The WORST SELLING PPVs in WWE HISTORY!

[@WrestlinGifs]

BACK 2 BACK NERDY VIDEOS! Hope y’all enjoyed ❤️🙏🏼

[@Asheto320c]

Back at it like a crack addict

[@sakshamsharma3527]

i love your videos!

[@zanethind3533]

You did a good job on both. Also you make it entertaining and fun while adding in the stats. You don't go into stats right away but instead hook the watcher with a good intro

[@zanethind3533]

That tag match at ECW December to Dismember had only one good match and that was the Tag match between the Hardyz and John Morrison and the Miz

[@Skeletonbones_10]

Make more nerdy vids they nice to watch

[@Terrbear5]

Why MITB 11 was low is likely because of illegal streaming being at its peak. I watched it back then on one so I would know.

[@sc-sportscompilations5753]

Nobody thought CM Punk would win until the match started

[@javi994]

@@sc-sportscompilations5753 Till his music played

[@KnucklesWTD]

Punk wasn’t a draw.

[@carljohnson8997]

One of the factors may be that Sky Sports aired that show so a lot of UK fans didn’t need to pay for it. I remember back then, every few PPVs were on there for free. The numbers were a surprise, same as SummerSlam 2013.

[@MahdiRanger]

Stop trynna make excuses lol. Capital punishment did better.

[@EliasReedX17]

WM 19 great show: Ticket sales:👎 WM 27 AWFUL show Ticket sales:👍

[@jeevanpb3479]

Its because Dwayne Johnson return as movie star

[@ONLY_RR7]

@@jeevanpb3479you can genuinely say that about both shows

[@jeevanpb3479]

@@ONLY_RR7 movie star after 7 long years.not movie actor as pro wrestler

[@rayedmonds6108]

WM 27 was the first time I ever looked at a WrestleMania card on paper and said, what the f*** is this?

[@pleaseshutup7053]

Wwe popularity was fleeting post attitude era

[@jacobsendejo8788]

I actually attended Vengeance 2011 as a freshman in high school and legit bought that Mark Henry autographed event poster cuz his Hall of Pain run was so good, he was also a native Texan like me, and I was legit happy to see him have a long overdue world heavyweight championship run and be featured as a top guy while it lasted....and I still have the poster.

[@puentedan]

So did I! It was my first time ever on a PPV and I had the time of my life 😅

[@Frank-fp9er]

That match he had with Big Show where they broke the ring is a classic.

[@jackhughes7637]

​@@Frank-fp9erNo Big Show match is a classic

[@Frank-fp9er]

@@jackhughes7637 You are saying big men can’t have quality matches? Are you only into midget cruiser weight kind of matches??

[@Frank-fp9er]

@@jackhughes7637 There are many great big men legends like Andre, Big Show, Henry, Vader, and Yokozuna. Like it or not. The only exception is the Great Khali 😂😂😂😂😂

[@Asheto320c]

Battleground 2013’s ending made it deserve its low sales, what a middle finger.

[@SigmaChicken09]

One of the worst ending ppvs of all time

[@Slick5150]

Give me how good the Rhodes Brothers vs The Shield was, that pay-per-view is the definition of a pile of shit with a diamond in it

[@codyriot6890]

What was the ending?

[@chickenbigmac1267]

@@codyriot6890big show pulled the ref out of the ring and it ended in a no contest

[@Venemofthe888]

A few of these shows became iconic after it finished like money in the bank. Also Taboo Tuesday in 2004 and 2005 failed because they aired on Tuesday nights and tickets on school nights really affected it

[@MrGared22]

Yeah, for some reason they had at times an obsession with trying to establish a PPV on Tuesdays (like the one literally titled This Tuesday in Texas)

[@alternative7586]

Yeah plus the 2004 show had 3500 people in the building. Wow

[@snakeeyes2551]

@@MrGared22No wonder they had to change the name to Cyber Sunday

[@ztm999]

As a kid I vividly remember watching the go-home show to December to Dismember and Paul Heyman explaining the Extreme Chamber. I was smart enough not to ask to see it because my mom was a strictly WrestleMania and Royal Rumble PPV buyer, but man I was stoked. And then I remember Kelly Kelly coming on the screen and my mom turning it off.

[@pleaseshutup7053]

Same way bro I actually did see it and enjoyed it especially the weapons in the chamber

[@MrGared22]

Yeah, re Kelly Kelly I can totally see why (I don't even want to imagine what her reaction would've been about the tag team match with Ariel)

[@ZachCanterbury-b1h]

I was there as well, never forget Lashley spearing Big Show through the chamber. Think I was like 6 lol

[@nasseralhammadi4959]

Shawn's brown pants were the reason for those horrible numbers

[@yukikimura8204]

Taboo Tuesday and Cyber Sunday didn't do good buy rates because people probably didn't want to pay money for matches they didn't know were confirm or not. Like if it was Triple H vs either Jeff Hardy, Kozlov, or Hardy and Kozlov, you buy the ppv for 60 bucks and then Vince decides to manipulate the fan vote so the match is Triple H vs Kozlov for the title.

[@pleaseshutup7053]

Because the matches looked crappy also

[@anthonyflynn9177]

Also bad time of year

[@EliasReedX17]

"Everyone and their mom" is the best catchphrase Pav has ever said

[@alexbow6699]

So not original tho

[@sm0keyd0key]

maybe if it’s the first time you’ve ever heard that phrase lol

[@EliasReedX17]

@sm0keyd0key Nah I've been watching Pav's vids for 8 months now.

[@sm0keyd0key]

@EliasReedX16 that’s cool but “everyone and their mother” is a very common phrase lol that’s what i meant

[@jackhughes7637]

​@EliasReedX16 Bless your little cotton socks

[@TheSuperCenaFan]

Money in the Bank 2011 having a buy rate that low is mindblowing considering how much buzz there was surrounding the CM Punk angle

[@Venemofthe888]

It's possible that people might overestimate how punks pipebomb did and some might have come back after the show. It only became iconic afterwards

[@eastsidereviews727]

Piracy also probably played a factor in those lower numbers.

[@KnucklesWTD]

Only hardcore fans cared,punk never drew big numbers

[@TheSuperCenaFan]

@@KnucklesWTD Oh please, several people still talk about how the pipe bomb brought them back to wrestling to this day

[@KnucklesWTD]

@@TheSuperCenaFan that doesn’t mean anything as the buy rates proved. Punk never had good buy rates,that’s why they never trusted him 100%. Main evented several bad selling ppv’s

[@Pierrepaule]

4:03 I can’t believe WrestleMania 19 was a failed for The selling because it was a amazing show.

[@rayedmonds6108]

A former friend of mine ordered Battleground 2013. At the time he was making great money and ordered literally whatever combat sport (WWE/TNA/UFC/Boxing) that was on ppv that weekend as an excuse to have his buddies over to drink and BBQ. He also ordered EVERY TNA ppv in 2010. 😂

[@tcbobb1613]

Even TNA lol

[@pleaseshutup7053]

Heel Jeff hardy

[@rayedmonds6108]

@@pleaseshutup7053 I know I am in the minority here, but I found Hulkamaniac Abyss far more insulting than Heel Hardy.

[@jamalwalker04]

​Hulkamania Abyss and bootleg ric flair Aj Styles killed whatever interest I had in TNA back then. ​@@rayedmonds6108

[@pleaseshutup7053]

@@rayedmonds6108 heel Jeff hardy was great it just ended early because his drug issues

[@fro-zone2k]

It's no surprise that in the 2nd half of 2011, WWE was switching gears having CM Punk as the semi-face of WWE, obviously suggesting that John Cena's time as the face of WWE was streamline.

[@moe6702]

Fun fact: Survivor Series 2002 didn't have a single traditional survivor series match on the card.

[@willisrose9756]

Same with 1998, 2022, 23 and 24!

[@ChrisSuperDude]

It is also the last PPV where any title that was defended changed hands.

[@mattalan6618]

​@@willisrose9756I prefer war games

[@willisrose9756]

@@ChrisSuperDudeKing Booker defended the World Heavyweight Championship at Survivor Series 2006 and lost it to Batista!

[@MahdiRanger]

You gotta remember 2002-2003 was a massive exit for many fans. The attendance, ratings all went down. The attitude Era fad in America was over. You mix in fans who tried yo stick around were greeted with a company name change. Rock and Austin both leaving amd inconsistent on TV, the draft brand split turned away ppl, pushing new stars in 02. It lead to mass Viewership turn off. So by the time WrestleMania comes around, for 1 month and a half they build up Mania around 4 guys that aren't even sticking around much post Mania.

[@Kingo_Nonaka]

Yeah alot of wrestlers were part time around that time

[@VishalSingh-st5xd]

Just a few days ago even I was going deep into these PPV numbers. One thing I noticed that if you aggregate all the PPV buys then the superstars(in main event) with most PPV buys were(No rumble). HHH - 21.8M Cena - 18.3M Taker - 16.4M Rock - 15.1M Austin - 13.6M HBK - 12.5M These were the ones with more than 10m buys in total. Ig Hogan can also hit 10m if we count in wcw and closed circuit from the 80s. Also first I thought that HHH is at the top just because of being in the peak era and having a long career but when noticed I saw the PPVs in after attitude Era which had HHH in main event were better performing than the others.

[@zanethind3533]

Lots didn't go to Taboo Tuesday because it was on a Tuesday and everyone was working. So they were working late or too tired to go after work to a 2-3hr ppv of wrestling

[@BrandonDillonTV]

One of my memories as a young wrestling fan was my parents buying my brother and I Battleground 2013 on PPV. The main reason they did was because it was in my hometown but my parents were not into wrestling at all. The only one who would’ve been available to take my brother and I that day was my mom and she really didn’t want to sit through it and spend the $70 a piece to get decent tickets, so as compensation they bought us the PPV. As a kid I loved the show just bc I have that memory of it. The rhodes vs shield match is definitely the only match I can really go back and watch now but at the same time it’s a fond memory for me so it always has a special place in my heart

[@willisapril]

3:34 to be fair in 2003 they really started to jack up the price for PPV's and all the Hooters and several other chains were showing the PPV's for free which must have hurt. 5:00 2003 Backlash which was in my home state was sold out. and we ended up watching it at Hooters in Boston which was 40 miles away.

[@kadharefinley224]

Thanks Pav for almost making me throw up my burger after showing Michael Cole’s foot 😭😭

[@AutoRockinRacing94]

I swear WM19 is the reason why Seattle will never get a big four PLE slot. I've never forgotten the rumors of my town having the Rumble.

[@icrashout]

It's so weird to see Money in the Bank 2011 was a low selling PPV, that John Cena vs. CM punk match was a 5 star classic

[@khesipresents1885]

People don't know how great a match or ppv will be going into the show...

[@Johnny3Batony]

No one cares about those imaginary stars. Meltzer gives 5 stars to skinnyfat Bucks, Garcia etc all the time. But rates Benoit, Angle with 2 stars.

[@lancergt1000]

7:49 of course Taboo Tuesday was the worst attended PPV, everyone's too busy on weekdays

[@DeadliestCuzzin]

Look at nxt nowadays haha

[@B7endan15]

12:36 I went to that show with my dad and he was so mad at the big show lmao

[@Superb_0wl]

idc what anybody says the ECW Elimination Chamber Match was Awesome!!! true Sabu being replaced was Lame & that Table in the Pod shouldve been Broken but still

[@eddygm886]

I agree

[@q.i.m.s9999]

I guess Bobby Lashley winning the belt was bizarre to most wrestling fans.

[@Tiggle_biscuit430]

It sucked cause everyone was behind cm punk and Rob van dam to win and booking booby lashley pissed everyone off since during ecw ain't nobody cares about no Bobby lashley plus December to dismember did suck tho honestly the Ppv in general the match wasn't so bad but that booking was dumb on ecws behalf should have not gave Bobby that win knowing well it would piss people off

[@bertog8080]

That was the first and only ppv I got on dvd. My cousin left it at my house and watched once a week as a kid. Didn’t realize how hated it was until I went on the internet and watched videos about the worst ppv ever lol

[@Venemofthe888]

The chamber match and the hardys v mnm were the only matches announced, Sabu got replaced in the chamber, punk and rvd were eliminated super Early and what I think did the most damage was it was a week after survivor series which was a big 4. Ain't no way everyone is paying for 2 ppvs a week apart

[@kjiyere7224]

Six minutes ago is crazy. I'm surprised he followed up from his promise from the last video.

[@pleaseshutup7053]

03 was a year of transition but it’s interesting to note the buys didn’t reach attitude era level they were higher than the years after except mania of course

[@elsassypineapple]

I love how Big Show still is catching strays in these videos.😆 I like the idea, Pav🙌🏽

[@javi994]

The “WEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLL” will never not be hilarious 😂

[@zanethind3533]

It's crazy to think that back then a person could go to a ppv for only 14-30 dollars

[@johnnyhockey53]

been in the hospital for the past month so thanks for keeping me entertained lmao

[@codyriot6890]

It’s ok

[@dysenpufahl7259]

8:09 Might be the most out of pocket thing Pav has ever said 😭

[@javi994]

lmaoooooooooooooo

[@SuperQuanBros]

"p diddy baby oil bottle numbers" fuckin fried me lmao

[@WrestlinGifs]

@@SuperQuanBros nobody noticed that🙈

[@PrinceVegita1]

WM19 was the first Mania since the Brand split and the main show RAW sucked at the time. Not too surprising the buyrate was low tbh. WM18 and build up were also already a step down from WM17.

[@uncaringgenius]

When it comes to WM 19, another issue that hurt buys was that some parts of the USA still did not have UPN(which aired Smackdown) until later that year, and only had access to Raw. That left HHH/Booker and Rock/Austin 3 to drive fan interest and it didn't work. Upn would not be able to reach a lot more US homes until late 2003.

[@donfidone7565]

I’m surprised that the 1995 king of the ring ppv wasn’t on here

[@MrHitmanjohnson1]

I think the issue with Backlash was due to everyone know The Rock was leaving, so there was resentment

[@alternative7586]

It's crazy how many of these were good PPVs but didn't do well financially. Thanks for the list!

[@WrestlinGifs]

Glad you enjoyed brother

[@rohan_3128]

WrestleMania 19 may not be the best but still it was memorable

[@rcdune7132]

To be fair.. 2003 was a big year for those blasts arenas, basically restaurants like Buffalo wild wings with host the pay-per-view and have a large gathering at only five bucks a pop... I remember my B-Dubs used to get packed like crazy!! That would take a lot of buys away from the singular person

[@DougieYT]

It still puzzles me how WrestleMania 19 was an absolute amazing PPV but drew so low, yet piss poor shows like WrestleMania 27, Battlegound 2013, etc made so much money.

[@khesipresents1885]

Lol quality of show clearly doesn't determine ppv buys....and 27 ,28,27 got great ppv buys because of the rock

[@DougieYT]

@ Okay? You’re saying this like The Rock wasn’t on WrestleMania XIX as well.

[@khesipresents1885]

@@DougieYT he was but he wasn't the main event,but I get it xix supposed to do better....but you think it's a coincidence wm26 got like 700k and then rock started from 27,28,29 and all of them made 1m+.. including the fan hated 2wice in a lifetime

[@Edelweiss1102]

@@DougieYT Context matters here, both for the Rock and PPVs in general. And indeed, great shows don't always correlate with great business. Business was cooling down significantly in 2003, the Monday night wars were over, many ECW and WCW fans never came over, and many casuals had left around 2001, partially due to 9/11 leading to major shifts in culture. The Rock was in a bit of an awkward spot around 2003, with remaining fans being miffed that he was leaving for Hollywood and him not being as big on the global stage as he had been in 1999/2000 or would be again later. In 2011, the Rock finally came back after 7 years, now being an established A-llister in Hollywood and just coming off the majorly successful Fast 5. And he challenged Cena, the guy who had become the face of the company and stabilized them during the PG era. It was going to make big money, no matter how shitty it may have been.

[@GavinJones19982]

@@DougieYTThe Rock wasn’t super big mega star rock in 2003 like he was in 2011 & 2012 plus WWE as a whole was still going through the post invasion popularity dip in early 2003

[@rocavelli20]

I was at over the limit 2011 in seattle. The only thing I remember about that show was Brett Hart returning and The Miz having a fake recording of John Cena saying “I quit”😅

[@YeTism]

Remember when big show vs Orton main evented survivor series? Dark times

[@chris7_uyahshgs981]

Absolutely crazy that ever happened

[@powerspyin1games]

I have no memory of that happening

[@daxmoney5011]

How the hell did WM 19 sell bad with Rock Austin 3?

[@pleaseshutup7053]

With the Monday night wars ending a lot of fans left

[@jamalwalker04]

The advertising for the show was way too Vince vs Hogan-based from what I remember which made a lot of people think it was going to be those 2 main eventing

[@Edelweiss1102]

The Monday night wars had ended, with many ECW and WCW fans never switching over to WWE, many casuals left around 2001, partially because 9/11 lead to a huge shift in culture and society, Austin had been out for like 8 months before he came back briefly and was about to retire, the Rock was about to leave for Hollywood for good. The entire buildup and marketing being centered around Vince vs Hogan instead of Rock vs Austin or either of the title matches probably didn't help either. Business simply wasn't as hot as it has been from like 1995 to 2001.

[@jackhughes7637]

2002 was a weird time in WWE and the general quality of weekly TV was drastically worse than the year before.

[@adrianguzman4890]

The big show joke cracks me up everytime 😂 12:32

[@JC-wn3ig]

Surprising Capital Punishment wasn’t featured on this video

[@ryanmarshall778]

I can understand why Mania 19 didn’t sell more, it cost 100 dollars to watch Mania on PPV. Other PPVs were 40 or 50

[@micahshaw5947]

Goated video as always (i jus opened the notification but I already know it's elite)

[@ChriznobylYT]

waiting for pav to do a vid about saturday nights main event story since 85 and the amazing matches we had back then in the 00s

[@willisrose9756]

Ross definitely needs to watch this & the Best Selling PPV’s vid!

[@brianm1185]

Wrestlemania 19 was a great card but the whole brand extension turned off a lot of viewers. That year I would have went with hogan vs Austin and rock vs hbk.

[@dakotarock6422]

WM 19 is an epic moment in wrestling history.. screw audience sales that PPV was amazing! The wrestling and story telling was top notch. Hogan and Vince finally fighting after the steroid trials and Hulk leaving WWF, HBK, and Jericho nuff' said, the final story of SC vs the Rock a story in the making for a decade, Brock vs Kurt ..etc. etc. this PPV was amazing! S-series with HBK winning the EC match, WM 13 Brett Hart vs SC is a match (story build up of Austin becoming Stone Cold) every single wrestling fan should watch

[@AnthonyIsToeKnee]

I watched your big show video and I enjoy the running joke that he screws everything up. Playing his theme to answer a question says everything.

[@AustinJensen21]

My family was one of the 119,000 buys for battleground 2013. We still have the ripple effects from that PPV felt to this day. We also ordered ECW December to Dismember… nobody can question our loyalty to pro wrestling lol

[@kingash9831]

If Backlash 2000 can get more than 500k buys Survivor Series 2002 should have that amount also That was a solid show

[@jordanmccluskey891]

December to Dismember should had been moved from the 3rd to the 17th of December instead of having the PPV 7 days after Survivor Series 2006 and maybe they would have had a higher buy rate instead of 90,000 buy rate

[@PHVEV_AF]

My grandpa bought ECW December to Dismember 2006. He was so hopeful that ECW's magic was gonna be back because he loved the Original ECW. It was extremely disappointing and sad for him.

[@xcivior6119]

I was the biggest fan of Daniel Bryan growing up and my mom actually ordered me Battleground 2013. I remember the show being pretty bad, but I loved the Rhodes match so much my mom bought it for me on DVD. Still have it too, I'm sure not many others do lol.

[@matthewlieberman7474]

I remember as a kid ordering Judgement Day 2009 and mid show the cable box stopped working and we had to call the cable company and missed the majority of the show 😅 I remember the show not being that good to begin with

[@GhimanMac]

Vengeance 2011 was a great paperview

[@darionblack4434]

mitb was fire because it was unexpected. nobody expected punk to win and really”leave”

[@BrickFighter13]

I need a compilation of Pav just hating on Big Show 😂😂 The beef is personal!

[@OnionSavoya]

WrestleMania 19 did great on DVD

[@WrestlinGifs]

@@OnionSavoya yessirrrr, still wish the DVD had the show poster not Hogan / Vince on it though

[@OnionSavoya]

@WrestlinGifs Hogan vs Vince was awesome

[@OnionSavoya]

@WrestlinGifs You gotta remember that people where black boxing free PPV and bootleggers where sharing tapes big time! Some of these PPV had higher viewership than anyone can measure.

[@LilZeusWrld]

@@OnionSavoyayes!! The free ppv cable boxes era. If ya know you know

[@omarvazquez3355]

Pav the GOAT dropping a video on Friday night. You're da man! ❤

[@kingkyogre1225]

I’m just heartbroken my hometown was the place where the lowest attended wwe ppv show was held😢 I wasn’t even alive yet to convince my friends and family to go

[@Ivan18SM]

December got pav on his grind😭🙏

[@willisrose9756]

If anyone is wondering what else was on the match card at Summerslam 2013 (besides Punk vs. Lesnar and Cena vs. Bryan) (1.) Rob Van Dam defeated Dean Ambrose (c) by disqualification for the WWE United States Championship (on the Kickoff Show) (2.) Bray Wyatt (with Luke Harper and Erick Rowan) defeated Kane in a Ring of Fire match (The opening match to start the Main Show) (3.) Cody Rhodes defeating Damien Sandow (4.) Alberto Del Rio (c) beating Christian to retain the World Heavyweight Championship (5.) Natalya (with Cameron and Naomi) beat Brie Bella (with Nikki Bella and Eva Marie) (6.) Dolph Ziggler and Kaitlyn defeated Big E Langston and AJ Lee Mixed tag team match

[@madnomad3861]

Triple H vs Jericho for the title in the main event with Hogan, Rock and Austin in the undercard > Angle vs Lesnar for the title in the main event with Hogan, Rock and Austin in the undercard

[@WrestlinGifs]

Rock vs Hogan was just too big Lowkey they should have done Austin vs Hogan at 19

[@madnomad3861]

@@WrestlinGifs Triple H was lowkey a big draw in the first part of 02 after his return. Royal Rumble that year had the biggest buyrate of any Rumble ppv in history despite everyone knowing that he was gonna win it

[@codino97]

In Portugal we had ppvs on the cable channel that broadcasted wwe, we just saw them 2 weeks later just like the usual broadcast, so something happened today, in 11 days we got it :)

[@Basic079]

Didn’t expect that Germany comment but anyways the elimination chamber is actually my favorite match of all time. The build up between Triple H and Shawn Michaels’ rivalry was so perfect and that match was so good imo.

[@javi994]

7:01 Starrcade ‘97 the worst choke of all time 😂 They really pulled a 2004 Yankees choke

[@adamt014]

I was at bragging rights 2011 in elementary school. One of the best days of my life

[@maxenite]

Bragging Rights 2010? I'm so surprised to hear that tbh. I know people will bully me because of this but Bragging Rights is my favorite PPV of all time. It's even better than Rumble and Wrestlemania for me. I was so sad to see they didn't continue to make that PPV again.

[@JakeyC56]

Im surprised that Stomping Grounds wasn't on here.

[@kamoletswalo8496]

I guess it's because it was on the network

[@NASCARTruckSeries]

"I dont care if the main event was my mom vs my dad" LMAO😂

[@souljaboy7688]

You should do this but by the year. Tally up all the ppv buys and do a best and worst selling years for ppvs! Imma numbers guy as well

[@alexandru5369]

I honestly think the horrible WM19 buyrate was proof that after 2002 wrestling was no longer cool/semi-mainstream. Ratings wise 2003 was off a lot from 2002 as well

[@javi994]

It’s a shame cuz Smackdown was really good I think everyone saw Raw turning into the Triple H show and said I’m out 😂

[@alexandru5369]

@@javi994 Great points as great as SD was at the time it wasn't exactly drawing massive numbers ( for the time) and yeah Raw was definitively the Triple H show from mid 2002 too mid 2004

[@Edelweiss1102]

I think it's just a lot of stuff coming together, not all of it in WWE's control or their fault. The Monday Night Wars were over, ECW and WCW were no more, many of their fans were never going to switch over to WWE, even if they hadn't botched the Invasion angle and used the WCW stars better. 9/11 had a profound impact on society and the "zeitgeist" at the time, either enforcing or accelerating cultural changes away from the edgy 90es, which was a major factor for the big boom in the 90es. Austin was out with 1,5 feet and about to retire, the Rock was about to leave for Hollywood for good, many casuals had left around 2001.

[@andrewilliams4180]

​@@Edelweiss1102very well said

[@maxrivera7233]

I remeber watching battleground 2013 live, me and my grandpa were so pissed with that trash big show finish he called the cable service and got a refund saying we didn’t order the ppv

[@ShinobiCen]

Pav is not playin around

[@WrestlinGifs]

🫡

[@marnelo6501]

There is a trick with SS 2013 and MITB 2011. People didn't expect John Cena to perform bangers back then. We praise them now but it was different at the time.

[@jdixon390]

I don't know how much this comtributes to overall sales, but back in 2011 we got PPV's for free on Sky Sports in the UK, I remember watching Elimination Chamber, Money In The Bank and Vengeance in full so maybe UK sales were effected by that. Also, Wrestlemania 27 has to be the worst PPV purchase our family ever made.

[@packfan525]

Bragging Rights 2010 will always have a place in my heart. I was going through trauma at that time and a lot of details from 2009-2012 blend together. I actually went to Bragging Rights as a HUGE Cena fan. It took place in Minneapolis during the Viking/Packer game, which my dad and I recorded and watched when we got home. We were up until like 1 and since it was Sunday he let me skip school the next day. Looking back part of me wishes the Nexus angle turned out different. But a bigger part of me is glad teenage me has a positive memory from that hard time.

[@BigC-Note]

Never ordered a ppv but the worst wwe vhs/dvd I ever bought growing up was probably no way out 2002 😞

[@pleaseshutup7053]

That was a good ppv what you mean? Austin’s last wwe title match ever

[@jackhughes7637]

The reason Survivor Series 02 did so badly is because WWE's TV writing had dipped so dramatically in quality from 2001-2002. 02 was a big year for turning fans off the product.

[@vault1021]

Elimination chamber sounds like an “Indian street food survival challenge” game show

[@CriticalSports013]

Can't believe I actually convinced my dad to buy December to Dismember. Even my 12 year old self realized how bad it was right away haha

[@AdamSMessinger]

I'm not shocked that the stuff from the mid-00's to the mid 10's were in the lowest buy rates because WWE were putting on like 60-70% garbage or boring stuff with 30-40% stuff worth watching. Also, anything that started out good had a guaranteed dip in creative quality at some point during that time. I'm not surprised Vengeance 2011 had low buyrates because the tv leading up to it often had fans being like "Are they gonna f*** us? They're gonna f*** us, aren't they." and that show managed to not.

[@HeihachiMishima48]

Did this guy just say WWE 2003-2008 was garabage?! Well alrighty then...

[@Jellybob69]

MitB ‘2011 was free in the UK and probably other countries too, so that might be why. Smaller PPVs were always free in the UK around that time on Sky.

[@don8244]

Early '97 would've been better for WWF if Bret's popularity as a babyface wasn't waning and Shawn wasn't "injured" (he faked getting hurt to avoid putting Sid over). Bret turning heel and Shawn's return to forming DX helped the company a little bit

[@Edelweiss1102]

I think the big takeaway here is that great PPVs don't always correlate with great business, and that there are a lot of factors going into it, which aren't always directly in WWE's control or their fault. The contrast between WM 19 and 27 illustrates this good. WM 19 is amazing on paper, but it came at a point in time when business was on a major downward spiral. The Monday night wars were over, many ECW and WCW fans never came over while many casuals left around 2001, partially due to cultural changes caused by 9/11. Austin and Rock, the faces of the AE, were both out with 1,5 feet, with this indeed being their final match. Cena, Batista, Orton, Brock and more weren't as over/big as they would be later. RAW becoming the Triple H show and WM 19 being centered around Vince vs Hogan instead of Rock vs Austin or either of the title matches probably was the final nail in the coffin. In contrast, WM 27 had the Rock effect. Him finally coming back after 7 years, now a certified A-lister, brought back many old fans as well as new casual fans. And him challenging Cena, who had become the face of the company for the PG era, was gonna make big money no matter what. I think people also tend to overestimate the impact certain events had on business. I love the pipe bomb, for example, but it barely left the wrestling bubble, so I'm nor surprised it didn't have the same impact as Hogan being in Rocky 3, Tyson being at WM14 or the Rock being literally everywhere in 2000. Overall, I'm not surprised that PPVS from the mid 90es, mid 2000s and early 2010s tend to do the worst, as that were time periods where the business was down in general, and the product sucked overall. Around 2010 was also where illegal watches were the highest if recall correctly. So WWE ditching classic PPVs for streaming was definitely the right call.

[@zrproductions6469]

The only PPV I (my parents) ordered for me as a kid was WM 29 and I thought it was the greatest thing ever at the time. We ended up getting the WWE Network in June 2014.

[@JayTeeAyy]

They made a whole video game off WM XIX

[@WrestlinGifs]

@@JayTeeAyy well yeah they also had WM 2000, 18, and 21 bro

[@johnwinbun2645]

If I remember correctly that December to Dismember ppv did have a banger to open the show. The Hardy’s vs MnM

[@ReinEngel]

I can't believe there exists a show with less buys than GAB 2004. That show was a nightmare. You can clearly hear my voice crack on a "YOU SUCK!" during Chavo vs. Mysterio. That's how dead that crowd was.

[@WrestlinGifs]

Somehow that did 238,000 buys, not bad at all for a ‘04 SD PPV. Sadly they had Eddie lose :(

[@nohbuddy1]

Mania 19 just had top matches that no one carted about. Booker T was great and all but he won the title shot in a battle royal and only had a month build up. He wasn't pushed as a main event guy before that or after until he switched to Smackdown

[@JustJ1996]

Two things. 1. They set ECW up to fail, that PPV could’ve been better. 2. They failed us in SvR 2008 not having the elimination chamber as the Main Event for ECW in GM mode.

[@michaelthomas1087]

This is why I don’t believe in numbers when it comes to sales in sports and entertainment. It’s just that numbers the shows speaks for themselves

[@P_C_A_F]

Taboo Tuesday and cyber Sunday are the only times wwe had the same attendance as aew

[@Caesars-P]

Cyber Sunday should make a comeback. The concept would work for today’s cyber landscape. The Internet was a trend back in the mid 2000. It’s a basic necessity in today’s world.

[@Xzar_Xzar]

WM19 is a stacked card imo and I loved that PPV from top to bottom. People that didn’t buy it at the time missed out.

[@KadeemG61]

Actually, WrestleMania 13 (1997) is still the lowest bought Mania of all time and the only Mania PPV to never sell out in terms of ticket sales.