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Post by Celexa Bliss 54 on Sept 8, 2022 21:36:45 GMT -5
You mean you didn't pay $50 bucks for that barnburner?! They should have paid us $50 to watch it! Kinda reminds me of Road Wild 1998, which included an absolutely dreadful match between Steve McMichael and Brian Adams. And what's worse, for the live crowd, that shitfest was FREE
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Post by wildojinx on Sept 8, 2022 21:40:13 GMT -5
Great American Bash 1999 Ernest Miller vs Horace On PPV… You mean you didn't pay $50 bucks for that barnburner?! Souled Out 1999 (another one that might qualify) gave us Van Hammer vs Finlay on PPV.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Sept 8, 2022 21:41:38 GMT -5
I remember Destination X 2007 being pretty awful. The Last Rites Match speaks for itself but the whole show just had a bunch of beaten into the ground rematches besides that, plus in there you've got a mess of a street fight between LAX and Team 3D where the tag belts weren't on the line for no apparent reason, Voodoo Kin Mafia against the Heartthrobs in the midst of their insane, "Women belong in the kitchen!" run, Jerry Lynn losing a two-out-of-three-falls match due to getting distracted by a run-in while not actually even looking at the person who ran in, Rhino and AJ in a scaffold match, an Angle / Steiner match that was so bad the crowd chanted, "That was weak!" afterward, and Joe choking in a title match against Christian for no real reason and having the Muscle Buster no-sold getting there.
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Post by Celexa Bliss 54 on Sept 8, 2022 21:41:58 GMT -5
You mean you didn't pay $50 bucks for that barnburner?! Souled Out 1999 (another one that might qualify) gave us Van Hammer vs Finlay on PPV. Also had the Saturn/Jericho dress match, an abysmal Luger/Konnan match, David Flair's first match and the Hall/Goldberg taser ladder match lol
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Sept 8, 2022 21:42:40 GMT -5
You mean you didn't pay $50 bucks for that barnburner?! Souled Out 1999 (another one that might qualify) gave us Van Hammer vs Finlay on PPV. It feels like a lot of Finlay WCW PPV matches were really f***ing bad.
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Post by Celexa Bliss 54 on Sept 8, 2022 21:44:15 GMT -5
I remember Destination X 2007 being pretty awful. The Last Rites Match speaks for itself but the whole show just had a bunch of beaten into the ground rematches besides that, plus in there you've got a mess of a street fight between LAX and Team 3D where the tag belts weren't on the line for no apparent reason, Voodoo Kin Mafia against the Heartthrobs in the midst of their insane, "Women belong in the kitchen!" run, Jerry Lynn losing a two-out-of-three-falls match due to getting distracted by a run-in while not actually even looking at the person who ran in, Rhino and AJ in a scaffold match, an Angle / Steiner match that was so bad the crowd chanted, "That was weak!" afterward, and Joe choking in a title match against Christian for no real reason and having the Muscle Buster no-sold getting there. I wasn't watching TNA at the time, but I remember reading the show results on WrestleZone and wondering what the hell they were doing lol Which show had the Doomsday Chamber of Blood (I think that's what the match was called)?
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Post by wildojinx on Sept 8, 2022 21:45:49 GMT -5
Souled Out 1999 (another one that might qualify) gave us Van Hammer vs Finlay on PPV. It feels like a lot of Finlay WCW PPV matches were really f***ing bad. The one against Regal at Uncensored 96 was pretty good.
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Post by Gus Richlen Was Wrong on Sept 8, 2022 21:46:41 GMT -5
UFC post-UFC 40 breakthrough has had some duds. UFC 112, UFC 119, UFC 149 (which actually won Worst Major Show from WON if I recall right), and UFC 161 for starters. I also paid way too much for UFC 200, which started and ended with awesome finishes but had three dogshit fights in the middle.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 8, 2022 21:51:25 GMT -5
I love that Backlash 2018 was the first one posted, because I was coming in to say it.
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Post by Jacy Jayne Atomic Dog AMV on Sept 8, 2022 21:54:21 GMT -5
For a lil while it was like tradition that TripleMania would be absolutely appalling every 2 years or so and I miss that.
Sorry 4 Party Rockin
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Post by GodzillaIsMyMonster on Sept 8, 2022 22:04:41 GMT -5
I've kind of long thought that Unforgiven 2002 should be way more infamous than it is. There's the HLA stuff, basically the entire night heels dominate, they kick off the World title run as a belt by having Triple H beat RVD in the middle of the card via a run-in, the whole show ends on a very forced double-DQ, and I don't really recall a single thing about the show that's actually worth seeing. Looking at the card maybe Benoit vs. Angle but those two had 80 other matches around that time anyway. RVD vs HHH is actually a good match. They should have just run it as the main event.
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Post by Rumble McSkirmish on Sept 8, 2022 22:18:01 GMT -5
Feel like people only ever bring up Backlash 2018 to talk about Charlotte / Carmella and the fact they had AJ and Nakamura go to a dick kick-related double count out in a no-DQ match, and that was probably the worst of it but that whole show was roooough. You had a great opener between Seth and Miz but then after that there is just nothing redeemable about that show whatsoever and then it just closed on a completely heatless Reigns / Joe match for no apparent reason. It also didn't help that for some reason Vince spontaneously decided that the show should also run about four hours long which prompted some fans to leave the arena during the main event in order to catch the last bus or train of the evening before they shut down.
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Post by Non Banjoble Tokens on Sept 9, 2022 2:10:42 GMT -5
I should bookmark this thread and then go on Peacock sometime. I don't know why but I seem to care more about horrible trainwreck pay-per-views more than the really good ones. Also, all I had to do is type in "Worst Triplemania Ever" into google and TM XXIII came up on wikipedia. I should try and find this on DVD.
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Post by Jindrak Mark on Sept 9, 2022 3:19:22 GMT -5
Late 2010 was really rough. I maintain that Hell in a Cell/Bragging Rights/Survivor Series is one of the worst runs of PPVs ever.
Undertaker/Kane twice, Orton/Barrett twice and Edge/Kane were absolutely terrible world title matches. And even decent midcard stuff was marred by dead crowds. The only thing that was over in the company was Cena v Barrett/Nexus. They actually had a really good match with a ton of heat at HiaC but it didn’t translate to Nexus/Barrett’s other PPV matches which killed the crowd.
Shout out to the Raw v Smackdown elimination match at Bragging Rights. It actually doesn’t look too bad on paper but it was so boring and dragged on for nearly half an hour plus it made Survivor Series weeks later seem pointless when you had just done the elimination tag thing.
Sep-Dec is often the weakest part of the year but 2010 was unusually bad around that time. I think 2013 and 2018 was kinda the same.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Sept 9, 2022 4:08:37 GMT -5
Night of Champions 2013 was a pretty brutal sit. All show long it's one short match won by a heel after another, with the longest match of the show until the main event being CM Punk vs. Curtis Axel & Paul Heyman (and this was Axel's SECOND match of the night, as he also had the third longest match of the show against Kofi), and then when you do reach the main event it's Orton / Bryan who were for some reason completely incapable of having a good PPV match despite having a ton of chemistry on free TV and it ends in a finish that was incredibly obvious it was just going to be bullshit that'd be overturned the next night and then yep, sure was. Whole thing was like a bad WCW PPV but not even like an interesting one, just like a boring ass one pre-nWo when they were kind of just filling time.
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Post by theironyuppie on Sept 9, 2022 5:43:37 GMT -5
Late 2010 was really rough. I maintain that Hell in a Cell/Bragging Rights/Survivor Series is one of the worst runs of PPVs ever. Undertaker/Kane twice, Orton/Barrett twice and Edge/Kane were absolutely terrible world title matches. And even decent midcard stuff was marred by dead crowds. The only thing that was over in the company was Cena v Barrett/Nexus. They actually had a really good match with a ton of heat at HiaC but it didn’t translate to Nexus/Barrett’s other PPV matches which killed the crowd. Shout out to the Raw v Smackdown elimination match at Bragging Rights. It actually doesn’t look too bad on paper but it was so boring and dragged on for nearly half an hour plus it made Survivor Series weeks later seem pointless when you had just done the elimination tag thing. Sep-Dec is often the weakest part of the year but 2010 was unusually bad around that time. I think 2013 and 2018 was kinda the same. On the bright side, at least 2018 in that time had the Charlotte/Becky feud and the associated rise of Becky to The Man. Plus the second MMC was harmless fun even with all the chopping and changing that went on.
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Post by Magic knows Black Lives Matter on Sept 9, 2022 7:58:22 GMT -5
Yeah, it's kinda funny because Vengeance 2003 is arguably the best B-level brand split PPV but Smackdown had some ROUGH outings in 2004 and early 2005. The Great American Bash in particular is ridiculous.
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Post by H-Virus on Sept 9, 2022 8:46:51 GMT -5
Halloween Havoc 1992 was the first PPV I ever watched as a child and it was pretty dire even back then. A lot of the matches weren’t even outright bad, just really boring and weirdly booked.
The tag title match ended in a 30 minute time limit draw.
The NWA title match ended in a Dusty Finish.
The US title match went about 10 minutes but was so boring you’d think it was twice as long.
The WCW title match was Ron Simmons vs the Barbarian of all people.
And the Spin the Wheel match (aka: early days Raw Roulette) between Sting and Jake Roberts had twelve possible stipulations: cage match, Russian Chain, First Blood, Texas Deathmatch, I Quit, etc etc… and it ended up being a boring Coal Miner’s Glove on a pole match.
Of the whole show, the only matches I think were above average were the Steamboat vs Pillman match and the 6 man tag opener, and even that one had the weirdness of the heels getting cheered more than the babyfaces did. Of course, the babyfaces in question were Z-Man, Johnny Gun and Shane Douglas while the heels consisted of Arn Anderson, Beautiful Bobby and Michael PS Hayes, so that probably explains a lot…
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Post by James Fabiano on Sept 9, 2022 9:44:40 GMT -5
Halloween Havoc 1992 was the first PPV I ever watched as a child and it was pretty dire even back then. A lot of the matches weren’t even outright bad, just really boring and weirdly booked. The tag title match ended in a 30 minute time limit draw. The NWA title match ended in a Dusty Finish. The US title match went about 10 minutes but was so boring you’d think it was twice as long. The WCW title match was Ron Simmons vs the Barbarian of all people.And the Spin the Wheel match (aka: early days Raw Roulette) between Sting and Jake Roberts had twelve possible stipulations: cage match, Russian Chain, First Blood, Texas Deathmatch, I Quit, etc etc… and it ended up being a boring Coal Miner’s Glove on a pole match. Of the whole show, the only matches I think were above average were the Steamboat vs Pillman match and the 6 man tag opener, and even that one had the weirdness of the heels getting cheered more than the babyfaces did. Of course, the babyfaces in question were Z-Man, Johnny Gun and Shane Douglas while the heels consisted of Arn Anderson, Beautiful Bobby and Michael PS Hayes, so that probably explains a lot… THE BARBARIAN , A WORLD TITLE CONTENDER?!!!?
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Post by Jindrak Mark on Sept 9, 2022 10:41:06 GMT -5
Armageddon 1999 is a pretty dead show. Arguably one of the worst of the attitude era. The top 2 matches are HHH v Vince and Big Show v Bossman in a world title squash match. You have Rock and Sock v the New Age Outlaws which seems like it would be a bit of a dream match in that era but for some reason the crowd is dead like it was for most of the show. Miss Kitty flashing the crowd is about the only thing that woke up the crowd all night. Then a month later they have one of the greatest PPVs ever. Late 2010 was really rough. I maintain that Hell in a Cell/Bragging Rights/Survivor Series is one of the worst runs of PPVs ever. Undertaker/Kane twice, Orton/Barrett twice and Edge/Kane were absolutely terrible world title matches. And even decent midcard stuff was marred by dead crowds. The only thing that was over in the company was Cena v Barrett/Nexus. They actually had a really good match with a ton of heat at HiaC but it didn’t translate to Nexus/Barrett’s other PPV matches which killed the crowd. Shout out to the Raw v Smackdown elimination match at Bragging Rights. It actually doesn’t look too bad on paper but it was so boring and dragged on for nearly half an hour plus it made Survivor Series weeks later seem pointless when you had just done the elimination tag thing. Sep-Dec is often the weakest part of the year but 2010 was unusually bad around that time. I think 2013 and 2018 was kinda the same. On the bright side, at least 2018 in that time had the Charlotte/Becky feud and the associated rise of Becky to The Man. Plus the second MMC was harmless fun even with all the chopping and changing that went on. Yeah the women were definitely the saving grace at that time. The thing killing Raw especially was how dreadful the men's main event scene was with Baron Corbin as a top heel getting so much TV time and Ambrose's botched heel turn.
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