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After having purchased this for around £2 nearly a year ago I finally managed to watch it, now I know your asking “Why'd he take a year to watch it?” Well I ended up with a Region 1 version of the DVD and having not had a multi-region DVD player it's taken until I finally bought myself a laptop before I've had the chance to see it.
Having been a wrestling fan since the mid 90's (when the “Monday Night Wars” started incidentally) this had caught my eye when it first came out, it was, for those that don't know their professional wrestling probably the best time to be a wrestling fan. With two rival companies trying to out do each other with the ratings and public perception, with each company taking dirty tactics against the other, both knowing that one was going to defeat the other some how. The loser would end up ruined, the winner would end up the dominant force in professional wrestling.
The Competitors: In one corner we had WCW (World Championship Wrestling) owned by Ted Turner and in the other corner we had WWF (World Wrestling Federation; Which is now called the WWE-World Wrestling Entertainment, due to an argument with some panda's) owned by Vincent Kennedy McMahon.
WCW started life as Jim Crocket Promotions a part of the NWA (National Wrestling Alliance), Crocket hit financial problems so in turn sold it to Ted Turner (of Turner Broadcasting and now Time-Warner) who re-branded it WCW. The company had for it's first few years been a loss making excersise for Turner, before promoting Eric Bischoff to the top of WCW and basically giving him control of the the business side of the company in 1995. Bischoff would lead WCW to it's biggest highs and invariably it's largest lows.
WWF started life as Capitol Wrestling Corporation owned by Joseph “Toots” Mondt and Roderick McMahon (then Vincent J McMahon), this would later become WWWF 1963 when Mondt and McMahon left the NWA after a business decision. A W would be dropped from the name in 1979 and in 1982 it was taken over by Vince McMahon Jr and his Titan Sports company.
The real rivalry wasn't until they went head to head on TV.
The War: Originally the first battle was struck when McMahon went head to head with Jim Crockett offering a PPV against a Crockett PPV, slowly this weakened and then effectively destroyed Crockett financially.
It wasn't until Ted Turner gave Eric Bischoff a Prime time slot on a Monday night, directly against McMahon's own show that things once again became a war. This is where the DVD starts, effectively from the Nitro (which was the WCW show) V Raw (WWF show) ratings war. Between the 4th September 1995 and 26th March 2001 on a Monday night the ratings would go back and forth with each company having a long run on top...to find out who won you'll have to watch the DVD...or google it or something (I don't want to spoil it), so I'm going to end it here.
Although prior to “The war” battles had been going on (as mentioned on the DVD) with Bischoff stealing WWF talent as soon as their contracts were up.
The DVD focuses on the war and is brilliantly detailed (a lot more so than my little synopsis here), with interviews from Bischoff, McMahon, and a host of wrestlers, including Chris Jericho and Mick Foley.
The DVD despite being very well detailed, is biased, it is from the winners side and regularly makes it seem like the winner was sooo much better, when really it was the downfall of those at the top that left the loser in tatters. Despite the qualm with the movie/documentary it is excellent for wrestling fans.
The DVD also includes some matches from the shows and other highlights as extras on the disk.
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