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    WWE Best PPV Matches 2013 DVD Review

    By Henry Higgins
    | February 26, 2014
    WWE DVD Reviews
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    Wwe Best Ppv Matches 2013 Dvd

    Certificate: 15
    Running Time: 540mins (9hrs 00mins)
    Discs: 3

    Disc 1

    • An Historic Year
    • WWE Championship Match: CM Punk v The Rock – Royal Rumble (January 27th, 2013)
    • Six Man Tag Team Match: John Cena, Ryback, and Sheamus v The Shield – Elimination Chamber (February 17th, 2013)
    • Straight Edge v The Streak: Undertaker v CM Punk – WrestleMania XXIX (April 7th, 2013)
    • WWE Championship Match: The Rock v John Cena – WrestleMania XXIX (April 7th, 2013)

    Disc 2

    Chapters

    • RKO v WMD
    • Extreme Rules Match: Randy Orton v Big Show – Extreme Rules (May 19th, 2013)
    • Steel Cage Match: Triple H v Brock Lesnar – Extreme Rules (May 19th, 2013)
    • A Perfect Payback
    • Triple Threat Intercontinental Championship Match: Wade Barrett v The Miz v Curtis Axel – Payback (June 16th, 2013)
    • WWE Divas Championship Match: Kaitlyn v AJ Lee – Payback (June 16th, 2013)
    • Dolph Ziggler v Alberto Del Rio – Payback (June 16th, 2013)
    • Climbing the Ladder of Success
    • World Heavyweight Championship Money in the Bank Ladder Match: Cody Rhodes v Dean Ambrose v Wade Barrett v Jack Swagger v Antonio Cesaro v Fandango v Damien Sandow – Money in the Bank (July 14th, 2013)

    Disc 3

    • The Best v The Beast
    • No Disqualification Match: CM Punk v Brock Lesnar – SummerSlam (August 18th, 2013)
    • WWE Championship Match with Special Guest Referee Triple H: John Cena v Daniel Bryan – SummerSlam (August 18th, 2013)
    • The Drive to be Champion
    • World Heavyweight Championship Match: Alberto Del Rio v Rob Van Dam – Night of Champions (September 15th, 2013)
    • Fatal 4-Way Match for WWE Divas Championship: AJ Lee v Natalya v Naomi v Brie Bella – Night of Champions (September 15th, 2013)
    • Seth Rollins & Roman Reigns v Cody Rhodes & Goldust – Battleground (October 6th, 2013)
    • World Heavyweight Championship Match: Alberto Del Rio v John Cena – Hell in a Cell (October 27th, 2013)
    • Steel Cage Match for WWE Championship with Special Guest Referee Shawn Michaels: Randy Orton v Daniel Bryan – Hell in a Cell (October 27th, 2013)
    • Nothing Short of Incredible

    While it says that this set covers the best PPV matches from 2013, a more accurate title would be Best PPV Matches From the First Ten Months of 2013… but that wouldn’t be as catchy, would it?

    As easy as it would have been for WWE to simply fill this set with matches featuring The Shield and / or Daniel Bryan, the promotion has done a great job of including a variety of roster members in a variety of match types and stipulations.

    If you’re a fan of stats (and let’s face it, who isn’t?), here’s a list of the wrestlers involved on the DVD release and how many matches they feature in -:

    • John Cena – 4
    • CM Punk – 3
    • Alberto Del Rio – 3
    • Roman Reigns – 2
    • Seth Rollins – 2
    • Dean Ambrose – 2
    • The Rock – 2
    • Randy Orton – 2
    • Brock Lesnar – 2
    • Wade Barrett – 2
    • Cody Rhodes – 2
    • Daniel Bryan – 2
    • AJ Lee – 2
    • Ryback – 1
    • Sheamus – 1
    • Undertaker – 1
    • Big Show – 1
    • Triple H – 1
    • The Miz – 1
    • Curtis Axel – 1
    • Kaitlyn – 1
    • Dolph Ziggler – 1
    • Jack Swagger – 1
    • Damien Sandow – 1
    • Fandango – 1
    • Rob Van Dam – 1
    • Natalya – 1
    • Naomi – 1
    • Brie Bella – 1
    • Goldust – 1

    The selection of matches on display with this collection are, for the most part, worthy of inclusion. Of course, with any list you’re going to have moments of “why the Hell is that there” along with the equally predictable “why the Hell isn’t that there”, but WWE have put together a decent run of bouts.

    It does help that 2013 was one of the strongest years for in-ring quality in a long time and that a lot of talent broke through to varying degrees. None more so than the trio known as The Shield.

    Opening the set with The Rock v CM Punk for the WWE Championship brought back the ill-feeling I had at the time of the out taking place. Ending Punk’s epic run on top for a celebrity (Rock or no Rock, he was at that time a non-wrestler who made his living as a movie star) left a sour taste in the mouth, but luckily the second match on the chronological countdown brings this to peak excitement and enjoyment.

    To say that 2013 was the year of The Shield is no hyperbole; the Hounds of Justice owned every show and every segment they were in and their matches were of such consistent quality, the idea of them breaking up (as much as it is inevitable) is genuinely heartbreaking.

    Their six-man matches are the stuff modern legend is made of and the fact these young newcomers were not only holding their own against established names, they were dominating and winning impressively. This match against Sheamus, Cena and (before he became an afterthough) Ryback is filled with innovation and amazing teamwork.

    Undertaker v CM Punk was the best match on the WrestleMania card and John Cena v The Rock was the biggest letdown on the WrestleMania card. Of course it’s there for the main-event level feel, but as it was a repeat of the “Once in a Lifetime” bout from the previous year, it was devoid of genuine intrigue and the result was also beyond doubt.

    That might sound hypocritical when praising an Undertaker match at WrestleMania, but there is NEVER going to be any doubt on that result and the fact the result is known does no harm to Undertaker’s bouts. With Rock / Cena, it took an important element away from the closing match of the biggest show of the year.

    The Barrett / Miz / Axel match is memorable only for the creative finish (which I felt was going to happen the way it did, except Axel would pin Miz while he had Barrett in the Figure Four) and the real emotion from Mr. Perfect’s son to win the belt his dad exemplified on Father’s Day.

    AJ v Kaitlyn was really good, while MitB was as you’d expect, which isn’t a slight as the match is fantastic. Triple H v Brock was brutal (and the genuine “feel” Lesnar brings is something that can’t be explained; it has to be experienced) and Orton v Big Show was a worthwhile distraction to keep both men busy heading into the Summer.

    The best WWE PPV of 2013 (as voted for by the CultofWhatever.com fanbase) was SummerSlam and the event is represented here with two top-level outings. First we have Brock Lesnar taking on CM Punk as a proxy for Paul Heyman and then we have my pick for one-on-one Match of the Year; John Cena v Daniel Bryan.

    Triple H also deserves credit for not overshadowing a single second of match from bell-to-bell and the action in the ring is at an unbelievably high standard, with the finish being one of the most unexpected highlights of recent memory. The after-match shenanigans received a more mixed response, but overall the subsequent Authority angle has been a success… and will continue to be so as long as the actual end-game results in Daniel Bryan emerging victorious as WWE World Heavyweight Champion.

    Reigns / Rollins v Goldust / Cody is an unexpected gem, Del Rio v RVD was a really good match marred by a lousy finish, while Hell in a Cell Match between Orton and “Th Beard” was another exciting bout with an obvious, but ridiculously heated finish.

    It seems strange that WWE ended their PPV year in review two months early, especially as it’s only being released now, so there was plenty of time to include any matches from November (Roman Reigns’ epic Survivor Series performance) and December (the TLC main-event), but the bouts on the collection are, for the most part, well worth repeat viewing.

    Of course, if you actually own the PPVs individually, there would be no need to own this, but for everyone else, this is a great reminder of just how good WWE on PPV was in 2013.

    Roll on the Best of RAW & Smackdown 2013.

    The set I reviewed was the DVD edition, but I feel it’s only fair to mention that if you buy the Blu-Ray version, you get the following additional content -:

    Blu-ray Exclusive

    • United States Championship Match: Kofi Kingston v Dean Ambrose – Extreme Rules (May 19th, 2013)
    • Chris Jericho v CM Punk – Payback (June 16th, 2013)
    • WWE Tag Team Championship Match: The Shield v The Usos – Money in the Bank Kick-Off (July 14th, 2013)
    • World Heavyweight Championship Match: Alberto Del Rio v Christian – SummerSlam (August 18th, 2013)
    • Triple Threat Match for WWE Tag Team Championship: Cody Rhodes & Goldust v The Usos v Seth Rollins & Roman Reigns – Hell in a Cell (October 27th, 2013)

    As a quick aside, as much as I love the match between The Shield and The Usos from the MitB Kick-Off show, I don’t feel that it should be on this set as the match itself was not a pay-per-view bout; it was a free-to-air pre-show match. Still, it’s one of the best matches on the entire set, so you can’t complain too hard.

    Points: 8/10

    Buy It:

    UK: DVD / Blu-ray

    USA: DVD

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