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Post by Himmy! on Jan 15, 2015 16:50:57 GMT -5
Hey guys,
Was just wondering what was the first wrestling VHS or DVD you ever owned? How did you come to get it?
Mine was WWF In Your House: No Way Out of Texas which took place in February 1998! I would have been around 7 years old by the time it came out on video in the UK and I assume my parents bought it for me as I had been getting really into wrestling since I first discovered it in late 1997.
Its not a great event but one I love for nostalgic reasons. I used to watch that tape over and over. Was a huge Kane fan back then too and he legit scared the crap out of me at that event the first time he hit Vader with the wrench haha. Good times!
How about you guys?
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Post by philleaps on Jan 15, 2015 16:53:02 GMT -5
Royal Rumble 2000 on DVD (right when DVDs were being circulated). I still remember buying it at a flea market as a kid.
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Post by hbkbigdaddycool on Jan 15, 2015 16:58:25 GMT -5
Oh wow...
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Compilation: WWF's Greatest Champions
Event: Attitude Box Set of Unforgiven 98, Over The Edge 98, Fully Loaded 98 and SummerSlam 98
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Compilation: WWE Bloodbath: Wrestling's Steel Cage Matches
Event: My buddy gave me SummerSlam 99, SummerSlam 2000, Invasion 2001 and Survivor Series 2003, cause he was getting rid of them, so they would be my first event DVDs.
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Post by facemeat on Jan 15, 2015 16:58:39 GMT -5
I think it was Wrestlemania VII and Summerslam '90 on VHS. I bought them at a Blockbuster together around 2000. I was ecstatic, because the only way I could watch wrestling from that era up until that point was to rent tapes.
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Post by Rontaro13 on Jan 15, 2015 16:59:59 GMT -5
Vengeance 2005 on DVD is the earliest I remember.
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Post by Grumpyoldman on Jan 15, 2015 18:24:29 GMT -5
Rowdy Roddy Piper's Greatest Hits in a clam-shell case for $20.
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Post by theafricandream on Jan 15, 2015 18:25:04 GMT -5
My mom used to take me to video connection weekly to rent WWF tapes. They came to know my family pretty well and when the started to thin out their wrestling selection, they always held them back for us to buy. I believe the first one was a beat up old coliseum survivor series 1990 vhs.
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Post by Nivro™ on Jan 15, 2015 18:30:51 GMT -5
I think it was the 1992 Royal Rumble. It might have been a World Tour tape but Im not sure. My brother had a friend who got illegal streams on satellites and he copied the tape for me. The World Tour tape I picked up at a garage sale.
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Post by Hulk Who? on Jan 15, 2015 18:38:08 GMT -5
First was Wrestlemania 8, I watched it a million times. I grew up on top of a video store in NYC, so all I had to do was run downstairs to get almost anything, and get this, Vlad the Superfan would be in the store lots of the time! It was somewhat surreal to see him at the video store, take the tape upstairs, then there he was again in the front row on so many tapes, he was a magical man to me when I was young because of that. lol  When they went out of business I got to buy a few dozen wrestling tapes for next to nothing, finally all those tapes I rented repeatedly were mine. They had WCW and AWA stuff too. |
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Post by Planktung on Jan 15, 2015 18:42:35 GMT -5
There used to be a video store in my neighborhood called Popingo (worst name ever) and I rented Survivor Series 2001 on VHS when it was relatively new. It was the first time I ever had an event readily available for me to watch whenever, so for the week that I rented it, I was stoked. I found it on DVD at Walgreens a few days later and my mom purchased it for me.
Children with the WWE Network don't realize how fortunate they are. Damn kids these days.
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Post by BrIaNMeRcY on Jan 15, 2015 19:08:01 GMT -5
VHS, I can't remember.
DVD, the DVD version of "Hell Yeah - The Stone Cold Saga Continues" that I got purchased from WWF New York. As for an event DVD, my first was the 2002 Survivor Series that I purchased at Best Buy.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 15, 2015 19:31:01 GMT -5
WWF
VHS WM 10
DVD Hulk Still Rules
WCW
VHS Superbrawl 94 i believe
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Post by Deleted on Jan 15, 2015 19:55:56 GMT -5
GREAT topic Himmy.
I had so much stuff taped on VHS(so I didn't buy any wrestling on VHS outside Austin,Rock & DX.....but I remember vividly the first wrestling events I bought.....and it was on DVD.
it was 2 sets of Tagged Classics.......WM 5 & 6 and Summerslam 88 & 89. Man did I have fun sitting back one rainy day after my knee operation watching these.
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Post by The Kevstaaa on Jan 15, 2015 20:02:32 GMT -5
Royal Rumble 1992.
At my local video store, I would always rent Royal Rumble '92, SummerSlam '91 and Survivor Series '92. I did it so much that the guy who owned the store just made me a copy of the Rumble.
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Post by GBM™ on Jan 15, 2015 20:07:56 GMT -5
Wrestlemania X7 on VHS, man that event turned the 8 year old me into a Limp Bizkit superfan.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 15, 2015 20:23:59 GMT -5
Definitely WM 20 on VHS for only 9.99 the DVD version was really expensive.I brought it at Strawberries which was a music store at the time.
I was only maybe 14 or 15 at the time.
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Post by koreygunz on Jan 15, 2015 20:24:45 GMT -5
I used to record the ppvs I watched on vhs. The first ppv I ever watched live was wrestle mania 8 when I was 7 years old.
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Post by mikey1974 on Jan 15, 2015 20:37:12 GMT -5
I used to record the ppvs I watched on vhs. The first ppv I ever watched live was wrestle mania 8 when I was 7 years old. this,which would make my first on Survivor Series 1987. as for actual store-bought? WrestleMania X-Seven 2-Disk DVD set |
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Post by T R W on Jan 16, 2015 9:50:14 GMT -5
I didn't buy a lot of wrestling tapes in the 80s despite watching a lot. Heck, we didn't get a VCR until 1987 I think. But the oldest event I can remember buying on tape was getting my mom to order a copy of one of the Crocket Cup tournaments. The second one I think, and it had a Magnum T.A. tribute on it. This is it.  |
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Post by Kanenite on Jan 16, 2015 10:02:26 GMT -5
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