10 Most Shocking Upset Victories In WWE History
What are some of the company's best David vs. Goliath stories?
As we were reminded by Mustafa Ali pinning Daniel Bryan on a recent episode of SmackDown Live, shocking moments can happen in the world of wrestling.
Ali, who had debuted on SmackDown just one week before going over the champ, wasn't given a chance when he first arrived on the show. Now, with just one victory, Ali has got everyone talking and could be being positioned as a main event star.
But who pioneered the way for Ali's shocking win? Which underdogs took the fight to wrestlers deemed far superior? Who produced some of the most shocking defeats in the entire history of professional wrestling?
Big stars being beaten by new or even debuting wrestlers, former jobbers getting their one big win or huge title changes, the following ten upsets have gone down as some of the most unbelievable wins in WWE history.
Just don't get your hopes up too high for Mustafa yet, as most of these victories really didn't lead to much for these wrestlers. Let's all just cross our fingers that this doesn't happen to the new upstart.
10. Heath Slater Beats Seth Rollins
We start off our list with everyone's new favourite referee, the One Man Rock Band, Heath Slater.
During Dean Ambrose and Seth Rollins' excellent feud in 2014, a Beat The Clock challenge was set up to decide who would choose the stipulation of their match at SummerSlam.
Ambrose won his match against Alberto Del Rio in just over fifteen minutes, whilst Seth Rollins was set to face off against Rob Van Dam. But, because Rollins was the golden child of The Authority at the time, Van Dam was changed out at the last minute for perpetual jobber, Heath Slater.
Not to take things sitting down, Ambrose went down to ringside for Rollins' match and distracted his former Shield partner, allowing Slater to roll-up the future WWE Champion and score the biggest win of his entire singles career.
Whilst Slater never got anything as a result of this win, it was still brilliant to see a beloved jobber like Heath get a big win over a top star like Rollins, even if Ambrose did have to give him a big helping hand.