Heroes of World Class Wrestling
by Brian Harrison
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Director: Brian HarrisonAudio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, Director's Cut, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 180 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-12-26
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Big Vision
Movie Reviews of Heroes of World Class Wrestling
Movie Review: If you enjoyed Triumph and Tragedy. This is a must own.
Summary: 5 Stars
Heroes of World Class is a non WWE documentary on the WCCW. The WWE version focused alot more on the Von Erichs. This documentary does also, but everyone WWE didn't cover Heroes picks up and runs with it.
Directed by Brian Harrison, this documentary features Kevin Adkisson(Von Erich), John Mantell, Bill Mercer, Gary Hart, and many others. They take you on a real inside journey to WCCW. They talk about upgrading the camera work for matches, booking, and having to coordiante going into territories.
They go really indepth with the Von Erich deaths and ailments. Wrestlers like Brody who were barely touched in Triumph and Tragedy. Are better discussed here. Gino Hernandez's death is discussed all the way to the point where it's not believed to be suicide. To not give away too much,I'll just say this one surpasses the WWE version by a large margin. I came out of this one learning some new things.
I won't recommend getting this one and forgetting about WWE's. I say get them both, sit back and enjoy. Between the both of them you will have the complete legacy of the WCCW. The DVD had several extras containing interviews. The best one to me is, Jim Cornette's. I highly recommend this if you're a fan of wrestling and sports entertainment.
Summary of Heroes of World Class Wrestling
In 1983 World Class Championship Wrestling and its franchise stars, the Von Erich brothers, were known around the world. A small Dallas based promotion running out of a shack of a venue, the Sportatorium, World Class was one of the most syndicated television programs in America, making the Von Erichs household names. Run by legendary wrestler Fritz Von Erich, a.k.a. Jack Adkinsson, World Class made his oldest sons, Kevin, David and Kerry, three of hte biggest stars in the world of wrestling. Little did anyone know that just as the Von Erichs and World Class were reaching worldwide stardom they would begin a downfall that would cast a full eclipse on their meteoric rise to fame. Directed by Brian Harrison who, as a ten year old in 1983, watched on television as wrestling's world of staged combat between good and evil took a sharp turn into a surreal and tragic reality. Harrison heads to Texas to find his childhood hero, Kevin Adkisson, a.k.a. Kevin Von Erich, the oldest and sole surviving Von Erich brother. Harrison pays tribute to the prime years of this legendary era and its fallen stars.Sports DVD Video
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