10 Worst WWE Pay-Per-Views Ever

1. ECW December To Dismember

Worst WWE Pay-Per-Views
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The byword for bad WWE is now over a decade old, and has yet lost none of the stench that made it such a laughing stock as it was happening, let alone retrospectively.

The Extreme Elimination Chamber main event is a wrestling catastrophe like few others. Paul Heyman looks on through his fingers from ringside as the last vestiges of the fatally flawed relaunch of his greatest creation slips into ignominy. Ultra-pushed Bobby Lashley is relentlessly booed, whilst dated lugs Test and Hardcore Holly take up time at the expense of lone saviour CM Punk and still-over babyface Rob Van Dam.

The crowd were already wound up from the least palatable card in company history. With matches that wouldn't even be deemed acceptable in a Performance Center training ring in 2018, the striking lack of depth and developmental was perhaps never better advertised than during this calamitous C-show.

Diamond In The Rough: The Hardy Boyz and MNM had a very enjoyable opener, foolishly setting expectation levels above 'rock bottom' for the rest of the evening. That the contest wasn't a complete catastrophe ensured that 50% of the advertised card delivered - that in itself a damning indictment on a show doomed from concept to execution.

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