10 Late Replacements Who Won Big In WWE
5. Big Show
What: WWE Championship, Survivor Series 1999
Replaced: Steve Austin
The Big Show's big win came from a big twist on a big marketing lie to sell big pay-per-view numbers without their big star.
This was the night of the (in)famous Steve Austin hit and run, a plot device to write him off TV and get surgery.
Vince McMahon knew well in advance that Austin was going to be out of action, but promoted his big draw in the main event anyway for, you guessed it, a higher buy rate on the event.
To cover the loss of their main event participator, Big Show came out of left field to be revealed as Stone Cold’s replacement before the match started.
The same Big Show that had already picked up a farcical 4-on-1 handicap match win earlier in the night.
The World's Largest Athlete took advantage of a myriad of classic Attitude Era interference and shenanigans, chokeslamming Triple H to claim his first WWE Championship, one very few saw coming.