7 Most Surprising WWE PPV Main Eventers Ever

I'm not saying the Dudley Boys aren't a legendary tag team and didn't deserve to be in a WWE main event, but their inclusion in the top-liner of the 2004 Great American Bash - one of the worst WWE pay-per-views ever - was shocking, for a couple of reasons.

Firstly, how often do handicap matches headline PPVs? Not very. If they do, it's usually two very top stars against another very top star, such as Triple H & Steve Austin versus The Undertaker at Insurrection 2001.

Then there was the fact that the Dudleys had been spinning their wheels on Raw for the best part of a year and were beyond stale. They'd done just about everything they could do and their act was getting old. So WWE drafted them to Smackdown, turned them heel and inserted them into the ridiculous feud between The Undertaker and Paul Heyman.

The Dudleys had been involved in one WWE pay-per-view main event in the past, but that was with eight other guys in the 'Inaugural Brawl' at Invasion in 2001. Spring 2004 Dudley Boys were a far cry from the act they were back then and interest in their match with 'Taker was low.

It didn't help that it was a nonsensical 'Concrete Crypt' match where the major players were The Phenom, Paul Bearer and Heyman. The whole thing was a farce, a lame excuse for a pay-per-view main event. Viewers told WWE as much, as the 2004 Bash only drew 238,000 buys.

The Eddie Guerrero versus JBL WWE TItle Bullrope Match should have really closed out the show.