10 Worst Wrestlers In WWE Main Events
8. Rikishi
Big Kish found himself in back-to-back multi-man main events at the end of 2000, looking out of place alongside giants of the industry like Steve Austin, The Rock, Undertaker, Kurt Angle and Triple H.
Although a highly-entertaining tag team performer and master of the cheap dance pop, Rikishi's stint in the main event scene was received about as poorly as the angle that got him there in the first place.
"I did it for The Rock."
Rikishi's (in)famous promo that has been parodied no end, even by The Rock himself, doomed him before he could even get started.
He was revealed as the driver behind Stone Cold's hit and run a year earlier, an anticlimactic reveal no doubt (at least it wasn't Hornswoggle, right?), and it was only made worse by that promo.
He was a crowd-pleaser as part of Too Cool, but a straight talking, serious act he was not.
While he was protected a bit in multi-man matches, he looked a step or several below the stars he shared the ring with in his two main event pursuits of the WWF Championship.
He wasn't good enough an in-ring worker to hang with those around him, and as a bigger man, he wasn't able to play the destroyer role he should have excelled at well enough to earn any legitimacy as a threat either.
It just didn't work in amongst an already stacked peak at the top of the card during the Attitude Era.