peachchaos Posted September 5, 2016 Report Posted September 5, 2016 Pioneer released a DVD version of Terry Funk's WrestleFest as well. While it's hardly a rare and unreleased gem, the Funk-Hart match is really good so I'm happy to see it on the Network for a larger audience.
sek69 Posted September 5, 2016 Report Posted September 5, 2016 Has the Hart-Funk match seen the light of day before? I think it's from the Terry Funk's Wrestlefest show.? Yep, it's on Terry Funk's Wrestlefest 1997. I had this on VHS, as it was released by a company I think called Deltavision (?) in the UK. Just before the ECW rites were officially purchased by WWE they put out lots of the non PPV ECW shows which you could get in places like HMV. The Funk/Hart match is really good from my hazy memory. With Bret being in the middle of his heel anti US run, he works a really old school match, which is a lot different from a much of what Funk was doing in ECW at time. There were some other pretty interesting matches on the show as well including a Sabu/Foley match, but with Mick in his Mankind persona. The Dory Funk/RVD match is something of a styles clash if I recall... The date shown for the match is a few days after Montreal so Bret would have been babyfaced by that point.
Beast Posted September 5, 2016 Report Posted September 5, 2016 No, it was held in September. Bret was still WWF Champion and the USA/Canada war was in full swing.
sek69 Posted September 5, 2016 Report Posted September 5, 2016 Was that the match featured in Beyond the Mat then? With Dennis "I'm not booked" Stamp?
C.S. Posted September 5, 2016 Report Posted September 5, 2016 Dennis Stamp finally makes his long-awaited WWE Network debut!
hammerva Posted September 5, 2016 Report Posted September 5, 2016 some more details about the Last Battle of Atlanta: http://www.wwenetworknews.com/2016/09/05/exclusive-final-update-on-last-battle-of-atlanta-how-complete-will-the-wwe-network-upload-be/ So if it isn't the full version it is close to it.
sek69 Posted September 5, 2016 Report Posted September 5, 2016 That's amazing, it seems like the most sought after footage of the last 30+ years was just sitting at the bottom of the Crockett vault somewhere.
clintthecrippler Posted September 5, 2016 Report Posted September 5, 2016 Now this just makes me want to know how many early 80s Omni main events WWE is sitting on in their library. I would kill for the next archive dump being in the "Old School" section with whatever Omni arena footage they have in the vault.
shoe Posted September 5, 2016 Report Posted September 5, 2016 Timbo thought Paul Ellering had it and used it as leverage to get a deal.
C.S. Posted September 5, 2016 Report Posted September 5, 2016 Timbo thought Paul Ellering had it and used it as leverage to get a deal. Who is Timbo, and is this a serious post or a joke? I can't tell with people here sometimes.
shoe Posted September 5, 2016 Report Posted September 5, 2016 Timbo Slice is a poster. It's just conjecture on his part. It makes sense for Ellering to have a copy, just like Jim Nelson having a copy of Final Conflict.
C.S. Posted September 5, 2016 Report Posted September 5, 2016 I guess that's a good a reason as any for Ellering's random reappearance in 2016. Then again, this is the same company that brought Zeb Coulter back out of mothballs.
Al Posted September 5, 2016 Report Posted September 5, 2016 Timbo Slice is a poster. It's just conjecture on his part. It makes sense for Ellering to have a copy, just like Jim Nelson having a copy of Final Conflict.Thank god Nelson isn't as skilled a negotiator.
peachchaos Posted September 5, 2016 Report Posted September 5, 2016 Does WWE own the Final Conflict? I don't remember it airing on 24/7 and it's not on the Network. Seems kinda silly for them to roll out the red carpet for one but not the other.
Loss Posted September 5, 2016 Report Posted September 5, 2016 WWE made Highspots stop selling Final Conflict, yes.
sek69 Posted September 5, 2016 Report Posted September 5, 2016 The reasoning (well one of them at least) that always seems to be given for not adding more classic content is that they don't want to upload all of it at once. Maybe WWE's testing the waters with this and it will lead to other gems being unearthed.
khawk20 Posted September 5, 2016 Report Posted September 5, 2016 As a collector for more than 30 years this is an amazing thing. At this point this just wasn't supposed to exist...now it does. How about that?
peachchaos Posted September 6, 2016 Report Posted September 6, 2016 Scott Keith: "There was no master copy ever found and the only known surviving tape was said to be in the hands of one guy who was there that night in the audience and taped it with a video camera." Is this accurate? Certainly seems so per the Network description and would explain the irregularity in terms of Omni footage existing. Pretty sure I've never heard a version of the story where a handheld copy existed. This is incredibly cool.
sek69 Posted September 6, 2016 Report Posted September 6, 2016 Georgia seemed to be an area that kept the masters of their tapes, and it would be odd they wouldn't have kept a master of something that was the blowoff to a big feud at the time.
BBscout Posted September 6, 2016 Report Posted September 6, 2016 I've always thought the hype around this was as big as the praise Tully-Magnum gets. Will be good to see how the match compares.
BBscout Posted September 6, 2016 Report Posted September 6, 2016 I've always thought the hype around this was as big as the praise Tully-Magnum gets. Will be good to see how the match compares.
JerryvonKramer Posted September 6, 2016 Report Posted September 6, 2016 Watching it right now, most excited I've ever been, maybe ever.
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