Undertaker, Owen Hart, Dusty Rhodes, Rick Rude and more; all of which you’ll find listed disc-by-disc right here, right now…
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DISC 1
Seeing is Believing
The Assignment
Big John Studd, King Kong Bundy & Bobby “The Brain” Heenan vs. The Machines (Big Machine, Super Machine & Hulk [Hogan] Machine) Baltimore, MD • September 16, 1986
Macho Man Randy Savage vs. Pedro Morales Binghamton, NY • October 28, 1986
Hulk Hogan & “Rowdy” Roddy Piper vs. Paul Orndorff & Harley Race Phoenix, AZ • December 9, 1986
The Dingo Warrior vs. Jose Estrada Indianapolis, IN • June 23, 1987
The Handshake
Handicap Match
Hulk Hogan & “Macho Man” Randy Savage vs. The Honky Tonk Man & The Hart Foundation (Bret Hart & Jim Neidhart) Huntsville, AL • January 5, 1988
Owen Hart vs. Barry Horowitz Bristol, TN • March 8, 1988
WWE Championship Match
“Macho Man” Randy Savage vs. Andre the Giant New Haven, CT • April 21, 1988
WWE Tag Team Championship Match
Demolition vs. The Powers of Pain Glenn Falls, NY • June 21, 1988
WrestleMania V Fallout
Andre the Giant vs. Big John Studd Glenn Falls, NY • April 4, 1989
“Macho Man” Randy Savage vs. The Ultimate Warrior Glenn Falls, NY • April 4, 1989
Dusty Rhodes vs. “Million Dollar Man” Ted DiBiase Madison, WI • June 6, 1989
Hillbilly Jim & King Duggan vs. Haku & Andre the Giant Utica, NY • July 19, 1989
Tryouts
Brian (Crush) Adams vs. Barry Horowitz Fresno, CA • August 9, 1989
Earthquake Evans vs. Paul Roma Louisville, KY • September 20, 1989
The Rockers vs. Powers of Pain Miami, FL • January 22, 1990
WWE Tag Team Championship Match
Andre the Giant & Haku vs. Demolition Ft. Myers, FL • January 23, 1990
WWE Intercontinental Championship
The Ultimate Warrior vs. “Macho King” Randy Savage Ft. Myers, FL • January 23, 1990
DISC 2
An Aftershock on Hulkamania
Hulk Hogan vs. Earthquake Syracuse, NY • April 3, 1990
“Million Dollar Man” Ted DiBiase vs. The Big Boss Man Syracuse, NY • April 3, 1990
Mr. Perfect & Ravishing Rick Rude vs. The Ultimate Warrior & Texas Tornado Providence, RI • August 8, 1990
The Legion of Doom vs. Demolition Ft. Wayne, IN • October 30, 1990
War Eagle (Tatanka) vs. Dale Wolfe January 8, 1991
Yes. He is a Model
Blindfold Match
Rick “The Model” Martel vs. Jake “The Snake” Roberts Savannah, GA • January 29, 1991
Sid Justice vs. “Million Dollar Man” Ted DiBiase Calgary, AB • July 8, 1991
Casket Match
The Ultimate Warrior vs. The Undertaker Rochester, NY • August 19, 1991
Ric Flair vs. “Rowdy” Roddy Piper Huntington, WV • October 1, 1991
Who is Mr. Madness?
Jake “The Snake” Roberts vs. Mr. Madness (“Macho Man” Randy Savage) Springfield, MA • November 12, 1991
WWE Championship
Hulk Hogan vs. Ric Flair Springfield, MA • November 12, 1991
Piper’s Pit with The Brooklyn Brawler Toledo, OH • April 7, 1992
Bret “Hit Man” Hart vs. The British Bulldog Binghamton, NY • June 30, 1992
Bret “Hit Man” Hart & The Ultimate Warrior vs. Papa Shango & Kamala Regina, SK • October 13, 1992
The Undertaker vs. Bam Bam Bigelow Fresno, CA • January 26, 1993
Radical Dudes
The Toxic Turtles (Timmy & Tommy Turtle) vs. Tommy Stevenson & Ron Preston Augusta, GA • March 9, 1993
DISC 3
Double Down on the Deadman
The Undertaker vs. Giant Gonzalez Phoenix, AZ • April 5, 1993
Kip Winchester & Brett Colt (The Smoking Gunns) vs. Barry Horowitz & Reno Riggins Phoenix, AZ • April 5, 1993
Intercontinental Championship Match
Shawn Michaels vs. Mr. Perfect Tucson, AZ • April 6, 1993
The Tazmaniac vs. Skippy Taylor (Scott Taylor) Portland, ME • May 5, 1993
Bret “Hit Man” Hart vs. Yokozuna Portland, ME • May 5, 1993
Hulk Hogan & Brutus “The Barber” Beefcake vs. Money Inc.
Guest Referee: Sgt. Slaughter Columbus, OH • June 14, 1993
Lex Luger vs. Ludvig Borga Burlington, VT • October 20, 1993
“Macho Man” Randy Savage vs. Crush White Plains, NY • February 1, 1994
WWE Championship Match
Bret “Hit Man” Hart vs. Jim “The Anvil” Neidhart Montreal, QC • October 21, 1994
Climbing Unseen Heights
Ladder Match for the Intercontinental Championship
Jeff Jarrett vs. The British Bulldog Danbury, CT • May 16, 1995
Ladder Match for the Intercontinental Championship
Jeff Jarrett vs. Razor Ramon Struthers, OH • June 5, 1995
Strange Bedfellows
Shawn Michaels & Bret “Hit Man” Hart vs. Jerry “The King” Lawler & Hakushi St. Louis, MO • July 26, 1995
Steel Cage Match for the WWE Championship
Diesel vs. Yokozuna St. Louis, MO • July 26, 1995
What A Day!
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The only thing that sucks there’s no commentary which I wish they did so I won’t fall asleep cus I need some commentary should have Jessie the body but we all know why or at least Bobby the brain and gorilla monsoon would have been awesome
I’d rather see TV matches that haven’t been released on DVD yet, best matches and moments from Superstars of Wrestling, Prime Time Wrestling, Wrestling Challenge, etc.
I want all the buildup to the PPVs that HAVE been released on DVD already.
Honestly i’d rather have this type of set where it’s matches that I’ve never seen before over the buildups and a DVD of squash matches and segments. Also I feel like a lot of that is either already available on the Network or will be on the network at some point soon.
Not complaining at all bcuz I totally love the match selection except for the squash matches but if they had included Hogan vs Jake from Providence in 86,Savage vs Taker from 91, Warrior vs Flair from 92, it would’ve been great. Hopefully there’ll be a Volume 2 in the future so we can get more unreleased content. Can’t wait for this set to come out.
Can’t wait to buy this. The ladder matches, bret hart and bulldog match. Oh yeah. I hope this sells great so wwe releases another. Still hoping we get a release on Smokey Mountain Wrestling one day though.
I love how people are saying “oh they forgot to include this match” as if they know those matches exist and WWE just thought “nah we’re not putting this on it”. They’re all dark matches! No one knows what they have cause no one has seen them! Get the concept?
But people DO know they exist. They’re not just coming up with random matches that they hope exist. The matches people are naming all happened at TV tapings, just like the ones on this set. Now granted you can’t include everything on one set, so hopefully there will be several more of these types of releases.
It’s pretty common knowledge that on TV taping nights WWE records everything. That’s been their regular procedure going back decades. Is it possible they didn’t record every single last match? Maybe, but not likely.
As he said, it’s what’s called “common knowledge”. That means over the years, people who work for WWE have made it known, whether via shoot interviews, word of mouth etc. Therefore you don’t have to work for WWE to know that they do this. It’s not LP1’s fault that you have never come across this information before.
Also I’ve been to a ton of TV tapings going back from the 80’s until today and there’s always cameras rolling for everything. From the opening dark match until the final match of the night. I can’t remember a TV taping where there wasn’t a camera man at ringside for any match. Now does that mean they recorded every match ever at these tapings? Possibly not, bust likely yes.
Logical conversation? I say “how can you be so sure they have the matches?” and you say “because they do, I’ve seen cameras at the events I went to” That doesn’t sound logical to me, that sounds like you’re guessing. You come off as a know it all and it’s annoying
Other people make points that back up what I’m saying and you start in with rooming together and driving to work together. Those are ignorant comments.
LP1 offers an eye witness account of general WWE practice and that isn’t enough to convince you, so you carry on like a spoiled little child. You’re a bizarre excuse for a “Wrestling Fan”.
HA! An eye witness account! He saw someone hold a camera once so it must be hidden in the tape archives in stamford. Give me a break. He’s a pompous jerk and you all know it
Stop mentioning “Stamford”. Okay, very clever – you know where WWE Headquarters is. Grow up. Secondly, have you not noticed that parts where LP1 agrees chat it’s “possible” that not everything was recorded? Therefore he is NOT saying the tapes “must” be in the archives, is he? So how is he pompous? You tool.
Yes, Flair-Hogan!!! They showed clips from this match on the second Flair DVD set. 14:52 was about as long as they went during their series of matches between October ’91 and March ’92. So, it might be a good one!!!
Wanted the Brainbusters-Rockers match from Ontario in Jan. ’89, but maybe that’ll be released on another set like this in the future.
Looking up a few of the tapings from where these matches are listed from, I noticed Savage vs Morales does not come up in results from Binghamton 10/86. This would be taping where Savage attacked Steamboat with the ring bell. So unless the online source just overlooked it, I’m not sure where exactly the Savage-Morales match comes from (it’s not MSG, that definitely aired).
If you looked at Graham’s site, some of the TV tapings are incomplete. There are a lot of TV tapings on that site that are incomplete, so no one know other matches happened at those.
They left out August 26, 1994 in Des Moines, Iowa. 3 days before the undertaker returned at Sumerslam on August 29th, he beat Yokozuna in a casket match. Ted Dibiase and his fake undertaker originally came out to wrestle the match but then Paul Bearer brought a casket out with the real undertaker inside and Ted Dibiase and the imposter ran away. I would love to watch this entire thing play itself out on a DVD someday.
Amazing list, will be picking this one up. People should quit knocking the list, if there’s a match you want to see, just view it on the network or find it online…
I wanted to see these matches also. Especially Hogan vs Roberts. Maybe there was no camera rolling for that one which really is disappointing if that’s the case cause I’ve been wanting to see a Hogan vs Roberts match for about 30 years. Their feud was very brief and they only had a few matches together.
On YouTube there’s a 2 minute clip of Hogan vs Jake from 86 in Providence, Rhode Island, so at least we know they had the cameras rolling for this one. Hopefully it’s released on a future set. https://youtu.be/znVLuce720s
This Dvd looks fantastic but there are some matches missing that I would have loved to see:
Kamala/vs/King Kong Buddy, Ricky Steamboat/vs/Ted Dibiase,Hulk Hogan and Bruno Sammartino/vs/One Man Gang and King Kong Buddy,Randy Savage/vs/Ricky Steamboat(cage),Roddy Piper/vs/Adrian Adonis(Andre The Giant special ref)
Hope also that all the unseen King of the Ring events will be completely released on DVD and Blu-Ray. Matchlist looks great, but I was really hoping to see these awesome matches:
-Jake the Snake Roberts VS Hulk Hogan
-Randy MachoMan Savage VS Mr Wonderful Paul Orndorff
-Randy Savage & Hercules VS Billy Jack Haynes & Ricky Steamboat
-Randy Savage, Hercules & Butch Reed VS Billy Jack Haynes, Ricky Steamboat & Tito Santana in an Elimination match!!!
-Hercules & Andre the Giant VS Hulk Hogan & Ken Patera
-Hercules & Killer Khan VS Billy Jack Haynes & Ken Patera
-Hercules & Paul Orndorff VS Billy Jack Haynes & Ken Patera
-Hercules & King Kong Bundy VS Superstar Billy Graham & Ken Patera
-Hercules VS Superstar Billy Graham
-Hercules VS Billy Jack Haynes in a Chain match!
-Hercules vs Don The Rock Muraco
-Hercules VS Bruno Sammartino
-Hercules VS Randy Macho Man Savage
-Mr Wonderful & Bam Bam Bigelow VS Hercules & King Kong Bundy
-WWF World Champion Randy Savage VS Ravishing Rick Rude
-Ravishing Rick Rude VS Bret Hitman Hart
-Ravishing Rick Rude VS British Bulldog Davey Boy Smith
-The Barbarian VS Ricky Steamboat
-The Barbarian VS Dino Bravo
-Hulk Hogan VS The Warlord
-Hulk Hogan VS The Natural Butch Reed
-Hulk Hogan & Big Bossman VS Powers of Pain
-Ultimate Warrior & Don Muraco VS Bret Hart & Anvil Neidhart
-Ultimate Warrior VS Big Boss Man
-Ultimate Warrior VS Bad News Brown
-Ultimate Warrior VS Sid Justice
-Ultimate Warrior VS Big Van Vader
-Ultimate Warrior VS Kamala
-Ultimate Warrior VS Nailz
-Haku VS Andre the Giant after the Colossal Connection breakup from WM
-Sid Justice VS Jake the Snake Roberts
-Jake the Snake VS Hercules Hernandez
-Mr Wonderful VS Roddy Piper inside a Steel Cage!
-Mr Wonderful & Hulk HOgan VS Roddy Piper & Bob Orton inside a steel cage!
-Big Boss Man VS Dusty Rhodes inside a Steel Cage!
-Ultimate Warrior VS Andre the Giant inside a Steel cage!
-Brutus Beefcake VS Greg Valentine inside a Steel Cage!
-Bam Bam Bigelow & Don Muraco VS Butch Reed & One Man Gang inside a Steel Cage!
-Randy Savage VS Ricky Steamboat inside a Steel Cage!
-Hulk Hogan VS One Man Gang inside a Steel Cage!
-Hulk Hogan VS Randy Savage inside a steel cage!
-Hulk Hogan & Jake the Snake VS Randy Savage & Ted Dibiase inside a Steel Cage!
-Hercules Hernandez VS Billy Jack Haynes inside a Steel Cage!
-Ravishing Rick Rude VS Mr Wonderful inside a Steel Cage!
-Ravishing Rick Rude VS Big Boss Man inside a Steel Cage!
-Legion of Doom VS Demolition inside a Steel Cage!
-Randy Savage VS Jake the Snake inside a steel cage!
-Randy Savage VS Sid Justice inside a steel cage!
-Big Boss Man VS Nailz inside a Steel Cage!
-Razor Ramon VS Diesel inside a Steel Cage!
-Sid VS Bam Bam Bigelow inside a Steel Cage!
-Sid VS Diesel inside a Steel Cage!
-The Undertaker VS Randy Savage
-The Undertaker VS Narcissist Lex Luger
-The Undertaker VS Nailz
-The Undertaker VS Roddy Piper
and too many to name. They must continue with volume 2 and so on. Also releasing WWF cards from PWI.
Saw in youtube there was a promo for a match between Hulk Hogan, Randy Savage & Ricky Steamboat vs Hart Foundation & Honky Tonk Man. But could not find the match
So not only is Barry Horowitz on this three times and Dale Wolfe two times (if the extras are true) but Diesel and Yokozuna are only on it once and Razor Ramon is not on it at all. We may never see a crazier DVD set.
this set will be the worst ever, who wants old dinosaurs like Hogan, taker, flair, savage, etc plus countless jobber matches. They should have made a set over the god of wrestling, mr. john cena.
Cena is GOD! He created & destroyed the dinosaurs! He would beat everyone in there prime (Hogan, savage, flair, steamboat, etc)He is god! No one can touch him but in a few years there might be a new god named ROMAN REIGNS!
WCW Unreleased matches next? Or maybe one for the minor wrestling shows like WCW Thunder, Shotgun Saturday, Jakked, Superstars, Velocity, etc. Both of those would be great.
Savage vs warrior in 2 different matches? Seems excessive. Warrior vs Shanghai in 3 different matches, if the bonus features are true, seems like overkill. With technology these days 45 matches is nothing considering the debut matches will be short. I’m hoping the bonus matches will be clarified later. A few matches looks good.
Earthquake Evans vs… PAUL ROMA!!! It’s happening! WWE is finally hearing my cries! The original phenom so the wwf/wwe is getting the dvd treatment! Can you say “Paul Roma: The Ultimate Collection” 4 disc dvd set (yes, 4 discs) in 2017???
I love the old DVD matches with no commentary; in my opinion, it’s the closest thing to sitting in an arena back in the day and watching matches that you will find.
This set looks amazing … but I only wish they had included Jake Roberts vs Hulk Hogan in this collection–or at all else, the infamous Snake Pit where Jake DDT’d Hogan. With all the talk about that Snake Pit segment over the years, one would think it would be a given for this collection.
This entire set is made up of content never intended to air, so no commentary was ever recorded. For Hogan’s set, most of the matches already had commentary, and JR and Lawler voiced over the rest.
Awesome match listing. These are the kind of releases I dreamed of, when I first started collecting WWE dvd’s in 2004. I would love to see a WCW/NWA version of this, with content not previously released on DVD/BD. Also a territories version featuring JCP/AWA/WCCW/Florida/Memphis/SMW/USWA matches would be spectacular.
For those dreading the possible lack of TV announcer commentary: you’d be better off letting these gems stand as is. Sean Mooney wasn’t the best play by play guy and I doubt he’s any better now. Or…would you really want Michael Cole and JBL or whomever dubbing some sort of ironic, sarcastic commentary over these? I’d rather watch the matches without someone making fun of what I am watching.
Exactly. The absolute last thing on the world I want is JBL and Cole talking over gems like these. if they had some kind of alternate commentary that was optional it should feature the guys who were in the match and someone like Corey Graves where they can dicuss the match and circumstances surrounding it. Unfortunately most of the wrestlers featured have passed away or aren’t affiliated with WWE anymore.
Pretty much. Yeah if I am going to watch an amazing collection such at this, last thing I want to hear is Cole and JBL fake laughing & trying to act cute over stuff I want to enjoy, or making unfunny references to Hogan’s trial or whatever.
I did find one oversight: I was certain we’d see the tryout match for Dwayne Johnson against the Brooklyn Brawler. He wore white boots a size too small. Lol. It was his first pro match, before even Flex Kavana.
WrestlingDVDNews can you guys confirm this? This would make the total nearly 60 matches. Not that anyone is begging for Phantasio vs. Rad Radford but still…
I really hope not. Store exclusives suck for people who don’t have those stores near them or don’t have them in their country. If they do decide that…it should be an amazon exclusive so people can easily obtain it.
Hey guys. We have a document listing all the matches which comes straight from WWE. What you see in the above article (our one on this site) is definitely what you’ll get!
Don’t know how any new matches could have surfaced in between time and 411 credited WDN at the beginning of their post. Nonetheless we’ll look into it what happened there.
I really hope not. Store exclusives suck for people who don’t have those stores near them or don’t have them in their country. If they do decide that…it should be an amazon exclusive so people can easily obtain it.
while I’m not “begging” for it, I think it would make a fun addition.
(I remember watching this match – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwmxqEJnzHE (official WWE youtube account), which turned out to be Phantasio’s ONLY match, and being amused by that strange gimmick)
WWF @ Phoenix, AZ – America West Arena – April 5, 1993 (7,000; 4,500 paid)
Wrestling Challenge taping:
Mr. Perfect pinned WWF IC Champion Shawn Michaels to win the title with the Perfect Plex; later in the taping it was announced that Perfect officially won the match via disqualification, for Michaels striking original referee Bill Alphonso, and that the decision of second referee Dave Hebner was overruled by WWF President Jack Tunney
I saw that on 411Mania & PWInsider. Unless they got the wrong information or WDN didn’t get those matches included in their document, it seems sketchy to me.
Unless I totally missed it, are we certain all these matches are complete? 45 matches over three discs, aside from the tryout matches (which obviously won’t go too long), either these matches are incredibly short or a lot of them may be JIP.
After re-looking at the Match listing, I have to say I’m really looking forward to these matches;
October 20, 1993
Lex Luger vs. Ludvig Borga
– I remember Luger & Borga in those days always around..
February 1, 1994
Macho Man Randy Savage vs. Crush
– As for these two, I hope it’s in connection w/one of my favourite WM matches that they had at Wrestlemania 10 in a falls count anyway match!
They both had a great rivalry.
I know a lot of people complain about no commentary but seeing as how these are all basically house shows and dark matches I doubt there will be commentary and I hope there isn’t. It’s nice to just sit back and listen to the sounds of a good wrestling match. Hopefully they dig up some more unreleased stuff like this and Attitude Era Vol 3.
Of course he can be a “real” wrestling fan. The arrogance of you to say that because somebody prefers something in a different format than you makes them “not a real fan”. Live – yes, okay – no commentary. It’s a different thing when you’re sat home watching on TV.
He literally said you May as well turn it off without commentary. Commentary can sometimes add to a live PPV or something but for matches from 30 years ago why would you need commentary that bad? I don’t watch wrestling for the commentary and saying that no commentary makes a match not worth watching is ludicrous.
That is correct scsa it makes it boring but nobody seems to get that.now I’m sure we are not real wrestling fans for saying that and we don’t like live shows either. I already know where this will go some people on here are so predictable. Just watch your DVDs on mute from now on since it means so little to you. And for the record piss on the crowd reaction. Like that matters at all. Now we’re gonna watch matches with no commentary to hear the crowd reaction. I’ve heard it all now gimme a f ing break.
Not just that, but think of it like this: if the matches contain no commentary (and this is very likely), you’d be better off. Let’s face it, Sean Mooney wasn’t exactly a great play by play guy. And would you really want Michael Cole and JBL or whomever dubbing some hideous, sarcastic commentary over these gems?
So long as I don’t have to suffer through Alfred Hayes’s commentary on every match, I’m happy with whatever commentary track there is (even if there isn’t one).
Never again will Barry Horowitz get 3 of his matches on 1 release. In all seriousness this looks awesome and I can’t wait to pick it up. Especially looking forward to the IC championship Ladder matches and the matches with Mr. Perfect, Macho Man, Rick Martel and Rick Rude. Only thing I would have changed is adding more than 1 Owen Hart match.
EXCELLENT work by WWE here. So much I am excited to see in this collection. With so many Hogan matches, he really should have made the cover. Out of the 45 matches here, I can say I’ve only seen clips of one: the Hogan/Piper tag match. A minute of footage made it into a Coliseum Video teaser.
This set looks great definitely getting it however nothing was mentioned about there being commentary or not. This comment might upset alot of people but oh well but if there is no commentary at all on this set then it hurts the set in my opinion. Attitude vol 3 would have been great if it had commentary but it only did on one match. Even if there’s only commentary on half the matches I would be happy but another set of unreleased with no commentary will really hurt this set in my opinion. I’m buying it either way but it will be so much better with commentary. Keeping my fingers crossed.
Some dates might be off, but for the most part are right. I just hope it sells well, then it would lead to more volumes and more unreleased content on superstar DVD’s.
Not my knowledge. These were dark matches at TV tapings. So basically they were like house show matches. They wouldnt be mentioned on TV unless there was a title change.
Wow! Unreleased indeed! Don’t remember the last time I saw a Pedro Morales match on a wwe set. Macho King, King Duggan, Tazmaniac, War Eagle, Dingo Warrior and other rarely released content of pre popular names of wrestlers more widely recognized by more popular names.
The last time we saw Pedro in a DVD set was, I believe, the WWE Championship one. Pretty sure a set has since come out with the NFL vs WWE battle royal though.
Are they going to release a blu ray set with extra bonus features? It still looks like a good set, they have matches with Demolition and Rockers vs. Powers of Pain. It looks like a good set, even if they’re not going to release a Blu-ray set with other bonus features.
not going to happen, as the WWE at the moment doesn’t release any match compilations as blurays anymore.
that being said, with a release like that which only contains old footage I’m fine with no bd since such a release would only be upscaled content anyway (which afaik makes no difference to the upscaling capabilities of a good player).
(unlike the Seth Rollins set which really should have been a bluray as well because most of its content was initially broadcast in hd)
I wonder if the last match is the now infamous cage match between Diesel & Yokozuna that went only around a minute just because Nash wanted to piss off Bill Watts backstage.
No, it isn’t. The match that went 1:00 happened in Sept. 1995 and was not held in a steel cage. It’s on the Coliseum Video release called “Confirmed Hits.”
The Turtles! That was my very first wrestling show ever! I was 7 years old and I marked for the Turtles so hard and wondered why they were never on tv. Can’t wait to relive it.
I’m not really surprised. Especially on sets like this but really on any non Undertaker set, content involving him is pretty rare. The Attitude Era vol.3 might be one of few exceptions if not the only one. This set has 3 Taker matches while Savage, Warrior, etc have more. It’s not a complaint by any means at all as this is an awesome set of unreleased material. I can only speculate that the reason Taker content is usually rare is bc they’re saving it for a set on him which I hope to God will have the ultimate career spanning retrospective documentary which is fine for dvd for those who prefer that but hoping it gets a bluray release as those discs can fit more content into them.
I’m interested in about 19-20 matches in this set. Still, I’m not sure so interested in buying it as I only like to buy & watch Blu-Ray’s.
However, wwe.co.uk (Fremantlemedia) always give a good offer for when buying 3 & since I’m interested in 2 other Blu’s, I rekon I’ll be pre-ordering this one!
The only matches I think that have live commentary are these.
Big John Studd, King Kong Bundy & Bobby “The Brain” Heenan vs. The Machines (Big Machine, Super Machine & Hulk [Hogan] Machine)
Baltimore, MD • September 16, 1986
Macho Man Randy Savage vs. Pedro Morales
Binghamton, NY • October 28, 1986
Hulk Hogan & “Rowdy” Roddy Piper vs. Paul Orndorff & Harley Race
Phoenix, AZ • December 9, 1986
The Dingo Warrior vs. Jose Estrada
Indianapolis, IN • June 23, 1987
Handicap Match
Hulk Hogan & “Macho Man” Randy Savage vs. The Honky Tonk Man & The Hart Foundation (Bret Hart & Jim Neidhart)
Huntsville, AL • January 5, 1988
Owen Hart vs. Barry Horowitz
Bristol, TN • March 8, 1988
WWE Championship Match
“Macho Man” Randy Savage vs. Andre the Giant
New Haven, CT • April 21, 1988
As for the others, they might of had a commentary track put on to be used for Coliseum Video, but ended up not being used.
somehow I doubt this ever going to end up on dvd. at this point it’s probably more likely that our best chances to see it in good quality is when “Superstars” gets eventually added to the Network.
Looks great. Wish there were some Rougeau brother matches. Don’t really care for the tryout matches. I hope there are some great matches but I’m not overly optimistic.
At this point I want WWE to release A Best of Coliseum video set
I don’t usually buy dvds as I’m one of those blu ray guy’s lol but how can i not buy this. This is perhaps my favorite match listing of any compilation set ever. Another Bret Hart vs British Bulldog match YES PLEASE
A truly fantastic listing, I’m really happy with this. Just a couple of things I’m wondering from those more ‘in the know’ than me regarding dates/tapings, etc:
1). Was anything here included on any Coliseum Video compilations?
2). Do we think there will be commentary on any of these matches at all, or pretty much on none of them like The Attitude Era Vol. 3?
All of these matches, with the exception of maybe 1 or 2, were held at TV tapings. So they should all be professionally shot with a hard camera and all.
Tremendous listing. And they stuck true to the never-before-seen theme. Can not wait for this. This is a concept where they can get several volumes out of it.
This is a really great set. I can’t wait to buy it. This set is just unbelievably great. They made this set look wonderful. So many matches never been seen and this again looks great. I knew this set would be great and I wish it was already here. I’d get it in a second.
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The only thing that sucks there’s no commentary which I wish they did so I won’t fall asleep cus I need some commentary should have Jessie the body but we all know why or at least Bobby the brain and gorilla monsoon would have been awesome
Where are the dark matches from Tuesday in texas
What’s with the Barry Horowitz matches? Does anyone really need to see those?
how come no bu ray? you could fit this on less disks. is it because the film quality of these matches don’t warrant a blu-ray?
It’s because cheap/stupid people don’t buy blu-rays so the sales were too slow.
So excited to get this set when it is released. Love unseen matches,loved the volume 3 of THE Attitude Era dvd collections.
Well done wwe,bring on vol 2,3,4
Looks awesome!
this looks like a really good dvd im definitely getting it
I’d rather see TV matches that haven’t been released on DVD yet, best matches and moments from Superstars of Wrestling, Prime Time Wrestling, Wrestling Challenge, etc.
I want all the buildup to the PPVs that HAVE been released on DVD already.
Honestly i’d rather have this type of set where it’s matches that I’ve never seen before over the buildups and a DVD of squash matches and segments. Also I feel like a lot of that is either already available on the Network or will be on the network at some point soon.
I wonder if there will be any hidden extras on this set, like maybe a quick squash match or untelevised interview segment?
Not complaining at all bcuz I totally love the match selection except for the squash matches but if they had included Hogan vs Jake from Providence in 86,Savage vs Taker from 91, Warrior vs Flair from 92, it would’ve been great. Hopefully there’ll be a Volume 2 in the future so we can get more unreleased content. Can’t wait for this set to come out.
I was hoping to see the elimination match
Men On Mission, Kama, and Psycho Sid vs. Lex Luger, HBK, Razor, and Taker
Can’t wait to buy this. The ladder matches, bret hart and bulldog match. Oh yeah. I hope this sells great so wwe releases another. Still hoping we get a release on Smokey Mountain Wrestling one day though.
So the Warrior Rude match on the extras looks like it is from a random houseshow (not a tv taping?). Interesting…
They might be off on some dates.
I love how people are saying “oh they forgot to include this match” as if they know those matches exist and WWE just thought “nah we’re not putting this on it”. They’re all dark matches! No one knows what they have cause no one has seen them! Get the concept?
But people DO know they exist. They’re not just coming up with random matches that they hope exist. The matches people are naming all happened at TV tapings, just like the ones on this set. Now granted you can’t include everything on one set, so hopefully there will be several more of these types of releases.
But how is anyone for sure they have them? You can read ring results all you want, but it doesn’t mean the cameras kept rolling all night
It’s pretty common knowledge that on TV taping nights WWE records everything. That’s been their regular procedure going back decades. Is it possible they didn’t record every single last match? Maybe, but not likely.
How long have you worked for WWE?
As he said, it’s what’s called “common knowledge”. That means over the years, people who work for WWE have made it known, whether via shoot interviews, word of mouth etc. Therefore you don’t have to work for WWE to know that they do this. It’s not LP1’s fault that you have never come across this information before.
Also I’ve been to a ton of TV tapings going back from the 80’s until today and there’s always cameras rolling for everything. From the opening dark match until the final match of the night. I can’t remember a TV taping where there wasn’t a camera man at ringside for any match. Now does that mean they recorded every match ever at these tapings? Possibly not, bust likely yes.
*but likely yes
Do you two room together in Stamford and drive to work every day together? Sounds like a sweet gig!
Yes, yes we do. That’s exactly it.
Rabidheat, don’t even bother responding to this guy. I’m trying to have a logical conversation and they respond with ignorant comments.
Logical conversation? I say “how can you be so sure they have the matches?” and you say “because they do, I’ve seen cameras at the events I went to” That doesn’t sound logical to me, that sounds like you’re guessing. You come off as a know it all and it’s annoying
Other people make points that back up what I’m saying and you start in with rooming together and driving to work together. Those are ignorant comments.
Join the discussion
Also that a lot of the dark matches in the 80’s and 90’s ended up on TV or video
LP1 offers an eye witness account of general WWE practice and that isn’t enough to convince you, so you carry on like a spoiled little child. You’re a bizarre excuse for a “Wrestling Fan”.
HA! An eye witness account! He saw someone hold a camera once so it must be hidden in the tape archives in stamford. Give me a break. He’s a pompous jerk and you all know it
Stop mentioning “Stamford”. Okay, very clever – you know where WWE Headquarters is. Grow up. Secondly, have you not noticed that parts where LP1 agrees chat it’s “possible” that not everything was recorded? Therefore he is NOT saying the tapes “must” be in the archives, is he? So how is he pompous? You tool.
I love how he couldn’t answer this.
it’s also why a release like “Best of Raw: After the Show” can even exist in the first place.
Warrior, Warrior, Warrior!
Always Believe!
Yes, Flair-Hogan!!! They showed clips from this match on the second Flair DVD set. 14:52 was about as long as they went during their series of matches between October ’91 and March ’92. So, it might be a good one!!!
Wanted the Brainbusters-Rockers match from Ontario in Jan. ’89, but maybe that’ll be released on another set like this in the future.
Yes we need the Brainbusters!
A really fun and interesting concept for a DVD set. I am intrigued by a lot of these matches and the amount of content is staggering!
I am eagerly anticipating an in-depth review of this one in the coming months 🙂
Looking up a few of the tapings from where these matches are listed from, I noticed Savage vs Morales does not come up in results from Binghamton 10/86. This would be taping where Savage attacked Steamboat with the ring bell. So unless the online source just overlooked it, I’m not sure where exactly the Savage-Morales match comes from (it’s not MSG, that definitely aired).
If you looked at Graham’s site, some of the TV tapings are incomplete. There are a lot of TV tapings on that site that are incomplete, so no one know other matches happened at those.
They left out August 26, 1994 in Des Moines, Iowa. 3 days before the undertaker returned at Sumerslam on August 29th, he beat Yokozuna in a casket match. Ted Dibiase and his fake undertaker originally came out to wrestle the match but then Paul Bearer brought a casket out with the real undertaker inside and Ted Dibiase and the imposter ran away. I would love to watch this entire thing play itself out on a DVD someday.
Decent list. I would have loved to see the following:
WrestleMania 10 – Shawn Michaels vs. Razor Ramon
Lol, you put that across in a funny way, I’ll give you that. Even though you are the name-changing troll that nobody likes.
Amazing list, will be picking this one up. People should quit knocking the list, if there’s a match you want to see, just view it on the network or find it online…
#everyonesentitledtotheiropinion
Should’ve included:
Hogan Vs. Roberts
Savage Vs. Undertaker
Well it didn’t. What are you going to do about it?
*pete rose voice*
How bout it!
I wanted to see these matches also. Especially Hogan vs Roberts. Maybe there was no camera rolling for that one which really is disappointing if that’s the case cause I’ve been wanting to see a Hogan vs Roberts match for about 30 years. Their feud was very brief and they only had a few matches together.
On YouTube there’s a 2 minute clip of Hogan vs Jake from 86 in Providence, Rhode Island, so at least we know they had the cameras rolling for this one. Hopefully it’s released on a future set.
https://youtu.be/znVLuce720s
This Dvd looks fantastic but there are some matches missing that I would have loved to see:
Kamala/vs/King Kong Buddy, Ricky Steamboat/vs/Ted Dibiase,Hulk Hogan and Bruno Sammartino/vs/One Man Gang and King Kong Buddy,Randy Savage/vs/Ricky Steamboat(cage),Roddy Piper/vs/Adrian Adonis(Andre The Giant special ref)
Hope also that all the unseen King of the Ring events will be completely released on DVD and Blu-Ray. Matchlist looks great, but I was really hoping to see these awesome matches:
-Jake the Snake Roberts VS Hulk Hogan
-Randy MachoMan Savage VS Mr Wonderful Paul Orndorff
-Randy Savage & Hercules VS Billy Jack Haynes & Ricky Steamboat
-Randy Savage, Hercules & Butch Reed VS Billy Jack Haynes, Ricky Steamboat & Tito Santana in an Elimination match!!!
-Hercules & Andre the Giant VS Hulk Hogan & Ken Patera
-Hercules & Killer Khan VS Billy Jack Haynes & Ken Patera
-Hercules & Paul Orndorff VS Billy Jack Haynes & Ken Patera
-Hercules & King Kong Bundy VS Superstar Billy Graham & Ken Patera
-Hercules VS Superstar Billy Graham
-Hercules VS Billy Jack Haynes in a Chain match!
-Hercules vs Don The Rock Muraco
-Hercules VS Bruno Sammartino
-Hercules VS Randy Macho Man Savage
-Mr Wonderful & Bam Bam Bigelow VS Hercules & King Kong Bundy
-WWF World Champion Randy Savage VS Ravishing Rick Rude
-Ravishing Rick Rude VS Bret Hitman Hart
-Ravishing Rick Rude VS British Bulldog Davey Boy Smith
-The Barbarian VS Ricky Steamboat
-The Barbarian VS Dino Bravo
-Hulk Hogan VS The Warlord
-Hulk Hogan VS The Natural Butch Reed
-Hulk Hogan & Big Bossman VS Powers of Pain
-Ultimate Warrior & Don Muraco VS Bret Hart & Anvil Neidhart
-Ultimate Warrior VS Big Boss Man
-Ultimate Warrior VS Bad News Brown
-Ultimate Warrior VS Sid Justice
-Ultimate Warrior VS Big Van Vader
-Ultimate Warrior VS Kamala
-Ultimate Warrior VS Nailz
-Haku VS Andre the Giant after the Colossal Connection breakup from WM
-Sid Justice VS Jake the Snake Roberts
-Jake the Snake VS Hercules Hernandez
-Mr Wonderful VS Roddy Piper inside a Steel Cage!
-Mr Wonderful & Hulk HOgan VS Roddy Piper & Bob Orton inside a steel cage!
-Big Boss Man VS Dusty Rhodes inside a Steel Cage!
-Ultimate Warrior VS Andre the Giant inside a Steel cage!
-Brutus Beefcake VS Greg Valentine inside a Steel Cage!
-Bam Bam Bigelow & Don Muraco VS Butch Reed & One Man Gang inside a Steel Cage!
-Randy Savage VS Ricky Steamboat inside a Steel Cage!
-Hulk Hogan VS One Man Gang inside a Steel Cage!
-Hulk Hogan VS Randy Savage inside a steel cage!
-Hulk Hogan & Jake the Snake VS Randy Savage & Ted Dibiase inside a Steel Cage!
-Hercules Hernandez VS Billy Jack Haynes inside a Steel Cage!
-Ravishing Rick Rude VS Mr Wonderful inside a Steel Cage!
-Ravishing Rick Rude VS Big Boss Man inside a Steel Cage!
-Legion of Doom VS Demolition inside a Steel Cage!
-Randy Savage VS Jake the Snake inside a steel cage!
-Randy Savage VS Sid Justice inside a steel cage!
-Big Boss Man VS Nailz inside a Steel Cage!
-Razor Ramon VS Diesel inside a Steel Cage!
-Sid VS Bam Bam Bigelow inside a Steel Cage!
-Sid VS Diesel inside a Steel Cage!
-The Undertaker VS Randy Savage
-The Undertaker VS Narcissist Lex Luger
-The Undertaker VS Nailz
-The Undertaker VS Roddy Piper
and too many to name. They must continue with volume 2 and so on. Also releasing WWF cards from PWI.
Saw in youtube there was a promo for a match between Hulk Hogan, Randy Savage & Ricky Steamboat vs Hart Foundation & Honky Tonk Man. But could not find the match
So not only is Barry Horowitz on this three times and Dale Wolfe two times (if the extras are true) but Diesel and Yokozuna are only on it once and Razor Ramon is not on it at all. We may never see a crazier DVD set.
Razor is there, vs. Jarrett in a Ladder Match.
Haha, read more closely phewl.
a lot of the 90’s matches were taped for various shows so I bet some will include commentating
They would have to have present day announcers do it. None of these matches ever aired, so no commentary would have been done at the time.
It’s always possible that they did commentary for it, but then never used the match for anything.
I guess it’s possible for the 1986-88 matches, although unlikely, but from June 1988 forward, all the commentary was done in post-production.
this set will be the worst ever, who wants old dinosaurs like Hogan, taker, flair, savage, etc plus countless jobber matches. They should have made a set over the god of wrestling, mr. john cena.
Every other poster below disagrees, so you know … whatever, young’un.
Cena is GOD! He created & destroyed the dinosaurs! He would beat everyone in there prime (Hogan, savage, flair, steamboat, etc)He is god! No one can touch him but in a few years there might be a new god named ROMAN REIGNS!
Signed,
John Cena’s Mother
You do realize a dinosaur would crush your little Cena to death, right?
Pardon my language, but this is f***ing awesome. I am definitely going to own this set. It looks awesome.
“Pardon my language, except don’t, because I’m gonna just say it anyway, without censoring it at all.
WCW Unreleased matches next? Or maybe one for the minor wrestling shows like WCW Thunder, Shotgun Saturday, Jakked, Superstars, Velocity, etc. Both of those would be great.
the extra list has 2 papa shango-warrior matches, wtf
Savage vs warrior in 2 different matches? Seems excessive. Warrior vs Shanghai in 3 different matches, if the bonus features are true, seems like overkill. With technology these days 45 matches is nothing considering the debut matches will be short. I’m hoping the bonus matches will be clarified later. A few matches looks good.
Warrior versus the whole of Shanghai? Wow.
I think he meant shango, you dolt
Get away, really? You don’t think I already knew that and was joking? Thank you for demonstrating who the real dolt is.
Well people are pretty dumb these day rabidheat, you duffelinmachin
I immediately googled “duffelinmachin”, nothing showed up. Google must be dumb too.
I was hoping they would include Roddy Piper vs Undertaker in a body bag match from 1991, but otherwise an awesome set. Can’t wait to get it!
Earthquake Evans vs… PAUL ROMA!!! It’s happening! WWE is finally hearing my cries! The original phenom so the wwf/wwe is getting the dvd treatment! Can you say “Paul Roma: The Ultimate Collection” 4 disc dvd set (yes, 4 discs) in 2017???
Think you were trying a bit too hard to be funny here mate; it’s kind of backfired.
Tenta is managed by Slick for this match.
I love the old DVD matches with no commentary; in my opinion, it’s the closest thing to sitting in an arena back in the day and watching matches that you will find.
This set looks amazing … but I only wish they had included Jake Roberts vs Hulk Hogan in this collection–or at all else, the infamous Snake Pit where Jake DDT’d Hogan. With all the talk about that Snake Pit segment over the years, one would think it would be a given for this collection.
Why would they have no commentary I remember hulk hogan unrealeased matches all had commentary
This entire set is made up of content never intended to air, so no commentary was ever recorded. For Hogan’s set, most of the matches already had commentary, and JR and Lawler voiced over the rest.
Chris do think they will have commentary for some or defo no commentary at all. Or will there be voice overs.
Hogan’s set had mostly matches that were shown on Prime Time Wrestling, MSG, Spectrum, Prism and other networks that aired live events.
Warrior, Warrior, Warrior!
– It’s about damn time that Ultimate Warrior made it on the cover of a DVD!
– Warrior, Warrior, Warrior!
I know, because he’s like … one of the true greats between the ropes, right?
Awesome match listing. These are the kind of releases I dreamed of, when I first started collecting WWE dvd’s in 2004. I would love to see a WCW/NWA version of this, with content not previously released on DVD/BD. Also a territories version featuring JCP/AWA/WCCW/Florida/Memphis/SMW/USWA matches would be spectacular.
unfortunately I’m pretty certain the best bet for that would be some sort of “Hidden Gems” collection on the Network.
For those dreading the possible lack of TV announcer commentary: you’d be better off letting these gems stand as is. Sean Mooney wasn’t the best play by play guy and I doubt he’s any better now. Or…would you really want Michael Cole and JBL or whomever dubbing some sort of ironic, sarcastic commentary over these? I’d rather watch the matches without someone making fun of what I am watching.
the best option would probably be optional commentary (similar to the alternate commentary on some other releases).
That’s a really good idea. An alternate commentary track. This way everyone gets what they prefer.
PWG does that. There’s no excuse why WWE doesnt
WWE used to do it on lots of DVDs back in the day, when they could be bothered.
Exactly. The absolute last thing on the world I want is JBL and Cole talking over gems like these. if they had some kind of alternate commentary that was optional it should feature the guys who were in the match and someone like Corey Graves where they can dicuss the match and circumstances surrounding it. Unfortunately most of the wrestlers featured have passed away or aren’t affiliated with WWE anymore.
Pretty much. Yeah if I am going to watch an amazing collection such at this, last thing I want to hear is Cole and JBL fake laughing & trying to act cute over stuff I want to enjoy, or making unfunny references to Hogan’s trial or whatever.
I really hope there isn’t some best buy exclusive or some shit. But if those extras are on it, it’s way to much for 3 discs
I did find one oversight: I was certain we’d see the tryout match for Dwayne Johnson against the Brooklyn Brawler. He wore white boots a size too small. Lol. It was his first pro match, before even Flex Kavana.
411Mania.com/wrestling is listing this set with a set of bonus matches labeled “Extras.”
Here’s what they’re listing as extras.
Hulk Hogan & Bam Bam Bigelow vs. Andre the Giant & “Million Dollar Man” Ted DiBiase
Hershey, PA • January 26, 1988
Steel Cage Match for the WWE Championship
Randy Savage vs. Hulk Hogan
Wheeling, WV • October 2, 1989
WWE Championship Match
The Ultimate Warrior vs. Rick Rude
Toledo, Ohio • June 10, 1990
Papa Shango vs. The Ultimate Warrior
Ottawa, Ontario • June 1, 1992
Kamala vs. The Ultimate Warrior
Landover, MD • September 1, 1992
Kamala & Papa Shango vs. Undertaker & Ultimate Warrior
Worcester, MA • July 20, 1992
Ultimate Warrior vs. Papa Shango
Terra Haute, IN • October 27, 1992
The Mad Monk (Friar Ferguson/Bastion Booger) vs. Bobby Young
Phoenix, AZ • April 5, 1993
The Harris Twins vs. Dale Wolfe & Tim Patterson
Phoenix, AZ • April 5, 1993
Intercontinental Championship Match
Shawn Michaels vs. Mr. Perfect
Phoenix, AZ • April 5, 1993
The Harlem Knights (Men on a Mission) vs. Mike Bell & Tony DeVito
Portland, ME • May 5, 1993
Shawn Michaels vs. Jerry Lawler
Wheeling, WV • June 6, 1995
Phantasio vs. Rad Radford
St. Louis, MO • July 26, 1995
WrestlingDVDNews can you guys confirm this? This would make the total nearly 60 matches. Not that anyone is begging for Phantasio vs. Rad Radford but still…
I doubt they could fit so many on three discs! They may as well present Blu-ray edition otherwise!
Besides ‘Fremantlemedia’ haven’t listed it;
https://www.wwedvd.co.uk/unreleased-1986-1995-order-p-12375.html?osCsid=8402a2dedd8eec68221f901d60bc5e62
Nor has wrestlingdvdnetwork
Unlesw there’s gonna be a store-exclusive with a bonus 4th disc like they did for the Piper release and the Hogan Anthology release.
Sorry for the double post.
I really hope not. Store exclusives suck for people who don’t have those stores near them or don’t have them in their country. If they do decide that…it should be an amazon exclusive so people can easily obtain it.
Hey guys. We have a document listing all the matches which comes straight from WWE. What you see in the above article (our one on this site) is definitely what you’ll get!
Don’t know how any new matches could have surfaced in between time and 411 credited WDN at the beginning of their post. Nonetheless we’ll look into it what happened there.
PWInsider is also listing these extra matches. I’m curious where they got this info from.
I really hope not. Store exclusives suck for people who don’t have those stores near them or don’t have them in their country. If they do decide that…it should be an amazon exclusive so people can easily obtain it.
while I’m not “begging” for it, I think it would make a fun addition.
(I remember watching this match – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwmxqEJnzHE (official WWE youtube account), which turned out to be Phantasio’s ONLY match, and being amused by that strange gimmick)
The April 5th match 1993 doesn’t state the IC title on the line on the link that ‘Chris’ gave of; http://411mania.com/wrestling/full-listing-on-wwes-unreleased-matches-1985-1993-dvd-set/
It is a title match.
WWF @ Phoenix, AZ – America West Arena – April 5, 1993 (7,000; 4,500 paid)
Wrestling Challenge taping:
Mr. Perfect pinned WWF IC Champion Shawn Michaels to win the title with the Perfect Plex; later in the taping it was announced that Perfect officially won the match via disqualification, for Michaels striking original referee Bill Alphonso, and that the decision of second referee Dave Hebner was overruled by WWF President Jack Tunney
Okay, thanks.
Warrior vs Kamala I’m sold
I saw that on 411Mania & PWInsider. Unless they got the wrong information or WDN didn’t get those matches included in their document, it seems sketchy to me.
What are they having 2 versions being released? One regular and one with an extra disc?
One more thing…
Unless I totally missed it, are we certain all these matches are complete? 45 matches over three discs, aside from the tryout matches (which obviously won’t go too long), either these matches are incredibly short or a lot of them may be JIP.
They probably are just short, to be fair, from that era. Ultimate Warrior matches are guaranteed to be short in themselves.
they don’t even have to be THAT short.
let’s say this has a runtime of about 9 hours (like the upcoming Angle dvd is supposed to be).
9 hours are 540 minutes. that would make an average of 12 minutes per match.
After re-looking at the Match listing, I have to say I’m really looking forward to these matches;
October 20, 1993
Lex Luger vs. Ludvig Borga
– I remember Luger & Borga in those days always around..
February 1, 1994
Macho Man Randy Savage vs. Crush
– As for these two, I hope it’s in connection w/one of my favourite WM matches that they had at Wrestlemania 10 in a falls count anyway match!
They both had a great rivalry.
The Randy Savage vs Crush match is a lead up to their WrestleMania encounter. They started feuding from October 1993 until April 1994.
I know a lot of people complain about no commentary but seeing as how these are all basically house shows and dark matches I doubt there will be commentary and I hope there isn’t. It’s nice to just sit back and listen to the sounds of a good wrestling match. Hopefully they dig up some more unreleased stuff like this and Attitude Era Vol 3.
I’d say no to that! No commentary can make a match very boring, if you prefer no commentary, just turn it off
If you think that not having commentary makes wrestling not worth watching then you obviously are not a real wrestling fan.
Of course he can be a “real” wrestling fan. The arrogance of you to say that because somebody prefers something in a different format than you makes them “not a real fan”. Live – yes, okay – no commentary. It’s a different thing when you’re sat home watching on TV.
He literally said you May as well turn it off without commentary. Commentary can sometimes add to a live PPV or something but for matches from 30 years ago why would you need commentary that bad? I don’t watch wrestling for the commentary and saying that no commentary makes a match not worth watching is ludicrous.
That doesn’t work because by turning the sound off then you’re also muting the crowd reactions, the action in the ring, etc.
That is correct scsa it makes it boring but nobody seems to get that.now I’m sure we are not real wrestling fans for saying that and we don’t like live shows either. I already know where this will go some people on here are so predictable. Just watch your DVDs on mute from now on since it means so little to you. And for the record piss on the crowd reaction. Like that matters at all. Now we’re gonna watch matches with no commentary to hear the crowd reaction. I’ve heard it all now gimme a f ing break.
Not just that, but think of it like this: if the matches contain no commentary (and this is very likely), you’d be better off. Let’s face it, Sean Mooney wasn’t exactly a great play by play guy. And would you really want Michael Cole and JBL or whomever dubbing some hideous, sarcastic commentary over these gems?
Bad commentary is better than no commentary. I don’t care who does it its better than nothing at all.
I wholeheartedly disagree with that. Sometimes bad commentary can ruin a great match.
Plus hearing modern commentators call matches from 25-30 years ago wouldn’t sound right.
So long as I don’t have to suffer through Alfred Hayes’s commentary on every match, I’m happy with whatever commentary track there is (even if there isn’t one).
Never again will Barry Horowitz get 3 of his matches on 1 release. In all seriousness this looks awesome and I can’t wait to pick it up. Especially looking forward to the IC championship Ladder matches and the matches with Mr. Perfect, Macho Man, Rick Martel and Rick Rude. Only thing I would have changed is adding more than 1 Owen Hart match.
EXCELLENT work by WWE here. So much I am excited to see in this collection. With so many Hogan matches, he really should have made the cover. Out of the 45 matches here, I can say I’ve only seen clips of one: the Hogan/Piper tag match. A minute of footage made it into a Coliseum Video teaser.
I guess Hogan is missing on the cover for the obvious reasons.
Eh, at least he’s in the content so I guess that’s a step up.
He might still be on the back cover, for all we know.
This set looks great definitely getting it however nothing was mentioned about there being commentary or not. This comment might upset alot of people but oh well but if there is no commentary at all on this set then it hurts the set in my opinion. Attitude vol 3 would have been great if it had commentary but it only did on one match. Even if there’s only commentary on half the matches I would be happy but another set of unreleased with no commentary will really hurt this set in my opinion. I’m buying it either way but it will be so much better with commentary. Keeping my fingers crossed.
WWE Championship Match
Bret “Hit Man” Hart vs. Jim “The Anvil” Neidhart
Montreal, QC • October 21, 1994
OMG!!! A match from the Montreal Forum!!!
Some dates might be off, but for the most part are right. I just hope it sells well, then it would lead to more volumes and more unreleased content on superstar DVD’s.
Does any of these matches were from PPV???
Nope. Not one of these matches have been shown anywhere. Not TV, PPV, VHS, DVD, BD, the Network. Only the fans in the arenas saw them.
Were they ever mentioned in commentary or any such talk like say in the following TV or PPV event?
Not my knowledge. These were dark matches at TV tapings. So basically they were like house show matches. They wouldnt be mentioned on TV unless there was a title change.
*Not to my knowledge
Warrior and Bret vs Shango and Kamala has me sold
Same here!… Warrior rules!
Wow! Unreleased indeed! Don’t remember the last time I saw a Pedro Morales match on a wwe set. Macho King, King Duggan, Tazmaniac, War Eagle, Dingo Warrior and other rarely released content of pre popular names of wrestlers more widely recognized by more popular names.
The last time we saw Pedro in a DVD set was, I believe, the WWE Championship one. Pretty sure a set has since come out with the NFL vs WWE battle royal though.
No wmX ladder match?….best DVD in years day one full price buy for me very excited!!
Are they going to release a blu ray set with extra bonus features? It still looks like a good set, they have matches with Demolition and Rockers vs. Powers of Pain. It looks like a good set, even if they’re not going to release a Blu-ray set with other bonus features.
not going to happen, as the WWE at the moment doesn’t release any match compilations as blurays anymore.
that being said, with a release like that which only contains old footage I’m fine with no bd since such a release would only be upscaled content anyway (which afaik makes no difference to the upscaling capabilities of a good player).
(unlike the Seth Rollins set which really should have been a bluray as well because most of its content was initially broadcast in hd)
I wonder if the last match is the now infamous cage match between Diesel & Yokozuna that went only around a minute just because Nash wanted to piss off Bill Watts backstage.
No, it isn’t. The match that went 1:00 happened in Sept. 1995 and was not held in a steel cage. It’s on the Coliseum Video release called “Confirmed Hits.”
Sad thing is, i just sat thru that 1 minute match.
The cage match also has Yokozuna at some point actually climbing the cage.
I really wanted the Shawn/Bret teaming up and the Diesel/Yoko cage match. I got them. Good stuff here.
The Turtles! That was my very first wrestling show ever! I was 7 years old and I marked for the Turtles so hard and wondered why they were never on tv. Can’t wait to relive it.
Bit confused – the following match was mentioned in the other article yesterday, but is now not listed above:
The Ultimate Warrior & Legion of Doom vs. Demolition
Madison Square Garden, circa 1990.
Daniel Bee said it was just speculation about that match. It wasn’t confirmed because WWE was still in the process of choosing the matches.
Yeah, we may have been thrown a red herring or two (unless Warrior shows up in that one, don’t think so) – the Taz match we named did make it.
The Hart/Neidhart match on disc 3 is the only house show match on the set.
I’m surprised the Savage/Undertaker dark match from July 1991 wasn’t included.
I’m not really surprised. Especially on sets like this but really on any non Undertaker set, content involving him is pretty rare. The Attitude Era vol.3 might be one of few exceptions if not the only one. This set has 3 Taker matches while Savage, Warrior, etc have more. It’s not a complaint by any means at all as this is an awesome set of unreleased material. I can only speculate that the reason Taker content is usually rare is bc they’re saving it for a set on him which I hope to God will have the ultimate career spanning retrospective documentary which is fine for dvd for those who prefer that but hoping it gets a bluray release as those discs can fit more content into them.
I’m interested in about 19-20 matches in this set. Still, I’m not sure so interested in buying it as I only like to buy & watch Blu-Ray’s.
However, wwe.co.uk (Fremantlemedia) always give a good offer for when buying 3 & since I’m interested in 2 other Blu’s, I rekon I’ll be pre-ordering this one!
How come you can’t pre order this on Amazon yet
The turtles, who the f**k is that? A day one for me, love jobber matches of days past. Listing looks solid
The Toxic Turtles were Duane Gill and Barry Hardy.
Thanks
Sounds awesome. But there won’t be a bluray version?
Wonder if WWE record some commentary for a few of these matches? That’d be cool 🙂
Yeah it would. Looks like a decent amount of this was on tv or coliseum so a lot of it already has old commentary. It’s a nice balance.
actually now that I look at it I think none have commentary from that era which is the only bad thing about this set
Yeah, everything on this set was never used, so it’s likely none of it has commentary.
The only matches I think that have live commentary are these.
Big John Studd, King Kong Bundy & Bobby “The Brain” Heenan vs. The Machines (Big Machine, Super Machine & Hulk [Hogan] Machine)
Baltimore, MD • September 16, 1986
Macho Man Randy Savage vs. Pedro Morales
Binghamton, NY • October 28, 1986
Hulk Hogan & “Rowdy” Roddy Piper vs. Paul Orndorff & Harley Race
Phoenix, AZ • December 9, 1986
The Dingo Warrior vs. Jose Estrada
Indianapolis, IN • June 23, 1987
Handicap Match
Hulk Hogan & “Macho Man” Randy Savage vs. The Honky Tonk Man & The Hart Foundation (Bret Hart & Jim Neidhart)
Huntsville, AL • January 5, 1988
Owen Hart vs. Barry Horowitz
Bristol, TN • March 8, 1988
WWE Championship Match
“Macho Man” Randy Savage vs. Andre the Giant
New Haven, CT • April 21, 1988
As for the others, they might of had a commentary track put on to be used for Coliseum Video, but ended up not being used.
crazy listing including all the big names of that time. definitely going to preorder this one.
wow just wow cant wait to get my hands on this
No Blu Ray wtf I’m still going to get it why cus I don’t have none of these matches and that’s what I like about it can’t wait for it
I do not see it listed yet on the Amazon.com US site—any ideas when (or if) it will be?
Not bad of a selection of matches. I wish Mr.Perfect vs Tito Santana for the IC Title was on this set but still pretty good match listing.
somehow I doubt this ever going to end up on dvd. at this point it’s probably more likely that our best chances to see it in good quality is when “Superstars” gets eventually added to the Network.
This set looks amazing.hope it does well where to the point we can get more sets like this.
Incredible DVD!!!I love old school wrestling!!!
This is a definite day one purchase for me, even though there’s not one specific match I’m dying to see.
I wonder if the Undertaker vs. Giant Gonzalez rematch the day after WMIX was any better than the abortion the day before?
Looks great. Wish there were some Rougeau brother matches. Don’t really care for the tryout matches. I hope there are some great matches but I’m not overly optimistic.
At this point I want WWE to release A Best of Coliseum video set
I don’t usually buy dvds as I’m one of those blu ray guy’s lol but how can i not buy this. This is perhaps my favorite match listing of any compilation set ever. Another Bret Hart vs British Bulldog match YES PLEASE
A truly fantastic listing, I’m really happy with this. Just a couple of things I’m wondering from those more ‘in the know’ than me regarding dates/tapings, etc:
1). Was anything here included on any Coliseum Video compilations?
2). Do we think there will be commentary on any of these matches at all, or pretty much on none of them like The Attitude Era Vol. 3?
Nothing listed was ever released on Coliseum. As for commentary, most likely not, but who knows?
Will these matches look like most matches did at the time or will they be fan-cam style footage like the attitude era unreleased dvd?
All of these matches, with the exception of maybe 1 or 2, were held at TV tapings. So they should all be professionally shot with a hard camera and all.
Great, thanks.
Hahaha no Tom Magee!! I love it!!!
Tremendous listing. And they stuck true to the never-before-seen theme. Can not wait for this. This is a concept where they can get several volumes out of it.
I agree, this is a fantastic set. I hope it’s successful and they do more of them in the future.
Does anyone know why WWE had so many empty arena matches at the time? Did they have trouble selling tickets?
They weren’t empty arena matches i’m sure the arena’s for the most part were sold out their called Dark matches as they were not put on TV
Looks very promising!
This is a really great set. I can’t wait to buy it. This set is just unbelievably great. They made this set look wonderful. So many matches never been seen and this again looks great. I knew this set would be great and I wish it was already here. I’d get it in a second.
Fantastic listing. And for anyone wondering, The Toxic Turtles are Duane Gill and Barry Hardy.