10 Biggest Main Events In WWE SmackDown History
Jinder vs. AJ to join the list?
The Manchester edition of SmackDown this week was looking fairly nondescript until news of an exciting WWE Championship match emerged.
Although he is penciled in for a champion versus champion bout with Brock Lesnar at Survivor Series later this month, Jinder Mahal's credentials will be tested in an unexpected title defence against AJ Styles.
Under normal circumstances, you wouldn't think this particularly noteworthy, but the sudden nature of the announcement inclines us to believe that the reign of the 'Modern Day Maharaja' may be under serious threat for the first time.
Jinder may have suffered a legitimate injury, or perhaps simply have fallen out of favour with his backstage superiors, making it at least an outside possibility that the 'Phenomenal One' could be about to step into his shoes.
And that's potentially huge, because ask just about anyone which Survivor Series mega-match they'd rather see, and they'll tell you that AJ versus Brock Lesnar is potentially the stuff of wrestling fans' dreams.
If it becomes a reality, then the AJ-Jinder forerunner that sets it up could go down as one of SmackDown's biggest main events, joining some of the B-show's all-time classic encounters in the process.
10. Big Show Vs. Alberto Del Rio (8 January 2013)
Neither Big Show nor Alberto Del Rio were exactly famed for having great WWE matches, but their Last Man Standing bout on SmackDown in January 2013 had just about everything you could ask for.
After a brutal slug, the bout ended when Del Rio - in a move referred to by JBL as "brilliant" - trapped his opponent beneath the announce table, leaving him unable to the answer the 10 count. Just try and forget about the fact that, if Del Rio could lift the table from its foundations, Big Show certainly could have tipped it back on its side.
There were times during the Mexican's WWE run that you questioned whether he was in fact capable of being a main event star after all - but those doubts were perhaps cast aside when we saw the incredible reaction from the Miami crowd at the final bell.
Having captured the World Heavyweight Championship for the first time, Del Rio was well and truly over. And all it took was good booking and a genuine heel opponent in Big Show - who would have thought it?