The "Worst" WWE PPV

[Homeboy Runny-Ray]

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)

the first thing i said was that it wasnt a good show, but still you felt the need to smack your lips and say some caddy chit like this.

i see what type of time youre on.

before the gay chit, you actually made some good points before you started sa-shaying.
and i see ole girl @DANJ! loved that chit.

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)

again, you made some good points.

but how was it any worse than the royal rumble, wrestlemania or in your house?? those shows being bad had a helluva lot to do with KOTR's buyrate being lower, dont you think?
there was also some sort of blackout. i remember ordering it, not being able to watch it, and getting one of those fresh-ass t-shirts that half the crowd is wearing.

speaking of the crowd, of course there were gonna be heavy ECW chants. this is right when ECW was taking off and the ecw arena is like 5 minutes down the road. a bunch of known & signature ECW fanatics were visibly in the crowd at KOTR.

you may not have anything against mabel, but they pinpoint mabel whenever it gets brought up on docs, and he always get chitted on for winning in the IWC, and they never mention anything else about the show. thats why i said what i said.

 

[DANJ!]

the first thing i said was that it wasnt a good show, but still you felt the need to smack your lips and say some caddy chit like this.

i see what type of time youre on.

before the gay chit, you actually made some good points before you started sa-shaying.
and i see ole girl @DANJ! loved that chit.

Here you go...

Show was trash, breh.

 

[stro]

Survivor Series 1991 has to be at the top of the list as one of the most boring shows in history. As a kid I'd put it on to go to sleep and I swear to god I never even made it to the end of the event until WWE Network. I'm not even positive I ever made it past Hogan/Taker.

Most 1995 PPVs could go on the list.

I feel like 2009-2012 was mostly complete dogshyt too but I'm never going to go back to watch ay of it.

 

[TheGreatShowtime]

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

I begged my dad to order IYH4 when I was a kid. We never ordered ppv, but IYH was cheaper than any other ppv so he said yes. He never let me order another WWF ppv again after that

I eventually convinced him to order WCW Uncensored 1996 a few months later (arguably the WOAT WCW ppv), and we never ordered a wrestling PPV again

 

[FunkDoc1112]

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

Yup, Vince pulled the plug on Diesel Power right then and there. Dude muttered "Horrible" into the headset as soon as it went off the air and chewed Nash out.

In the modern era, Battleground '13 and '14 were infamously bad and then WrestleMania 32...ultimate -fest.

December PPVs have a ton of real estate in this category but I don't even really count them. December shows are almost always punts.Only good December PPVs I can think of off the top of my head are Armageddon '00 and '05, and TLC '11 (the one with the Punk/Miz/Del Rio TLC)

 

[FunkDoc1112]

Where y’all see/hear this

For IYH 4, Observer and also confirmed by Nash and Pritchard I think

 

[FunkDoc1112]

a gang of attitude era ppvs in '98-99 were some of the worst.

When I was watching all of 96-00, I was at Fully Loaded '98. One of the most blatantly mailed-in PPVs I've ever seen...90% of the card wasn't even built up in advanced. They just slapped some matches together and called it a night. I think it even started with a 20 minute promo. And the main event was a tag match. You can tell they were just waiting til SummerSlam and just essentially put on a 3 hour Raw

 

[TheGreatShowtime]

For IYH 4, Observer and also confirmed by Nash and Pritchard I think

I think Cornette said it as well. Cornette was literally the only good thing about the show

 

[FunkDoc1112]

I think Cornette said it as well. Cornette was literally the only good thing about the show

Yeah I shoulda said Cornette too, he was Meltzer's main WWF source

 

[Homeboy Runny-Ray]

Here you go...

Show was trash, breh.

i never said it wasnt trash.

stop trying to shift the narrative, clown.

 

[Ruby'sRevolver]

the first thing i said was that it wasnt a good show, but still you felt the need to smack your lips and say some caddy chit like this.

i see what type of time youre on.

before the gay chit, you actually made some good points before you started sa-shaying.
and i see ole girl @DANJ! loved that chit.





again, you made some good points.

but how was it any worse than the royal rumble, wrestlemania or in your house?? those shows being bad had a helluva lot to do with KOTR's buyrate being lower, dont you think?
there was also some sort of blackout. i remember ordering it, not being able to watch it, and getting one of those fresh-ass t-shirts that half the crowd is wearing.

speaking of the crowd, of course there were gonna be heavy ECW chants. this is right when ECW was taking off and the ecw arena is like 5 minutes down the road. a bunch of known & signature ECW fanatics were visibly in the crowd at KOTR.

you may not have anything against mabel, but they pinpoint mabel whenever it gets brought up on docs, and he always get chitted on for winning in the IWC, and they never mention anything else about the show. thats why i said what i said.

Royal Rumble '95 was terrible but at least it had a good match between Bret and Diesel so I put it above KOTR.
WrestleMania 11 was also a terrible show but had a great match between Shawn and Diesel (and Bam Bam/LT was better than anyone expected it to be) so I put it above KOTR.
Those were terrible shows but they both had at least one good match on them, KOTR had ZERO good matches on it.

In Your House was a brand new concept in '95 and weren't treated as major shows like Royal Rumble, WrestleMania, KOTR, Summerslam, and Survivor Series (IYH was also only 2 hour shows and were priced cheaper than the major PPVs) so I give those shows a little more slack when it comes to quality. (The October '95 show was a disaster and definitely one of the worst PPVs ever)

I wouldn't blame the low buyrate all on the previous shows, I blame it more on the terrible build leading up to show ( also Razor Ramon getting hurt) and a horrible looking card on paper, no one was really hyped about it going into it and that's what I believe hurt the buyrate more than anything. I don't remember any issues with any blackouts, at least not in my area, we watched the show with no problems. I do remember there being audio issues with the PPV feed during WrestleMania 11, but I don't recall any issues in my area with KOTR (maybe there were some issues where you lived).

Other than that, it seems like we pretty much agree with each other.

 

[Ruby'sRevolver]

Survivor Series 1991 has to be at the top of the list as one of the most boring shows in history. As a kid I'd put it on to go to sleep and I swear to god I never even made it to the end of the event until WWE Network. I'm not even positive I ever made it past Hogan/Taker.

Most 1995 PPVs could go on the list.

I feel like 2009-2012 was mostly complete dogshyt too but I'm never going to go back to watch ay of it.

Absolutely agree about Survivor Series '91, that show was trash. It's a memorable show only because Hogan lost the belt to the Undertaker but that match was terrible and they literally spent the rest of the show crying about Hogan losing and hyping up the 'This Tuesday in Texas' PPV. The only good things on that show is the opening match Flair's team vs Pipers team and the promos by Jake and Savage everything else is trash.

 

[OmegaK2099]

Over the edge

 

[Homeboy Runny-Ray]

Royal Rumble '95 was terrible but at least it had a good match between Bret and Diesel so I put it above KOTR.
WrestleMania 11 was also a terrible show but had a great match between Shawn and Diesel (and Bam Bam/LT was better than anyone expected it to be) so I put it above KOTR.
Those were terrible shows but they both had at least one good match on them, KOTR had ZERO good matches on it.

In Your House was a brand new concept in '95 and weren't treated as major shows like Royal Rumble, WrestleMania, KOTR, Summerslam, and Survivor Series (IYH was also only 2 hour shows and were priced cheaper than the major PPVs) so I give those shows a little more slack when it comes to quality. (The October '95 show was a disaster and definitely one of the worst PPVs ever)

I wouldn't blame the low buyrate all on the previous shows, I blame it more on the terrible build leading up to show ( also Razor Ramon getting hurt) and a horrible looking card on paper, no one was really hyped about it going into it and that's what I believe hurt the buyrate more than anything. I don't remember any issues with any blackouts, at least not in my area, we watched the show with no problems. I do remember there being audio issues with the PPV feed during WrestleMania 11, but I don't recall any issues in my area with KOTR (maybe there were some issues where you lived).

Other than that, it seems like we pretty much agree with each other.

i can respect the whole "at least one good match" thing.

only thing i still disagree with is the idea that the other bad ppvs didnt affect KOTR's buyrate.

WWF was #3 for me by this point anyway.

Over the edge

yea

1998 was the worst ppv ive ever watched.

 

[Ruby'sRevolver]

i can respect the whole "at least one good match" thing.

only thing i still disagree with is the idea that the other bad ppvs didnt affect KOTR's buyrate.

WWF was #3 for me by this point anyway.





yea

1998 was the worst ppv ive ever watched.

That's my point about KOTR there was NOTHING good on it, at least those other shows had something worth watching.

As far as buyrates goes, I don't blame the previous shows as much as you do because they all did bigger buyrates than KOTR.

Royal Rumble '95 - 230,000 buys
WrestleMania 11 - 325,000 buys
In Your House #1 - 190,000 buys

King of the Ring '95 - 150,000 buys

In Your House #2 - 170,000 buys
Summerslam '95 - 205,000 buys (with Mabel in the main event)
In Your House #3 - 175,000 buys

As you can see from these numbers the 3 PPVs before KOTR all got a bigger buyrate and the 3 PPVs that came after KOTR all got a bigger buyrate as well. That's why I place most of the blame for the low numbers on a week buildup on TV and a weak looking card on paper.

I'm not surprised you had WWF #3 in '95, you don't seem to like anything they do. For me, in 1995, I had ECW #1 WWF #2 and WCW #3 because as bad as WWF was, WCW was doing that corny ass Hogan vs The Dungeon of Doom storyline and that was straight up embarrassing, IMO.