WWE drops Vengeance from its 2012 pay-per-view schedule
by Rawuncutnxrated on Jan 12, 2012 1:00 PM EST
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Vengeance is gone!
In 2012, the WWE will run 12 pay-per-views (PPV) during the calendar year. This is pretty big considering last year saw 13 PPV events and at one time was bloated up all the way 16 shows in 2006.
The previous plan was to run two events in October, with Hell in a Cell going down on Oct. 7 and Vengeance taking place just three weeks later on Oct. 28. Now, Hell in a Cell has been moved to the Oct. 28 date and Vengeance has been scrapped altogether.
Check out the complete PPV scheduled for 2012 after the jump:
- Royal Rumble -- Jan. 29, 2012, at the Scottrade Center in St. Louis, Missouri
- Elimination Chamber -- Feb. 19, 2012, at the Bradley Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- WrestleMania 28 -- April 1, 2012, at Sun Life Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida
- Extreme Rules -- April 29, 2012, at the AllState Arena in Chicago, Illinois
- Over the Limit -- May 20, 2012, at the RBC Center in Raleigh, North Carolina
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Bragging Rights -- June 17, 2012, location TBA
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Money in the Bank -- July 15, 2012, Thomas and Mack Center in Las Vegas, Nevada
- SummerSlam -- Aug. 19, 2012, at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California
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Night of Champions -- Sept. 16, 2012, Consol Energy Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Hell in a Cell -- Oct. 28, 2012, location TBA
- Survivor Series -- Nov. 18, 2012, location TBA
- TLC -- Dec. 16, 2012, location TBA
The biggest change is clearly the removal of Vengeance, but also no longer having three PPVs in six weeks. Now we can look forward to better builds, even if the gimmicks remain.
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by Brooklyn Dodgers Mets Fan on Jan 12, 2012 1:26 PM EST reply actions
Replace Hell in a Cell with Halloween Havoc
And I think this would be a half decent schedule
by Jonathan Loesche on Jan 12, 2012 2:14 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
They scrapped the wrong show.
HIAC needs to be gone and that gimmick match needs to be saved for actual blood-hate feud enders.
by Razztopia on Jan 12, 2012 3:44 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
HIAC could be used at Vengeance
It really makes no sense for it to be its own PPV especially if they aren’t going to plan ahead enough to actually set up a good feud for a Hell in a Cell match. They could easily put it in a PPV called Vengeance, but not necessarily force their hand by calling a PPV Hell in a Cell.
At least there’s only 1 short build PPV now
I don’t want them to scrap summerslam, but I would want them to have it at a beach location like WCW used to do for Bash at the beach
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That'll never happen.
Those beach shows drew no gate. Vince isn’t going to give up a gate like badly-mismanaged WCW was wont to do.
Hell, he won’t even do War Games like Triple H wants to because the size of the rings would cut into the number of seats to be sold.
And yes, Good that Vengeance is scrapped but Hell in a cell needs to go now
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Thanks for moving it to the front page.. pretty cool seeing that & an email I wrote to “Hate Mail” make it on CBS as well. I’m on a roll…
I don’t get why Bragging Rights is back. I love the concept.. and if everything holds to form, we’d get Punk v Bryan. It won’t hold.. but its still a wet dream. Raw has the little graphics still.. but the “Supershow” has gone the way of Twitter… where its only a graphic. No more mention of it, thus making the Bragging Show obsolete. Unless they plan on really pushing the trophy.
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by Rawuncutnxrated on Jan 12, 2012 5:31 PM EST reply actions
I doubt less PPV's will actually improve the booking.
Anytime WWE has had more than three weeks in between PPV’s, they just put on filler shows that do nothing to build angles.
to really improve the booking drop the ppvs number to 6.
12 is still way too many in a year. theres too many similar matches or feuds which can part of a good feud….that mean jack ****. could maybe get away with 8.
from that list the ppvs name elimination chamber, over the limit, bragging rights, money in the bank, hell in a cell and TLC, either need removing or a name change anyway if they are going with 12 a year. they are just awful ppvs names as it is.
i mean come on who names a ppv hell in a cell or money in the bank or TLC or elimination chamber? wwe thats who. and over the limit and bragging rights poor very bad. bragging rights for the pointless 7 on 7 random tag matches they have.
with the elimination chamber match put that into survivor series and have only 1 match.
what is it with wwe having 2 of everything? 2 MITB matches, 2 HIAC matches, 2 EC matches. and why they like naming ppvs after actual match names. i call that lazy booking. sad. so sad.
Royal rumble and Survivor series
Nuff said
So go forth, my brethren, and proceed to mark the f*ck out
by C. J. Bradford on Jan 12, 2012 8:08 PM EST up reply actions
I think one PPV a month is the ideal setup for WWE.
As Asterisk mentioned, I don’t really think cutting out more PPVs would really change the booking all that much. WWE booking has issues that could be addressed much more directly and effectively than simply hoping that cutting PPVs would magically make things better. That’s a pretty lame way to approach the problem. And since I don’t think booking will improve much, that means I also think cutting down to something like 8 PPVs will simply just be cutting easy revenue out of Vince’s pockets, which doesn’t make any sense.
And obviously this is just one example but look at the current wait from TLC to the Rumble. This is a very long wait (for WWE standards) between PPVs but so far not much interesting is going on as far as the Rumble PPV is concerned. In fact the booking seems campier than ever with this Kane/Cena/Ryder stuff, and Punk/Ziggler is basically being treated like a midcard feud. And not too many superstars are coming out and saying how big of a deal it is to try to win the actual Rumble match and what getting that title shot at mania means to them. At the very least, the booking is not any better than it was back during the PPV onslaught of late September through the end of October.
In addition, having exactly one PPV a month is probably an easy thing for a casual fan to keep track of compared to trying to remember which month there is or isn’t a scheduled PPV (if the PPV number was cut to down to 8). I know that each month there will be a pay show. That is a convenient and simple pattern to know and become accustomed to.
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