10 Worst WWE Pay-Per-View Names Ever

What better way to raise interest in a show than by giving it a horrible name?

by John Bills
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Naming a wrestling show is no easy task. Many companies are famed for their creative take on it, with companies such as PROGRESS (The Show We Can't Call Progresslemania For Legal Reasons) and PWG (Cruisin' For A Bruisin') at the forefront of the list. Not all companies have this much fun with their show names, though, and most end up using fairly generic names that wouldn't be out of place in the discography of a teenage metal band, like Dominion, Refuse To Lose or Final Battle.

As the largest pro wrestling company in all of time and space, WWE is under more scrutiny than most when it comes to naming shows, and the wide range of their audience means that they are handcuffed somewhat to the more generic end of the scale. This is the reason that most of WWE's shows follow the generic metal album name formula, ticking the stereotypical pro wrestling box rather than risking alienating any of their fans.

There have been some absolute stinkers in WWE's long pay-per-view history, show names that either made absolutely no sense or sound like something NOFX's Fat Mike would throw away for being too stupid...

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Born in the middle of Wales in the middle of the 1980's, John can't quite remember when he started watching wrestling but he has a terrible feeling that Dino Bravo was involved. Now living in Prague, John spends most of his time trying to work out how Tomohiro Ishii still stands upright. His favourite wrestler of all time is Dean Malenko, but really it is Repo Man. He is the author of 'An Illustrated History of Slavic Misery', the best book about the Slavic people that you haven't yet read. You can get that and others from www.poshlostbooks.com.