Ranking EVERY 2020 WWE Pay-Per-View From Worst To Best
Reigns turns, Randy fries The Fiend and The Undertaker says farewell. Which WWE show topped the lot?
A strange thing happened on the way to fatalistic apathy and catastrophically low television ratings for WWE in 2020 - their pay-per-views no-sold the company's week-on-week plight.
That's not to say the medium was the home of WWE at its most polished, nor even its most watchable. But when the company did good things, they usually happened on Sundays. More often than not, the last day of the week became the first one of another month watching Raw and SmackDown hoping in vain to find something as energetically paced and handled as well as the thing you'd just watched.
There were some shows that were truly abysmal, yet more that were subjectively excellent. Locations ranged from a jam-packed baseball stadium to an empty one, with gyms and arenas and ThunderDomes reflecting the difficult and ever-changing times we've all endured thus year. Often wrapped within three hours, the scaling back of an hour or so helped cards immensely, particularly at the height of the global health crisis.
We are not (yet) back at that point, but 2020 revealed the bizarre lengths WWE will go to even we all end up right back where we started. From the experimental to the exceptional, this was how every one of the year's main roster supercards stacked up...
13. The Horror Show At Extreme Rules
The Good: Faintest praise, but Cesaro and Shinsuke Nakamura's tables match with The New Day was energetic enough to start the show on a high before a parade of dismal lows.
The Bad: Drew McIntyre and Dolph Ziggler's WWE Championship match might have been okay had it not been ruined by a stupid stipulation that the wrestlers really struggled to stick to.
The Ugly: Where the f*ck to start? Seth Rollins poked Rey Mysterio's eye out of its socket with the corner of the steel stairs then threw up everywhere. Asuka and Sasha Banks were having an awesome Raw Women's Championship match before a pigsh*t thick finish that made fools of the competitors and Bayley just to set up a TV rematch. The Swamp Fight between Bray Wyatt and Braun Strowman was yet another laughable attempt at the cinematic from a company that had clearly peaked with their first efforts at WrestleMania. This was - and easily so - one of the worst WWE pay-per-views ever.