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Review of History of WWE 1987 DVD

Posted: Apr 23rd 2009 By: mikeiles

He's Cool, he's cocky, he's bad and he's back with the people who run KayfabeCommentaries. The "greatest intercontinential heavyweight champion of all time" the Honky Tonk Man was the companies first subject for their You Shoot DVD series. So its fitting he is the initial guest on a joint project with http://www.thehistoryofwwe.com for Timeline: the History of WWE. This appears to be a set up for a series and they begin with 1987.

Like always Sean Oliver is along for the trip and this is an intresting concept, take a former WWF/WWE superstar and run the calendar year with them. 1987 is a great starting point since it saw the birth of the Survivor Series PPV and the record breaking WrestleMania 3. 1987 was also the year Honky got a huge push in the WWF along with some good and horrible characters. There is an on-screen guide before each segment giving the bullet points of that month before Honky muses on the subject. Like his YouShoot DVD, Honky holds nothing back and I love that fact. As I mentioned this covers the entire year beginning with the January shows that saw the Hogan/Andre feud begin and Roddy Piper announce a retirement. From there Honky and Sean cover all the key moments of the year: WrestleMania 3, debuts of Outback Jack, Ron Bass, "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan (and his arrest with the Iron Sheik), "the Million Dollar Man" Ted DiBiase & Tom Magee; trouble with Dynamite Kid, Jim Neidhart & David Schultz, the returns of Ken Patera and "Superstar" Billy Graham plus stories from Saturday Night's Main Event tapings, Superstars tapings, the King of the Ring & initial Royal Rumble (long before they became PPV's).

Despite what people think of him, Honky Tonk Man is a eloquent person and was the perfect choice for this initial DVD. I consider myself a wrestling junkie and this DVD brought back things I long forgot. Honky takes you through his vignettes at Graceland, the backstage stories & overall atmosphere when new people came into the promotion or the NWA ran in the same town/same night, his feuds with Jake Roberts, Ricky Steamboat and Randy Savage and what is was like to see royalty checks for action figures or lack of for ice cream bars. Awesome debut for the series and I can't wait to see who they choose next. Buy this DVD now at www.KayfabeCommentaries.com to buy plus also submit YouShoot questions for Sabu and be sure to visit www.thehistoryofwwe.com

Tags: Honky Tonk Man, WWE, WWF, Andre the Giant, Roddy Piper, Ron Bass, Jim Duggan, Ted DiBiase, Jim Neidhart, Ken Patera, NWA, Jake Roberts