Ranking WWE Extreme Rules PPVs From Least To Most Extreme
3. 2011
Into the top three now, and we arrive at Extreme Rules 2011. Randy Orton and CM Punk kicked off the show with a predictably good Last Man Standing match, and Rey Mysterios Falls Count Anywhere match with Cody Rhodes was similarly hardcore.
But it was the subsequent title bouts that would really steal the headlines, starting with the US belt. Kofi Kingston emerged victorious to capture the title from Sheamus, with the win coming after a huge Boom Drop through a table on the outside.
Then in the World Heavyweight Championship bout, not only did Christian and Alberto Del Rio put on a quality ladder match, but the crowning of Christian as the new World Champion made for a genuine feel-good moment in light of the recent retirement of his best friend Edge.
And finally we concluded the show with a Triple Threat cage match for the WWE Championship between John Cena, John Morrison and the Miz. It was Morrison who would steal the show here, living up to the potential hed shown for so long and wowing the audience with his split-legged corkscrew moonsault from atop the 15-foot-high cagea move, by the way, which usually relies on the spring of the ropes. The kind of spring that steel definitely does not provide.
The only blemish on an otherwise stellar PPV was the infamous country whipping match, which JR himself has conceded was terrible. Well just leave it at that, I think.