10 Worst WWE Pay-Per-Views Ever
3. Great American Bash 2004
The sort of garbage card historically associated with single-brand pay-per-views, a listless blue brand roster put forth an incredibly moribund effort supporting two big matches that woefully underperformed. JBL's victory over Eddie Guerrero sent viewers packing in droves, so ill-prepared for the spot Bradshaw was at the time. Their bloodbath a month earlier wasn't as a grisly as the response the loathed midcarder-for-life received for unseating a sentimental favourite in extremely cheap fashion.
Keen not for that to be the lasting image from the show, the company elected to submerge Paul Bearer in concrete. Despite winning his match with The Dudley Boyz to save him from the cement, 'Taker revived his dark side (or whatever the f*ck the creative team were calling it) by pulling a fatal lever himself. Bearer came back from the dead a few times afterwards, rendering it a retrospective gag despite the insane severity of the situation at the time.
Diamond In The Rough: John Cena being universally over as a babyface despite his obvious in-ring limitations is a sight to behold. He'd become ten times the wrestler and earn a hundred times the disdain within 18 months of his United States title retention against SmackDown best-of-what's-left crew Booker T, Rob Van Dam and René Duprée.