So I finally went through the entire Rise and Fall of WCW set. The first disc with the history behind WCW was pretty good. My biggest problem is that they only interviewed people who were already involved in WWE, like Bischoff and Dusty. This was the biggest problem on the match discs also. I wish there were more "WCW guys" presented, not just "WWE guys who worked for WCW." Seriously, would it really kill Vince to find Tony Schivone and JoJo Dillon and have them give some of their eperience with WCW? Hell, I wouldn't mind if they threw in Mean Gene and Michael Buffer just for some other prespectives.
Disc 2 had a lot of good older matches. This whole disc was before my time as a wrestling fan, so it was a little weird and even boring for me to watch these matches I had no connection to. At least most of the wrestlers are some name brand guys though. That didn't make Dusty versus Barry Windham easier to watch though. There was a good 5+ minutes of nothing but Barry with the claw on Dusty.
Disc 3 is was all about the nostalgia for me. Though the match selection in this disc is strange. There are a lot of short random matches here. Matches that aren't really special but stood for something at the time. Like the openning match of Flair versus The Giant. It was only a few minutes long and wasn't all that great. But it signified the world title finally moving on to younger guys. It was actually weird to hear Schivone say Big Show was only 24 during this match, especially since he looked older back then than he looks now. There was also the Fall Brawl double ring cage match between team WCW and team nWo. The match was fine, despite the fact that it seemed bad fundmentally. But it really made me miss the days of the double and triple ring. Jericho versus Quasijuice Guerrera for the mask was there. I completely forgot what Juvi's mask looked like. After that was Steiners versus Outsiders. Another of those "significant" matches, as basically it was Scott turning his back on Rick and joining the red and black. Page & Malone versus Hogan and Rodman was.... interesting. Rodman did not seem interested at all. Hell, he wouldn't even stay in the ring after he got a tag. He'd do a team move with Hogan, then go back on the apron. Malone, on the other hand, got into it, but he stuttered on some of his moves. Especially nowadays, seeing Orton RKO in a flash, Malone's hesitation to hit several Diamon Cutters really showed. There was also Lance Storn rocking 3 now-Canadian belts versus Booker T. I'm not exactly sure why this match was there, aside from the hilarity of seeing the triple Canada champ.
Overall, like I said for disc 1, I just wish they featured matches with more WCW guys. Like Sting. There were a few Sting matches on disc 1, but the only one on disc 2 was the Team WCW/nWo match. There was no Crow Sting at all, despite him being prominent on the cover. Also, there is a disturbing lack of Macho Man on this collection, despite him fueding with Hogan during the early nWo days. Hell, there was no Wolfpac versus white and black either. Oh, and there is only 1 Goldberg match, and it is against DDP. For a guy that was undefeated for over 150 matches, I think he deserved some more spotlight. actually really wanted his match with Saturn to be in here, since that was hyped up pretty big a Goldberg match during the middle of the streak.
in' ECW jobbers should get shitcanned and go back to whatever bullshit Nebraska Boomer Sooner hee-haw indy promo they came from. Take Tyler Reks and his surfboard with yeh.
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