10 Worst WWE Pay-Per-View Names Ever

9. One Night Stand

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The original concept of WWE's One Night Stand was absolutely spot on.

The show brought the long dead ECW promotion back to life for one night only, in which the engineers of extreme were let loose on the Hammerstein Ballroom to the ecstasy of their fanatical fans. The show was a lot of fun too (although not quite as great 11 years later), and ECW One Night Stand became the sort of one night extravaganza that lives long in the memory.

The biggest mistake an individual can make with a one night stand is to try and repeat that though, and WWE enjoyed their one night stand so much that they repeated it in 2006, 2007 and 2008. The ECW brand was resurrected, became WWE's distant third, and those engineers of extreme were slowly replaced by the sharers of sports entertainment.

The first One Night Stand featured matches like Mike Awesome vs. Masato Tanaka and Super Crazy vs. Tajiri, but by 2008 such bouts had been replaced by Triple H vs. Randy Orton and John Cena vs. JBL.

Learn WWE's lesson, folks; never repeat a one night stand.

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