10 Worst WWE Pay-Per-View Names Ever

7. December To Dismember

December To Dismember
WWE

A frequent entry into lists titled 'Worst WWE Pay-Per-Views Ever', 2006's December to Dismember was a total shambles. The approx. 90,000 buys gave it the unfortunate title of the WWE pay-per-view with the lowest buyrate ever (until the introduction of the WWE Network in 2014), and with a card including classics such as Balls Mahoney vs. Matt Striker, that isn't entirely surprising. The show was the end of Paul Heyman's time at the helm of the revamped ECW ship.

The name 'December to Dismember' was derived from an ECW show of the same name some 11 years earlier, a show headlined by an Ultimate Jeopardy Steel Cage match won by the team of Public Enemy, Tommy Dreamer and The Pitbulls. The name itself wasn't even retained by the original ECW, replaced a year later by the returning and equally-lamentable Holiday Hell.

By naming the show December to Dismember, WWE were clearly trying to tap into more of ECW's past, but the choice was seen as a kick in the teeth by ECW's hardcore fans and an embarrassing misstep by the newer arrivals to the scene. WWECW simply wasn't ECW and it never should have tried to be. Choosing a forgotten show name for the brand's pay-per-view was foolish at best.

2006 was a different world to 1995 and WWE would have been better served taking a different ECW show name, if that was the route they were going to take. Guilty as Charged or Living Dangerously would have sufficed.

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