10 WWE Shows That Should Have Been Season Finales

8. ECW December To Dismember

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This again.

If you've been on WhatCulture.com/WWE for longer than 10 minutes, you'll probably have already read about this show in another list. Worst Chamber Matches? Worst Pay-Per-Views Ever? Best Matches On Bad Shows? Openers That Made A Total F*cking Disaster Seem Like It Might Not Be A Total F*cking Disaster? It'd fit the lot.

Some of the events profiled in this list find WWE in such a great state of euphoric celebration, with the season finale feeling being as much to do with letting the moment breathe. December To Dismember just found a brand in a total state.

ECW needed at least a week off to hide, while the staff probably should have taken the rest of the year to revaluate. Everybody - the company included - needed time away from this f*cking show by the time it had finished. Paul Heyman to such an extent that he was gone from the organisation the next day and for the next five years. Most fans (and several wrestlers) felt the same, and it speaks to the grim legacy of the event that it remains an all-timer on the awful scale a decade and a half later.

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