WWE Over The Limit Draws Near Record Low Buyrate

While WWE has yet to release the buy number for last month's Over the Limit pay-per-view event, sources report that the show is estimated to have garnered 65,000 buys in the United States (based on trending patterns as well as actual cable reports).

Should this number hold up, it would be WWE's least watched pay-per-view event in nearly five years. The 2006 pay-per-view event, December to Dismember, drew approximately 90,000 pay-per-view buys, with 55,000 of them domestic?the lowest buyrate in company history.

To show the accuracy of trending numbers, they would have indicated 90,000 for TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs (real number was 101,000), 260,000 for Royal Rumble (real number 264,000), 160,000 for Elimination Chamber (real number 136,000) and 630,000 for WrestleMania XXVII (real number 617,000).

WWE Over the Limit was headlined by John Cena vs. The Miz, Michael Cole vs. Jerry Lawler, and Randy Orton vs. Christian.

Source: Wrestling Observer Newsletter

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