10 Times You SERIOUSLY Should Have Asked WWE For Refunds

4. Survivor Series 2008

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What the f*ck is it with Survivor Series?

It seems Vince hates a concept he described as "obsolete" in 2010 so much that it makes him spiteful. By 2008, the show's initial selling point had been tokenised and diluted, but the true essence of the pay-per-view - not-as-advertised dreck - remained in place.

Though not as iconically awful, two extra dimensions rendered this worse than Survivor Series '99: ghastliness and tedium. WWE Heavyweight Title challenger Vladimir Kozlov possessed just the one dimension: slow, über-shitty grappling with an imbecilic gurn. The prospect of a singles match versus Triple H was yawn-inducing. The reality of it was far more boring than that. This was a boring WWWF match in the WWE context, only without a passionate crowd adding a facet of interest to it.

We learned during the show that the announced Triple Threat challenger Jeff Hardy had been found "unconscious" in a hotel room. This was ugly in both its real-life plausibility and the appalling attention to detail; the hotel room was the site of too many grisly discoveries in wrestling's voracious maw.

Those attuned to WWE's ghoulish opportunism sensed the work, but this remained an unsettling storyline development from which (the mercifully abridged) Triple H Vs. Vladimir Kozlov offered no escape.

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