Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #21604 in DVD
• Released on: 2004-07-05
• Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• Format: PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 353 minutes

Synopsis
Features footage from the 1993 and 1994 King Of The Ring tournament, where eight men battle it out for the title.

Customer Reviews

a feast of wrestling
Reviewing these two events isnt easy as i cant really do a play by play of all the matches without spoiling them as the king of the ring format is a knock out and stages tornament which reaches a final and then the winner becomes king of the ring.
Both years here follow the exact same format with some great matches and a few filler matches that arent that welcome but you go through this to get to the great stuff.
The 1993 king of the ring is heralded as the first,that isnt strictly true as i think the first one was in the mid 1980s and the winner was donald muraco,but this was the first pay per view version and was all glammed up and the excitement was there for all to see.
Aside from the tornament we had the world title up for grabs where hulk hogan fought yokozuna in a poor match and the end of a legend so to speak,we had a very good intercontiental match between crush who had a great night against a nasty shawn michaels and an 8 man tag between the smokin gunns and the steiners against the headshrinkers and money inc,this match wasnt that great but had a nice 8 man brawl at the end.All in all this was a good enough event.
The 1994 event launched a new era of wrestling,a point they emphasised to death,out with the old and in with the new,well they ditched that tagline not long after,anyway,this again was similar,we had the tournament featuring 8 men,we had a world title match between the champ bret hart and diesel and diesel as many of my fellow reviewers state did indeed have a good match for once here,we had the tag team titles where the champs headshrinkers went up against yokozuna and crush in a very laboured match and roddy piper fought jerry lawler in a match that wasnt that good but had the crowd cheering away especially when jerry took a beating.
The king of the ring side of things was very good and possibly better than the year before.
A word of warning though,this event is almost spoilt by the commentary of retired and very old pro footballer art donovan who joined randy savage and gorilla in what is one of the worst moments in wwf as it was then history,this guy is a lemon,he was so bad that in the end macho and gorilla ignored him,he hadnt a clue what was going on,he didnt know who anyone was,he kept asking what the wrestlers weighed over and over again,he thought people were dead and kept asking the same freaking questions over and over,this is insane and isnt as funny as you may think,but that being said this was another well rounded event more or less so on average this double disc gets a 3.5 rating and is great value.

Do King's of the ring stand the test of time?
In my opinion, this "tagged classic" of the inaugral wwe king of the ring in 1993 and it's successor in 1994 should definatly be in the collection of any die hard wrestling fan. The "king of the ring" tournament hasn't been around in the wwe for a few years now, but when it was around, it was used by several superstars as a springboard to greatness in the wwe. previous winners over the years include "Stone Cold" Steve Austin, Triple H and Kurt Angle to name a few, and of course the 1st two winners of these king of the rings are on this dvd!

The format of the king of the ring is an 8 man single elimination tournament all taking place on the one night, with a superstar potentially having to compete 3 times in one evening.
in 1993 it was:
Bret "Hitman" Hart
Scott "Razor Ramon" Hall
Mr.Perfect Curt Hennig
Mr. Hughes
Hacksaw Jim Duggan
Bam Bam Bigelow
Tatanka and Lex Luger.

Without spoiling the results of the event, this pay per view is one of the best performances of Bret Hart's career, and includes a wrestling clinic between The Hitman and Mr.Perfect, in a rematch from their classic at 'summerslam 91'. It also includes Hulk Hogans' last ppv in the WWE before he left to join WCW, as he defended the WWE title against (the late) Yokosuna, as well as Shawn Michaels against Crush for the Intercontinental title, and an 8 man tag between the Smoking Gunns & the Steiner Brothers against Money inc & the Headshrinkers.

The 1994 event had a similar format, with:
I.R.S
Mabel (now known in the WWE as Viscera)
Scott "Razor Ramon" Hall
Bam Bam Bigelow
Jeff Jarrett
123 Kid (or 'X-pac' Sean Waltman)
Owen Hart and
Tatanka, in the king of the ring tournament. The event also includes:

Bret Hart vs Kevin "Diesel" Nash,(In arguably one of Diesel's rare great matches)

Hall of famer 'Rowdy' Roddy Piper vs Jerry 'The King' Lawler

and The Headshrinkers vs Crush and Yokosuna for the Tag titles

As is often the case at Wrestling pay per view's, the event is let down a little by some of the matches on the card. in this case, some of the tournament matches and so called "Filler" matches on both events don't quite stand the test of time when you compare them to the athletisism of some of todays WWE matches. However, there are enough great matches on the DVD to just skip through and watch those! If you're a Bret hart fan like myself, this is him at perhaps his best, and there is also the opportunity on this DVD to see some of todays Superstars in the early days of their careers, and a chance to see some wrestlers that have since passed away, such as Curt hennig, Yokosuna and Owen Hart, in some of their best matches.
in closing, it's WWE before it was World Wrestling "entertainment", Before the era of wwf "Attitude", but after the old school 80's days. well worth a watch to see one of the 1st times WWE/F went into transition. 4 out of five, due to some of the matches not being great, but both shows have some great matches and some famous wwe moments.

Wwe King Of The Ring 93
l loved this event because this king of the ring 93 was the first time l saw wrestling in my life. it was brilliant. my cousins had it on video and l wanted to have it copied but they sold it which was really disapointing.