10 Wrestlers Absolutely NOBODY Expected To Lose

10. The Rock (Vs. Triple H Vs. Mick Foley Vs. Big Show, WrestleMania 2000)

Despite battling over the WWE Championship on a number of occasions over the years, The Rock never won the strap at WrestleMania. Though he did at least walk into the event with the belt a few times.

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Yet, it wasn't as though the company didn't have an opportune moment to crown The People's Champion at the Show of Shows. Jumping back to the lead-up to WrestleMania 2000, it felt as though Rocky was very much being lined up for a crowd-popping triumph at The Showcase of the Immortals.

The eventual Hollywood megastar was unquestionably the hottest babyface in the company, with "Stone Cold" being sidelined through injury at the time. Yet, in what would act as the first-ever time a heel came out on top in the main event of WWE's biggest show of the year, it was Triple H who surprisingly walked out victorious, holding onto his title in the process.

In hindsight, holding Rocky's big win off until that year's Backlash eventually made a ton of sense businesswise, with said B-PPV pulling in 650,000 buys ('Mania 2000 had 824,000). But that still didn't change the fact that few were expecting to see McMahon stab his top face in the back en-route to a heelish Show of Shows conclusion.

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