5 WrestleMania main events that shouldn't have happened

#1 Bam Bam Bigelow vs. Lawrence Taylor - WrestleMania XI

Again, a football player!

The very first WrestleMania would feature the main event of Rowdy Roddy Piper and 'Mr Wonderful' Paul Orndorff vs. Hulk Hogan and Rocky III and A-Team star Mr. T. The experiment certainly worked as WrestleMania 1 was a great success, but the following ten would prove that they didn't need a celebrity so close to center stage to make it an incredible event.

Apparently, the WWE still had other feelings by the time WrestleMania XI rolled around in 1995. If it was going to happen again at any point, it is not surprising it happened in 1995, the worst financial and critically successful year in WWE history. Now it wasn't all entirely bad, the late Bam Bam Bigelow was one of the greatest big men in wrestling history and deserved a main event spot at WrestleMania, so at least he got that, and Lawrence Taylor gave one of the best celebrity wrestling performances ever, possibly the best ever in one-on-one terms. Even so, a football player had no place in the main event of the biggest wrestling show of the year, especially in a one-on-one match that was designed to give WWE some desperately needed positive media attention.

What makes matters worse is that Shawn Michaels and WWE Champion Kevin 'Diesel' Nash had arguably the best match in all of 1995 at WrestleMania earlier in the show. The match was so good that it most certainly should have been the main event.