10 WWE PPVs Which Drew Lower-Than-Expected Buyrates (And Why)

Somewhere in the existential hellscape that was WWE PPV in the late 2000s and early 2010s, there came the point where it was clear the company had no idea how to stop the bleed of paying customers. Just past that point, there was Vengeance 2011.

Vengeance 2011 offered proof positive that at some point, fans become numb to big stars and title changes if they all stop meaning anything. The show saw Alberto Del Rio defend the WWE Title against John Cena and CM Punk team with Triple H, but that was only surface deep. A closer inspection reveals that Del Rio and Cena were batting the title back and forth for weeks, and Punk took the pinfall in that match despite being the company's hottest babyface. The result was the third-lowest-bought WWE PPV of the pre-Network era, after Battleground 2013 and December to Dismember.

Still, unlike Battleground and D2D, it had the names - so how could it do so poorly? Simple marketplace oversaturation. The Hell in a Cell PPV came only three weeks earlier, and Night of Champions was just two weeks before that. By the time Vengeance rolled around, fans simply tapped out - they didn't have the time or money for any more nonsense.