10 Pay-Per-View Concepts WWE Needs To Bring Back

10. Bash At The Beach

For the most part, WCW’s Bash at the Beach was just another pay-per-view, albeit one on which several notable moments occurred (Hulk Hogan’s first WCW match, the formation of the New World Order, Dennis Rodman wrestling two consecutive years, the Hogan-Jarret-Russo screwjob), but the one I am specifically focusing on here is 1995’s event.

That show was held on an actual beach, with the ring erected on the sand, the sea in the background, and fans dotted all over the place. It was an incredible, memorable spectacle that made what was an otherwise fairly shoddy event seem like something important, big, and different. It was WCW’s equivalent of WrestleMania IX, if you will.

WWE could make a real party out of an annual beach show, giving a much-needed fresh look to one of its pay-per-view events, rather than the carbon copy cut and paste jobs that we see month after month now. They could even do the go-home Raw or SmackDown Live at the Club La Vela, home of WCW’s famously great spring break Nitros. WWE has plenty of experience with outdoor events (several WrestleMania’s, SummerSlam 92, the annual Tribute to the Troops), so there is no reason they could not pull this off.