This looks like a gang-busters release, personally. There's a lot of stuff I haven't seen that I'm really looking forward to.
DISC ONE
A Real Privilege
Untapped Resources
My Backyard
2-out of-3 Falls Match for the British Commonwealth Jr. Heavyweight Championship
Bret Hart vs. Dynamite Kid
Stampede Wrestling • December 1978
World Tour
Bret Hart vs. Buzz Sawyer
Georgia Championship Wrestling • September 1979
A Lot of Promise
North American Heavyweight Championship Match
Bret Hart vs. Leo Burke
Stampede Wrestling • January 1983
The Best It Gets
Bret Hart vs. Dynamite Kid
Capital Centre • September 14, 1985
Energy
WWE Tag Team Championship Match
Hart Foundation vs. The Islanders
Philadelphia Spectrum • March 14, 1987
A Sign of Respect
Bret Hart vs. Andre the Giant
Milan, Italy • April 10, 1989
The Right Formula
Bret Hart vs. Mr. Perfect
Maple Leaf Gardens • April 23, 1989
DISC TWO
This Is For Us
Hart Foundation vs. The Twin Towers
Duluth, Minnesota • May 17, 1989
The Greatest Super-Card of All-Time
Bret Hart vs. Tiger Mask II
WWE / New Japan / All Japan Wrestling Summit • April 13, 1990
Change of the Guard
Intercontinental Championship Match
Bret Hart vs. Ric Flair
New Haven, Connecticut • November 13, 1991
On the Threshold of Greatness
Bret Hart vs. Undertaker
Madison Square Garden • January 31, 1992
The Best Big Man
Bret Hart vs. Bam Bam Bigelow
Milan, Italy • April 25, 1993
DISC THREE
Evolution at That Time
WWE Championship Match
Bret Hart vs. Diesel
King of the Ring • June 19, 1994
Masterpieces
No Holds Barred
Bret Hart vs. Owen Hart
RAW • March 27, 1995
Powerhouse
Bret Hart vs. Jean-Pierre Lafitte
In Your House • September 24, 1995
Time Off
Bret Hart vs. Stone Cold Steve Austin
Sun City Superbowl • September 14, 1996
Simultaneously a Hero and a Rat
WWE Championship Match
Bret Hart vs. The Patriot
In Your House: Ground Zero • September 7, 1997
Wrestling Injured
WCW United States Championship Match
Bret Hart vs. Booker T
WCW Monday Nitro • January 25, 1999
Misjudging Sting
Semi-Finals Match for the WCW Championship
Bret Hart vs. Sting
WCW Mayhem • November 21, 1999
Trip Through Memory Lane
BLU-RAY EXCLUSIVES
Dream Matches
Travel Schedule
Sleeping on a Plane
Survivor Series with Bob Backlund
Masked Man
Trumpet Sound
Customs with Owen
Lost at Sea
Prized Possession
Two of the Best in Japan
Super Skilled, Super Athletic
WWE Championship Match
Bret Hart vs. Yokozuna
White Plains, New York • November 29, 1993
Doing It Old School
Bret Hart & British Bulldog vs. Owen Hart & Jim "The Anvil" Neidhart
Albany, New York • October 19, 1994
A Good Soul
Bret Hart vs. Hakushi
RAW • July 24, 1995
Cement Truck
WWE Championship Match
Bret Hart vs. Vader
Friday Night's Main Event • August 29, 1997
The Artist
Favourites
DISC ONE
A Real Privilege
Untapped Resources
My Backyard
2-out of-3 Falls Match for the British Commonwealth Jr. Heavyweight Championship
Bret Hart vs. Dynamite Kid
Stampede Wrestling • December 1978
World Tour
Bret Hart vs. Buzz Sawyer
Georgia Championship Wrestling • September 1979
A Lot of Promise
North American Heavyweight Championship Match
Bret Hart vs. Leo Burke
Stampede Wrestling • January 1983
The Best It Gets
Bret Hart vs. Dynamite Kid
Capital Centre • September 14, 1985
Energy
WWE Tag Team Championship Match
Hart Foundation vs. The Islanders
Philadelphia Spectrum • March 14, 1987
A Sign of Respect
Bret Hart vs. Andre the Giant
Milan, Italy • April 10, 1989
The Right Formula
Bret Hart vs. Mr. Perfect
Maple Leaf Gardens • April 23, 1989
DISC TWO
This Is For Us
Hart Foundation vs. The Twin Towers
Duluth, Minnesota • May 17, 1989
The Greatest Super-Card of All-Time
Bret Hart vs. Tiger Mask II
WWE / New Japan / All Japan Wrestling Summit • April 13, 1990
Change of the Guard
Intercontinental Championship Match
Bret Hart vs. Ric Flair
New Haven, Connecticut • November 13, 1991
On the Threshold of Greatness
Bret Hart vs. Undertaker
Madison Square Garden • January 31, 1992
The Best Big Man
Bret Hart vs. Bam Bam Bigelow
Milan, Italy • April 25, 1993
DISC THREE
Evolution at That Time
WWE Championship Match
Bret Hart vs. Diesel
King of the Ring • June 19, 1994
Masterpieces
No Holds Barred
Bret Hart vs. Owen Hart
RAW • March 27, 1995
Powerhouse
Bret Hart vs. Jean-Pierre Lafitte
In Your House • September 24, 1995
Time Off
Bret Hart vs. Stone Cold Steve Austin
Sun City Superbowl • September 14, 1996
Simultaneously a Hero and a Rat
WWE Championship Match
Bret Hart vs. The Patriot
In Your House: Ground Zero • September 7, 1997
Wrestling Injured
WCW United States Championship Match
Bret Hart vs. Booker T
WCW Monday Nitro • January 25, 1999
Misjudging Sting
Semi-Finals Match for the WCW Championship
Bret Hart vs. Sting
WCW Mayhem • November 21, 1999
Trip Through Memory Lane
BLU-RAY EXCLUSIVES
Dream Matches
Travel Schedule
Sleeping on a Plane
Survivor Series with Bob Backlund
Masked Man
Trumpet Sound
Customs with Owen
Lost at Sea
Prized Possession
Two of the Best in Japan
Super Skilled, Super Athletic
WWE Championship Match
Bret Hart vs. Yokozuna
White Plains, New York • November 29, 1993
Doing It Old School
Bret Hart & British Bulldog vs. Owen Hart & Jim "The Anvil" Neidhart
Albany, New York • October 19, 1994
A Good Soul
Bret Hart vs. Hakushi
RAW • July 24, 1995
Cement Truck
WWE Championship Match
Bret Hart vs. Vader
Friday Night's Main Event • August 29, 1997
The Artist
Favourites
There are some interesting matches on here that I've never seen. Two Dynamite Kid matches I've never seen sell me on this instantly.
ReplyDeleteNice. I like the inclusion of house show matches. Seems a shame not to include the insane Steiners/Harts tag match from '94(?), or has that shown up somewhere else recently?
ReplyDeleteSeeing AJPW on WWE releases is kind of surreal. Awesome looking set though, gotta get it.
ReplyDeleteANOTHER release for a fucking mid-carder? Geez when do we get a three-disc set of Tito Santana or Savio Vega?
ReplyDeleteIn all seriousness, I wish Bret and Owen had teamed up longer than they did.
ReplyDeleteI liked it better when scott posted it a week or two ago. . .
ReplyDeleteIt was on the Hart & Soul set released a couple of years ago.
ReplyDeleteI love watching the old stampede cards, him and dynamite kid were the shit in the late 70's early 80's in Stampede.
ReplyDeleteThat Bret vs Austin match could be a gem.... Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't that dated prior to Bret's actual comeback? Bret/Austin at survivor series 96 one of my all time favorites.
ReplyDeleteits a house show I think.
ReplyDeleteLater that night, at the hotel, Ric Flair, Shawn Michaels and the ghost of Randy Savage appeared to see the dvd, and with tears in their eyes, confide in Bret that his dvds were always their favorite to watch.
ReplyDeleteIt does. I didn't know he had any matches prior to Survivor Series. I think he had a couple on a tour of Europe (he's very popular there) after WMW12 but I didn't know about this. Curious to see the finish, Bret beat Austin clean with the Sharpshooter a few times that were ignored.
ReplyDeleteNice!!!!
ReplyDeleteCaliber is now stealing Scott's own blog posts.
ReplyDeleteHey! I'd buy a Chico Santana set any day. Seriously.
ReplyDeleteYeah I had no idea Bret wrestled prior to survivor series. Would love to know how long that match is
ReplyDeleteC'mon, my remake is way grittier. Plus, I show how the tracklisting became the way it was, via a mother who strips, and having William Forsythe for a father.
ReplyDeleteI would too. Santana was always underrated
ReplyDeleteI think it's actually from a tour of South Africa he was booked on in the Fall of 96 well before his contract expired and he agreed to comeback.
ReplyDeleteAnd of course, Scott posted his musings on the set, with a supplied link to the content listing. You removed the middleman and just posted the list of content. You evil, evil prick you.
ReplyDeleteYou should have just posted about Cena turning heel, which is freah and original.
Threadjack:
ReplyDeleteTwitter is down. WWE has issued a crisis meeting for a full rewrite of tonights show.
Just looked it up on the history of wewe.com, it was a house show in South Africa and televised on some sports network.
ReplyDelete"Well Vince, we could always promote our Facebook page-
ReplyDelete"What the fuck is a book full of faces doing on Internet?"
The Bret/Austin houseshow matches prior to their Survivor Series showdown were nothing special, just both guys going through the motions.
ReplyDeleteIt's weird seeing Bret vs. Tiger Mask II (just before he unmasked as Mitsuharu Misawa) on an official WWE release. The match is no great shakes, but it's interesting from a historical viewpoint.
ReplyDeleteJust run a tribute show highlighting memorable tweets and superstars favorite twitter memories. Mark Henry can write a poem.
ReplyDeleteIf Heenan was on commentary for all his matches i'd buy it.
ReplyDeleteI'd love to hear a poem from Mark Henry.
ReplyDeleteI've heard this joke a lot, but where did the whole "so and so confided in Bret" come from? Did Bret say it in an interview or his book and it kind of caught on as a running joke? I feel so left out!!
ReplyDeleteImagine if Bret and Misawa had faced off in, say, 1995 instead of just when Misawa was coming into his prime.
ReplyDeleteMisawa would have elbowed the shit out of Bret, and Bret wouldn't have liked it.
ReplyDeleteI do believe that's our first Buzz Sawyer sighting on a WWE DVD release. Probably first for Leo Burke, too.
ReplyDeleteHad no idea footage of that Bret / Austin match existed. Awesome!
ReplyDeleteGood to know. Thanks..... That is the match that jumped out but there is some good stuff here.
ReplyDeleteI thought he was only talking about the match he had with Davey Boy at Summerslam.
ReplyDeleteThat's a lot of opening matches.
ReplyDeleteOnly if it comes with a free taco.
ReplyDeleteIt's unreal considering those two were arguably the top two wrestlers of the decade, each in their respective "home base" as it were.
ReplyDeleteI figured it had to be something like that, I just didn't want to jump to any assumptions.
ReplyDeleteNah, there's even a point around 1990 or 1991 where he writes about thinking about leaving for WCW because Flair promised him more money because Bret was having trouble with his travel expenses.
ReplyDeleteThe thing is, when Jimmy Hart gets wind of it, he runs up to Bret, tears in his eyes, and proclaims that Bret is the greatest and he can't believe that the WWF would let him walk away.
Honestly, I tried to fix it like 3 times, but blogger is a BITCH sometimes.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I've heard that before from others, so I know what you mean.
ReplyDeleteIntercontinental Championship Match
ReplyDeleteBret Hart vs. Ric Flair
New Haven, Connecticut • November 13, 1991
Finally!! Have a really bad copy of it. Best match they had, in my opinion.