10 Times WWE Pulled The Trigger (When You Least Expected It)
No company in wrestling thrives off that unpredictability more than Vince McMahon's WWE.
If you were to ask a wrestling fan what one of the key draws to this seemingly peculiar world was, most of them would probably tell you that it was the element of surprise.
Even though the results are obviously pre-determined, that doesn't necessarily mean that it's always clear just what is going to unfold in front of you and often the seemingly doubtful becomes a visual reality.
No company in the wrestling industry thrives off that unpredictability more than Vince McMahon's WWE.
For what seems like an age, the biggest promotion in town have excelled in creating a false sense of security for their fans, before pulling the carpet from under their feet in spectacular fashion.
Even if fans are wise enough to predict that a certain event is inevitably going to happen, WWE have mastered the art of picking a moment where said shock would appear most unlikely and succeeded in routinely leaving a capacity crowd picking their jaws up off the floor.
But never fear, your writer has no intention of pulling a fast one on you in this list. So, here, as promised, are a few times WWE pulled the trigger - when you least expected it.
10. Dean Ambrose's Heel Turn (Monday Night Raw, 2018)
When Dean Ambrose finally made his long awaited return to WWE in August of 2018, fans were already fantasy booking exactly how he could run roughshod over an unsuspecting roster.
Yet, his eventual return didn't really go to plan and 12 months down the line he would find himself calling Tony Khan's AEW home.
But let's rewind a little bit to the moment when Ambrose generated his last significant reaction inside a WWE ring.
When Roman Reigns devastatingly relinquished his hard-earned Universal Championship due to his impending battle with leukaemia, fans were obviously left shell-shocked and the thought of anymore wretched twists being added to this already torrid night seemed unlikely.
Yet, this is WWE and in typically opportunistic fashion, McMahon sensed that this would be the perfect moment to feed a heel Ambrose to the emotional crowd. Ambrose would comply and performed a curve-ball Dirty Deeds on the other half of the newly crowned Raw Tag Team Champions, Seth Rollins, producing a toxic roar from a p*ssed off WWE Universe.
Shocking as the turn was, it didn't lead to a programme of note between the two and produced a calamitous inoculation skit that acted as the final nail in Ambrose's WWE coffin.