The "Worst" WWE PPV

[Playaz Eyez]

would you really be entertained my most of those characters in 2020 as an adult tho??

im not talking about revisiting it for nostalgia purposes. im talking about watching an overly-character driven promotion in real-time 2020.

It’s not necessarily about characters, but the motivation and build for those characters. Currently, Reigns/Jey is a 100% engaging storyline that you can invest in. Meanwhile, what reason do I have to watch Cesaro/Nakamura vs Lucha Dragons? Otis vs Miz/Morrison? Anything on Raw not related to Hurt Business? Would I watch a ‘98 Marc Mero style gimmick with a Sable equivalent where he gets jealous of her success in 2020? With the proper investment and crowd? Yes

 

[Starboy52]

WrestleMania 32. It was legitimately hard to sit through when it was on ESPN earlier this year.

That was WWE telling everybody who ever loved them to fukk off.

This is the PPV where I learned what the term " 'fukk You!' Booking" meant.

Because this entire PPV felt like a gigantic middle finger to: Anybody that had issue with The Reigns push, anybody that had issue with Charlotte's oncoming push, anybody that had issue with the way Vince McMahon liked to go about things in general where he books the heels to continually get one over on the babyfaces.

Because unless I'm mistaken, RYDER was the only Babyface that won an actual match on the main card.

 

[Bryan Danielson]

Man shyt... there are so many..... it’s hard to kinda pick just one

 

[YakSpiller]

ou had dudes like Balls Mahoney doing mat wrestling like WTF

 

[Tommy Lee Jones]

I was at the last eliminaton chamber in Philly when shayna choked out all the women one by one. Never heard so many this is bullshyt/ we want refunds chants lmao. And I was there when Roman won the rumble and the rock came out and they even booed the rock.

 

[DANJ!]

I have yet to see this PPV... I had a feeling it was gonna be trash, when I read about it the next day, it looked like trash... and even tho' I could have watched it at any time in the last 14 years, I don't even have the desire to see how bad it was.

 

[RammerJammer]

WrestleMania 32. It was legitimately hard to sit through when it was on ESPN earlier this year.

That was WWE telling everybody who ever loved them to fukk off.

Man I watched that shyt live and it was rough to sit through.

The Ladder Match was really good and had a surprising winner and it made for a nice WM moment. Then after that there was nothing but dumb booking, AJ Styles lost his first WM match to Jericho for no reason, the League of Nations beat the New Day which was dumb because the LON ended up getting beat up by the legends after the match. Brock/Ambrose was a disgrace cause Brock didn't wanna take no hardcore bumps, had Terry Funk talking to Dean in the buildup for nothing. The Women's Triple Threat was set up perfectly for Sasha to win but they decided to start the Charlotte super push. Shane vs Taker ended up not mattering anyway cause Shane showed up on Raw the next night (Vince ssid Shane was supposed to go away if he lost) and it featured an incredibly corny line from Cole "For The Love of Mankind!" .

The Battle Royal was fun, didn't have a problem with Corbin winning, nice moment for a NXT star. The Rock's segment felt like an hour long and made Bray look like a joke even further, but we did get a Rock match, which was 6 seconds long, Cena returning was cool though.

Now here's Roman vs Triple H, this was in the middle of the Reject Reigns movement, Triple H tried his best heel it up against Roman but the crowd refused to cheer Roman, WWE even tried to mute the boos live, just a huge clusterfukk.

The show had no business being that bad but it was the worst booked WrestleMania of all time.

 

[Playaz Eyez]

This is the PPV where I learned what the term " 'fukk You!' Booking" meant.

Because this entire PPV felt like a gigantic middle finger to: Anybody that had issue with The Reigns push, anybody that had issue with Charlotte's oncoming push, anybody that had issue with the way Vince McMahon liked to go about things in general where he books the heels to continually get one over on the babyfaces.

Because unless I'm mistaken, RYDER was the only Babyface that won an actual match on the main card.

This exact description could be apply to the OP December To Dismember post this PPV was made to deliberately shyt on the OG ECW brand. Balls Mahoney was the only OG ECW guy that won, and it was insignificant in every way possible.

 

[Mike the Executioner]

Man I watched that shyt live and it was rough to sit through.

The Ladder Match was really good and had a surprising winner and it made for a nice WM moment. Then after that there was nothing but dumb booking, AJ Styles lost his first WM match to Jericho for no reason, the League of Nations beat the New Day which was dumb because the LON ended up getting beat up by the legends after the match. Brock/Ambrose was a disgrace cause Brock didn't wanna take no hardcore bumps, had Terry Funk talking to Dean in the buildup for nothing. The Women's Triple Threat was set up perfectly for Sasha to win but they decided to start the Charlotte super push. Shane vs Taker ended up not mattering anyway cause Shane showed up on Raw the next night (Vince ssid Shane was supposed to go away if he lost) and it featured an incredibly corny line from Cole "For The Love of Mankind!" .

The Battle Royal was fun, didn't have a problem with Corbin winning, nice moment for a NXT star. The Rock's segment felt like an hour long and made Bray look like a joke even further, but we did get a Rock match, which was 6 seconds long, Cena returning was cool though.

Now here's Roman vs Triple H, this was in the middle of the Reject Reigns movement, Triple H tried his best heel it up against Roman but the crowd refused to cheer Roman, WWE even tried to mute the boos live, just a huge clusterfukk.

The show had no business being that bad but it was the worst booked WrestleMania of all time.

I was locked out of the Network for most of the night so I only tuned in during the Hell in a Cell match. Everything I watched almost made me glad I didn't see the whole thing.

I also remember reading a Forbes article the day of the show and they were talking about how that match didn't make any sense and had no real stakes behind it. One of the things they pointed out was that even if Shane lost, he would still gain control of RAW some other way. And then that's exactly what happened.

I don't know what went wrong with that show, but I remember that the injuries messed everything up. Also, they scrapped potential matches. Lesnar was supposed to face Wyatt that year but since they didn't go through with it, the whole thing at the Royal Rumble was never followed up on. I thought they should have done a triple threat for the title with Ambrose, especially since he was the last guy Triple H eliminated from the Rumble and they had a match at Roadblock. Other than that, it was just really poor booking choices and unappealing matches (besides the women's triple threat and the ladder match). This was WWE being as petty and spiteful as they could, and looking back, it's crazy how 2016 ended up being a really good year for them with all the bullshyt they pulled in the first three months.

 

[Reality Check]

Think people truly forget how much of a train-wreck this show actually was. From what I remember, they had to move the event to Georgia from NYC, then pulled a bait & switch to remove Sabu from the main event and replaced him with Bob Holly. Not to mention Heyman knew it was going to be shyt, tried to warn McMahon, and then was sent home not to be seen for 6 years. Tommy Dreamer and one of the other ECW originals asked for their releases immediately after the show. It was a clusterfukk inside a dumpster fire to put it lightly.

 

[Ruby'sRevolver]

nah the worst was the October 95 In Your House
Vince threw his headset after the show was over cause he knew it was ass

This one or King of the Ring '95 would be my vote.

 

[Homeboy Runny-Ray]

It’s not necessarily about characters, but the motivation and build for those characters. Currently, Reigns/Jey is a 100% engaging storyline that you can invest in. Meanwhile, what reason do I have to watch Cesaro/Nakamura vs Lucha Dragons? Otis vs Miz/Morrison? Anything on Raw not related to Hurt Business? Would I watch a ‘98 Marc Mero style gimmick with a Sable equivalent where he gets jealous of her success in 2020? With the proper investment and crowd? Yes

that marc mero/sable angle wasnt original. the only thing original about it, was that they started having sable beat up on mero(which ruined his career), and if that happened today, yall would absolutely hate it, and complain about it constantly.

but yea, the good part about that angle wasnt original. in fact, marc mero was on the other side of that situation just a couple years prior in WCW, in regards to DDP/Kimberly.

on the flipside, if that Otis nonsense with miz/morrison went down in '98, it would still be positively reminisced about today by most attitude era nostalgists.

 

[Homeboy Runny-Ray]

theres alot of pre-conditioned in-regards to king of the ring '95, because mabel won the tourney.

not saying it was a good PPV, but the WWF had worse shows than that in 1995, let alone all-time. plus, the philly crowd was so lit, that it made the show enjoyable.

BUT the narrative started by WWE Films is that the crowd hated it and chitted on the show. KOTR '95 wasnt mentioned as a WOAT show until after that narrative was pushed.

 

[DANJ!]

Backlash 2018... and this was after a pretty damn good Mania. I remember watchin' it like

 

[Ruby'sRevolver]

theres alot of pre-conditioned in-regards to king of the ring '95, because mabel won the tourney.

not saying it was a good PPV, but the WWF had worse shows than that in 1995, let alone all-time. plus, the philly crowd was so lit, that it made the show enjoyable.

BUT the narrative started by WWE Films is that the crowd hated it and chitted on the show. KOTR '95 wasnt mentioned as a WOAT show until after that narrative was pushed.

Nah, the show was complete trash.

There wasn't ONE good match on the entire show. It featured one of the worst main events in WWF PPV history( the match was literally a house show type main event), a horribly constructed tournament (terrible tourney bracket with one of the worst finals matches ever), and a shytty 'kiss my foot' gimmick match (by far the worst part of the Bret/Lawler feud). I don't care who won the dumb ass tournament, the entire show was a pile of shyt. There is literally nothing good on it, nothing at all worth going back to watch so yes, this is one of the worst PPV's the WWF ever produced and I really don't see how anyone could argue any differently. I don't see how you can make this all about Mabel either when the entire show was awful (smh @ you trying to make this some shyt). It also got the worst PPV buyrate of ANY KOTR PPV in history and the lowest buyrate for any of the WWF's major PPV's for '95. Why? because the show was fukking trash, that's why.

And yes, the Philly crowd was good to start the show then they began to get bored so they started to chant 'ECW' during the Mabel/Savio match,

and LMAO @ the WWE 'pushing a narrative' to get everyone to hate that show. I hate to break it to you but they didn't need to push any narratives because KOTR '95 was universally shyt on from the jump. I don't remember anyone saying they enjoyed that show, not one person. ( but I'm sure you'll tell me how everyone you knew loved it tho, LOL)