5. Daniel Bryan Loses In 18 Seconds (WrestleMania 28)
I'd toyed with putting this number one, but decided against it, just because it's something you could easily see somebody higher up in WWE doing, isn't it? Despite his hard-earned status as a cult favorite among a growing number of wrestling fans, World Heavyweight Champion Bryan was given the Honky Tonk Man treatment, summarily dispatched in the opening match by Sheamus. The crowd didn't exactly view this as an Ultimate Warrior-esque triumph. Pretty much everyone watching figured it was Bryan's time to drop the belt to pet-project Sheamus, but nobody had expected the flash finish that we got. If anything, it marked Sheamus with a scarlet letter that he's yet to wash off. Shortsightedness for the sake of a shock stunted a perfectly-good wrestler.