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For many of you who dont know what the AWA is, I will tell you and you better go out and buy this dvd to catch up. The AWA was the American Wrestling Association and it was run by a man named Verne Gagne. Verne is one of the influential people in the history of this business. He was an accomplished amateur wrestler and even competed in the olympics. He broke many wrestlers into this business including Ken Patera, Jim Brunzell, The Iron Sheik, his own son Greg Gagne, Ric Flair, and Rick Steamboat just to name a few. The title of this dvd says it all. The AWA does have a very spectacular legacy and by not viewing this dvd and just reading about it from wrestlers who were there, you might think the AWA was a crappy promotion to work for if you never saw any AWA or are around my age and are a wrestling fan. When you read some wrestlers books, it does seem like no one would ever want to work for the AWA but they were a very good promotion and it is a shame they are not still around to this day because if they were, alot of things that have gone down since it shut down may have never happened. Who knows if the monday night war would have happened had the AWA still be around at that time. They were a company that was based around solid wrestling. They had their share of entertainers walk through like Dusty Rhodes, Superstar Billy Graham, and Hulk Hogan. The AWA though did produce some very big names. If you look at all of the stars that started in the AWA, you shall see that they were pretty influential in everything they did. They even acknowledge that in the dvd but how can you not point htat out. I have heard and read all of these horrible stories about the AWA but really, I dont understand why so many guys that worked for the AWA whine about how bad of a place it was. In Shawn Micheals book, he talks about the low pay in the AWA but if you look at the time he entered the AWA, they were in a down time and were never to recover. So when wrestlers whine about their pay, you have to look at the time frame. In Hogan’s book, he says you could work 4 days for the AWA and make the same aount as working 7 days in the WWE at the time. So right there it tells you that the AWA wrestlers were compensated very well for during the AWA’s boom. They were really the first to expand becaues they expanded as far as Vegas and as far north as Canada. I dont know if there were promotions in those areas at the time but back in the territory days, you could not expand out of your area but he did. Many call Vince the pioneer of that but he is not the first. He may have been the first to go to other territories and promote shows there but he was not the first to expand. There is debate on how the AWA collapsed. There are 2 main cases and one is being that the AWA never recovered when Vince started expanding and took their stars including Hogan. Some will say that Verne refused to change with the times. I think they went under because of not being able to change with the times. Companies can steal anotherr ones stars but you can recover when you lose some of your stars. Just look at the monday night war for example. WCW took some of the WWE’s stars but look who went under. Certainly not the WWE. It may be both. You might say Verne couldnt move past the old stars like Bockwinkel and Baron Van Rashke but that is an example of not changing with the times. I highly recommend this dvd and watch it and tell me your conclusion on why it went under.

Thanks again for giving me your time and this is the first in a series of reviews to start off this new year. Look for big things this year from this blog and I wish you all a safe and happy new year. Stay tuned to scotts wrestling world for more reviews, interviews, and just plain old wrestling talk. Thanks Again

This is the blog’s first ever dvd review and I thought what better way than to kick it off with a review with possibly one of the best dvds that I have ever seen the new McMahon dvd. If you were to meet any one of my family members and you asked them, what kind of thing does Scott want to see as far as a dvd or a book, they would tell you I’m sure that I have always wanted to see something like that for Vince McMahon. The reason that I have always wanted to see something like that is because my dream for when I get older is to be a wrestling promoter and there is not a better way that I can think of than from learning through a dvd or book about Vince McMahon. Whether you love him or you hate him, he is one of if not the most brilliant man this industry has ever seen and this dvd tells you of how he got to the big dance of leading the WWE. This dvd went through how he started out working for his dad in the old WWWF that is now the WWE as an announcer. It goes through his early relationship with Ted Turner on the old WTBS station that ran some of Vince’s shows until they parted ways and how Ted went on to own WCW and the whole Monday Night War. His classic feuds with Hogan and Stone Cold are mentioned on there as well. It talks about the XFL and the purchase of WCW. He goes in depth about the Kiss My a** club, his dysfunctional family, HHH and Stephanie dating, and McMahonism. If you remember I did a post on the McMahonism thing and when I saw they were going to address that, I thought I am finally going to find out what was Vince thinking when he did that but sadly, he didn’t address it personally. He had a old promoter by the name of Les Thatcher address it instead and that is the only thing dissappointing about that whole dvd. The extras are phenomenal. they have his classic matches on there like when he wrestled Hogan, Austin, Undertaker, and his very own daughter Stephanie. One thing in particular though that disgusted me on that dvd and if you want to know how sick and twisted Vince can be listen to this. When Stephanie was pregnant, Vince wanted to do a storyline on it about who the father was and do you want to know who he first suggested for the father? HIMSELF!!!!! How sick is that and when Steph said no, he then suggested Shane. Thank goodness that program never went through because could you even imagine the contreversy that would spark up. I know good contreversy creates more money but that is completely overstepping the line. Overall it is a very good dvd and I suggest to anyone that is a wrestling fan to go out and buy it.

Before I leave you with this post. I would like to tell everyone that I have been working with the WWWA (World Wide Wrestling Alliance and they are hooking me up with the blog’s second inter view and you will have to stay tuned to see who it is. I will say though that remember my tag team post, well this guy is one half of the rowdiest and greatest tag teams of all time. So stay tuned to the blog because I will announce when the interview is up on Eric Gargiuolo’s Pro Wrestling Radio show. Thanks again everyone that visits my site.