10 Worst WWE Pay-Per-Views Ever

1. ECW December To Dismember

Shelly Martinez Kelly Kelly December to Dismember 2006
WWE.com

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.

Contributor
Contributor

Michael is a writer, editor, podcaster and presenter for WhatCulture Wrestling, and has been with the organisation for 10 years. Alongside the production of daily written, audio and video content covering WWE and AEW, he also provides knowledge and insights on all aspects of the wrestling industry thanks to a passion for it dating back over 35 years. As one third of "The Dadley Boyz" Michael has contributed to the huge rise in popularity of the WhatCulture Wrestling Podcast and its accompanying YouTube channel, earning it top spot on the UK's wrestling podcast charts with over 10,000 episodes and 70,000,000 total downloads. He also co-hosts Benno & Hamflett, In Your House!, Podcast Horseman: The BoJack Horseman Podcast, and has guested on long-running Sunderland AFC podcast Wise Men Say. With WhatCulture, he has provided in-person coverage of some of the biggest pay-per-views and Premium Live Events in wrestling history, including WrestleMania, Survivor Series, All In & Double Or Nothing in destinations such as New York, New Jersey, Chicago, Dallas, Las Vegas, Philadelphia, London and Cardiff. He has also been featured as a wrestling analyst for the Tampa Bay Times, Fightful, POST Wrestling, GRAPPL, GCP, Poisonrana, 411Mania and Sports Guys Talking Wrestling. Michael's background in media stretches beyond wrestling coverage, with a degree in Journalism from the University Of Sunderland (2:1) and a series of published articles in music and culture magazines The Crack, Pilot as well as Sunderland AFC's premiere fanzine A Love Supreme. When not offering his voice up for daily wrestling podcasts, he can be found losing it every other Saturday at the Stadium Of Light, and at Cribs gigs nationwide.