The Main Event can refer to:

• Main Event, Australia's pay-per-view channel.
• World Series of Poker series that culminates to the Main Event.
• The Main Event (album) - the Fingathing album
• The Main Event – Live - the Frank Sinatra album
• The Main Event (concert tour) - an Australian concert tour, and album, with John Farnham, Olivia Newton-John and Anthony Warlow
• The Main Event (1979 film) - the 1979 film starring Barbra Streisand and Ryan O'Neal.
• Main Event - an American hip-hop artist

In Wrestling:

• The Main Event is the nickname of professional wrestler Shawn Michaels
• Saturday Night's Main Event, a WWF/WWE television program which airs on NBC
• WWF The Main Event, a Friday night spin-off show
• The Main Event (arcade game), a wrestling video game made in the late 1980s
• WCW Main Event, a WCW television show which aired on TBS
• WCW: The Main Event, a video game based on World Championship Wrestling

The Main Event is a 1979 comedy starring Barbra Streisand and Ryan O'Neal, written by Gail Parent and directed by Howard Zieff.

The film received negative reviews from critics, but was one of the among the Top 10 highest grossing films of the year at the box office. It was also the impetus for Barbra Streisand's first foray into disco, singing the theme song written by Paul Jabara and Bruce Roberts.

Hillary Kramer, successful Perfume magnate awakes one morning to find that her accountant has robbed her blind and left for South America. Going through all of her remaining assets she finds a boxer, purchased as a tax write off. She decides to take Kid Natural, (Eddie Scanlon) who is much more at home giving driving lessons, into the ring and use him as her key to riches. Eddie thinks this will only get him killed and resists. Written by John Vogel