Best of Nitro DVD

[kjh]

I don't think putting the title on Page was a mistake, but attempting to turn him in the match he won the title in was.

[Guest Slickster]

Has turning a guy heel in the middle of his title win EVER worked?

[MJH]

I guess Rock did OK for a while, though obviously it was Foley who benefitted most from the turn.

[MikeCampbell]

The best thing that came out of the DDP turn was the Sting match on Nitro where he won the title, which they negated by the end of the show with Page getting it right back.

[artDDP]

Wait, Eric Bischoff challening Vince McMahon to a PPV match isn't on this thing? It was treated as a pretty big deal on the Monday Night War DVD.

That comes off as sad and grasping at straws. This set has a totally pro WCW feel.

 

I'll take your word for it. I'll be picking my set up in the next week or so. The Monday Night War DVD pretty quickly turns into "all the things we did right and how we created Rock, Austin, and Foley and killed WCW" so a pro-WCW set would be nice to see. I really liked how they treated Starrcade on its set.

[artDDP]

I got my copy and finished the first disc. My thoughts thus far:

 

Did WWE save the old Nitro set pieces in a warehouse somewhere or did they re-create them for this DVD?

 

I got a laugh out of Bischoff being so upset that Regal was bleeding pretty badly during the parking lot brawl. Regal was wearing a white T-shirt, which Ric Flair and Arn Anderson taught me, meant there was going to be blood. Regal has either his own or Finlay's blood staining the back of the shirt and Bischoff starts ordering the cameras to go wide. Why would you book that type of match with two guys who have no problem working that stiff against each other?

 

The final moments of Chris Benoit vs. Lex Luger are included. Of course any mention of Benoit's name and a crowd sign reading "Benoit Rules" are edited out. I haven't seen any WWE DVD with Benoit on it yet so this was sort of surprising. There's a match where Ric Flair is escorted by Woman. I don't recall hearing her name mentioned at any point on the DVD, either.

 

I thought that WCW had a pretty good story going with the Flair-Savage feud at the time. Elizabeth spending her divorce settlement on Ric Flair and Flair bragging about it driving Savage over the edge. As I recall, WCW had Savage getting arrested and beating up officials pretty regularly before Steve Austin was doing it on Raw.

 

The Malenko-Mysterio draw is just kind of there, not sure why. Not the best work between these two but I guess they've exhausted their earlier matches on all the Rey DVD sets.