10 Worst WWE Pay-Per-View Names Ever

by John Bills

1. In Your House 8: Beware Of Dog

Beware Of Dog
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Has there ever been a worse name for a wrestling event than Beware of Dog?

No matter how serious one's fear of canines may be, it is difficult to find a more embarrassing entry into this embarrassing list. Ignoring the lack of article in the title itself, who was being warned about what dog? The main event of the show saw Shawn Michaels defend the WWF Championship against The British Bulldog, so was that the implication?

It almost certainly was, but Bulldog was so neutered by this point that he was about as convincing a challenger in 1996 as Jack Swagger would be today. Close your eyes and imagine In Your House 8: Feel the Swag. It isn't good.

The show was seemingly cursed by this horrid name and was actually forced to take place over two separate nights after a power cut in the Florence Civic Centre. Only two matches were shown on pay-per-view as a result, meaning the WWF was forced to schedule 'Beware of Dog 2' for the following night. To this day, Beware of Dog (and its impromptu sequel) remains the only WWF pay-per-view to take place in South Carolina.

Will Beware of Dog ever be topped (or bottomed)?

That is unlikely, but with more and more pay-per-views being added to the WWE schedule all the time, we may yet be surprised. Suddenly, show names like Victory Road, Ultimate Crush and Awakening don't seem so terrible.

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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.