WWE Survey On New DVDs
WWE does this from time to time. They’ve sent out a survey asking about potential DVD topics. Here they are with my thoughts on each.
* 20 Years Later: Best of 1996 – Matches and discussion from the best WWE and WCW PPVs as well as historic Nitro, Raw and ECW matches and moments.
Eh I could go for that, as at least it’s not yet another rehash of the Monday Night Wars period.
* Booker T – Extended WWE Network documentary plus matches, interviews and memories.
The documentary was good so sure why not. Booker deserves a 6 hour set or so.
* Bruno Sammartino – Bruno documentary with exclusive material filmed at his home as well as Bruno backstage at Wrestlemanias, plus archival footage and matches.
Take my money now. If they’re going to do this they need to do it soon as Bruno is going to be 80 this year. Get this while you still can.
* Dudley Boyz – Documentary and match collection.
Fine, though it could easily be expanded to include Edge and Christian and the Hardys.
* Eric Bischoff – Similar in vein to the Paul Heyman release, a documentary on the only man who came close to taking WWE down with matches and interviews as well as a documentary on his time in pro wrestling.
I’ve had my fill of Eric Bischoff in my life and his story is really well documented already.
* Greatest Rivalries: Eric Bischoff vs. Vince McMahon – Sitdown interview discussing the Monday Night War interspersed with footage from that era.
LET
IT
DIE!
* Greatest Rivalries: Tommy Dreamer vs. Raven – Dreamer and Raven discuss their feud with Joey Styles, interspersed with complete matches, clips and interviews.
I could see this one but it’s not my cup of hot chocolate.
* How to Become a Self-Made Millionaire with JBL – Following a day in the life of JBL, focusing on his life and how he made his fortune, including personal wealth tips.
That’s a bit outlier and I’m not sure how big the audience would be, especially given how big a market there are of these things already. This sounds more like a book.
* Hulk Hogan: Immortal – Hulk Hogan documentary and matches presented, built around the story of a Hogan bronze statue being created and released.
How many Hogan documentaries do we need? That statue thing sounds like a 20 minute special, not a feature attraction.
* Lex Luger – documentary on life and career of former WCW World champion.
Zero issue here as Luger actually has some good stuff and doesn’t get a lot of attention.
* OMG! ECW’s Top 50 Craziest Moments – A countdown of the craziest moments in Extreme Championship Wrestling and WWE ECW’s collective history.
Again, not my thing but there’s certainly a market for it.
* Roman Reigns – Documentary and match collection, built around Reigns heading into his first Wrestlemania.
Are you kidding? Win a title first.
* The Sheamus Experience – Sheamus interview as he tours Ireland plus matches, interviews and memories.
I could go for this but it wouldn’t be on the top of my pile.
* Stone Cold – One Man Show with Steve Austin.
This exists?
* True Story of Tribute to the Troops – Documentary on creation and execution of the annual WWE event for the United States military plus matches and memories from different events.
If it’s the original stuff the fine but the new glorified house shows need to just end already.
* WWE Divas – documentary looking at the past, present and future of women’s wrestling in WWE.
There’s some good stuff in there, but I don’t need to hear about Sunny, Sable, Trish and Lita again.
Wait, is JBL legit rich? It’s a little hard to tell, given he’s not the first or last guy whose gimmick was “I’m a rich son of a bitch”.
I don’t know about him being legit super rick or not but he indeed seems quite knowledgeable about economics and trade matters seeing as he regularly appears on Fox news and other media as an expert on economic policies.
I probably would get sick of it after a disc, but I’d buy an actual JBL set, especially with some in and/or out of character thoughts from the guy. He’s had a varied enough career that you could get a sampling of interesting matches, plus a lot of fun promos.
Obviously, the holy grail of releases is a Kurt Angle set if they can ever get him back in the fold. That should be like six discs.
Oh I’m pretty sure he’ll be back. Him joining the training staff would be invaluable.
The constant revisits and recap series about the Attitude Era do get tiresome. However, if the DVD involves McMahon and Bischoff together in a sit-down environment with someone like JR doing the interviewing (like the Greatest Rivalries: Hart vs Michaels DVD), then this could be something very interesting. What’d ya think?
Here’s my real issue with them constant plowing of the Attitude Era stuff: WWE is a publicly-traded PG company and they toot their horns about a family-oriented product and all the good clean entertainment as if it was run by Disney. Yet when it comes to selling their Network and DVD/merchandising/video games (read: making money), they turn to nothing else but the 4+ smashmouth and blood-thirsty years of the glorious Attitude Era and promote the shit out of it, proving their desperation of having to hang onto something that happened over 15 years ago in order to make money.
Trust me I love and cherish the heck out of the Attitude Era. The intensity and entertainment of that period is unparalleled. But this contradiction on the part of the company confounds me.
That’s how I pictured the DVD and I’m still not interested. I’m just over the whole topic.