The 2017 WWE DVD schedule is a lock and we’ve just heard that the first plans for next year’s WWE Home Video offerings are to be unveiled any time now!  The next couple of weeks are expected to confirm titles that the company has incoming for January, February and March 2018. 

For now that’s a well-kept secret, however the keenest collectors among us will know that schedules we’ve seen in the past few years, compilation wise, began with the “Best Pay-Per-View Matches” and “The Best of RAW & SmackDown” retrospectives. 

What else could be on the way?  In multiple surveys issued since April of this year WWE has directly referenced all of the following DVD concepts as those under consideration for release in 2018:

MATCH COMPILATIONS
– Shawn Michaels: Unreleased
– Ultimate Warrior: Unreleased
– Macho Man: Unreleased
– NXT: Greatest Matches Vol.  2
– The Best of WWE Superstars
– The Best of Shoutgun Saturday Night
– The Phenomenal AJ Styles
– Chris Jericho’s List of Greatest Matches
– Shane McMahon’s Craziest Matches
– John Cena: The Face that Runs the Place
– The Wyatt Family
– Women’s Revolution
– The Best of Andre the Giant
– The Best of Ravishing Rick Rude
– The Best of Bruno Sammartino
– The Best of Dean Ambrose
– The Best of Roman Reigns
– The Best of Trish Stratus
– The Best of Charlotte Flair
– The Best of Bayley
– The Best of Sasha Banks

Before some of those end up official additions to our DVD collections, we have a number of big sets still to come, including November’s “NXT: From Secret to Sensation” DVD and Blu-ray! 

WrestlingDVDNetwork.com has word that the main feature of this one (a countdown-style documentary on the Top 25 NXT Superstars) is slated to run approximately 1 hour and 28 minutes. 

As a whole, the 3-disc DVD will have a runtime close to the 7 hour mark and the 2-disc Blu-ray over the 8 hour mark.  Along with the aforementioned countdown portion there will be a total of 23 bonus matches on the complete Blu-ray package.  Disc runtimes are looking like this:

DISC 1:
1 hour and 28 minutes. 

DISC 2:
2 hours and 37 minutes. 

DISC 3:
2 hours and 43 minutes. 

BLU-RAY EXCLUSIVES:
1 hour and 33 minutes. 

Get a copy of WWE’s “NXT: SECRET TO SENSATION”DVD or Blu-ray…

– UK/Europe: November 13th.  Pre-order a copy of the NXT DVD/Blu-ray on Amazon.co.uk. 

Right now and through the coming weekend you can grab 30% OFF any DVD or Blu-ray listed on WWEShop.com.  The “Superstar Collection: Sheamus” DVD is a dirt-cheap $1.19 in this sale, and there’s a chunk off the price of recent releases too, making deals the likes of these:

Absolutely matter of individual opinion, that’s for sure.. while I’m not high on nxt or the WWE version of AJ Styles, there are for sure glimpses of greatness here and there..

same goes for the product overall.. loved the fatal fourway at Summerslam.. joe vs brock at Great Balls.. and hopefully gonna be a great brawl between Strowman and Brock..

see the thread there?  yep, brock in my mind is the only real interesting and exciting thing going on for the past some years..

brock’s a cornerstone of the ruthless agression era, and likely that’s why I still follow some of todays product,cos he is the only one that still can create some of the magic from the time where I found it exciting.  And although it is watered down, it will likely be entertaining to see the 2 monsters on Sunday destroy each other.  😉

The only ones i want are Savage Unreleased and HBk unreleased.  Rick Rude would be good but it s going to be full of Repeats.  Though i get the novelty of Shotgun Saturday night, the set would be pretty bad.  Id be cool with a WWE Superstars set as long as there’s no jobber matches. 

Honestly i don’t care about an Andre set at all.  His matches aren’t that great.  They might as well just do a network special. 

a potential great thing about the “Best of Superstars” set would be that we might finally (and it’s weird that it hasn’t happened yet) get several title changes that haven’t been released on dvd so far. 

The 25th anniversary of Andres death is next year.  If they don’t finally do a proper Andre set I’m gonna be pissed.  And does anybody know what happened with the documentary HBO was supposedly doing about him??  Last I heard was it was being made but that seems like it was forever ago.  Haven’t heard anything about it in quite a while. 

I’d like a Shawn Michaels Un-released set if this means that we’d get matches that have been seen on TV & Video before, but not released on DVD neither BLU-RAY such as;
Shawn Michaels Vs Rick Martel – Summerslam 1992❗️

But there are some great HBK matches not released yet like Rockers vs Powers of Pain from Supertape 2 or Micheals vs Ted Dibiase from Prime time or vs Kato from MSG in 1991.  Theres also tons of Rockers vs Rougeaus matches that are awesome that haven’t been on DVD yet.  Especially the one From Nassau Coliseum in 1989 or their tag matches from Paris and London. 

I agree including the Michaels/Martel match from SummerSlam92, though I must ask this that when they say unreleased matches do they mean matches that have never been on Home media before or just the matches that we’ve never actually seen before on television⁉️

There are absolutely stackloads of Shawn Michaels Raw matches that have never been released on Video or DVD too.  Well over 100.  A lot of these are fun matches that are well worth seeing the light of day on Home Video. 

So would they be likely to add matches that have hardly made it to any recent sets❓Matches including HBK Vs Rick Martel / Shawn Michaels Vs The Undertaker HIAC match at Bad Blood⁉️ These are the only two HBK matches I desperately want on a Blu-Ray set❗️Then again if the ‘Un-released matches’ set was only on DVD, yet had these two matches I would most likely get it

What could they possibly put on a Raw 25th anniversary set that hasn’t been released multiple times already??  I was thinking about a Raw 25th anniversary set too recently till I came to my sences.  Don’t think it’s gonna happen. 

Well that would be a different story if they did that.  But having said that it’s not going to happen anyway.  Im pretty sure word would have surfaced months ago if that was in the works.  WWE never releases anything people would really love.  Another 12 or 13 disc set with full episodes just like the 20 set but all unreleased to DVD episodes??  25 episodes this time??  Hell yeah I would buy that.  So would a ton of people but it won’t happen.  Would have heard about a possiblity by now.  Unfortunate but true. 

If they do do the 1998 one they need to include rare matches from Heat and Shotgun.  The 1997 one was sort of like the cliffs notes version with mostly PPV matches.  It helps there is more content to choose from. 

That’s a little irritating about the Annual set because based on WrestlingDVDNetwork’s reporting last week that it was cancelled, I went ahead and bought the Best PPV Matches DVD.  Now you’re telling me the Annual might be coming out after all?  Thanks for that – big help. 

Ahem.  Not to throw anyone under the bus but this news came out via WWE DVD UK first.  You know that, you were discussing it with a user in the comments last week. 

Back to the DVD, well it sounds like it is off unless a retailer expresses interest in stocking it (presumably none have).  The uncertainty appears to be frustrating you but we can only report what’s going on. 

I intended it to come across as a joke tbh, but reading it back now I can see it just comes across like I was actually being arsey – apologies.  I shouldn’t comment that late at night when my brain isn’t functioning. 

Yeah Rabid Heat thanks.  They read your comments now it’s probably going to happen.  I know you were kidding but I just find it funny.  Thanks to your joke we will have all those sets now.  Good job buddy.  Lol

I went with the unreleased matches sets for Macho and HBK.  As someone who is a huge fan of the Hogan unreleased dvd, i would like to see more of those.  The second section of options are all pretty terrible in my view.  If i had ideas for themed sets, a set on WWF and WWE women is one, and either another greatest rivalries set with Vince and Bischoff or a set paying tribute to superstars who passed away. 

I think that collection is still there.  I have Shanes PPV matches in my collection, so I will only be interested in a Shane set, if there are Raw and Smackdown matches on it.  But I think most of them are out on home video.  Shane doesn’t wrestle that often on TV (or PPV). 

Yes to a Best of Superstars during the original run (1986-1996), and absolutely no to anything that featured on Superstars from 2009-2016.  And please, for the love of God, don’t try merging them together. 

Other than that, hoping for a Shawn Michaels: Unreleased set and the AJ Styles and Chris Jericho titles.  Oh, and for the Kurt Angle Network doc to be put on a Blu-Ray with the rest of his matches and, critically, a disc’s worth of his most entertaining skits. 

They will probably also include newer Superstars matches on a Superstars set.  They did it with the Best of Saturday Nights Main Event, where they included stuff from the resurrection of that show.  I hated that.  I’d much rather have more old footage on DVD. 

It also happened with one of the 2 disc ECW sets.  Lots of classic, old footage and some matches from WWE ECW. 

The new saturday night’s main event was okay but they added the wrong matches on the set.  I personally would’ve liked to have seen the John Cena and Triple H vs Kurt Angle, Rey Mysterio and Randy Orton match on it instead of the DX vs. Spirit Squad squash-fest. 

Hey Mark.  I fear you’re right, but I’m hoping there’s a grey area with the two shows that might limit a potential set to the original run.  SNME really was billed as a rebirth of the original series (at the time, in 2006), but Superstars (circa 2009) was never treated as a continuation of Superstars of Wrestling (circa 1986) if I recall correctly. 

Did anything actually happen on the modern day Superstars that would warrant inclusion on such a set?  On the rare occasions I caught it, it seemed to be bouts like Jack Swagger vs. Primo, and similarly inconsequential match-ups. 

All good ideas, also would like to see Halloween Havoc Best Of BR and I would buy another In Your House Best Of.  The first one was great.  Too bad we couldn’t have another round of BR releases on par with 2012 and 2013.  I think the bar was set then and probably too difficult to duplicate, but it was a fun couple of years.