10 Shortest WWE PPV Main Events Ever
6. The Undertaker Vs. "The Undertaker" (SummerSlam 1994)
Time: 8 minutes, 57 seconds.
SummerSlam 1994’s steel cage match between Bret and Owen Hart is rightly remembered as one of the finest matches in WWE history. The night’s main event? Not so much.
The Undertaker had lost a casket match to Yokozuna at the 1994 Royal Rumble, and didn’t appear in WWE for several months after. Eventually, WWE built-up his return by airing videos of witnesses who’d claimed to have seen Taker in public. Ted DiBiase, who’d introduced The Undertaker to WWE in the first place, brought the Deadman back into the fold, but his “Undertaker” was an imposter.
Paul Bearer had located the true Undertaker, and it led to this match between DiBiase’s fake Undertaker, and the Phenom himself. It took three Tombstone Piledrivers to do it, but the legitimate Undertaker sealed the deal. He scored the pinfall, threw the fake Taker in a casket, then summoned a gang of druids to carry him away.
This one’s length wasn’t a curse, however, but a blessing. Not only was this a terrible choice to close the show ahead of Bret vs. Owen, but one of the worst PPV main events in WWE history. There’s a reason it’s never mentioned when WWE revisit Taker’s early years, and the duo couldn’t find a way to make it work.