WWF - NWO: Back In Black (DVD, 2002)

This DVD is REALLY over rated. Possibly the most over rated DVD in wrestling history. No joke.
I'm a HUGE mark for the nWo. Always have been, always will be. nWo 4-Life baby. But, this DVD
is disappointing to me, especially considering I paid more than $20 for it. Now all you new marks
on the internet can hate me all you want, but I'm a fan of WCW. Now, I liked WWF, but I LOVED
WCW. When McMahon bought WCW, I was very mad, and stopped watching wrestling for a long
time after the Invasion angle was done. Vince just chewed up and spit out the name and legacy
of WCW and NWA. I still say if Vince didn't steal ECW ideas, WCW would have steamrolled WWF.
Anyway, in order for you to understand why this DVD was disappointing to me, you need to know
that info I just gave you, and my opinion of the Monday Night Wars of the late 90s.

That being said, there is less than 50% of the DVD to cover the nWo's run in WCW, which is as
any fan from back then well knows, is where the nWo was really over. Out of a lame 60 minutes,
about 15 of it covers Hogan, Hall, and Nash in the WWF, then about 20 minutes of the nWo from
WCW. Now, the nWo formed in 1996, and went all the way through to the new millenium with
several different members, a split into 2 different nWo factions and even a rebirth in the last days
of World Championship Wrestling. All the rest is WWE footage. How do you cover 5+ years
of storylines and pure domination of a program in 20 minutes? You can't. It doesn't even mention
anything past maybe early 1998 until they get into Vince bringing them back at Now Way Out.
NO coverage of nWo Wolf Pac or the split period. Nothing about Hall and Nash feuding, nothing
about anything after the original trio except a 5 second comment from Scott Hall saying something
to the effect of "a lot of fans say the nWo was stronger when it was just the three of us" and Hogan
saying something like "as they added more members it became diluted" or something like that.
After that there's a TINY bit about the nWo / Horsemen angle.

Then BOOM. Flair's on RAW as the "co-owner" of the WWF, Vince's insane promo about the
"WWF has terminal cancer" and he's going to "inject a lethal dose of poison" and that whole
ridiculous promo he cut. Then they try to kill The Rock (you remember that right?), Hall cuts
promos on Austin and that whole thing which I thought was better than Rock / Hogan honestly.
Next there's clips of Hall over selling the Stunner, Rock & Austin "defending" the WWF against the
invading nWo, and finally footage of both WrestleMania matches. Then there's Hall vs. Austin and finally
Rock vs. Hogan. Then it shows the whole nWo turning on Hogan, Hogan being buddy/buddy with
the Rock and ripping the nWo shirt, X-Pac joining the nWo and then it's over. A couple of interviews of
Hall putting over the WWF, which to me seemed insincere and butt kissy. Hall, by the way, talks
almost exclusively in character, which is annoying in a way. I wanted shoots from these guys. Hogan
shoots a little bit, I may have blinked but I don't recall seing Kevin Nash talk AT ALL on this DVD.

There isn't really too much coverage of anything. Almost the whole coverage of their run in WCW
is basically just the interview at Bash at the Beach when Hogan was revealed as the third man,
and the interview he had on Nitro the next night and basically just in ring promos from 1996-97.

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The NWO was a group of wrestlers that bullylied there way into the WWF. It was one of the most entertaining segments ever seen on the wresling show. The group had their own music and basically were a bunch of thugs with many surprises like when they brought Hulk Hogan into their fold. iI remember being so entertained by these guys that I just had to buy their dvd. I have aseen other wrestling dvd's this has to be in the top three.

THE DVD NWO BACK IN BLACK GAVE A BEHIND THE SCENES LOOK AT HULK HOGAN AND THE NWO..THAT IS WHAT I BUY THESE DVDS FOR (THE WRESTLERS OUTLOOK ON IT) THE DVD WAS AWESOME AND HAD ALOT OF INFORMATION THAT I WOULD NOT HAD OTHERWISE KNOW ...THUMBS UP WWE

This is a very good dvd featureing hulk hogan, scott hall, kevin nash. This is a great dvd, because it shows a lot of features from the old wcws decline to the wwe. No collector should be with out this, its a classic, and well out of print, and very hard to find. But well worth the price if you can find it.

i cant believe ebay reviewers gave this dvd such a high rating....did you fans not watch wcw? the nwo was created there and had there best run there, i dont understand why wwe would not put out an awesome nwo dvd... they already own everything, its not like wcw/nwo is going to come back and take over wwe. i think wwe did a very bad job on this dvd.