OK, y'all can stop e-mailing me now. Personally I already have much of this in my collection, but it's nice to have it all in one set and not everyone is an obsessive collector like I am. I wish they would have skewed more to the obscure classics like the MSG series against Tito or an alternate Steamboat match (instead of the Wrestlemania match AGAIN). Good call on the Dibiase cage match, though, that's definitely one that's been waiting for DVD release for a while now.
Macho Madness: The Ultimate Randy Savage Collection
Disc 1
WWE Debut
Randy Savage vs. Rick McGraw
Prime Time Wrestling July 9, 1985
Randy Savage vs. Ricky Steamboat
Boston Garden December 7, 1985
WWE Championship Match
Randy Savage vs. Hulk Hogan
Madison Square Garden December 30, 1985
WWE Intercontinental Heavyweight Championship
Randy Savage vs. Tito Santana
Boston Garden February 8, 1986
WWE Intercontinental Championship Match
Randy Savage vs. Bruno Sammartino
Boston Garden January 3, 1987
WWE Intercontinental Championship Match
Randy Savage vs. Ricky Steamboat
WrestleMania III March 29, 1987
Randy Savage vs. Honky Tonk Man
The Main Event February 5, 1988
WWE Championship Tournament Final
Randy Savage vs. Ted DiBiase
WrestleMania IV March 27, 1988
Steel Cage Match for the WWE Championship
Randy Savage vs. Ted DiBiase
Madison Square Garden June 25, 1988
Disc 2
Randy Savage & Hulk Hogan vs. Andre the Giant & Ted DiBiase
SummerSlam August 29, 1988
WWE Championship Match
Randy Savage vs. Hulk Hogan
WrestleMania V April 2, 1989
WWE Championship Match
Randy Savage vs. Hulk Hogan
The Main Event March 22, 1990
Randy Savage / Sherri vs. Dusty Rhodes / Sapphire
WrestleMania VI April 1, 1990
Retirement Match
Randy Savage vs. Ultimate Warrior
WrestleMania VII March 24, 1991
Randy Savage vs. Jake Roberts
This Tuesday in Texas December 3, 1991
WWE Championship Match
Randy Savage vs. Ric Flair
WrestleMania VIII April 5, 1992
Disc 3
WWE Championship Match
Randy Savage vs. Shawn Michaels
European Rampage April 19, 1992
Randy Savage / Bret Hart vs. Ric Flair / Shawn Michaels
Worcester, MA July 22, 1992
WWE Championship Match
Randy Savage vs. Yokozuna
RAW February 28, 1994
Lifeguard Match
Randy Savage vs. Ric Flair
Bash at the Beach July 16, 1995
WCW Championship Match
Randy Savage vs. Ric Flair
Nitro January 22, 1996
Falls Count Anywhere Match
Randy Savage vs. Diamond Dallas Page
Great American Bash June 15, 1997
WCW Championship Match
Randy Savage & Sid Vicious vs. Kevin Nash & Sting
Bash at the Beach July 11, 1999
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I’m pretty disappointed, actually.
But it’ll be easy to review. Old copy and paste will be just fine.
I understand them including the WM7 match with Warrior, especially if it has the after match antics, but we’ve seen it on DVD enough already. The rematch from Summerslam 1992 should have been on there, and the tag match from Survivor Series 1992. Those are two glaring omissions.
Why the hate? The only matches from this set I own on DVD are the WrestleMania ones. That’s 15(!!) matches on the DVD that I don’t own….I may have seen them but I don’t own them. Besides the WrestleMania matches, which other ones are on DVDs? The SummerSlam main event maybe? Was the Roberts match on Jake’s DVD? You can’t put together a Savage DVD and not include his greatest matches, which just happened to take place at WrestleMania.
The only match I would remove is the WrestleMania VI mixed tag, that was the lowpoint for Savage in my opinion.
I don’t know about this one… I’m kinda disappointed. I’d like the Flair/Savage cage match from Superbrawl 6 on DVD.
But if Savage’s coked-up promo after the Tuesday in Texas match is on there, I’m buying it. Seriously… you have to love that shit. It was just on WWE 24/7.
Only other thing I’d love to see is the Bret Hart/Randy Savage match from Hart’s second title reign from a Japan show. Don’t know if they have the rights to that, or even if it was taped, but if they have it would rock hard.
- Reposted from an earlier thread now that this has it’s own topic…
I have to say as a huge Randy Savage fan, if this list is indeed authentic, that I’m a little disappointed with some of the choices made here… such as including matches from Wrestlemania.
These matches are ALREADY AVAILABLE on one or more DVDs, which I figure most fans that would be interested in this set already own, and they don’t need to be here, IMHO, when there are better quality and lesser known matches that deserve to be cleaned up and released on DVD instead. Call me a nitpicking cheapskate if you want but I’m getting a little sick and tired of buying stuff I already fucking own and getting less of the stuff that I don’t.
To be fair, I can understand the reasoning behind including stuff like Savage’s first World Title win at WMIV and even the WMIII and WMVII matches since they’re so legendary but the WM6 mixed gender tag match? REALLY?
Also, if you’re going to include matches from Savage’s WCW period, which would definately be of interest to people who either didn’t get Nitro or didn’t watch it at the time, you might want to consider a better method than randomly picking them out of a hat. I mean, was anybody REALLY clamouring for Kevin Nash & Sting v. Sid & Savage on DVD? I guess I should be thankful they didn’t include his match with Dennis Rodman.
Not to say I wouldn’t be looking forward to some of the matches on this list though. Hopefully, they’ll include some of the better Savage heel interviews and moments as extras.
As for more Steamboat/Savage matches, we can only hope the upcoming Steamboat DVD will give us a couple more classics and spare us a FIFTH copy of the WM3 match. I remember reading a transcript for a Steamboat shoot interview once that had him talking about a house show match with Savage that ended up going *52* minutes. Don’t suppose there’s any footage of THAT match, WWE?
There’s a STEAMBOAT DVD forthcoming?? How did I not know this…
I think I’ve got a bit of a chubby.
If I remember correctly the Savage/Sid vs. Nash/Sting match ended with Savage as WCW champ for what would be his last World Title win so I can see that being on there despite the fact the match stunk.
And we never found out who The Hummer driver was.
Yes, we did. It was Eric Bischoff. They said that at the start of the Russo/Bischoff New Blood gimmick.
Missed it by THAT much…
Anyway, as I said in the email, as much as I’d like to see some rarities like matches from his Memphis stint or some ICW stuff or a career documentary, I can’t complain about this set too much. The WM VI match is a puzzler, but I guess the historical value is the justification there. And wasn’t that BatB match one of (if not the) Savage’s last matches?
Oh come on! The Mania 6 match has some of the best commentary of all time. Jesse is so on in that match, from the entrances all the way through the pin (”That stinks! That stinks!”) My favorite is when Sherrie cheats, and after Monsoon becomes indignat, he starts yelling “Rhodes started it! You can’t go back and change what’s already happened!”) I miss “The Body” on commentary. If only they’d put JBL back behind the booth. Personally, he’s been my favorite color man since Ventura (although Heenan and Piper were both great at it, too).
I love that commentary too, but let’s be accurate: it was “That STUNK! That STUNK!”
I am a huge Savage fan, but I have all these matches. It needs more of a variety. One of the special features better be this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uERyEZwq_DE
Anyone else think Macho should have main evented WM 9 with Bret Hart and put him over in a 30+ minute classic? They can do that Yoko crap at King of the Ring.
I always thought that Perfect should’ve been in it, but as a back up, I’d go with Savage.
Speaking of Yoko, I’m psyched they have the ‘94 match from Raw with him on it. I so hope they put his post match “empty arena interview” from the following week after it. Savage could turn up the intensity like very few could.
I am a bit more enthusiastic. First, I realize that WWE won’t ever totally market ONLY to collectors or people expecting nothing but ****+ matches. So repeating the WM stuff and going with known matches and names (Sid, Nash, Sting…) is understandable if you’re going for the casual buyers.
Not to say this ISN’T PPV-heavy…still I probably feel differently because I don’t own the WM/et al anthologies (and won’t ever, as I can only take music changes and such in small doses). So looking at it that way, this is a strong set, and moreso if you look at it as complimenting the SNME one (which has more of the Macho rarities)
As for no documentary…well I’m all about the classic footage. And I’d be too leery about how they treat him in one anyway, we have no proof of them patching things up so Savage being misrepresented would be very possible IMO.
A couple of fallacies I want to point out:
- Counting WM3 in the Anthology and the Special Edition as one show, the I-C match has only been used ONCE outside the box (the I-C set) so far. And the Boston match IS more obscure, right? I could be wrong as I don’t know where they culled it from. I do wish someone would use the throat crushing match already…maybe if there is a Steamboat set?
- Aside from WM7, the only time they used Warrior/Savage was the Warrior DVD. And they CUT OUT the post-match stuff, which will probably end up here. (Yes the WM6 mixed tag is there just because it was WM, but at least it will have Jesse’s commentary unlike the Dusty set. Gotta love his rant on Dusty & Sapphire being announced at only a combined 465 pounds)
- WWE DOES NOT OWN ICW OR MEMPHIS FOOTAGE. (I do think Savage appeared in SMW at least once…so yeah, they dropped the ball not pulling that as a curiosity).
- They WILL probably fill some space with promos and angles.
Again I think it helps that I don’t own the PPV collections (or representation of these matches in DVD quality), but I like this set, and will want to buy it at the very least to support the name of Randy Savage and prove that it sells. In hopes of that helping to overcome any of the political BS and petty bitterness that’s kept that name in the background. Then who knows, we may see more of him in future projects, with some of the matches we do want!
There’s a Savage-Steamboat match from Toronto that’s on the WWE whatever-its-called-now online service (Legacy?) and it’s just amazing, bloody stuff, and I’m kind of surprised they didn’t put it on here because clearly the production guys searched it out for THAT purpose. I think I’m getting spoiled by 24/7 though because I can watch all these random house shows and oddities on a regular basis and I often forget that Joe DVD Buyer didn’t just watch the Boston show where Savage won the title last month.
Do you know anything about the Boston Savage/Steamboat from ‘85, then?
Having 24/7 definitely spoils you. I mean, 24/7 showed that Macho Madness Coliseum video a couple months back that was like 90 minutes of pure, rare Macho goodness. And when you get the house shows, you see matches like his awesome match with Andre of all people from LA in 1988 and the recent King match with Duggan from MSG that was an easy **** in my books.
If you’re making a Macho DVD…you have to include his WrestleMania matches (save for VI of course) because those were the ones that made him. I would also say that maybe Savage is the real Mr. WrestleMania, I mean, he has four of the best matches EVER at the show.
The Macho-Bad News match from MSG in late ‘88 that is on there right now is awesome. The heat was off the hook, and the match itself was very solid. Savage stealing Steamboat’s own WM3 finishing move at the end was a great touch. Bad News should have been pushed to the moon in the late 80’s.
Isn’t the point of a DVD set to leave the viewer wanting more?
Examples: Flair DVDs, Bret Hart dvd, Stone Cold DVDs, Eddie DVD, I could go on….
I believe that companies (not just WWE) purposely leave off some hidden gems to put out future sets and milk the money that they get from it.
Well it’s a career retrospective no? More of a “greatest hits” than a “rarities and b-sides” type of thing.
They aim the DVD’s at as broad a market as they can, not the uber-nerds (and I use the term with love) that have been tape trading since the ’80s and buy every single DVD they release.
Really how could they NOT include most of these matches? You can’t possibly look at Savage’s career and skip WM3 or the Mega-Powers colliding.
If you want rarities, watch 24/7 or wait until they exhaust all the stars that warrant a DVD set and start doing secondary sets.
Where does Macho rank on the GOAT list? Is he number one? He drew money like Hogan and could wrestle like Flair. His legacy has suffered somewhat because he doesn’t have WWE stars praising him on several DVD’s but he also hasn’t tarnished his legacy by coming back since 2002.
By GOAT, do you mean Greatest Of All-Time or something else?
Greatest of All-Time