10 Worst WWE Pay-Per-Views Ever
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Bad wrestling, to be truly bad wrestling, has to not also end up being good. The company have turned so much chickensh*t into chicken salad over the years it's a wonder Vince McMahon didn't take a punt on a Stamford-based deli franchise instead of a football league. Twice.
Furthermore, the product itself is achingly fickle. An absolute stinker of a show can be dragged from the gutter to the stars on the strength of one legendary match. WrestleManias 13 and 25 were seemingly beyond saving before Bret Hart Vs Steve Austin and Shawn Michaels vs. The Undertaker respectively rescued both shows, but these are economies of scale. 'Only okay' won't salvage a catastrophe - they'll simply serve as a reminder of what's actually possible in the product as the ugliness occurs.
To that end, this article will also identify the saving graces of otherwise unsalvageable disasters. Not least because such matters are subjective. For every fan that considers WrestleMania X-Seven the greatest pay-per-view ever, there are those that would rather sit through WrestleMania IX's car park toga party. Opinions are indeed like a*seholes. Fittingly so - these shows are the sh*ts.
10. Clash Of Champions 2017
Clash Of Champions 2017 was an overdue convergence of all of SmackDown Live!'s ills that culminated rather appropriately in the last WWE main event for catastrophic geographic experiment Jinder Mahal. His loss to AJ Styles was his best match of the year and was still only passable.
It was a saving grace following the complete state that preceded it. Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn Vs Randy Orton and Shinsuke Nakamura was completely destroyed by shocking story. The rivalry between Daniel Bryan and Shane McMahon finally bubbled over in humiliating fashion as the two clowns stumbled over one another to try and save/cost the heels their jobs in an angle that bizarrely culminated in Bryan's unlikely return.
Charlotte and Natalya's lumberjack match was a total embarrassment, whilst a typically entertaining tag division didn't remotely translate in matches featuring The Bludgeon Brothers squashing Breezango and The Usos defending their tag titles against the best of the rest.
Diamond In The Rough: Dolph Ziggler, Baron Corbin and Bobby Roode had a great match in spite of the dreadful singles clashes they'd all assembled in the weeks leading up to the pay-per-view. Dolph's abdication of his newly-won Championship following the show wasn't ever effectively followed up on after 'The Show Off' returned at the 2018 Royal Rumble.