WWE Expects TLC PPV To Have Lowest Buyrate Of 2011

Wrestling Observer Newsletter reports that sources within the WWE are expecting the TLC pay-per-view on Sunday to have the lowest buy-rate of the year. If true, and the way it has been built up would certainly suggest as much, this would make TLC at the very least the second lowest pay-per-view buyrate in the history of the company as October's event Vengeance sold only 76,000 buys total and currently has that honour. The lowest buy-rate in WWE history is 2006's ECW pay-per-view December to Dismember but did not have the star power Sunday's show will have. October's Vengeance pay-per-view suffered because it had such a poor card for an event that took place just three weeks after Hell in a Cell and was headlined by Alberto Del Rio vs. CM Punk in a WWE Title match and Mark Henry vs. Big Show for the World Title. TLC has one of those matches carried over when Mark Henry vs Big Show square off in a chairs match. It also has Alberto Del Rio vs. CM Punk again but with the added factor of The Miz and the likely addition of John Cena, who so far has not been booked for the event (he gave up his title shot so Zack Ryder could compete for a U.S. Title shot against Dolph Ziggler, which he did) but as of Thursday he certainly isn't helping the buyrate by not being on the card.