WWE: War Games: WCW's Most Notorious Matches Blu-Ray (June 25, 2013)

[Talyn]

I did a search and didn't see a thread for this release. If there is, I do apologize. Please merge with the existing one if there is one....:

Courtesy of WWEDVDNews.com, and this is a complete match and content overview for WWE's "War Games: WCW's Most Notorious Matches" DVD and Blu-Ray, set for release on June 25th:

Disc 1

War Games Match
The Super Powers (Dusty Rhodes, The Road Warriors, Nikita Koloff & Paul Ellering) vs. The Four Horsemen (Ric Flair, Lex Luger, Arn Anderson, Tully Blanchard & J.J. Dillon)
Great American Bash – Atlanta, GA • July 4, 1987

Great American Bash On Tour

War Games Match
Dusty Rhodes, The Road Warriors, Nikita Koloff & Paul Ellering vs. The Four Horsemen (Ric Flair, Lex Luger, Arn Anderson, Tully Blanchard) & The War Machine
Great American Bash – Miami, FL • July 31, 1987

A Different Type of Animal

Tower of Doom Match
The Road Warriors, “Dr. Death” Steve Williams, Ron Garvin & Jimmy Garvin vs. Kevin Sullivan, Mike Rotunda, Al Perez, Russian Assassin & Ivan Koloff
Great American Bash • July 10, 1988

Brutality

War Games Match
Dusty Rhodes, Lex Luger, Nikita Koloff, “Dr. Death” Steve Williams & Paul Ellering vs. The Four Horsemen (Ric Flair, Barry Windham, Arn Anderson, Tully Blanchard & J.J. Dillon)
Great American Bash Tour – Greensboro, NC • July 16, 1988

Live Events

War Games Match
The Road Warriors, The Midnight Express & “Dr. Death” Steve Williams vs. The Fabulous Freebirds & The Samoan Swat Team
Great American Bash • July 23, 1989

Disc 2

Getting Replaced

War Games Match
The Four Horsemen (Ric Flair, Sid Vicious, Barry Windham & Larry Zbyszko) vs. Sting, Brian Pillman, & The Steiner Brothers
WCW WrestleWar • February 24, 1991

Talent Change

War Games Match
Sting’s Squadron (Sting, Nikita Koloff, Dustin Rhodes, Ricky Steamboat & Barry Windham) vs. The Dangerous Alliance (Arn Anderson, Bobby Eaton, Steve Austin, Larry Zbyszko & Rick Rude)
WCW WrestleWar • May 17, 1992

The Almighty Dollar

War Games Match
Sting, Davey Boy Smith, Dustin Rhodes & The Shockmaster vs. Sid Vicious, Vader & Harlem Heat
WCW Fall Brawl • September 19, 1993

A Really Special Night

War Games Match
Dusty Rhodes, Dustin Rhodes & The Nasty Boys vs. Terry Funk, Arn Anderson, Bunkhouse Buck & Colonel Robert Parker
WCW Fall Brawl • September 18, 1994

Disc 3

Pride in Their Product

War Games Match
The Hulkamaniacs (Hulk Hogan, Randy Savage, Lex Luger & Sting) vs. The Dungeon of Doom (Kamala the Ugandan Giant, The Zodiac, The Shark & Meng)
WCW Fall Brawl • September 17, 1995

Glimmer of a Fire

War Games Match
Team nWo (“Hollywood” Hulk Hogan, Scott Hall, Kevin Nash & A Mystery Partner) vs. Team WCW (Ric Flair, Arn Anderson, Lex Luger & Sting)
WCW Fall Brawl • September 15, 1996

Pulling Out Every Stop

War Games Match
Team nWo (Kevin Nash, Buff Bagwell, Syxx & Konnan) vs. The Four Horsemen (Ric Flair, Steve McMichael, Chris Benoit & Curt Hennig)
WCW Fall Brawl • September 14, 1997

The Talent Made The War Games

War Games Match
Team WCW (Diamond Dallas Page, Roddy Piper & The Warrior) vs. Team Hollywood (“Hollywood” Hulk Hogan, Stevie Ray & Bret Hart) vs. Team Wolfpac (Kevin Nash, Sting & Lex Luger)
WCW Fall Brawl • September 13, 1998

The End of the War Games

War Games 2000 Match
Sting, Booker T, Goldberg & KroniK vs. Kevin Nash, Jeff Jarrett, Scott Steiner & The Harris Brothers
WCW Monday Nitro • September 4, 2000

The Main Event

Blu-ray Exclusives

Rage in the Cage Match
Brian Lee, Jimmy Golden, Ricky Morton, Robert Fuller & Robert Gibson vs. Kevin Sullivan, Killer Kyle, The Tazmaniac , Stan Lane & Tom Prichard
Smoky Mountain Wrestling: Volunteer Slam II • May 9, 1993

Ultimate Jeopardy Steel Cage Match
Tommy Dreamer, Public Enemy & The Pitbulls vs. Raven, Stevie Richards, The Eliminators & The Heavenly Bodies
ECW December to Dismember • December 9, 1995

Ultimate Jeopardy Steel Cage Match
Buh Buh Ray Dudley, D-Von Dudley & Mustafa Saed vs. New Jack, Axl Rotten & Balls Mahoney
ECW CyberSlam • April 3, 1999

War Games Fantasy Booking with Dusty Rhodes

[kidryancorn]

Really surprised they included a Benoit match.

[Talyn]

Seems like they are including all the War Game's matches through the years. So it's not too suprising. The E just won't ever hype Benoit but he won't be ignored. He's not removed from the title history of the WWF/E title, IC belt, etc... but no one's going out of there way to say "and one of Benoit's finest matches or wins."

War Games is one of my favorite types of matches from NWA/WCW so I'm really excited to get this...

[sg2386]

Looks great! i’m liking that the Blu-ray exclusives include variations of the war games match from ECW and SMW and the main feature consists of just WCW. Nice touch.

[kidryancorn]

Originally Posted by Talyn

Seems like they are including all the War Game's matches through the years. So it's not too suprising. The E just won't ever hype Benoit but he won't be ignored. He's not removed from the title history of the WWF/E title, IC belt, etc... but no one's going out of there way to say "and one of Benoit's finest matches or wins."

War Games is one of my favorite types of matches from NWA/WCW so I'm really excited to get this...

True but they have gone through the trouble of editing commentary on DVDs, interviews mentioning his name, etc.

[Devilutionary]

I wasn't going to buy this at all until I saw the Benoit match.

He was my favorite horseman and this is the one where he gets hand cuffed to the side of the cage and almost rips his own arm off. I'm almost certain this is also one of those matches where he diving head butts a chair off of the cage onto another person.

With the added ECW matches this is a MUST HAVE...as much as I hate to do it...A MUST HAVE!

[kidryancorn]

Originally Posted by Devilutionary

I wasn't going to buy this at all until I saw the Benoit match.

He was my favorite horseman and this is the one where he gets hand cuffed to the side of the cage and almost rips his own arm off. I'm almost certain this is also one of those matches where he diving head butts a chair off of the cage onto another person.

With the added ECW matches this is a MUST HAVE...as much as I hate to do it...A MUST HAVE!

To each his own...but my enjoyment of anything with Benoit in it has greatly decreased. I remember when he won the belt at XX, and hugged Eddy...used to be one of my favorite moments in wrestling.

In any case I will be buying this.

[djluis2k6]

I enjoyed 90s matches, but I couldn't watch the 80s matches. I tried, but I couldn't. I started watching wrestling in 1995 with WCW. I don't think I would have been a fan of it during the 80s because to me, the 80s style of wrestling seemed so sloppy at times. Great evidence of that is look at how many big matches & title matches were won with a weak finish like a sloppy cross body, a roll up, or something so simple but the other guy couldn't kick out? I like the idea of matches finishing with a finisher, it looks more realistic to me. With that said, that's what I didn't enjoy about Disc 1's matches. Dusty Rhodes talks before each match about the state of NWA/WCW, wrestling as a whole, and the war games concept, and when new guys were brought in in 1991 instead of the usual people, he basically said it wasn't the same and that it wasn't as good anymore. To me, that is when it actually started to get good. I could watch the War Games 2000 Match many times over before I could watch a full War Games match from the 80s on Disc 1.

Originally Posted by Talyn

Seems like they are including all the War Game's matches through the years. So it's not too suprising. The E just won't ever hype Benoit but he won't be ignored. He's not removed from the title history of the WWF/E title, IC belt, etc... but no one's going out of there way to say "and one of Benoit's finest matches or wins."

Plus he was given such a big spot in the 1st edition of the WWE Encyclopedia and a similar size in the 2nd edition.

Originally Posted by sg2386

Looks great! i’m liking that the Blu-ray exclusives include variations of the war games match from ECW and SMW and the main feature consists of just WCW. Nice touch.

I never watched Smokey Mountain Wrestling but I did enjoy ECW, but I didn't like any of those extras and I don't agree that they fit to be on this set, they're just cage matches, not War Games at all.

Originally Posted by kidryancorn

True but they have gone through the trouble of editing commentary on DVDs, interviews mentioning his name, etc.

WWE goes back on forth on having or removing someone's commentary. I've heard Ventura's commentary on Warrior/Hogan from WrestleMania 6 on 1 DVD then off another DVD. They do the same thing with music. It's nothing for them to edit out anything with audio. They do it all the time and other than licensing issues, there are many other times I've heard edits that I can't understand why they were done.

Originally Posted by kidryancorn

The three exclusive matches on the blu ray are beyond terrible.

I can watch the ECW matches, but they don't belong on this set at all.

[flyonthewall2983]

Originally Posted by djluis2k6

WWE goes back on forth on having or removing someone's commentary.

Not just someone, this is a Jesse Ventura issue. He sued them in the 90's for back payments on royalties and was awarded a hefty sum. What it is is that when it comes to matches with Jesse on them in a compilation like this one, they edit it out. But when they put out certain things like the WrestleMania anthologies, they leave it in because he's a big part of the whole show and it would be more noticeable and annoying if he was edited out.