Kronos Posted January 21, 2011 Report Share Posted January 21, 2011 I have narrowed it down to these out of some seasons to watch: 1981/82 Georgia Championship Wrestling 1985 World Wide TV 1986 AWA 1987 Memphis 1992 Saturday Night TV 2004 Smackdown These shows are all things I have tasted but never in full context. Much as I would like to get them all, I think finances will likely force me to pick three of them -- out of the six listed. Besides, with the 1996 set factored in, I figure I'd be hard pressed to watch more than three of these at one time anyway. For variety and just plain fun watching, what would you guys choose? Help me winnow it down, please. . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wahoos Leg Posted January 21, 2011 Report Share Posted January 21, 2011 I'd pick the two Georgias just because they'd be new to me and I love watching the territorial stuff in order. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Sorrow Posted January 22, 2011 Report Share Posted January 22, 2011 I'd pick the two Georgias just because they'd be new to me and I love watching the territorial stuff in order.Yeah, same here. I watched all of the other stuff more or less but I've never seen Georgia outside of youtube clips and reading about it in old Apter Mags. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El-P Posted January 22, 2011 Report Share Posted January 22, 2011 1992 Saturday Nights. I miss WCW and there's a lot I haven't seen from it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GSR Posted January 22, 2011 Report Share Posted January 22, 2011 1987 Memphis is great and certainly worth picking up. I struggled with the 1986 AWA discs to the point that I didn't even manage to finish off watching the set and moved on to something else. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Austin Posted January 22, 2011 Report Share Posted January 22, 2011 I'd pick 1992 Saturday Night. A period of WCW I enjoyed, but a show I didn't have access to. There's bound to be great stuff there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KB8 Posted January 22, 2011 Report Share Posted January 22, 2011 1992 Saturday Night has a shit ton of fun to great stuff. WCW in '92 is probably my favourite year any company's ever had. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Wrestling X Posted April 18, 2011 Report Share Posted April 18, 2011 WCW Saturday Night 1992, but only if you are alright with pure mat based wrestling. Bill Watts decided to make Top Rope moves illegal and there numerous creative splats going on around this time. But theres a lot of great characters in their prime lurking around like the Steiner Brothers, Sting, Vader, Ric Flair. etc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomk Posted April 18, 2011 Report Share Posted April 18, 2011 Watts comes in late in 92. You have the Kip Frey period before him, which is probably some of the bst TV wrestling you can watch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JerryvonKramer Posted April 19, 2011 Report Share Posted April 19, 2011 If he went for 1992 wouldn't he also get the Jesse Ventura arm wrestling tournament? Kip Frey era WCW is awesome, as is early Watts. First 6 months of 1992 - in my opinion - is the peak period for WCW as a company. Think Watts comes in around June, I think. Beach Blast was his first PPV, Wrestlewar Frey's last Frey's 6-month run in WCW has got to rank as one of the best of all-time. Wonder how come noone else ever approached him. Things don't start going bad until Halloween Havoc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sean Liska Posted April 19, 2011 Report Share Posted April 19, 2011 I'm working through the 1985 Worldwide season and it's awesome. You can't go wrong with how hot the company was back then and the level of talent they had. Do not do the AWA or Smackdown seasons, the other stuff is much better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bix Posted April 19, 2011 Report Share Posted April 19, 2011 1987 CWA is great for the first half and varies a lot for tue second half, but be warned that the Evansville set of shows floating around is missing some great Memphis-specific stuff. Still well worth watching but picking up WMC sourced episodes or comps in addition to the Evansville stuff gives a better picture of the first half, especially the Lawler vs Idol & Rich feud. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GSR Posted April 21, 2011 Report Share Posted April 21, 2011 1987 CWA is great for the first half and varies a lot for tue second half, but be warned that the Evansville set of shows floating around is missing some great Memphis-specific stuff. Still well worth watching but picking up WMC sourced episodes or comps in addition to the Evansville stuff gives a better picture of the first half, especially the Lawler vs Idol & Rich feud.How much of the Memphis-specific stuff is available? I have Trent's set, and the following three discs that I got from Mortimer when he quit trading Memphis TV 05.30.87, Memphis TV 06.06.87, Memphis TV 06.13.87 & 06.20.87, all which he got from yourself. Is there anything else? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boon Posted April 26, 2011 Report Share Posted April 26, 2011 I've just picked up the Trent's Memphis set, so looking forward to that, but you cant go wrong with Saturday Night 1992 set, each week there are some stellar matches involving the Dangerous Alliance and a great group of faces including, Sting, Steamboat, Dustin Rhodes etc. Id go with 1992 Saturday Night.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bix Posted April 26, 2011 Report Share Posted April 26, 2011 1987 CWA is great for the first half and varies a lot for tue second half, but be warned that the Evansville set of shows floating around is missing some great Memphis-specific stuff. Still well worth watching but picking up WMC sourced episodes or comps in addition to the Evansville stuff gives a better picture of the first half, especially the Lawler vs Idol & Rich feud.How much of the Memphis-specific stuff is available? I have Trent's set, and the following three discs that I got from Mortimer when he quit trading Memphis TV 05.30.87, Memphis TV 06.06.87, Memphis TV 06.13.87 & 06.20.87, all which he got from yourself. Is there anything else? I have 2 comps from Steve F. in ok quality, one comp in pretty bad quality, and a few more eps I got later in ok quality. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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