10 Forgotten WWE Matches Followed By Something Infamously Terrible

9. 51-Man Battle Royal (Followed By The Undertaker Vs. Goldberg)

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Mansoor's strange WWE story may simply start end with a Saudi Arabia deal currently set to conclude in 2028, but even if he's just the cover star of the darkest tale the company has ever told, each big night he's had on the shows will be hard to process in the aftermath.

Will Mansoor - Mansoor - one day beat Brock Lesnar? Or The Undertaker? Or at least win one of the company's top titles? That seems to be the end goal of his show-by-show push that included his victory in the biggest battle royal in company history in June 2019.

The 51-man Battle Royal should have been one of the most memorable of all time but was made forgettable by the overreach in attendance. It was virtually impossible to follow, with little mattering up to and including Mansoor's eventual win. Even less folk were talking about it after the show itself - Goldberg and The Undertaker's botch-laded cash-tastrophe had resulted in the event entering the memesphere long before anybody could offer any critical analysis - just like all the rest,

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