WWE Tagged Classics
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DVD
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sets produced by Silver Vision
Silver Vision
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and World Wrestling Entertainment
World Wrestling Entertainment
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for retail markets in Region 2 in PAL
PAL
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format. The sets normally feature a WWE pay-per-view event from one year on one disc, paired (or "tagged
Tag team
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") with another disc that features the same event from the following year.
General information
The sets are composed of two classic World Wrestling FederationWorld Wrestling Entertainment
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events each that were previously released on VHS
VHS
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. They contained absolutely no extras beyond the events (unless an extra was included in the original VHS release of the event ie. WrestleMania XIV has the post match Press Conference with Stone Cold Steve Austin
Stone Cold Steve Austin
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and Mike Tyson
Mike Tyson
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) up until the release of King Of The Ring 1999 & 2000, where 2000 contained the same extras that the original DVD release did when it was released in 2001.
The DVDs are simply re-releases of WWF commercial video tapes however, they are taken from master WWE source tapes of these releases. The same edits on the ex-WWF tapes (as different from the live broadcast PPV version of the event) are present in these discs. The series include events such as Royal Rumble
Royal Rumble
The Royal Rumble is a professional wrestling pay-per-view event, produced every January by WWE, a professional wrestling promotion based in Connecticut. The event was created in 1988, with its inaugural event taking place on January 24, 1988 at the Copps Coliseum in Hamilton, Ontario...
, WrestleMania
WrestleMania
WrestleMania is a professional wrestling pay-per-view event, produced annually in late March or early April by WWE, a professional wrestling promotion based in Connecticut...
, SummerSlam
SummerSlam
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, King of the Ring
King of the Ring
King of the Ring is a professional wrestling single-elimination tournament held by WWE. The tournament was held annually from 1985 to 2002, with the exception of 1990 and 1992, and from 1993 to 2002 the tournament was produced as a pay-per-view event....
, and Survivor Series
Survivor Series
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, as well as the regular In Your House
In Your House
In Your House was a pay-per-view series created by the World Wrestling Federation . The original concept was that, in months when the WWF was not holding one of its major PPV events , they would offer a two-hour PPV, priced at $14.95...
PPVs that began in 1995. There have also been releases of other shows such as The Fab Four, One Night Only and UK Rampage 1991 as well as other ex-VHS titles.
The sets for each of these events follow a specific pattern, a year for each big event (example: WrestleMania I & WrestleMania II), and a month for each In Your House event. The only exception so far was the second In Your House set, which covered In Your House 13: Final Four, and In Your House 16: Canadian Stampede
The first Tagged Classics DVD sets released were WrestleMania I and II and Royal Rumble 1989 and 1990 in May 2004.
Exemption from WWF blurring/editing
The sets are unique as they are, for the most part, free from the well documented legal restraints imposed by the federal lawsuits initiated by the World Wildlife Fund in the year 2002 that prohibit the referencing and use of the scratch logo and initials "WWF", with only the DVD covers and DVD menu screens of the "Tagged Classics" displaying the initials "WWE". They serve as a much more faithful representation of archived WWF material than do the more recent WWE WrestleMania, Royal Rumble, SummerSlam and Survivor Series anthologies.They also contain no WWE watermark/DOG
Digital on-screen graphic
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like new WWE Home Video releases do. They do however, contain the watermark/DOG for that time frame. For instance, there is no watermark for anything up to 1994, and the block logo is used, then the New Generation logo from 1995 onwards, and finally the scratch logo for all of the Attitude era discs.
Fear Factory
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and System of a Down
System of a Down
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but it was dubbed over on the VHS release and thus is dubbed over on the Tagged Classics release.
It is not known exactly why these discs are exempt from blurring and editing, but many theories have arose. The first is that they are direct re-releases from the past. The second is that they are only available in the UK and Europe, therefore are exempt from legal restraints because of this. The third reason is that Silver Vision is a third party licensee of WWE DVDs in the UK, and technically this is not WWE releasing these discs.
WWE Tagged Classic In Your House 7 & 8 has extra footage which the VHS release did not have in the U.K. The Free For All event can be seen on the In Your House 7 DVD Tagged Classic release and features the match between the 123 Kid and The Wildman Marc Mero.
List of Tagged Classics releases
(In order of release)- WrestleMania 1 & 2
- Royal Rumble 1989 & 1990
- WrestleMania 3 & 4
- King Of The Ring 1993 & 1994
- SummerSlam 1988 & 1989
- Royal Rumble 1991 & 1992
- Battle Royal At The Albert Hall & UK Rampage 1991
- Survivor Series 1987 & 1988
- In Your House 1 & 2
- Fab Four & One Night Only
- In Your House 13 & 16
- WrestleMania 5 & 6
- King Of The Ring 1995 & 1996
- Royal Rumble 1993 & 1994
- Survivor Series 1989 & 1990
- WrestleMania 7 & 8
- SummerSlam 1990 & 1991
- SummerSlam 1992 & 1993
- Survivor Series 1991 & 1992
- WrestleMania 9 & 10
- Royal Rumble 1995 & 1996
- King Of The Ring 1997 & 1998
- SummerSlam 1994 & 1995
- WrestleMania 11 & 12
- Survivor Series 1993 & 1994
- SummerSlam 1996 & 1997
- Survivor Series 1995 & 1996
- WrestleMania 13 & 14
- Royal Rumble 1997 & 1998
- In Your House 3 & 4
- In Your House 5 & 6
- King Of The Ring 1999 & 2000
- In Your House 7 & 8
- In Your House 9 & 10
- SummerSlam 1998 & 1999
- Survivor Series 1997 & 1998
- In Your House 11 & 12
- Royal Rumble 1999 & 2000
- In Your House 14 & 15
- In Your House 17 & 18
- In Your House 19 & 20
- In Your House 21 & 22
- In Your House 23 & 24
- In Your House 25 & 26
- In Your House 27 & 28
- WrestleMania 15 & Hell Yeah
- Fully Loaded 1999 and Unforgiven 1999
- No Mercy 1999 and Armageddon 1999
- Survivor Series 1999 & 2000
- WrestleMania 2000 (Double DVD)
- No Way Out 2000 & Backlash 2000
- Judgment Day 2000 & Fully Loaded 2000
- SummerSlam 2000 & SummerSlam 2001
- Unforgiven 2000 & No Mercy 2000
- Royal Rumble 2001 & Royal Rumble 2002
- Armageddon 2000 & No Way Out 2001
- Wrestlemania X-Seven (Double DVD)
- Backlash 2001 & Judgment Day 2001
- King of the Ring 2001 & Invasion 2001
- Unforgiven 2001 & No Mercy 2001
- Survivor Series 2001 & Vengeance 2001
- Wrestlemania X8 (Double DVD)
- No Way Out 2002 & Backlash 2002
- Capital Carnage 1998 & No Mercy 1999 (UK edition)
- nWo: Back in Black & Big Daddy Cool Diesel / Oozing Machismo Razor Ramon
- Best of RAW Vol. 1 & 2 DVD (2 Discs)
- Rebellion 1999 & Insurrextion 2000
- Rebellion 2000 & Insurrextion 2001
- WrestleFest '88 & WrestleFest '90
- Rebellion 2001 & Insurrextion 2002
- The Year in Review 1993 & 1994 (2 Discs)
- The Rock: The People's Champ & The Rock: Just Bring It!
- Shawn Michaels: Hits From The Heartbreak Kid & Shawn Michaels: Heartbreak Express Tour
- Action! & Hardcore
- U.S. Rampage '91 & U.S. Rampage '92
The following Tagged Classics sets are currently available to preorder:
- Triple H: The Game & Triple H: That Damn Good (Available: September 2011)
- U.K. Rampage '92 & U.K. Rampage '93 (Available: October 2011)