WWE: The Best of Saturday Night's Main Event

WWE puts out a lot of compellations, many of which are rehashes of older comps or are made up of matches that can be found elsewhere. This is NOT one of those sets. The Best of Sat. Night’s Main Event is easily one of my favorite wrestling comps. It is made up of high quality matches and has a lot of unique content. I highly recommend this set to any wrestling fan. It is not one you will regret owning.Here, I am only going to cover the highspots of the set – and there are quite a few.HULK HOGAN VS BOB ORTON (WWF Title) – One of the coolest things about this set is that it gives the brick and morter of Hogan’s reign as champion. Guys like Orton and Funk (see below) did wonders for Hogan. Orton is a extremely underrated wrestler and he demonstrates just how good he was in this match. It is a lot of fun. It isn’t really a clinic, but it is good TV and it is always nice to get some matches from guys like Orton sprinkled into these sets.HULK HOGAN VS TERRY FUNK (WWF Title) – I like this match for a lot of the reasons I like the Hogan v Orton match. Funk was incredible in his prime. This is a rare look at just how good a heal he can be and how great he can make a babyface look.JAKE ROBERTS VS RICKY STEAMBOAT (Snake Pit Match) – This is another really fun match. Roberts and Steamboat had an amazing feud and this chapter was fantastic. Both of these guys were so good at what they did. While Steamboat was better in NWA/WCW, he had great chemistry with Jake.JAKE ROBERTS VS RANDY SAVAGE (IC Title) – This is my favorite match in the set. It is masterfully done. Savage is really the star of this set to me but Roberts is a close second and they both put on a fantastic performance here. It was intense, well thought out, and physical. At a reduced price, I would legit say this match makes the whole thing worth it.THE HART FOUNDATION VS THE BRITISH BULLDOGS (2/3 Falls) – This is a really fun match, but not quite what I expected. You can’t go wrong with these teams. It isn’t a five star classic, but it is sharp. I think anytime you get a chance to see Dynamite Kid you should take it. He was so far ahead of his time it is stupid and when he is in with Bret you can see the bar getting raised.RANDY SAVAGE VS BRET HART – Again, how do you go wrong with these two? This is a deceptively good match actually. Lots of rewatch value. It feels like a shortened version of what they could have done against each other for the world title in their primes. Bret is very methodical with that realistic snap to his moves and Savage is fluid and wild. Great stuffMACHO MAN RANDY SAVAGE VS THE MILLION DOLLAR MAN TED DIBIASE – This one isn’t my favorite on the set but Savage is always great. The feud between these two was really great and they worked really well together. You don’t want to skip this match and it is great to see the feud filled in with this chapter.HULK HOGAN VS HARLEY RACE – This match is good, but not great. Race is well past his prime, but it is kind of cool to see him and Hogan in the ring. Race is still great and it’s a pleasure to watch him work his heel style. WWE will likely never do a Race dvd so this is ust fun to have.MACHO MAN RANDY SAVAGE VS ANDRE THE GIANT – This is one of my favorite matches in the set. Andre hated Savage for some reason, so he was really stiff. Savage gave it back to him when possible so it made for a really interesting dynamic. It seems somewhat chaotic, but it has a degree of believability to it you don’t often get.THE ROCKERS VS THE BRAIN BUSTERS (2/3 Falls) – Another match featuring two great tag teams. Everyone in this match is good at what they do. Anderson might be the best tag team wrestler ever. The whole match is fun and it delivers.HULK HOGAN VS MR. PERFECT – This match should have been something we saw a lot more often. Mr. Perfect was absolutely fantastic. Hogan does what Hogan does, but really you watch this match for Perfect and what he brings to it.BRET HART VS TED DIBIASE – Good solid match between two really good wrestlers. This is another one I doubt you will find on other sets. I am not sure if it is on either of Hart’s collections, but it is worth having. If nothing else it is always great to see how great a heel the Million Dollar Man was.HULK HOGAN & SID JUSTICE VS THE UNDERTAKER & RIC FLAIR – Just star power… The match is ok, but just to see this star power in the ring is worth it. WWE had a tendency to do these big weird tag matches for a while. The chemistry wasn’t amazing, but you got to see some good match-ups and guys like Flair always shined as they orchestrated so much of what was going on.BRITISH BULLDOG VS SHAWN MICHAELS – I always thought Bulldog was one of the biggest underachievers ever. He had shining moments in the E and really stepped up his in ring game in the WCW for some reason, but he was always solid, especially with a guy like HBK. Yet another match that probably isn’t on a lot of other sets, but you wont be upset with.

Here are 6 things that ran through my head as I watched this really fun set.Jesse Ventura was the greatest heel announcer ever.Miss Elizabeth had incredible star power. The second you see her walking down the aisle it just takes the show to a whole other levelWWE of the 21st century has much more in common with ECW than it does with the WWF heyday of the late 80's.I'd forgotten how good Jim "The Anvil" Neidhart was. He faded after Bret Hart went solo but he was explosive and powerful in the tag team setting.Demolition seemed so intimidating when I was a kid. Now they just seem silly to me. A couple over overweight guys in bondage gear and face paint and nowhere near the same level of coolness as the Road Warriors.I would have loved to have been an adult in 1985-1987 and attended a live WWF event. The crowds were so rowdy back then.In closing, this was a great purchase, worth every penny. I remember vividly looking forward to watching Saturday Night's Main Event as a child and this brought back so many great memories.

I liked the nostalgia .

It's never been more obvious than it is on this set with the WWE downplaying one of the greatest tag teams of all time's legacy because of a several year old lawsuit that still has Vince McMahon angry.Very noticeable on this set is the exclusion of the 2 out of 3 falls match between Demolition and the Brain Busters, with the Busters ending the nearly one and a half year reign of the Demolition being tag champs. Also missing is a 3 on 3 tag team match between the 3 members of Demolition (rest in peace Bryan Adams/Crush) and the Legion of Doom and the Ultimate Warrior.Other than that, it's still a must buy for Hogan fans as you will find several matches on here you can't find elsewhere. But on the downside, most don't feature his promos, and there's lots of repeat Hogan matches that can be found on other sets. We could've used his infamous match instead where he faces Don Muraco and King Kong Bundy injures his ribs or his first SNME match against Bundy. But we all know how the WWE is on their sets, hence I give it only 3 stars.

Having been born in the middle of the original SNME run on NBC, I lack the memories of staying up on Saturday night to watch this show. But I am a fan of this era who has walked away from wrestling to a large degree in recent years. That said, this set doesn't have many five star classics, but serves as a beautiful flashback to a time when wrestling was not on up to four-five nights a week and there was no monthly PPV's and became an over-saturated mess. My personal favorites from the set are Savage-Roberts for the IC title from 1986 the psychology was fantastic, Savage-Hart from 1987, the Hogan cage matches with Bossman and Orndorf, with honorable mentions going to the Hart Foundation-Bulldogs, Santana-Perfect, and Hart-Dibiase match from 1991. For me, watching this set easily outclassed 95% of the current WWE product and it was well worth the money.

I watched all 3 discs over the past week. I didn't specifically remember any of the older matches even though I probably watched a lot of them as a kid. This is a pretty good mix of matches and other stuff. The 2 battle royals were fun to watch. If I had one complaint, it's that we see Hulk Hogan over and over and over. I know Hulk was wrestling back in the 80's, but would have liked to see a wider range of wrestlers. There's nothing earth shattering that happened on these discs, but it's fun to see some of the wrestlers I grew up with, and see how far wrestling has come in 25+ years.

Great

Great product for a fair price

Christmas present for my son he loved it no issues with dvds

awesome stuff, esp the early matches from 86 - 92, not every one is a classic but these shows had a cracking atmosphere and i was entertained throughout.

This DVD is awesome.It has a lot of great matches and is worth every penny.It will be a great buy for anyone who loved the Hulk Hogan era.

Great.

thanks