10 Bad WWE Pay-Per-Views One Tweak Away From Excellence
7. December To Dismember
Why it's bad: Unforgivably awful in between a decent opener and a passably-worked main event, ECW's one and only pay-per-view under the WWE umbrella set new standards for sh*te long before the company began making some of this sort of silliness their stock-in-trade. It didn't just reimagine disappointment - it appeared to luxuriate in it.
One Tweak: CM Punk becomes ECW Champion.
Wrestling can go far on good will, and 'The Straight Edge Superstar' retaining his undefeated streak at the expense of The Big Show, Hardcore Holly and Test would have been the kind of statement so rarely made by any property under Vince McMahon's watch.
December To Dismember isn't a disaster just because it's a two-match television taping presented as a pay-per-view - it's booked into oblivion as well as being a lazy and derivative version of both McMahon's Sports Entertainment and the infamous initials the third brand was supposed to represent. Punk, oddly enough, was the compromise between the opposing forces, but Bobby Lashley was yet another chosen one destined for doom.