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The Coliseum Video Thread

Piper/Barbarian, I believe, was the last taped match of Piper's run. And it's ungodly bad.

Honestly outside of Shawn/Savage and Bret/Martel this is a genuinely terrible tape.
 

1:03 Tito Santana vs Earthquake12:55 Bobby Heenan vs Big Boss Man19:08 Sgt. Slaughter vs Jim Duggan@25:49 The Barbarian vs Bret Hart@32:32 The Bushwackers vs Rhythm & Blues @38:26 Dino Bravo vs Hulk Hogan@1:01:32 British Bulldog vs Haku@1:20:15 Macho King vs Jim Duggan@1:43:07 Macho King vs The Ultimate Warrior

A wild angle to kick the tape off and an unexpected ending to the tape....
 
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This might be the child mark in me but I think I'll go to my grave in saying that Bret Hart, especially in the entrances (I blame the jackets with the shoulder pads & glasses combo) is the coolest wrestler ever. There's other wrestlers who came out and you knew were bad asses or cool in kind of a hot shit way (think Shawn Michaels) but Bret's seriousness and natural aura still hits as just an easy 'cool' without being performative like a Kevin Nash.
 
Tito being so protected against Earthquake on that tape. I guess because he was going to be in the sole survivor match the next month with Hogan and Warrior at Survivor Series.
 
HarleyQuinn said:
This might be the child mark in me but I think I'll go to my grave in saying that Bret Hart, especially in the entrances (I blame the jackets with the shoulder pads & glasses combo) is the coolest wrestler ever. There's other wrestlers who came out and you knew were bad asses or cool in kind of a hot shit way (think Shawn Michaels) but Bret's seriousness and natural aura still hits as just an easy 'cool' without being performative like a Kevin Nash.
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He also made pink a manly color to wear in the 90's. And nobody could pull off that style of sunglasses, and seem badass besides Bret. Undertaker or Stone Cold wearing those shades would be ridiculous. The long hair plus leather jacket and the unique sunglasses were really an iconic look for Bret.

Even those typical homophobic 90's bro dude fans never criticized Bret for wearing pink, because he had the it factor and coolness to him. Favorite wrestler ever along with Sting.
 
strummer said:
Tito being so protected against Earthquake on that tape. I guess because he was going to be in the sole survivor match the next month with Hogan and Warrior at Survivor Series.
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Odd booking regardless. Looking at the results, Tito jobbed to Slaughter on both USA Network and WWF Superstars in the build to SSeries. (And Tito was leaving, at least for a little bit, after the PPV)

He also does a schmozz finish vs Martel on Superstars, which I guess may have been used to do the final Strike Force blow off where they show Martel beating Tito in December on Prime Time Wrestling.

Looks like his last TV squash win was Sept.
 
Savage was hurt at that time. Might have been a broken wrist IIRC
 
Yeah, wasn't that the reasoning for a very short match at Summerslam, short rematch with as much Dustin/Virgil/DiBiase participation at SNME, and not working Survivor Series or Royal Rumble?
 
Savage was still working house shows though, I was at one a few weeks after this where Savage beat Warrior by countout (and the ring announcer announced him as new champion because he wasn't actually a wrestling guy) to set up a rematch two months later (which didn't happen due to the injury)
 
I think Savage had nerve damage in one of his arms in 90 that lead to one arm being much bigger than the other. That's why he barely wrestles on the major shows that year. And I think he breaks his wrist in early 91.
 
Have they uploaded any of the Best of the WWF tapes?
 
Dang. Some of those were pretty good. Some were also nothing resembling the best. I think it was Vol 4 that has an Andre top rope spot in a cage match (I don't remember if it's Kamala or Studd) and there was a later one that had heels winning every match, including the Demolition-Strike Force rematch where Martel got written out for almost a year.
 

WWF BEST OF THE WWF VOLUMES 1 - 20 COLISEUM VIDEO VHS ORIGINALS FOR SALE

WWF BEST OF THE WWF VOLUMES 1 - 20 COLISEUM VIDEO VHS ORIGINALS FOR SALE
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Vol 2 is full of matches with guys no longer around at release. You'd think they'd put maybe 1 match on for flavor

VOLUME 2 Tony Atlas & Rocky Johnson vs. Adrian Adonis & Dick Murdoch (Tag Team Title) Pedro Morales vs. Don Muraco (I-C Title) Pedro Morales vs. Killer Kowalski Sky Low Low & Little Brutus vs. Jamaica Kid & Billy the Kid Sky Low Low & Little Brutus vs. Sonny Boy Hayes & Joey Russell Chief Jay Strongbow vs. Prof. Toru Tanaka Capt. Lou Albano plays classical music on the piano Mean Gene Okerlund sings "Tutti Frutti" w/Hulk Hogan on bass Tito Santana vs. Paul Orndorff (I-C Title) Bobo Brazil vs. Freddie Blassie Andre the Giant vs. Black Demon (clip) Tony Garea & Rick Martel vs. Moondogs (Texas Death Match Gorilla Monsoon guest referee) Tony Garea & Rick Martel vs. Mr Fuji & Mr Saito (Tag Team Title)​


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What best of would be complete without 2 Terry Gibbs matches?

VOLUME 8 Killer Bees vs Hart Foundation Danny Spivey vs Terry Gibbs Billy Jack Haynes vs Moondog Rex King Kong Bundy vs Junkyard Dog Jimmy Jack Funk vs Tony Garea Harley Race vs Lanny Poffo Bodyslam Challenge w/ John Studd, Jim Powers, Rick Hunter, & King Tonga John Studd vs King Tonga Ted Arcidi vs Terry Gibbs Hercules Hernandez vs Cousin Jr. Pedro Morales vs Adrian Adonis Pat Patterson vs Lou Albano Ricky Steamboat vs Jake Roberts

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This one had the gimmick of Kamala beating a few upper card guys and then jobbing to Hogan. I feel like the listing is wrong and Santana should be Steele​


VOLUME 12 Ricky Steamboat vs. Kamala Kamala vs. Tito Santana Big John Studd, King Kong Bundy & Bobby Heenan vs. Big Machine, Super Machine & Piper Machine Johnny Valient vs. Brutus Beefcake Pedro Morales & Gorilla Monsoon vs. The Mongols (2 out of 3 falls) Paul Orndorff vs. George Steele Fabulous Moolah vs. Leilani Kai (Womens Title) Howard Finkel in the 70's with hair! Hulk Hogan trains Mean Gene Kamala vs. Hulk Hogan (WWF Title)​

 
I got to watch a couple Coliseum Video tapes that (I dont) think have been uploaded on the Youtube Vault.

Best of the WWF Vol 19 had wraparounds that mocked Sean Mooney, a p common motif. Unfortunately there's no Hayes or Heenan to play off. It's just random studio people and Kevin Dunn. It all ends with Mooney locked in a broom closet. But the stuff in between that was mostly good. A Macho Man-Bad News Brown street fight was a fun watch. There's a proto ECW spot where Bad News accidentally gores the referee through a table. Kinda wish they could've blown that off at WM5 and get the belt back to Hogan a little later. The Demolition vs Powers of Pain match from Milwaukee, on the untelevised undercard of the Mega Powers Explosion (and Akeem falling through a ringrope wormhole). A perfectly acceptable house show/dark main tag with Andre/Rude vs Roberts/Duggan. And Ted DiBiase gets the tape's main event slot: a series of clips on the making of the Million Dollar Belt, its debut on the Brother Love Show, and the match vs Bret from Odessa. Good match, double countout, and another illustration of how long they worked to make Bret Hart a singles star, and how integral DiBiase was to that process.

The other was a Best of Cage Matches budget video. This one had a red box and Hogan on the cover. Both of Hogan's SNME cage matches, versus Orndorff and Boss Man. God, that superplex off the cage spot is still amazing. A six man cage match with heel Hart Foundation and IC champ Honky Tonk Man vs Strike Force and Savage. And the Savage-DiBiase cage match where a fan tries to enter the cage. This might've been the best of the budget tapes.
 
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"we haven't even had a snack."
 
snuffbox said:
I got to watch a couple Coliseum Video tapes that (I dont) think have been uploaded on the Youtube Vault.

Best of the WWF Vol 19 had wraparounds that mocked Sean Mooney, a p common motif. Unfortunately there's no Hayes or Heenan to play off. It's just random studio people and Kevin Dunn. It all ends with Mooney locked in a broom closet. But the stuff in between that was mostly good. A Macho Man-Bad News Brown street fight was a fun watch. There's a proto ECW spot where Bad News accidentally gores the referee through a table. Kinda wish they could've blown that off at WM5 and get the belt back to Hogan a little later. The Demolition vs Powers of Pain match from Milwaukee, on the untelevised undercard of the Mega Powers Explosion (and Akeem falling through a ringrope wormhole). A perfectly acceptable house show/dark main tag with Andre/Rude vs Roberts/Duggan. And Ted DiBiase gets the tape's main event slot: a series of clips on the making of the Million Dollar Belt, its debut on the Brother Love Show, and the match vs Bret from Odessa. Good match, double countout, and another illustration of how long they worked to make Bret Hart a singles star, and how integral DiBiase was to that process.

The other was a Best of Cage Matches budget video. This one had a red box and Hogan on the cover. Both of Hogan's SNME cage matches, versus Orndorff and Boss Man. God, that superplex off the cage spot is still amazing. A six man cage match with heel Hart Foundation and IC champ Honky Tonk Man vs Strike Force and Savage. And the Savage-DiBiase cage match where a fan tries to enter the cage. This might've been the best of the budget tapes.
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I wonder if my cousin had some sort of dubbed/mix tape in the late 80s as I recall a VHS he had with PoP vs Demos. Strike Force/Savage vs Honky/Harts in a cage and Warrior vs Savage from pre WM 5. I could have just watched more than one tape and melded it all in my mind.

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My local mom and pop rental place had the High Flyers tape, Wrestle War 89, Wrestlemania 5 and the 30 min Rock and Roll Wrestling tape with all the Memphis music videos and clips. I bought the last one when the place went out of business.

The only thing I remember at the local grocery store was a tape with Dusty vs Hammer from the WWF.

I really regret not trying harder in the early 2000s to sweep into the Green Bay Hollywood Videos, Family Videos and mom and pop places when they were selling off their VHS stock. I know they had a lot of the AWA tapes (the best ofs and SuperClash spread over several tapes). I'm not sure I've seen those AWA in the wild at all these flea markets and cons unless they were the Hogan one or one of the 2 Slaughter ones.
 
I think SuperClash took up multiple volumes of the Monsters of the Mat series. Those tapes, in the classic clamshell case, also had Mid South and other NWA territories and I (think I) remember a good DiBiase/Dr Death-Guerreros cage match & Wahoo vs Flair. The handful on Ebay tend to have prices that reflect their rarity.
 
It's a GOAT tape. Everything but Taker/Bomb and Yoko/Perfect is a banger (and Yoko/Perfect is still pretty fun).
 
TIL that this WWF Superstars was historical in a fun Did You Know? way: 7/2/94 – featured the return of Jim Ross after a 5-month absence, doing commentary alongside Jerry Lawler (Ross & Lawler’s first time working together as an announce team)
 
I hope they upload the 1995 tape Brawl in the Family (or let me know if they did already and I'm a maroon). I remember thinking it had a cool looking box and King Kong Bundy matches, both things I liked when I was 12 anyway, but I don't think I've ever actually seen it.
 
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