My Top 5 Worst PPV endings of all time

[abhilash81]

I got some preety cool countdowns in reply to My top 5 greatest ppv finishes ever, from all of you guys, so I thought it would be great to make a top 5 of the absolute worst ppv endings ever.... So these are my picks......

#5. Wrestlemania 2000

The tagline for the main event was "A Mcmahon in every corner" and was this match terrible! To top it all, WWE tried something new and let the Heel, Triple H win the title. WTF WAS THAT? I mean people wait for this event all year and they expect a feel good moment to end the biggest show of the year and what they got was this! Though The Rock retaliated but the damage had been done. The crowd was totally pissed off at this booking and left the Arena on a sour note.

#4. Survivor Series 1997

One of the most controversial moments in wrestling history, remembering this moment still makes me sad. Bret Hart, being the classy human being He was, remained loyal to Vince for years when wrestlers such as hall and nash were jumping ship to the WCW. Vince was a father figure for him. What did He get for it? He got screwed off the title in his home country. I respect HBK but he had his hand in this conspiracy too. And what crossed the limit was the interview conducted by JR where Vince uttered those infamous words-" Bret screwed Bret!" You can't find a boss as much evil as Vince Mcmahon.

#3. Wrestlemania 9

I always wanted to watch this event over other wrestlemanias just for the open setting. Finally I got to watch it 2 years ago and then i learnt why people throw shit at this event. The entire event was a clusterf**k from star to finish. Talking about finish, Hogan couldn't care less about a rising star like Bret Hart and convinced Vince to insert Him in the climax of the ppv. Yokozuna defeated Hart, Hogan came to his aid, was challanged for the title, accepted, and had the belt in his hand in less than a minute. I still can't understand how 2 big egomaniacs like vince and hulk managed to cooperate each other for almost 10 years!

#2. Victory Road 2011

LONG story short. Jeff Hardy was found
passed out due to being so high
backstage right before his match so
bischoff came out and told Sting that
Hardy is high so they made the match like
90 Seconds.

Jeff was high during his match.

It was 90 seconds.

It was real sad to see one of my favourite childhood stars in that condition. TNA didn't cared about his health one bit and that decision made for a Black day in wrestling history.

#1. Heroes of Wrestling 1999

This was an indie ppv featuring superstars of the past who were way past their prime. This is considered as the worst ppv ever!! What made it the worst???? The matches from start to finish, sucked. Then it was time for the main event....

Just before the main event, Jake "The Snake" Roberts was interviewed in a promo in which he was supposed to taunt his opponent that night,
Jim Neidhart. However, Roberts appeared for the
interview heavily intoxicated. The interview became infamous not only for its
unscripted nature but for Roberts' only fully
intelligible sentence, an attempted analogy about
playing cards as the event was being held at a
casino: "You don't want to play cards with me because I
cheat. Okay? I cheat. You wanna play 21? I've
got 22. You want to play blackjack? I've got two
of those too!" During the match itself, Jake's snake, Damien,
came out of its bag, and Jake Roberts made it to
resemble his penis, *********ing and making
sexual gestures with it, forcing cuts to the crowd.
Shortly thereafter the match between Jim
Neidhart/Jake Roberts became a tag team match of Yokozuna/Jake Roberts vs Jim Neidhart/King
Kong Bundy. The match was a disaster in terms of wrestling and watching one of the most decorated superstars of the yesteryears, in the state in which he was, felt terrible.

So, these were my worst ppv finishes ever. What are yours????

 

[MayorMcCheese]

I remember WM2000 very well.
It was the worst WM I can remember since I started watching.
The ending just left me pissed off that I paid money to see HHH win once again.

The whole HHH aura is such bullshit, before John Cena, HHH was SuperCena, he got the rub from every bring name for almost 2 years

 

[Jonyboyuk2]

For me its -

WM9 - Bret Hart Being screwed out of the title and all of a sudden Hulk Hogan winning the title.

Survivor Series 2000 - HHH in a car, being dropped by Austin. HHH returns 8 days later - scratch free. Its angles like this that make WWE have an awful reputation.

Royal Rumble 1994 - Nobody wanted Luger to win the RR with Bret Hart. It was silly. They could have built this in to a better storyline rather than what they did. Kudos to Vince for being creative with the WWF heading towards WM 10 though. It just didnt work.

King OF the Ring 2001. The main event didnt feel like a must see and having two good guys facing a lone bad guy was just not sensible. Plus a 3rd good guy running in and the bad guy still winning the match, it was just such a massive damaging moment for stone colds character as a heel. Everyone came off worse from that match. poorly booked.

Survivor Series 1997. Didnt understand what had happened at the time of watching and we didnt get RAW in the UK (well, we did, but it was pre-recorded 3 weeks in advance). So they ran a European Special the following Friday evening (in the timeslot Raw usually went out on the following friday). It just did not make sense. If it had not been for the raging workrate of the WWF locker room and the mamouth turnaround in creative by Stone Cold and DX, then I then thought the WWF almost could have died that week. I know better now but at the time, watching the house show instead - with added in commentry, it was awful.

 

[The Fabulous Rougeau's]

I have a tough time with your #5 and #4 selections.

The Mania 2000 match was real good, especially the last 20 minutes when it was just HHH and Rock. They put on a hell of a match and having HHH win was unexpected and in fairness a pretty bold and suprising move that worked on some levels.

As big of a Bret Hart fan as I am, the finish to the screwjob is the most famous moment in wrestling and even though it sucked for Bret, cannot be considered one of the worst finishes of all time. I mean this spearheaded the attitude era which saw some of the highest ratings and biggest gates in WWF/E history.

 

[neildittmar]

Not sure about top 5, but one of the worst PPV endings I can remember was Wrestlemania 8. The "big 4" PPV's were alive and well back then and Wrestlemania was still the grandaddy of them all. To be fair, the Savage/Flair bout for the world title was pretty incredible and at the time, I was shocked that Flair dropped the title to Savage. In hindsight, this match really should have closed the show as opposed to the proverbial train wreck that we got.

But no... Hogan had to be in the spotlight, at Wrestlemania, one more time. I'll concede the fact that this match was supposed to be a big deal, given that it was indirectly billed as Hogan's retirement match. I don't remember it being heavily advertised that way, but some definite allusions were made that this may have been the last time we saw Hulk in the ring. To that degree, the match needed to end in a decisive win or lose for Hogan.

Even back then, I thought the Sid/Hogan feud was pretty weak all the way around. This is despite me being a pretty big fan of Sid at the time. The match itself was pretty ho-hum, with the typical Hogan vs. [Insert Bigger Guy Here] blueprint playing out. Papa Shango missing the run-in actually provided for one of the few exciting parts of the bout when Sid kicked out of the infamous legdrop. It's sad when a "mistake" turns out to be one of the more interesting points of the match proper.

When Shango finally woke up and meandered his way down to the ring, the ref saw the interference and called for the DQ. So the main event of the biggest show of the year ended in a disqualification. That's an automatic minus in my book. The Ultimate Warriors return was supposed to save this attrocity, but the entire fan base (including me at home) was left doing little more than a double-take. The music was familiar and the get-up was similar, but was this the same guy? He looked so different. This is where the "Warriors Dead" rumors turned up no doubt. He was barely recognizable.

The main problem I have with the ending of Wrestlemania 8 though is that WWF had a fantastic main event in Flair/Savage that could've easily closed the show and left the crowd happy. The DQ ending between Hogan and Sid, despite the return of the Warrior, left a sour taste in my mouth. This was Wrestlemania! This was teased as Hogan's final match! To have it end inconclusively was borderline insulting.

 

[dudedudedude]

Wrestlemania 2000 was shocking, because a heel left champion. But it was still cool cause the Rock fucking the family up.

Survivor series 1997 had the ending that thrust WWE into the attitude era. Enough said.

I'd have to say, the worst I've seen, is when Cena kept demolishing the nexus, those endings sucked. You sorta thought all his one up-ing of then on TV would lead to a big tv angle....but no....

 

[bigbootydaddyV]

how's he gonna be passed out if he's high!? chinese riddle for yo ass there haha jp... solid list man, Victory road was pretty bad, though probably not as bad as the rest for me... WM9 was ridiculous, even though at the time I was ok with it because i just saw one of my favorites get cheated and I wanted to see that guy not get away with it, looking back, what a joke for hogan to force their hand like that (which is what i had read happened so i'm basing it off that), and WM2000 was absurd, HHH winning again, at that time it was really common too, and that was just the start of it as he would still run through goldberg and steiner and others as well. Survivor series 97, definitely an awful ending due to the screw job, though it did leave it's mark in history and possibly one of the biggest moments in changing the course of history. I think the worst though was that summerslam 95, where it was headlined by Mabel and Diesel... quite possibly the worst main event of all time.

 

[rokuma]

IMO, Victory Road 2011 could've been salvaged somewhat. Why not have the 90 second match, where Sting forced Hardy down for the 3 count and then have Sting challenge somebody else directly afterward? It makes him look like a legit tough guy and made Hardy look like a bum (which is how he should be viewed as...to do something like this is no better than any of the shenanigans Jake the Snake or Scott Hall have pulled, but Hardy gets a pass...I don't get it). Why not have someone like AJ Styles or Daniels or Roode, heck, even Flair rush down for a match? Sting and Flair couldn't put on a decent match (with as many times they have wrestled each other)? Just ANYBODY to send the crowd home happy after that disaster that was the 90 second main event.

 

[HBKperfect23]

King of the Ring 1995. The start of the "Mabel era". Horrible. And I get the Rocky theme in Philadelphia with the underdog going the distance, but Savio Vega....really?

Summerslam 1993. Luger should have got the title here. He was pushed to the moon and its as if he was scheduled to win it and then Vince backed out. The DQ ending was so stupid. Let Luger get the win and then drop it back to Yoko in a few weeks. Celebrating a DQ win like that is like a NFL team celebrating a pre season win like a super bowl win.

The WCW ppv with Sting and Jake Roberts. Jake Roberts snake turns face when it "bites" him.

 

[CarlosBee]

A recent choice would be Bound For Glory when Kurt Angle beat Bobby Roode after it was built up to be a Wrestlemania style feel good ending

 

[jrichardson25]

Victory Road 2011 had worst ending ever. Not because of bad booking but because of Jeff Hardy being a fucking idiot.

That one. That's the worst possible ppv ending I've been unfortunate to see/hear about.

The one that pissed me off that shouldn't have ended that way (but set up for another match) was WM27 when The Rock hit Cena with the Rock Bottom and Miz picked up a cheap win... frustrating as hell...

 

[Ryyu]

I would make a full list but all 5 of my top Five are all Starrcade 97, one of the most anticipated main events with over a year of build, and its shit on by Super Hogan, and then they take the hottest man in wrestling and have him reverse the Slowest fast count in history to then ring the bell before hogan taps.

But, if i was forced, 2-5 in no order.

WM9- People have said all that needs to be said

VR11- Made me ashmed to be a TNA fan

Invasion- Lets turn the face who noone booed for when he was a heel a heel again and make the most loved WWE member a WCW guy beacuse we dont want to get Flair in yet.

Fall Brawl 98- I could spend all day talking about this, but nothing i could say could cover how bad both the Warrior vs Hogan match and the Horace Hogan run in was.

Honorable mentions go to WM 8, WM27, Bound for Glory 11, Starrcade 98 (Goldbergs first loss), All awful in there own special way.

 

[harrythem]

In no particular order:

WCW Capital Combat 1990 - It involved Robocop bending cage bars. Biggest load of old shit

WrestleMania 27 - A complete horse-shit was to end the PPV.

WCW Uncensored 96 - The Doomsday cage match. No idea what it was about, no idea what the point was..Hard to believe the nWo arrived just after and kick started WCW

SummerSlam 2001 - After this event ended the WCW/ECW Invaders were dead in the water. Such a waste.

Wrestlemania 18 - How Jericho Vs HHH could go on after Rock & Hogan is a joke. Dead-weight match and a dead reaction

 

[ThisisBDub]

This should be a no contest! Jeff Hardy's dramatic fail as a human being and a performer at Victory Road 2011. Jeff Hardy embarrassed himself, Sting, the rest of the TNA Locker Room and management, Sports Entertainment and wrestling fans.

 

[dahvoo]

Wrestlemania 2000 will always be one of the worst PPV endings. I was in the audience that night. Not only my one and only live Wrestlemania, but my first live wrestling event period. And I had been watching as a kid since about 1989. The Rock not winning the title due to a chair shot was absurd. You save that kind of stuff for cable TV, not a PPV. I will always remember how miserable the walk back to the car was.

 

[FlairFan2003]

Starrcade 97 was a bad ending, the NWO had mostly been on top for over a year, it was time for them to suffer a major blow. If the screw job ending was done to help pop a big buyrate for SuperBrawl it was still bad, a clean Sting win was practically demanded, and quite honestly the NWO on offense trying to steal the title back at SB would have popped just as big if not bigger a buyrate than the ridiculous ending (lets not forget the even more ridiculous ending to the first "re match" the next night on Nitro that left the whole title in limbo) at Starrcade gave them.

Starrcade 98 actually didnt bother me, at least not the main event. The Flair-Bischoff match pretty much killed the crowd anyway (I was there live, never heard a crowd die so fast), that was a bad ending, concieved to drive up the ratings for Nitro the next night when Flair got his revenge (which it did, the numbers were very good). Goldberg-Nash wasnt a bad match and the ending kept you interested to see how Nash would handle things, would he distance himself from Hall and give Goldberg a re match, would he join forces with Hall on ce again, was his face turn over ? It wasnt that bad, the booking after they reunited the NWO however from Feb 99 onward was, as Ive posted on other threads.

I though Warrior-Hogan in WCW happened at the October PPV Halloween Havoc, Fall Brawl in Sept had a Wargames match did it not ??

Hogan-Sid was a crappy way to end WM 8 - The Sid feud looked really hastily thrown together, oroginally the fans were booing Hogan in this feud if you remember and siding with Sid, I realize that with the federal steroid investigation kicking up guys linked to it like Piper (who had a great match, probably his best WM match of all time, vs Brett Hart that night) & Hogan had to go, which killed any chance of Hogan-Flair headlining the show, which after Flair's huge performance to win the title at the Royal Rumble seemed almost like a certainty. The problem really is that Sid was not a good opponent and no one knew who Papa Shango was. The DQ ending (was that done to protect Sid going forward, no clean pinfall loss for Mr Viscious, if so why, he disappeared too right after this match) really was the icing on the cake, bad feud, lousy match, characters we never heard of jumping in, then in Hogan's Retirement Match we get a lame DQ ending. Fact is, today, with Vince far more worried about the pacing of his shows than giving certain people what seems like an automatic top slot this match would have been much earlier on the show, probably righ after half time.

 

[Agent86]

At least you got to see all of those endings.

The worst PPV ending of all time will be forever owned by the 1998 edition of WCW Halloween Havoc. The PPV was running long and just cut off smack in the middle of the main event. The people watching the show never got to see the end, and the company lost millions of dollars.

Click here to see the end of the PPV on YouTube

 

[Peoples_Champ]

Its touch to rule out anything worse than Victory Road 2011. Imagine paying to see that crap.

Even worse, they had time to do something to make sure it wasn't the last match. Have Sting hold an impromptu match with RVD & Mr. Anderson (who had just wrestled a doble countout for a #1 contender match) for 10-15 minutes with the finish being a tainted win. At least this way, it distracts the fans from Hardy.

 

[JAK]

Dishonerable mentions:
Wrestlemaina 12 - the iron man match devoid of action
Wrestlemania 9 - Hulk Hogan's ego strikes again
Final Resolution 2011 - Robert Roode and AJ Styles wrestle to a 3-3 draw in an iron man match that promised so much more but failed to deliver because the Roode character's ability to keep the belt no matter what was more important than entertaining the fans.
King of the Ring 1994 - Roddy Piper vs Jerry Lawler was pushed ahead of Owen Hart winning King of the Ring.
King of the Ring 1995 - a PPV screwed by horrific booking. If Diesel and Bam Bam Bigelow vs Sid and Tatanka hadn't headlined the show with an awful 17 minute snoozefest then the final match would have been Mabel vs Savio Vega in another awfuil match, no way this PPV was going to end well.


5: Summerslam 1991 - the show ended with the storyline wedding of of Randy Savage and Miss Elizabeth. To make matters worse the pay off from the wedding wasn't until after the PPV. Also adding further insult to anyone watching was the abysmal handicap tag team wrestling main event which featured Hulk Hogan hogging ring time in a terrible match with the Ultimate Warrior against Sgt. Slaughter, Col. Mustafa and Gen. Adnan. Even the special guest referee Sid Justice did nothing to help matters.

4: Bound For Glory 2011 - Robert Roode gets pushed to the Moon in the events leading up to the PPV only for him to do the job to an injured and thus underperforming Kurt Angle. If the rumours are true then it was Hulk Hogan's political stroke that trashed the ending of an exceptionally good PPV. If the premise was to trun Roode heel then they should have booked James Storm to be in the main event instead of him rather than giving TNA fans a sub 2 minute title change on Impact Wrestling.

3: Wrestlemania 25 - nepotism in action, the bosses son-in-law and one of his buddies closed what was meant to be one of the biggest shows of recent history with a match that was lacking in impact and brutality, despite a storyline brutal build up. Triple H and Randy Orton phoned it in specttacularly for a main event that should have been on some B PPV. Either HBK/Undertaker or Edge/Show/Cena would have been better as they fired up the audience and had satisfying conclusions (and I normally hate Cena).

2: Victory Road 2011 - how to book yourself into a corner 101, give the world title shot to a wrestler with substance abuse issues, don't keep an eye on him after a fair few ropey PPV performances and then not have a back up plan when he's barely able to walk to the ring let alone wrestle. It's probably a miracle that the main event lasted longer than a Sheamus vs Daniel Bryan at Wrestlemania 28. The main event is only saved from the number 1 spot by Sting breaking character and agreeing with the fans live on air that his match with Jeff Hardy was totally unacceptable.

1: Wrestlemania 11 - Lawrence Taylor headlines the biggest PPV of the WWF year, puts on a mediocre performamnce and wins against Bam Bam Bigelow. Bigelow had to reign in his offence so the match will be remembered by me for it's reliance on rest holds. As I'm not from the USA or a fan of American Football LT could have been replaced by Barry Horrowitz for all I cared (in fact I'd have preferred it iof he had). To top it off Diesel and HBK absolutely killed the main event with their performnaces and should have been the closing match.

 

[justinept]

This one isn't too difficult for me.

5) Victory Road 11. I'd actually rank this one higher, but I can't put an awful TNA pay-per view ending on the same stage as a bad WCW or WWE pay-per view ending. Call me bias, but the expectations for TNA aren't very high to begin with so there's not much room to be disappointed. Though, it needs to be said, this one was disappointing.

4) Halloween Havock 1995. Every time I see Tony Schiavone in the press box, I scream out "The Ye-TAY." And it's because of this cluster fuck of an ending. In the words of Schiavone, nothing about this final sequence made sense. Luger turns heel, some guy dressed in toilet paper emerges backstage, and he - with the help of The Giant - tries to butt-fuck Hulk Hogan. Really?

3) Starcade 1997. Backstage politics forced the hands of Eric Bischoff, and I'll give him credit, he came up with a creative finish for the Hogan/Sting match. Unfortunately, the in-ring execution was awful and it came off as Bret Hart screwing Hulk Hogan out of the title. Not even Eric Bischoff can tell you why the referee forgot the fast count at the end.

2) Halloween Havoc 1998. I can't think of another major pay-per view that went off the air during the World Title Match -- I could just be forgetting something, though. This ending was one of the biggest black-eyes on WCW during its downhill slide.

1) WrestleMania 9. Nothing can be said about this pay-per view that hasn't already been said. It's without question one of the five worst WrestleManias of all-time, and it surely featured the worst ending.

 

[rokuma]

Fall Brawl 98- I could spend all day talking about this, but nothing i could say could cover how bad both the Warrior vs Hogan match and the Horace Hogan run in was.

This was Halloween Havoc 98. Actually, I thought Fall Brawl 98 was quite good. One of my favorite War Games matches with TONS of star power (exception: Stevie Ray...why not Henning or Hall? I never understood that): DDP, Bret Hart, Roddy Piper, Sting, Hogan, Nash, Luger, Warrior....WOW that a cast.

Dishonerable mentions:
Wrestlemaina 12 - the iron man match devoid of action
Wrestlemania 9 - Hulk Hogan's ego strikes again
Final Resolution 2011 - Robert Roode and AJ Styles wrestle to a 3-3 draw in an iron man match that promised so much more but failed to deliver because the Roode character's ability to keep the belt no matter what was more important than entertaining the fans.
King of the Ring 1994 - Roddy Piper vs Jerry Lawler was pushed ahead of Owen Hart winning King of the Ring.
King of the Ring 1995 - a PPV screwed by horrific booking. If Diesel and Bam Bam Bigelow vs Sid and Tatanka hadn't headlined the show with an awful 17 minute snoozefest then the final match would have been Mabel vs Savio Vega in another awfuil match, no way this PPV was going to end well.


5: Summerslam 1991 - the show ended with the storyline wedding of of Randy Savage and Miss Elizabeth. To make matters worse the pay off from the wedding wasn't until after the PPV. Also adding further insult to anyone watching was the abysmal handicap tag team wrestling main event which featured Hulk Hogan hogging ring time in a terrible match with the Ultimate Warrior against Sgt. Slaughter, Col. Mustafa and Gen. Adnan. Even the special guest referee Sid Justice did nothing to help matters.

4: Bound For Glory 2011 - Robert Roode gets pushed to the Moon in the events leading up to the PPV only for him to do the job to an injured and thus underperforming Kurt Angle. If the rumours are true then it was Hulk Hogan's political stroke that trashed the ending of an exceptionally good PPV. If the premise was to trun Roode heel then they should have booked James Storm to be in the main event instead of him rather than giving TNA fans a sub 2 minute title change on Impact Wrestling.

3: Wrestlemania 25 - nepotism in action, the bosses son-in-law and one of his buddies closed what was meant to be one of the biggest shows of recent history with a match that was lacking in impact and brutality, despite a storyline brutal build up. Triple H and Randy Orton phoned it in specttacularly for a main event that should have been on some B PPV. Either HBK/Undertaker or Edge/Show/Cena would have been better as they fired up the audience and had satisfying conclusions (and I normally hate Cena).

2: Victory Road 2011 - how to book yourself into a corner 101, give the world title shot to a wrestler with substance abuse issues, don't keep an eye on him after a fair few ropey PPV performances and then not have a back up plan when he's barely able to walk to the ring let alone wrestle. It's probably a miracle that the main event lasted longer than a Sheamus vs Daniel Bryan at Wrestlemania 28. The main event is only saved from the number 1 spot by Sting breaking character and agreeing with the fans live on air that his match with Jeff Hardy was totally unacceptable.

1: Wrestlemania 11 - Lawrence Taylor headlines the biggest PPV of the WWF year, puts on a mediocre performamnce and wins against Bam Bam Bigelow. Bigelow had to reign in his offence so the match will be remembered by me for it's reliance on rest holds. As I'm not from the USA or a fan of American Football LT could have been replaced by Barry Horrowitz for all I cared (in fact I'd have preferred it iof he had). To top it off Diesel and HBK absolutely killed the main event with their performnaces and should have been the closing match.

You, sir, lost my attention and my respect for your opinion when you claimed the Iron Man Match at WM 12 was a "dishonorable mention." What exactly about that match made it a horrible ending? The fact that HBK and Bret Hart put on a 5 star classic, with no falls, and it added to the drama that the time ran out and they needed overtime to decide it? It was one of the greatest matches of all-time and the ending just added to it. Then, you had HBK celebrating because his "boyhood dream came true." It was truly a moment and if you think that ending was bad, you probably have ridiculous standards.

 

[peter_midnight]

I would put more WCW PPVs on here, but I think some not so popular endings need to be mentioned.

5. The ECW PPV where Taz jobbed out first in the 3-way dance by being something like doubled pinned by Mike Awesome and Masato Tanaka. WTF?!!! REALLY?!! If not for the fact that the match was awesome, this was such bullshit! Also, I think in this or a near future PPV the Dudleys kept the tag belts at the PPV only to have a non-advertised and recently released Raven and Tommy Dreamer beat them in 10 seconds on TNN for free?!! FUCK YOU!

4. The In Your House PPV where the lights went out (I think it was Beware of Dog) and they had a rematch at Beware of dog 2 and Shawn Michaels STILL went over. Speaking of Shawn Michaels, that fucking PPV in England where he had Vince job Davey Boy to him in a clusterfuck ending involving all of DX to win the European title after promising his dying sister in the media that he was going to win the title for her. Why the Bret-Taker match wasn't the main event (since it was for the title) is beyond me.

3. WCW Halloween Havoc 98, nuff said.

2. WCW Slamboree 2000 David Arquette turns on DDP to help JJ win the world heavyweight title in a triple cage match from the movie ready to rumble.

1. Tie-Victory Road 2011 and WCW Starrcade 97, 98 and 99. Victory road for obvious reasons. 97's ending sucked major balls. In 98, beating Goldberg after drawing a million dollar house was fucking ******ed. Especially with NASH! If anything a Bret Hart victory would at least been better. Why end the streak so soon? 99- Renacting the screwjob where Roddy Piper plays Earl Hebner was just plain stupid. In fact, anything from Vince Russo in WCW was stupid. WTF was this guy thinking? I'll even put New Blood Rising where Goldberg and the announcers broke Kayfabe on live tv w/Goldberg no selling the powerbomb and walking away was just god awful.

 

[The Fabulous Rougeau's]

You, sir, lost my attention and my respect for your opinion when you claimed the Iron Man Match at WM 12 was a "dishonorable mention." What exactly about that match made it a horrible ending? The fact that HBK and Bret Hart put on a 5 star classic, with no falls, and it added to the drama that the time ran out and they needed overtime to decide it? It was one of the greatest matches of all-time and the ending just added to it. Then, you had HBK celebrating because his "boyhood dream came true." It was truly a moment and if you think that ending was bad, you probably have ridiculous standards.

Best part about it is while he's celebrating, he tells the ref to get him out of my f***in ring. This would be the beginning of the greatest on/off screen rivalry in WWF/E history between Bret and Shawn.

 

[mancpenguin]

Wrestlemania 9 - I was in High School at the time of this Mania and the ending didn't make any sense/entertaining in any way to me even then. I'm still stunned how poor that years Wrestlemania was from top to bottom.

I also wanted to see HBK defeat Cena for the title but in fairness he helped put Cena over and it was for the best move for the company.

What was the WCW Pay Per View with Hogan and Flair in a Cage ? Or the Hogan/Warrior match at Halloween Havoc ?

Non Hogan related (sorry but he's been a lot of awful endings, not always his fault) how about LT/Bam Bam ?

 

[HBKperfect23]

4. The In Your House PPV where the lights went out (I think it was Beware of Dog) and they had a rematch at Beware of dog 2 and Shawn Michaels STILL went over. Speaking of Shawn Michaels, that fucking PPV in England where he had Vince job Davey Boy to him in a clusterfuck ending involving all of DX to win the European title after promising his dying sister in the media that he was going to win the title for her. Why the Bret-Taker match wasn't the main event (since it was for the title) is beyond me.

The England ppv was the right call with Shawn going over. He didnt go over clean, he cheated with DX. Davey always went over clean in England. They drew so much heat that night. Bret/Taker didnt go on last just like Warrior/Savage didnt go on last at SuSl 1992. Davey always went on last in England.


Also, I am surprised with all the WMIX hate. Even though Hogan shit all over Bret and it was the wrong call it was still something that never happened in the era. Big element of surprise.

Ill add:
Over The Edge 99 with Taker beating Austin for the title with Shanes fast count