10 Lightest WWE PPV Main Events Ever
The heavyweight title isn't always fought over by heavyweights, Ric Flair.
Ric Flair's recent comments about how cruiserweight wrestlers can't headline WrestleMania ring only as the words of an out-of-touch man from a different time. Of course, he failed to recognise that a number of competitors who find themselves under the general maximum weight of a cruiserweight (225lbs) have already headlined 'Mania, but there we go.
The comments were made in the direction of Finn Balor, however, and Balor is lighter than most to have grasped the top of WWE's tree. If Balor and Seth Rollins' bout for the WWE Universal Championship does indeed go on last at SummerSlam, it will be the lightest main event in WWE PPV history.
Which is equal parts surprising and not very surprising. The change from the super-heavyweights to the 'it doesn't really matter how big you are' has been fairly recent, but glancing through the WWE PPV main events of time gone by does show you something of a shift over the last couple of years.
With that in mind, the following 10 matches are the lightest WWE PPV main events ever. That basically means that the combined weight of the two involved is low, and the main event is always the match that goes on last on the official card.
So no, Money in the Bank cash-ins aren't main events. Expect lots of CM Punk and Daniel Bryan to come? Don't...
10. Shawn Michaels Vs. Ken Shamrock - D-Generation X: In Your House
Something of a forgotten pay-per-view main event this one. D:Generation X: In Your House was the 19th In Your House PPV special and took place in December 1997. It was the first big show post-Montreal, and the first major feud for newly-crowned WWF Champion Shawn Michaels saw him up against the World's Most Dangerous Man, Ken Shamrock.
This was most likely because none of the top stars left in the company wanted anything to do with Michaels post-Montreal, but also because Shamrock was one of the most over babyface stars at the time. Shamrock was billed at 243lbs and Michaels at 225, and their combined 468lbs squeezes them into 10th spot ahead of Sting vs. Seth Rollins, Seth Rollins vs. Randy Orton, Dolph Ziggler vs. John Cena and CM Punk vs. John Cena, all of which weigh in at a combined 469lbs.
Elsewhere on the card, Jeff Jarrett beat the Undertaker and Stone Cold Steve Austin defended the Intercontinental Championship against The Rock. It was Shamrock's only WWE PPV main event.