5 Worst WWE Pay Per View names

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#2 Capitol Punishment (2011)

Barack Obama front and center on the Capitol Punishment poster
Barack Obama front and center on the Capitol Punishment poster

A pay per view named after the government sanctioned murder is peculiar and troublesome as an event name in equal measure.

The idea behind the name was the fact that Capitol Punishment emanated from the USA's capital city, Washington DC.

However, their promotion of the event landed them in trouble with the Presidential office as one of the promotional videos for the show spliced real life footage of then President, Barack Obama with WWE contracted actors asking him questions about the death penalty.

WWE were forced into a very public climb-down as they had to acknowledge that the footage existed solely to promote the WWE pay per view and in no way represented President Obama's real-life views.

A mess of a promotion translated into a terrible event. Randy Orton contested a good match with Christian and CM Punk bested Rey Mysterio in a decent effort but the rest of the eight-match card was entirely missable.

As only 170,000 households purchased the event, most people did choose to skip the show.

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