WWE New Year’s Revolution: A Look Back

The advent of a new year is a time for reflection, so we decided to gaze upon a ghost from WWE’s past: the New Year’s Revolution pay-per-view.

Perhaps the bigwigs at WWE would prefer the event stay buried in the annals of wrestling history. During its three-year lifespan, New Year’s Revolution failed to generate sizable pay-per-view buy rates nor fare well in the DVD market (it never entered Billboard.com’s top 10 list of Recreational Sports DVDs).

The event was scrapped following its third incarnation in 2007, forever relegated to WWE’s ever-growing “seemed-like-a-good-idea-at-the-time” pile.

And the exclusively Raw-branded event was, in fairness, a pretty good idea at the time.

The inaugural New Year’s Revolution event was held on Jan. 9, 2005, at the Coliseo de Puert...