10 Biggest Main Events In WWE SmackDown History

The Attitude Era was probably just about dead by May 2001 but SmackDown, it seems, hadn't quite received the memo. Despite no more (nominal) competition from Thunder, the show managed to put on two of WWE's best ever free-to-air matches in the space of seven days.

The first of them came on the 24th, as new tag team champions Chris Jericho and Chris Benoit defended their belts in a car-crash TLC fatal four-way, also featuring Edge and Christian and brothers Dudley and Hardy. It was essentially just a re-run of the WrestleMania X-Seven classic, plus two of the greatest workers of the 21st century.

So, yeah, it was pretty good, and not exactly out of context either. This bout was emblematic of a moment in the company's history when the tag team division - joined in previous weeks by the Two-Man Power Trip and Brothers of Destruction - was perhaps as healthy as it has ever been.

Highlight of the match: having been (not quite) literally broken in half by Edge a couple of months earlier, Jeff Hardy once again defied death by leapfrogging over a 20-foot ladder and sending Bubba Ray Dudley through a table on the outside. Simply ridiculous.