10 Late Replacements Who Won Big In WWE
6. Edge (Part 2)
What: WWE Championship, Survivor Series 2008
Replaced: Jeff Hardy
The Rated-R Superstar strikes again! By 2008, Edge was on a huge roll as a main event player. Since his first World Title two years earlier, he had become the ultimate heel, and he had fans eating out of the palm of his hand.
Leading into Survivor Series that year, Jeff Hardy picked up a win over WWE Champion Triple H just two days out from the event, a stipulation that added him to the title match with Trips and Vladimir Kozlov.
Things changed when Hardy was found unconscious before the match, returning the championship match to its original form as a one-on-one and the 'who-done-it?' storyline frantically began.
Ten minutes into a fairly lumbering contest - pretty standard for Kozlov and 'Trips at the time - Hunter hit the pedigree; but Vickie Guerrero also hit the scene, inserting her love interest Edge as a mid-match replacement for Hardy.
Jeff still mustered the strength to come and interfere, but only managed chair shots to Kozlov and 'The Game', leaving Edge to hit the spear on Hardy and cover the already battered Triple H to steal the WWE Title once again.