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Top 10 Wrestling Pay Per View of 2010s

Wrestling 2010sIf wrestling in the 2000s was much less about hardcore appeal from 1990s wrestling, but more focused on the “purity” of pro wrestling (meaning more workrates, less gimmicks, absence of character, absence of in-ring psychology, and more random storylines that have no rewarding pay-offs) then wrestling from 2010 – 2019 all about that. This is where wrestling fans that still hang on to WWE finally lost interest by the end of the decade. It’s all because Vince McMahon despises it when things don’t go his way and ruin it for everyone on board. You had the ‘Summer of Punk’ giving you the mass media and viewership that you’ve haven’t had since the Monday Night Wars and you still managed to screw it up for CM Punk (who drew so much heat and money), NEXUS, and Daniel Brian to lose all credibility. It is no wonder why the audience in attendence have been hijacking in many of WWE’s shows. To think that someone like Roman Reigns was a good fit to replace the aging John Cena is one of the most counter productive decisions that any wrestling product has ever made. It was not enough to keep Brock Lesnar back and give out less than 5 minute matches within every appearance by 2017. All of WWE’s alternatives in North America from the 2000s decade also screwed up big time. TNA’s appeal got all destroyed from letting Hulk Hogan and Eric Bischoff into WCW 2.0, The Aces & 8s storyline turned everyone off, Jeff Jarrett portraying Kurt Angle’s broken family in a disgusting manner, and rebranding Total Non-stop Action into Impact Wrestling, then Global Force Wrestling (thanks Jeff Jarret), then back to Impact made us all stop being fans of the company. Ring of Honor refused to grew as a company, lost all of their best stars to WWE, and underpaying and mistreating women’s wrestlers made ROH unwatchable by 2018. With TNA and ROH nearly dead at this point, there was so much wrestling out there. New Japan finally got Antonio Inoki out of the booking decision and made one of the most wonderful wrestling shows the world has ever seen. Because it was still hard to access to Japanese wrestling in North America Tony Khan took the perfect opportunity to start All Elite Wrestling and officially became the fastest growing wrestling promotion of all time! This is ultimately what WWE’s viewership have been the lowest since the New Generation era and never before have former wrestling fans jumped to UFC and MMA promotions. Sadly, I’m one of those former wrestling fans that switch over to MMA because wrestling is for decades is nowhere as good as it was in the Monday Night Wars. As the final Top 10 Pay Per View list, I wanted to show you what were the last wrestling shows that satisfied me and what was worth revisiting this decade of bad booking? 

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