10 Worst WWE PPV Endings Ever
WWE really does hate its audience. These PPV endings took that to a whole other level.
You have to send the crowd home happy. Okay, if not happy, you have to send them home satisfied, content in the show they have watched and the ones to come. This is true in all forms of entertainment, be it theatre, music or even professional wrestling.
In fact, given how obsessed wrestling is with 'main events' you could say that it is even more important in this particular industry. That's where the money is, where history is made. If nothing else, a major wrestling show needs to end on a high note.
WWE hasn't always managed this, although that might be kind. In fact, WWE history is littered with pay-per-view endings that beggared belief, that either angered the audience or flat out spoiled the product for them. It isn't just about stupid finishes and poor booking; many of these go way beyond that.
What follows is a short education in how not to end a show, how to irritate your audience to the point of no return, how to ruin babyfaces and gimmick matches. WWE has a tendency to damage its own product through its own inability to tick that most important of entertainment boxes; you have to send the crowd home happy.
10. Survivor Series 2000
Survivor Series is clearly the fourth of the Big Four, but this wasn't always the case. There was a time when the Thanksgiving extravaganza was genuinely important, featuring huge matches and providing fans with iconic moments to remember forever and ever. When did it all start to go downhill? The year 2000 isn't a bad place to begin the investigation.
The main event of the 2000 Survivor Series was a no disqualification match between Stone Cold Steve Austin and Triple H, two men who would be partners just five months later. The match itself was pretty great - Hunter and Austin had fantastic chemistry - but was forever ruined by the finish, a departure into cinema that rarely works for WWE.
The two fought backstage and The Radicalz got involved, but Triple H was able to escape to a nearby car. This was a pretty terrible escape however, as Austin soon caught up and trapped Hunter in the car, using a forklift to raise the vehicle high into the air before dropping it to the ground. Triple H was dead. Austin had murdered him. The show went off the air.
That's right, the show went off the air just after we watched the top babyface commit actual murder. The Attitude Era was all sorts of edgy, but this was pretty dumb.