10 Best WWE Pay-Per-View Cliffhangers

To some extent, the Royal Rumble always ends on a cliffhanger of a kind. At least it has since 2004, when Chris Benoit became the first winner to jump shows and challenge for the other brand's champion instead.

But, in 2006, we were left with questions of a different kind after watching Undertaker arrive in the arena on a horse-drawn carriage and fire a lightning bolt out the end of his fingers, leaving Kurt Angle - who had just defeated Mark Henry in the main event - looking visibly shaken.

For the most part, these questions were unrelated to any potential WWE storylines. How did they achieve this special effect, for example? Did they think that their audience was actually going to be impressed by this?

The answer to that second one was clearly yes, however, hence so many of us switched off that night eager to tune into the follow-up SmackDown a couple of days later. Melodrama aside, the lure of seeing 'Taker and Angle finally go at it properly was utterly irresistible.