WWE Tagged Classics

wrestling match type.

General Information

The sets are comprised of two classic World Wrestling Federation events each that were previously released on VHS. 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 and Mike Tyson) 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, WrestleMania, SummerSlam, King of the Ring, and Survivor Series, as well as the regular In Your House 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 that were released was "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 2000 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 presentation of archived WWF material than the recent WWE WrestleMania and Royal Rumble Anthologies do.

They also contain no WWE watermark/DOG 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.

Some theme music is dubbed over on new WWE Home Video releases, but not on these Tagged Classics sets. For instance, on the WWE WrestleMania Anthology - Demolition's theme music is dubbed over with generic WWE-produced theme music. This is done to save on paying certain royalties to certain artists and music production companies. These sets have all of the original music included.

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.

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"

The following Tagged Classics sets are currently available to preorder:

* "Survivor Series 1999 & Survivor Series 2000"

External links

* [http://www.silvervision.co.uk Silver Vision's Official Website]
* [http://www.wwe.com WWE website]