The Very Best of WCW Monday Nitro DVD

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Disc 1-The Rise and Takeover

-9/4/95, Jushin "Thunder" Liger vs. "Flyin" Brian Pillman: From the Mall of America its the very first match ever on Nitro and despite a few botched moves its a very good contest, though their '92 contest was better. Brian rolls up Liger and pins him. 7/10.

-9/4/95, WCW Championship Match, Hulk Hogan (Champion) vs. Big Bubba: The first main event in Nitro's history and in typical Hogan fashion he sells for Bubba and hits his usual spots including the big boot and leg drop for the win. Average match, 5/10. The face/off between Lex Luger and Hogan afterwards was fun to see, except Luger sounded stupid as always when he cut a promo.

-1/8/96, Ric Flair & Arn Anderson vs. Hulk Hogan & Randy Savage: What a star studded main event tag match this is. Its quite good as there's a good face/off between Hogan and Flair and both Anderson and Savage get good spots in. Flair and Arn cut off the ring and wear Savage down before Hogan gets the tag. Hogan hits the leg drop on Arn and pins him. 8/10. The aftermath where The Giant chokeslams both Hogan and Savage is pretty good.

-2/5/96, WCW Tag Team Title Match, Sting & Lex Luger (Champions) vs. The Road Warriors: Hawk and Animal returned shortly before this match and didn't look like they had missed a step and the champs weren't far behind them. The match itself isn't bad, lots of power moves from all the guys. There was some underlying tension between Sting & Luger as Lex was using some dirty tactics that Sting didn't approve of. Lex hit Animal with a weight lifting plate and covered Animal to keep the tag titles. 7/10.

-4/29/96, Parking Lot Brawl, Belfast Bruiser vs. Lord Steven Regal: Pretty hard hitting match where these two hit each other off of cars with Bruiser even hitting Regal with a bumper and a couple of windows get shattered when Bruiser hits them. Regla hits a piledriver on the roof of the car and pins Bruiser to win the match. This was a very enjoyable contest. 8/10.

-5/20/96, Ric Flair vs. Eddie Guerrero: Quite a good contest here, good counter wrestling and Flair made Eddie look great, while Guerrero showed he could hang with a main eventer. Ric locked on the figure four and had to resort to using the ropes and Eddie ended up getting counted down for the three count. Great match, 9/10.

-5/27/96, Scott Hall's Nitro Debut: We see Hall come in through the crowd, get in the ring and cut a promo which planted the seeds for the upcoming NWO storyline. Good segment.

-6/10/96, Kevin Nash's Nitro Debut: Scott Hall comes down to the announce booth and while Bischoff's back is turned Nash appears and he cuts a promo saying they're prepared to go to war.

-6/24/96, Triple Threat Match For The WCW Tag Team Titles, Sting & Lex Luger (Champions) vs. Harlem Heat vs. The Steiner Brothers: Interesting match here, the pistons didn't seem to fire right away but once they did the teams worked well together. This one is more remembered for Hall & Nash coming to ringside and security comes down to protect the WCW wrestlers, but during the chaos Luger gets rolled up by Booker T for the 3 count and Harlem Heat are the new Tag Team champions. 6/10.

-7/8/96, The New World Order Takes Over: The night after Bash At The Beach where Hogan, Hall & Nash formed the NWO we hear from Hogan as he talks about how they will take over and destroy WCW.

-7/29/96, Backstage Chaos: Jimmy Hart runs to ringside and gets Sting, Savage and Luger to come to the back. We see Hall & Nash beating up wrestlers in the back including Rey Mysterio being thrown head first into a trailer. This actually felt pretty real even for a wrestling show.

-8/12/96, Scott Hall & Kevin Nash vs. Sting & Lex Luger: Starts off with Luger taking on both men, then Sting blind sides Nash & Hall and we have more of a brawl than anything else. 6/10. What this is remembered for is the beginning of referee Nick Patrick joining the NWO. The horsemen run down and run the Outsiders off.

-8/26/96, Taking Over: We see the final couple of minutes of Sting/Luger vs. McMichael/Benoit, (yes I said Benoit), the NWO comes down and Hogan brands McMichael, Sting and Benoit. The Horsemen come down but they get taken out. Good segment where the fans throw more stuff into the ring and at the NWO.

-9/9/96, The Turncoat Sting?: Luger gets called to the back by referee Nick Patrick and we hear from a limo Sting telling Ted DiBiase he needs to take Luger out. Sting appears out of the limo and he and the NWO beat up Luger in the rain.

-9/16/96, Vindication: The real Sting appears one night after the War Games match the night before where he was thought to have joined the NWO. He proved he was not a traitor that night and here in the ring he says those who doubted him can stick it. Great segment.

-11/18/96, Easy E's Reign Begins: Piper comes out, the crowd goes nuts and he confronts Bischoff. We get the usual ramblings from Roddy and this leads to the NWO coming down and it being revealed that Bischoff is part of the group. Very well done segment.

-12/30/96, Rey Mysterio vs. Dean Malenko: A very good rivalry in '96 that continues on the final Nitro of the year. Its short but very good moves by both men. We do seem some actual mat wrestling from Mysterio along with his high flying moves. Dean uses some wear down offense including working on Rey's knee. There was a 10 minute time limit that expired so that match is declared a draw. 7/10.

Extras

-8/29/96, Rey Mysterio vs. Mr. JL: Good match here, JL is Jerry Lynn (pre-ECW), its quite good given the short time its given. Rey ends up taking this one with a springboard hurricarana. 8/10. A good NWO moment where Hogan, Hall and Nash spray paint the production truck is also shown during the match.

-Diamond Dallas Page Monday Nitro Highlights: A montage of his best moments on Nitro, good extra here.

-6/9/97, Afraid of Heights: DDP is interviewed where he talks about how Sting saved him and took him up into the rafters. Pretty cool extra here.

Disc 2: The Peak and Plateau

-1/13/97, DDP vs. Mark Starr: This is a fairly quick squash that sees DDP hit the Diamond Cutter and cover Starr for the win. The aftermath is much better than the match as Hall and Nash come down to recruit DDP to the NWO, but while Nash's back is turned DDP hits Hall with the Diamond Cutter much to the crowds delight.

-3/3/97, Suspended: Eric Bischoff comes out and cuts a promo talking about how the NWO is the reason they are all here in this arena. Harvey Schiller the president of Turner Sports comes out and after a couple of minutes he suspends Bischoff, which as the crowd going nuts.

-3/17/97, From The Rafters: As the Steiners and Harlem Heat are having a match, the entire NWO comes down and destroys all four men. Luger and The Giant come down and clear the ring. Sting decends from the ceiling and the crowd goes nuts.

-4/21/97, WCW Cruiserweight Championship Match, Rey Mysterio vs. Syxx: Not a bad one here, Syxx had Nash at ringside and Rey seemed a little more agressive than usual. Rey almost has the title won, when Nash interferes and Jacknifes Rey, Syxx locks on the crossface chicken wing and the ref calls for the bell. 6/10. Post match sees a fan run into the ring and get kicked by Syxx and Rey is carted to the back and put in an ambulance.

-8/4/97, WCW Championship Match: Hulk Hogan (Champion) vs. Lex Luger: Its Hogan vs. the man the NWA and WCW believed could be the next Hogan, Lex Luger. Power for power here, Hogan wears down Luger in the early going with kicks, fists and clotheslines, in fact besides a small flurry by Luger, Hogan dominates the first part of this match, having him pinned down but not out a few times. Luger does kick out of the Hogan leg drop, then makes his comeback, taking out the interfering members of the NWO. He slaps on the Torture Rack and Hogan gives up. Winner and new WCW Champion, Lex Luger. 6/10.

-9/1/97, The NWO Parody: This was the infamous mockery of Arn Anderson's retirement speech, where the NWO well mainly Nash, Konnan, Syxx and Buff Bagwell mock the Four Horsemen. Its stupid in parts but I found parts of it funny. Being a fan of the Horsemen like I was it was a little much to watch the whole thing.

-9/29/97, Buff Bagwell vs. DDP: Pretty decent one here as Bagwell's ego come back to bite him as DDP makes his comeback, Vincent interferes and gets the Diamond Cutter and then one for Bagwell right after, DDP makes the cover and wins. 6/10.

-10/27/97, Hulk Hogan vs. DDP: Here we see the final few minutes with Hogan beating up on DDP, but no matter how hard he tries DDP just won't stay down. Read more ›