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When the program catches up with the rise of WCW as a major threat to the WWF, there's around an hour left, nine years to be covered, and the end result is not pretty. Ole Anderson is briefly mentioned, as is Bill Watts, whose entire career as WCW booker is smothered in controversy (accusations of racism are never mentioned, except in a deleted scene where Watts himself addresses them), most apparent to fans in the form of nepotism. The subject of WCW booking, is really the first step into a whitewashing of WCW history, far beyond anything expected. No slight against Dusty, but while he has had some brilliant ideas, mention the phrase "Dusty finish" to any fan in the know, and they'll have to fight back laughter. It's not 100% brutally honest, as Dusty Rhodes is touted as one a step down from a messiah when it comes to the behind-the-scenes aspect of things. corporate men who didn't know anything about tradition or the wrestling business). The honesty does paint a hopeful picture for what will follow, as both men talk about mistakes made, the mismanagement by "outsiders" (i.e. The documentary does open strong, getting the sons of Jim Crockett on camera to talk about the early days and events leading to the 1988 purchase by Ted Turner. It's a franchise that for many years was synonymous with tradition as opposed to the spectacle of the WWF. WCW was a name brand for over a decade, and its history prior to this spans many more decades. For perspective, the WWE produced documentary on ECW, was at least an hour longer than this, and it was never a threat to either WCW or WWF in its heyday, which lasted under a decade. Vince McMahon won the pro-wrestling war, and as Winston Churchill once said, "History will be written by the victors." However, before one word was uttered on this documentary, a the odor of a rat lingered close by, as the runtime was just a hair over a paltry 90 minutes.
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WCW is not new grounds for WWE DVDs a biased look at the Monday Night Wars" was given its own titular DVD and in the past year, the WCW equivalent of Wrestlemania, Starcade had solid release, but for the first time, the story of WCW's beginnings and final days is told.Ī reasonable fan will approach any WWE DVD with caution, knowing full well that things will have some level of bias. "The Rise and Fall of WCW" is the first ever documentary chronicling the one serious threat to the WWF. Finally, what some what consider the Holy Grail of documentaries has been unleashed upon an eager audience.
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Over the past decade, wrestling fans have been able to enjoy a lot of classic WWF/WWE product through DVD, and every so often a bone is thrown that satisfies our hunger for promotions long dead, who have had their tape libraries purchased by McMahon. I grew up on watching wrestling from the late 80s and followed it religiously up until the what I consider the last gasp of classic wrestling, the death of WCW and Vince McMahon's public burial of his competition through the pathetic "Invasion" storyline. If you've ever seen one of my wrestling DVD reviews before, you probably already have an idea, I'm somewhat of an old school wrestling fan.