The "Steel Cage" Match is considered one of the most brutal, bloody and exciting match types in sports entertainment. Now for the first time, WWE pay tribute to the finest steel cage bouts in wrestling history! WWE has gone through many changes over the years, but on this DVD, they've wisely included matches from their WWWF days (World Wide Wrestling Federation), their WWF days (which includes bouts from the early 90's and the "Attitude Era") and their more recent "Get The F Out" transformation. As well as all this, there's also some archive NWA (before they were renamed WCW) footage to savour!

WWE have also made a conscious effort not to make the main feature nothing more than a series of matches. Instead, they've given it more of a "TV Show"-style approach. Entitled "Blood Bath", the compilation is presented by The Coach from the WWE studio.

Coach takes us through each of the matches in turn, sometimes giving the viewer a little insight into how the match came about. In edited format (some more so than others), we see Bob Backlund VS Pat Patterson (1979), Bruno Sammartino VS Larry Zbysko (1980), Bob Backlund VS Jimmy Snuka (1980), Jimmy Snuka VS Don Muraco (1983), Magnum TA VS Tully Blanchard ("I Quit" rules, 1985), Hulk Hogan VS Paul Orndorff (1987), Ric Flair VS Ron Garvin (1987), Bret Hart VS Owen Hart (1994), Isaac Yankem VS Bret Hart (1995), HHH VS Mankind (1997), HHH VS The Rock (1999), Stone Cold VS Mr McMahon (1999), Edge & Christian VS The Hardy Boyz (2000), Kurt Angle VS Chris Benoit (2001), and Edge VS Kurt Angle (2002).

Due to the editing, it is sometimes hard to get into the flow of some of the matches, and the "Attitude Era" ones in particular (from 1999-2001) are heavily trimmed, obviously due to the court case with The World Wildlife Fund. On the subject of "WWF Attitude", it's very surprising to see The Rock's steel cage scuffle with HHH from the UK event, Rebellion 99' included on this DVD (WWE hardly ever make a big deal out of UK events, and The Rock and HHH even had a cage match on Raw in the U.S. that could have been included).

However, allot of these matches are featured in their entirity on disc 2 anyway. Also, between the matches, we occasionally get comments from the likes of Spike Dudley, Tommy Dreamer, Jerry Lawler and Gerald Briscoe about that particular match.

The DVD extras alone make this a worthy purchase. The matches offered in full are Backlund VS Patterson (a fair, but not too spectacular match), Snuka VS Muraco (a good bout with a memorable finish), Magnum TA VS Blanchard (a brutal, bloody, gripping affair), Bret Hart VS Owen Hart (possibly the best cage match ever), HHH VS Mankind (highly entertaining fare), and Edge VS Angle (exciting TV match).

There's also some different matches to be found as extras (Sammartino VS Ivan Koloff, Backlund VS Stan Hansen, Flair VS Dusty Rhodes, Rock N' Roll Express VS Andersons, Shawn Michaels VS Marty Jannetty). All these matches are good in their own way, apart from Sammartino VS Koloff (which is terrible).

Overall, WWE's attempt at doing something different (and something that will appeal to fans from all generations) has paid off royally. This is truly one of the greatest wrestling DVD's of all time, no question.

This set is a nice look at The Cage Match. Its a great watch if you like classic wrestling from the 80's and blood. The selection of matches profiled is good but its just a shame that every match isnt in its entirety. Thats the only draw back with this set. Otherwise its quite a good set.

some of the most greatest steel cage matches in history
from the hardy boyz vs christian and edge to vincent
kennedy mcmachon (A.K.A no change in hell!!!)my
favourite is the hardys vs edge and christian.the hardys
win in a fablous steel cage match.when jeff came in
edge was climbing the cage but edge but to steel
chairs in the cage.the hardys climbed the cage to but with
a steel chair each.you could tell what was coming next
matt and jeff hit edge with there steel chairs at the same time
and BANG!!!!! edge went crashing to the floor jeff and matt
climbed out of the cage to win the wwf tag team championship.