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[hammerva]

According to WWE network news web site here are the list of coliseum videos to be added:

 

Bloopers, Bleeps, and Bodyslams
(Dated: 04/12/1985 – Duration: 01:18:29)

Unusual Matches*
(Dated: 05/16/1985 – Duration: 01:27:00)

Big, Small, Strange, Strong*
(Dated: 12/11/1985 – Duration: 01:20:18)

Grudge Match ’86*
(Dated: 03/27/1986 – Duration: 01:25:14)

Villains of the Squared Circle*
(Dated: 06/06/1986 – Duration: 01:10:40)

Inside the Steel Cage*
(Dated: 12/11/1986 – Duration: 01:24:25)

Grand Slams*
(Dated: 12/11/1986 – Duration: 01:14:30)

Most Embarrassing Moments*
(Dated: 12/15/1987 – Duration: 01:24:12)

Brains Behind the Brawn
(Dated: 02/27/1989 – Duration: 01:25:56)

SuperTape
(Dated: 03/21/1990 – Duration: 01:56:30)

Wrestling Superheroes
(Dated: 03/21/1990 – Duration: 00:54:37)

WrestleFest ’90
(Dated: 06/27/1990 – Duration: 01:56:30)

Wrestling Tough Guys
(Dated: 09/27/1990 – Duration: 00:56:27)

World Tour ’90*
(Dated: 05/23/1990 – Duration: 01:50:40)

SuperTape II
(Dated: 07/25/1990 – Duration: 02:09:59)

Hottest Matches
(Dated: 10/25/1990 – Duration: 02:06:06)

SuperTape III
(Dated: 01/24/1991 – Duration: 02:00:21)

Funniest Moments
(Dated: 02/27/1991 – Duration: 00:57:50)

Mega Matches*
(Dated: 03/28/1991 – Duration: 02:00:52)

Greatest Hits
(Dated: 04/25/1991 – Duration: 01:00:20)

SuperTape IV*
(Dated: 05/23/1991 – Duration: 01:57:41)

WrestleFest ’91
(Dated: 07/25/1991 – Duration: 01:51:01)

Wrestling’s Greatest Champions
(Dated: 07/30/1991 – Duration: 00:57:17)

World Tour ’91
(Dated: 08/22/1991 – Duration: 01:46:40)

Battle at The Royal Albert Hall*
(Dated: 10/03/1991 – Duration: 02:40:32)

Rampage ’91
(Dated: 10/24/1991 – Duration: 01:56:14)

SuperTape ’92
(Dated: 02/27/1992 – Duration: 02:18:08)

Invasion ’92
(Dated: 03/26/1992 – Duration: 01:46:18)

Euro Rampage ’92*
(Dated: 04/19/1992 – Duration: 02:19:01)

Crunch Classic
(Dated: 05/28/1992 – Duration: 01:40:54)

WrestleFest ’92
(Dated: 07/23/1992 – Duration: 01:51:29)

World Tour ’92
(Dated: 08/27/1992 – Duration: 01:44:50)

Rampage ’92*
(Dated: 10/22/1992 – Duration: 01:49:40)

WrestleFest ’93
(Dated: 01/30/1993 – Duration: 02:19:58)

Smack’Em Whack’Em
(Dated: 03/31/1993 – Duration: 01:57:16)

UK Rampage ’93
(Dated: 04/11/1993 – Duration: 01:34:38)

Bashed in the USA
(Dated: 06/23/1993 – Duration: 01:57:03)

Invasion of the Bodyslammers
(Dated: 06/24/1993 – Duration: 01:57:06)

[Coffey]

Per WON Lots of WCW Saturday Night Episodes coming in April

 

This is the best news I've read in awhile. Especially if it's pre-Nitro Saturday Night, back when that was pretty much their flagship show.

[Grimmas]

Interesting first batch of CHV's. Wish there was more 80's, as they jump to the 90's pretty quickly, however I can't complain. They are finally putting them up there.

 

I will review each on my blog. Hope they add the rest.

[PeteF3]

I shouldn't complain, but the only real missing tape on there that I wish was included is Wrestlefest '94 (Harts-Steiners, Kid/Jannetty-Headshrinkers).

 

The folks at wwenetworknews are under the belief that a lot of wrestler-specific tapes will drop at a later date, hence no Hulkamania tapes and others of that type.

[Jimmy James]

I'd love to see early 90s WCWSN, especially around 93/94, though latter day WCWSN where you had some random great luchador matches was fun too.

[Grimmas]

Coliseum Videos are up!!!!

[TheDuke]

All the 80's Coliseum tapes that went up just seem to me to be clips from other things. I am guessing 1990 with Supertape 1 is the first tape of the ones that were uploaded that has exclusive matches taped specifically for CHV. I noticed the 80's Wrestlefest tapes are missing, they start with Wrestlefest 90, and I believe those matches were exclusive to those tapes, so I am wondering why they weren't included.

[iamthedoctor]

All the 80's Coliseum tapes that went up just seem to me to be clips from other things. I am guessing 1990 with Supertape 1 is the first tape of the ones that were uploaded that has exclusive matches taped specifically for CHV. I noticed the 80's Wrestlefest tapes are missing, they start with Wrestlefest 90, and I believe those matches were exclusive to those tapes, so I am wondering why they weren't included.

 

Im glad the network finally has the Hogan/Beefcake/Savage/Zeus cage match because I so wanted to see that match when the TV promoted it but couldnt see it until Supertape came out.

[RingoPlaysDrums]

I'm not sure where to start with the home videos. I've seen the Battle Royal in the Albert Hall years ago but aside from that not sure I've seen any of them. Any recommendations?

[Grimmas]

I'm not sure where to start with the home videos. I've seen the Battle Royal in the Albert Hall years ago but aside from that not sure I've seen any of them. Any recommendations?

Smack'em Whack'em is always hyped as a great tape.

[PhilTLL]

Smack Em Whack Em IS a great place to start. Some common and/or off-my-head match recommendations from the Coliseums they upped include...

 

Rockers/Powers of Pain and Piper/Rude cage match (SuperTape 2)

Hart/Flair 11/91 and Flair/Michaels (Invasion 92)

Hart/Flair 10/92 and Hart/Michaels 1st WWF ladder match (Smack Em Whack Em)

DiBiase/Michaels and Santana/Martel (Hottest Matches)

Piper/Savage (WrestleFest 90)

Perfect/Garvin (SuperTape 1)

Rockers/Rougeaus (World Tour 90)

Savage/Warrior cage match (Mega Matches)

Santana/Koko (SuperTape 4)

Rockers/Orient Express 2 and Perfect/Michaels (World Tour 91)

LOD/Hart Foundation (WrestleFest 91)

Savage/Michaels (World Tour 92)

Hart/Michaels (Rampage 92)

 

Temper your expectations; Coliseums were best enjoyed with pass/fail grading, not letters.

 

Novelty honorable mention: Tugboat/Earthquake and Ultimate+LOD/All 3 Demolition (SuperTape 3)

 

You can find discussions for a lot of these in the MDA. I'll have to think harder about which interstitial bits go with which tapes--Smack Em has Yoko at the Benihana and the Bushwhackers demoing a house, one of the SuperTapes has Hayes/Mooney getting lost on a road trip, Invasion 92 has a really cheap Star Trek routine, etc.

[iamthedoctor]

I'm not sure where to start with the home videos. I've seen the Battle Royal in the Albert Hall years ago but aside from that not sure I've seen any of them. Any recommendations?

 

Id pick Supertape 1 first just for the main event and the Jake/Dibiase match, I do feel wrestlefest and supertapes should get watched first.

[Ricky Jackson]

I'm not sure where to start with the home videos. I've seen the Battle Royal in the Albert Hall years ago but aside from that not sure I've seen any of them. Any recommendations?

It begins and ends with the masterpiece that is the Biggest, the Smallest, the Strangest, the Strongest

[sek69]

The Alexa Bliss collection is up now, and it's amazing how her "sparkle princess" era in NXT already seems like Hunter's blue blood phase in terms of something that seemingly was a million years ago in a different timeline.

[zep81]

Smack Em Whack Em IS a great place to start. Some common and/or off-my-head match recommendations from the Coliseums they upped include...

 

Rockers/Powers of Pain and Piper/Rude cage match (SuperTape 2)

Hart/Flair 11/91 and Flair/Michaels (Invasion 92)

Hart/Flair 10/92 and Hart/Michaels 1st WWF ladder match (Smack Em Whack Em)

DiBiase/Michaels and Santana/Martel (Hottest Matches)

Piper/Savage (WrestleFest 90)

Perfect/Garvin (SuperTape 1)

Rockers/Rougeaus (World Tour 90)

Savage/Warrior cage match (Mega Matches)

Santana/Koko (SuperTape 4)

Rockers/Orient Express 2 and Perfect/Michaels (World Tour 91)

LOD/Hart Foundation (WrestleFest 91)

Savage/Michaels (World Tour 92)

Hart/Michaels (Rampage 92)

 

Temper your expectations; Coliseums were best enjoyed with pass/fail grading, not letters.

 

Novelty honorable mention: Tugboat/Earthquake and Ultimate+LOD/All 3 Demolition (SuperTape 3)

 

You can find discussions for a lot of these in the MDA. I'll have to think harder about which interstitial bits go with which tapes--Smack Em has Yoko at the Benihana and the Bushwhackers demoing a house, one of the SuperTapes has Hayes/Mooney getting lost on a road trip, Invasion 92 has a really cheap Star Trek routine, etc.

 

Think Flair/Perfect from Invasion of the bodyslammers was p.good too.

[RingoPlaysDrums]

Fantastic guys, thanks.

[cowboy hats]

Wrestlefest ‘91 is hosted by the Macho Man, poolside, until he ventures inside the house to play some billiards, then throws it to a never ending segment of Brutus Barber’s Grooming Tips where Bruti rubs mud on the face of a man named Bob, massages an egg into Bob’s hair and then attacks Bob with a leaf blower.

[C.S.]

Has anyone watched the new Photo Shoot show? It's not bad. The premise is that they show a series of photos and the wrestler tells a story about what's happening in them. I watched the Eric Bischoff and Miz episodes. Bischoff wasn't bad, but compared to Miz, you could tell he had kinda moved on a little bit. Miz seemed a lot more talkative, enthusiastic, and prepared. Nothing new here, but it's a fun time-waster. I didn't watch the Cesaro episode because I'm not really in the mood to listen to his accent for 20 minutes. He doesn't have the "it-factor." Maybe it's because he's Swiss? I don't know. (Yes, I'm kidding. )

[flyonthewall2983]

Most Unusual Matches features a really compelling voice-over from Jesse Ventura explaining the types of matches featured. It also annoyingly edits a few of the matches.

[The Chief]

Love the Coliseum Video stuff so far. It's surreal hearing Jim Ross retroactively calling 1992 WWF matches.

 

There's a Battle Royal on one of these, Bashed in the USA I think, where Kerry Von Erich is a participant. They recorded it in Spring/Summer 1992 but the tape didn't come out until after Kerry's suicide. After Kerry gets eliminated, they make mention of him being a great competitor and Randy Savage sounds a little emotional when he adds "and a really, really good guy." That's as close as you'll get to 1993 WWF acknowledging something like that, but it was a nice touch.

[flyonthewall2983]

Bobby Heenan even goes a little out of character about it.

[Kronos]

Some random comments I made while watching BLOOPERS, BLEEPS, AND BODYSLAMS throughout the week.

 

I am kind of surprised that they left in the Blassie "love advice" segment. Blassie talks about how women need to be hit and kicked around sometimes. And also, Freddie and Vince have a hard time not cracking up as Blassie reaches for ever more double entendre.

TNT is like watching another universe. Iron Sheik has trouble staying in character a few times in the camel segment.

I know we generally prefer full matches. But the truth is, with some notable exceptions, a lot of 70s and 80s WWWF/WWF works just fine as clips. (though I would hope they continue uploading "Old School" shows from time to time)

As I got further into the video, I experienced the Samoan food segment - super racist. And the Hogan protein shake bit is a bit of a 'roids injoke, surely.

This stuff is wrestlecrap of the highest order. Not gonna lie - it's frequently cringe-tastic. But I kind of love it.

In the Sal Ballomo cooking segment on BLOOPERS, BLEEPS, AND BODYSLAMS -- where they're dusting the table with flour to make pizza dough -- Vince comments that Hayes has some white powder on his nose. "I'm pretty sure it's not the first time."

[TheDuke]

Is most of Bloopers, Bleeps, & Bodyslams just clips from Tuesday Night Titans? Because they already have Tuesday Night Titans on the network, so have that VHS seems kind of redundant.

[MikeCampbell]

Of the one listed as being shown in the "most complete form possible" has anyone noticed any glaring omissions from the original CHV release? The only one I've come across so far is on the "Grand Slams" tape, they don't include the clip of Terry Funk smacking around Mel Philips. Honestly, I only even noticed it because of Gene's voiceover for the following segment, a clip of the Funks vs. JYD/Tito WrestleMania 2 match, where he continued talking about Funk.

[iamthedoctor]

Most Unusual Matches features a really compelling voice-over from Jesse Ventura explaining the types of matches featured. It also annoyingly edits a few of the matches.

 

Why are they editing the matches?