Wrestlemania: The Complete Anthology Volume III Review

Wrestlemania is the biggest wrestling event of all time. It features high profile matches, celebrity involvement, and showcases World Wrestling Entertainment’s product on a global stage. An event this big only happens once a year, but that does not mean you only have to watch it once every 365 days. WWE has released every Wrestlemania on some sort of home video format whether it be on VHS, DVD, or Blu-ray. Over the course of the next few weeks, I will review the different home video editions of Wrestlemania that I own.

In this post, I will take a look at Wrestlemania: The Complete Anthology Volume III. On the anthology’s third installment are Wrestlemanias 11-15 on five separate DVDs. The unique thing about this volume is that it is the only volume of the four volume set that has no double sided discs. WWE was able to fit each Wrestlemania onto one disc, which means that you will not have to flip the disc in order to continue watching. For couch potatoes, this is the volume you want to get. The edits are the same as the first two volumes except for the blurring of the WWF scratch logo, which is not really noticeable until Wrestlemania 15.

The packaging for Volume III mirrors that of the first two volumes except for the pictures on the inside. Since Volume III contains Wrestlemanias 11-15, all the pictures are of iconic moments from those Wrestlemanias and if you are a fan of the “Attitude Era,” then you will definitely enjoy looking at these pictures.

A program is also packaged with this volume that contains every segment and match from Wrestlemanias 11-15 as well as another faceoff from an epic Wrestlemania moment. In my opinion, WWE could have gone with a number of options here for the faceoff picture as Volume III contains a lot of great Wrestlemania moments to choose from, but you cannot really argue with the choice that WWE ultimately made. They chose to feature the main event from Wrestlemania 12 as the faceoff picture, which really makes a lot of sense.

The Wrestlemanias in this volume are all generally good and fun to watch. Wrestlemania 11 featured a pretty good WWE Championship match between Shawn Michaels and Diesel, Wrestlemania 12 has the very entertaining Hollywood Back Lot Brawl and the 60 minute WWE Championship Iron Man masterpiece, Wrestlemania 13 features the epic submission match between “Stone Cold” Steve Austin and Bret “Hit Man” Hart, Wrestlemania 14 has an all-around solid card headlined by the WWE Championship match between Austin and Shawn Michaels, and Wrestlemania 15 has the first epic Wrestlemania match between the Rock and Austin.

If you are a wrestling fan who grew up during or loved the “Attitude Era,” then Wrestlemania: The Complete Anthology Volume III is a necessity for your collection. It features some of my personal favorite Wrestlemanias, and you really get to watch WWE evolve as it sheds the last remaining aspects that characterized it during the late 1980’s and early 1990’s while it embraces the edgier content that put WWE back on top of the wrestling world.