A weird trip back in time takes you to the nights when fans of professional wrestlers yelled their lungs out in support of Gorgeous George, Haystacks Calhoun, and Andre the Giant. Wrestling fans of today, who spend as much time trying to follow the soap opera story lines as watching the matches, may at first find some of the classic matches on this tape to be fairly bland. In the old days there were no fancy pyrotechnics, the costumes were seldom more than a pair of trunks and some boots, and the action was usually filmed (and televised) in glorious black and white. But while wrestlers in the old days wore less glitter, the early grapplers knew how to use gimmicks to draw a crowd. The greatest showman of them all, Gorgeous George, whose flowing locks and snobby demeanor couldn"t mask his dirty tactics, is seen during his prime in the 1950s. A punishing match from the not-so-distant past shows a young Randy Savage getting mauled within a steel cage by Jerry Lawler. And to satisfy the "something to offend everyone" quota, there is even a bizarre match from the 1970s between two female little people, one of whom is dressed as Pocahontas. --Robert J. McNamara