10 WWE Moments So Awful That They Made You Stop Watching Wrestling (Until You Started Again...)
7. Dismembered
It's a very WWE thing to tank a pay-per-view produced in-house that just happens to bear the initials of another promotion, but Vince McMahon did a spectacular job of re-burying the recently exhumed ECW with an event so chronically awful that it chased Paul Heyman and The Big Show away from wrestling as well as a sizeable chunk of the group's dwindling audience.
A gross miscalculation, the December to Dismember C-show supercard was a turgid experience from top to bottom, with only two matches even promoted ahead of time and one of them resulting in one of the company's all-time live catastrophes.
Ignoring rancid contests on the undercard featuring the worst of the undertrained and underprepared left to rot on the weekly ECW show, the 'Extreme' Elimination Chamber was massacred by unfathomably horrible booking that was as much the directive of bitterness as it was business.
In CM Punk, the brand had at least created one legitimate threat. Pushed and protected by Heyman himself, the 'Straight Edge Superstar' seemed the ideal choice to walk away with the valueless ECW Title having remained undefeated since his television debut.
The match almost instantly died when he was pinned first by the only other over face in the match, Rob Van Dam. RVD himself was promptly squashed by Test in order to get the match to Bobby Lashley's unwelcome coronation as the show wrapped up with around an hour of pay-per-view time still remaining. In literally every sense, it came up very, very short.