The WWE has been around a long time and over the years seems to have made a pretty good name for itself with outrageous behavior and completely unexpected and off the wall antics not only on the part of its wrestlers but also on the part of its announcers and even its CEO, Vince MacMahon himself. This latest three disc set, OMG! The Top 50 Shocking, Surprising, Amazing Moments In WWE History counts down those moments, and like the other recent WWE countdown DVDs, spices things up with clips from the events and commentary from various wrestlers and those involved in the industry.

Releases like this always cause a bit of a stir with the fan community as it goes without saying that someone somewhere is going to be annoyed that a certain moment they hold near and dear to their heart didn't make it on the list, but for the most part, this is a pretty solid selection of rampant insanity. The tricky part here comes in defining 'outrageous' - are we talking about the most intense physical work seen in the ring or are we talking about the brash interviews that the WWE has become known for over the years or are we talking about the crazy behavior that often takes place outside the ring? Well, in this case of this release, the answer is all of the above.

What this means is that we get a pretty interesting mix. We see some pretty amazing match clips here, like Shane MacMahon's amazing jump and Jimmy Snuka's steel cage leap but we also see some of those interview clips you knew we'd have to see, the obvious choice being Rowdy Roddy Piper and his infamous 'coconut to the head' bit. On top of that, yes, we get some 'outside the ring' action highlighted by clips like the supermarket brawl between Booker T and Stone Cold Steve Austin, a bit where Triple H feels the bad side of an escalator and the brouhaha that erupted at funeral held for The Big Show's father. Not enough? There's a WWE Vegas wedding here, a clip where Stone Cold blows up DX's bus, that bit where Piper gave the Haiti Kid a haircut, Kurt Angle's milk truck spray down and, of course, the Montreal Screw Job that lead to Bret 'The Hitman' Hart leaving the WWE. There's lots more, of course - Mick Foley shows up for a few great hardcore matches, some of which involve thumbtacks (ouch!) and Stone Cold Steve Austin seems to pop up more than anyone else, whether it's to deal with Vince or drive around on a Zamboni.

As the feature counts down the events and leads up to the most outrageous event in the history of the league we get commentary from the current crop of WWE talent like Wade Barrett, C.M. Punk, Booker T, Jim Ross, Kofi Kingston, Evan Bourne, Daniel Bryan, Dolph Ziggler, The Miz, Curt Hawkings, Chris Masters, John Cena, William Regal, Santino Marella, Tyson Kidd, Todd Grisham, Matt Striker, Zack Ryder, Drew McIntyre, and Scott Sanford. And of course, Jerry Lawler pops up a lot here to offer his input on things - and rightfully so, but shouldn't Joey Styles have been on here seeing as he basically named this set with his catch phrase? It would have been nice to get some input from the old guard, particularly Piper, Austin and Foley as they feature pretty regularly throughout this documentary, but that didn't happen and this does hurt things a bit. The newer guys have all got a lot of respect for the history that came before them and they do a fine job offering their take on things, but getting some sound bites from the guys who were there and who lived through this stuff would have added considerably more value to the countdown and probably made it feel more than just a random assembly of wacky highlights.

One quibble, and it's a pretty legitimate one, is that the music used in between each and every one of the fifty clips that makes up the feature, is incredibly irritating and ridiculously repetitive. Before one clip starts and after each clip ends an obnoxious 'OH MY GOD' riff plays a few times and while it was amusing once, the other forty-nine times it happened it was like nails on a chalk board. Here's hoping the WWE can put a bit more effort into things like this in the background. It'll be a minor thing to most and it doesn't really take away from the fun that this set offers, but yeah, it's pretty annoying.

The 1.78.1 anamorphic widescreen presentation, though interlaced, looks pretty decent. Some of the earlier matches are on the soft side and aren't quite as clean and colorful looking as the later day content is but this is generally quite a respectable looking presentation. The material that was shot fullframe is presented that way, with mattes on the sides, so there are no issues with stretching the footage, thankfully. There are times where the lights over the ring make skin tones look a bit off but this isn't a fault of the transfer or the authoring, it's simply the way the material has always looked. Nothing here really looks worse than when it was broadcast on television, and to some eyes it might even look a little bit better.