All 33 June WWE PPV Main Events Ranked From Worst To Best
With June almost over, let's look at all the highs, lows, and R-Truths of its PPVs.
It’s almost time to say goodbye to June and embrace the latter half of the year.
For WWE, that means gearing up for the build to SummerSlam and NXT TakeOver: Brooklyn III, two of the biggest shows of the year. Before June ends, however, let’s take a look at every June pay-per-view main event.
Since the first King of the Ring PPV in 1993, the June slot has been filled with a bevy of different shows. There’s been Vengeance, One Night Stand, Money in the Bank, Extreme Rules, Night of Champions, Badd Blood, Payback...basically, the June slot has been a very flexible part of the calendar.
While that does make it prone to being a filler month, wedged as it is between WrestleMania and SummerSlam (especially the years where there are two shows in June), there have been a slew of memorable main events with a variety of match types, the best of which staving off the fingers-into-eyes tedium of early summer.
This list will cover Hell in a Cells, tag matches, ladder matches, King of the Ring finals, first bloods, cash-ins - and R-Truth, of all people.
33. The Great American Bash 2004 (The Undertaker vs. The Dudley Boyz)
So, the Undertaker returned in 2004 with his original deadman gimmick. Seemingly, WWE decided to go whole-hog with his 90s persona and brought back another trademark: a dumb, nonsensical feud over possession of his urn.
Basically, Paul Heyman has stolen the urn and kidnapped Paul Bearer, and thus, The Undertaker must defeat the Dudleys in a “Handicap Concrete Crypt Match,” or else Paul Bearer will be buried in cement. Unless ‘Taker decides to join Paul Heyman and rule SmackDown together as father and son, or some garbage like that.
There are objectively worse main events on this list, but this is by far, the dumbest, most absurd you could ask for. Why did this main event a PPV when it’s really a SmackDown segment? Beats me. Leave it to Vince to think the Undertaker’s goofy bullcrap is more interesting than the WWE Championship.
‘Taker beats the Dudleys in a boring match, and then kills Paul Bearer anyway (he got better). The crowd is dead silent, not knowing what to make of any of this nonsense.
Terrible stuff.