10 Times You SERIOUSLY Should Have Asked WWE For Refunds

5. Survivor Series 1991

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Those who mourn the creative betrayal of WWE's November "classic" would do well to remember that it wasn't much of a classic to begin with. It's one of the original WWE pay-per-views. Aside from its rich history of debuts, its relative historical significance ends there. Vince McMahon, never a major proponent of it, abandoned any pretence to the contrary back in 1991.

That year's event wasn't so much a pay-per-view, but a pay-to-watch-a-glorified-advert-for-the-next-pay-per-view. That is a mouthful, but it's more than fans received on November 27, 1991, which was next to nothing. That year's show existed purely as an experiment to gauge interest in an extended pay-per-view calendar. Consequently, the WWF delivered a f*ck finish to the so-called 'Gravest Challenge' between Hulk Hogan and The Undertaker, itself interminable, as a means of setting up a rematch for the imminent 'This Tuesday In Texas' blowoff...on which the programme wasn't blown off, rendering the exercise hopeless as well as hostile.

The booking throughout the elimination matches was very questionable, Gorilla Monsoon had an off night, and the incredibly realistic, shocking and frightening Superstars angle in which Jake Roberts set upon Randy Savage with a snake didn't result in a match at the show.

Jack Tunney just couldn't reinstate Macho Man in time. He needed just a few more days to sort it!

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