7 Worst One-Off Pay-Per-Views In WWE History

1. December To Dismember (December 3, 2006)

After two very successful One Night Stand pay-per-view events, Extreme Championship Wrestling was resurrected as a new brand of WWE (along with Raw and SmackDown) in June 2006. It started off extremely (no pun intended) well with Rob Van Dam holding the ECW and WWE Championships simultaneously and many old ECW stars being brought back. At the time, Raw and SmackDown still had their own PPVs (disregarding the super shows such as WrestleMania and SummerSlam), so December to Dismember was created in December as an ECW-exclusive event. The show was shaping up to be a major milestone for the rechristened ECW brand, but it was ultimately nothing more than a major disappointment. The main event of the show saw six Superstars battle it out in an Extreme Elimination Chamber match for the ECW Championship. Among the participants was Bobby Lashley, Big Show, Rob Van Dam, Hardcore Holly, CM Punk and Test with only one being an ECW original. Lashley, only days removed from debuting in the Land of Extreme, captured the title, a decision not well received by fans. In fact, ECW founder Paul Heyman lobbied for Punk to eliminate Show via submission, but Vince McMahon denied the request. Due to this, all the issues Heyman had with WWE and its Creative Team came to a head, resulting in his abrupt departure from the company. The rest of the lackluster card included Balls Mahoney vs. Matt Striker, Daivari vs. Tommy Dreamer, and an intergender tag team match pitting Kevin Thorn and Ariel against Kelly Kelly and Mike Knox. With that being the advertised lineup for the show, it's no shocker it ended up doing a terrible 90,000 buyrate with only 55,000 of them being domestic, the worst buyrate a WWE PPV has ever done. Many fans saw the show as nothing short of a failure for WWE. Even Tommy Dreamer and Stevie Richards were upset enough with the turnout of the show that they asked for their respective releases from the company afterward, but were turned down. December to Dismember was actually slated for a second installment in December 2007 but was cancelled after all WWE PPVs became tri-branded that spring. In a way, 2006's December to Dismember event foreshadowed the floundering future of the ECW brand and its inevitable demise.