WWE Cyber Sunday (originally known as WWE Taboo Tuesday) was an annual

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(PPV) event produced by

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(WWE), a

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based in

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. Established in 2004, the event was originally called Taboo Tuesday as it was held on Tuesdays. In 2006, the event was moved to the more traditional Sunday night for PPVs and was renamed Cyber Sunday. The theme of the event was the ability for fans to vote on certain aspects of every match, using their personal computers and

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via mobile phones. The voting typically began in the middle of an episode of '' Raw'' a few weeks beforehand and ended during the pay-per-view, often moments before the match was slated to begin. Because of this, the event was billed as an "

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pay-per-view." During the event's first two years as Taboo Tuesday, it was held exclusively for wrestlers from the Raw

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. The 2006 event, which was the first held as Cyber Sunday, was also Raw-exclusive. Following

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in 2007, however, brand-exclusive PPVs were discontinued, thus the events in 2007 and 2008 featured the Raw,

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, and ECW brands. The event was discontinued and replaced by

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in 2009. The event was revived as an NXT television special in 2022, but not branded as Taboo Tuesday.

History

In 2004,

(WWE) established a new

(PPV) event titled Taboo Tuesday. The inaugural event was held on October 19 that year, and as its name implies, it was held on a Tuesday. It was the first regularly-scheduled pay-per-view held by the company on a Tuesday since 1991's

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, the first regularly-scheduled non-Sunday pay-per-view since the

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, and the first non-Sunday pay-per-view of any kind since In Your House 8: Beware of Dog 2 in 1996. To coincide with the

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, in which the promotion divided its roster into brands where wrestlers were exclusively assigned to perform, the inaugural event was held exclusively for the Raw brand. Taboo Tuesday returned in

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, but was pushed back to early November and was also Raw-exclusive. In 2006, which was again Raw-exclusive and held in November, the show was moved to a more traditional Sunday night slot—alleviating problems with the taping schedule of ''

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'', usually held on Tuesdays. As a result, the event was renamed Cyber Sunday. Following

in April 2007, WWE discontinued brand-exclusive PPVs, thus the

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and

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events, which were both held in October, featured wrestlers from the Raw,

, and ECW brands. In 2009, the event's pay-per-view slot was replaced by Annihilation then later renamed

. Almost a decade after the discontinuation of the PPV, elements of this event were incorporated into NXT's

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for its ''NXT 2.0'' one-year anniversary special but the event is not called Taboo Tuesday.

Concept

The most distinctive feature of the event was the ability for fans to vote on certain aspects of every match, using their personal computers and

pay-per-view." For the first four events, voting was made online through WWE.com, with the official tagline for the PPV being "''Log On. Take Over."'' In 2008, however, this was replaced by votes through text messaging, but this was only available to United States mobile carriers. However, the match between

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and

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was made universal, as fans were allowed to vote for the match stipulation on WWE.com. After Cyber Sunday was discontinued, the fan interaction aspects of the pay-per-view were incorporated into ''Raw'' as ''WWEActive'' (originally ''RawActive'') for some ''Raw'' episodes, which was eventually dropped altogether.

Events

References

External links

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