10 Biggest WWE Return Pops Ever

10. The Undertaker - Judgment Day 2000

On paper, this had the potential to go badly wrong. Undertaker the Deadman had been part of the WWE furniture for nearly a decade, and it was completely possible that the fans of the time would reject his new appearance as the American Badass.

But they didn't. Instead, he rode down to the ring on his motorcycle amid a thunderous ovation from the Judgement Day crowd, and proceeded to clear the ring of everyone with even a passing relation to Triple H (including poor Stephanie McMahon, who nearly took a chokeslam for her sins).

This followed an injury-forced hiatus of more than eight months - 'Taker's longest absence from our screens - and it was, albeit completely inconsequential (Triple H walked out of the match with his title), a fitting way for him to return to the action.