#2. Hope is true: WWE canceling a pay-per-view for good?
This could be the end of an era in WWE. While the company seemed to love turning big stipulation matches into themed pay-per-views, one could go to the shelf for a while - or even for good.
That happens to be TLC - an event that has been running for over a decade. While there have been occasional adjustments of pay-per-view placements, TLC has largely been WWE's final pay-per-view of the calendar year.
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According to Dave Meltzer on the Wrestling Observer Radio, Vince McMahon's promotion is reportedly set to end the TLC pay-per-view after a decade, replacing it with a new year's show on January 1st called "Day 1":
“Originally, there was going to be a pay-per-view in Chicago at the Allstate Arena in mid-December," Dave Meltzer began. "And the feeling is now that doing 12 a year, and the December pay-per-view will actually be January 1 in Atlanta. The idea of doing January 1 rather than do mid-late December. And then they’re still gonna do Royal Rumble as the January pay-per-view. A lot of people were wondering, when they moved the December Chicago date from being a pay-per-view to being a television taping, who’s gonna get the pay-per-view? And the answer is that there is no pay-per-view.”
We hope this is true because WWE should slowly do away with themed pay-per-views, with the exception of Money in the Bank. However, the downside of this is that superstars, staff, and crew members won't be able to spend new year's time with their families.