Recommendations

[nightrain]

Ok, as you may or may not know I have only been watching WWE for the last 3 years or so.  Now, I wanna go back and watch older generations of WWE/F Superstars.

However, I have no idea where to start.  Are there any PPV's, dvd's etc etc that are essential viewing?  Books to read etc.

I know this is a bit of an ask but a starting point would be great.  Cheers fellas.

[BlowUpYourVideo]

Well, my favourite ever PPV is Wrestlemania 19, perhaps you've already seen it with it being a WM. If not, I'd strongly recommend that one. Every match on it ranges from 'very good' to 'classic' IMO. Hell, even Undertaker VS. Big Show and A-Train is good! But you also have Angle/Lesnar (a great technical wrestling match featuring Brock giving himself a concussion...), Vince/Hogan, Jericho/Michaels, Rock/Austin..... All fantastic matches.

I'd also recommend:

- Wrestlemania 17 (for TLC, Rock/Austin, the **** Triple Threat)
- Royal Rumble 1999 (for Mankind/Rock alone, a truly great brawl with Foley taking ten unprotected chair shots to the head in a row  )
- Royal Rumble 2000 (HHH/Foley, the first ever Tag Team Table Match plus the Rumble itself)
- Survivor Series 2003 (always liked this one, has two great SS Elimination Matches, Kane/Shane in an Ambulance Match, Vince doing one of the most **** blade jobs ever in the Buried Alive Match with Undertaker...)

Obviously, there's been a lot of great PPVs, but those are the ones I can think of off the top of my head.

[Hammy]

I'll go down the route of recommending what I consider the best DVDs rather than events.

Rise & Fall of ECW - One of the best documentaries ever and some superb bonus matches.
Bret Hart: Wrestling With Shadows - A crazy look behind the scenes which coincided with the infamous screwjob, essential viewing.
Either of Ric Flair's DVDs, although I prefer the second one simply because it has a bio on Flair, really good documentary bit where they interview him.
Any of the 3 Shawn Michaels ones.  The first is the shortest but it has the most essential matches.  The second has the bio/docu bit which is really well done.  The third is the weakest, but still worth a look as the matches are great as usual.
AWA and WCCW DVDs both have really good documentaries.

I mean honestly using silvervision.co.uk you can get so much, WWE make such great use of their tape library, coming up are some great sets to like the Best of Nitro, there aren't many you can go wrong with.  Even the Bret Hart one which has a snoozer of a documentary is saved by the great matches.