10 Major Shows Missing From The WWE Network

6. WWE XPerience (1996)

A decade to the day after WWE drew almost 70,000 people to Exhibition Stadium in Toronto for a show entitled The Big Event (headlined by Hulk Hogan defending the WWE Title against Paul Orndorff), WWE attempted to replicate that feat with a show in the same stadium.

Dubbed WWE XPerience, the 1996 event only drew a fraction under 22,000 fans, by no means a bad crowd but one that quite obviously looked a bit smaller in such large surroundings.

There are stories circulating that the show was broadcast as the first-ever internet pay-per-view, but  you’d probably get a better picture quality by trying to stream it through a calculator than by using mid-90s dial-up.

WWE cameras were there to document the occasion, as footage of the event, as well as the related festivities during the day, such as the fan fest, was shown on the September 6th episode of Raw.

So perhaps one day we’ll what all the fuss was about.

It’s certainly a loaded card, with a main event of Shawn Michaels versus Goldust in a WWE Title ladder match ably supported by a Mankind versus The Undertaker casket match and a Sid versus Vader lumberjack affair.

Speaking of The Master and Ruler of the World, he might have been a tad tired come bell time after having a tug-of-war with an elephant earlier in the day. And no, that’s not a euphemism.