The WWE DVD business may not be as important as it used to be in the 2000s, but the company still produces some great features available for purchase every year on DVD.
Two months ago, I reviewed the WWE produced Kevin Owens DVD about his career that featured exclusive interviews with Owens and the important people in his life as well as a great match selection. It was a purchase I’m glad I made because I want to support guys like him that I enjoy watching. A lot of fans want to support their favorites. With that in mind, here’s a look at some WWE DVDs that are in the works, according to PWInsider:
– Best of 2017 DVD sets for Raw & Smackdown, PPV matches and WWE NXT – Those are cool to have if you’re a collector of DVDs and a fan that may want to have a reminder of what some of the best matches of the year were. I know people that buy those collections every year. Obviously some of WWE’s match choices may differ from yours, but it’s nice to have them all in one place as well (other than WWE Network).
– 30th Anniversary of SummerSlam – That would be the event that took place on August 20 last month.
– 25th Anniversary of Monday Night Raw – Raw turns 25 in January 2018. I assume WWE has something big planned for it. No word on what the DVD may be about whether it’s highlights of big moments or perhaps it will just be that episode with some bonus features as well.
– A new title devoted to The Shield – Sounds like a great idea. The group was so popular and fans are hoping for a reunion soon.
– Best of the Hardy Boyz – That seems like a no brainer since the popular brothers Jeff and Matt returned to the company at WrestleMania this year. A lot of fans may not have seen their best stuff from the early 2000s, so putting together a “Best of” sounds like a great idea.
– “Unreleased” collections devoted to Randy Savage and Shawn Michaels – They are two of my favorite wrestlers ever. It seems like WWE has released more DVDs about Michaels than anybody else other than Steve Austin, so I’m not sure what the selection would be like other than random house show matches. There’s plenty of great Savage material out there as well.
– A feature documentary on AJ Styles – Sounds like a great idea similar to doing the Owens DVD this year. With a Styles DVD, they would have to spend some time talking about his decade plus run in TNA Wrestling without access to that footage, so I wonder how they might go about it.
– Shane McMahon’s “Craziest Moments” – There are certainly a lot of craziest moments from Shane in his 25+ years in the spotlight. I think it would be a great idea to interview him about all of them and also include Vince. Maybe have them re-watch them together so we can get their reactions to the moments. That would be fun to watch.
– A collection of WWE 24 documentaries – There’s a section of WWE 24 documentaries, all of which are very good, that you can watch any time you want. Putting them on a DVD may cater to people without WWE Network, but I don’t think it would be a huge seller especially for people that already have WWE Network.
That’s all we know for now. No word yet on any of them will be released, but it will be some point in 2018, most likely in the first half of the year.
