10 Wrestling Matches Better Than They Had Any Right To Be

10. Floyd Mayweather, Jr. Vs. The Big Show - WWE WrestleMania XXIV

Matches involving non-wrestlers have a surprising success rate - owing to the fact that they are meticulously rehearsed move for move well in advance to reduce the risk of embarrassment and injury to their superstar participants.

That said, pre-match indications for Big Show Vs. Mayweather did not inspire much optimism. Mayweather was initially positioned in the face role. This would have been an uphill battle regardless of his unenviable personality - wrestling fans usually want wrestlers to win such matches - but it became insurmountable in the face of "Money's" preternatural arrogance.

The hasty but logical heel turn had the potential to disregard the inherent David Vs. Goliath psychology - but WWE enterprisingly circumvented and subverted this by involving Mayweather's "entourage" as obstacles through which Show had to smash in order to get his hands on him.

To Mayweather's considerable credit, he threw himself into the chickensh*t heel role with unnatural abandon. The terrified extent to which he attempted to avoid and then ultimately sold Show's offence was admirable - his out of character performance rescued what otherwise would have been a horrendously-misjudged mismatch structured in total contravention to the pulse of the fanbase.