10 Bad WWE Pay-Per-Views One Tweak Away From Excellence
9. Royal Rumble 1995
Why it's bad: The talent pool was shallow in 1995, with the company's annual battle royal highlighting the worst of the financial peril WWE found itself in during those lean years. A very good undercard was overshadowed by the short sharp shart of the "most fast-paced Royal Rumble in history"
One Tweak: Let the match go an hour, in spite of obvious limitations.
If anybody from the field had it in them to go 60 minutes (or thereabouts), it was eventual winner Shawn Michaels. The story with Davey Boy Smith and 'HBK' going end-to-end was tremendous, but there are several stars in the match that could have split the task to allow for a similar story told twice with his biggest rivals.
A card featuring high quality matches for all three titles wouldn't have been so forgotten had the Rumble also delivered as it so often did in the 1990s. In the modern era of shows going far too long, this tighter turnaround actually harmed the end result - desperately needed 30 more minutes.