10 Worst WWE Pay-Per-View Names Ever

3. In Your House 5: Season's Beatings

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Get it? In Your House 5 took place one week before Christmas so the then-WWF decided to go with a festively-themed name for their holiday show. The company could have gone with 'Jingle Hell' or 'A Very Scary Christmas', but decided that 'Season's Beatings' was the best alternative.

That isn't entirely true, as the show was retroactively given the title of 'Season's Beatings'. The main event saw Bret Hart defend the WWF Championship against The British Bulldog. Elsewhere, The Undertaker defeated King Mabel in a Casket match and Hunter Hearst Helmsley bested Henry Godwinn in a Hog-Pen match for the ages.

'Season's Beatings' is typical of the mid-90s obsession with regrettable puns, and was the sort of show name that Bart Simpson would have come up with if given the WWF booking pen. The problem with that is that Bart Simpson is a 10-year old cartoon child with inflated immaturity.

In many ways it encapsulated a lot of what was wrong with pro wrestling in the pre-New World Order, erm, world. It was puerile and childish at a time when entertainment was beginning to move in a more cutting edge direction.

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