10 Best Ways Wrestlers Recovered From WWE WrestleMania Defeats

Living to fight another day.

Shawn Michaels Retirement
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It's the grandest stage, the biggest show on WWE's calendar and a proving ground for wrestlers who may/may not have grown up worshipping greats that came before them. Oh yes, WrestleMania is the card (or cards, as this year proved) to be on each spring, and it must be sweet when workers find out they'll be going over.

Nobody wants to do the J.O.B on the 'Show Of Shows', right? Well, not so fast. Some have suffered noteworthy defeats at 'Mania and come back stronger. It's an odd phenomena, but it's also kinda' how pro wrestling works - wrestlers can't win all the time, and even the best in the industry have to stare at the lights every now and then if they want to be considered valuable cogs in the WWE machine.

It's all about that recovery.

There are some absolutely blinding stories in here about those who bounced back, took losses in stride, realised it was part and parcel of the business and still shone years, months, weeks, days and sometimes even just a few hours later.

Behold wrasslin's great redeemers...

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