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Watched this yesterday with my nephew such fond childhood memories. 🙂 Does anyone know the song that was in it? it was at the part Dusty Rhodes became a member lyrics were “running with big names’
i just got this dvd and yea bio is short but new people in it like cody ted michael hening dusty lex and russo were cool someof the matches good i would of liked few others like uncensored 97 team wcw piper and team nwo match hogan savage from havoc 96 and 97 piper match and following annoucements were kool yea bio is really short kinda wish they go more into things like starrcade more on split on nwo into wolfpac and others legends of roundtable was a good extra again short but good this is for those who really enjoyed nwo no matter wat so yea get this dvd expcially on bluray for extras as far as easter egg big show thing hes just bitter he was in rise and fall of wcw on wcw and nwo so who cares wat he says he played a minor role in nwo but keeped getting kicked out anyway good dvd worth a pick up and NWO ARE JUST TO SWEEEEEEEEEEEEEET and remember ITS 1 MORE FOR THE GOOD GUYS 4 LIFE ! 😀
Finished this set yesterday. The documentry really needs 20-30 more minutes to tell the whole story right. The matches were the most time not really good but this set is all about the feeling and the whole nWo-Story and for this it’s absolutly fantastic.
NWO: The Revolution, might have been better off being called NWO: Rise & Fall of WCW, but the WWE has provided an entertaining look back at one of the most influential groups in professional wrestling, even if the set displays a lot of why WCW ultimately failed. The documentary is short, but easy to watch. It’s not particularly informative if you have seen anything WWE has produced on WCW or the NWO, and it also lacks a good amount of updated interview segments, though I did appreciate much of the new stuff that was provided. The match selection doesn’t offer up a lot of classics or hidden gems, but does give fans a good look back at the group & it’s members, there is also a good amount of unreleased material to keep the collectors happy. The matches for the most part are also just a lot of fun & make viewing a breeze. I would have liked more segments, but being a big NWO/WCW fan from 1997-1998, I’m willing to give this more then a passing grade!
Documentary (***)
Highlights:
The Outsiders vs. “Macho Man” Randy Savage, Sting & Lex Lugar (WCW BASH AT THE BEACH – 07/07/1996) ***¼
I really wish the interviews would have been updated. Pretty sure it would be tough to get Scott Hall, and Hogan but more recent interviews would have been phenomenal.
Just wondering, the blu-ray is 8 hours 38 minutes long, so why is the dvd version only 6 hours 50 minutes long when there’s enough room on the DVD for all the content that is included in the blu-ray version.
Hopefully all future releases will have plain black sidebars from now on.
I would like to thank the WWE, by not acting as stupid as WCW/NWO did. I also like to thank myself and my family in not buying a box of AAA batteries during the Monday Night Wars. The remote last longer this way! As for this DVD, what a waste! Not only for content but for the wrestling matches. Please, in the future I hope there won’t be a Volume 2! WWE, please learn from your mistakes, that these DVD’s are not worth compiling. Cheers!
Wow you must be a sports entertainment person because the nwo made wrestling huge and made the wwe introduce the attitude era. Get a life and give credit where credit is due.
I thought it was a great DVD, top 5 of the year in my mind but one thing I agree with Kevin Nash is that how in the world could nWo lose at their own PPV and they had an nWo ref in Nick Patrick. My only critism is they could’ve showen more nWo 2000, I was a fan of it but damn Bret got hurt which runied it.
Also worth noting, even though The Big Show says nice things about the nWo in the documentary, there’s a hidden easter egg where Big Show gives his real opinion about the nWo & curses a good bit about how they’re the worst thing to happen to the wrestling industry. Found that funny.
I wasn’t surprised by it because I don’t think he comes across as a particularly bright giant. The man is as dim as a glow worm’s armpit. Hulk Hogan and the nWo are pretty much the reasons he became a name in wrestling. No one cared about any of his dungeon of doom stuff as he said himself on the doc. Its pretty much the only thing he’s ever done in his career that’s slightly watchable. The guy absolutely sucks! The only times he was good was when he was in the nWo and he did well with the ECW title. The rest of his 17 year career has been very bland and rested solely on the fact that he’s a giant, but that on its own isnt particularly good to watch. You would have thought a match against Undertaker could be good, but no. He’s no kind of phenom like Andre or Undertaker, but he is the world’s largest member of the Vince McMahon kiss my ass club (see the McMahon DVD).
I never watched the Vince one but what did Big Show say in it? It caught me off-guard on the nWo DVD because I was like wow he was a member of the nWo and Hogan’s friend.
Well, what sticks in my mind the most was his take on the montreal screwjob was so skewed, one sided and innacurate it was quite hard to watch. They used to do that a lot though, probably to protect the company image, with Triple H lying on the Shawn Michaels DVD etc. To his credit Shawn Michaels kind of stopped doing that and seemed to become a real jam-up guy in the end. Can’t tell you how glad I am those guys made up. Never should have happened in the first place. That’s a whole different story and the last thing I want to do is open a debate about that. But what struck me about Big Show was when I read Bret’s book and Bret tells a story of how Big Show almost killed them both by driving badly on the road and tells Bret that he saved his life by stopping him from pulling out in front of something. So after hearing those comments, it just seemed rather rude to me. But I suppose he just comes across as a bit of a puppet to be honest. The Big Slow was probably a fair cop. But to be fair I don’t actually know the man and if he reads this he’ll probably reach through the computer and chokeslam me, so maybe I’ll stop bashing him for a bit. Not a fan though. I would rather NOT have had that easter egg on the disc at all.
I feel the biggest let down with the documentary was that I learned nothing new, whether that’s because the nWo story has been told so many times, I’m not sure. The feature certainly would have benefited from more/some analysis of the backstage politics during the run and how it helped and indeed hindered the group (plus they could have buried Hogan more!).
Additionally an in depth look at Starrcade 97 (the build to, the event and the fall out) after all it was the culmination of the nWo story and of course WCW’s biggest show. They could have picked apart the finish and the affect the botched fast count had.
Other things which could have been looked at were how the ball was dropped with Bret’s arrival, how Waltman left WCW/NWO right into DX. The ‘finger-poke of doom’ and why and how? Plus nWo 2000 and how it was starting out good but Bret got injured and Goldberg destroyed his hand.
Finally how despite all these negative things surrounding the nWo, it is still regarded as one of the greatest groups in history and their massive impact a business which was going through a rather dark period.
I do agree with a lot of these thoughts. That’s why I said I was hoping for about 15-20 minutes to break down some of this stuff more. And I do think the reason we didn’t really learn anything new is because we already know this stuff so well. Bryan Alvarez & RD Reynolds wrote an entire book about it already.
Agreed. Why not have the Hogan/Sting Nitro match on Best of Nitro, and Hogan/Sting from Starrcade or Super Brawl in 1998 on this? That Hogan/Sting Starrcade match was huge at the time and, if you are a younger fan, you would never know because WWE never acknowledges it. Also agree on the Fingerpoke incident. That more than anything killed the group, but its not even on here. As for the review, I have to disagree with the Hogan/Savage Nitro match. That match was HUGE at the time and I remember my jaw on the floor at the finish. It was not “screwy”. It was a lot better than 1/2* also. Everything else is pretty much correct on the review.
BTW, for anyone who doesn’t know, the Hogan/Sting finish was shown on the first episode of Thunder. That Nitro only ended at about 7 minutes past the hour, so WCW clearly did have time — sometimes Nitro went up to 30 minutes over. It was just an angle to get people to watch the first episode of Thunder.
Not really in my must buy list but will consider getting the bluray once prices drop only because the LOW segment is probably the best blu-ray extra the WWE has come with so far in any set
Great review. I did enjoy this release. I was happy that it was not a rehash of the 2002 nWo release. They did a great job of updating the presentation and appreciate the fact that they used Hogan commentary (previously released but we can’t have it all). Each section was very much to the point. At 60 minutes for the documentary and with so much material to cover there was no time for it to get boring. The matches selected were not the greatest, but looking back, the nWo were not exactly the greatest in-ring performers. They looked and sounded cool, but their wrestling skills were so-so at best. It was nastolgic and for this reason I enjoyed every moment. Good release, long over due, and hopefully it will be the last because there’s a time and place for everything.
I am kind of glade I cancel my order for this one because it not what I had hoped it would be .Too bad because this one could have been the gold goose of the year instead of a hard boiled egg.
The idea of this DVD was great but overall they did a half ass job. They don’t go through the nWO piece by piece they just jump through it all. Some of the interviews are good but I felt cheated at the end of it.
I don’t understand why everyone thinks this would be better if they went through the nWo “piece by piece”. Sure, hardcore fans may like all the history, but that’s not the point of a documentary.
If the readers would like me to start reviewing the Blu-Rays, I’d be happy to send you my information on amazon.com so you can buy me a Blu-Ray Player.
Excellent review, TERRIBLE release. Really, the best part about this release is what we don’t see: no patterns on the sidebar. That the black sidebars I LOVE. The content of this release stinks.
NOTE TO WWE: We want you to LEAVE THE SIDEBARS BLACK as you did in this otherwise awful release.
Just got finished watching the Blu-Ray edition, it was decent, kinda hoped for more to be covered in the documentary. The matches aren’t that great but at the same time, a lot of them belong on the set. Thank God the black pillar bars are back. The vignettes are beyond awesome, & the roundtable was informative & a good watch, but it did annoy me with Nash’s explanation for the Fingerpoke of Doom.
He said they knew Goldberg was THE guy of the business, & they did the Fingerpoke to rebuild the nWo & Goldberg would have a stable to fight, but Goldberg broke his hand or whatever when he shattered the windows to Bret Hart’s limo with his fist instead of using a bat like he should of and that ruined the plans for him & the nWo. That’s what Nash said. The problem is, the fingerpoke happened just after Starrcade 98, & Bret joined the nWo (leading to the incident where Goldberg broke his hand) just after Starrcade 99. So unless they planned on Goldberg fighting the nWo for over a year straight, I don’t buy that, & even then, Goldberg fighting the nWo for over a year would of gotten boring real quick imo. Other than that, I did enjoy the roundtable & it was more informative than the documentary in a way.
Spot on review, as always. I bought the blu ray for the roundtable discussion, and it was good as I expected it to be. I also thought the No Respect for Tradition vignette was hilarious. Good work.
Once again, the Blu-Ray’s definitely superior to the DVD given that it comes with the Roundtable and a bunch of promos.
I also never really saw the problem with having a singles match for the tag title. Sting and the Giant didn’t get along and belonged to two different stables, so having them wrestle for the belts and the winner picking a new partner made sense to me.
Ha, I actually thought about that before I wrote that line. To not call it “bastard child” would mean that the Attitude Era was DIRECTLY caused by the nWo, which isn’t true. But it certainly was influenced by it a bit…
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Watched this yesterday with my nephew such fond childhood memories. 🙂 Does anyone know the song that was in it? it was at the part Dusty Rhodes became a member lyrics were “running with big names’
It is called Big Names, by Alan Clark, on an album called “Attitude”
https://open.spotify.com/album/7Lav96gRKEuZ3xF1uUWmSJ
Starrcade, 12/27/98 had the greatest finish EVER!
i just got this dvd and yea bio is short but new people in it like cody ted michael hening dusty lex and russo were cool someof the matches good i would of liked few others like uncensored 97 team wcw piper and team nwo match hogan savage from havoc 96 and 97 piper match and following annoucements were kool yea bio is really short kinda wish they go more into things like starrcade more on split on nwo into wolfpac and others legends of roundtable was a good extra again short but good this is for those who really enjoyed nwo no matter wat so yea get this dvd expcially on bluray for extras as far as easter egg big show thing hes just bitter he was in rise and fall of wcw on wcw and nwo so who cares wat he says he played a minor role in nwo but keeped getting kicked out anyway good dvd worth a pick up and NWO ARE JUST TO SWEEEEEEEEEEEEEET and remember ITS 1 MORE FOR THE GOOD GUYS 4 LIFE ! 😀
Finished this set yesterday. The documentry really needs 20-30 more minutes to tell the whole story right. The matches were the most time not really good but this set is all about the feeling and the whole nWo-Story and for this it’s absolutly fantastic.
NWO: The Revolution, might have been better off being called NWO: Rise & Fall of WCW, but the WWE has provided an entertaining look back at one of the most influential groups in professional wrestling, even if the set displays a lot of why WCW ultimately failed. The documentary is short, but easy to watch. It’s not particularly informative if you have seen anything WWE has produced on WCW or the NWO, and it also lacks a good amount of updated interview segments, though I did appreciate much of the new stuff that was provided. The match selection doesn’t offer up a lot of classics or hidden gems, but does give fans a good look back at the group & it’s members, there is also a good amount of unreleased material to keep the collectors happy. The matches for the most part are also just a lot of fun & make viewing a breeze. I would have liked more segments, but being a big NWO/WCW fan from 1997-1998, I’m willing to give this more then a passing grade!
Documentary (***)
Highlights:
The Outsiders vs. “Macho Man” Randy Savage, Sting & Lex Lugar (WCW BASH AT THE BEACH – 07/07/1996) ***¼
The Outsiders vs. Harlem Heat © – WCW World Tag-Team Championship (WCW HALLOWEEN HAVOC – 10/27/1996) **3/4
The Steiner Bros. vs. The Outsiders © – WCW World Heavyweight Championship (NWO SOULED OUT – 01/25/1997) ***
“Diamond” Dallas Page vs. “Macho Man” Randy Savage – Las Vegas Death Match (WCW HALLOWEEN HAVOC – 10/26/1997) ****
“Hollywood” Hulk Hogan vs. “Macho Man” Randy Savage © – WCW World Heavyweight Championship – No DQ Match (WCW MONDAY NITRO – 04/20/1998) **
Sting vs. The Giant – WCW World Tag-Team Championship (WCW GREAT AMERICAN BASH – 06/14/1998) **
Kevin Nash vs. Goldberg © – WCW World Heavyweight Championship (WCW STARRCADE – 12/27/1998) ***
NWO vs. The Rock & “Stone Cold” Steve Austin (WWE RAW – 03/11/2002) ***
Overall: 7.5/10
I really wish the interviews would have been updated. Pretty sure it would be tough to get Scott Hall, and Hogan but more recent interviews would have been phenomenal.
Just wondering, the blu-ray is 8 hours 38 minutes long, so why is the dvd version only 6 hours 50 minutes long when there’s enough room on the DVD for all the content that is included in the blu-ray version.
Hopefully all future releases will have plain black sidebars from now on.
Because Blu-ray is the way to go. It’s a way to attract Blu-ray buyers.
If people are paying premium they better damn well include bonus content.
I would like to thank the WWE, by not acting as stupid as WCW/NWO did. I also like to thank myself and my family in not buying a box of AAA batteries during the Monday Night Wars. The remote last longer this way! As for this DVD, what a waste! Not only for content but for the wrestling matches. Please, in the future I hope there won’t be a Volume 2! WWE, please learn from your mistakes, that these DVD’s are not worth compiling. Cheers!
Wow you must be a sports entertainment person because the nwo made wrestling huge and made the wwe introduce the attitude era. Get a life and give credit where credit is due.
Great blu ray set I love how it had the legends roundtable on it great stuff
I thought it was a great DVD, top 5 of the year in my mind but one thing I agree with Kevin Nash is that how in the world could nWo lose at their own PPV and they had an nWo ref in Nick Patrick. My only critism is they could’ve showen more nWo 2000, I was a fan of it but damn Bret got hurt which runied it.
Also worth noting, even though The Big Show says nice things about the nWo in the documentary, there’s a hidden easter egg where Big Show gives his real opinion about the nWo & curses a good bit about how they’re the worst thing to happen to the wrestling industry. Found that funny.
Where’s the hidden Easter egg at on the DVD?
It’s the Hogan confronts Piper chapter.
I was a little shocked Big Show said that about the nWo his opinion though but I loved the nWo, guess not everyone did and he was a member of the nWo.
I wasn’t surprised by it because I don’t think he comes across as a particularly bright giant. The man is as dim as a glow worm’s armpit. Hulk Hogan and the nWo are pretty much the reasons he became a name in wrestling. No one cared about any of his dungeon of doom stuff as he said himself on the doc. Its pretty much the only thing he’s ever done in his career that’s slightly watchable. The guy absolutely sucks! The only times he was good was when he was in the nWo and he did well with the ECW title. The rest of his 17 year career has been very bland and rested solely on the fact that he’s a giant, but that on its own isnt particularly good to watch. You would have thought a match against Undertaker could be good, but no. He’s no kind of phenom like Andre or Undertaker, but he is the world’s largest member of the Vince McMahon kiss my ass club (see the McMahon DVD).
I never watched the Vince one but what did Big Show say in it? It caught me off-guard on the nWo DVD because I was like wow he was a member of the nWo and Hogan’s friend.
Well, what sticks in my mind the most was his take on the montreal screwjob was so skewed, one sided and innacurate it was quite hard to watch. They used to do that a lot though, probably to protect the company image, with Triple H lying on the Shawn Michaels DVD etc. To his credit Shawn Michaels kind of stopped doing that and seemed to become a real jam-up guy in the end. Can’t tell you how glad I am those guys made up. Never should have happened in the first place. That’s a whole different story and the last thing I want to do is open a debate about that. But what struck me about Big Show was when I read Bret’s book and Bret tells a story of how Big Show almost killed them both by driving badly on the road and tells Bret that he saved his life by stopping him from pulling out in front of something. So after hearing those comments, it just seemed rather rude to me. But I suppose he just comes across as a bit of a puppet to be honest. The Big Slow was probably a fair cop. But to be fair I don’t actually know the man and if he reads this he’ll probably reach through the computer and chokeslam me, so maybe I’ll stop bashing him for a bit. Not a fan though. I would rather NOT have had that easter egg on the disc at all.
I feel the biggest let down with the documentary was that I learned nothing new, whether that’s because the nWo story has been told so many times, I’m not sure. The feature certainly would have benefited from more/some analysis of the backstage politics during the run and how it helped and indeed hindered the group (plus they could have buried Hogan more!).
Additionally an in depth look at Starrcade 97 (the build to, the event and the fall out) after all it was the culmination of the nWo story and of course WCW’s biggest show. They could have picked apart the finish and the affect the botched fast count had.
Other things which could have been looked at were how the ball was dropped with Bret’s arrival, how Waltman left WCW/NWO right into DX. The ‘finger-poke of doom’ and why and how? Plus nWo 2000 and how it was starting out good but Bret got injured and Goldberg destroyed his hand.
Finally how despite all these negative things surrounding the nWo, it is still regarded as one of the greatest groups in history and their massive impact a business which was going through a rather dark period.
I do agree with a lot of these thoughts. That’s why I said I was hoping for about 15-20 minutes to break down some of this stuff more. And I do think the reason we didn’t really learn anything new is because we already know this stuff so well. Bryan Alvarez & RD Reynolds wrote an entire book about it already.
Agreed. Why not have the Hogan/Sting Nitro match on Best of Nitro, and Hogan/Sting from Starrcade or Super Brawl in 1998 on this? That Hogan/Sting Starrcade match was huge at the time and, if you are a younger fan, you would never know because WWE never acknowledges it. Also agree on the Fingerpoke incident. That more than anything killed the group, but its not even on here. As for the review, I have to disagree with the Hogan/Savage Nitro match. That match was HUGE at the time and I remember my jaw on the floor at the finish. It was not “screwy”. It was a lot better than 1/2* also. Everything else is pretty much correct on the review.
BTW, for anyone who doesn’t know, the Hogan/Sting finish was shown on the first episode of Thunder. That Nitro only ended at about 7 minutes past the hour, so WCW clearly did have time — sometimes Nitro went up to 30 minutes over. It was just an angle to get people to watch the first episode of Thunder.
Not really in my must buy list but will consider getting the bluray once prices drop only because the LOW segment is probably the best blu-ray extra the WWE has come with so far in any set
It’s $14.99 at fye for the blu ray right now. It’s actually $7 cheaper than the DVD.
Excellent review guys! This gets me amped to see your review for The Attitude Era DVD! That one I believe will be the “Golden Goose” of the year.
Wheres the match listing to the AE dvd?
There isn’t a match listing. Silver Vision confirmed over the weekend that it will be three blank discs.
Just one blank disc. 😉
http://www.wwedvdnews.com/match-listing-wwe-the-attitude-era-dvd/29902/
Almost like Undertaker – The Streak! 😉
Great review. I did enjoy this release. I was happy that it was not a rehash of the 2002 nWo release. They did a great job of updating the presentation and appreciate the fact that they used Hogan commentary (previously released but we can’t have it all). Each section was very much to the point. At 60 minutes for the documentary and with so much material to cover there was no time for it to get boring. The matches selected were not the greatest, but looking back, the nWo were not exactly the greatest in-ring performers. They looked and sounded cool, but their wrestling skills were so-so at best. It was nastolgic and for this reason I enjoyed every moment. Good release, long over due, and hopefully it will be the last because there’s a time and place for everything.
you skipped savage v hogan.
Updated.
I am kind of glade I cancel my order for this one because it not what I had hoped it would be .Too bad because this one could have been the gold goose of the year instead of a hard boiled egg.
The idea of this DVD was great but overall they did a half ass job. They don’t go through the nWO piece by piece they just jump through it all. Some of the interviews are good but I felt cheated at the end of it.
I don’t understand why everyone thinks this would be better if they went through the nWo “piece by piece”. Sure, hardcore fans may like all the history, but that’s not the point of a documentary.
I don’t understand why you would review the inferior version of the release.
My understanding is that the point of a documentary is to document something.
If the readers would like me to start reviewing the Blu-Rays, I’d be happy to send you my information on amazon.com so you can buy me a Blu-Ray Player.
That’s absolutely ridiculous.
Excellent review, TERRIBLE release. Really, the best part about this release is what we don’t see: no patterns on the sidebar. That the black sidebars I LOVE. The content of this release stinks.
NOTE TO WWE: We want you to LEAVE THE SIDEBARS BLACK as you did in this otherwise awful release.
Excellent release. TERRIBLE review.
Thanks for the review!
Just got finished watching the Blu-Ray edition, it was decent, kinda hoped for more to be covered in the documentary. The matches aren’t that great but at the same time, a lot of them belong on the set. Thank God the black pillar bars are back. The vignettes are beyond awesome, & the roundtable was informative & a good watch, but it did annoy me with Nash’s explanation for the Fingerpoke of Doom.
He said they knew Goldberg was THE guy of the business, & they did the Fingerpoke to rebuild the nWo & Goldberg would have a stable to fight, but Goldberg broke his hand or whatever when he shattered the windows to Bret Hart’s limo with his fist instead of using a bat like he should of and that ruined the plans for him & the nWo. That’s what Nash said. The problem is, the fingerpoke happened just after Starrcade 98, & Bret joined the nWo (leading to the incident where Goldberg broke his hand) just after Starrcade 99. So unless they planned on Goldberg fighting the nWo for over a year straight, I don’t buy that, & even then, Goldberg fighting the nWo for over a year would of gotten boring real quick imo. Other than that, I did enjoy the roundtable & it was more informative than the documentary in a way.
Its totally worth it to get the bluray on this set. Just for the roundtable and the interviews.
Anyone know, which song it is at the end of the Documentation ?
Love the jet black pillar bars. Hopefully WWE is going back to this with every release!
Spot on review, as always. I bought the blu ray for the roundtable discussion, and it was good as I expected it to be. I also thought the No Respect for Tradition vignette was hilarious. Good work.
Once again, the Blu-Ray’s definitely superior to the DVD given that it comes with the Roundtable and a bunch of promos.
I also never really saw the problem with having a singles match for the tag title. Sting and the Giant didn’t get along and belonged to two different stables, so having them wrestle for the belts and the winner picking a new partner made sense to me.
Don’t ever call the Attitude Era a bastard again. 😉
Surely the Attitude Era is the b****** child of ECW’s Revolution not WCW’s nWo.
Nobody’s bastard. Getting starry eyed now.
Its a bastard its not coming to europe this Xmas, but that’s WWE’s fault… :/
Ha, I actually thought about that before I wrote that line. To not call it “bastard child” would mean that the Attitude Era was DIRECTLY caused by the nWo, which isn’t true. But it certainly was influenced by it a bit…