PPVs no one brings up

[Jumpin' Jesse Walsh]

What are some shows that are neither good or bad and just seem to exist in the ether with nobody ever mentioning them?

How about Unforgiven 2005? Yeah, that sure happened.

[Spider2024]

Lol I was thinking of starting this kind of thread.

How about the early In Your House PPV's (or maybe even all of them). Most of them are notable for like just one thing each. Some for one really good match, like Shawn Michaels vs Mankind at IYH:Mind Games, what the heck is Revenge of the 'Taker known for? "Double J" Jesse James vs Rockabilly (before the latter betrayed Honky Tonk Man and joined JJ to form the New Age Outlaws?)

[Albino Heat]

Armageddon 2002. (Or most Armageddons)

3 title changes, including both the WWE and World Heavyweight championship, Benoit vs Guerrero, Jeff Hardy vs D-Lo Brown... and no one ever mentions it.

[chazraps]

Nov 5, 2018 21:30:02 GMT -5 Albino Heat said:

Armageddon 2002. (Or most Armageddons)

3 title changes, including both the WWE and World Heavyweight championship, Benoit vs Guerrero, Jeff Hardy vs D-Lo Brown... and no one ever mentions it.

This show's really only known as the one subpar show of 2002. Say what you will about the booking of week-to-week that year, but the pay-per-views are universally stand-alone in-a-vacuum great shows form a stacked roster.

Armageddon 2002 - just such a show that, while on paper should be great or at least memorable, is just unwatachably plodding.

You early on get the great moment of Booker and Goldust winning the tag belts, and from then on nothing happens. And I mean nothings that were made out of something's, like John Cena's on-screen rapping on pay-per-view debut.

[chazraps]

Judgment Day 2008 was a forgettable show in an otherwise great year of pay-per-views as well.

Orton debuts his "Voices" theme and has his then-career-best promo debuting the viper character, and that's really it.

[Venti]

I never see anyone talk about either of the Fully Loaded PPV's.
I think one year was the First Blood match with Austin and Taker and the next year was Rock vs Benoit if I'm not mistaken. Can't remember anything else from those shows.

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Nov 5, 2018 21:39:43 GMT -5 chazraps said:

Nov 5, 2018 21:30:02 GMT -5 Albino Heat said:

Armageddon 2002. (Or most Armageddons)

3 title changes, including both the WWE and World Heavyweight championship, Benoit vs Guerrero, Jeff Hardy vs D-Lo Brown... and no one ever mentions it.

This show's really only known as the one subpar show of 2002. Say what you will about the booking of week-to-week that year, but the pay-per-views are universally stand-alone in-a-vacuum great shows form a stacked roster.

Armageddon 2002 - just such a show that, while on paper should be great or at least memorable, is just unwatachably plodding.

You early on get the great moment of Booker and Goldust winning the tag belts, and from then on nothing happens. And I mean nothings that were made out of something's, like John Cena's on-screen rapping on pay-per-view debut.

Eh, King of the Ring is pretty meh. Not horrible, but the tournament's a big pile of nothing, no one seems to remember Flair / Guerrero happened, while Noble / Hurricane and Trish / Molly were probably solid I really can't remember a thing about them offhand, and then you've got the outright terrible Taker / Triple H main event. Really the only things memorable about that show are Brock winning the tournament and Angle making Hogan tap.

[Jake, The Jake, Jake]

Bragging Rights was a thing. Breaking Point was a thing.

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Nov 5, 2018 22:55:05 GMT -5 Jake, The Jake, Jake said:

Bragging Rights was a thing. Breaking Point was a thing.

At least Breaking Point had a really good DX / Legacy match.

[Cranjis McBasketball]

This Tuesday in Texas. No one really ever talks about it, aside from Jake slapping Elizabeth and even then not so much. You only ever really hear it in the context of people bitching about Survivor Series 91 being a commercial for this show days later.

It has a special place in my heart, just because, a second PPV days after the last instead of months??! Was the second thing I ever watched on the Network after having not seen it since 92 or so.

[Jumpin' Jesse Walsh]

Just thought about No Way Out 2007 and actually had to Google the results.

They did another Cruiserweight Open on that show. K, nice.

[chazraps]

Nov 5, 2018 22:14:48 GMT -5 Lizuka #BLM said:

Nov 5, 2018 21:39:43 GMT -5 chazraps said:

This show's really only known as the one subpar show of 2002. Say what you will about the booking of week-to-week that year, but the pay-per-views are universally stand-alone in-a-vacuum great shows form a stacked roster.

Armageddon 2002 - just such a show that, while on paper should be great or at least memorable, is just unwatachably plodding.

You early on get the great moment of Booker and Goldust winning the tag belts, and from then on nothing happens. And I mean nothings that were made out of something's, like John Cena's on-screen rapping on pay-per-view debut.

Eh, King of the Ring is pretty meh. Not horrible, but the tournament's a big pile of nothing, no one seems to remember Flair / Guerrero happened, while Noble / Hurricane and Trish / Molly were probably solid I really can't remember a thing about them offhand, and then you've got the outright terrible Taker / Triple H main event. Really the only things memorable about that show are Brock winning the tournament and Angle making Hogan tap.

You also have an excellent Jericho-Van Dam semi-final, and the Hurricane-Noble is worth going out of your way to revisit. Holly-Trish is great too.

Yes, the main event is dire, but the rest of the show ranges from good to great. I'd never go out of my way to tell someone to not watch it like I would a few other KOTRs, or say "you can skip it" if they were doing all the 2002 PPVs.

While it may be the 10th or 11th best that year (Unforgiven 2002 is also around this tier) there's a pretty substantial gap between those two and Armageddon 2002.

[chazraps]

Nov 5, 2018 23:04:11 GMT -5 Cranjis McBasketball said:

This Tuesday in Texas. No one really ever talks about it, aside from Jake slapping Elizabeth and even then not so much. You only ever really hear it in the context of people bitching about Survivor Series 91 being a commercial for this show days later.

It has a special place in my heart, just because, a second PPV days after the last instead of months??! Was the second thing I ever watched on the Network after having not seen it since 92 or so.

Second thing I ever watched on the network too! (did a free trial month in February 2015 and knocked out all the PPVs that my local video store didn't have growing up)

Of course, to me, I'll always think of this show as Supertape '92, as that was the elusive home video that none of the rental stores seemed to ever have in stock but always had the case there, mocking me.

[Oh Cry Me a Screwball]

No Way Out 2012. It looked like they were going to do an entire PPV based on matches where the ability to get away from your opponent is limited. They announced Big Show vs. John Cena in cage match, but then the rest of the card ended up being a glorified Raw.

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Nov 6, 2018 0:04:39 GMT -5 Oh Cry Me a Screwball said:

No Way Out 2012. It looked like they were going to do an entire PPV based on matches where the ability to get away from your opponent is limited. They announced Big Show vs. John Cena in cage match, but then the rest of the card ended up being a glorified Raw.

I don't know how on earth I forgot about the stupidity of the entire roster running out to screw over Big Show.

That said pretty sure I only caught the very end of this PPV since I vaguely remember that, the Ryback squash, and particularly the triple threat but I sure as hell don't remember Santino vs. Ricardo in a Tuxedo match.

[Oh Cry Me a Screwball]

Nov 6, 2018 0:06:56 GMT -5 Lizuka #BLM said:

Nov 6, 2018 0:04:39 GMT -5 Oh Cry Me a Screwball said:

No Way Out 2012. It looked like they were going to do an entire PPV based on matches where the ability to get away from your opponent is limited. They announced Big Show vs. John Cena in cage match, but then the rest of the card ended up being a glorified Raw.

I don't know how on earth I forgot about the stupidity of the entire roster running out to screw over Big Show.

That said pretty sure I only caught the very end of this PPV since I vaguely remember that, the Ryback squash, and particularly the triple threat but I sure as hell don't remember Santino vs. Ricardo in a Tuxedo match.

There's one other thing that's notable about the show. This Sheamus vs. Dolph Ziggler match is best remembered for Jerry Lawler's infamous "listen to the crowd chant We Want Sheamus" while the crowd is really obviously chanting "Let's Go Ziggler." Also, this match was one of the many times they tried booking Sheamus vs. Del Rio only for the match to get changed before the show because of a Del Rio injury.

[Jumpin' Jesse Walsh]

Night of Champions 2014 was a show where scripted wrestling matches occurred. Ain't that great?

[agent817]

Armageddon 2005. I think when that PPV comes to mind, Orton vs. Undertaker in Hell in a Cell is the first thing that people think of, and that was not even that great of a match.

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Fastlane sure was a thing that happened.

[4real]

Who can forget the prestigious Over The Limit PPV's?!