When mere mention of the 'Monday Night Wars' is uttered all wrestling fans flashback to the glory days of the sport of professional wrestling. Every week the flagship show of the WWE went head to head with the best that WCW or World Championship Wrestling have to offer with "Monday Nitro". With this 3 disc set "The Best of WCW Monday Nitro Vol. 2" we go even deeper into the vaults with some of the stellar in ring action fans were treated to each and every week.
For six years WCW Monday Nitro went head-to-head with WWE Raw pulling out all the stops to gain the upper hand in the escalating Monday Night War. The place 'where the big boys play' produced such a wealth of non-stop thrills action drama and controversy that we could not possibly scratch the surface in one volume. Host Diamond Dallas Page returns to present Volume 2 of the wildly successful Best of WCW Nitro series. Sports entertainment fans will relive eight more hours of the poisonous n.W.o electrifying cruiserweights and unparalleled star power that delivered an endless supply of timeless matches and moments. All the greatest WCW stars are included such as Ric Flair, Hulk Hogan, Sting Kevin Nash, Rey Mysterio, Goldberg and more. We also check out the Nitro Girls Nitro parties, WCW's spring break bashes, their unique use of celebrity integration and several matches never-before-released on DVD.
From any fans from back in the day, "The Best of Monday Nitro Vol. 2" is simply more of the same, reliving the heydays that professional wrestling experience going all the way back to the very first main event in Nitro history as Ric Flair took on Sting in the mall of America, to a plethora of great matches featuring professional wrestling icons like Hulk Hogan and Randy 'Macho Man' Savage, quality fan favorite performers like Diamond Dallas Page, Booker T, current WWE superstars like Chris Jericho & Rey Mysterio Jr, as well as some WWE Hall of Famers like The Road Warriors and Eddie Guerrero. There are also jaw dropping moments like Madusa trashing the WWE Woman's title on live TV, the split of the n.W.o which gave birth to the Wolfpac and the debut of Goldberg.
With 28 matches and even more classic Nitro moments, this is a great time capsule of some of the great memories that this show produced and made the Monday Night War's so very memorable. It leans on the action rather then a mediocre documentary and with Diamond Dallas Page popping up to give colour for the occasional moment, it's all just a lot of fun. After watching "The Best of WCW Monday Nitro Vol. 2" the only thing you'll be asking yourself is when is Vol. 3 coming out. A fine professional wrestling collection for all fans, the ones who want to relive the glory days and for those who are wondering what the older fans are talking about.
4 out of 5 stars.
"The Best of WCW Monday Nitro Vol.2" is now available for purchase at all major retailers like amazon.ca or HMV.
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