Based on the logo, it was released sometime between 2002-2014. It uses the scratch style WWE logo.

Legends of Wrestling Ric Flair and Sgt Slaughter.

Look at this match listing!

Mid Atlantic May 12 1982 Sgt Slaughter vs Mike Rotundo (Later known as IRS, and father to Bo Dallas and Bray Wyatt)

Texas Death Match for the WWE Championship - September 24th 1983. Sgt Slaughter vs Bob Backlund.

WWE April 23 1984, Sgt Slaughter vs Iron Sheik.

Boot Camp Match AWA Superclash III, December 13 1988. Sgt Slaughter vs Col DeBeers

NWA Heavyweight Championship Starrcade Dec 26 1988 Ric Flair vs Lex Lugar

Thunderdome Match Halloween Havoc October 28 1989 Ric Flair & Sting vs Terry Funk & The Great Muta. (Despite the name, this one would have fans in attendence, as it was decades before the covid pandemic!)

WCW Nitro Ric Flair vs Curt Henning October 11th 1999.

It also has a roundtable discussion about their careers I assume. I haven't watched it yet. But I got this thing for only $3 Good find, good find ineed!

Edit: Ok, this dvd is WEIRD! I'm watching the roundtable, and maybe 15 minutes in, and this is really disappointing stuff.

So first off, despite both probably being in the company at the time this was filmed (It seems to be roughly 2005) neither Flair nor Slaughter are on the roundtable. How did they fuck THAT up???

Instead, we got Micheal Hayes, Pat Patterson, Dusty Rhodes, and Mike Gram as guests. Usually I see Mean Gene as the host, but this time we got Jim Ross. This is where it gets weird. First off, Pat Patterson hasn't said one word. If they didn't do far shots with everybody in them, you wouldn't even know he's there. Micheal Hayes is insufferable as always. And I don't know who this Mike Gram is, but he seems like he's only ever seen clips of what they're discussing. At one point he asks "But where did he come up with the Nature Boy name???" and he gets ignored, so he asks it about 16 more times in a row, talking over everybody else as they try their best to ignore him, until finally Jim Ross just says "He got it from Buddy Rose". Grams response to that was just "See? I told ya!" Which makes no sense. I'm half convinced they edited some context out, because, it's so off the wall that you're not even sure what he's implying. Told you? Told us what? You just asked the same question over and over until they pity answered you since you wouldn't shut up.....

Jim Ross is not at all leading the discussion the way Mean Gene would. Everybody is talking over everybody else. Nothing is making sense. Dusty is trying to tell a story about one-upsmanship between himself and Flair, while Gram is constantly trying to interupt. Dusty is an excellent storyteller, if you shut up and listen. Dusty is telling the story that he would buy a mink coat, in cold weather, so Flair would buy a much more expensive fur coat. Flair would buy a house, then Dusty bought a house, so Flair would buy a bigger house next week. Dusty starts to tell a story about how the lights in the arena were dark, and for his entrance he's open the curtain, still dark, and then open a door behind him. So now all you see a a siloquette in the entrance way. Dusty is slow building the story, so it has suspense. It's clearly going somewhere. Instead, Gram is interupting, saying that what Dusty is talking about has nothing to do with Flair. The story was far from finished, and Gram is yelling "Yeah, but what's that got to do with Flair???"

Then Gram starts talking about how Flair was one of the bigger wrestlers at 300lbs.

Please, someone stuff a ballgag in Grams mouth. PLEASE!!! He's somehow being more insufferable that Micheal Hayes.....and that's a talent. Not a good talent, but still a talent. Meanwhile, instead of getting us back on track, Jim Ross is just sitting there with a "Kill me now" look on his face.

Oh, and again, Pat Patterson still technically exists on this panel. Hasn't said one word.

I'm only 20 minutes in, and I might honestly just skip the roundtable discussion, and just watch some classic matches. One of which from 5 days before I was born!

So, before I even start, lets get one thing out of the way. Yes, I DO hate that soooooo many 80s/90s wrestlers are dead. Most well before their time. I DO hate that. Buuuuut, thats not what this post is about.

I'm watching last weeks dynamite. JR is interviewing Swerve Strickland. I've been advocating for a return to the 1996 style JR/Mankind interview since 1996. I think it's a format that works. I DON'T understand why it's taken this long, Kane interview aside, to get another one.

But.......then I'm watching the first 20 seconds. JR is soooooo aged. I don't mean it in a disrespectful way. I just mean that his voice is slowed down considerably. His face had visually aged. And hearing his voice just reminds me of going to Elyria Ohio.

You see, my mom lives in Elyria Ohio. And in the mid 90s to early 2000s, I would go see my mom, stay with her for the weekend, and she lived near a mall. In 2001 I actually lived with her for about 8 months.

And that mall has a LOT of memories for me. Its like my teenage years in a nutshell. If you go through my comments, theres a recent one about playing starfox 64 at Toys R Us. That was at the mall.

Well this last week, we had some tornados come through Ohio. 460K people were without power. I was among them for 3 days. Well, on the 3rd day, my mom came out, picked me up, drove me 30 minutes to her condo, and I showered. The whole area was SOOOOO run down and broken from what I remembered.

It's so bad that Walmart had to shut down. In a 2 minute drive through the streets, I recognized the city, but not the area if that makes sense. My mom even got annoyed by me saying too often "That used to be where ____ was....."

It reminded me of Legend of Zelda, Ocerina of Time. Where you grow up in a cheerful and happy town, and then you get older and its this run down area. You still can see what it used to be, but it's very different now.

And thats how it feels hearing JR give a sit down interview. Hearing his voice is somehow firmiliar, yet foreign. Like the voice still sounds like the guy you remember in the 90s......but also like its run down and broken.

Aging does that to us all. I look in the mirror and expect to see a young 19 year old ready to tackle the world. Instead I'm presented with a grey haired 40 year old, who still look ready to tackle the world. How long until I see a wrinkly 60 year old, who's just ready for a nap? Actually 40 year old me would enjoy a nap too.

Still, I can't see/hear JR and not be reminded of how good he once was. How good Elyria once was, and how young I once was. But now, all I see is a shadow of what I remember it being....

Imagine all the ripped buttholes.

I just spent the last hour typing up a post to put in !squaredcircle@lemmy.zip about how I observed a beautiful moment with a father and his 3 year old son.

The son was a fan of a wrestler named L.A. Knight. And he was set to make his grand entrance, and have his match, live in front of 57k people.

We were in the stadium, in line for merchandise. The line was really long. So the dad realized they would miss L.A Knight's match.

Logically the smart thing to do is bring your son back to your seats. Give up your place in line, and try later. Or evdn online later.

Instead, this dad, who was clearly also a fan of L.A Knight, and wanted to see him asked his son: "Do you want to stay in line? Or go see L.A Knight?"

And the kid picked staying in line. The dad confirmed with him "If you stay in line, you'll miss L.A Knight in the ring. He's coming out now."

And the kid chose to stay in line to get L.A Knight merch.

And the whole moment was beautiful to me. The idea of a dad respecting his kids opinion is foreign to me.

I grew up with my dad telling me to shut up and do it his way. Always his way. Still to this day, it's always his way. My mom left him because he was controlling. My sisters (who are not his kids, but he helped raise them) don't talk to him because of how he treated them.

I'm 40, and now he's elderly, and I barely talk to him. Sometimes I feel guilty until moments like this. Where I'm reminded that still to this day I don't speak up when I should. I don't ask for help when I need it. I just suffer in silence, just as I always do.

There have even been times in the past where calling 911 for someone else having an emergancy was the right thing to do. Hearing gunshots on your street. Seeing a woman hanging out of a car screaming for help. But not calling 911, because nobody wants to hear what I have to say. Nobody wants to hear from me.

And at Summerslam, I see this kid saying he wants to stay in line. And the dad just confirms, and explains the consequences that he'll miss L.A Knight, but the kid insisted on staying in line. Despite it not being the smart choice. It was the "wrong" choice. If I were in that position, my dad would have ended it with zero input on my end. But here this dad was respecting his sons choice. His three year old son.

And as I typed to a wrestling community what I intended to be a beautiful story, I realized it's only beautiful to me because of my own repressed perspective. Everybody else just would hear a story about a normal dad doing normal dad things. Loving his son. Respecting his son.

And nobody would get why that would make me cry.

So I deleted the story before I posted it, and began to realize that even though I'm 40, and should be past all this, it still hurts, and I'm a deeply broken person.

And now I'm wondering, has anyone else had these moments where they realize that they've just been repressing pain for 30 years to the point where a normal loving relationship can cause jealousy, but also an intense heartwarming moment?

I don't know how to describe it. That moment was just 10 minutes out of this kids life that he'll not remember. The dad won't deem it important, so he won't remember this by now. It was a meaningless moment that in a loving relationship happens everyday. But to me, the idea of a dad respecting his son making a "wrong decision" had me supressing anger, sadness, and heartwarming joy, but also knowing how weird I was for that. And so I shut up, and repressed it. Only in trying to retell a heartwarming story did I realize it was coming across as bitter and jealous, and thats when I realized thats MY issue. And I don't know where to go from here.

Have you ever had a moment like this?

Hi, Cleveland resident here, and I've had no power since Tuesday.

We recently hosted Summerslam on Saturday, and it was great! Personnally I think the stage setup was a bit lackluster, and I was hoping for a Mick Foley segment in the boiler room of Browns stadium, as a callback to Summerslam 96, but otherwise I had fun. So did thousands of people. Then Sunday everybody flew home. Locals went home Saturday night.

Then Tuesday came......

Tuesday was bad. Real bad. At 3:45pm I stepped out of my apartmemt on my way to work, took 3 steps, and heard the tornado siren. It was clearly going to rain soon. Grey skies and all, but a tornado??? In Cleveland????

So I checked my phone's weather app, and saw 10 different tornado warnings. Not tornado watch, tornado WARNINGS.

I walked right back inside. Called off work, and went back in my apartment. Turned on the TV to find out the extent of the damage. As soon as I hit the power button on my tv, the tv came on, for literally milliseconds, and then ALL power went off.

I had no cell service, no power, and no way to find out whats going on.

As it turns out, 4 different F1 tornados ripped northern ohio apart. 460,000 people without power instantly. Centuries old trees uprooted. Power lines everywhere downed. Vehicles thrown across the road. Chaos everywhere.

Electric crews came in from as far away as south carolina to help. But also PA, NY, WV, MI, IL, IN, all just to clear things up.

And now that calm has finally come for me personally, I can't help but think about Saturday......what if on the day of Summerslam, all this chaos ensued then????

It was already a disaster as it was. But to have close to 60k people all in one stadium as it happened??? It very well could have cancelled summerslam, AND been the cause of a lot of death.

It could have very easily gone from disaster to national tragedy.

So, as a Cleveland native, and an attendee at Summerslam 2024, I'm rewatching the event right now.

One line on commentary caught my ear, from one Sterling James Keenan.

Oh, I'm sorry. I'm using the name he wrestled in AIW under in 2007 on the indies. You guys know him today as Corey Graves.

What? You don't appriciate using old names? Well here in Cleveland we're all about honoring the old names.

It's not Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse, it's Gund Arena. Site of Summerslam 96, and the boiler room brawl.

It's not Progressive Field, it's Jacobs Field. Site of the 1995 and 1997 world series. It will always be The Jake!

And it's not......ok, gotta be honest. I don't even KNOW the corporate name for Browns Stadium. Whether it was Muni Lot, or the current Stadium, it was ALWAYS Browns stadium!

But there was ONE LINE that caught me right in the feels.

"Some people, Including present company, seem to always make excuses for why McIntyre is so furious. Why McIntyre wants to eviscerate CM Punk. Look, I'm a fan of what Punk is doing, I'm a fan of what McIntyre's done. Luckily, for us, these two gladiators are willing to rip one another apart, for our enjoyment. For our entertainment. The COLLUSIUM has come to CLEVELAND tonight."

For 99% of the audience, that was a throwaway line. A reference to the Roman Collusium. It was forgotten as soon as it was said.

But SJK....erm.....Corey Graves, is from Pittsburg. And I'd like to think having started his career wrestling in the Pittsburg/Cleveland area, he threw a bit of an easter egg out for the locals.

See, prior to 1994, the Cleveland Cavaleers (NBA team) didn't play IN Cleveland. They technically played their home games in Richfield Ohio. About an hour drive. Roughly halfway between Cleveland and Akron.

In an arena called Richfield Collusium.

Granted SJK didn't wrestle in AIW (Cleveland promotion still going today) until 2007. And granted, by then the Cavs had moved to the modern day Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse, in 2007 known as Quicken Loans Arena, originally known as Gund Arena.

I'd like to think that SJK knew his history and threw an easter egg out for the locals.

And for this reason, I condider corey Graves/SJK on the same level, maybe even surpassing Bobby Heenan.

And if you know anything about my tastes, that is a HUUUUUUGE honor.

Bob Hoskins, or Capt Lou Albano?

No Charles Martinet in THIS one!

So today is Summerslam day. Live from my hometown in Cleveland.

Last time Summerslam was here was 1996. And if you watch that show, from Gund Arena (now known as Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse) you'll notice something very "of its time".

Inside the arena, were these mini blimps. They used to fly around inside the arenas of that era.

Well now they're in this massive 60K person football stadium. So I know mini blimps wouldn't make sense. But hell, we're just down the road from Akron. Is it too much to ask for a mini blimp on Smackdown, from Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse? And then today, we could get the Goodyear Blimp???

ARE BLIMPS TOO MUCH TO ASK FOR IN 2024???

Happy wrestling, everybody!!!

I'm 40, and when I was a teenager, EVERY band had CDs. And I know a lot of music has shifted to digital. So much so that I heard Best buy stopped selling CDs. Presumably because nobody buys them.

So I wonder what musicians sell besides t-shirts and posters at concerts. Do the kids have ANY CDs? Do they buy mp3's? Do they just use pandora and spotify? Do they even own their own music?

I've given up on trying to understand the lingo. Other generations lingo sounds stupid to me, but still understandable based on context.

I have NO idea what a skibifibi toilet is....sounds like a toilet after some taco bell and untalented jazz, but maybe I can try to understand their thought process on media consumption.

So Shane comes out, makes his big "Whats Shane McMahon doing in the AEW zone???" moment.

Then Christian Cage comes out.

"Now Shane, we go way back, and its great to see you here in AEW and all....but I'd like to take a moment to talk about your father....."