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00:00You know how people say that a group of lads can have an amazing night just naming athletes
00:04back and forth?
00:05I am proud to reveal that the same can be said for WWE pay-per-views, at least in my
00:09circle anyway.
00:10Oh, dude, no way out, 2006, bro, but what about, like, Backlash 2009?
00:17And on and on we go, having great laughs, and somewhere in the midst of it all there
00:20will always be the one friend that goes, yeah, but, great balls of fire, though?
00:25And everyone just sighs and reflects on the kind of decision-making process that would
00:28have to exist for a major pay-per-view event to be called Great Balls of Fire.
00:34Not every WWE pay-per-view has stuck the landing, resulting in these trivia-answer-ass shows.
00:39I'm Tebbas Taylor from PartsFunknown, and these are 11 pay-per-views WWE only did once.
00:45Are you feeling sad, little Peter?
00:47Uh, what, uh, no, I just have resting sad face.
00:52Are you feeling down in the dumps because you're constantly cast as a humiliated figure
00:56of fun?
00:57I mean, I'm not down in the dumps about it, I just feel like I have more range, you know?
01:02Do you get sad when you can't watch shows from all over the world?
01:06Frustrated, I guess?
01:08What does that have to do with-
01:09Do you call the WAMbulance when your IP address isn't protected as you surf the web?
01:14What?
01:15Do cybercriminals make you wee yourself at the office and everyone laughs at you as they
01:19sing Pete Pete, the man who loves to wee himself?
01:22That is a half-truth, how do you know that?
01:24Who are you?
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01:58Please can I go back to normal now?
02:00I don't want to be cool anymore.
02:03Nonsense, Peter.
02:05You'll be like this forever.
02:07You will be loved and adored by all.
02:12Oh god.
02:17Honorable mentions, the technicalities.
02:19Right, so these honorable mentions are going to be doing a lot of heavy lifting for me,
02:23because without them, this list would be 25 entries long, and we can't have that.
02:27For this list, I'm only considering pay-per-views whose names have only been used by WWE once,
02:33period.
02:34So if they were a network special like Roadblock, or a special episode of Raw like Day One,
02:39or an NXT takeover like Fatal 4-Way, they will end up here.
02:42And I'm not including any of those shows that are regular pay-per-view name, colon
02:47bunch of nonsense, or any other minor alterations.
02:50I don't want to see people in the comments kicking up a fuss about The Horror Show at
02:55Extreme Rules, or No Way Out of Texas, or Tables, Ladders, Chairs, and Stairs.
03:01Right, now that these shows have all been mentioned honorably, let's begin with number
03:0611, Breaking Point.
03:072009 properly marked the beginning of WWE's gimmick pay-per-view era, and the death of
03:12many of WWE's longest-running B-shows, R.I.P.
03:16Unforgiven, You Grammatically Complicated Prince.
03:18In their place, WWE began to throw a bunch of shit at the wall to see what would stick.
03:23Some of them did, with varying degrees of success, like Hell in a Cell and Money in
03:26the Bank, while others did not.
03:28Enter Breaking Point and it's cool-ass poster.
03:31Why a submission-based pay-per-view in 2009, when the most adept man at the art of grappling
03:36was John Cena with the STF?
03:39It is no wonder that WWE has never tried to bring this one back.
03:43You might be able to get away with it in a Bloodsport-type work-shoot presentation with
03:47folks like Bryan Danielson on the card, but at this time with these guys?
03:51Nuh-uh.
03:52The show actually has some gems on it, like a fun Christian and William Regal match and
03:56by far the best John Cena-Randy Orton match ever, but when the selling point of the show
04:02is whether DX can submit Legacy at the merch stand, the only one's tapping out with the
04:06paying customers.
04:08Number 10, Rock Bottom.
04:09We wind the clock back over a decade now as we reach the final pay-per-view of 1998, Rock
04:14Bottom.
04:15A name which sort of makes sense as it is a pay-per-view named after the champion's
04:19finishing move, an interesting choice, but one WWE can get away with, what with Big Dwayne
04:24being the corporate champion at the time.
04:26Outside of the kayfabe conflict of interest of naming one of your major shows after a
04:29single wrestler, there wasn't much of a reason to bring this show back for another
04:33run based on what happened on it either.
04:35The main event scene was the only thing worth seeing on the show, as was the case with most
04:39WWE pay-per-views of the late 90s, with Mankind getting revenge on Corporate Rock, beating
04:44him clean with a mandible claw, only for the McMahons to say that The Rock wouldn't lose
04:49the title because he didn't tap out, he passed out, which isn't how that works.
04:56Absolute bullshit finish aside, it's the only match worth seeing on the show.
05:00Number 9, Breakdown.
05:02Just a few months earlier, WWE followed up their annual Summerslam show with their first
05:06and last Breakdown show.
05:08Honestly, I have just noticed that all three of these first entries took place in Canada.
05:12I didn't plan it that way, but it does make the maple syrup running in my veins just a
05:16bit sweeter.
05:17Speaking of Canada, the opener was Canadian Edge's first pay-per-view singles match
05:22against fellow Canadian Owen Hart, and featured the debut of Canadian Christian.
05:26Hell, that's more Canadian than corner gas.
05:29Elsewhere on the show, Steve Austin's time with the WWF title in 1998 came to an end
05:34in about the most convoluted way possible.
05:36In a three-way match with Kanan Undertaker, Austin was double pinned, and thus the title
05:41was held up for two months, meaning the genesis of the legendary Deadly Games tournament came
05:45right here in Hamilton, Ontario.
05:48It's more than you would expect to see at a B-pay-per-view in Hamilton, I tell you that.
05:52Oski-wee-wee!
05:53Number 8, This Tuesday in Texas.
05:56Now it's time to wind the clocks back even further to when any pay-per-view not included
06:00in the Big Four was a weird one-off.
06:02Summerslam 1991 brought forth wacky circumstances for the WWE title as Ric Flair helped The
06:08Undertaker defeat Hulk Hogan to win the belt.
06:11This was so dastardly that a brand new pay-per-view was set up just one week later just to settle
06:17this score.
06:18Or, more accurately, kick that can down the road to the Royal Rumble, as Hulk Hogan winning
06:23that title back in another match with more shenanigans wasn't good enough either.
06:27Lot of good this show did.
06:29Also, have I mentioned that it was called This Tuesday in Texas?
06:34It genuinely sounds more like an answer to when the pay-per-view is than an actual name.
06:38Oh, the WWF is doing another pay-per-view?
06:41When?
06:42Oh, it's This Tuesday in Texas.
06:44Cool, and what's it called?
06:46This Tuesday in Texas.
06:47It's like a f***ing Abbott and Costello routine.
06:49At least this show earns points for being where Randy Savage comes out of retirement
06:53to get revenge on Jake Roberts for ruining his wedding, which is an actual great piece
06:58of business.
06:597.
07:00St. Valentine's Day Massacre
07:01You know, some pay-per-view names just don't stick for one reason or another.
07:05Maybe there's actually a more creative name than just Over the Limit, who's to say?
07:10But naming a pay-per-view after a real-life mass murder?
07:13I can kinda understand why this one hasn't been brought back as an NXT special.
07:17In 1999, however, there would be far less pearl-clutching about such a thing.
07:22Thus, we had this show just prior to WrestleMania 15.
07:25If you are reminiscing about this show, it is going to be because of one of two reasons
07:29— Mankind and The Rock going to a draw in their last-man-standing match for the WWE
07:33title, or the Steve Austin-Vince McMahon cage match.
07:36The former is the penultimate match in the ludicrously quick rivalry between the future
07:40Rock and Sock connection, while the latter is the only time Austin and McMahon went one-on-one
07:45on pay-per-view.
07:46Kinda explains the crazy high buy rate this otherwise miserable show got.
07:51Since taking the worst announced table bump ever, Vince bleeding buckets, Big Show debuting,
07:56and immediately being made to look like the biggest dumb giant by accidentally helping
08:01Austin win, there are just so many memorable moments here to hold dear.
08:056.
08:06Stomping Grounds
08:07Now for something a little more modern.
08:09What the f*** were they thinking with this one?
08:11Like what focus group came up with the name Stomping Grounds?
08:15Where the logo is a shoe.
08:172019, man.
08:18You had to be there.
08:19Honestly, outside of some of the most uninspired main event booking this side of 2019 Ring
08:25of Honor, this show is fine.
08:27It's actually way better than I remember it being.
08:29Ricochet and Samoa Joe have a really good US title match, Save the Planet Bryan and
08:33Rowan vs Heavy Machinery is really fun with Bryan in his backyard, Roman is riding a wave
08:38of popularity following his return to WWE earlier in the year, and thus his match with
08:43Drew is really fun, KO and Sami team up to face The New Day in a match I absolutely do
08:47not remember happening.
08:49Just a solid little card.
08:50It's just a shame that the main event scene is so f***ing dire.
08:54Seth vs Corbin was the slow death of Seth's Universal title reign, while Kofi Kingston
08:58was defending his WWE title against Dolph Ziggler.
09:02A mid-card match, in any year, except this time it was for the top title in the company.
09:08Makes sense that the show was won and done when that's what people would remember it
09:11for.
09:125.
09:13Capital Punishment
09:14I mean, WWE have done pay-per-views in DC since.
09:17Why did they choose this show as the only one to do Capital Punishment?
09:22And I just looked up the poster for this show so I can double-check the spelling.
09:25And why the f*** is Rey Mysterio jumping on a box like Crash Bandicoot?
09:31Clearly this show is doomed to some sort of purgatory just from its setup, and that's
09:35before you consider that this is the John Cena R-Truth show.
09:38This is a weird event all around.
09:41This is the Cor Implosion show.
09:43The Alex Reilly Singles Push show.
09:46And just in case you thought I was exaggerating my last entry, one of many Kofi Kingston vs
09:51Dolph Ziggler shows.
09:53It has its CM Punk vs Rey Mysterios and Randy Orton vs Christians to keep it from being
09:57completely skippable, but I wouldn't blame you if you had chosen to just see the Lincoln
10:02statue or something else.
10:044.
10:05Great Balls of Fire
10:06Here it is, the most ridiculous pay-per-view name WWE has come up with.
10:10Or pardon me, the most ridiculous pay-per-view name WWE has come up with so far.
10:16Haha, get it guys?
10:18Balls.
10:19They're funny.
10:20Har har har.
10:21Anyway, this was a show.
10:23Like, it happened.
10:24Brock Lesnar and Samoa Joe was an incredible TV program, and their title match probably
10:29should have gotten more than 6 minutes, but hey ho, honestly, the thing I most remember
10:33about Great Balls of Fire was Roman Reigns flying into the back of the ambulance.
10:39That man was perfectly horizontal.
10:42The Miz and Dean Ambrose, I couldn't tell you one thing that happened in that match,
10:46but Roman Reigns soaring through the air will stay with me for the rest of my life.
10:513.
10:52Invasion
10:53This show has mostly been ordered depending on how important or ridiculously titled the
10:57show was, but now that we have reached the final three, these shows definitely fit in
11:01the former category.
11:03The year was 2001, WCW had been bought by WWE, and although it was off to a rocky start,
11:09the Invasion appeared ready to kick off in full force at...
11:13Invasion.
11:14I mean, the name itself implies people are going to show up, and even if it wasn't explicitly
11:19said by WWE, enough people thought that this is where shit was going to go down to make
11:24Invasion the most-bought non-Wrestlemania WWE pay-per-view of all time.
11:29Nearly 800,000 people, or groups of people, doled out cash thinking they were going to
11:35get to see the debuts of WCW's best.
11:37But did they?
11:38The narrator?
11:39They did not.
11:41This is pretty much universally seen as where all hope was lost for the Invasion, featuring
11:45the likes of Goldberg, Sting, and the NWO, and while I certainly wouldn't expect them
11:49to run an Invasion pay-per-view every year, the reception the show got was enough reason
11:54not to.
11:55And speaking of...
11:572.
11:58December to Dismember
11:59Oh boy, nothing like taking your struggling nan to the hospital and delivering a beating
12:04that the crusty burglar would consider tame.
12:06That's what December to Dismember was, WWECW limping along like the reanimated corpse that
12:13it was until this show put it on life support.
12:16Granted, it existed on life support for another three years, but that's beside the point.
12:20Who the fuck bought this show?
12:22And why?
12:24Which of the two announced matches really sold you on it?
12:27Someone once described this show as starting with a not-half-bad tag match and going downhill.
12:31Someone once said this show went 2 hours 20 minutes, and they'd have paid more to have
12:36it end earlier.
12:37It don't get no more suck-ass than this show, but instead of ending with a show that makes
12:41it perfectly clear why one hasn't been done since, let's close this list with one where
12:47there is no reason to not have another.
12:501.
12:51Evolution
12:522018 was very much the year that WWE went hard on pushing the importance of women's
12:57wrestling.
12:58We had the first Women's Rumble, the first Women's Elimination Chamber, and just a few
13:02months into 2019, the first Women's WrestleMania main event.
13:06We have seen all of those things happen again since.
13:09What we haven't seen is the return of WWE's women's-only pay-per-view.
13:14There are reasons for this, of course.
13:16Mainly WWE's interest in pushing their women's division to this level walked out the door
13:20as soon as Ronda Rousey left in 2019.
13:23But honestly, with the women's roster WWE has created in the years since, there is no
13:28reason they couldn't do Evolution 2 and top the original.
13:31When the first show took place, we didn't have Bianca Belair or Rhea Ripley on the main
13:36roster.
13:37We didn't have Tiffany Stratton or Candice LeRae or Piper Niven, and we damn sure didn't
13:41have Jade Cargill.
13:42But now we do, and if WWE really wanted to set themselves apart from some other places,
13:48this would be a hell of a way to do it.
13:50And that's our list.
13:51Make sure, of course, that you let us know in the comments which one-and-only pay-per-view
13:54you enjoyed the most, and make sure you check out this clip from the latest episode of Survival
13:58Series here.