Most unpredictable Wrestlemania main event ending?

[baerrtt]

What was the result you didn't see coming then?

For me HHH retaining at WM 2000 takes the prize. After 15 years of happy endings the WWF, emboldened by the success of the era they were in at that point, threw a curveball that The Miz and Seth Rollins have been beneficiaries of in a way...the idea of a heel walking out of the Mania main event victorious.

[CeilingFan]

Jul 29, 2016 6:47:25 GMT -5 baerrtt said:

What was the result you didn't see coming then?

For me HHH retaining at WM 2000 takes the prize. After 15 years of happy endings the WWF, emboldened by the success of the era they were in at that point, threw a curveball that The Miz and Seth Rollins have been beneficiaries of in a way...the idea of a heel walking out of the Mania main event victorious.

WrestleMania 9, for all the wrong reasons.

[Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-]]

I honestly didn't expect The Miz to retain The WWE Title at WrestleMania 27, let alone how he would...

[Cvslfc123]

WrestleMania 28- I thought Cena was winning for sure.

31- I really thought that Vince would be dead set on having Roman win the title then.

[chronocross]

HHH retaining at WM 2000 is #1 for me, as I remmeber being pissed off and thinking Linda would come out and restart the match, but didn't happen.

Hogan winning at WM9 is up there also, though I liked that ending.

Also agreed with WM31 as I was certain they would have Roman win and make him the guy who beat the 1 in 21-1, Conqueror Brock Lesnar.

[The Gallus Mark]

WM9, since I was shocked that Yokozuna was going to leave as champion and then Hogan comes out sans music to somehow get a title match. Was just absurd in so many ways.

[Mozenrath]

WM 2000, but given how Backlash played out, it ultimately made business sense.

["Evil Brood" Jackson Vanik]

I didn't see Wrestlemania XX ending in a draw between HHH and HBK. Seemed anti-climatic.

[thecrusherwi]

Wrestlemania VIII is up there. A non-finish in a non-title match featuring the return of a guy who had held up the company for money just 8 months before

[Captain Stud Muffin (BLM)]

31 -Roman and Brock. That one was up in the air once it was known Brock resigned.

[Powerline]

I'm keeping this limited to Mania's I've been watching wrestling for. So IX isn't in my jurisdiction.

Wrestlemania X-7's ending was predictable, yet still a "holy shit" moment all at the same time. In a vacuum of just that moment, forgetting how poorly it played out after the fact, that ending was awesome.

The proposed 18 ending that Hall/Nash both have claimed was in the books until the night before (Hall beats Austin, Rock/Hogan goes on last, night ends on an NWO beatdown of Rock and Austin) would've been shocking too, considering how much everyone thought Vince would NEVER put over anything WCW as a big deal (and apparently that's why it didn't end that way).

I was honestly kinda surprised they kept the title on Cena for WM 23. With how the crowd was turning, and since this was the first time Cena was going up against another face at Mania, AND thinking HBK might hang it up soon...I remember being in the Wrestlecrap AIM chat (remember those?) with everyone positive they were gonna put the belt on Michaels and then stunned when they didn't.

27 with The Miz keeping the belt for me. I hated Miz (still do, I think he's way less talented in all aspects than his booking suggests), and thought for sure the experiment was going to be over for Wrestlemania. I remember all the way up to it thinking "at some point Miz has to drop this belt to someone......Edge, Kane, Orton, somebody........they can't seriously be main eventing with Miz/Cena". And I remember a good handful of people on the forum thinking "Well, they're gonna main-event with Del Rio/Edge or HHH/Taker". And for it to end with The Rock hitting his finisher on Cena while leaving Miz alone (despite the fact The Miz had taunted The Rock just as much as Cena did up to that point) made zero sense. And the image of The Miz standing tall with the belt at the end of Wrestlemania...it's been 5+ years and that still feels like something I conceived in a fever dream.

I knew they had to find some way to clustersmurf the ending of WM 31, because there seemed to be no way they could put the belt on Roman, but Brock holding the belt on a part-time basis seemed to be backfiring in the booking. IMO, they did it rather well. I've seen the MitB briefcase in recent years to be an obvious "eject button" for the booking, but they truly did book themselves into a corner with Roman/Lesnar, and that was their only way out of it.

[taker1990]

WM 9 will probably always be the answer to this question.

[baerrtt]

I didn't pick WM 9 because, perhaps oddly enough, It's the only Mania I didn't watch live ( I remember not being that excited about it due to the card).

In that pre Internet as it is now era I only found out about the result the following weekend whilst watching WWF programming.

[Gerard Gerard]

If we're going with WWE's loose definition of a main-event, that being anything that ends up on the marquee, then we all have to consider Booker T's 2003. Not even saying Booker was a logical champion and blah, blah, but the clumsy (understatement of the year) attempt to attract controversy with HHH's race-baiting, only to backtrack in the most graceless, oblivious manner possible could only begin to be mitigated with a Booker win. So, it was something of a foregone conclusion. I mean, it had to be, right? Recall watching (or listening) on scramble-vision and thinking "wow, they're really going all out with Booker, thankfully, letting him kick out of a pedigr......oh. oh, no."

[Spider2024]

"Wrestlemania 3"

["Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay]

Has to be Miz.

[A Platypus Rave]

Going in I don't think anybody saw Hogan walking out of Mania 9 the champion.

[warriorthug4edge]

Jul 29, 2016 8:42:27 GMT -5 "Evil Brood" Jackson Vanik said:

I didn't see Wrestlemania XX ending in a draw between HHH and HBK. Seemed anti-climatic.

Well played.

[MolotovMocktail]

Going into Wrestlemania IV, did anyone pick Savage to go all the way? I'm sure most people thought it would be Hogan, with some saying Andre or DiBiase.

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I never even gave it a thought that Ultimate Warrior could possibly beat Hogan for the title.

Just no frickin' way.