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Summary: Great to see some old faces again
Review: This DVD brought back a lot of memories for me, I've been a wrestling fan for twenty years and it was nice to see the Bob Backlund matches that are included, against Jimmy Snuka, Pat Patterson, and Stan Hansen, although it was a strange mix of matches to show. There were a lot of great wrestlers that Backlund faced in a cage, like Adrian Adonis, Jesse Ventura, and Superstar Billy Graham among others that I would have preferred to see over Patterson and Hansen, but no big deal as those matches were great. The newer stuff was great, those matches show how cage matches have evolved over the years, although nothing will top Bret-Owen. The NWA matches were a nice touch also, but there are two main matches included here that made this well worthwhile.The first was the Snuka-Muraco match. Although short, Snuka's dive off of the top is great to have on DVD to watch over and over. While this wasn't Snuka's first jump from the top of the cage, this one connected. As another reviewer stated, if you look close, you can see a young Mick Foley in attendance. The top item on here, for me, was the Bruno Sammartino-Ivan Koloff cage match. There are clips of Bruno-Zbysko from Shea Stadium, but the Bruno-Koloff match is presented in its entirety. As a long-time Bruno fan, this was a real treat for me to see Bruno in his prime kicking Ivan Koloff's ass all over the cage. The end especially stands out to me, as the triumphant Bruno raises his arm in victory and walks out of the cage, to the roar of the appreciative MSG crowd, while Koloff is left beaten and slumped over the ropes in the far corner of the cage. Great stuff!
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Summary: THE MOST INCREDIBLE CAGE MATCHES!!
Review: This is #16 on the top 130 greatest WWE DVD's. This DVD may be expensive but it is worth it. BloodBath is a great DVD to have, no doubt.
Triple H vs. Mankind was a great match and it was obvioulsly bloody. Triple H trys to use D-X to help him steal the match and I'm not gonna tell you the ending.
Edge vs. Kurt Angle was a weird choice to have on this DVD. Edge & Angle didn't have a great match but it was interseting and defintly worth seeing.
This DVD is great and it is brutal so if you can't take blood don't pick up this DVD because there is tons of blood.
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Summary: Not Enough Full Matches
Review: This is a great collection of matches but there are far too many highlights and not enough full matches. Some of the EXTRA matches included are full matches of what you've already seen highlights of in the main feature.
If you can get past the lack of full matches, this is a great DVD. The histories behind the matches are great too.
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Summary: Restored Glory
Review: Vince McMahon proved a lot of cynics wrong. Those critics that said Vince would risk anything to ruin Bruno Sammartino's legacy, that said Vince would never show Bret Hart in a positive light again, or that said Vince would hoard the priceless NWA/WCW library, should all eat crow after this DVD. The program itself is subpar for WWE, as the interviews with Gerald Brisco, Tommy Dreamer, and Jerry Lawler suck more energy out of the matches than they generate excitement. The people featured in matches aren't asked to provide insight, so we have a second-hand account of these matches, and like I said, they are lackluster comments. Regardless, the program is good! It's probably the first time WWE has tried to restore faded glory of yesteryear SuperStars, like Bruno Sammartino or Bob Backlund. Those two men have five matches on the DVD. Even Hulk Hogan and Bret Hart are given regards (despite anti-WWE tirades), as Jonathan Coachman even segues from Ric Flair to Bret Hart by comparing great World champions. The program is good, but the extra features make it great! There are 11 matches shown full-length, including Jimmy Snuka versus Don Muraco and Bret Hart versus Owen Hart. There are no less than four Easter Eggs that recap feuds leading to the matches. The Easter Egg for the Bruno Sammartino/Larry Zbyszko feud is better than the footage in the program (found by pushing >> while highlighting that segment). Not every classic cage match could be included, but the matches WWE selected are as good as any collection would be. I had high expectations for the disc, and after the initial disappointment that the majority of the matches are highlighted, I found the DVD surpassed my overall expectations. I can imagine this disc will be pulled from my collection, time to time, and whichever match I was hoping to watch will be thoroughly enjoyed.
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Summary: Dont bother
Review: What is the point of spending your money to obtain the greatest cage matches ever, if they are not going to show the match in its entirety...A great dissapointment. Save your money.
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Summary: A MUST BUY FOR STEEL CAGE FANS!!!
Review: WOW! I am not much on documentary DVD's, and I wasn't too sure about this one. I mostly buy pay per view DVD's and the WWE really hasn't produced a good ppv in recent months. So, I decided I would buy this DVD simply because I am a steel cage fan and I wanted to re-live the memories of the "Brett Hart vs. Owen Hart" feud. This turned out to be more than what I bargained for. ALL the matches, with the exception of "Brett Hart vs. Isaac Yankem," are great matches to watch. Many reveiewers have stated that most of the matches are highlighted, and this is true.....but you still get to see approx. 75-80% of the match. Maybe even more! It's not too bad highlighted. Of course there are 11 Complete matches that are extras on the DVD, including the famous cage match of "Ric Flair vs. Dusty Rhodes." There are two things about this DVD that I do not like....FIRST, the documentary. I wish that when they did the documentary that they could have gotten some of the original wrestlers to maybe comment on the match, instead of maybe two or three doing the commentary. SECOND....Did the WWE forget about the "Rikishi vs. Val Venis" cage match from Fully Loaded 2000? I KNOW....some wrestling critics are saying, "Why would you include that?" Well, the answer is that it could have taking the place of the "Brett Hart vs. Isaac Yankem" match, which totally sucked....lol I mean the Rikishi/Val Venis cage match was an awesome match, which produced a great psychology going into the match and we got to see a 400 POUND man fly off the cage.....AND LAND ON VAL VENIS!!! How many of you would actually lie and take a 400 pound man jumping off the cage and landing on u??? I doubt I would! All in all this DVD deserves 5 stars for simply putting great matches on the DVD. That, and the fact that the WWE finally produced a good enough DVD to actually purchase. lol Go buy the DVD and enjow WRESTLING MOST INCREDIBLE STEEL CAGE MATCHES!!!!
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Summary: Very good, but not perfect.....
Review: WWE Bloodbath is everything the title tells you, lots of blood in all of these matches. Though dont let that stop you if you think you can handle this. It also covers some of the greatest feuds ever shown inside a cage and comes complete with lots of bonus matches that make up for all the cut scenes of the matches on the main disk.
The first disk is hosted by The Coach and he takes us back to some of the early years back in the 70's, to recent matches in 2002. Some of the big names in wreslting are in these matches...
Disk one: Highlights of:
1] Bob Buckland vs. Pat Patterson
2] Bruno Sammartino vs. Larry Zbyszko
3] Bob Buckland vs. Jimmy Snuka
4] Jimmy Snuka vs. Don Muraco [See if you can spot Mick Foley]
5] Magnum TA vs. Tully Blanchard
6] Hulk Hogan vs. Paul Orndorff
7] Rick Flair vs. Ronnie Garvin
8] Bret Hart vs. Owen Hart [My second personal favorite]
9] Isaac Yankem vs. Bret Hart
10] HHH vs. Mankind [A very good cage match]
11] HHH vs. The Rock
12] Stone Cold Steve Austin vs. Mr. McMahon [Also where the Big Show came up through the ring floor and attacked Austin]
13] Edge and Christian vs. The Hardy Boys [Incredible jump by Jeff]
14] Kurt Angle vs. Chris Benoit [Great dives by both men]
16] Edge vs. Kurt Angle
Also comes with complete matches including:
Don Muraco vs. Jimmy Snuka: A great match that has Snuka's famous leap off the cage. Mick Foley is in the audience somewhere.
Bob Buckland vs. Stan Hanson, and more
Disk Two] Complete Matches including:
HHH vs. Mankind: This was sort of like a tribute to The Superfly by Mankind as he climbs to the cage and gives an elbow drop off the top onto HHH.
Bret Hart vs. Owen Hart: This was the best full match in my opinion. The Hart family was at ringside and the tension was unbelievable.
Then when Owen and his partner start beating up Bret after the match all the men in the Hart family start climbing the cage to try and save Bret. Lots of post match excitement.
Edge vs. Kurt Angle: Just watching the incredbile spear and angle slam off the top ropes by both men was enough for me. Kurt was wearing that wig at the time when his head was just shaved bald.
All in all, this was a good DVD. There are lots more full length matches that I didn't decide to ruin if you havent seen them already.
The only problem was that they should have had the second half of the highlighted matches shown in their entirety, but other than that this was really great to buy.
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Summary: WWE's Most Incredible Cage Matches - Not Too Incredible
Review: WWEs "Bloodbath" DVD set is an honest attempt at a great concept. The WWF's original Coliseum Video release from the 80's titled, "Inside the Steel Cage", was a much better collection, since there were no "hosts" or wrestlers commenting on matches. I was really disappointed at how much time was wasted with interviews and hosting when, if chosen correctly, the steel cage matches would speak for themselves. It would have been a better idea to have had nothing but complete matches with the added wrestler's comments as the Easter Eggs. Keep the matches and classic storylines as the main focus of the set and include comments for those who want to look for them. There were also serious issues with the matches that were included in this set. The abundance of Bob Backlund matches was ridiculous. I think the Backlund-Snuka match was a must and should have been included in its entirety in place of the Backlund-Patterson and Backlund-Hansen matches. There were also several glaringly obvious omissions in Andre the Giant, Big John Studd, Superstar Billy Graham, Ken Patera, Randy Savage, Ricky Steamboat, Roddy Piper, Greg Valentine, the British Bulldogs, and many, many others who had classic matches that were overlooked for a series of recent, more forgettable matches. Surprisingly, the ONLY Hulk Hogan match included was only shown in clips and was the most over-played match in WWF/Hulk Hogan history. They could have included one of the more obscure Hogan-Studd, Hogan-Bundy, Hogan-Muraco, Hogan-Andre or Hogan-Flair cage matches that haven't been seen in a home video release. Instead, they include "highlights" of Hogan-Orndorff from SNME for the umpteenth time. The wrestlers included was severely lacking in my opinion and there was room for a third disc to truly include a better scope of the classic cage matches of the past 3 or 4 decades. The inclusion of matches within the past five years was totally unnecessary in my opinion. The abundance of VCRs and DVD recorders today makes these matches future classics which many fans have already recorded. I think the WWE has a HUGE market with people like myself that enjoy the matches from the early days of the WWF. We want to see the footage that was shown before every home had three VCRs. The bootleggers have control of this market, because the WWF fails to realize this group of fans that are looking for the matches that they grew up watching. That said there were a lot of high points with this set as well. The fact that the NWA World Title matches were included made the set worth buying. The Magnum T.A. - Tully Blanchard "I Quit" match was one of the first cage matches I ever saw as a teenager, so it was a thrill to see that match again in DVD quality. Also, to have the Snuka-Muraco match in its entirety on DVD is a bonus. If you are a current fan and enjoy cage matches, you'll love this set. I wish they would have put a little more effort into making the matches and more specifically the wrestlers more plentiful. When you think about it, they had several decades of footage to choose from between the WWF and NWA libraries. I look at the past 30+ years of pro-wrestling and to think that out of the 20 matches included in this collection (between highlights and complete bouts) nearly half occurred in the past 10 years?! That's truly blasphemous to the WWF's and NWA's history.
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Summary: Read this review before you buy!
Review: You should read this review before you buy this DVD because unlike the other reviewers, I've watched the DVD. Here's all the info:
First, this is done documentary style so you don't get to see all the matches in their entirety. For example, when they talk about the Bret Hart vs. Isaac Yankem, they show 2 short clips of the wrestlers but mainly focused on how Jerry Lawler gave him self a nose bleed while hanging from a steel cage above the ring...for dramatic effect. So, if you're like me, you want to know which matches are shown in their entirety and here they are:
1. Bob Backlund vs. Pat Patterson
2. Bruno Sammartino vs. Ivan Koloff
3. Don Muraco vs. Jimmy Snuka
4. Bob Backlund vs. Stan Hansen
5. Tully Blanchard vs. Magnum TA
6. Ric Flair vs. Dusty Rhodes
7. Rock 'n' Roll Express vs. The Andersons
8. Bret Hart vs. Owen Hart
9. Mankind vs. Triple H
10. Shawn Michaels vs. Marty Jannetty
11. Edge vs. Kurt Angle
That's it, all the other matches are shown in clips while other wrestlers make comments on the matches. Still, this DVD is a must buy for steel cage fans. It contains the greatest steel cage match of all time, Bret vs. Owen, which makes the DVD worth buying for this match alone. The WWE even seems to think so because they showed ALL of the match including the aftermath and post-match interview with Owen. If you've never seen it, you're in for a thrill. Owen and Bret did all those little things that made the match not only intense but make you believe the match was a shoot! Plus, it's great to see the old WWF cage matches with Snuka, Muraco and Backlund. I would have preferred a 3 disc set that contained all the matches and no documentary, but this is still worth buying because you can't get most of these matches on video anymore, not to mention DVD. Pick it up if you're a die hard fan of the cage match. PS - to the reviewer that wondered why the Mankind vs. Rock vs. Shamrock match wasn't included it's because when the WWF lost it's lawsuit with the original WWF and was forced to change their name to WWE, part of the lawsuit victory for the WWF included to force the WWE to censor the WWF logo from all their videotapes and footage from the "attitude" era (this is when the WWF violated their agreement with the WWF to only use the initials in America). So, all the WWF logos and verbal refrences to the WWF would have to be censored from the match and as you'll see in the documentary when they show clips from the attitude era, this is VERY distracting. I guess the WWE didn't want to butcher the video in order to include it on this DVD.
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