The 2010s were a turbulent time of WWE pay per views but thankfully they were still able to provide some of the best. This is the best WWE Pay Per View from every year of the 2010s.
00:00 - Start
01:00 - 2010
02:00 - 2011
03:10 - 2012
04:10 - 2013
05:16 - 2014
06:09 - 2015
07:14 - 2016
08:19 - 2017
09:15 - 2018
10:17 - 2019
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00:00 - Start
01:00 - 2010
02:00 - 2011
03:10 - 2012
04:10 - 2013
05:16 - 2014
06:09 - 2015
07:14 - 2016
08:19 - 2017
09:15 - 2018
10:17 - 2019
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00:00Ah, the 2010s, when we started with Gangnam Style and the Harlem Shake, had two weeks
00:05of harmony when Pokemon Go came out, and then the Western world fell apart and we're still
00:09trying to pick up the pieces a decade later.
00:10Meanwhile, in WWE, you had a conventionally fellow sit up on the stage and have a rant,
00:15then rise to prominence and subsequently quit, while the rest of the company descended further
00:19and further into complete f***ing madness, and before the end of the decade, Seth Rollins
00:23was trying to kill a Monster Crown in a big red box.
00:26If you can believe it, there were still positives to WWE's PG and reality eras, mostly coming
00:31in the upswing in in-ring quality on their biggest shows.
00:35I guess that's what happens when all the greatest independent wrestlers of a generation converge
00:38upon WWE at once, so let's talk about them.
00:41I'm Tempest Haling from PartsFunKnown, and this is the best WWE pay-per-view from every
00:45year of the 2010s.
00:47But before we get on with this list, make sure, of course, that you like this video,
00:50subscribe, and enable notifications to always on so you never miss a list just like it.
00:53Make sure that you check out the end of the video where there's going to be a clip of
00:56something.
00:57It might be a list, it might be a survival series, who knows, I'll let you decide, editor.
01:002010, The Royal Rumble
01:02So we start this list with the first pay-per-view of the first year.
01:05Love that for us.
01:06The 2010s were a turbulent time for the Royal Rumble, which you can be sure you'll hear
01:10about next week.
01:12But to start off the decade, WWE made the most of the countdown-rundown showdown.
01:16Every match on the show outside of the titular clash was a championship match, ranging from
01:20the 20-second angle of a match between Mickie James and Michelle McCool, and the fondly-remembered
01:25world title bout between The Undertaker and Rey Mysterio, with a fun opener pitting Christian
01:29against Ezekiel Jackson in the final pay-per-view appearance of the ECW Championship, rest easy,
01:35Extreme Prince.
01:36But while these matches put the show across the finish line, what does the bulk of the
01:39heavy lifting is, of course, the very good Royal Rumble match that WWE at the time called
01:44the most star-studded in history.
01:46Edge's first Rumble win, Shawn Michaels' elimination of fellow degenerate Triple H,
01:51and his own eventual all-time great elimination make the 2010 Rumble one of the best of all
01:55time, and an all-time great Rumble makes for the best pay-per-view of the year.
02:002011, Money in the Bank.
02:02Some years take a bit of deliberation to determine their best pay-per-view, and then you have
02:062011.
02:07One of the most legendary pay-per-views in WWE history, the culmination of the Summer
02:11of Punk, and a pretty fantastic pay-per-view otherwise as well.
02:15A lot of people seem to forget that bit of Money in the Bank 2011.
02:19Both latter matches, and the World Title match between Randy Orton and Christian, were excellent,
02:23and made that much better by the molten hot Chicago crowd.
02:26This was the perfect crowd to see Daniel Bryan achieve his breakthrough moment, and the perfect
02:30crowd to see Christian weasel his way back into possession of the World Title.
02:34And just in case there are still people of the opinion that John Cena vs. CM Punk is
02:38merely a good match, carried by the unparalleled atmosphere of Chicago, I am here to once again
02:42put that match back on its deserved pedestal.
02:45This match is fantastic, and even with an average crowd, this would have been a great
02:51match.
02:52It doesn't feel like a run-of-the-mill WWE main event.
02:54They grapple, they tell a hell of a story, they don't just trade near-falls, everything
02:59that happens builds up to the finish, and it results in one of the best WWE matches
03:03of all time, to finish off one of the best pay-per-views of all time.
03:07If only Heel Michael Cole wasn't on commentary.
03:102012 Extreme Rules
03:13There aren't a ton of top-level pay-per-views in 2012.
03:16Despite being a top-notch WWE champion, CM Punk's reign took a permanent backseat to
03:20whatever John Cena was doing at the time, even if what he was doing was wrestling a
03:24no-talent scumbag like John Laurinaitis, and unfortunately, there weren't many folks
03:29capable of stealing the show until The Shield debuted at the end of the year.
03:32That is, with the exception of Extreme Rules.
03:35One of the only times that year that John Cena deserved top billing on the pay-per-view,
03:39this match with Brock Lesnar is utterly electrifying in its brilliant violence where Brock showed
03:44us all that he would not be content to get fat and happy with his UFC earnings going
03:49ass over tea kettle and busting John Cena wide open, but the rest of the card delivered
03:53as well.
03:54Bryan and Sheamus' two-out-of-three falls match is by far the biggest highlight of Sheamus'
03:58particularly poor world title reign.
04:00CM Punk's knee pads and boots over his jeans fit made him look like a fisherman, but his
04:04match was good, making Extreme Rules the show with the best top matches of any pay-per-view
04:09of 2012.
04:102013?
04:11Summerslam.
04:12A one-match show probably won't find itself on this list, but a two-match show?
04:17Yeah, that'll do, particularly with two matches like we saw at Summerslam 2013.
04:22The undercard of this show is a whole lot of nothing.
04:25A terrible Ring of Fire-Inferno match where the heels just put out the fire, Dolph and
04:30Kaitlyn vs. Big E and AJ being the end of any semblance of Dolph's involvement in the
04:35world title picture, it is nothing to write home about.
04:37Christian and notable prick Alberto Del Rio is solid, but that was all this Summerslam
04:42had going for it until we finally got Brock Lesnar vs. CM Punk and John Cena vs. Daniel
04:48Bryan.
04:49Which one is better?
04:50I'll let you decide.
04:51If you want dynamic violence to the extreme, then Punk and Brock is probably your favorite.
04:56If you want a more tried-and-true WWE Championship main event style match done at its best, then
05:01Cena and Bryan is probably your favorite, but either way you flip it, these are probably
05:05the two best matches of WWE's year and they took place on the same show.
05:10And that's not even taking into account Orton's cash-in and Triple H's heel turn.
05:13A two-match show has never looked so good.
05:162014, WrestleMania 30 Conveniently for this list's sake, Summerslam
05:212013 was the start of Daniel Bryan and the Authority, and here in 2014 at WrestleMania
05:2530, we saw the end.
05:27Not how WWE intended, mind you, but that doesn't matter, does it?
05:30The middle of this mania might be hella bumpy, but Cesaro winning the Battle Royal is awesome
05:35I think the Cena-Bray match is actually pretty good until the wrong man wins, and simply
05:40no amount of Cena-Wins-Lawl-and-Oops-We-Broke-Undertaker shenanigans could derail Yeselmania.
05:46This show is bookended by one of the best pay-per-view opening matches in WWE history
05:51between Bryan and Triple H, and then Bryan finally capturing the WWE Championship against
05:57Batista and Orton in the main event, with one of the biggest feel-good mania endings
06:02there has ever been.
06:03The fun may have stopped there for Bryan's reign, but who could ever forget the miracle
06:07on Bourbon Street?
06:092015, WrestleMania 31 One year later, and the little WrestleMania
06:13that could actually manage to be one of the best of all time, despite no one thinking
06:17it had it in it.
06:18After one of the worst builds to a mania in history, Daytime Mania put together great
06:23ladder match after RKO with fun and vibes and great entrances, for the most part, until
06:30all that was left was the main event.
06:32The match that no one on Earth besides the members of the Bloodline wanted to see Roman
06:37Reigns win.
06:38With Brock Lesnar having just publicly announced his intention to stay with WWE, he had renewed
06:43support from the mania crowd, so when he began throwing Roman around, coining the term Suplex
06:48City Bitch and bleeding like a son of a bitch, everyone was into it.
06:52Something that cannot be said about either of their mania sequels.
06:55But could Brock rest the coronation from the machine-chosen Roman?
06:59Of course not.
07:00During the show, Seth cashes in during the main event of WrestleMania to win his first
07:04ever WWE title in another of the greatest mania endings ever.
07:07I'll never forget my history teacher saying this mania sucked.
07:10You're a fool, Mr. Anthony, and I hope you can live with yourself.
07:142016, Survivor Series The first entry on this list with the personal
07:18Tempest touch because after ten long years, WWE finally came back to Toronto for a f***ing
07:24pay-per-view.
07:25You know how much money you could have gotten out of young Tempest buying tickets to an
07:28annual Toronto show?
07:29Did you have to wait until he moved across the ocean?
07:32Anywho, the Red vs. Blue Survivor Series trend was only just beginning with the reintroduction
07:36of the brand split in 2016, and thus there was some renewed interest in Survivor Series
07:41as a show after a mostly terrible last decade.
07:44And thankfully, this show f***ing delivered.
07:47The Men's Elimination Match is one of the best Survivor Series matches ever, clocking
07:51in at 52 star-studded minutes.
07:53The tag elimination match is very fun, and a big night for the Bar, who are emerging
07:57as one of the best teams in WWE, and of course, the moment no one could have ever seen coming.
08:03The Miz beats Sami Zayn.
08:05God, poor Sami.
08:06And yeah, also Goldberg wrestled his first match in 12 years and broke the streak-breaker
08:10in 90 seconds.
08:11Now, I've been to a number of pay-per-views since that, but I don't think any of them
08:15have had a single moment more completely unforgettable than that one.
08:202017, No Mercy Sometimes WWE just decides to blow their
08:23entire load on a B-pay-per-view, and while it might be a bit jarring to see a bunch of
08:27the biggest matches possible not take place at WrestleMania or SummerSlam, with the lengthy
08:31build that comes packaged with such a thing, it certainly makes for a fantastic show.
08:36Everyone was standing at attention for the tag title match between The Bar and Ambrose
08:40and Rollins, well, everyone but Cesaro's teeth, who had been tucked neatly into Cesaro's
08:44gums.
08:45You had a few undercard gems, like Finn Balor vs. Bray Wyatt and a Women's 5-Way, but the
08:50matches that sold the tickets were the double-main event of Roman Reigns vs. John Cena and Brock
08:54Lesnar vs. Braun Strowman.
08:56These matches were definitely not equal in quality, but Brock vs. Braun was the big match
09:00coming out of the summer, and Roman vs. Cena was the battle of WWE flag-bearers that I'm
09:05really shocked never happened at WrestleMania.
09:07This was better than their eventual SummerSlam match, and it played a large part in making
09:12No Mercy one of the best WWE beast shows in history.
09:162018, The Royal Rumble Part two in the Tempest Was There double feature
09:20And after the stretch of bad-to-okay Royal Rumble pay-per-views that preceded this one,
09:24it was certainly a gamble to unload my wallet on a trip to Philly.
09:27Thankfully, we got the best Rumble pay-per-view in years and years, with maybe the best Royal
09:33Rumble match of all time.
09:35The rest of the card is mostly okay.
09:37The Handicap WWE title match opener is a bit clunky, but well-worked.
09:41The Monster vs. Beast vs. Demon triple threat is best remembered for Brock Lesnar battering
09:45Strowman in the side of the head for a shoot, and The Usos beating American Alpha 2.0, two
09:50straight falls in a best-of-three-falls match, was certainly unexpected, but the first-ever
09:54Women's Rumble feels appropriately important, even with a robotic Stephanie McMahon on commentary
09:59— which, thankfully, I didn't have to listen to live, score one for Tempest — and the
10:03Men's Rumble is just a work of art.
10:06The four most likely winners were the final four, heightening the drama and our desire
10:10to see Nakamura win, which he did, and I think my voice is still recovering from the noise
10:15that I made in that moment.
10:172019 Survivor Series We close out the decade with the best part
10:21of WWE's 2010s, NXT.
10:24After a couple years of declining importance, the Raw vs. SmackDown gimmick of Survivor
10:28Series had grown stale, and needed a revamp, and so, for 2019, NXT was added to the mix.
10:34This wasn't done again in the years after for some f***ing reason, but on this occasion,
10:38the yellow brand injected a bit of life into this tired format.
10:41Nakamura vs. Styles vs. Strong didn't get nearly the reaction it deserved from this
10:45crowd, but was still fun.
10:47Adam Cole and Pete Dunne have a takeover match on WWE Pay-Per-View, which was ace.
10:51Brock and the worst of Rey's two Joker cosplays have a fun sprint, but this match is rightfully
10:56best remembered for one man, Keith Lee.
10:59The 5-on-5-on-5 elimination match on this show ranks high on the list of best-ever,
11:04even if WALTER is eliminated FIRST, but the final stretch of Roman vs. Lee is like capturing
11:10lightning in a bottle, and I only wish that we can one day see Keith Lee return to these
11:14heights so we can all bask in his glory once again.
11:18And that's our list.
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