10 Exact Moments We Gave Up On A WWE Wrestler's Push

You can come back from a WrestleMania defeat to Triple H - Randy Orton and Chris Jericho are living proof of that. And maybe you can even come back from losing a feud in which the forces of good were very much on your side.

But when your opponent takes upwards of 10 seconds to pin you after nailing their finishing move, and still gets an unchallenged three count, it's kind of difficult to be taken seriously as a main event calibre wrestler.

WrestleMania XIX was the moment most of us gave up hope of ever seeing Booker T reach the heights he did in WCW - and we weren't exactly wrong. The Houston-native may have got his hands on WWE world title gold eventually, but it was only after the roster was virtually depleted (and he had began wearing an actual crown and cape).