All 33 June WWE PPV Main Events Ranked From Worst To Best

With KOTR 1994, the WWF began their “New Generation” branding, showing off their young, exciting, agile talent. It was a two-fold strategy designed to A: get their newer stars over, and B: take a shot at their old stars like Hulk Hogan, who had recently defected to WCW.

So naturally, the first PPV of the “New Generation” is headlined by 40-year-old Roddy Piper and 44-year-old Jerry Lawler. Reminder: this was 1994.

Whereas the WWF title match and KOTR final were relegated to the undercard, Piper and Lawler got the main event slot, with the angle going into the show being that Piper wanted to give a portion of the winner’s purse to a children’s hospital in Canada. Are you hype?!

Neither is the crowd, as they give a mostly tepid reaction to this utterly heatless match. Lawler and Piper are all time greats in their own ways, but this is just a pathetic main event. It’s not helped by the fact that by this point in his career, Piper wasn’t taking a single bump (save for one of Lawler’s famously safe piledrivers), and thus, King has to do the heavy lifting.

At a time when the company had Bret Hart, Shawn Michaels, the 1-2-3 Kid, Bam Bam Bigelow, Owen Hart, and Razor Ramon putting on classics, the fact that Roddy Piper got the main event slot shows how Vince McMahon’s priorities were skewed even back then.