The History of the World Heavyweight Championship

[King Patrick]

Originally Posted by WWEShop.com

The World Heavyweight Championship is one of the most prestigious and controversial titles in sports entertainment. Its history can be traced back over a century and the men who have worn the fold represent the best athletes and entertainers in the world. The History of World Heavyweight Championship highlights this glorious lineage from the early National Wrestling Alliance, to World Class Wrestling through its current home at WWE in this never before seen documentary. Past and present champions relate the title’s significance and relive the emotional moments that surround this most impressive championship. Witness the epic battles for the glory on this 3-DVD set with over 20 championship matches.

I can't wait for this. Anyone notice the error in the quote??

[Les]

Is that WWE claim their World Title to be a new belt?

Let's hope WWE can get back on track with their usually excellent DVD sets after the abysmal Rise and Fall of WCW

[King Patrick]

I hope and think that the WWE is slowly recognizing the fact that it was indeed the NWA / WCW Title. There really wasn’t a need to do all this re-visioning on WWE’s part, but it’s not my company to complain. Oh, and that’s not error in the quote.

Quick off topic question, was the WCW DVD that bad?? I’m about to get it for the N.W.O shirt and to add it to my collection. HAHA!!

[Tyrone]

World Class Wrestling? Or the fact that they forgot WCW?

Hopefully it's as good as the History of IC Championship DVD

[Jordan H.]

It seems WWE is finally recognizing it as the WCW Title at least and not so much playing somebody for dumb anymore; hell, they even used the same design!!!

I checked out the match listing for it, not too bad, pretty diverse though the WWE section I think is pretty weak:

Disc 1: Documentary & NWA Matches

Chapters:
*Origins of Wrestling
*"An American Hero" Frank Gotch
*Ed "Strangler" Lewis
*National Wrestling Alliance
*Lou Thesz
*Buddy Rogers
*New Breed of Champions
*1970s World Champions
*A Flair for the Gold
*Crockett's World Champion
*NWA to WCW
*WCW Withdraws From NWA
*Revolving WCW Champions
*The Undisputed Championship*World Championship Returns
*Legacy Lives

Matches
*Chicago 1961 - 2 out of 3 Falls: Pat O'Connor vs. Buddy Rogers
*Florida 2/11/69 - Gene Kiniski vs. Dory Funk Jr.
*Florida 12/10/75 - Jack Brisco vs. Terry Funk
*Florida 8/21/79 - Harley Race vs. Dusty Rhodes
*AWA SuperClash - Ric Flair vs. Magnum TA
*Great American Bash '90 - Ric Flair vs. Sting

Disc 2 - WCW

*Clash of Champions XIV - Ric Flair vs. Scott Steiner
*Great American Bash '91 - Lex Luger vs. Barry Windham
*Baltimore 8/2/92 - Vader vs. Ron Simmons
*WCW SaturdayNight 10/16/93 - Vader vs. Ricky Steamboat
*Halloween Havoc '94 - Career vs. Career Steel Cage Match: Hulk Hogan vs. Ric Flair
*SuperBrawl VIII - Sting vs. Hollywood Hogan
*Nitro 7/6/98 - Hollywood Hogan vs. Goldberg
*Bash at the Beach '00 - Jeff Jarrett vs. Booker T
*No Mercy '01 - The Rock vs. Chris Jericho

Disc 3 - WWE
*Unforgiven '02 - Triple H vs. Rob Van Dam
*Taboo Tuesday '04 - Triple H vs. Shawn Michaels
*No Way Out '06 - Kurt Angle vs. The Undertaker
*SmackDown 4/7/06 - Rey Mysterio vs. Randy Orton
*Armageddon '07 - Batista vs. Undertaker vs. Edge
*Survivor Series '08 - John Cena vs. Chris Jericho
*Extreme Rules '09 - Ladder Match: Jeff Hardy vs. Edge

[King Patrick]

Originally Posted by Tyrone

World Class Wrestling? Or the fact that they forgot WCW?

Ding!! Ding!! Ding!! Good catch.

Originally Posted by Jordan H.

It seems WWE is finally recognzing as the WCW Title at least and not so much playing somebody for dumb anymore; hell, they even used the same design!!!

I checked out the match listing for it, not too bad, pretty diverse though the WWE section I think is pretty weak:

The “WWE” disc does look kind of weak, but what other matches would you rather have on there that isn’t already on 3 other DVD sets??

WrestleMania XX Main Event
Survivor Series 2002 Main Event
Smackdown 20 Man Battle Royal, January 13, 2006

[Les]

The WWE disc is fine, all decent matches and aren't aren't the ridiculously obvious ones everyone has seen like the ones Patrick posted (the Battle Royal could be a possible exception, but I don't think they would want to put that much focus on Kurt Angle, yea that's right Pat I remember which Battle Royal I've got some markiness buried in here somewhere

[King Patrick]

HAHA!! Everyone has some "Mark" in them, some maybe a little, some maybe a lot, but we all have it.

I think the first Elimination Chamber should be included, or at least one of the ones with the World Title on the line. There were some good ones, and I only picked the first one, because it’s the first one.

As for the Battle Royal, that moment was a Mark out moment for me. That was a Smackdown show I’m never going to forget, but I understand why it’s not included.

[PSS]

So exactly what is so great about this DVD again?