Wrestlemania XV

One hell of a pay-per-view from the Attitude Era. Great way to end the show with Undertaker vs. Big Boss Man and The Rock vs. Stone Cold Steve Austin. Great way to start the show with Three-way for the Hardcore Championship. Great show overall with lots of action in between and good job of restoring the WWF logo.

DVD came very fast and in great shape!

really good ppv backing in day

We were so exciting to get this, because we are collecting all the Wrestlemanias. However once we opened it, it did not work on any of our devices.

The first battle between Austin and The Rock was ok, but it spent too much time outside the ring fighting and using foreign objects and not enough time on actual wrestling. The Brawl for all was short and killed Bart Gun's career because he was supposed to be the tough guy. Nothing special about Undertaker vs Big Boss Man, it was the worst performance of the dvd. Xpac vs Shane was ok. The Hardcore Title match was good. The Intercontinental match was a waste of time, due to a double count out. The rest of the segments and matches are forgettable.

A couple of notes here in that all of the previous Mania releases were direct copies taken from the WrestleMania Anthology released back in 2005 when WWE lost the rights to their initials "W.W.F." & the "Attitude Era" logo but this disc isn't from that set as all the references to WWF & the logo are restored here but there are some edits throughout the presentation such as competitors choking each other, different camera angles in different spots, and the infamous scene at the end of the Hell In A Cell match removed so this presentation is no different than when a movie is edited down for television. The hardcore city of Philadelphia hosted the 15th edition of WrestleMania in what was nicknamed "The Ragin' Climax". Celebrities involved with the show included Chuck Wepner, Kevin Rooney, Vinny Pazienza, and Boyz II Men singing "America The Beautiful." This event also featured the WrestleMania debuts of various superstars & legends like Michael Cole, Teddy Long as a referee, Al Snow, Debra McMichael, Test, Big Show, Val Venis, Edge & Christian in a cameo appearance, and Shane McMahon. Steve Austin walked into his second Mania main event in what would eventually be the first of a trilogy of WrestleMania matches against WWE Champion The Rock to regain the title he was screwed out of months earlier in a No Disqualification Match that saw both men brawling in & out of the ring with people from Mr. McMahon to the special guest referee making their presence known while it should be noted that Jim Ross returned to commentary for this match. European Champion Shane McMahon defended his title against X-Pac in a match that surpassed expectations due to Shane's athletic ability while also having Shane's friends in the Mean Street Posse at ringside & Test in his corner before we got a shock that nobody expected. Other matches Undertaker vs. Big Boss Man in a Hell In A Cell match that was so disappointing to the point where WWE never shows highlights of this match when showing the history of the Cell & didn't include it in the Hell In A Cell anthology DVD, Womens Champion Sable vs. Tori, Triple H vs. Kane, Intercontinental Champion Road Dogg vs. Ken Shamrock vs. Val Venis vs. Goldust, Mankind vs. Big Show to determine who would be the referee in the main event, Butterbean vs. Bart Gunn in a Brawl For All match, Tag Team Champions Owen Hart & Jeff Jarrett vs. D'Lo Brown & Test, and the first Hardcore Championship title defense in Mania history with Champion Billy Gunn vs. Hardcore Holly vs. Al Snow. This WrestleMania was really only a two match show in the World & European Championship matches as most of the action just wasn't very good or had booking that really didn't make any sense (D'Lo Brown & Test teaming together when they had no history before or after this event? Billy Gunn & Road Dogg switching title matches a week before the show killing the storylines for the two matches?) & all of this isn't even including the edits that were made for this DVD edition of the event. In the end, you can get the Austin/Rock match on various DVD sets while get the Shane/X-Pac match online elsewhere but the rest of the card isn't anything memorable so this is a Mania you can skip as it was very disappointing.

Unlike the other 14 DVDs released along with it, the new Wrestlemania XV is not the same DVD from the 2005 Wrestlemania Anthology, though it does have the same menu style and likewise lacks disc art or extras. The WWF logo is not blurred, Tori has her original theme, "WWF" is spoken and there are no dubbed Howard Finkel announcements. However, it has been edited for violent content. Total running time for the 2005 release of WM XV is 2:46:23, but the total running time for this 2013 release of WM XV is 2:39:03. Notably, the video package and entire postmatch segment were edited from Boss Man/Undertaker, and they also spots where Boss Man choked Taker and Austin choked The Rock. Differences that I found (time based on more complete 2005 timecode): 16:09: 2013 restores a 5 second shot of Holly walking away with the belt cut from 2005 18:23: 2013 extends the bickering of Test and D'Lo when 2005 dissolves to a shot of the audience. 2013 cuts to the audience after one second of bickering, a little before the point of the dissolve in 2005. 48:51: 2013 restores a half second shot of an audience member giving the finger. 50:05: 2013 restores a half second of dead frame as Road Dogg ducks before a cut to the crowd. 1:25:02: 2013 cuts a 10 second shot of Big Pun in the crowd. 1:26:58-1:27:08: Alternate footage. The lead in on both cuts is Tori walking to the ring. 2005 cuts to 5 seconds of video package from Raw, 2013 cuts to Tori attempting to slide into the ring and getting an axe handle from Sable. At 1:27:06 2005 and 2013 are in sync again, with 2005 not showing the axe handle at all and 2013 showing none of the video package. 1:31:09-1:31:18: Alternate angles. 2013 shows this attempt at a Sable Bomb in a single close profile shot. 2005 cuts to a wider profile shot and then to a shot from behind Sable. 1:33:13: 2013 restores an extra 1 second of Lawler before the X-Pac/Shane match graphic, and the graphic runs about 5 seconds longer as well. It's interesting because in 2005 it flashes to the DX promo, while in 2013 in dissolves to the promo, so in 2005 you can like see everyone with their eyes down, which you don't notice in 2013 because of the dissolve. By the time the dissolve finishes everyone's eyes are up. 1:48:02-1:50:23: 2013 removes the Undertaker video package in its entirety, though it does tack on a 3 second shot of the M&M blimp in its place. 1:58:29-1:58:50: 2013 removes Boss Man choking Undertaker, replacing 18 seconds of violence with 3 seconds of Paul Bearer B roll. 2:05:11-2:08:36: 2013 completely removes the hanging of Boss Man, cutting right to the Rage Party. 2:08:38: 2013 is reversed here for some reason, and notice whatever kinda ghosting or overlay is goingon with the WWF logo. 2:09:19: 2013 cuts 30 seconds of the Rage party vignette here. 2:09:49: 2013 cuts a 4 second shot from the Rage party. 2:25:35-2:25:50: 2013 cuts Austin choking Rock, replacing it with a three second crowd shot. 2:45:27: 2013 completely cuts Undertaker/Boss Man from music video, and oddly also the Shawn/Vince stuff afterward, picking up with the shot of The Rock's entrance. Some title graphics were not altered for 2005 (Hardcore, Brawl for All), but the ones that were are restored on 2013. I'm really shocked at some of these edits. We're gonna have to somehow let WWE know that these alterations are not cool. Particularly the two choking shots but really all of it. These events should be uncut. I have to give it one star because they didn't make any kind of mention of the editing.

This particular dvd of Wrestlemania XV is an improvement in comparison to XIV. While I am very appreciative of the WWE finally restoring all the logos instead of the blurring that occurred in ALL past Wrestlemania Anthology releases. Like the other reviewer stated, one of the things I found the most annoying was the editing of certain segments from the event such as my most vivid memory of this event, the hanging of the Big Bossman from the top of the Hell in the Cell. I was like, "what in the world happened to the hanging" and the very mention of it was removed while they cut directly to the lame Rage Party. While other than the editing of the Bossman/Undertaker match, most of the slight editing is barely noticeable. If the WWE is going to re-release dvds of its past events, they really need to leave them be or place a label and/or disclaimer that the event has been edited for content.