While it's a known fact that I love wrestling, buying DVDs of wrestling haven't been something I've been into up until recently. I always missed this "Monday Night War" retrospect show when it was on the short lived "WWE Confidential" show or when they showed an extended edition on PPV. The other day I was searching through a music store, as per usual, and I found this disc at the excellent price of $12.99, so I bought it. Let's see what it's about:

This DVD is an hour and a half documentary (WWE produced, I might add) about the 3 year or so battle between the old WCW wrestling organization and the then WWF. It features a look at WCW from when they were relatively independent to the Eric Bischoff era which made the company take off and actually pound the WWF in the ratings for almost 2 years. The documentary then follows wrestling to the "Attitude" era of the WWF all the way to the WWF regaining their ground and the fall of WCW, which in turn, made it easy for Vince McMahon to purchase his own competition.

The DVD features interviews from Eric Bischoff , Vince McMahon, Mick Foley, Ric Flair and more. As the DVD follows the Monday Night War timeline, these interviews give an inside look to what the head people in the companies were thinking and doing, as well as how the wrestlers were reacting. In one of the interviews, Mick Foley reveals that the WWF was very close to getting knocked down and going out of business.

The really cool thing about this DVD is just seeing lots of the highlights in both organizations throughout this time period. We get to see Hogan sign to WCW, how Nash and Hall jumped ship to WCW (mind you, I would have liked to see the WWE show how they had the "fake" Razor Ramon and Diesel after those two left), the NWO and the birth of the new generation WWF superstars such as the Rock, HHH, Foley and Stone Cold Steve Austin.

The DVD is also loaded with these extra matches: Booker T vs. Benoit, Degeneration X's Shawn Michaels vs. The Legion of Doom, Stone Cold & HBK vs. the British Bulldog (RIP) and Owen Hart (also RIP) and Goldberg vs. Hogan. The DVD also has other little clips that made an impact on both companies, but I'll leave those for you to discover. The only thing holding this DVD back is that it is produced by the WWE, so there are probably dirty tricks the WWE pulled omitted to make them look even more like the underdogs. Also, the comments by Eric Bischoff and Ric Flair are made when they are employed by the WWE, so they may have sugar coated their feelings or not said what they truly feel. If this documentary was produced by an independent company (like "Beyond the Mat" was), it may have been even better than what we get to see here. This DVD is a great testament to when wrestling was, as far as I'm concerned, the biggest and best thing ever. I don't think wrestling will ever become as big as it was during this time because the competition and constant talent jumping made both shows exciting to watch. If you have friends that have only recently started watching wrestling, show them this DVD and let them see what they missed, then shed a tear because it'll never get this good again (although I do hope I eat my words on this one).