BigBadMick Posted February 6, 2016 Report Posted February 6, 2016 I'm curious about some of the decision making here... DISC 1 The Real Story NWA World Heavyweight Championship Match‘Nature Boy’ Ric Flair vs. StingClash of the Champions – 27th March, 1988 NWA World Tag Team Championship MatchArn Anderson & Tully Blanchard vs. Lex Luger & Barry WindhamClash of the Champions – 27th March, 1988 Why Wait a Whole Year? NWA World Tag Team Championship MatchArn Anderson & Tully Blanchard vs. Sting & Dusty RhodesClash of the Champions II – 8th June, 1988 Russian Chain Match Ricky Morton vs. Ivan KoloffClash of the Champions III – 7th September, 1988 “I Quit” Match for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship‘Nature Boy’ Ric Flair vs. Terry FunkClash of the Champions IX – 15th November, 1989 Mil Mascaras vs. Cactus Jack MansonClash of the Champions X – 6th February, 1990 NWA World Tag Team Championship MatchMidnight Express vs. Rock & Roll ExpressClash of the Champions XI – 13th June, 1990 DISC 2 To Be The Man, You Gotta Beat The Man NWA United States Championship Match‘Nature Boy’ Ric Flair vs. Lex LugerClash of the Champions XII – 5th September, 1990 The Young Pistols & Z-Man vs. The Fabulous FreebirdsClash of the Champions XV – 12th June, 1991 15-Man Battle RoyalClash of the Champions XVI – 5th September, 1991 WCW United States Championship MatchSting vs. ‘Ravishing’ Rick RudeClash of the Champions XVII – 19th November, 1991 Other Stars On The Rise 2 out of 3 Falls Match‘Nature Boy’ Ric Flair & Arn Anderson vs. The Hollywood BlondsClash of the Champions XXIII – 17th June, 1993 Brian Pillman vs. “Stunning” Steve AustinClash of the Champions XXV – 10th November, 1993 WCW Television Title MatchLord Steven Regal vs. Dustin RhodesClash of the Champions XXVI – 27th January, 1994 Elimination Tag Team MatchSting & ‘Nature Boy’ Ric Flair vs. ‘Ravishing’ Rick Rude & VaderClash of the Champions XXVI – 27th January, 1994 DISC 3 Here we are Again Championship Unification MatchSting vs. ‘Nature Boy’ Ric FlairClash of the Champions XXVII – 23rd June, 1994 WCW United States Championship Match“Stunning” Steve Austin vs. Ricky ‘The Dragon’ SteamboatClash of the Champions XXVIII – 24th August, 1994 Hulk Hogan & ‘Macho Man’ Randy Savage vs. ‘Nature Boy’ Ric Flair & The GiantClash of the Champions XXXII – 23rd January, 1996 Medusa vs. Bull NakanoClash of the Champions XXXIII – 15th August, 1996 Match for the BattleBowl RingDiamond Dallas Page vs. Eddie GuerreroClash of the Champions XXXIII – 15th August, 1996 I’m gonna watch this WCW World Tag Team Championship Triple Threat MatchHarlem Heat vs. The Steiner Brothers vs. Sting & Lex Luger Clash of the Champions XXXIII – 15th August, 1996 WCW Cruiserweight Championship MatchUltimo Dragon vs. Dean MalenkoClash of the Champions XXXIV – 21st January, 1997 WCW Cruiserweight Championship MatchChris Jericho vs. Eddie GuerreroClash of the Champions XXXV – 21st August, 1997 Diamond Dallas Page & Lex Luger vs. Scott Hall & ‘Macho Man’ Randy SavageClash of the Champions XXXV – 21st August, 1997 35th and Final Clash BLU-RAY EXTRAS ‘Nature Boy’ Ric Flair and Barry Windham vs. Midnight ExpressClash of the Champions IV – 7th December, 1988 Sting and Ricky ‘The Dragon’ Steamboat vs. ‘Ravishing’ Rick Rude and Steve AustinClash of the Champions XVIII – 21st January, 1992 Thunder Cage MatchDustin Rhodes & Sting vs. Big Van Vader, Paul Orndorff and Barry WindhamClash of the Champions XXII – 13th January, 1993 Why is 1992 omitted (apart from on the Blu-Ray)? And Jesse's commentary is removed from the June 93 event - hasn't all that royalties stuff been sorted? Whilst I understand a lot of choices relate to wrestler's relevance to modern WWE fans, why are Morton/Koloff, the Freebirds tag from June 91 and the Battle Royal from Sept 91 included?
thebrainfollower Posted February 6, 2016 Report Posted February 6, 2016 Here's the deal with Jesse's commentary. They have worked out a deal where they have to pay him if they use his commentary, which they can do. So they work around him whenever possible. So for a Wrestlemania set or a SNME set they pony up the cash. For something like this, they work around it by not showing matches with him on commentary, which is also why you see so little 92. If there's 1-2 matches on a release with his commentary they edit him out of those to avoid paying him anything. Freebirds - Hayes works for them Morton/Koloff - who knows Battle Royal - good sampling of the talent roster for casual fans.
goc Posted February 6, 2016 Report Posted February 6, 2016 What's wrong with the Morton/Koloff inclusion? It's a Russian Chain match. It's a pretty solid gimmick match with a big angle at the end.
BigBadMick Posted February 6, 2016 Author Report Posted February 6, 2016 Nothing against the match, goc, but neither participant seems that important in the wwe version of history, and there's loads of better matches could have taken its place.
WingedEagle Posted February 6, 2016 Report Posted February 6, 2016 I have no idea who the target audience is for a set like this as you'd imagine most folks interested in this material already have the Network and thus have no use for this or any other DVD set. Perhaps the hope is some casual fans (who are nonetheless looking at the match list on a comp DVD?) will see a gimmick match mixed in with some big names and be intrigued? No real rhyme or reason because the Network should dry up the real dvd market.
thebrainfollower Posted February 6, 2016 Report Posted February 6, 2016 This set predates the network by a good few years. I came close to picking it up but just downloaded it instead. I already had about half the clashes but wanted the quality upgrade at the time. Nowadays you would think WWE sets aimed at collectors (Owen Hart) would not contain the obvious PPV matches on the network but they still usually do.
pantherwagner Posted February 9, 2016 Report Posted February 9, 2016 Here's the real million dollar question. Why on the show graphics it is Clash of the Champions but during commentary it is called The Clash of Champions?
Loss Posted February 9, 2016 Report Posted February 9, 2016 Because Vince McMahon was the guy who brought that level of quality control to wrestling.
RCS1988 Posted February 10, 2016 Report Posted February 10, 2016 Here's the real million dollar question. Why on the show graphics it is Clash of the Champions but during commentary it is called The Clash of Champions? They would always switch the names every so often. Also, did Meltzer ever say that there was supposed to be a Clash in January 1998, but was cancelled. You would think if they were going to stop doing Clashes, they would do 1 final awesome Clash to go out on.
flyonthewall2983 Posted February 11, 2016 Report Posted February 11, 2016 I think with Thunder coming on TBS, continuing the event would have been overkill (as if the show itself wasn't overkill).
pantherwagner Posted February 12, 2016 Report Posted February 12, 2016 To be fair, things like Clash of the Champions (or SNME when they tried to revive it) were made obsolete by Raw and Nitro.
flyonthewall2983 Posted February 13, 2016 Report Posted February 13, 2016 You're absolutely right. The Clash events were big in my house growing up because our PPV company did not carry their broadcasts, and wouldn't do so regularly until 1996 or 97. I think even until their last CotC, the show still had a purpose as long as they only did as few a year as they did by then.
MikeCampbell Posted February 13, 2016 Report Posted February 13, 2016 NWA World Tag Team Championship MatchMidnight Express vs. Rock & Roll Express Clash of the Champions XI – 13th June, 1990 Was this a U.S. Tag Titles match? I'm almost positive that Doom were the World Tag Team Champions at this point.
TheU_2001 Posted March 10, 2016 Report Posted March 10, 2016 NWA World Tag Team Championship Match Midnight Express vs. Rock & Roll Express Clash of the Champions XI 13th June, 1990 Was this a U.S. Tag Titles match? I'm almost positive that Doom were the World Tag Team Champions at this point. Yes this was for the US Tag Team Titles.
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