Ranking every main roster PPV of 2017

#15 Backlash (May 21)

Hype was not lived up to.

SmackDown was in trouble before this. Suffering from a terrible title feud between Bray Wyatt and Randy Orton on the Road to WrestleMania and widely agreed to have gotten the short straw in the Superstar Shakeup, Backlash was a decisive event that set the blue brand on a perilous course for most of the remainder of the year.

It started off on a sour note with the highly anticipated main roster debut of Shinsuke Nakamura being dulled in an insipid 50/50 affair with Dolph Ziggler. With an already dimmed mood, we would go on to see Sami Zayn take on Baron Corbin in a flat match, a multi-woman match (I'm sure you guessed that) featuring the Welcoming Committee of Natalya, Carmella, and Tamina tapping Becky Lynch out to protect Charlotte and Naomi, who wasn't defending her title for some reason, a match between Luke Harper and Erik Rowan (which was pointless since they would form a tag team later), and most infamously and ominously, the massive troll to the WWE fanbase that was Jinder Mahal winning the WWE Championship in a typically flat match with Randy Orton.

All in all, this show wasn't very inspiring. Tyler Breeze's use of disguise in Breezango's match with The Usos was funny, but not funny enough.