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Post by The Gallus Mark on Dec 20, 2023 7:12:06 GMT -5
Who is the most random PPV main eventer ever? It could be someone super random that got a strange push or even one you just totally forgot about.
I feel like this could be fun, but it needs to have a slight set of rules, as in, just one.
Not battle royals/Royal Rumbles since Scott Armstrong, James Earl Wright, Hardwork Bobby Walker, Damien Demento, and the youngster Carlos Colon would all qualify.
I’m sure there will be much better answers and I know it was ECW, but Al Snow main eventing both Wrestlepalooza and Living Dangerously in 1998 seems pretty wild to me.
Johnny Polo being a manager for the Foreign Fanatics in 1993 is nuts, especially with Quebecer Jacques and Ludwig Borga being on the team for a real set of losers at that time.
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Post by Spider2024 on Dec 20, 2023 8:29:38 GMT -5
Kronik at Halloween Havoc 2000. Even though they were one of the top tag teams at that time (perhaps even the #1 top tag team in WCW) it seemed awkward for them to main event a PPV without even any titles at stake. They were basically just fed to Goldberg.
Also, in an almost identical situation, the Dudley Boyz at Great American Bash 2004.
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Dec 20, 2023 8:49:24 GMT -5
Brother Bruti had no business being in a main event but being Hulkster's buddy nabbed him one at Starrcade.
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Post by chrom on Dec 20, 2023 8:56:52 GMT -5
Billy Gunn at Genesis 09, or Cute Kip as he was being called then.
Nash was off the show due to a staph infection needing a replacement for the match but was there really no one else?
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Post by Jake, The Jake, Jake on Dec 20, 2023 8:57:12 GMT -5
John Laurenitis
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Post by tafkaga on Dec 20, 2023 9:15:34 GMT -5
Brother Bruti had no business being in a main event but being Hulkster's buddy nabbed him one at Starrcade. I think Brutus would have been ok in the main event, but not the way they did it, and certainly not at their biggest show of the year. They could have done a lot better job building up the Hogan/Brutus friendship instead of just relying on the groundwork laid in the WWF. I could see them matching up Hogan/Bruti against Earthquake/Sullivan at a Clash where Brutus turns, and then Hogan gets his comeuppance at an Uncensored or a Slamboree. |
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Dec 20, 2023 9:27:03 GMT -5
I think some of these don't qualify as random in the same way. I think there is a distinction between 'terrible/badly pushed/not over main eventers' and 'random main eventers.' Al Snow, above, for example, ceases to really count as random when he had two main events in ECW. It's clearly not random so much as 'stop trying to make fetch happen.'
Brutus wasn't random because we all know exactly how it happened and they built to it with a storyline, even if it was a stupid one that wasn't over. Same as how you can't really throw, say, Kozlov in there, because he was clearly being pushed as a main eventer, it just failed.
Kronik and the Dudleyz, though, that's more like it. Cute Kip even more so because he was a surprise announcement and a hilariously disappointing one at that.
Laurinitis is debatable, because I'm not sure whether that was announced as the main event ahead of time.
Are we counting Elimination Chamber matches? Because those sort of walk the line between a Rumble and a Survivor Series match and just a regular multi-man match. Some of them during the brand split era you could tell they were just scraping the barrel to make up the numbers and have someone job out. But then you have, say, December to Dismember 2006, which somehow had Hardcore Holly in it. Hardcore wasn't a random main eventer in 2004, he had a legitimate storyline with some heat with Brock Lesnar in 2004, so it did make sense to give him a main event push even if the intention was only ever to feed Bobcore Pluggy to Brock. But him in the extreme Chamber? It's not even about him replacing Sabu, it's about what are we f***ing doing. At least Test had been getting pushed for weeks.
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Dec 20, 2023 9:34:07 GMT -5
People in here are also forgetting that Al Snow was insanely over in ECW and consensus opinion is that busted down Shane Douglas should have just dropped the belt to him when they had the chance.
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Post by Rumble McSkirmish on Dec 20, 2023 9:45:37 GMT -5
Savio Vega being Shawn Michaels replacement in the 8 man tag team main event at No Way Out 98 has to be up there.
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Post by Mozenrath on Dec 20, 2023 9:48:51 GMT -5
People in here are also forgetting that Al Snow was insanely over in ECW and consensus opinion is that busted down Shane Douglas should have just dropped the belt to him when they had the chance. Yeah, like Al Snow was actually rather credible with the ECW crowd, who saw him as a really good worker who hadn't been given a fair shake, which was accurate. |
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Post by Hulkshi Tanahashi on Dec 20, 2023 10:19:00 GMT -5
Survivor Series 2004. One team had Randy Orton, Chris Jericho, Chris Benoit, AND *sigh* Maven. The other team had Triple H, Batista, Edge, AND *sigh* Snitsky.
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Post by Sephiroth on Dec 20, 2023 10:46:14 GMT -5
Bob Holly vs Lesnar
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Post by Jindrak Mark on Dec 20, 2023 12:07:55 GMT -5
The Spirit Squad main evented Vengeance 2006. I guess they figured DX's first match back together was a big enough selling point so they didn't need main event level opponents.
At the time Bradshaw main eventing Judgment Day 2004 and Jinder Mahal at Backlash 2017 felt super random but when they actually win the title and hold the title for months it then makes it feel less weird in hindsight.
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Post by ace on Dec 20, 2023 12:43:28 GMT -5
I went to an ECW show during the Al Snow was over period. He was REALLY over. Probably should have won the belt tbh.
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Post by nickcave on Dec 20, 2023 14:19:36 GMT -5
Undertaker vs. Fake Undertaker
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Post by 4real on Dec 20, 2023 14:31:31 GMT -5
Raw’s elimination Chamber match in 2009 was John Cena v Edge v Rey Mysterio v Kane v Chris Jericho v……Mike Knox
Rikishi made sense being in the main event of Armageddon 2000 but compared to Rock, Austin, Angle, HHH & Taker he stands out like a sore thumb.
Shayna Baszler has won a Survivor Series main event. Somebody who’s only been watching since mid 2020 would be shocked at that probably.
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Post by James Fabiano on Dec 20, 2023 14:48:22 GMT -5
Kronik at Halloween Havoc 2000. Even though they were one of the top tag teams at that time (perhaps even the #1 top tag team in WCW) it seemed awkward for them to main event a PPV without even any titles at stake. They were basically just fed to Goldberg. This the match when Goldberg knocked himself out? Balls Mahoney at one of the ECW PPVs in 1998 or so...him vs. RVD. And now, <Brett Somers> The Definitive Answer </Brett Somers>... Hillbilly Jim, Koko B. Ware, and the Red Rooster in the main event of the 1988 Survivor Series. |
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Post by fg on Dec 20, 2023 15:09:58 GMT -5
Kronik at Halloween Havoc 2000. Even though they were one of the top tag teams at that time (perhaps even the #1 top tag team in WCW) it seemed awkward for them to main event a PPV without even any titles at stake. They were basically just fed to Goldberg. This the match when Goldberg knocked himself out? Balls Mahoney at one of the ECW PPVs in 1998 or so...him vs. RVD. And now, <Brett Somers> The Definitive Answer </Brett Somers>... Hillbilly Jim, Koko B. Ware, and the Red Rooster in the main event of the 1988 Survivor Series. Tito Santana in the 1990 Survivor Series Grand Finale match of Survival. |
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Post by Hulkshi Tanahashi on Dec 20, 2023 15:22:59 GMT -5
This the match when Goldberg knocked himself out? Balls Mahoney at one of the ECW PPVs in 1998 or so...him vs. RVD. And now, <Brett Somers> The Definitive Answer </Brett Somers>... Hillbilly Jim, Koko B. Ware, and the Red Rooster in the main event of the 1988 Survivor Series. Tito Santana in the 1990 Survivor Series Grand Finale match of Survival. He was more believable as a main eventer than Paul Roma, who was also in that match. |
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Post by nickcave on Dec 20, 2023 15:27:24 GMT -5
This the match when Goldberg knocked himself out? Balls Mahoney at one of the ECW PPVs in 1998 or so...him vs. RVD. And now, <Brett Somers> The Definitive Answer </Brett Somers>... Hillbilly Jim, Koko B. Ware, and the Red Rooster in the main event of the 1988 Survivor Series. Tito Santana in the 1990 Survivor Series Grand Finale match of Survival. Makes more sense when you consider he was one of the guys they were considering giving the title to in 1992 when they ended up going with Bret |
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