5 Worst WWE Main Events in History

#1 Diesel vs Mabel (Summerslam 1995 - August 27, 1995)

Mabel vs Diesel: The worst main event of all time

Diesel's WWF Championship reign was not remembered for its classic matches. In the second woeful main event of his run as WWF Champion to make this list, the giant was forced to defend the strap versus the mammoth five hundred pounds, Mabel.

In a situation strangely mirroring today's WWE, WWE Chairman, Vince McMahon was frantically trying to get Diesel over as his number one babyface star in the promotion as he is stubbornly doing so with Roman Reigns today.

Like Reigns in 2015 to date, Diesel was failing to win over the crowd were who keener on the smaller, more athletic babyface stars such as Bret Hart and Shawn Michaels.

McMahon's solution was to continually book the seven foot tall Diesel against bigger or heavier wrestlers in order to portray him as a plucky underdog.

It didn't work with the limited Sycho Sid and it sure as hell did not work with the immobile and clumsy opening match act, Mabel.

WWE wisely recognised the action would be limited and booked the main event at their second biggest show of the year to go just nine minutes.

However, despite the limited runtime, the match was dire; even outside interference from Lex Luger could not save it.

Diesel could not perform his Jackknife finishing manoeuvre on his enormous opponent so performed an unconvincing looking shoulder tackle (that barely connected) for the pin.

In the real world, Diesel was very unhappy with Mabel during the match as he felt his foe was being too rough with his offence with the Champion suffering with a legitimate back injury going into the match. That lack of co-operation showed in the worst main event match in WWE history.