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60 of 65 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
What a collection of matches, April 17, 2005
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Silvervision.co.uk has released information in regards to the matches that will
be in the forthcoming Road Warriors DVD release from WWE. They've really packed
the two disk set with matches as they'res nearly 30 matches on it from the NWA,
WWF and AWA. Head to the site to see the cover art of the DVD and more
information. The DVD is set to be released on Tuesday, June 14, 2005.
Disc One
NWA Georgia Championship Wrestling (11/06/83) vs. Joe Young & Randy Barber
NWA Georgia Championship Wrestling (07/08/83} vs. Arn Anderson & Paul Jones
NWA World Championship Wrestling Omni (28/08/83) Texas Tornado Match vs. The
Brisco Brothers
Commentary by: Jim Ross & Animal
NWA Georgia Championship Wrestling (03/01/83) vs. Mike Jackson & Stone
AWA All Star Wrestling (25/08/84) AWA World Tag Title Championship vs. Baron
von Raschke & The Crusher
Alternate Commentary by: Jim Ross & Animal
NWA Georgia Championship Wrestling (27/08/83)
AWA All Star Wrestling (28/07/84)
AWA ESPN Championship Wrestling (15/10/85)
NWA World Championship Wrestling (03/10/87)
NWA World Championship Wrestling (10/10/87)
NWA World Championship Wrestling (28/01/89)
WCW Wrestle War (25/02/90)
Brutus the Barber Beefcake's BarberShop Wrestling Challenge (28/09/91)
Royal Rumble (21/01/92)
In Your House: Degeneration X (07/12/97)
Hawk Tribute Part 1 Confidential (08/11/03)
Hawk Tribute Part 2 Confidential (08/11/03)
Trophy Room
Paul Ellering "Go For It"
Michaels Hayes "A Lesson in Striving for Success"
Road Warriors Music Video
Disc Two
AWA All Star Wrestling (21/08/85) vs. Larry 'the Axe' & Curt Hennig
Superclash (28/09/85) AWA World Tag Team Title Match vs. The Fabulous Freebirds
Jim Crockett Sr. Memorial Tag Team Tournament Cup (19/04/86) vs. Magnum TA &
Ronnie Garvin
Commentary by: Jim Ross & Animal
Great American Bash (05/07/86) Russian Chain Match vs. Ivan & Nikita Kolaff
Starrcade (27/11/86) Scaffold Match vs. Midnight Express
Starrcade (29/11/87) NWA Tag Team Championship vs. Tully Blanchard & Arn
Anderson
New Orleans (29/10/88) NWA World Tag Team Championship vs. Midnight Express
Challenge (09/02/91) vs. Demolition
Wrestlefest (12/03/91) vs. Hart Foundation
Tokyo Egg Dome (30/03/91) vs. Hulk Hogan & Genichiro Tenryu
Japanese Commentary, Alternate Commentary by: Jim Ross & Animal
Summerslam (26/08/91) WWE Tag Team Championship vs. Nasty Boys
Summerslam (29/08/92) vs. Money Inc.
Superbrawl (02/11/96) WCW Tag Team Championship Match vs. Sting & Lex Luger
RAW (13/10/97) WWE Tag Team Championship vs. The Godwinns
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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A Tale Of Tag Team Legends!, October 17, 2005
I purchased this back in June and I still find myself looking at it once in a while. While I enjoyed the matches, I think the story behind the "spikes" (so to speak) is just as exciting!
Disc 1 is pretty much Hawk & Animal's journey from two kids in Chicago that moved to Minnesota. From there, they grow up working out at a local fitness center simply known as "The Gym" to their bouncing days along side the late "Ravishing" Rick Rude, Barry Darsow (known as Demolition Smash), John Nord, Scott Norton and a few others. The future LOD also trained with these mentioned guys with Eddie Sharky, who also trained their future manager "Precious" Paul Ellering!
From there, we follow their rise from the NWA Georgia Championship Wrestling area to the AWA and their first World Tag Title. They later returned to the NWA, this time to the Mid-Atlantic area and won the NWA World Tag Team Championship. From there, they went to the WWE and won their version of the world tag titles twice! In between, there was ups and downs. Rises and falls (particularly with Road Warrior Hawk) but through it all, the off-camera friendship between Hawk & Animal survived until Hawk's untimely passing back in 2003.
Also on Disc 1, we see early and rare NWA Georgia footage of how they just annilated their competition. We then see an early NWA World Tag Team Title match against Jack and Jerry Brisco as well as the match where they won the AWA World Titles from The Crusher & Baron Von Raschke. The rest of the extras are mainly interviews from NWA, AWA and WWE as well as as look at Animal's "Trophy Room", WWE Confidential special on Hawk as well as tributes from Paul Ellering and Michael Hayes (formerly of the Fabulous Freebirds).
Disc 2 is all matches. Here they are:
The Road Warriors Vs. Larry "The Axe" Hennig & Curt (the late Mr. Perfect) Hennig (AWA World Tag Team Title Match) - This is pretty much a Warrior style beating here! Larry Hennig holds his own but Curt gets beat to a pulp!
The Road Warriors Vs. The Fabulous Freebirds - In a period when The Warriors were virtually unbeatable, the Freebird trio of Michael Hayes, the late Terry Gordy and Buddy Roberts were one of the few teams that really put The Warriors in jeopardy!
The Road Warriors Vs. Magnum T.A./Ron Garvin - This was the finals of the Jim Crockett Sr. Memorial Cup. Garvin and Magnum put up quite an accounting for themselves against the favored Roadies!
The Road Warriors Vs. Ivan & Nikita Koloff - The Koloffs were another team that gave the Warriors some scares! This one was a double Russian Chain Match affair!
The Road Warriors Vs. The Midnight Express - This was the famous scaffold match from Starrcade '86! The combo of the Midnights at the time were Dennis Condrey and Bobby Eaton.
The Road Warriors Vs. Tully Blanchard/Arn Anderson - The future "Brainbusters" in the WWE defended the NWA World Tag Team Championship as part of The Four Horsemen in this match with The Warriors with a very controversial ending!
The Road Warriors Vs. The Midnight Express - This duo was Bobby Eaton and Stan Lane and this was that famous match in New Orleans where they just pretty much brutalized the Midnights to win the NWA World Tag Titles!
The Road Warriors Vs. Demolition - This Demolition duo was Smash and Crush by this point. While we got a taste of Warriors/Demolition, we never got to see the real confrontation that most fans wanted and that was The Road Warriors Vs. the original members of Demolition (AX/Smash). Still, this is a significant match in their careers.
The Road Warriors Vs. The Hart Foundation - A very rare match that most until this DVD set didn't know happened back in 1991 but it did!
The Road Warriors Vs. Hulk Hogan/Genichiro Tenryu - Interesting to note that Tenryu was once the Warriors' six man tag team championship partner in the U.S. during the late 80's! Anyway, this match was surprisingly brutal and some bleeding does take place!
The Road Warriors Vs. The Nasty Boys - The match that put LOD into immortality as they took the WWE Tag Team Titles from the Nasties at SummerSlam '91!
The Road Warriors Vs. Money Inc. - This duo comprised of Ted DiBiase and Irwin R. Shyster (Mike Rotunda). Surprisingly, they held their own against LOD!
The Road Warriors Vs. Sting/Lex Luger - Not really a good match but fun to see how WCW was back in those days. Certainly not the physical territory they wrestled in back in the 80's!
The Road Warriors Vs. The Godwins - See The Roadies win their final major tag team title on an edition of RAW in 1997!
All in all, a great ride! Worth the money!
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great Collection of Matches, Cool Nostalgia..., October 25, 2005
This DVD set is a combination of a tribute and a documentary of sorts. It features some of the more memorable matches in the Legion of Doom's career as a tag team and it also puts a spotlight on the tumultuous life of the late, great Hawk.
I was afraid the latter would be a tacky show on exploitation on Vince McMahon's part, as he's had an up and down relationship with both Road Warriors. However, the look back at Hawk's rocky life is done in a classy way with insight on his life, commentary by Animal and none of the "shock value" stuff that the WWE used in their more recent Ultimate Warrior DVD.
It's the matches that make the DVD set, though. There are so many great selections from the LOD's time in Georgia Championship Wrestling, the AWA, the NWA/WCW and, of course, the WWE. Some of these matches even include commentary by Animal himself. A really cool feature, in my opinion.
If you're a lifelong wrestling fan, such as myself, you're bound to enjoy this selection. One of the better "legend" compilation DVD sets out there right now. Even better than The History of The Undertaker, as far as I'm concerned.
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