The Ultimate Ric Flair Collection (1 Viewer)

[Casey Trowbridg]

The match contained on the HHH the Game DVD is infact the Wrestlewar 89 match, the same match that is on the new Flair DVD. The missing match is the Chi town rumble 1989 match where Steamboat won the title in the first place.

Yes, if you are a Steamboat mark like I am, get this set. You get the 2 Flair matches, you get some of the promos and contraversies surrounding the feud, including their pull-a-part at Clash V, and you also get the match that brought Steamboat back to the NWA when he teamed with Eddie Gilbert against Flair and Windham.

 

[Casey Trowbridg]

On raw tonight they mentioned it was the best selling WWE DVD ever in an interview with Ric Flair. Pretty good given the WWE doesn't put a whole lot of marketing behind these DVDs, at least they haven't had anything I've noticed.

There is a market for the WCW footage, especially since WCW didn't release Pay Per View videos for consumers, they were all priced for rental chains to buy. I bought a WCW PPV once on tape and paid more for it than I would've if I had bought the show originally and taped it.

Tony, you found the nWo DVD for $5? That is a good deal, if I had found it for that much instead of having to absolutely have it on release day, it probably wouldn't bother me so much that they screwed it up so bad.

 

[Ray_Gootz]

Casey-

Many stores had Starrcade 93, Spring Stampede 94 Slaamborre 93,94 and 96 Plus the nWo PPV trilogy of 1996 with the Great American Bash, Bash at the Beach and Hog Wild all at retail prices for many years. I think some Suncoasts still have them.

 

[Casey Trowbridg]

Ray, you are right and I did buy most of those, but those were more the acception than the rule.

I'm talking about a show like Superbrawl 2, which cost me more than $30 off of Amazon.com nearly 8 years after the show had originally aired. WCW was famous for only selling most shows at prices so only rental places would buy them. CDnow used to offer World War 3 1998 for a whopping $70 a couple of years after the show had been released.

You know what, I paid $32 or whatever for Superbrawl 2 and Wrestlewar 1992 brand new and I'd do it again cause both of those were kick ass shows.

Spring Stampede 1994, Slamboree 1994, and Starrcade 1993 are also ones I am proud to own.

In fact my copy of Spring Stampede is nearly worn out because I kept watching Cactus Jack/Maxxx Payne Vs. the Nasty Boys over and over again, cause I had never seen anything like that match.

To get this back to the topic of Ric Flair the Spring Stampede match with Ricky Steamboat is only slightly less good than the original trilogy in 1989. This isn't a noticable decline like the prequils to Star Wars it was still quite awesome, but they both were 5 years older. A review named Scott Keith (not sure if most of you read him or not) gave the Wrestlewar 89 match *****, the Clash match ****3/4, the Chitown Rumble 89 match ****3/4 and the SS 1994 match ****1/4. So it was pretty close, although Star ratings are very subjective and 1 man's ***** match is another man's Dud. I could slap a *** rating on damn near any match I wanted to and find someway to justify the point.

 

[Casey Trowbridg]

Seeing a reference to it way at the beginning of this thread, I've got to tell you I did not know that there was a Trish Stratus DVD out until checking Amazon.com after reading something in the news update at wrestlingobserver.com

so does anyone own the Trish DVD? Is it worth getting, or what? How is the program, and what are the bonus matches?

Thanks much

 

[Jason Boucher]

Allow me to share my 1970's memories of MidAtlantic Championship Wrestling. They would come to Norfolk every Thanksgiving. Flair/Steamboat was the biggest attraction. I still remember seeing a live match where Flair had Steamboat in the Figure Four. Steamboat was on the verge of submission. As the ref (Tommy Young?, can that be right, how can I remember that?) leaned over to see if Steamboat was ready to concede, Steamboat grabbed the ref by the collar, tore off his shirt, twisted the shirt into a rope and hooked it over Flair's neck to strangle him and get out of the Figure Four lock. Steamboat came alive and went on to pin Flair in the greatest match of all time!

This was precipitated by the on air match where Flair rubbed Steamboat"s face into the mat repeatedly, causing a black eye and massive burn over Steamboat's right eye that took months to heal. I think he may have hit him with a chair or garbage pan lid as well. No doubt about it--it was a bona fide serious eye injury. They even sold posters of the eye injury. Ah, those were the days.

 

[Ray_Gootz]

I really want to get the Trish Stratus dvd since Trish is the greatest women wrestler ever. No one could ever match her beauty, sex appeal, charisma and in-ring skills. The most amazing thing is how bad she was when she firstcame in in 2000. I'm sure the DVD is fantastic.

By the way does anyone get anything at RF video? I've bought many tapes from them and some of the stuff I have is fantastic. One of my faves is a 4-hour tape of nothing but Ric Flair promos. Fantastic stuff.

 

[John KB]

I absolutely love Ric Flair and I think the DVD is really very good.

Now I'd like to see an ANDRE THE GIANT disc!

 

[oscar_merkx]

that would truly be an awesome disc indeed

 

[Casey Trowbridg]

Ray, I used to buy from RF Video, but now they don't sell that old NWA footage for obvious reasons, like not wanting the WWE to take them to court. I got a best of the Rock N' Roll Express tape, TV Classics Vol.1, the Best of War Games, and the Best of Flair/Steamboat from them.

The frightening thing is that on the Flair DVD he says that he and Steamboat had much better matches than even the WrestleWar match that were never aired, he said they wrestled like 3000 times.

An Andre disc would be sweet, but he only had a few memorable feuds in WWF, against Hogan against Bundy against Jake Roberts, against Demolition and there were obviously some that I don't recall having not been born at the time.

 

[AnthonyL]

The dvd is finally available in Canada. Picked it up at Walmart. Also saw some at sunrise and hmv. Didn't see any at Future shop. Took them long enough. btw its made in Canada so I'm hoping its contains the same matches as the US version.

 

[Bill Williams]

I sure do hope that WWE Home Video decides to do a Ric Flair Collection Vol. 2 in the future. If they really go all the way like they did with this first set, it'll sell extremely well! As long as they get to include the WCW reformation of the Four Horsemen from 1998 (which is on the WWF/WCW Monday Night Wars volume) as part of a Flair II set, that would be an awesome selling point.

Personal memory: I had the opportunity to see Ric Flair in action back in 1993 at WCW's first beach-themed PPV, Beach Blast (before it became known as Bash at the Beach). It was around July 1993, and at that time Barry Windham was the WCW Heavyweight Champion. Flair challenged him for the title and won via a combined figure-four leglock/1-2-3 pin. Windham's shoulders hit the mat, and the referee counted the 1-2-3 on him to transfer the title to Flair. It started Flair's 10th title reign as WCW Heavyweight Champion. I think it was the only title match of the evening. Afterwards my friends and I stopped at a local quick-mart to get a couple of Cokes, and we'd heard that Flair was hitting the casinos that night with some lovely ladies to celebrate. Just like him...stylin' and profilin'!

We also got to see Steve Austin (pre-Stone Cold era) and the late Brian Pillman wrestle as the Hollywood Blondes against Arn Anderson and Paul Roma, Sting and Vader vs. Sid Vicious and the late Davey Boy Smith, Steven (William) Regal in a match and afterwards being interviewed by Jesse "The Body" Ventura, and Marc Mero (under his Johnny B. Badd handle) wearing a ridiculous pink mask and wrestling Maxx Payne, to name a few. (This match was a hoot to watch live! The way I was sitting near the ring eight rows away, we clearly saw Mero execute a flying dropkick on Payne that was orchestrated where it didn't hit Payne but missed him by a foot, and Payne responded by holding onto the ropes and spiraling backwards! Yet in seeing the replay of this match on TV, they went with a different camera angle and made it look like Mero's dropkick made contact with Payne.)

And we got to meet Sid Vicious the night before at a local seafood restaurant on the coast. He, his girlfriend, and his trainer all arrived in a big stretch Cadillac, and all three piled out of the front seat into the restaurant. I got to meet Sid, shake hands with him, get his autograph, and I simply said, "Good luck on your match tomorrow night." He smiled and said, "Thanks, I appreciate it." He was as every bit big and imposing in real life as he was in the ring - not one ounce of body fat on him. And he and his companions ate at least half the menu there - big salads, steaks with baked potatoes, appetizers, mixed drinks, a whole lobster for each one, you name it!

Sorry for the diversion, but I just had to share it.

 

[Casey Trowbridg]

Bill, just be glad Sid didn't try and stab you with his safety scissors.

Speaking of these DVDs though, a second volume is pretty much a given. They can include the really good Flair/Sting match from Clash of Champions I, they can include his feud with Lex Luger, his feud in the WWF with Randy Savage, his feud in WCW with Hulk Hogan, and his feud with Savage. How about the match where he dropped the world title to Bret Hart? Plenty of material exists for another rocking set.

For those that are interested, over in the TV software section I've written personal reviews for a couple of WWE DVDs. We've got WWE: The Stone Cold Truth and WWE: The Monday Night Wars that Bill mentioned. I'd appreciate the feedback, and I think I'll do John Cena next, as I seem to be having trouble confirming the existence of the Kurt Angle disc.

Actually I'm sure that this thread should or will be moved over to that section eventually as that's where all the wrestling on DVD talk is located.