10 Worst WWE Smackdown Main Events Ever
9. Eddie Guerrero & Big Show Vs. Kurt Angle & Luther Reigns - September 23, 2004
Smackdown spent large portions of 2004 trying to make Luther Reigns a thing. The big man was given a place alongside Kurt Angle and put in high-profile feuds with other giants, although in hindsight that was probably where everything went wrong. If Reigns had spent his time just trucking some of Smackdown's smaller stars, who knows what might have been?
Actually, we all know what might have been. Luther Reigns would have faded into obscurity as he did, because he just wasn't very good in the ring. This September 2004 main event is a case in point, a match that not even the great Kurt Angle or Eddie Guerrero could save.
The match isn't great (to say the least), but it is the post-match that bumps this from bad to wretched territory. Mark Jindrak runs in for the disqualification finish, before the heel trio gets a tranquillizer gun and put Show down with it. Completely unconscious, the Largest Athlete in the World has his head shaved by the dastardly faction.
Yes, tranquillizer gun. The firing of the arrow is followed by an interminably long stretch of time where Show just stumbles around the ring as Angle taunts him. Not a babyface in sight, not an official in sight. Everyone was happy for this to happen.
A terrible match that focused on an awful wrestler, followed by a hideous post-match angle. That's a thumbs up on the 'worst ever' scale.