10 Insane WrestleMania Main Events That Nearly Happened

Everybody wanted Santino Marella to win the World Heavyweight Championship at Elimination Chamber 2012, but nobody realised it until it was too late.

When the Milan Miracle was thrown into the Elimination Chamber match for Daniel Bryan's Big Gold Belt, he was the odd man out in a contest that included two former world champions in Big Show and The Great Khali, as well as up-and-coming Cody Rhodes and Wade Barrett. Marella had spent most of his career as a comedy act, so it was downright bizarre to see him thrown into a match for the biggest prize in the company.

But after Marella pinned Barrett and Rhodes, like KofiMania a few years later, the crowd made it perfectly clear who they suddenly wanted to win.

Could Bryan losing here still have kickstarted the Yes Movement, our would fans have rallied behind Santino if he lost in 18 seconds to Sheamus at WrestleMania? In the end, Marella was in the Team Johnny Vs. Team Teddy match to determine the General Manager of both Raw and SmackDown, along with a load of other thrown together wrestlers without anything else to do.