WWE Tagged Classics is a series of two-disc DVD sets produced by former WWE video distributor Silver Vision for retail markets in Region 2 in PAL format. The majority of sets feature a WWF pay-per-view event from one year on one disc, with another disc that featured the same event from the following year, or two consecutive pay-per-view events.
The first Tagged Classics DVD set released was WrestleMania 1 and 2 in 2004 and the last to be released was UK Fan Favourites 1993 & 1995 in 2012.
The sets are composed of two WWF events each, which were previously released on VHS. They contain no extras beyond the events (unless an extra was included in the original VHS release of the event, i.e. the original WrestleMania XIV DVD release includes a post-match press conference with Stone Cold Steve Austin and Mike Tyson) up until the release of King of the Ring 1999 & 2000, in which the King of the Ring 2000 disc contained the same extras that the original VHS release did.
Most of the sets in the series are simply re-releases of commercial WWF 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 on these sets. The series includes events such as Royal Rumble, WrestleMania, King of the Ring, SummerSlam and Survivor Series, as well as In Your House pay-per-views that began in 1995. There have also been releases of other shows such as One Night Only and UK Rampage 1991 as well as other original VHS titles.
A limited amount of Tagged Classics were released in the United States, spanning the years 2003-2005 and in Canada; 2002-2005, these sets were not produced by Silver Vision. They included present WWE PPVs 'tagged' together. For example, Royal Rumble and No Way Out 2003.
The Tagged Classics series was discontinued when Silver Vision lost its WWE license at the end of 2012.
In August 2001, the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) lost a British High Court trademark dispute made by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), which concerned usage of the "WWF" trademark. In May 2002, the Federation renamed itself to World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), and ceased use of the "WWF" initials. In April 2003, the Fund lost their British lawsuit trying to prevent WWE from re-releasing legacy video games that still showed “WWF” references in-game. The court ruled censoring these references would be impractical, noting packaging had already been updated to “WWE", and the Fund failed to prove any brand damage. As a consequence, the Tagged Classics DVDs follow the April 2003 ruling, with all "WWF" references preserved in the footage prior to the WWE name change. Only the external packaging and menu screens of the Tagged Classics DVDs display the "WWE" initials. Notably, all WWE Home Video releases emanating from the United States were more cautious and continued to censor "WWF" references, despite the April 2003 British court ruling.
As the Tagged Classics DVDs did not censor the "WWF" initials, they could reuse the original VHS masters, in which also allowed them to use the same music licenses that were granted to the original VHS releases. Notably, WWE DVD re-issues from the United States have been known to alter some music due to licensing issues, such as on the WrestleMania: The Complete Anthology DVD box set, where Demolition's entrance theme is dubbed over with generic production music.
Below is the complete list of all 84 WWE Tagged Classics released by Silver Vision between 2004 and 2012. The sets are ordered by their release date: