Hulk Hogan: The Ultimate Anthology

The Immortal Hulk Hogan is without a doubt one of the biggest icons in wrestling and is one of the reaosns that wrestling is what it is today. This man was behind the likes of Hulkamania, the NWO and more recently his shit TNA heel group Immortal.
Anyway Hulk Hogan: The Ultimate Anthology is a WWE DVD that takes us through the career of the Hulkster. The boxset contains 4 discs the first 3 being the story of his career, hosted by Mean Gene Okerlund and Jimmy "The Mouth of The South" Hart we get to see some of Hogans most famous matches ranging from his first title win against the Iron Sheik to the famous Wrestlemania matches between him and the likes of Andre the Giant, "Macho Man" Randy Savage , The Ultimate Warrior and The Rock. In all there are 27 complete matches. The DVD features interviews with wrestlers such The Big Show, Edge, Rob Van Dam and John Cena.

The first part of the set goes through Hogans rise to fame starting and ending with his matches against Andre the Giant. With the exception of the AWA Championship Match with Nick Bockwinkel all the matches are from the WWE. Besides the Wrestlemania III match with Andre the Giant none of the matches are anything too special, some are all right but most of them have been dulled by time, still you get to see Hulk Hogan tag team with Mr.T at Wrestlemania.

Part two is all about Hogan through the nineties, we get to some some classic wrestlemania matches such as him and the Ultimate Warrior at Wrestlemania VI. We also get to see the Hulkster go up against the Undertaker at Tuesday in Texas. After that we get to see Hogans run in WCW with matches against Ric Flair, The Giant and Sting, we also get to See the formation of the NWO. In all the second part is much more entertaining than the first thanks to the matches.

Part three is Hogan in the new millennium and focuses on his return to the WWE as well as his short time in XWF. All these matches are fairly recent so they are all probably the most fast paced of all his matches and you could argue that they are the best. This has the least number of matches of the 3 parts but we see Hulk work with some really big names, we see his Wrestlemania match with The Rock (a match I must have seen 4 or 5 times now), his title match with Triple H, his only Tag title run with Edge and the infamous Summerslam match where Shawn Michaels mocked Hogan by overselling. We also get to see his induction into the WWE Hall of Fame. There is also the Wrestlemania Street Fight with Vince McMahon, a match so exciting that I would happily watch it again.

There is also the bonus disk that is filled with extra matches for your viewing pleasure such as a championship match with Terry Funk (I'm still amazed by his hardcore wrestling career) and part of the 1990 Royal Rumble which Hogan won.

In all this is worth owning if you are a wrestling fan, it is a must have if you are a Hulkamaniac. It is one of the cheaper WWE boxsets that I have seen around so it is a good buy if you are looking to collect Wrestling DVD's.